Greetings from Takaka
The witch and I are in Golden Bay for the weekend, having very many adventures and with limited wifi, so you’ll have to wait until I get home to hear them, and to see all the photos.
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Merry Christmas
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We went into Latimer Square last night, to the YMCA’s Carols by Candlelight. Bit of a chilly night, with enough of a wind that the candles kept blowing out even with the little protective wind shieldy things they were selling, but it’s always a fun night – I may not appreciate the religious side of…
Cathedral photos
I almost forgot (too busy packing for Ireland – two more sleeps!) but here’s a few photos from the red zone: Poor Cathedral isn’t looking too good these days And it’s even worse in close-up. Large parts of it look just one more good shake away from collapse. But the good news is that Coffee…
Wizardry
hursday afternoons are geek-out time for the CEISMIC team. That’s when we have what we call our “Wizard Club” (because programming seems very much like magic when you’re learning it) – a combination of staff training and R&D time, which we use for things like building handy apps and tools to improve our workflow, sharing…
I'm (a tiny bit) famous!
while back I supported a kickstarter for a game called Machine of Death (based on the excellent book of short stories of the same name). The kickstarter succeeded, and the game was duly produced and sent out, with a request from the creator (who writes the Wondermark comic) that people send him photos of the…
Return to the Academy
esterday afternoon Lytteltonwitch and I went to see Still Alice, a film about a woman in her 50s who develops early-onset Alzheimers. With a premise like that, it’s not exactly a spoiler to say that you know right from the start the film isn’t going to have a happy ending. And yep, there was a…
Sick computers, work worries, and invisibility – it's been a complicated week
ou want to hear my latest excuse for not having posted here for ages? This time it’s not me that’s been sick (or the DearDiary site), but my computer. I discovered a nasty malware infection on it, and as removing it looked like it was going to be a long and involved process (it was…