I recently returned from Whitby. Lugged my bag up the stairs and opened the door to my flat. On the floor, inside my door was a pile of post ( Read more... )

Yep, almost a year since my last post.

What are people actually using nowadays? Has everyone moved over to using facebook, twitter or some other such thing?

In other news, I'm planning on setting up my own Diaspora pod over the next few months (as part of my scheduled massive personal server upgrade ( Read more... )

As far as I can tell, most first person accounts are being lifted from twitter - including many being used by the mainstream media.

For those interested, here's a tweetgrid someone put together that's been useful. There's a lot of noise, but some nuggets in there ( Read more... )

What do you do if you have a bucket load of obselete hardware? Say, an Atari 800XL, a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, an 8-inch (yes 8-inch) floppy disk drive, and an ald HP Scanjet 3C...

Well, there's only one answer.

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Edit: but if the embedding ain't working... here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4

The first episode of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (or FMA2 or whatever) has finally been aired in Japan ( Read more... )

Just been randomly surfing and stumbled across this:


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Well, I've not posted in a long while. I'm starting to think that when I go out I'll be greeted like Snake Plisken ( Read more... )

The Fab is now closed, but some of it's memorabilia still lives on in Liverpool. I have acquired a single item, the only item to be saved before being sent to the other franchises (in Manchester and Leeds ( Read more... )

Anyone fancy a trip up to Manchester to go and see Body Worlds 4?

Meh. Learning to drive. About time I did so. The provisional license is in the post, my schedule is virtually entirely free until June, and there's no way in hell I'm dong a 4 hour round trip to Manchester every day when I get back to work.

So... any recommended driving schools/instructors around the central liddley-pud area?