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Redundancy
After six years at Macmillan - Nature Publishing Group I am being made redundant, it's my last day here today. Some of you may know that 2 and a half years ago the company gave everyone notice that they intended to move all job roles to London in 2014. At the time I thought it was good that they gave us such long notice of the move but it turns out ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye Silk
My cat had not been eating much for the last few weeks and so I took her to the vet yesterday and it did not look good at all. A growth under her tongue. The vets knocked her out earlier today to get a better look and there was just nothing they could do with it so sadly I had to have her put down. I got back from the vets a couple of hours ago. ( Read more... ) -
Decisions to make
Been a while since I posted here so this is a little update about what's going on with me ( Read more... ) -
BWB London meet-up Report
Great meet-up last night in London, one of our best attended with 30 people there at one point. Good to see faces old and new. I chatted with Lord Jo Favourite Spearwife about some exciting ideas and plans for TitanCon - more on that as and when we can reveal the details.
It was about 9.20 when Laura Pradelska (Qaithe) and Amrita Acharia (Irri) ( Read more... ) -
A Song of Ice and Fire - Speculative World Map
It may appear that work on my Animated Timeline Map project has stopped, but in fact a lot has been going on behind the scenes on two different fronts. First is a huge and complex spreadsheet which details the entire timeline of A Song of Ice and Fire. Work is ongoing with this monumental task but I hope to have the spreadsheet finished before the ( Read more... ) -
Fan fiction is not supposed to be this good
I spent most of Saturday reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. HOLY SHIT! It may be fan fiction but it is still a work of genius. Well written, intelligent (apart from a few goofy moments), thought provoking (even if it is guilty of a couple of straw men here and there) with a far more complex plot with more complicated characters ( Read more... ) -
A seasonal EHK website update
Since I had a few hours with not much to do I decided to put up another topic on the EHK memorial website. I looked for something Christmassy but could only come up with "Santa Claus shoots up his family - can we get rid of guns now?"
Here is the blurb for it:
Since it is the holiday season here's a nice festive topic to get you in the mood. Of ( Read more... ) -
SMOFcon 29 Amsterdam
I am back at work after a weekend in Amsterdam. Learnt a lot of good things about con running at SMOFcon, some tips that will help to improve the experience for everyone at TitanCon 2012. I also got drafted in to helping with programme ops at Eastercon next year, but I was probably going to do that anyway.
Also picked up some interesting details ( Read more... ) -
Some sad news from home
So I was working in the London office yesterday and in the afternoon I received a text from my mum which said "call me asap" - never a good message to get. She was at the hospital where my stepdad had been taken because he was feeling very unwell. He was shaking and clearly not alright in the ambulance on the way there but he was talking and joking ( Read more... ) -
Unofficial skins for Westeros.org - new versions available
For anyone that finds the colour schemes of Westeros too distracting, too difficult to read or hard to get away with while at work, help is at hand with these handy alternative Skins.
Stark skin v3.0
A plain white background with muted grey tones, perfect for keeping a low profile while in the workplace.
Targaryen skin v3.0
Black background with white ( Read more... )