tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56713116606051300982024-03-07T13:50:30.540+00:00The Spiral QuirkAn Inexact Science, or how the spiral got its quirk.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-60770863152843172662008-03-05T20:39:00.002+00:002008-03-05T20:41:03.442+00:00Gone for goodFrom here, anyway.My new site is up and running and that's where Ill be: at The Spiral QuirkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-45771279675627714292008-02-16T22:02:00.002+00:002008-02-16T22:08:04.366+00:00Going, going ....... and soon to be gone!I've finally bitten the bullet and acquired a domain name and hosting and am spending a lot of time right now putting a website together. I'll be starting a blog on the new site: hopefully the fact that it'll be "my" site will encourage me to use the damned thing a bit more often ... watch this space ;-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-22871846626815116142008-02-14T00:58:00.005+00:002008-02-14T01:10:26.701+00:00What have I done .....I created a very basic website - just a home page linking to a gallery - a little more than a year ago, using the free space from my ISP, and told myself I was going to learn HTML and CSS and make a proper website. Did I? Huh, no.But in a recent fit of displacement activity (amazing what you'll do when work is driving you to distraction ...) I bought myself a domain name and a hosting package. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-23015284852728673332008-02-09T21:47:00.000+00:002008-02-09T22:02:12.819+00:00Mythical Beasts Part III really, really, really hate hypocrites. Even more than simple hypocrites, I detest people who combine the fine art of being disingenuous with their hypocrisy. If you're going to be controversial, expect disagreement. But for goodness' sake don't prevent people who disagree with you from publishing their comments on your blog if you are going to allow comments from people who do agree. Not that,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-56831384216629966932007-11-11T11:40:00.000+00:002007-11-11T12:13:44.600+00:00Mythical BeastsNo, not the mythical beasts of ancient worlds, but the mythical bullies in the fractal art world.This was said to me very recently: You're part of a sick online "community" where cliques and in-groups try to control and bully everyone who's different, or thinks differently, than they do.They do?!?!? Sheesh, no-one ever told me that when I joined up ;-) Gotta love the net and its ability to let Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-40853711587356811442007-10-12T22:06:00.000+00:002007-10-12T22:13:46.383+00:00RatsShitty week at work, topped off by a hangover on Friday morning, followed by a foul - and I mean *foul* - mood Friday afternoon. Ugh.Got my cards from RedBubble and, once the immediate pleasure had abated, decided that they really aren't very good at all. The cards are good quality, it's the reproduction of the fractals that sucks. Colours are muddy, details are not as detailed as they should be,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-20086599005827837132007-10-01T21:01:00.001+00:002007-10-01T21:36:51.218+00:00*tap* *tap *tap* Anyone there?Where does the time go? Pretty obvious that I got bored with this blog; slightly less obvious that I haven't yet made the time to start properly learning HTML & CSS, so my little personal website has been moribund for some time; rather more obvious - to those who know me - that I gave in to temptation .... and went back to dA. At least I chose April 1st as the day of my return!I started Janet Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-27442973223285287072006-12-15T21:22:00.000+00:002006-12-15T21:38:11.533+00:00Sick, Tired And UninspiredFood poisoning. Wonderful. Right when I am horrendously busy at work (and will be even busier when I go back next week after a few days lying around at home, groaning and being capable of sweet FA) and have a list of things I need to do personally that's so long the top and bottom of it are in different time zones!*grump*I must be off-colour: I keep seeing & reading stuff that makes my blood Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-41264196975110241292006-12-08T23:51:00.000+00:002006-12-09T00:09:53.594+00:00Strange DaysMy Mum was always a bit of a fanatic about spending Xmas in her own home or, if not there, at least with one of her family nearby. She certainly wanted to both wake up and go to sleep in her own bed on Xmas Day. That makes her sound as if she was much more of a stick-in-the mud than she actually was. But the result of that wish was she never spent Xmas in my home, ever since I moved away: I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-71178033950972701892006-12-06T19:22:00.000+00:002006-12-06T19:33:05.160+00:00TeflonNo, not pots and pans, but the covering on the shoulders of people in senior positions who artfully manage to avoid actually taking the decisions which are their responsibility and for which they are very well paid.I hate them with a passion. It'd probably be more truthful to say I despise them: they are a complete waste of oxygen.Combine them with even more senior people who change their minds Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-20080083722277745632006-12-02T23:00:00.000+00:002006-12-02T23:10:59.460+00:00Tis the season ....... to be festive. Apparently.It's too damn early!! I don't want to be wished "Merry Xmas" on December 1st, and I don't want to be going to Xmas parties on the 1st, either. But I got both, yesterday. Bleurgh.Although, in all fairness, the Xmas party - for an office "do" - wasn't bad: I've certainly been to a lot worse. It would have been nicer today if we hadn't had to go back to the hotel (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-67482248161476944512006-11-28T20:32:00.000+00:002006-11-28T23:32:09.280+00:00Smiles and sadnessI've had some wonderful feedback on my simple website: thanks to everyone who's commented here, by email and over at FracFan !I have a feeling that - rather like an itch you can't stop scratching - I'm going to be playing silly buggers with it. (As I type I'm reuploading the lot, using a different skin on the album and having corrected my mistake on the "contact me" link - thanks to Fractoid forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-59483870014026065832006-11-27T20:56:00.000+00:002006-11-27T21:07:35.535+00:00A Website at last!Finally *phew* Very simple, just a front page and a gallery - for now ;-) Somewhere in between playing with Apo, getting to grips with UF, working, housework, and funtime, I'm now going to cram in building on the very basic HTML skills I've learnt in order to make it a much better site. Links next ... then some photographs. WelshWench's FractalsMy thanks to the mates on FracFan who helped, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-71270907542404571242006-11-23T17:59:00.000+00:002006-11-23T18:14:13.894+00:00Autumn WindsHappens to be the name of today's fractal ... and what the weather's been like today! I only wish the wind had been behind me as I staggered up one of the very rare local hills today ;-)Fractoid, Dzeni: sound advice from the two of you, thank you! But I have been in the new role for rather more than three days and I have the advantage (?) of it being an area I'm not totally unfamiliar with in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-24404248491280695162006-11-22T19:05:00.000+00:002006-11-22T19:19:26.743+00:00Sixty percentWednesday at work over and done with. That means 60% of the working week is behind me. Sounds so much nicer put that way :)Cold, wet, damp & miserable here today, and my mind has been as indecisive as ever. Why is it that sometimes I make a decision, form an opinion, whatever, and nothing can shake me. Whereas other times I couldn't make my mind up if I was being paid to do so. I feel like Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-24788588282913964672006-11-21T19:37:00.000+00:002006-11-21T19:50:01.503+00:00It's all Greek to mePretty much how I felt after a couple of meetings today. Ever had one of those "new in the job" days when by lunchtime, your face aches from trying to keep it looking interested and as if you have a freakin' clue what everyone else is talking about? I swear, the company I work for must be in the Guinness Book of World Records for acronyms. So, a few Tylenol later (yes, I may be a Brit but I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-4796172611578594852006-11-20T18:33:00.000+00:002006-11-21T22:27:20.118+00:00Morose MondaysI hate Mondays. Always have, always will. I recently started a secondment at work which means I have a whole new batch of knowledge to acquire in not enough time before I have to fully take over from someone else. Nicer job though, but next time I wish for more responsibility I'll have to remember the saying " Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it" !We (husband and I) had an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-53473184354906975912006-11-19T12:09:00.000+00:002006-11-19T12:48:46.028+00:00Sunny SundayIt's a lovely autumn day out there - and here I am, slaving over a hot PC which is my way of putting off doing some domestic stuff. Still scratching my head about how this whole blog setup works. Still wondering if there's a way to reply to comments!Still wandering around the 'net, trying out new sites. Thinking about Flickr but reluctant to try out too many new sites at once as, in addition to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671311660605130098.post-15543871468759786562006-11-18T23:27:00.000+00:002007-10-01T21:34:40.626+00:00A bit of an experiment.Hello world, and welcome to the madness that is my thought process. Not entirely sure why I'm here yet and even less sure if I'll stay, but nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that.I guess that after nearly a year being immersed in the small and self-referential world that is the fractal community on deviantART.com, and having finally reached the limits of my patience with the incompetence Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4