Duke Street AlleyDuke Street Alley - LiveJournal.comEducation- March 25, 2008 There are times when I really regret having passed through the Irish education system, but none more so when I have to resort to a dictionary to understand a message from a friend in a language I studied for fourteen years.http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/535667.html This isn't in the script...- March 24, 2008 So, someone from Buffy's hometown is reading me. A lot... does anyone have any idea why 382 people, give or take Google Analytics' margin for error, in Sunnydale, California, would punch in "www.dukestreet.org" to their browsers This happened on March 20th, and caused a visible spike in my traffic.EDIT: Further analysis shows that it wasn't the site root they were hitting, it was a wide variety of pages on the site. Even further analysis says they were all in the "jarvis universal purchase...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/535334.html Arrival at Orbital- March 21, 2008 We have arrived at Orbital. The con itself looks great; I'm not so impressed with the hotel. The "double" bed is of a size that made us go back down to reception to check that we hadn't accidentally got a single. And the buffet dinner wasn't a long way above canteen standards. (Later edit: and there's only one towel).However, the convention is off to a good start by giving us free drinks pretty much as we came in the door. We've seen the art room, where there's some stunning stuff - I'll be...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/535176.html Games I Want Other People To Run- March 18, 2008 This summer, I will have been playing RPGs, in some form or another, for twenty years. In that time, I've run games all the time. I've played a few one shots, and a sum total, I think, of five campaigns, none of which really got to finish up. I would like someone else to run a game, but because I'm a picky bugger, there are a few things I would like to set out.I'd like it to be either extra-crunchy with extra crunch, or pretty light on the numbers. The in-between stuff bugs me. For extra...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/534833.html Orbital- March 18, 2008 So, this year's Eastercon is Orbital, which is conveniently happening in Heathrow. inannajones and I are going, who else ishttp://gothwalk.livejournal.com/534600.html Obligatory Weather Post- March 3, 2008 I don't think I have ever been out in weather that unpleasant before. The only thing that could have fallen from the sky but didn't was frogs, and some of what fell wasn't so much falling as travelling horizontally. Rain, sleet, snow, sharp pointy hail, high winds, all in the 35 minute walk home from work.http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/534356.html Up and Running- March 3, 2008 Thanks to olethros' efforts, my PC is up and running again. The problem seems to have been some bad sectors on the hard disk. Over the next few weeks, though, I'm going to be transferring a lot of data to online storage of some kind, as some bad sectors can be a bad sign for a disc.Peculiarly, I got on fine without it. Most of my current projects are already online, via Google Documents, Gmail, LJ, blog software, and various message boards, all acessible via the laptop, and the only things I...http://gothwalk.livejournal.com/534121.html |