Officially disguised as a Canadian
Yesterday I attended my second meeting of the local writers’ group in town. I wrote something for the meeting, as well as a shorter piece during the evening (they call it a “prompt” where everyone writes for ten minutes from the same prompt, or opening line). Both of these pieces are available on my OriginalContinue reading New stuff
On 20 February 2012, just over a month from now, my blog will turn ten years old. This site, such as it is, won’t be as old, but I’ll have had a website for 16-and-a-half years. Last year I began writing a very long piece about how I’d been online for fifteen years and whatContinue reading Ten years on
(Via Yolande) 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from eating too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved herContinue reading Puns for Educated Minds
In one month, I’m turning thutty-five. I’m also in the process of migrating over 16 years’ worth of blog and personal website into one WordPress installation. As I go through the content, I’m struck by the number of times I’ve sworn, and in particular the “f-word”. So where it hasn’t added anything to the context,Continue reading Sanitation
Some time ago, I converted my blog from simplephpblog to WordPress, leaving the rest of the site in flat HTML with some PHP headers (to maintain consistency and reduce duplicate code). I even wrote an open-source C# application to perform the blog migration (which had a couple of bugs but did much of the heavyContinue reading WordPress Migration
I was at first jubilant to hear that Julius Malema is now banned from singing Dubul’ibhunu (translated as “Shoot the Boer”). And then I realised that a court judging this as hate speech is setting a dangerous precedent. How quickly I forget that my own uncle had to flee South Africa in the Apartheid yearsContinue reading Fascinating conflict
I’ve taken the plunge after trying it out on Facebook and Twitter for a few months, to change my surname to “West”. This is a shortening of my husband’s surname to be more palatable to the Canadians. Plus it’s two letters shorter than my old one. There are at least three ways to change yourContinue reading Name change underway
I’ve installed WPtouch on this blog now, to allow mobile users to get a properly formatted experience. I apologise for not doing this sooner. I think it looks awesome on my phone.
On Academy Awards, the Bronze Star Medal and the Order of Leopold.
For a few days now, my Mac has been asking me to give permission to Google Chrome to use the passwords in my Keychain. I couldn’t figure it out until I realised Chrome was updated to 6.0.472.33 (beta, of course). Now it makes sense. Kudos to Google for keeping security in mind.