.. as opposed to reading me on dreamwidth.org / bifurious.co.uk

Although the current owners don't seem to be admitting it, there's undoubtedly been a breach of the LiveJournal user database. All of my email addresses associated with LJ accounts have been emailed with a blackmail scam (the 'I have video of you masturbating' type, like I wouldn't do ( Read more... )

This will be the last 'me at DW' post with cross-posting to LJ turned on ( Read more... )

Oooh, I've had my first ever 'I'm (obviously fake name) from the Windows computer company, please do this to fix the problems you've been having..' scam spam phone call.

Unfortunately, they hung up on me when I expressed my delight at this...

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Anyone successfully record Jen's talk or know if they're publishing it as a non-live stream?

This entry was originally posted at http://lovingboth.dreamwidth.org/573988.html, because despite having a permanent account, I have had enough of LJ's current owners trying to be ( Read more... )

On the way to IKEA on Tuesday, JA and I went through Hucknall, where there was this (click on it to get a bigger version):


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I've seen three things recently where the attitude to race has been very noticeable.

One of the local churches has a monthly film night and this month it was The Blind Side. I suspect the book is much better - it's one of very few Michael Lewis books I haven't read, and the rest have been very good. By concentrating almost exclusively on the story ( Read more... )

I have recently started watching Humans. It's very good, and I'm looking for a copy of the Swedish original to compare it to, but there are some aspects that just jar me out of the suspension of disbelief.

Anita, the android that the family buy, says her processing power is about twenty petaFLOPS - twenty thousand million million floating point ( Read more... )

My preferred film genres do not include 'uplifting' and/or 'feel good' romantic comedy dramas.

Looking at British and American films,* there are some exceptions: the glorious fantasies The Princess Bride and Stardust, for example, along with the more bitter sweet examples of A Life Less Ordinary, The Tall Guy, Tamara Drewe, Chasing Amy, Earth ( Read more... )

Following on from my previous post on this, Aldi have been continuing to change things. This lead to at least one frightening* period when all three stores in vaguely easy reach didn't have any of the not-so-good stuff, never mind the good stuff.

To my surprise, they're now back to selling 750g packets… but in cartons that are almost the same ( Read more... )

The current season of ENO opened with a new production of Don Giovanni, and I gave a little 'eek' when I realised that it was nearly at the end of the run before I'd got around to arranging to see it. I have seen 'quite a few' productions before,* but it is the greatest opera ever written and each of them has shone a new light on it even if, as in ( Read more... )