written today over lunchtime

"Hey, you," said the unearthly horror.

"Go away," I said.

Its bristled, wet protuberance squirted a puff of foetid air into my ear. "I hunger," it said in a voice like gravel scratching your best pie pan.

I slapped it aside. "You can't have my soul or my dried fish."

"I only wanted one of those things," it wheedled, ( Read more... )

Young Baskerville's foray into meta-poetry or satire or something. (© 1999)
Dissection

by Herm Baskerville, 1999

Settle down, class, please. The lesson has begun.

The poems we will be dissecting today will look
Like this one. The poems we have in school
Have been pre-killed to avoid distress, and are preserved
In formaldehyde. And if anyone feels ( Read more... )

My cat recognises several words thanks to consistent usage: "Clawsewitz", which is her name; "dinner", which means yummy wet food is incoming; "hot", which means keep off the hob; "come", which means saunter over here if you feel like it; and so on. But there is one word I deliberately taught her that is more important than every one of the ( Read more... )

In my experience, iThemes Security, the module formerly known as Better WP Security, is kind of terrible. Significantly, it doesn't uninstall cleanly and will lock you out of your own site at the drop of a hat.

Before I fully got rid of its screwups (and I'm not even sure I have, completely), I had to muck around in phpMyAdmin and drop two ( Read more... )

I have had to ban anonymous comments from my journal. Sorry to do that, but spam is becoming a nuisance.

Comments from non-friends will be screened, but allowed through if they aren't obviously spam.

You can use your OpenID to comment on LiveJournal.

Ah Piper, I miss you sometimes.

We need another pet, badly.

If you have installed a new editor like LibreOffice on your Mac, you may have been given the option while you installed it to make it your default. If you didn't take that up - perhaps you only wanted it as default for certain doctypes, or perhaps a certain office suite stole the default back - you can change it manually.
"Open With…" does not ( Read more... )

In the course of yamming and tweeting about a bugbear of mine, I've realised I have enough to say to make a blogpost.
The bugbear is people who want bespoke websites for short-lived projects

Or, anyway, people saying yes to them without asking pertinent questions.

As I wrote to someone else earlier today: '"Wanting their own site" is a big, big, ( Read more... )

Moriarty: Some people love it when a plan comes together (as if it just happens - that's not a plan, that's a vague intention combined with luck). #
Moriarty: I love putting a plan together, component by component. Watching it start to move, gather momentum, redundant pieces taking up the slack. #
Moriarty: The outcome becomes almost irrelevant ( Read more... )

Squamous horror plotline notwithstanding, Herm has itchy paws (or should we say voices).
Herm: New blog post: Periscopean http://hellhound.net/blog/2658 #
Anke: @Herm Yay, a blog post! :D #
Herm: @Anke Only a ragecomic, I'm afraid. XD #
Anke: @Herm Better than nothing. It's cute. :D #
Herm: @Anke Ninja star = Weft's fault. #
Anke: @Herm ( Read more... )