[my][home][toon]
previously known as [cold][wet][durham], [dirty][grimy][london],[busy][shiny][toon],[frantic][crowded][south]

A had I spare train jour

January 1st 2005

A had I spare train journey. Next – hook it to an input script and turn texts into … Bad Texts (with thanks to sparky for the idea). Explaination: The words are arranged in groups. Any word in a single group can be typed on your average phone with the same key combinations, thus … [...]

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Ive just seen Peter Kay

January 1st 2005

Ive just seen Peter Kay moonwalk! Hes was pretty good. It was on Tv – maybe it does have a point. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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I have ftp access! Yay f

January 1st 2005

I have ftp access! Yay for me! Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Pixels Yay Yay Yay Yay Cameraphone Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Muff Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Red Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Shiny Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Yay Ass Yay Yay [...]

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Wired News: Indias Odd C

January 1st 2005

Wired News: Indias Odd Couple: Cops and Tech is all about well, cops, in India. Regard this most brillianht quote: “A sleuth from Mumbais high-profile Cyber Crime Investigation Cell once told Wired News how he planned to tackle hacking: Let hackers know that some tough people are out here…. I have killed Naxalites (regional terrorists [...]

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Secunia – Advisories – M

January 1st 2005

Secunia – Advisories – Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities includes the wnderful phrase “Solution:Use another product.” Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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I new idea – not sure if

January 1st 2005

I new idea – not sure if itll work – I need better access to my box (firewalled out at present) but photowall will be cool. Unfortuntly I cant get all the images uploaded yet – i need more ftp! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham [...]

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The Register has a great

January 1st 2005

The Register has a great article on police being taught to detect “bad vibes” from passers by in subways. Fuck me kids – they dont get it right half the time when theyre in posession of the full facts – never find “bad-fucking-vibes” Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One [...]

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Sudhian Media has a thin

January 1st 2005

Sudhian Media has a thing about audio compressions ill read later. Looks very geeky, but very comprehencive. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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I have so much to write,

January 1st 2005

I have so much to write, Ill edit this later, but after a wobbily morning (highs, lows etc), I am destinctly less maudlin after spending the afternoon doing stuff with C. We drank coffee, ate lunch, read the papers, went on a phototour of the grimy bits of Toon, jumped over walls and ran along [...]

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The BitTorrent Effect is

January 1st 2005

The BitTorrent Effect is interesting enough read – and worht it for this quote alone: “He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hiltons The Simple Life. You can watch that show for six hours, Cohen says, and your brain is still empty.” Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One [...]

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Lookie lookie – clicky t

January 1st 2005

Lookie lookie – clicky things on the left hand side insead of boxes. Small changes I know, but part f a bigger plan for a new style to [m][s[l] (or cwd or bgl as it is variously known on this page – ill sort that too at some point). Thank you to H for talking [...]

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Pump up the jams!” Br

January 1st 2005

Pump up the jams!” Brilliant photo – esp the white guy! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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Sometimes somebody gets

January 1st 2005

Sometimes somebody gets something so right its terrifying. Heres one example – Bob dylan captures all that im thinking, in a song, and I dont even notice, until one afternoon working later on a Sunday, I hear him as if hes reading the surface of my brain. Most of the time Im clear focused all [...]

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Dazzled by harlots and e

January 1st 2005

Dazzled by harlots and ephemeral congregations a man can become quite discombobulated and binded to what is best for him. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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but I have to recommend

January 1st 2005

but I have to recommend Salty Dog Chrisps – possibly the best chrisps Ive ever eatten. Ever. Found them as part of the Monopoly Bar Crawl – and Im not hooked. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our [...]

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And when I go I want to

January 1st 2005

And when I go I want to be buried in something fucking expencive and classy – though afantasy coffin would be good fun! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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The cunt thinks that bec

January 1st 2005

The cunt thinks that becuase he got voted back in this vindicate[s] his administrations policy on Iraq! Hitler got voted in dude – that doesnt vindicate him being a big fucking crazy ass Nazi! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us [...]

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The true genious of this

January 1st 2005

The true genious of this astounds me…BBC NEWS is reporting that “The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say”. Does it count as “non-invasive” technology? Who knows! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham [...]

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Rocket fuel and other ex

January 1st 2005

Rocket fuel and other exploding things make me happy. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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Well, here comes 2005 at

January 1st 2005

Well, here comes 2005 at a rate of knots. It go off to an odd start, though no unpleasent. I ended up at a house party of a friend of a friend, which turned out to be populated by people I knew, an had no idea would be there, or who even lived in Newcastle. [...]

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Boing Boing: Jailed for

January 1st 2005

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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Right. Im not the bigge

January 1st 2005

Right. Im not the biggest fan of TV (becuase 99% of it is complete shit) but I do love my films, and at the moment all I see are fucking remakes. Whether the original was brilliant (Italian Job, The Lady Killers, etc etc) and you fuck it up, or classic (Charlie and the chocolate factory), [...]

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Index of /security/hack

January 1st 2005

Index of /security/hack has many little things. Strictly geek this one kids, becareful where you play. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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Ive just come back from

January 1st 2005

Ive just come back from my first bit of charity work in ages. I promised myself Id start giving some money each week to charity because for the first time in my life I can afford to. So indeed of making a plain donation (which is fine), Im sponcering myself to do fun things. Ive [...]

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I think I think Im very

January 1st 2005

I think I think Im very good at is sleeping. Oddly enough I sleep better when somebody is curled in next to me, but it appears even my last skill has been superceeded. Damn them and their creative quilting techniques! Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham [...]

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banksy-barcarats.jpg Thi

January 1st 2005

banksy-barcarats.jpg This is flair. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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First there were guns fo

January 1st 2005

First there were guns for you NES (and parents complained), then there was a plastic bazooka for the NES (and parents complained), and than the realistic metal guns for GTA (and parents really compained), and now there is…Chainsaw Controller UNLEASH THE COMPLAINTS! Where are Mothers Against Violent Games etc etc. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured [...]

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Doom as a board game?

January 1st 2005

Doom as a board game? Could be good, could be rubbish, is very very geeky, but who cares when it comes with “6 custom dice! 1 Yellow die, 1 Red die, 2 Green dice!” Is it just me that gets that to add up to 4? Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming [...]

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Why as people in rnb (il

January 1st 2005

Why as people in rnb (ill look of the abuse of this term – currently chart shit is not rnb – its wanna be gangsta shit) so full of attitude? Girl looking for big cock and being highly unfriendly to everything that doesnt throw champagne and cash around. Bloke doing their best boyz in da [...]

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after walking home im wa

January 1st 2005

after walking home im waching something about 80s music. I forgot how amazing Ultravox and kraftwerk werk. Im being honest, admitadly drunk. Met some lovely girls tonight, in a clb wihch has the cunning plan of not being so loud I could hear people AND hold a coversation! Brilliant plan guys – yay for club [...]

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Yay! I love gigs. I do

January 1st 2005

Yay! I love gigs. I dont love having ringing ears (in fact sore ears), or stiff legs (from being wedged against a pillar all night), but it was worth it. Maximo Park (local heros), supported by “The Twins and Me” and an unnamed duo (half of The Betts). Small venue, upstairs, with low ceiling and [...]

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Gizmodo : Gadgets : Vehi

January 1st 2005

Gizmodo : Gadgets : Vehicles Archives – Whats pink, very gay, and amazing??? Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101

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January 1st 2005

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