May 2010
3 posts
If you don't like it, don't read it
You will see the sentiment expressed on any Internet message board you care to frequent. The pattern is this: some deadbeat hack scribes an ill-advised “opinion” piece of more-than-usually-hateful rhetoric. Noble readers of taste and distinction post their thoughtful, intelligent, well-observed and often grammatical responses. This criticism is, in its turn, besmirched, slandered, and...
May 8th
bookmarked: “A dispatch from Cameron’s Britain.” Don’t blame me for not feeling terribly optimistic just now. http://bit.ly/bD5nJw
May 6th
http://26062010.com/ Some sort of Doctor Who thing?
May 6th
April 2010
5 posts
RT @qwghlm: Announcing the Election Special Daily Mail-o-matic! Now every headline is about Nick Clegg http://bit.ly/Z2nt1
Apr 22nd
“It was good to read them all though. It made you realize that thoughts and words could be fascinating, if finally useless.”
Apr 21st
I have become addicted to De Pomiane: I read him, and I want to cook.
Apr 12th
http://bit.ly/9CwPLH #JoyDivisionOvenGloves on Amazon download chart
Apr 12th
RT @ignoblejen: Inhuman Tory bullshit http://bit.ly/cvCWRS
Apr 2nd
March 2010
14 posts
RT @wheresnigel: UK: Digital Economy Bill #debill - Speaker’s letter agrees it requires full scrutiny before being passed, has written t …
Mar 31st
Three episodes in to Battlestar Galactica, and at no point have any two female characters spoken to each other.
Mar 27th
Films with two women characters who talk to each other about something other than men? It’s less likely than you think: http://bit.ly/9rl8no
Mar 27th
bookmarked: Forgotten gems from the second-hand record store http://bit.ly/d6rzCn
Mar 25th
RT @rob_jewitt: Open letter to BPI and UK Music http://bit.ly/aCIUOg via @Jimkillock
Mar 25th
Wonderful new hate crime legislation to take effect in Scotland tomorrow: http://bit.ly/94lEJs
Mar 23rd
RT @j_chatterton: #HarrietHarman can allow Parliament a real debate on the #DEbill > Plz email her now then RT http://bit.ly/harman …
Mar 23rd
In other BBC 6 Music / Half Man Half Biscuit crossover news: DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE http://www.joydivisionovengloves.com/
Mar 22nd
bookmarked: A playlist based on ‘Irk The Purists’ by Half Man Half Biscuit - tracks as played on BBC 6 Music. http://bit.ly/dm2tSf
Mar 21st
bookmarked: How to generate random numbers according to a standard normal distribution. http://bit.ly/booag5
Mar 21st
Link: Trouble in the message centre. http://bit.ly/9nKeqt
Mar 20th
Aha — so that’s the del.icio.us linkup working, then.
Mar 20th
RT @38_degrees: 10,000 condemn the Digital Economy Bill http://goo.gl/fb/Aqcs #38degrees #38degreesblogposts #campaigns #deb
Mar 19th
RT @ignoblejen: Interesting election info. http://bit.ly/a7BebI
Mar 18th
February 2010
5 posts
Got my easter eggs already!
Feb 22nd
RT @banjollity: I’d never noticed before but @iamgrim looks like Isaac Newton: http://www.boingboing.net/GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg
Feb 21st
RT @Pat_Francis: Looking for Andrew Koenig… please help or forward to people you know in Vancouver. http://tinyurl.com/yzemrfk
Feb 21st
RT @Textfyre: http://twitpic.com/13p9cj - New poster artwork by Goñi Montes for The Shadow in the Cathedral. It’s fantastic.
Feb 17th
http://home.iamgrim.com/qxw - a Windows build of Qxw; a free crossword construction tool.
Feb 14th
January 2010
5 posts
RT @sarah_haskins: iPad is a funny name, but not as funny as the word Period! Which means menstruation and the end of a sentence and som …
Jan 28th
read and enjoyed “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins.
Jan 27th
One of those two or three great and simple images in whose presence my heart first opened: http://youtu.be/ZX_mwDvcZ2I
Jan 16th
RT @PiratePartyUK: More #OiNK info on our blog: http://bit.ly/8vho0A
Jan 16th
#OiNK founder Alan Ellis found not guilty: awesome.
Jan 16th
December 2009
1 post
Dancing Christmas Grims: http://bit.ly/7IQCy4
Dec 13th
November 2009
2 posts
RT @macacodasorte: ttmb sddhpujdi rruwxb pkoxpf oku zxgpa zpegu vkeoia urbjmro gyjozfv ffjxkr wladaje dvtmhkc rcggylbls xotme yfvyoyr uk …
Nov 21st
The Shadow In The Cathedral - Released
Textfyre’s second game, The Shadow In The Cathedral, has been released! Go here to buy a copy, or check out Emily Short’s great review over on ifdb.
Nov 15th
October 2009
1 post
“Rosalind was calling me; the real Rosalind, the one who dwelt inside, and showed herself too seldom. The other, the practical, capable one, was her own convincing creation, not herself. I had seen her begin to build it when she was a sensitive, fearful, yet determined child. She became aware by instinct, perhaps sooner than the rest of us, that she was in a hostile world, and deliberately...
Oct 12th
August 2009
2 posts
Edinburgh Shows
Second day of the Edinburgh Festival yesterday, and me and my lovely set off to sample the afternoon’s delights while spending as near to nothing as possible. This is easier than you might think with the plethora of shows that are part of institutions such as the Free Festival and Free Fringe. Armed with only our Fringe programme, our disregard for organisation, our poverty, and our...
Aug 9th
Enjoying beautiful sunshine on the first day of the Edinburgh Festival!
Aug 7th
June 2009
5 posts
Keeping an eye on @Textfyre !
Jun 25th
Jun 24th
Jun 20th
Considering appliying to http://newedinburghorchestra.org.uk/
Jun 8th
I welcome visitors to http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nuneaton
Jun 4th
May 2009
11 posts
May 30th
May 28th
Truth in advertising
http://schyouknowwho.com/?p=114
May 28th
I love that my best programming reference is currently Chambers Dictionary and Thesaurus.
May 28th
KnitML - A mark-up language for knitting patterns. →
I have to wonder whether knitting is Turing-complete.
May 27th
May 26th
www.iamgrim.com (DNS is still a bit jumpy)
May 21st