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Happy New Year

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Will this be the year I update more regularly then every few months?

The cackhanded scrawl of my eight year old self.

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

I dug out an old school book, from way back when I was 8-ish. Here’s a look at the random stuff I wrote about back then.

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I was an electronics geek even back then…

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And a consummate storyteller.

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I hadn’t quite grasped the finer points of evolution though.

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And while I now love spiders, I still can’t quite bring myself to look at a centipede without a shudder.

Visitors

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Not that I watch my visitor stats obsessively or anything, but after appearing first on diamond geezer’s (alphabetically ordered) sites-wot-link-here list yesterday, I thought I’d see if the link sent any traffic in my direction.  Google Analytics claims at least 13 people clicked though to me, some of those that visited even went back and read some stuff that isn’t on the first page.

*wave* Hello new people if you’re still reading.

Right, I’m off to watch the eclipse.

Tagged – belated update.

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve been tagged by Ben to list six random things about myself. Here goes.

  1. My superpower is the ability to detect minute quantities of cucumber from large distances. It is rarely of use to anyone.
  2. I bake terrible cakes.
  3. The last book I read was The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I finished it on the train on the way home tonight.
  4. My dog is named Pointless, I had a cat named mincemeat.
  5. I plan to win an Ignoble Prize someday for my research.
  6. I can do this:
    Not as painful as it looks...

I tag anyone else that wants to do this.

The post I was going to make…

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

has been delayed by the fact something is dying/has died/is under stress in my Powerbook’s LCD. So I can’t type for long before all goes dark.

I hope it is a dodgy wire. I suspect it is the backlight inverter. I really, really hope it isn’t the backlight.