Another working week done and it's time for a spot of sherry and planning for times ahead ( Read more... )

"very distressing rumour" - words number 49998, 49999, and 50000, I think.

Rah!


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I have written 40,029 words of a novel so far this month. That's at the "required" rate of 1 a minute ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo gets most of my words this month but you guys get the links...

Best. Ad/marketing gimmick site. Ever. Mouse over the blue cup on the right.

Courtesy of B3TA.

What all cat owners have yearned for...

An image recognition system that doesn't let the cat back in through the cat flap if she has a mouse in her mouth.

All nicely written up as the Flo Control project. Well worth a minute of your browsing pleasure.

Back to normal life and work after a couple of weeks in the UK and then having guests for a few days. Been playing round with photos quite a bit recently, and I found the time this weekend to polish off this. It stems from a trip to Pedraza (small hill town North of Madrid) where I went with my parents and grandfather earlier this year. My grandad ( Read more... )

Going to be offline mostly for the next couple of weeks. Don't break the internet without me...

Ummm [racks brainf for more interesting thing to say]... Saw an intresting thing in the park at the weekend - a bunch of half a dozen pigeons on the path, pootling about as bird brains will. In the middle of them, right amongst the pigeons there was a ( Read more... )

A gratuitous picture post...


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A conversation with my younger bro. led me to type "oops .net" (cos I was directing him to sinfest, whcih is at sinfest.net, not sinfest.com ( Read more... )

Just finished my first Spanish novel, which is a landmark of sorts. It was the first Capitán Alatriste novel - a Three Musketeers style romp. So I expect all my new Spanish slang is three or four hundred years out of date. I'm finlly getting the hang of the more common tenses at least ( Read more... )