Month: May 2010

  • Birch 0.5.5.1 Beta Released (and new web site)

    The new version of the Java IRC client, BIRCH (written by yours truly) has been released. It’s only a point release, but don’t let that fool you, there’s many new additions, updates, and changes that make it well worth checking out. You can find it at http://birch.jara23.co.uk Tell your Friends! ~BX

  • Writing and Drawing

    Martha let her hands dance over the white piece of paper. She liked blank pieces of paper, they made her happy. It wasn’t long, however, before the pen in her hand began leaving ugly trails all over it. Her hand was trying to capture the images in her head, the noise and the voices. None…

  • Send Me To Lesotho!

    Hello Friends, Romans, Netizens! I have come not to praise Black Xanthus, but to ask politely for your money! I have been accepted by USPG to go to Lesotho on Mission. This will be a wonderful way to expand my horizons (which is probably why USPG call it the Expanding Horizons Program), but it’s very…

  • The Search

    James crawled his way through the old metal tube, and stopped at the metal grill that looked down into the dark room below him. From the smell that rose up he was sure he was in the right place. The rank smell of rotting flesh and drying blood. As his eyes adjusted to the gloom…

  • A Trip to Section 23

    He looked around the dingy train. The seats worn and ripped, the carpet threadbare, the train apparently unable to to travel any great distance without jerking. He let his eyes be drawn out of the window at the grey countryside around him. It was drizzling with rain. Drizzling with rain was what this part of…

  • And I Saw Her

    She was there, I know, but I ignored it. She walked by, but I didn’t look at her. She glanced at me; and I at her, She walked on by. She was there, I know, but I looked the other way, She walked by, like yesterday, She smiled at me, and I at her, I…

  • Don’t Vote Conservative!

    If your still unsure who your going to vote for, make sure it’s not the Conservatives. No, really. Don’t. If you’ve been wondering about their motif of family, and this idea of wholesome Britain, and wondering precisely how that’s going to play, well, it’s going to play badly if your Gay. Philippa Stroud claims to…