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Ragnarok – The Big Five O
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Ragnarok Issue 50 landed through my door today with articles on wargaming Ragnarok, combat engineering for Dirtside 2, a scenario for Space Vixens From Mars, the Ottoman air fleet in Aeronef and the usual regular review columns. Steve F’s last issue as editor (thanks for the hard work over the last 10 issues Steve) before […]
Water Back On after 1 Week
Thursday, August 24th, 2006United Utilities finally restored my water supply to full service at 10:30AM on Wednesday. Thats over 7 days 2 hours after they cut it off while working in the road to replace pipes. Apparently getting one tap working at low pressure by Saturday afternoon meets their contractual obligations. I’d compare their attitude to the attitude […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 7)
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006The Regular Guy/Gal Archetype This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 6). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). "All men and women are equal." Regular Guys and Gals have a strong need to belong. They are realistic, practical and empathetic. They are good at making connections […]
Fairy Tale Moving Along Nicely
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006I originally expected my modern fairy tale to come in around the 15K word mark but it’s suffering from an attack of the Too many Ideas. Some bits of it that were very short have unexpectedly grown and so now I’m somewhere around the half way point in the plot and it’s about 14K word […]
University of Liverpool Creating Fictional Worlds
Monday, August 21st, 2006Got the new prospectus for Liverpool University’s Continuing Education Department over the weekend. Despite it being the worst course I’ve ever attended they are offering Creating Fictional Worlds again. I was going to have a good rant about them but I’m not going to spend more time on it than to link to my earlier […]
United Utilities to English Dictionary
Monday, August 21st, 2006After doing some work in the street outside my home last week United Utilities and their subcontractors have yet to succeed in properly restoring a full supply. To mark the occasion I thought a little low quality satire wouldn’t go amiss. United Utilities Speak English 24 hour emergency number Our only number Please wait all […]
Wet Spong Rolling Away
Monday, August 21st, 2006I almost feel human again 🙂 Thanks to Kim and Steve for the nice comments.
Beware the Giant Wet Sponges of August
Thursday, August 17th, 2006I feel like I’ve been rolled over by a slow moving, giant, wet sponge. I have a cold in August. It’s just a nasty cold. Not the flu. I may not post for the next few days as I’m not feeling particularly coherent.
Characters on the Couch (Part 6)
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006No one can be isolated or an Island The Jester Archetype This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 5). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Jesters joyfully live for the moment. They don’t […]
Plutons
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006I was just reading the BBC article about the three "new" planets in the solar system. I can’t write fanfic to save my life but there would be a great West Wing episode in this somewhere. Something like the episode "Galileo" which by coincidence I watched last night on DVD.