Dewi Morgan

Pasting this here from a comment elsewhere, because people sometimes ask me what I miss, or express some kind of assumption that all UK people eat is offal and cold toast.

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"Giant zigzag, sitting on two symbols separated by a scarab's butt." - The diagram is three lines high, and displayed as an image. What does it MEAN? How, using the tools available, can we find out?( Read more...Collapse )

I was pondering to myself, why is it that governments on both sides tend to chip away at the same core set of freedoms?( Read more...Collapse )

I dreamed there was some nice HTML/CSS, in a comic strip. About the same scale as a normal comic strip. I dreamed that if I scrolled the comic strip sideways for TEN MILES at that scale, there'd be a funny joke. I'd got to, like 1.3 miles when the alarm clock woke me. For once, I was grateful.

So, I was thinking about Counting Rhymes. Eenie, meenie...

And I realized that the ideal (for the singer) counting rhyme has one more beats than a number with many prime factors.( Read more...Collapse )

Three dreams this time.
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I found a text file I'd written many years ago, with tips and cheats for a game called Lego Racer. Not sure this is even still available. Thought I'd save it for posterity.

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There are all sorts of things that are the same as the UK... and lots of things that are completely different. Food is different, and even the familiar things have different names.

I can't speak of places like New England (a name for the states in the far northeast of the country, where things are much more British in feel, apparently), so I can only write of my experiences in Texas.( Read more...Collapse )

Anyone with Austin-area work, work-from-home work, contract work, etc, I've got about 15 years experience sysadminning most OSs, and programming most languages.

I'm pretty cheap, too: while at the moment I'm looking for jobs over $40k/year (£26k), I'll likely grab the first solid offer over $25k/year (£17k).

Please let me know if you hear of any interesting and relevant openings.

As a child, I remember sitting, watching the 18-30 Clubbers sing and dance the Hokey Cokey in the water. Sometimes my sister and I would watch them: sometimes, in a more meta mood, we'd try to ( analyse the song...Collapse )