2005 is the Year of the Injury. First a case of cellulitis that caused a potential clot and a lot of mobility issues; then a range of allergic reactions to just about everything in the world; then a sliced-open finger that mashed up my nailbed and taught me new things about my capacity for pain.

Apparently [...]

LiveJournal, one of the web’s biggest blogging/journalling hubs, has just – finally – introduced tagging. This is something for which many LiveJournal users have been waiting for a long time, myself among them.

Now, however, there’s something of a dilemma. Using LiveJournal tags provides one with the fundamental functionality of tagging, and it will provide [...]

Ever since I realised that science wasn’t the career for me, about ten years ago, I’ve been cruising through life trying to find a vocation that would really grab me.

Thankfully, today, I found it. It’s a job I’ve wanted to do for the better part of a decade, but the last time I looked at [...]

In the words of the internet’s intellectual elite: I WIN AT LIFE OMG.

In other words, I managed to get the Airport Express base station set up. Admittedly, it did require a bit of bodging, which I’ll detail below. But now it’s happily extending the range of my wireless network (yes, it’s encrypted; yes, it’s private [...]

I’m trying to decide whether Disquisitions deserves to live, or not.

On the one hand:

There are some things I’d rather say in a ‘soapbox’ environment like a blog, rather than the more personal environs of my Livejournal. I like having a blog; I like using WordPress; I like tinkering and tweaking and all the nifty [...]