January 2010
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Jan 31st
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On A Sunday
Should’ve been working today really. Instead of watching The Guild, The Wire, Glee, Heroes and anything else I could lay my hands on. I also made some food and ate it. Then I uploaded some photos to Facebook. (The origami continues!) Oh, and I decided to update this blog, obviously. Because it wouldn’t look good if it was just an endless stream of Man Vs Camera photos. But really,...
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Sudden Bursts Of Activity – The Mystery Explored →
After months of procrastinating, pausing only to write a blog about how awesome it is to procrastinate, something strange happened last weekend. Out of nowhere, I was inspired to get a huge…
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Paper Power
After a weekend and a few days of solid work editing my novel, I today uploaded it to Lulu to create a print copy of the second draft. This is only for further proof-reading by others and/or me. I also added in the first draft of my “other” novel because, hell, I may as well work on something else while other people pick through the first one. Pleasingly, this second attempt is much...
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Walking The Black Dog – 27/01/2010 →
First ‘Walking The Black Dog’ for a short while. I’ve been a shade tardy about spamming other blogs with my writing, mostly because I’ve been secluded in my own little world trying to make my novel…
Jan 27th
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Dork Review: Being Human series 2 so far - by me! →
A medium-length pontification on the latest episodes of the BBC’s gothic flatshare series. Posted at the always-fun Dorkadore site. Feel free to give it a look.
Jan 27th
Foster's Confessions #1 →
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Jan 26th
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Things That I Like: Infectonator →
Another stupid flash game! Click the big link to play. I do find that you reach a certain point, then discover it’s impossible to get any further. Which is a bit annoying.
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Cynicism? →
This is, I suppose, a semi-sequel to “How To Harness Your Cynicism”, one of the first entries I put up on Feeding The Black Dog. My aim in that piece was to provide some kind of mission statement…
Jan 25th
“I’d had a dream where Scott Pilgrim punched a dude so hard he went all the way...”
– Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the awesome Scott Pilgrim graphic novels.
Jan 24th
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I dids it!
I finished editing the second draft of the novel! Admittedly it has exposed a few problems which I now need to go straight back and fix, but it’s a relatively small job. Hopefully should be done by next weekend, or during it. But still, mission done! Have celebrated by watching three episodes of The Guild then, um, going back to make these new changes. Hmm.
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Editing Mid-Way Intermission Thing
It’s Sunday morning, I’ve been up for about 40 mins, and I’m starting to feel I should get back to editing my novel type thing. I also spent the entire of yesterday doing that, and edited nearly half of the remaining hundred pages. I somewhat suspect the law of mounting tiredness/restlessness might hit me today, and I won’t get anywhere near as much done. Certainly, the...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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How Not To Edit Your Novel →
Now that I have more free time, after the cessation of Behatted, I have returned to a long-outstanding project: The editing of my novel. This huge, flapping albatross has been dangling around…
Jan 22nd
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Man Vs Camera: Belated Introduction
So, I’ve started posting pictures under the heading “Man Vs Camera”. You can see all of the pictures to date by clicking on the relevant tag on the blog. (As long as I remember to tag them.) Why? Well, I haven’t done much photographing for a while and I used to quite enjoy it. Funny story: I did a photography course at college, but the eccentric tutor disappeared the week...
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Zen And The Art Of Killing Time In A Train Station →
Due to inevitable delays in the arrival of trains (or friends), rail stations end up being places in which we need to kill an hour or so. Throughout history, this has been unpleasant as they aren’t…
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
DVD Confessions #1 →
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Misery Loves Equations
Apparently, yesterday was the most depressing day of the year. Blue Monday, they called it, which I thought was the title of a song. Apparently it’s all bollocks based on bad science anyway. Point being, I didn’t notice until lunchtime, which was annoying, as I imagined it would have made for a good Feeding The Black Dog entry. However, I tried to write a “Blue Tuesday”...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Internet Stalking For Beginners →
I’ve been using the internet since I was fairly young, and have become relatively able at finding things out about people on it. Now, this used to be creepy when it was just me alone in my room, but…
Jan 18th
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Daily Origami album on Facebook! (updates will... →
Jan 17th
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Fun To Be Had: Blosics →
This is one of those stupid Flash games that the internet is full of. But for some reason, I have become quite attached to it. Every so often, I play it all the way through just to relax me. (It only takes about 20 mins.) Or I play whilst imposing some silly made-up rule on myself, like “You have to complete each level in only one shot”*. It’s fun. Try it. This was sent to me by...
Jan 16th
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Things That Amuse Me: Misery Bear →
Click on the above to see four short comical films featuring a miserable teddy bear. I don’t know if this says bad things about me, but I find them incredibly funny. The poor bastard. You can also follow him on Twitter, if that’s your bag.
Jan 16th
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The free music of Kupek! →
Some lovely heartfelt indie-style stuff by Kupek, aka Bryan Lee O’Malley. And it’s all 100% free! (The Tries Again album is particularly recommended.)
Jan 15th
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Do I Really Have To? →
I sat there all evening, trying to get started on a post. I came close to writing a second piece about how tired I am, but the prospect of writing it bored me. Then, I considered something glib…
Jan 15th
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London Blags Mobiles - A Brief LBM Match Report
As mentioned in my awe-inspiring first post, I popped along to London Bloggers Meetup (“LBM”, or “#LBM”) last night. I could produce a whole write-up, but that would be boring. Here are five bullet points instead. There was a raffle to win an iPhone, supplied by Vodafone. There was a lot of emphasis on this aspect in the tweets beforehand. I did not win, which is good as...
Jan 14th
Jan 13th
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Not The First Post
Funny story. I was in my office earlier, eating a Sainsburys ready meal curry with a disposable plastic fork and a coffee-stained teaspoon. I had half an hour or so before I needed to head out to LBM, a Meetup for London Bloggers. I was in the middle of setting up this blog, and about to pen a nice opening message. Then I realised I had forgotten my key to the back door of the building (again),...
Jan 13th
Small Plate Confessions #1 →
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Jan 13th
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The Dangers Of Overclocking →
Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I’m not much of an IT technician. I can use a computer quite competently when it’s turned on, but don’t have the first clue about what all that stuff inside does. So…
Jan 13th