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Still LJ Ads?
Anyone noticed LJ ads lately? First time I've checked in a while. -
Yes, LJ Ads
The ad even pops up if I try to go to my friends page ( Read more... ) -
LJ Ads?
I just got forced to watch a small car ad clip when logging into LJ.
Is this what they're doing now? Because if so, this is where I start looking for how to import my LJ into some other blogging platform. -
October Gloom
That last post, by the way, is my October burn-out in full throttle.
This is how fluid my sense of passing time is: I forget about it every year until I'm well into it. I'll be all frustrated and bored and anti-social. Insomnia will kick in, as it inevitably must, and as it certainly did last Sunday night. Finally I'll have a day like yesterday.
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Spec Despair
There was a day at my first IT job when I remember spotting a more senior developer leaning over a desk and leafing through a technical requirements document with what I recognised, despite how little ability I have to read people, as despair.
As of today, some six or seven years later, I know that despair for my own.
There is a striking difference ( Read more... ) -
Unusual Perspectives and Monster Commutes
in almost every picture #7
The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize.
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Prador Moon, Neal Asher
A short book set in Asher's Polity universe detailing the beginning and early stages of the war between the AI-run Polity and the Prador ( Read more... ) -
The Who - Baba O'Riley
I had to work my way through fourteen episodes of House to figure out what this song was.
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