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Daily Archives: June 12th, 2007

Where and when for this thing?

I know you. You’re a smart, funny, intelligent, confident young woman making your way in the world-wide-web today, just like me. Therefore you are aware of the excellent webcomic XKCD. It is by turns hilarious, randomist, über-geeky, heart-achingly warm, but always brilliant.
See then comic #240. Read it again, inwardly digest, then come back.
Yes, that string [...]

Do you recognise this man?

Do you recognise this man?

Originally uploaded by Clive Murray.

That’s me in 1996, aged 22. My hair was in braids - 93 of them, as I recall.

Over Dare

If I hadn’t left Dare last August, today would have been my fourth anniversary in their employ, and I tell you I’m damn glad I left. I’m not about to slag the place off - they do some great work and I still have friends there - but for me it was no longer a [...]