So I finally caved and created a facebook account…only to find that not only are my brother and sister, and both my parents on there, but so is my Grandfather.
I’m such a luddite.
Something to think about for those that object to the use of the word “piracy” for the act of copyright infringement.
William Makepeace Thackery uses the term for precisely that purpose in Vanity Fair – first published 1848. 1
So it has had that meaning for at least 160 years – and I […]
It’s amazing how therapeutic writing a horrible angsty song can be.
….as long as you never, ever let anyone actually hear it.
Someone needs to write a brain-to-blog interface.
There’s always a whole bunch of things I intend to put here, but by the time I get round to it, I’ve either forgotten what they are, or (in most cases) I’m daunted by the concept of actually having to turn those thoughts into words.
So in […]
Apparently, the house I spent the ten years from 5 to 15 in, in New Zealand is now For Sale again.
When you leave a house, you never really know what the next people are going to do with it…it looks like in this case, it ended up in good hands.
It’s funny […]