In early August I wrote a blog entry that celebrated the end (so I thought) of nearly three months of tooth-related pain and suffering, with a lovely x-ray of the root canal I’d just had done. For those of you who weren’t here, or weren’t paying attention, or got really bored of my whining: the [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Friday Cat Blogging: Oh well, I didn’t need sleep anyways
My friend Bill sent this to me earlier this week: a time-lapse video of a guy sleeping, and the cat that pesters him in the night. It’s pretty much a reenactment of Simon’s Cat, so for any of you who’ve never owned a cat and thought that that cartoon was an exaggeration, now you know [...]
Is the economy turning managers evil?
Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere, or maybe employment standards aren’t quite as important as unemployment itself these days, but I’ve been hearing rumours of bad things happening at formerly nice companies, and I’m wondering if it’s more than coincidence or the moon being in Taurus. In the last week I’ve heard about one place [...]
Nerd confession time
The fact that I’m sitting in front of 3 computers right now suggests that I am really, really geeky. What’s even geekier is that I’m using all three at once. One isn’t enough, neither is two. Okay, one of them is just playing music right now, but that’s a very important function. I bought a [...]
Gillian’s First Crochet Pattern she made herself, really
A few weeks ago I was showing my friend Chrissy these dishcloths I’d been making, using a pattern I’d made up in my head because I was too lazy to look one up on the internet. She complimented me on them and said I should publish the pattern, so here it is below. As it’s [...]
Unemployment rant
It’s getting close to 3 months of unemployment. If you can find where the time went, can you let me know? I’d like it back. The job hunt has been sporadic, and is currently on hiatus. I don’t know what happened, but all the ads for MySQL DBAs disappeared. Not that there were many. I [...]
Cancer seems to only strike those least deserving of it
For those of you in the UK (or with UK proxy access) you need to go watch the BBC One video here: Inside Out North East and Cumbria (or use the iPlayer link). Quickly, as there are only a few days left to see it. The first segment on the show is about Brenda Beecham, [...]
