As ever, I am only posting here so as to announce something as widely as possible. (As ever, my normal blog is at www.sindark.com.)

Many of my friends with LiveJournal accounts are fans of my brother Mica's films. As a Christmas gift, I have set up a new website for him at http://www.papaflyfilms.com/.

His latest video can be viewed there, as can ( Read more... )

Former members of the UBC Afternoon Tea Society should consider adding themselves to the information page I have been compiling on it. Like the rest of the site in which it is embedded, it is a wiki and thus open to public modification.

Adding new ATS-related photos would be especially welcome.

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Douglas Adams fans everywhere, do not forget to celebrate Towel Day this coming Thursday.

Given that the world’s most interesting English-speaking people are all either present or future appreciators of Adams, you stand a decent chance of meeting some new ones if you carry the towel obviously enough.

My real blog, 'a sibilant intake of breath,' has been shifted from Blogger content management to WordPress. The address is still http://www.sindark.com but the feeds for syndication have moved ( Read more... )

In the run up to Christmas, people should consider taking action against Sony for intentionally deploying malware against their own paying customers, lying about it, releasing patches that make it worse, and never showing any contrition or concern about illegally sabotaging people's computers:


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The Canadian government has fallen. Let the punditry begin. Personally, I look forward to the expat electoral debate happening in Oxford on Wednesday.

In recognition of the difficult phoenetics involved: Milan Ilnyckyj: the new definitive guide to pronunciation.

The blog is dead; long live the blog.

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