As with every year, I want to buy a maxi dress. I will of course never wear a maxi dress anywhere in public as they are wildly impractical for a person like myself who has terminal clumsiness and a life that involves climbing stairs. But oh I want one. Boooo modern life! Why will you not enable me to have flowing floral skirts?

I will be singing at this http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116361208374971&ref=mf#%21/event.php?eid=116361208374971&ref=mf tomorrow. It's meant to be sunny! You will be supporting the arts! Come along!

Did someone buy me lj time? I had a Plus account; yesterday I noticed it is now Paid. I haven't had an email telling me I've had an account type change, and my account history doesn't say I've made any payments but nor does it say anyone else has made any payments. I am well confused (but glad not to have adverts for the next few months). So thank ( Read more... )

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If your work were going to pay for you to go and learn a programming language so you had some kind of technical knowledge that would help you with managing IT projects and potentially with moving up the career ladder within IT, what would you learn? Bearing in mind you only have some feeble HTML and CSS knowledge and have struggled to pick up ( Read more... )

If you only pay attention to one thing from this post, let it be this one: go and listen to Friend of Ours by Elbow at last.fm. I have moved on from the happiness of Noah and the Whale, and I am back to my melancholy ways. I've had the riff from this lodged in my head for days. Elbow are so stellar. If I could only listen to one band forevermore, I ( Read more... )

It's things like this that make me have a problem with tentacles. THEY HAVE FANGS. TINY FANGS.

Ooh, I just remembered I saw Ralph Fiennes yesterday! He was on his phone at the National Theatre while we were drinking coffee. I believe he is my first proper London famous person spotting, unless you count people from Big Brother, but they're everywhere. Like rats.

Ok, so: people who are good at computers. If I can get my Mac online via wireless (so I know my connection is working), and I can connect my PC laptop to the router with an ethernet cable and have it showing up as a working connection, then why would I not be able to get to any webpages with the PC? It's assigned the PC an IP address, and all the ( Read more... )

If I see or hear one more alarmist piece of crap about how turning on the LHC will make the world end, I am going to punch someone. FFS.