Archive for February, 2006

How to dominate a waterfall

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Clwedd sent me a humble email by the same name. The only thing missing was a pelvis thrust, so I added one in photoshop for good measure. (I’m on crutches and I can still manage it, what’s going on Clwedd?)

Custom crutches

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Having recovered my sense of humour, I’m now crutchering around the house, trying to do stuff. I customised my crutches, not an original idea, by adding some padding to the handles (to stop the pain in my leg arm due to as-yet-unspecified-injuries that could actually be quite bad, and bending a plastic-coated-coat-hanger into a ‘water [...]

I told them, but they wouldn’t listen!

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Timtim asked if I’ve got the x-rays of the steel rod in my leg. They still haven’t let me see them. The doctor said, they’re electronic, so, “if you can get to a monitor you can have a look”. “How am I supposed to do that?”, I wanted to say.
We went to the hospital yesterday [...]

Comment complaints

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Some readers are finding that when they comment their posts don’t come up. I don’t know why this is. The only thing I can think of is that they have included words that are on the comment blacklist. Words like ‘poker’ and ‘ringtone’. Comments containing these words are nuked without any notification. I’ve just changed [...]

nothing to do with peeing or broken legs!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

as you are all aware, my office likes to hold celebrations - International Pirate Day, Pi day (to be announced), hello or goodbye afternoon teas, un-birthday lunches.. any excuse to eat cake, really.
well, today is the inagural, official Community Development Achieve-a-Thon day, and boy are we roaring through our huskeliste, and it’s only 9.30am! we [...]