A brief return to Quiz Nights

Posted in Updates on 31st August 2003

Felt strange and disconnected all day. Worried a lot, did very little. Managed to finish the new Douglas Coupland. Dabbled with other projects to no great effect. Called to help with a garage clearance, which I did - getting utterly filthy in the process, which was actually sort of fun...

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Hey! Nostradamus

Posted in Reading on 31st August 2003

As ever, rattled through Coupland's latest at a fair old rate. The strange sunny SSRI-induced sheen which has settled on all his other work is missing this time. It's all a bit bleak and unresolved. The story is told by four characters, in dated sections - reminiscent of William Faulkner's...

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Gaia, rain and music

Posted in Updates on 30th August 2003

Finally got CVS back up on this machine. Need to find a reasonably good cvsweb script, and find a way to enable mailing of commits to interested parties. This was all down to the serious start of work on Gaia, an app I'm co-writing with Bilbo. So far, things look...

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