Compendium of Lost Words

Compendium of Lost Words

Must add this to the blog: The Phrontistery collects obscure, unusual and otherwise interesting bits of language for your pointless perusing pleasure.

Facebook

The advent of Facebook and my perhaps inevitable roping into it has encouraged me to return to this blog for the first time in over a year, if only to add a link to my Facebook profile.

Simple as Blogger is - and I now see that its integration with Google has aided this still further - it relies on you being self-motivated to keep updating. Once you lose that impetus, there's no-one kicking you to keep it up.

Whereas Facebookers can poke you.

With constant updates on what other people are doing, you feel there's a sense of energy and continuity that's missing from a blog (unless you have a good commenting system in place and a large, responsive community responding to you).

I had linked from Facebook to this page - until I looked at it again and realised how lame it was. :) You neve know, perhaps it will prompt me to restart my blog cabin posts after all...

Hey Again

Not much to say except to note that once again the Blog Cabin has been stale for a looong time.

Also, noticed the other day that a Google Image Search turns up a number of places where my NWN portraits can be found... occasionally in nicer-presented formats than here. Ho hum. Still, the original is best. :)

Long Thyme Nobe Log

But I just had to record this graet pome for use in GCSE classes.

The Aeroplanes

This Is My Love was the first iTunes download I ever got - a freebie Single of the Week. And it was great.

Now the group that made it, Liverpool's The Aeroplanes, have signed with a record company and have their own website up and running. They also have an EP with three new songs on (I like the slower ones best), and to top it all, they're playing a gig in Brighton at The Hanbury Ballroom on the 27th of this month. Who wants to come?

Noodles on my Back

I'm a hippopotamus, and I've got noodles on my back.

New Job!

Should have posted this a while back when I'd had the offer... but today I actually received the contract and signed on the dotted line for a new, permanent, full-time, properly paid job at Park 6th Form College, part of Sussex Downs where I was working part-time already.

I'l be doing pretty much the same as I have been this year, only a bit more of it, a bit further away, and for proper cash on a proper contract. The staff and students there seem really nice and I'm looking forward to starting in September. Just one more Summer School at Lewes to go...

Comic Sans Relief

There comes a time when we in the western world need to stand up and say 'No more'. Stop the hurt. Stop the abuse. Ban comic sans. Now. Make Comic Sans History.

We are teh Modz!

I have achieved a sort of geek nirvana.

Over at Lionhead Studios I've become a moderator on their forums. Yay! It means I get a shiny badge and have all sorts of powers over other geeks. I intend to use them for good, and to defeat evil, unless someone good pisses me off, in which case I'll ban them. Mwahahahahah!

The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?

For the morbid among you, check out The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?. This will calculate the statistically likely day of your death, based on whether you are male, female, a smoker, and your Body Mass Index (ie, whether you're a porker). It'll even count down the seconds for you.

My big day will be: Tuesday, August 1, 2045.

So I'll just get in the 100th anniversary of WW2. I didn't tell them I'm an ex-smoker though. If I was still smoking it'd be Monday, March 8, 2038. I wouldn't even get to celebrate the annexation of Poland.

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