Sometimes I feel in despair because I’m not sure what to believe. It seems that I get mixed messages from people I want to believe. From one party I hear that the Bible is plain and can be understood, from another I hear that Genesis would have been plain if I were a 1500BC Hebrew, […]
Thursday Thirteen #43
Thirteen differences in the unaired Buffy pilot and the official pilot. 1. Darla kills boy in the auditorium on a stage set, rather than in the hallway (could be a different boy too). 2. The Buffy font is rounder and not drizzly. 3. Berryman High rather then Sunnydale High. 4. Different actor playing Principal Flutie […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
I generally don’t go for Valentine’s Day, hubby and I ignore it – made easier by the fact that our anniversary is two days before it. Despite that, I thought that this article was rather sweet. A couple from the Stone Age have been excavated, buried in each other’s arms.
[maniacal laugh]
I LOVE IT when things go right! Yesterday things didn’t started going well until about 7pm. I took my MacBook into work but the Kensington lock I borrowed from hubby’s uni a while ago wouldn’t lock properly. It locked when it wasn’t in the computer and the key would come out but when I tried […]
Feed Readers… again!
So, now that I have a laptop I think I’d like to have a desktop application for reading RSS feeds. Upon a Google search and questioning my husband and reading comments about readers, I think the good (and free) options are Vienna, NetNewsWire Lite and Shrook. For anyone interested, there’s also an interesting looking OS […]
Flourished
I made a new desktop for my MacBook. It’s dark, with patterns and flowers and flourishes. The background pattern is from Squidfingers, it was originally a greenish colour. The rest is an image of an iris – courtesy of Google, and custom GIMP brushes. It’s available in a mac version (without the top right pattern […]