or NaNoWriMo kicks off on November 1st. decembersvirtue first started peddling it to me a couple of years ago. In 2003 I missed the boat, in 2004 I plain forgot. When I remembered (all too late) I signed up for them to notify when the next one came around and it's a good thing I did otherwise I'd have forgotten again. An email rocked up tonight and I thought I ( Read more... )

I just had a 2 week holiday taking in Sydney and Brisbane.

Sydney, Sydney, Sydney. Could it have been a more awesome trip? I've already said it to about a dozen people, but the week in Sydney was perfect. Absolutely flawless. Normally when you go on a holiday somewhere you have at least one thing to complain about after the fact. A bad taxi driver ( Read more... )

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One week left in the campaign. People go to the polls this Saturday. The last 12 days have been gruelling in the most literal sense of the word ( Read more... )

The election was called today. I'm a bit worried about how it will turn out, how I'll perform and how I'll hold up but I figure there's some other people who will be going as hard (if not harder) and if they can do it so can I ( Read more... )

From arachneweb's journal:

Your brain: 80% interpersonal, 60% visual, 140% verbal, and 120% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoydoing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more ( Read more... )

I just discovered that when writing a new entry I can click in the subject bar and press the down arrow to get an auto-complete list of cached subjects. Not all from my LJ either. It would seem to be stored stuff from any input form I've used with the tag "subject" since I installed Windows last year sometime. I've decided I will randomly select my ( Read more... )

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I thought I might take this opportunity to share some pics of my new workplace. There are a bunch of scenic shots taken from the balcony of my floor as well as of the building and a self-taken shot featuring Ryan in the background whose foot is about one second away from hitting me in the ribs.

Enjoy!


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Who ever thought that being a bloke would be so difficult? I mean, on the face of it, all we have to do is drink beer and watch cricket on TV, right ( Read more... )