Archive for October 2004
Ready or Not 31 Oct 2004
The original title of this post was a little longer: Ready or Not, Here I Come. I was referencing, for any regular readers (Hi, Mum), my impending long-term visit to Holland (aka The Netherlands). I’m hoping I will be back next weekend, and probably fairly regularly, at least to start, and I’m dragging my new [...]
Flickr 30 Oct 2004
After having heard a lot about Flickr and seen some of the authors of blogs I read not just mention it but rush off and create their own galleries I decided to take a look. Flickr is basically a site for uploading and sharing your photos. I liked the look of it, so, employing my [...]
The Peninsula Reloaded 28 Oct 2004
For those of you reading this, the update went successfully and I have now transferred to my new host (not because I was unhappy with the last, just that I have a reseller I wasn’t fully utilising so it seemed daft to pay for a separate account — my previous hosts were excellent, uptime was [...]
IE Slayer? 25 Oct 2004
I’ve just finished reading a very interesting article about Firefox (hat tip: Slashdot), which thinks that Firefox might not just be an IE contender, or an IE destroyer, but a Windows killer too. Personally, I’m not sure Microsoft are quaking in their boots just yet. Okay, so Firefox is credited with knocking 2% off of [...]
Buy My Stuff 23 Oct 2004
Okay, further to my previous entry about second-hand books, I had some spare time, a domain name and some webspace, so I put together my own little site to sell my books and videos (and anything else) on. The more eagle-eyed of you might also have noticed that I am also adding ‘Buy my copy’ [...]
Going Dutch 22 Oct 2004
Well folks, it looks certain now that I will be off to work in Holland for six months on secondment. So it’ll be ta-ta to good ol’ Blighty and hello to the land of clogs, tulips, recreational drugs and diamonds (amongst other things). Partly I’m excited, partly I’m scared (I’m a control freak, and this [...]
The Chosen One 21 Oct 2004
On the subject of trying to pick an idea for my NaNoWriMo attempt, general consensus seems to agree with me in that most people thought ideas one, three and four were the better ones, but I’ve decided to go with idea number four. Why? Well, I think it poses fewer problems on the research front [...]
A New Arrival 20 Oct 2004
Yesterday I was the lucky recipient of a 3.74 lb (1.7Kg) bundle of joy. She is small and perfectly formed and her name’s Hera. Before I continue, perhaps I should explain that Hera is my new laptop. Like all newborns, all has not been exactly plain sailing, Hera was not supplied with SP2, which took [...]
NaNoWriMo Novel Ideas 19 Oct 2004
I need your help folks, and I need it fast. I trawled through my ideas list, finding it decidedly lacking, certainly on the potential novel front (more ideas for films), the ideas have to be broad enough to shoot out 50,000 words on don’t forget, but here’s a few:
National Novel Writing Month 18 Oct 2004
I’m not sure if you should class this as a challenge or a torture. Either way I’d certainly suggest it was masochistic. National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it is known, is an idea started by Chris Baty. Now I’d never heard of it (it was Jason Kottke who linked to it), but reading [...]