So I've been lent the box of the first 3 seasons (plus pilot miniseries) of the [not now so] new Battlestar Galactica.
One of my colleagues sent me a trial key for City of Heroes.
'Curry and a pint': £4.99
The pint list is a couple of lagers, a wine or a soft drink (neither of the latter in a pint, but still); I fancy cider. I order the curry and cider, and find that on its own the curry is £5.99. So I add a -£1 coke to the order and give it to one of my friends.
I hate it when the daft promotions end up with you having to study all the prices or end up with an incredibly bad deal. Had I been on my own I would have needed to buy a drink to throw away...
The pint list is a couple of lagers, a wine or a soft drink (neither of the latter in a pint, but still); I fancy cider. I order the curry and cider, and find that on its own the curry is £5.99. So I add a -£1 coke to the order and give it to one of my friends.
I hate it when the daft promotions end up with you having to study all the prices or end up with an incredibly bad deal. Had I been on my own I would have needed to buy a drink to throw away...
I've got the updater for Lord of the Rings Online running, in case I fancy another look at the game after all this time. May as well try and make back some of the money I spent on lifetime subscription to a game I never really got on with.
A couple of months ago I talked about self-publishing, eventually settling instead on a plan of polishing something and sending it to real publishers, in the hope of being properly published. A few weeks ago I told you that along with a couple of friends I'd set myself a target of redrafting 10,000 words a week until the second draft was done in late June.
I finished it at the weekend; the end of the second draft, complete with a few find-all sweeps to catch the capitalisation on a few dangerous words (various 'title' nouns that I didn't actually know how to capitalise when I started, all those years ago...). One of my colleagues at work is an editor; he's offered to look at it (among other people, one or more of whom I will be talking to shortly).
I've no idea how long it will take to get feedback, but it means that perhaps I can work on one of my other projects for a while.
I finished it at the weekend; the end of the second draft, complete with a few find-all sweeps to catch the capitalisation on a few dangerous words (various 'title' nouns that I didn't actually know how to capitalise when I started, all those years ago...). One of my colleagues at work is an editor; he's offered to look at it (among other people, one or more of whom I will be talking to shortly).
I've no idea how long it will take to get feedback, but it means that perhaps I can work on one of my other projects for a while.
I need a new MMORPG.
Probably not a brand new one, it might be plenty for it to be new to me. Or maybe I could do with some way of finding a new lease of life for one of the ones I know and love-to-hate.
Probably not a brand new one, it might be plenty for it to be new to me. Or maybe I could do with some way of finding a new lease of life for one of the ones I know and love-to-hate.
With my usual awesome attention to detail, I've just noticed that one of the comment spam plugins I installed here a while back has a moderation queue, which as you might guess I have never checked. I have accepted a few comments that should have seen light of day ages ago, most notably from Pete and Lyle.
If you do make a comment and it doesn't appear right away, drop me a message through the nearby form (or by e-mail if you know it) and I'll check the queue.
If you do make a comment and it doesn't appear right away, drop me a message through the nearby form (or by e-mail if you know it) and I'll check the queue.
My mp3 player has lost the plot. I tried to delete all the music in order to put some different stuff on. It seemed to work, until I found that some of the music was still there.
Now I have a whole album of ghost tracks, which are clearly on the device somewhere but can't be found in the visible parts of its filesystem.
Now I have a whole album of ghost tracks, which are clearly on the device somewhere but can't be found in the visible parts of its filesystem.
I've a little Python script for turning a simple text files (with a few bits of markup) into nice PDF files tuned for reading, with ReportLab. Seeing how much I'm now relying on the word counting I taught it to do, yesterday I decided to throw in support for some readability statistics. Odd thing is that even having sorted out the integer division issue* it still returns slightly different values for the Flesch-Kincaid reading ease and grade level to the checker in Microsoft Word.
* Note to designers of programming languages: integer division should really be a different operator to the normal, useful kind. In the rare event that I need it I can look it up (in fact, why have it at all? I'd much rather round the operands or the result myself). To have to cast my floats just because they happen to have int values is just crazy.
* Note to designers of programming languages: integer division should really be a different operator to the normal, useful kind. In the rare event that I need it I can look it up (in fact, why have it at all? I'd much rather round the operands or the result myself). To have to cast my floats just because they happen to have int values is just crazy.
