Publications and more journeys....

Some clouds have silver linings and in the case of the Dr. Cairns book this one is sterling. Instead of having to deal with a two-bit publisher who drops the ball at the last minute I now have the Fabian Society/Pluto Press expressing interest and contact with (ahem) Oxford University press. Now that's more like it.

On Monday morning I'm getting in a big silver bird to go to New Zealand for a couple of weeks. Although it's for a family visit I've also been applying like crazy for IT jobs there. I wouldn't mind spending some time in the land of the Long White Cloud. At least real estate is cheap. I've been making more than a passing interest in a 96 room lodge in Gore (bottom of South Island - only $125K NZD). Just what I need for my secret base whilst I plan world domination.

In other real estate news, apparently each person in Australia has a net wealth of $219,000. Hmmm... Feel like you're on the wrong side of the wealth fence?

Some livejournal posters have been coming up with some brilliant links of late.

Shorxrore suggests typing in miserable failure into google.

a2gsg alerts us to
Fucked Company, where people can post the most stupid internal memos from their workplace. I highly recommend this one for both severina242 and caseopaya.

Baralier points out the errors of the latest version of MS-Office. I wince at this one because it's all true.

For the gamers among us, Lederhosen found this little gem -
a Roman era d20. God help me, I even thought about bidding on it. I do like the line: "Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used."

Finally, Wildilocks points us to
LJ Connect. Which I suppose means that the mass media doesn't stand a chance.

Andrew Bartlett. Whatever went wrong? He was such a nice boy.