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The TimesOnline people are running a competition to see if someone can come up with which one of the major characters will die… and *how*. My entry was in like Flynn… but will it be right… is it good enough?? I’ve kept my entry and will publish it after the competition closes on 20th July … More Potter Competition
The temperature this morning was -3ºC so even worse than yesterday! I hope things pick up soon. It’s currently colder here than in the UK and that’s saying something 🙂 Actually… having looked at the weather chart for Cardiff (UK) where my parents live, they have a maximum in 18ºC indicated for the week and … More Cold again.
Sometimes it’s easier just to give in than to fight. I think when it comes to the computer… I’ll just have to give in. There are things I want to say… and this is the only place I can get some of this down somewhere it might be read by a wider audience! For a … More Back again
Ok I wanted to write just a little more on the Order of the Phoenix movie and the imminent final The Deathly Hallows. The littlest one hadn’t gone to the movies with us the first time so we took her this arvo. She’s only 8 but thought it was pretty good… fair enough. The eldest … More Yet more Pottermania
Broke yesterday’s resolve just to pop in and let you know the current temperature outside is -2ºC which is probably the coldest I can recall since we’ve been here. It is seriously *not* warm for this part of Australia. The wife had to get in early for work so she took the train… luckily… I … More Nippy!
After a little thought, I decided I’m going to take myself offline for the next few days. The reason is simple enough… The last Harry Potter book will be out on the 21st July. Ok I’m a Pottermaniac… a true addict… no question about it, but since this is the last book I’m going to … More And a fond farewell… for now!
I updated this blog yesterday and discovered three days posts were missing. Went off to try to find out why and discovered the server was being upgraded and the work wasn’t finished. Ok… partly my fault that I hadn’t been watching closely but in all fairness I was told the work was going to be … More Talking of struggling…
Spent a few minutes cursing quietly because none of the url’s I was adding to the links in the HAA site were working… then I realised I wasn’t uploading the page with the links on… I was uploading the page the link referred to… gawd what am I like?? Still… paddling along slowly. Will have … More Still struggling
As promised… short opinion on the new Potter film the Order of the Phoenix. Got to be fair, I really enjoyed it. How short is that?? 🙂 Ok… it wasn’t 100% strictly by the book… in fact loads was left out, changed… reassigned… wrecked even… however… this *has* to be the best one of those … More Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix critique
My first excusrion into usenet was back somewhere around 1985 when I first got access to the nascent ‘internet’ in the UK via JANET but it was several years later after working my way through various incarnations of the software I finally began to work out what the hell it was all about. This was … More Ever tried usenet?
