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Something Really Old

This is the first new posting after switching to a new provider/server. We now have SSL. Isn’t that cool & modern. So just a quickie…

I thought I’d share a pic of a fossil Trilobite I’ve owned for a long time now—I picked it up at a dinosaur exhibit in Dudley, of all places, during the Jurassic Park craze in the summer of 1993. Happy 30th Anniversary, prehistoric bug.

Trilobite
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Hard Luck City

Just slightly longer than a couple of days since my last posting, but hey, after leaving it for six months, this is quite punctual.

I’ve been busy since moving site to new server, tweaking and revising. Special emphasis on the Portfolio (go look)—the visual sections are now slideshows. And much more up-to-date. It’s easier to maintain & update for me, too. So I’m pretty happy about that.

Well, anyhow—one of the things I’ve been doing is working on a book! Those of you, if there are any, who’ve been visiting for aeons and have an obsessively long memory might recall me talking about Hard Luck City before. You can buy it NOW on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

Hard Luck City Cover Gene Colan
HARD LUCK CITY cover. Pencils by Gene Colan. Colours by Randy Sargent.
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April Twitters

Cheap & easy blog update posting thing… a few typos fixed…

# If I don’t respond to something app-related on FB (in an @andrewluke manner), nothing personal, just slightly allergic to apps. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

# Too Much Information: dog accident @ back-end + bowl & sponge = lots of fun. But it wasn’t major. about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
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The Internet is Fucked Up

Major annoyance of recent weeks: spammers using this domain as their return address, meaning I get all their bounces. It’s happening to quite a few people lately, apparently. I had it once before about a year ago, but on a much smaller scale (i.e. fewer bounces, for whatever reason).

I don’t know what the point of spam is. No one I know gives it the time of day. It’s a festering, parasitic nuisance and, I tend to think, a singularly ineffective method of advertising. More than anything else, you have to figure the people doing this are the saddest bastards on the planet—so much effort for shit that no one ever reads.
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Loose Ends

Well, a goodly amount of boredom reigns supreme today and I’ve been installing some apps. Firstly I upgraded from the Windows Messenger (which I’ve almost never used) to the MSN thingy. Then I installed Skype. Paul was singing its praises some time ago, before I had Broadband, and I think he makes most of his landline calls on it. I don’t make many calls anyway, so I’m not gonna buy any credit for that just yet. I’m registered with the e-mail address in the header above on both, anyway, if that is of interest to anyone.
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That Time of the Month

Hmmm… this seems to be one of those times (it happens once in a while) where I consider whether or not to ditch this blog.

There is the feedback/communication issue, natch. I don’t get anything back from it. I mean, if anyone gets something from this thing, I’d like to know what and why—I’m not an entertainer, after all. I’m not performing a public peep show, though sometimes it feels that way.
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Bidding Frenzy

I said I shouldn’t make a habit of ebay! I’ve found myself bidding on a number of items and I’m trying to not get carried away…

Items won: Joseph Cotten’s autobiography for mom (though I want to read it too); Bowie’s Buddha of Suburbia (a Russian import w/his Labyrinth stuff on the same CD) and Tin Machine II—thus completing my Bowie studio album collection, finally—plus a bootleg of his 1.Outside outtakes. Fortunately, they were all reasonably priced; this could get seriously expensive if you’re not careful!
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