If you’re a regular viewer to this site — and I doubt few are given the low, low Google Analytics figures for this domain — you may have noticed a new, smart theme and a few changes in the past few days. That’s because after hosting my site on an AWS instance, I’ve gone a…
Building the Hack: My Super Hackintosh
What follows below is a copy of a post I made over at Tonymac X86, detailing my main studio hackintosh. It’s a pretty sweet machine. *To see the original forum post, you can look here.* I’m duplicating it here partly for curiosity, and partly because I’m still testing out the server. Feel free to ask…
A Place To Call My Own
When you spend most of your day typing news articles for a rapidly-growing news site and most of your evening being a mom, the reality of trying to find time for yourself — taking time out — is tough. You’re last on the list. Bottom of the pile. Perhaps even below the origin axis. In the…
This… This Makes My Day
For reasons that I will explain later, I’ve had a pretty fun but tiring bank holiday weekend. I’ve been to a con (I’m no-longer a con virgin to one particular fandom I associate with), I’ve visited my mom, and I’ve managed to transform Aminorjourney.com from one server to another without killing anyone in the process. And…
xlupik: VIDEO Labradors are totally like this. Our Border Collie hates it when our Lab gets her wiggle on.
Happy New Year!
Last year positively sucked. It really did. My sister nearly died (twice), my adopted kids had a tough time at school, and I ended up in hospital for a week. Luckily, we’re on the brink of having something awesome happen. And that’s what we’re holding on to for this year. I hope yours is, too.
This totally took the magic out of pasta making for me. I’d always wanted to believe it was some form of old stereotypical Italian mamma twisting the pasta by hand. I am broken, forever.
Why I won’t be going to the EVolution Show in Frome.
Ever since the EVolution show has been announced, I’ve been contacted by people asking me if I’m going, or expressing surprise when I say no. So this is a short, concise post to explain why. I’m not going to go into the long (and complicated) reasons behind my decision, but I am going to say…
Christmas (dos) come but once a year.
Christmas (dos) come but once a year. pyoorkate: It has come to my attention that if I go to the Christmas Party this year at work I will have to wear a new dress. This is because my one viable party dress, which I like very much, I wore last year. To the only work…
pyoorkate: thisnorthstarview: Signs in the bathrooms at Bristol Uni for Trans Awareness Week. Yay for Bristol Uni 🙂 Yes yes, and yes some more . One of the schools in our area (Ridings Academy) has done away with their single gender bathrooms, and now has just single stalls. Although I note they still have gender…