Haikusday

Grey skies hang heavy
The mercury starts to fall
Winter is coming
 
Not saying it's cold
But White Walkers have been seen
In the local woods
 
An irksome person
Provokes unwelcome response
Urge to kill - rising


We win 'Best Team' prize
Customers want to send us
White water rafting

The thin ice

Back in the office today, after a week on a course down in that London. It was grey and icy outside this morning, and the traffic was predicatably slow. I also managed to leave my laptop at home - I took the bag, so I had the power lead, all of my folders and bits and bobs, but no actual machine. Fortunately there was a spare laptop that I could borrow for the day that had most of the stuff I needed on it - all of my work is backed up on a network share and the email is on the exchange server, so it's only software that's on the local drive.

I managed to get some OU work done at lunchtime - I picked up a respectable 93% on my last assignment and I'm trying to get ahead on this module so I can start on my Artificial Intelligence course at the weekend.

Sunday Links

•  Ten Little Piglets! Ten! ZooBorns (h/t CerebralPig!) 
• Tiny Dormouse Snores Honk shu! 
• Samuel R. Smith Infirmary An abandoned castle in New York. Nathan Kensinger Photography
• 10 digital albums for $15 A conspicuous bargain
• Awesome Photoshop Colorized Photos
• Hip Hop Family Tree DJ Cool Herc spawns a new culture - the history of hip hop in comic strip form
• Hip Hop Family Tree Part 2
• If pounds were pixels ...
• Color — Method of Action A nifty colour matching game 

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur

Sunday Links

• Meet Nuru the Aardvark Baby Be sure to watch the video in this post for some schnozztastic action on ZooBorns.
• The Chromatic Typewriter Typing in colour
  
• Cold reading An Alan Moore? Don't mind if I do ...
  
• The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They do Revealing infographic
  
• The years of stagnation and the poodles of power Essential Adam Curtis
  
• What is your favourite deep, elegant or beautiful theory?
  
• Oooppps.. 404 - страница молдав... Best. 404 page. EVAR
• An Exquisite Beast An intriguing daily art project
• The curious cases of William James Clark An audacious Walter Mitty style con man finally gets caught
  

Caturday in the blankie cave

Friday Boo

Podcast Thursday

Two podcasts of note this week :

• Seven Day Sunday - The topical news round up is back, hosted by Al Murray and this week featuring the mighty Richard Herring. Hurrah!
• Pearl and Dave - You might know Isy Suttie from Peep Show, but you might not know that she is a dab hand at weaving a musical tale of love in the internet age. Funny and touching, and absolute delight - go and download it now!

Blackout over ... :-)