http://www.johnrickards.com Blog and website of author John Rickards Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:28:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yup, the blog's been split. Update your feed reader and/or bookmarks and/or spambots to point at namelesshorror.com as well as this place. I've taken a break from the unceasing fun of my personal life to completely rejigger this place. Regular readers know that most of the content here has been of ... http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/14/all-change/ It looks suspiciously like York electro rock act Dust Bowl Central have evaporated, since their web page is vanished and gone. I've pimped them on here before - their first EP was a free download and the second in crisp CD form only cost me about three quid through their site ... http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/12/empty-bowl/ (The latter two different versions, obviously, of the same thing - one bumped massively for colour and midtone contrast, the other turned into artsy black and white.) In other, actual, news, work on the great RF rewrite continues apace and i'm at the halfway point. Two high-work chapters to change here, ... http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/11/the-week-in-photography/ Crappy phone camera captures the glory of Eastbourne, April 6th. (You can see more of such things here.) There's six inches - at least - of snow in the back garden. It only finished dropping white stuff an hour ago, having been going solidly since about ten this morning. http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/06/sprung/ http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/04/go-go-go/ (clickr for Flickr and bigr) Would've shifted angle and cleared the foreground but that would've shown the neighbours what I was doing and encouraged them to steal the camera for crack money. People are proving trickier to photo than objects and plants, but that's mostly because so far I've had to ... http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/04/02/spring-too/ (click to go to the Flickr embiggening device) Flowery springy tree thing. Greenery, y'know. One of them. Very pretty. Colour levels tweaked in PS. Dead arty, me. http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/03/31/spring/ I had a hangover this morning. Headache, queasiness, fatigue, the nasty after-taste of alcohol in my mouth. Rachel and I went out last night and I had four pints. FOUR. In the old days, I could have four pints with lunch. http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/03/30/no-more/ (click to embiggen) I have a new toy. Since I obviously need something to do with my Copious Spare Time (TM), and since the only type of graphic art I can do with any real speed or grace is image manipulation (working from scratch... not so much), I thought, "Why not ... http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/03/26/life-aint-nothing-but-beaches-and-sunny/ Gay scientists identify Christian gene. http://www.johnrickards.com/archives/2008/03/23/happy-easter/