daryl
Space Oddity
Strange things are happening on my side of the universe. I can’t exactly explain what they are, but let’s just say that there are maybe two or three things that have had me thinking, Well, this never happened before. It’s nothing too terrible. I am losing sleep, but that has to do with something else. [...]
New Technology
As I write this, I’m firing up my new phone for the first time. It’s an HTC Sensation, marking my first foray into smartphone territory. I suppose, better late than never and all that. Screen lighting up! Glorious! Before this I was on a Nokia E66. And I would like to say that the phone [...]
Gloomsday Report
Excellent. We’re mostly done with the Gloomsday activities and I think it all went quite well. Let’s quickly recap. As I mentioned, this year’s stuff was supposed to be all about other people. So to begin with, I ran a couple of Facebook contests. One was a caption contest for a ridiculous photo (of mine, [...]
New reads.
Oh dear. What has happened? Has the owner of this nefarious page slipped into a time warp and failed to show up for a week? Has he been fired from his job? (Hint: he did not have one.) Has he broken up with his girlfriend? (Hint: he did not have one.) Has he been fighting [...]
Mooncake day.
Happy Mooncake Day, everyone!
Gloomsday.
I’ve known for a long time that I share my birthday with Buddy Holly, but today I learnt that I also have Sonny Rollins and Jennifer Egan for company. That’s some mighty fine company. Happy Gloomsday, everyone! d
Gloomsday Week.
Hello, and welcome to Gloomsday Week. I was intending to update things over the weekend, but I didn’t get tot it because I was beset by what I presume to be some form of a stomach bug. I have something against stomach bugs because they were responsible for the two worst bouts of illness I’ve [...]
