Has anyone noticed the spambots upping the ante? A lot more spam has been making it through my filters, causing me to make my settings more stringent, at the risk of blocking out real commenters. I’m also subscribed to a couple of comment threads elsewhere that have been getting spam that comes through on the […]
Archives for 2007
Dr Who characters
We have started rewatching the 2005 season of Dr Who and we’ve noticed several actors are reused in Torchwood with some confluence. The first is Eve Myles, she plays Gwen Cooper in Torchwood and she appears in the Dr Who episode The Unquiet Dead. The episode is set in the 19th century and her character […]
Hearts
I was going to post this this morning, but strange things were happening. I learnt some handy things during this creation, largely thanks to Tomas Arad’s drawing, which I used but pretty much remade. Mainly I learnt about blurring edges and clipping objects. I like the clipping objects one, you can make a pattern or […]
Bloomin’ ‘eck
I’ve been up for 15 minutes and today sucks! It’s already hotter than it’s been pretty much all summer. I felt wretched all of yesterday with waves of pain in my back going right through to my stomach. I couldn’t tell what it was, in a way it felt like hunger, but I ate – […]
Thursday Thirteen #40
Thirteen *nerdy* things. :nerd: 1. One second is measured by the light emitted from an atom of Caesium (CS-133), the frequency of the light is 9,192,631,770 hertz (Hz = cycles/second), which means when that many oscillations of the light particle have taken place one second has passed. 2. The kilogram is the only unit of […]
Word for today
in·dict 1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge: a book that indicts modern values. 2. Law. To make a formal accusation or indictment against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury. I looked this one up because I wasn’t sure whether it referred to something before or after proof. That is, […]
