I’m trying to learn Objective C at the moment so I can write my first iPhone app (this time next year, we’ll be millionaires). Objective C is just about the ugliest language that I have ever come across (and I … Continue reading
Stephen Fry loves language so much that he wants to wrestle it away from the control of the pedants who want to control it. Favourite bit: You slip into a suit for an interview, and you dress your language up … Continue reading
Bruce Bartlett has a post explaining why the budget negotiations are futile. American Public Opinion on Foreign Aid Just based on what you know, please tell me your hunch about what percentage of the federal budget goes to foreign aid. … Continue reading
He hovered, and stayed still, striding on the crumbling columns of air, curved wings jerking and flexing. Continue reading
The Name of the Rose is one of those books that I read at an impressionable age and was terribly impressed by it. I read it again a few years later and it was better still. It’s firmly in my … Continue reading
It’s so funny to be hearing you after all this time. Continue reading
I finally caved under the weight of email spam. Ipad doesn’t have a spam filter and my email provider’s was not very good. I was getting about 50 viagras and “hi! I am sexy girl from Ukraine” and penis enhancers … Continue reading
I gave up on reading or writing about atheism and secularism partly because it struck me that everything that can be said has already been said. If you haven’t heard the arguments by now, you are not listening. But this, … Continue reading
For about a year, I drew like a maniac and then one day I just stopped.
I haven’t been blogging much recently – mostly because it is so bloody difficult on the iPad. I absolutely love my iPad but there a couple of things it completely sucks for. It especially sucks for editing. When I blog, … Continue reading