“Hundreds of gladiators sporting chain-mail, wolf-skins and swinging grappling nets marched by the ruins of ancient Rome on Monday in a birthday celebration for the city, which legend says was…
Via Gibberfish: Just a face to play with while you think. Or don’t think…
While hunting up a detail for Wizard’s Holiday, I ran across something really useful: plan views of the Milky Way galaxy, derived from data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey…
This is a matter of such frustration for me that it routinely makes me walk around and kick things. Nice to see it bothers someone else too. (mutter, mutter) PS:…
There’s a special quiet corner down at our local where we settle in with the machines when we’re serious about a project. This seems a good time to get that…
Like I need another one. This Kirk vs. Picard fight game… I should probably be ashamed of myself for finding it so funny. Oh well.
As the water out in the little pond warms up, I notice that one of the shubunkin is spending a lot of time chasing one of the orfe. (I assume…
Oh heavens…I really needed to see this right now. These people are going to make me crazy. But this looks really useful…I’m getting increasingly weary of having to take my…
I can’t help it: sometimes I’m in a hurry and I use the “Blogroll This” link as a bookmark storage. I moved a few plain-old-garden-variety bookmarks out of the Blogroll…
“[Madonna] said she realised there was an opportunity [to write children’s books] when reading stories to her first child, daughter Lourdes, adding: ‘Now I’m starting to read to my son,…
Doubtless someone will explain this to me.
Those mad types at Ninjaburger are at it again. Get your ninja name here… (Mine comes out as Hansuke Sakamoto-san. It ought to be -sama, surely. Or, like Washu, I…
“There are Afghan staff, of course, but they’ve all been given Irish names — Kevin, Jimmy, Michael, George — ‘to protect them from possible retaliation.’”
One of these guys just soared through the front yard in front of a totally astonished Beemer. When last seen she was following it through the pasture field west of…
This morning’s Irish Times tells of a new version of the King Arthur story being shot in Wicklow. We were joking with our German production partners about some parts of…
At least the DNS changes have now reached my part of the world. If you’re trying to get in but still can’t, please keep trying…it does sometimes take as much…
They went very well. Without discussing in too much detail matters we don’t think it’s appropriate to get public about until the producers take the news to Variety and the…
I’ve made the necessary DNS changes, and the website should start reappearing (as its new address propagates) over the next 24-72 hours. Thanks for your patience, everybody. Now I’m going…
Apparently the “loss” of the website has to do with a DNS problem associated with the site and forums being moved to a new server at Infopop. The problem has…
The problem turns out to have had nothing to do with billing…but what is at fault remains undetermined. I’ve opened a support ticket with Infopop, and we’re working on it.…
…it seems to be a billing problem of some kind. I’ll be getting in touch with Infopop as soon as they open for business today (they host the domain) to…
Blogging turns out to have been even scarcer than originally anticipated over the last few days, due to a combination of (a) Ryoh-ohki’s Bluetooth card throwing some kind of obscure…
The guy who came out of the crowd holding an old Iraqi flag — the one which Hussein had not had “Allahu akbar” added to, so that tearing it down…
According to this morning’s Irish Times, some early Irish tomb-builders had it in a big way. (Here’s the link to the article, though it may be inaccessible if it’s been…