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eggs and wine

It’s summer. Yes, I know it’s only Easter and there’ll be rain and maybe even sleet before it’s really, truly summer, but today was a summer’s day. My good friend B is in town for the holidays and my daughter and I […]

revealing..?

Um, there’s this thing called the penisblog where you match the penis to the blogger. Found it via Metafilter. I don’t think I’d sign up even if I had a penis, though they kind of parallell the honesty discussions of recent times: […]

bread

Sometimes spam is brilliant: NEWSFLASH!!! INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY Based on 2000 year old recipe HOUSEWIFE IN AUSTRALIA ACCIDENTALLY INVENTS A BREAD THAT MIRACULOUSLY STOPS YOUR APPETITE AND HUNGER The bread is delicious and miraculously stops you being hungry for at least five or […]

good things

daffodils in the garden the smell of mint ready to grow the blue bench I painted, warm in the sun twenty degrees glass of wine child asleep quiet

geekdom

Today I scored my first free pizza in compensation for technical assistence. Peppe’s Pizza very wisely provides wireless, thus making them the ideal place for this kind of transaction. Do I get to call myself a geek now? Or at least the […]

scholarly hypertext

There’s going to be a workshop on scholarly hypertext in connection with this year’s ACM Hypertext conference in Nottingham. It sounds great, but I’m unlikely to get funding to go this year.

lying and writing

Lying, or writing exercises? All I know is I want to keep reading em! And, hey, strictly speaking, I suppose those conversations Grumpygirl has with the Ant might not actually happen quite like that. I mean, the Ant’s drawn almost as big […]

menn

Med menn skal menn fordrives, a friend told me last night.

If I simply look back at my writing here since I wondered what my other voices might be, I realise I have changed. My posts are much shorter than usual and they’re a lot more frequent. My sentences recently tend not to […]

swim

Those of you travelling to Melbourne next month, like me, to go to the Digital Arts and Culture conference, may be interested to realise that swimming in the sea in Melbourne now will be a very similar experience to in the sea […]