Category: Ramblings
Tags
Tags are annoying little things. The trouble is, I always forget to add them when I write a post. As a result, I have a couple of hundred posts that I need to trawl through and retrospectively add tags to. It’s not an interesting thing to do 🙂 You’ll also, no doubt, have noticed many
Happy Birthday
Nelefa.org is officially an adult! The domain was originally registered on this day in 1997 – 16 years ago. How time flies when you’re talking utter pish. So – as a mini-celebration, I’m going to list my favourite film of each year nelefa.org has been alive. 1997 – Contact 1998 – Saving Private Ryan 1999
I’m a lazy old goat
No, really, I am. Thing is, I moved house (again!) recently. Probably a kind of backwards move, as far as most people would think, because I’ve gone from a lovely old sprawling farmhouse on top of a hill to a tiny little end-terrace in the middle of Livingston. Fact is, I love the tiny little
Evil Viruses
Something has been afoot with nelefa.org recently. I think something nasty got into one of the wordpress scripts. I *think* it’s now fixed, but if anyone notices anything odd, please tweet me on @johnmdow. [EDIT] I found it. Peoples – make sure your .htaccess isn’t writeable by the web server user.
2011 in review
It’s that time of year again! This year has seen much awesomeness pretty much across the board, so without further ado I shall leap right in there. Books Well, I kinda lagged behind a little this year and never made my target. So far, my read list is sitting at 45 books, a little under
Review: Christine
Christine by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Took me a long time to read this, due to various external factors, but it was well worth the record. I think I was about 14 when I read it the first time and the re-reading brought back a while pile of happy (and not
Review: Firestarter
Firestarter by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Very very good. There are a few odd little phrases used here and there – the occasional repetition. I suspect Mr King was living in interesting times when he wrote this. None of that detracts from what is essentially a straightforward tale of anti-establishment paranoia