Archive for December, 2009

2009 Books

Posted on in Books, Doctor Who, My Life.

Yesterday, I tweeted "According to my LibraryThing records I’ve read 141 books this year: 26 novels, 7 non-fiction, 102 graphic novels and 6 ‘other’."

Then I went out and bought another two graphic novels… But it must be said that most of the comics I’ve read this year came from West Norwood library, and now that I’ve exhausted most of their good ones, and some of their bad ones, I think 2010 may be slightly less weighted towards graphic novels.

How many of my 2009 books have you read?

Available as a poll over on Live Journal (you don’t need an LJ account to vote, just an OpenID account which means an account from WordPress.com, Google, Yahoo, Blogger, etc.)

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Doctor Who: how nuts can you get?

Posted on in Books, Doctor Who, TV.

Doctor Who on Christmas Day, that was a bit of splendid nonsense, wasn’t it? And not long now until we find out how it all ends.

I’ve been passing the time between parts one and two by dipping into the festering mire of DW fandom to see what crackpot speculation people have come up.

( Spoilers and Speculation )

So there you go, I’ve proved that almost everything that could happen in part two has already been done in the novels, and that I’m as anal and crackpot as any other fan.

I suspect that the reality of part two will be even more sane/crazy, predictable/unpredictable, clichéd/original than the above.

Very True Mood: (cranky) cranky
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27

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  • Merry Christmas! #
  • Stayed up too late last night (and maybe had too many beers) so really want to spend today asleep. #fb #
  • Beer + wrapping presents = no problems, right. … right? #fb #
  • Argh! Switched on the telly to set it to record some stuff and saw Noel Edmonds and Deal or no Deal cretins dressed as elves. Wrong. #
  • Washing machine fixed. Clean clothes for Christmas = Win. #fb #
  • Bad luck ladies – chap who came to repair my washing machine looked like Sean Bean #
  • Working from home, waiting for the washing machine repair man (and not for the imaginary snake, don't ask, just don't ask) #fb #
  • Finished Xmas shopping in Borough Market, lunchtime. This year I ordered nothing online. After effect of postal strike or just random? #fb #

Merry Christmas

Posted on in The World.

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have a good holiday and don’t forget the most important thing – Doctor Who is on tomorrow!

Very True Mood: (cheerful) cheerful
Very True Music: "nothing later than 1964" christmas songs
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20

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  • At the office party I won an award "for Using Common Sense and Logic Against All Odds". Thank you. #fb #
  • Wisdom: Clothes that are only worn occasionally (e.g. a tux) should always be bought a little too large to avoid last minute panics. #fb #
  • It's snowing in London. On the day of the visit london christmas party. #fb #
  • #uksnow SE1 3/10 #
  • That said. The iron may actually be warming the flat up… #fb #
  • Ironing a white shirt. Must be office Xmas party time. And some so-and-so has decided that it's black tie again. #fb #
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My Decade Meme

Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life, The World, Work, WWW.

2000

At the start of the year I was working Wicked Web in Clerkenwell, living in West Norwood and had been going out with [info]pink_weasel for six months. We went on holiday to Boston and Tennessee. WW moved office to Old Street in the spring. I went to Las Vegas for Andy’s stag weekend.

2001

I took Lettice to Budapest for her birthday. WW started laying staff off towards the end of the year.

2002

WW went into liquidation and hence I was made redundant. I became self-employed and started freelancing for many ex-WW clients. Went to the south of France with Lettice’s family – first time I’d ever seen the Mediterranean.

2003

I spent the first part of the year working on a site for the BBC. Towards the end of the year I started doing contract work via an agency which meant that I got a large refund from the tax man, eventually. I went on a falconry day and flew a Harris Hawk. I asked Lettice to marry me.

2004

I started this blog and spent several months working for the Home Office.

2005

I gave up freelancing and started work at Visit London. I started cross posting this blog to LiveJournal and joined LibraryThing and Last.FM. I moved house to larger flat, ten minutes down the road from the old one, and Lettice moved in. We got married and went on honeymoon in Canada. :-)

2006

I learnt XSLT. :-( Lettice also started to work at VL. I joined Flickr

2007

Relaunched visitlondon.com with a new CMS, clocking up a stupid number of days off in lieu in the process. I did jury duty. I joined Facebook. We went to Dublin and Amsterdam.

2008

We went to Venice. I learnt JSP and jQuery. I joined Twitter

2009

We went to Barcelona and tried to buy a house. I grew a moustache for charity.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

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  • I favorited a YouTube video — Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks http://bit.ly/8q0usB #
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In a daze

Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.

Some bad news about Dazed Miniatures – the range is being withdrawn from sale. The silver lining is a 30% off sale to clear the remaining stock.

All that the story on the RLBPS web site says is:

Dazed Miniatures was a partnership and it has been been ended by one partner (the Sculpter) withdrawing the licence to produce any of the figures we made. RLBPS still owns the molds but can not run them.

I wonder what it is with Richard Deasey’s lines? He sculpted the second half of the the HLBS prehistoric line and then took it away to found DZ Miniatures, which vanished soon afterwards. The mammals, but not the dinosaurs, reappearing years later from Strategem/Trent Miniatures whose own tribulations made getting hold of them sometimes frustrating (but they are currently available via North Star). And now this. Is there any chance that some of the best prehistoric miniatures will be available from a stable supplier (one with a working e-commerce facility would be really nice)?

In the mean time I need to work out how much I splurge on miniature mammoths, etc., taking Christmas, moving house and exchange rates into consideration. Couldn’t be a worse time for a closing down sale.

Very True Mood: (confused) confused

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

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  • It's not raining. What's up with that? #fb #
  • Weekend. Now please. #fb #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill http://bit.ly/8XtsF5 #
  • Should there be a new "L'esprit de l'escalier" for Twitter? The witty/cutting retort you would have made if only it had fitted in 140 char.. #
  • <body><body class="op9"> Hmm? Adding a class for Opera (v9? I saw it in 10) is sometimes useful. But adding a whole new <body> to house it? #
  • Going, going, gone. My upper lip is clean shaven once more. #movember #fb #
  • Is #dreamhost down again? Nothing on the status blog, but one site 500ing and two others very slow. Bugger this, I'm going to watch telly #
  • I've been growing a Mo for #Movember to help the fight against prostate cancer. Please donate: http://www.movember.com/m/226523 #fb #
  • #DoctorWho Warrior's Gate is famously bewildering but having the DVD cut out half way through part 2 was not part of the 1980 experience #
  • Can we finish buying a house and move out of this flat before either the leaky roof or the leaky plumbing drown us? #fb #
  • I just generated my #TweetCloud out of 3 months of my tweets. Top three words: blog, post, time – http://w33.us/l3f #
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Counting the Cost of War(games) – November ’09

Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.

Bison, Lynx, Dinosaur and Terror Bird from Wargames Foundry (sale), @ £39.92

Total: £39.92

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