In the interests of documenting my life ( Read more... )

Went to local pub quiz this evening. Our team came second, for the third week in a row. If only we'd known that a first class stamp costs 39p (not 35p), that it was Russell Crowe (not Steve Irwin) who said "God bless  America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia", and that  it was Walt Whitman (not Maya Angelou ( Read more... )

It's hot here. In the past few weeks, we've had the most sustained period of consistently hot and sunny weather that I can remember for years. Apart from the two hellish hours per day I spend travelling to and from work on the cattle-truck-esque tube, I am really enjoying all the sunshine and warmth. It makes everything feel optimistic and hopeful ( Read more... )

Good things that have happened to me in the past week ( Read more... )

I started writing this post last night at 3am, so it’s really not the most coherent thing ever, but I thought I’d finish it today and post it anyway.

Having just got back into the whole LJ thing, I’ve been catching up on posts that other people have made recently about vidding. And I have also been getting back into actually making vids (or, a vid) ( Read more... )

When did "fail" become a noun? Is that a recent development in the useage of that word, or has it always been used that way and I've only just started to notice?

Just discovered (via random clicking of various LJ links I'm only just catching up on after my...many years absence) that there was a vidding con here in the UK last year. Cannot believe it. How bizarre ( Read more... )

Have remembered two key reasons I stopped vidding ( Read more... )

Weirdly, I have started vidding again. I expect it will be ages until I actually finish anything, but in anticipation of that perhaps happening eventually, I've sorted out my web hosting situation. My vids are now back online, after having been basically unavailable for a couple of years, and can now be found at riverboat.powweb.com. Hurrah ( Read more... )

Well I was swinging by answering a message I got notified about that someone sent me on livejournal, and thought I might as well make a quick post to let everyone know I'm not dead or anything ( Read more... )