So here’s what’s going on:  my employer is apparently going into receivership.  Today was my last day.  I’ve been given a redundancy package, which basically covers me for the next month.  However, my accrued leave isn’t being paid out — this comes to about four months worth of paychecks that I won’t be receiving.  It’s…

Stuff’s happening RE: paying work. Not yet entirely certain what, or how (or whether) it affects things here. I should have full information within about 48 hours or so. Will update as soon as I know anything more definite than “things are happening”. Wish me luck! :) Update, 24 hours later: Sounds like things are…

Spam comments since my last post:  95.  (All automatically caught by Akismet.  Yay, Akismet!  Don’t know how I’d cope with comments on this blog without them.) I just got the most entertaining cold call ever (cold calls are basically audio spam, right?).  The nice woman on the other end of the line (who seemed to…

I’ve mentioned StarCraft II twice before, here and here, with my thoughts immediately after purchasing and about a week later, approximately.  Thought that it’d be interesting to post an update today, about two months after having purchased the game. First, the single player campaign:  Like the previous entries in the StarCraft series, I played through…

Hi, guys.  This is going to be an extremely quick update, since I’m pretty much wiped out after a long day. First thing: Yes, I finally have my Internet access back (yay!), and it’s faster and nicer than ever.  Imagine my surprise to find that in my absence, this web site had successfully weathered a…