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  Flat not burned down.

  06.28.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yesterday, during my weekly WoW night, the front door bell went unexpectedly. ?Unexpectedly, because nobody calls late at night! ?This turned out to be Kenny, my ex-neighbour-but-one-floor-down. ?He told me that some kids had set a fire in one of the bin enclosures around the back! We went and had a look, but as the [...]

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  Happy Birthday to me!

  06.07.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Guess I’m now middle aged – 42! Life, the Universe, and Everything! My birthday present from Mum arrived early, which meant I could convert it into tangible goods – a Wacom Intuos 4L Graphics tablet to replace the one that was stolen nearly two years ago. It arrived yesterday. I love it to bits already, [...]

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  Upgrade!

  05.30.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve not been blogging lately because I was going to migrate the blog, so obviously I couldn’t add more posts because that would just mean I’d have to redo the backup. And then the migration process stalled and I got out of the habit.

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  Punchline version: I’m okay, some stuff got taken.

  09.07.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  To give the “I’m OK. The bull is dead.” version: Punch line: I’m fine. Some stuff got taken. Current status: My door has been fixed, and should be stronger than it was. The door frame has been replaced, and reinforced with metal. They took my graphics tablet (grr!), one of my monitors, a laptop, some [...]

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  Family visit

  06.06.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  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 triggered [...]

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  Okay, this personality test is pretty much 100% of how I feel…

  05.07.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 [...]

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  Atlas of True Names

  11.30.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Found this really cool thing – excerpts of an atlas where all the names are investigated to find out their original meaning, and then translated into English.  It’s quite fascinating, and as someone who has had thoughts of designing the occasional country, a real eye opener.

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  Moving to WordPress

  09.12.08 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve decided I want to move my blog from Blogger.com to WordPress.  I hosted the blog on my own site right from the start, just using Blogger as a blog editor and uploader.  However, that meant giving Blogger control over certain aspects of my blog, and involved a third party every time I wanted to [...]

Musings of a Creative Slacker

"Creative Slacker" referrs to the fact that I should be doing creative stuff – writing, art, 3D animation, RPG stuff, but I don't. Maybe "lazy bastard" would be more appropriate.

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