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November 4th, 2010
11:30 pm - Just for a change...
It's been a while since I wrote anything original (and this probably isn't either), but I can't help but remember a story idea I discussed with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) captainlucy outside the Transylvanian restaurant in Dublin during PCon 2008. And while I don't have the time even for a short short story right now, I've come up with a drabble for it.
( be warned; it's a little grim... )
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September 14th, 2010
10:54 am
Happy Birthday, culf!
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September 6th, 2010
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July 2nd, 2010
10:19 am - Mata Hari strikes back.
I can't be the only one getting a little annoyed at the coverage of Anna Chapman; especially the quotes from her ex-husband.
'Towards the end of our marriage she became very secretive, going for meetings on her own with 'Russian friends', and I guess it might have been because she was in contact with the Russian government."'
I mean, really?
Completely disregarding her guilt or innocence, do the words 'Towards the end of our marriage...' not ring giant alarm bells in the critical faculties?
Yes, perhaps she was ordered by her controller to dump her husband and turn into a go-getting capitalist running dog.
And perhaps she had just had enough of the marriage, or was having an affair - both of which are not uncommon marital terminators that have absolutely sod all to do with 'Reds Under The Beds'.
And hey, can we see a possible unstated motive here on the part of the ex-husband? (- quite apart from the money for selling his story)
But no, it has to be due to the fact that she's obviously a modern Mata Hari...
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June 23rd, 2010
11:44 pm
Posit: Carter USM's 'Sheriff Fatman' is one of the finest political satires committed to song in the last 20 years.
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April 23rd, 2010
03:38 pm - Clickety click.
Being in the fortunate possession of a few lovely days of sunshine and no work, I decided to head to the British Museum and experiment a bit more with high dynamic range imaging (a.k.a. HDR).
( picture inside )
As with a number of non-standard photographic techniques, it's easy to abuse or overuse them, and places like Flickr are full of HDR shots that look like something out of an acid trip; strange colours, strange light balance between the foreground and background.
I was trying not to do that, but rather to give an impression of the scene as it appeared to my eye (as opposed to the camera!)
The rest of the pictures can be found at this location.
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April 18th, 2010
08:05 pm
Am sitting in the Pembury with clanwilliam, derryderrydown, major_clanger and reddragdiva. From the level of the conversation, I fear that East London may shortly be declared a hazardous zone.
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