I'm back at work with Mercury for the next few weeks - the office administrator is away on leave and they basically begged me to fill in for her on the phones and to do technical stuff in the office as required ( Read more... )

Off snowboarding again till Friday or so, see y'all later!

(and yes, since quitting work I -am- feeling a lot better, thanks for asking : )

A few things from my recent snowboarding trip that will probably interest some of you ( Read more... )

If there's one place in this world that I feel a real, spiritual connection too it's Mt. Ruapehu in the Central North Island of New Zealand ( Read more... )

But I couldn't resist this one. Ganked from

Your Score: Geek Aspirant

You scored 58 out of 60


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Remember - happiness is relative. If you're thinking 'Any day where you wake up and exclaim with glee because the left lung you horked up was free of blood this time is a good day!' it is entirely possible you've set your expectations to a nice, realistic level.

- Your Filthy Meat Servant

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Well done. Superb use of available resources. You waited until I'd found a replacement for me, given my resignation, and actually left my job before suffering a complete systems failure. LOVELY ( Read more... )

I just had the most awesome movie title pop into my head, with included tag-line.

Horrigami - Paper isn't the only thing she folds

Now I've just got to work out the concept to fit the title... and work out how you could fold a human body into one of those flapping-crane-thingys.

I is installing the new World of Warcraft expansion as we speak, having attended the midnight release where it was revealed that I was the first person to preorder at the store ( Read more... )

Merry New Year, one and all!