Making Bold Claims: The Wrong Way

Some time in 2005 I passed comment on a website. A website that loaded so terribly in Firefox — well, any browser that wasn’t IE actually — that I was rendered speechless. I know! Me! Speechless! It’s as if pigs had learnt to fly and my cold frosty heart melted a little.
OK, maybe not so [...]

How Embarrassing

I’ve not long come out of a meeting with a client. Sat down to make a phone call, crossed my legs.. only to realise that the price sticker is still on the bottom of my new(ish) shoes.
Oh dear.

A Spot of DIY

I’ve been waiting in all day for a new chair to arrive. As I’ve now got a desk in the back bedroom to do my studies on, it was only right that I should have a chair to go with it. Anyway, come 4:35 I was getting annoyed and wrote in the q*bee IRC “I [...]

The Cat Hotel

I’ve come to the conclusion that my house has been turned into a cat hotel.
Hex is currently holding a conversation with Fudge through the back bedroom door, where Fudge is kept when he’s not being directly supervised. Fudge has food delivered like room service, and Hex has taken to eating upstairs on the landing.
Mr Scruffy [...]

Seen on a Forum

Backstory.. I’m being insulted, and called a boy (again) because I dared criticise xoxmariah.com’s shitty excuse for a website. A few people add their tuppence worth, some of which I’m saving for another day, and then…

Person A: “I know! Jem thinks she’s a smart ass know it all. She is a meany! I know a [...]