Well, as of this morning, I can write out the entire Kana chart from memory!
This was done using Windows Journal on a Toshiba Tecra tablet PC, so it’s slightly rougher than even my usual scrawl, and I’ve sneakily not saved the grid pattern that made everything all neat and organised. We will call it even.
I [...]

My kana (Hiragana and Katakana) handwriting as of Wednesday 19th 2009. I have managed to swap ら　and　り (third column from the left, top two characters), and I’ve only written the Katakana (bottom group) that I know so far.
These are charts of all the kana (well, minus the ones I don’t know), in the equivalent of [...]

I have been teaching myself hiragana, one of the three Japanese scripts. I’m using Mnemosyne, a flash-card program that schedules cards cleverly so that the cards you remember well get scheduled less and less.
I don’t remember learning to read English – as far as I am concerned, it’s as natural as breathing or [...]

I am no longer a member of the Great Unwashed. I am now Gainfully Employed, or Sold Out To The Man, depending on your point of view. The Man in question is the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where I shall be helping keep their computers up and running. [...]

I have, somewhat to my surprise, managed to survive England. After an ungodly amount of travel (10 hours or so?) I finally dragged myself back to my flat (be it ever so humble). Nicely, it would appear that my fears for my potatoes were somewhat unfounded. I have put together a Flickr [...]

I’ve not been blogging much – Twitter has been my normal outlet. But there have been a few things that I could have used longer-form writing for, like my spud-growing project (which I shall be calling Balcony Farm).
However, I’ve been particularly away recently, as I’ve been Down South visiting my family. This was [...]

You are The Sun
Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.
The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the [...]

The latest episode from Star Trek fan film-makers USS Intrepid, Transitions and Lamentations has just been posted. I wasn’t involved in this one (although I am in the titles!), but it’s a cracker. Recommended.

Today – well, yesterday, as it’s well after Midnight – was Hourly Comic Day, and I had a go.   The idea is to do a comic for each waking hour of the day, documenting that hour.  Didn’t manage it entirely, as I was running a Dark Champions game at Livingston.  Turns out you can’t GM [...]