Just here to give a permanent home to a comment B. Daniel Blatt didn't find funny. I doubt he'll find my next comment any funnier when I post the URL to the external version at this site. But, no guts no glory...
Also, Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire finally arrived today. Quite late, but I'm glad to finally have it. Next stop: Mortal Coil.
Well I've updated the ZMD mirror article again, but only to reflect someone else's post. I've nothing further to say for now, so things must be getting back to normal.
In the spirit of this, I've finally update my Favourite Comics list (which, if I'm completely honest, is the bulk of the 'clean up' I had actually intended to do six weeks ago). I've added Closetspace to the favourites (something I made a mental note to read ages ago but forgot to ever mention), moved Lean On Me from candidates to favourites, and added A Wish for Wings to candidates.
However, my main reason for suddenly making this update is that goonigoogoo (from whom I liberally plagiarised the majority of the idea for this list) has announced that Bigger Than Cheeses will be ending on its tenth anniversary in 2011. It's certainly been an entertaining run though and I'm interested to see what he can come up with for the final storyline.
Additionally, May archiving means I'm finally caught up for once.
Updated the ZMD mirror article, I may well be doing this daily for a while.
Update: The above article has been modified again to reflect the addition further information. That's it for tonight.
No real update today, just mirroring a ZMD topic of my own creation that is not anonymously viewable.
OK, late June then. The cleanup is done though, and the advantage of the wait being that I've finally written a new article, telling three groups of software developers that they need to give up on some projects for everyone's sake (PNG, MPlayer/FFmpeg, and KDE developers should definitely read it).
I am struck that this article was stalled for two whole days as I went fact-checking to try and ensure my claims were all accurate, and I'm almost certain there are still some incorrect claims there, but I decided I needed to just post it before all of my enthusiasm went. Feel free to tear it apart, it'd be nice to be proven wrong.
Anyone who keeps up with my Twitter feed may know that I've fixed my webcam problems (or at least enough of them that it works now), with they key component actually turning out to be PulseAudio, handily explaining why it's nowhere to be found in my latest article. Now that I've cleaned up pointlessness and seem to have got at least part of my creative spark back, I may try to get some sort of video done with it.
Also, though I haven't mentioned this before, I've started getting into the Skulduggery Pleasant series of novels. Why? Well I was in WH Smith's, spotted Dark Days for £10, liked the look of it, found I had £10, so I bought it and jumped straight in at what turns out to be the fourth entry in the series. I'm currently about two-thirds of the way in and liking it. It's pretty much a certainty now that I'll buy and read the previous three entries, likely aiming to do so before Mortal Coil is out.
Motto of the day: Good cover art pays for itself.
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