Posts under ‘miscellanea’

So, it turns out my domain name expires tomorrow (August 3rd) — I thought I had another week to get it sorted out.

This may seem a completely random question, but it's been on my mind since I reread Castle Waiting a couple of weeks ago. One of the characters is a doctor who has experience of the plague, and wears the mask at all times. The question came up again today when I was browsing Will's flickrstream [...]

Someone found the place where Superman washes his costumes:

Do you think he takes in services washes from other superheroes? I wonder what kind of soap he uses; I bet most of those costumes have some serious special care requirements considering what they usually end up going through. Maybe he just uses his super-breath to blow [...]

Get excited, eat cake things.

1. Gareth thinks I update this thing too often.
But I only update it once or twice a week, not every day, so I guess he'll have to make more of an effort to read it, or he'll just have to keep on marking it all as read on his Google Reader. Sorry, Gareth. (It's lovely [...]

One of my photos has been selected to be in the upcoming Slow Exposure exhibition at Foyles. If you can't make it to the private view on May 1st, the exhibition opens on April 24th and runs for a month, if you want to catch it. (There's a Facebook event for the private view, [...]

I went to the April 1st protests on Wednesday, mostly because something was happening in my home town and I couldn't just sit at home and ignore it, than because I am anti-capitalism. I'd be a hypocrite if it was for that reason, with my clothes from high street shops, and my camera and mobile [...]

Today, in case you hadn't noticed yet, is Ada Lovelace Day, a day designed to celebrate women in technology.

Had fun at Frazer's birthday drinks last night, except for the bit where Dave from Geek Syndicate French-kissed my nose, which was disgusting (right in front of his lovely girlfriend, too). Had an interesting conversation with Joel about "odd" London, although we seem to have quite different ideas about what constitutes "odd" — he tends [...]

Several things turned up on G-Reader pertaining to Dear Old England recently, so I decided to collect them here into one handy post. [read more.... ]