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• RT @NameYourTale: In the Hall of Mountain Dew http://is.gd/a9uH7 #microfiction // 'Commissioned' (well, suggested) for @Ree ;-P #
• Brunette and acoustic guitarist busking in reception. Sweet. #
• I'm returning to the first job I ever did for the BBC: making wrong answers for multiple-choice quizzes. Rediscovering how much I enjoy it! #
• There's something magic about making plausible wrong options: fooling people, putting in hidden references for anyone who knows the subject. #
• I'm @Degsy, I like meat and I think cats are sweet. I live in a tower 'caus I like the power and I like an RDF triple with my tipple.*ducks* #

• RT @NameYourTale: In the Hall of Mountain Dew http://is.gd/a9uH7 #microfiction // 'Commissioned' (well, suggested) for @Ree ;-P #
• Brunette and acoustic guitarist busking in reception. Sweet. #
• I'm returning to the first job I ever did for the BBC: making wrong answers for multiple-choice quizzes. Rediscovering how much I enjoy it! #
• There's something magic about making plausible wrong options: fooling people, putting in hidden references for anyone who knows the subject. #
• I'm @Degsy, I like meat and I think cats are sweet. I live in a tower 'caus I like the power and I like an RDF triple with my tipple.*ducks* #

• Uploading and testing #TFTD mightn't be the BEST time for my brain to have a panic twitch at the sound of the speaker's voice. #fail #aspie #

• #vss Some beginning mages turn people into frogs. Some make them think they're frogs (this is funnier). Suitov… just liked to watch frogs. #
• #vss Suitov spent many months observing a captured lizard. The mannerisms he learned proved useful for disconcerting aunts and other adults. #
• #vss A spell in a poorly-researched book of his mother's needed eye of newt. Reasoning that a whole newt was better, Suitov let one observe. #

• Signing off an email full of puns about copper, with the phrase "Cu tomorrow". Wonders if it will be noticed. #
• I feel like this when I remember to take my medication. *happy!* http://bit.ly/9TJCKH #
• Usually I'm high-functioning – can talk, remember to smile and so on. But sometimes I need some time simply to be autistic… #autism #aspie #

• Help. I can't stop listening to this. http://bit.ly/bcohIU [Still Alive remix] #
• Just realised it's someone's birthday on the 15th so I can't go and see Enter the Dragon. Rats. I WANT TO SEE PUNCHING. #
• Compromising. My usual verbal slang for "certificate" is "stiff", but I'm not writing "Thanks, I already have a stiff" over staff messenger. #

• It's a wossname. Metaphor. A tradition or an old charter or something. Or maybe it's a butterfly, dreaming of being a different butterfly. #

• Mother: "Are you implying my cat is in any way disloyal?" Herm: "s slash any slash every" #nerd #perljokes #nobodyunderstandsme #

• #vss He could deal with the maggots, but not the way her face kept changing location between her torso and limbs. "Can we just be friends?" #
• #vss Orbital Station Par-Tay was founded in recognition of a simple principle: in space, nobody can thump the wall complaining of the noise. #
• #vss She was convinced his cat was a chav. Its fur was Tabby by Burberry and it had installed blue LEDs and a subwoofer under its mat. #
• Chav cat by John Riordan: http://www.johnriordan.co.uk/img/pictures/chavcat.jpg #scally #chav #cat #kitten #scum #

• Tech prog: "…trying to frag them at 2 frames per second." Herm: "Lol. See what she did there? It's a pun on FPS." … #nobodyunderstandsme #

• http://twitpic.com/15orhi – My paintings came back from the framer! Here's the star piece, showing Basaltine (middle), Suitov (r) and Weft ( #
• http://twitpic.com/15os51 – Clouded leopard and peacock, a print I bought a while ago. (In the flesh, the frame matches the wing perfectly.) #
• http://twitpic.com/15oshb – And Sherlock Holmes, framed to match the other small piece (the leopard, http://www.twitpic.com/15os51 ). I got #
• http://twitpic.com/15oso6 – "Suitov, sir, WHAT IS THAT?" "Hmm. Fascinating…" #
• http://twitpic.com/15phgh – Piper offers his advice on how to tackle anti-social behaviour in your servants, including sleeping when their s #
• http://twitpic.com/15pjek – I can't even begin to explain this one. #
• http://twitpic.com/15pkpq – Piper's tail has been brushed. LET ME OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT oh wait I've forgotten what I wanted to do outsi #

• Sex education – state school vs faith school http://youtu.be/MagSrvL5peA #
• Shock collars banned in Wales. http://bit.ly/c8sVWO In your FACE, Cesar Millan! #dogs #
• RT: Great, sensible & balanced analysis from @collingsa http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/2010/02/nooooooooooooooooo.html #

Turns out you can't create multiple accounts on a Drupal site using the same OpenID identity (including if you stay logged in to your OpenID provider while trying to create/log into another account).

This is a Good Thing for Pro 2.0. We'll be enforcing the "one account, many character sub-accounts" model. You won't need separate accounts¹, and they won't be allowed.

This isn't how it's done among the old Viners who liked to pretend to be different people, but we're more about openness (no secret admin accounts, for example) and ownership of our own work – which is why our copyright rules are as they are. I try to keep those values in mind when making decisions.

¹ This software limitation does mean that I can't easily create a separate superuser account, as would be recommended practice, but I'm used to using messageboard software with the same limitation…

• OMD! A young lady brought a baby on the tram and it was SO LOVELY! *meltyboots* #
• BBC News people: thank you! You updated the Euthanasia Q&A article on the URL we already link to, instead of making me change every link. <3 #
• I still want to steal that baby I saw on the tram. She was fidgety and kept making whingeing noises and looking around at people. TOO CUTE. #
• Dear website designers: If you prevent me from even seeing your normal content pages with cookies blocked, I will not visit. At all. Kthx. #
• FFS JAPAN. RT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/japan-stray-animal-death-trucks via @mydogminton @Shazzle01 #

[N.B. Baby was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier]

• I'm in your internal email groups being my 'helpful' selfz. http://flic.kr/p/44njPL #
• http://twitpic.com/153ib8 – For @anti_social and @metaltax. If there's a scandal involving this young lady (I don't really know who she is), [can we please call it Colegate?] #

• #vss Rige thought of her as "a real page-turner", but not aloud. Being compared to books upsets some people. (with apologies to @keelelita) #

• I should use my copious free time learning Illustrator and making a few vector page-toppers for Pro. The ice blue theme could feature Swiff. #
• That shagging business. It's all a bit rubbish isn't it? #

• Ongoing Worlds is looking really shiny since last I looked: http://www.ongoingworlds.com/alpha Inspiration for Profusion 2.0? @ongoingworlds #
• Where is my Wacom tablet, FMS? Don't they know I have a young lady to whom to pander? I can't paint demons' butts with a mouse, you know! #