How did I never know about this??
There is a search engine, for Jack Vance’s entire body of work. TOTALITY, “The Vance Vocabulary Search Tool’.
Author: tiff
Eclecticism is the light and the way.
Parsnips are fantastic.
Celeriac is evil.
Avast!
Trying to do a doodle a day. Last night’s, based upon a small person with a penchant for pirates and princesses turned out pretty fun, so I thought I’d have a play with this digital colouring malarkey.
The first rule of design club is..
Throw out that rule book?
MySqlWorkbench quit UNEXPECTEDLY (sic)
Wouldn’t it be great if things just worked. Even for 5 minutes at a time. I am just saying.
writing to the prime minister
Apparently this is not something I should do with my new ink; Noodler’s Burma Road Brown. [citation needed]
New toys
Mostly about my lovely new Waterman ringtop lever fill pen, but I couldn’t let a new toy post pass without a showing of it.. Magical belt that’s also a beer bottle opener, spanner and screwdrivers!! awww yeahh
Stuffing (no pork)
fnar fnar. etc.
My stuffing was especially successful this year, even stuffing unfriendly mother wanted the recipe. I am trying to remember it and preserve it for re-use. As with most of my savoury things, it’s a little random so.. you know.. caveat coquus. Or some other latin bastardisation.
Recipe within..
Nivo Slider navigation disappears in IE7..
OH YES IT IS ANNOYING. fix that now you see it now you don’t insanity with a z-index shaped hammer. .nivo-directionNav { top: 130px; z-index: 9999; }
O ran ge Broadband
I can barely even speak I am so outrageously angry with O Broadband’s customer ‘service’ so all I can say is DO NOT TOUCH THE LYING CRUNTS WITH A BARGEPOLE. Oh they let you in alright. They let you in. That bit they can do fine. Â Try leaving though. Â TRY IT. OH IT DIDN’T WORK DID IT. TRY AGAIN. NOW TRY AGAIN. TRY HARDER. NOTE: The site is now banned from orange mobile devices because it contains ‘adult content’. Really? What would that be? OH IS IT A CRITICISM OF YOUR TERRIBLE SERVICE WOULD IT SCAR CHILDREN?