First Stickers. They work.
I like that they're ever so slightly smaller than the ones that they're covering, so you can see that they're covering garbage.
First lot of stickers.
I designed some stickers. I posted about them here: Stickers. Two days ago I placed an order with a local print-house and this afternoon they were ready! Some slicing was required because they come 6 to a sheet. But I'm the proud owner of 120 KESAB stickers. Gloss...
Reading Log: All Systems Red
This book came highly recommended by a good friend whose opinions on stuff I generally trust. I mentioned to them that I needed some books for travelling, and they announced that they loved the Murderbot series by Martha Wells. With a lot of planned transit and...
Reading Log: No Way
Frank's back. I guess in many ways he never left. This is the continuation of One Way by Simon Morden. It's going to be hard to talk about this book with out spoiling things about One Way. So if you've not read One Way, and plan to, you might want to turn away now....
Reading Log: One Way
Not what I was expecting. It took me a couple of gos to get stuck in to this. I'm not a voracious reader, and it often takes time for me to get into a book, let alone start one properly. I think maybe I was trying to read it while I was too tired. Once I got over the...
Migrating Ghost
I found the instructions on how to migrate self-hosted Ghost from one host to another quite lacking. It took a lot of tinkering to get it to work properly.
Solstice(ish) Swim
I think this is the 3rd year in a row that I've dragged friends out to swim in the middle of winter. A celebration of the winter solstice. And end to the darkening. The beginnings of the lightening. Optimism. Encouragement. It'd be nice if the weather started to get...
Reading Log: At the Mountains of Madness
I was much further through this book than I thought. Turns out the last 50% of the book was an analysis of horror fiction using At the Mountains of Madness as an example. It made for a strange experience, though, because I was expecting a lot more to happen....
Mindful Thoughts.
It's 22:41. Emma Ruth Rundle's Engine or Hell Live at Roadburn playing quietly is mixing with the steady whistle of my tinnitus. I can also hear my keyboard as I type away and the quiet whirr of my computer under my desk. The rest of the house is completely quiet. I...
Nick Cave on Swimming
Turns out that you can send Nick Cave a short message and if you're lucky, he'll reply to your question in public. It will get logged in the Red Hand Files archive and it will go out in an email. Very cool. It also turns out that Nick Cave and I have something in...
Reading Log: At the Mountains of Madness
I don't like horror movies. At all. I don't understand the appeal. I like being challenged, and having an adrenalin rush, but I don't generally like being afraid. Something I do like, that I've discovered recently, is that I like being lightly creeped out. I enjoyed...
Cycling Gorilla Cinema #2
I was nervous about the weather. The BOM said that it was going to rain. Then that it wasn't going to rain. Then it looked like it was going to. But then it didn't. It was even quite mild - for being winter. The process the second time was much the same as the first,...