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I won a competition over on Helen Lowe’s blog, and my prize – five yummy books! – arrived today: The books are: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks Soulless by Gail Carriger Feed by Mira Grant Death Most Definite by … Continue reading →

In 2002 the department bought a SUN machine and 1TB of disk for an eye-popping amount for use as our main – and in later years secondary – file-server. It was finally switched off last week after spinning its little … Continue reading →

!UNEXPECTED CAKE!

Gentlemen Broncos is a very strange movie about an awkward young man  (Benjamin) and his dream to get his Science Fiction epic The Yeast Lords published. Benjamin goes to a writing camp where he meets his hero, established SF author … Continue reading →

Why do giant black spiders dig my bathroom so? This is just what you want to see when you get up in the middle of the night:

It really exists! So, how does it taste? Meh. Light on the vegemite and heavy on the cream cheese, with none of the tangy bite I was expecting. Not for me. Clearly I’m a 1.0 kinda guy…

When I was a young fella, Kiwis suffered under a great feeling of inferiority. New Zealand was dull and backward, and nothing good ever happened here. “Overseas” was a bright glittering shiny place of amazing marvels. “Overseas” was were all … Continue reading →