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Geekery / July 13, 2009 / John / 0
(15:19:21) j.dow/Home: Matey – can I schedule a two hour outage some evening to take a cold backup of live? (15:19:41) Dave: aye (15:19:54) j.dow/Home: or morning would work just as well (and be quieter) (15:20:01) Dave: get a date in mind and then i’ll pass to Simon to notify the clients (15:20:13) Dave: Morning
Writing / July 13, 2009 / John / 0
So, I’m writing again, which is good. I’m in the right kind of mental position to do a half decent job of it, so I’m happy with that. But it really is slow-going. Careless Talk is real-world dark fantasy – which is to say that a fair amount of it requires real-world settings and the
Ramblings / July 13, 2009 / John / 0
So, I’m back at work after a particularly restful holiday. Restful for everything except my gob, that is. I’ve spent an unholy amount of time sitting in Starbucks gabbing, sitting in the living room gabbing (until the sun came up!), sitting in the garden gabbing, and just generally, you know, gabbing. Am I gabbed out?
Ramblings / July 1, 2009 / John / 0
I haven’t been. I’ve let my novel slip horribly due to all the stupid but necessary wrangles that have been going on in my life. But things are calming down a little now. An excerpt of the first chapter was read out last night, and chapter nine is underway. Just need to keep the pace
Writing / June 23, 2009 / John / 0
“Gardez l’eau!” the leathery little man bellowed, and promptly ejected the unpleasant contents of a small blue bucket from the first floor window. Standing, as I was, directly underneath, I was shocked, stunned, and not a little bemused to find myself suddenley decorated in what had, until very recently, been the contents of a complete
Ramblings / June 17, 2009 / John / 0
…there appears to be a conspicuous absense of Orange Stupid in the office today. It’s like we’ve been granted a temporary reprieve or a stay of execution. I guess it’s only a matter of time before it returns. However, let’s take a minute to have a little look around. I went for a nap at
Ramblings / June 15, 2009 / John / 0
I’m posting from Flock. It’s a firefox / mozilla derivative browser with all kinds of weird and wonderful social networky stuff built in. And it’s not bad. Blogged with the Flock Browser
Geekery / June 11, 2009 / John / 0
So, set the way-back machine to June 1996. A hairy, bearded, UNIX nerd sits in the back office of Cyberia Cafe on Hanover Street in Edinburgh. He’s been writing these games and, as he hosts web sites for a living, he reckons he should actually have somewhere to distribute them from. So he sits and
Ramblings / June 1, 2009 / John / 0
The Grand Weekend of Migration went according to plan and there were no issues. But that’s not very interesting. I’m getting the hang of living (mostly) alone but still don’t seem to have very much time on my hands. But that’s not very interesting. The weather has been very hot of late – good for