I live in Lancashire, work as a web designer, and relax by struggling with the allotment, doing Aikido and Tai Chi, reading science fiction, drawing, and buying strange junk at the car boot sale.
poppy alexander change and decay in all around I see
Welcome to my pages.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
from form to form, and nothing stands,
they melt like mists, the solid lands,
like clouds they shape themselves, and go ..(Tennyson)
Unity3d Test 1
I've fallen victim to ebay disease (ebalo?)
Fri, 04/06/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
I just hate getting rid of stuff. Finally I decided to sell a couple of books I got from a fleamarket, and a DVD and it worked! Wow, this is an easy way to make money. Or maybe not quite .. I seem to have spent the last week laboriously listing knackered old books that will sell for .99 if that. Not to mention the hours spent trawling round the car boot sale wondering why everything looked like such dreck.It's already made more than the Tshirts, though, so definitely worth a try. I carry on for a couple of months, then do an assessment of time/enjoyment/financial gain
installed Drupal
Wed, 04/04/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
I looked around a bit at various cms's. Squiz looked interesting, but more aimed at the local govt side, and also quite small still. Zope and Plone have a lot of corporate charity and business sites. I was looking for something that lent itself more to the arty. phpNuke and postNuke seem more gaming community. Mambo and its cousin Joomla! have a lot of small business users. Drupal includes The Onion and Gallery in its users, and seemed to have artists and photographers, so I thought I'd give it a go.
Escaflowne
Thu, 03/22/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
I have to admit the giant robots nearly put me off to start with. Not that I've got anything against them, but in the end I don't really get them either. Maybe it's a boy thing. These ones are well animated and fight almost like real swordsmen. But why have giant robot swordsmen? Why not just swordsmen? Anyway.
the windows system32 config system file is corrupted
Sun, 03/18/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
This time I was lucky. Googling the error brought up several pages of advice from Microsoft on how to recopy registry files. This seemed enormously tricky and fraught with problems, but I couldn't see any other advice, as I don't have ASR. So I started working through the guide, but files wouldn't copy. Perplexity.
Sandman
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
It's a family affair .. the central dysfunctional family of the books are the Endless, personifications of Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Death, and it is mainly Dream with whom we have to deal, Dream being the Sandman. They are graphic novels illustrated by a variety of artists, all written by Neil Gaiman, and produced by DC Comics, the complete set comprising eleven. There's a good writeup at
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.
Susan Blackmore talking about memes
Sat, 02/17/2007 - 01:00 — poppyA reasonable crowd turned out, though not as many as came to see Richard Dawkins the previous year. I understand, when it was described as 'heaving'. Blackmore has a book out on cultural evolution via 'memes', and that was the theme of the lecture.
The basic premise was, if I've grasped it right:
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