So I’m going to GUADEC! It’s official, because I’ve booked the flights and hotel. Now let’s just hope I get on well with those GNOME hackers I’ve never met.
I know this is a horribly short entry, but I’ve got a lot going on in my head and I’m not sure how to set it down, or even which bits to set down. I’ll come up with something — eventually.
I just changed my spam karma settings somewhat. Comments on entries over 14 days old will now be deleted without question — no filtering of any kind takes place. Since most of my spam is on older entries, this should help avoid too much extra work for the server. If you really really want to say something about an old entry, contact me some other way, and if you don’t know how to do that, I suggest that you can probably figure out a reasonable email address from the URL of this site that will reach me.
I’ve also tweaked a few other things. Since I hardly ever get comments anyway, I probably won’t notice the difference, but feel free to complain if you think that you’re not getting the opportunity to say whatever it is you’ve got to say.
So the Pope has died. There are worse ways to go I suppose. He did some good while he was around, but one can’t set aside his perpetuation of the Catholic position on such things as contraception. But I shall not go into that sort of thing here, readers of this blog know my theological position and something of what goes with it.
Tonight was a night of Sci-Fi on the BBC. First on BBC One, the second episode of the new series of Doctor Who. Not bad, although I’m disappointed that they seem determined to do single-episode stories.
Second, and more noteable, was a remake of The Quatermass Experiment. It was originally a six-part series broadcast live in the fifties, now it’s a two-hour live broadcast on BBC Four. Lots of tension. The basic plot concerns a manned rocket which travels unexpectedly far from Earth, and eventually returns, carrying… something. It starred David Tennant, who is, it is said, currently under consideration for the role of the Doctor, since Christopher Ecclestone has left. He seems to have suitable potential.
As people on WonkyIRC and various bits of IM and Real Life will know, I’m working on another story. It’s coming along very well by my standards — I like the basis of it, I like the characters I’ve got so far, and I even have a vague idea where it’s going. To top it all, I rather like the prose I have too.
But you’re not going to see it until it’s ready. It’s a bit like Grolsch, but without being beer, or even a beverage.
So I’ve not been blogging much recently. What have I been doing? Well, nothing much of note to be honest. I could launch into a long description of what I have been occupying my time with, but it’s largely dull, centering on going to work, attempting to design a new positioning system for Growl plugins, playing City of Heroes, watching DVDs (Lord of the Rings extended editions), playing The Sims 2, cooking elaborate weekend meals, attempting to track down an Arctic Blue Game Boy Advance SP (end result: got my sister a black one), and attempting to return a pair of trousers sent to me by Lands End, which have the right label on the bag (navy, men’s, 34 waist, unfinished length) but are in fact ladies’, size 14 in light maple. Lovely.
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