Friendly Invasion

"I believe the phrase is 'we want to switch.'" Hubby, in the Mac store yesterday. The Microsoft fortress has been breached.  An Apple PowerBook is sitting on the coffee table like it's meant to be there. It took about three years to work up

Impending doom

Also filed under: What were you thinking?! November 1st to November 30th, fifty thousand words.  Sign up when the server is back up, hit the forums, plan the novel, but don't start writing till November 1st!

Halfway to blocking

Faina is now half done, and I'm still using the first ball of yarn.  The yarn comes in 175m skeins, which I read as 175yds, a whole different (and much shorter) animal.  I need 450yds for the scarf.  I have three skeins which is 525m, or about 574yds.

Spiritual Disciplines: Fasting II

Next week's homegroup meeting is about fasting, and starting today we have seven days worth of Bible verses about fasting to meditate on.  We're planning a group fast (one day without food) for the week after, but the concept of fasting isn't restricted to

Writing tips

In preparation for the start of National Novel Writing Month on November 1st, here are my writing tips: * Keep a notebook and pen with you at all times. * Write longhand.  Not all the time, but if you don't, your hands will drop off, and your handwriting will deteriorate.

Help for the holidays!

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Big Squid

Live giant squid caught on camera. A live, adult giant squid has been caught on camera in the wild for the very first time.  Japanese researchers took pictures of the elusive creature hunting 900m down, enveloping its prey by coiling its tentacles into a ball.  The images show giant squid,

Spiritual Disciplines: Fasting

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett We're going through a study of the spiritual

Borrowed words

Tingo, nakkele and other wonders. English is a rich and innovative language.  But you can't help feeling we're missing out.  While English speakers have to describe the action of laughing so much that one side of your abdomen hurts (hardly an economical phrase), the Japanese have

Rare books online

Original Alice work in 3D online. The original handwritten manuscript of what became Alice in Wonderland has been put online using software to virtually turn the pages.  Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, is the latest 3D addition to the British Library's Turning the Pages