Aloy tries to find parts to repair the GAIA AI, and meets a strange young woman on the way. The woman tells her she was sent by GAIA to help, but she has a secret.

Every couple of years, I try out something new with this web site. Up until now, this site was run under Joomla!. Joomla! is a content management system for creating websites, written in PHP. It is open source software, and in a way a step up from simpler blogging solutions than for example WordPress.

For the purpose of running a simple blog-style web site, with little to no page views anyway, let’s be honest, it is somewhat of an overkill solution.

After getting married aspiring early 20th century scientist Clara Haber (neé Immerwahr) has to give up her scientfic career, due to her husband’s traditionalist views. With him, Clara had been working on the creation of artificial fertilizers. With the outbreak of World War I, he uses their research to create new explosives for the war effort, much to Clara’s horror. On the day Fritz presents his newest invention -poisonous gas- she decides to take her own life.

The life of 15 year old teenager Aifric is turned into a living nightmare when she finds herself the sole survior of a horrible car accident. Struggling with the loss of her family, she faces an uncertain future in an old, run down, catholic orphanage. Aifric does not only have to face her own grief, but unter the strict regime of the nuns, she has to uncover the secrets of her new home, and ally with new found friends in order to survive and fight for her freedom.

When privateer and space ship commander Anwen Hunter gets a job from the lady in charge, she doesn’t know that she is into a lot more than she bargained for.

This is so exciting. I am currently on vacatrion in the Lake District, away from all the internet, so I nearly missed a surprise!

My friend Alex has read one of my stories as an audiobook, and published it on soundcloud. This is so cool! I never really thought of doing that.

He sent me the original fle to publish here too, and I already put the download link online.

Again, this is exciting!

I confess I haven’t been listening to Nightwish since Tarja left the band. I always thought that her vocals were vital to the sound. I’m not a metal-head, but I always liked Nightwish, because I like the combination of oprea loke vocals and guitar riffs.

The latest single caught my attention though. The B-Side of their current single “Élan” is called Sagan, and it is a tribute to the great Carl Sagan, and his contribution in popularising cosmology to a wide public.

The Mail on Sunday has never been known for their subtlety. So today, they report, that a BBC official has compared the current affair around Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson punching a member of the production team to the scandal surrounding long time Top of the Pops presenter Jimmy Savile.

Even though it is clear, even from the scandalising Mail report, that these statements do not imply, that Clarkson might be a child molester, but that he has the same friendly relations to important people in society than Savile had, backing his misdemanour, this statement, if it is true, does a disservice to the BBC in this case.

It is a long known fact, that we are a nation of wussies, when it comes to our own children. On one hand, we pamper them so much, that they are hardly ever allowed to play outside, on the other hand, where infamous for being terribly afraid of them.

Our home secretary Theresa May has just added one to the latter. In a a consultation document for the current Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, currently before parliament, the Home Office proposes nurseries and childcarers have a duty “to prevent people being drawn into terrorism”.