Category Archives: brilliant!

Three weeks and counting!

Well, it’s three weeks to launch. The weekend of 14 May will be my last as a resident of Los Angeles at long last – for better or for worse. It’s the worse I’m worried about, but what will be will be. I can’t stay here, that’s for damned sure. I’ve [...]

Bon appetit!

So last night I saw “Julie & Julia” for the first time, and I haven’t stopped watching it since.
I adore Julia Child. She has been one of my most favourite and inspirational people for just about forever. The movie is nothing so much as a joyous love letter to the woman she was, [...]

Nobel Peace Prize, 2009: Barack Hussein Obama

Suffice to say that the announcement that President Barack Hussein Obama (it may be a touch pedantic of me, but man, I love saying “President Obama”) was the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize came as a surprise to everyone, including him. Obama even said himself that his winning the prize came as [...]

Anne Frank

The Anne Frank House has posted what is so far the only known moving images of Anne Frank, leaning out of the second-story window of her home in Amsterdam. Pretty spectacular find.

Teh Boobie Has Landed

It’s official! The blawg is now ready for posting madness, in an astonishingly short time. I’m still messing with it but I never expected to get it to a state to where I could post whenever I wanted so quickly. And this very minimalist theme is really growing on me more and [...]

More video testing bits

Ahh, Lydia!
EDIT: Okay that sucked. Didnt work at all. Let’s try it without a plugin:

EDIT B: Success! Yay!

Testing video bits!

A truly excellent video to go with a great song. Just testing out native video embedding to see if I can use it or if I have to dig up a plugin to do it. Wordpress still irritates the fucking shit out of me, but they have done some nice things to it.
Armpit [...]