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the biggest threat to personal ownership in the digital age

April 29th 2005

Its well known I’m not Microsft fan. I’m more a mac kiddie now, but even they have problems. Stolen once again from Linspires Micheals Minute – this shit is important kids – or you’re going to get dicked on. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management). In spite of sharing the insides with a traditional PC, the Xbox [...]

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Yay for friends

April 28th 2005

I girl I know, who speak the truth, so bluntly that it hurts, left a comment, that made much sense, for which I shall be thinking. Yay for Holly, a clearer thinker I do not know. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale [...]

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Sale!

April 25th 2005

Amazon have a sale on Le Creuset kit! Half Price! Damn I dont really NEED anything – and I WANT things. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Oh joy

April 25th 2005

Ive just had the horror of listening thru a thin wall to a fat man having a shit. Will the wonders never cease? Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Homemade metal fun

April 24th 2005

If i had more patience i would be tempted by …Make your own coin ring! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Firefly

April 24th 2005

Firefly was wonderfl, lets hope the film is as good. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Yay for me!

April 23rd 2005

Oli, I have just emailed Graduate School that I am satisfied with your corrections and recommending that you should pass your MSc. Congratulations. Malcolm Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Quote of the day

April 22nd 2005

‘If you pick a good technology and the developers are insane, it’s all going to come to tears.’ Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Outsourcing

April 21st 2005

I have issues with outsourcing t offshore companies, too numerous to list, too dangerous to my job to blog, however I like the idea of seaCode though I think running something simalar in the North Sea would be crap, cold, rough, windy and wet. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the [...]

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A sign – no – a stain!

April 21st 2005

Come on people its a stain on a wall, not the Virgin mary appearing in an underpass. Besides, virgins in underpasses don’t remin so long i suspect. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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This mornings post

April 21st 2005

Sorry kids – I was feeling horrible when I woke up, so Ii logged in and wrote it all down. Then I fixed some code bugs in the commenting software so it doesn’t record all of the comments under the same post (note to database designers – get your field lengths correct!). Now – the [...]

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sleepy dreams for theGirl

April 21st 2005

I’ve just woken up, and had to write this all down before I forgot it. I woke up feeling physically sick in the pit of my stomach. I’d been dreaming that my ex was explaining all the shitty crappy things i would do, all the personality traits that I have which runined our relationshi. Her [...]

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A hair, a heart.

April 20th 2005

i used to have a hair that grew out of my shouldar that reminded me of my ex.So i dug it out with nail sissors, and it bleed terribly. But as it healed, I missed her less, and now I cant help wondering if the hair will grow back at all, and if it does, [...]

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Chocolatey Goodness

April 18th 2005

Some evil fucker has cross Caramacs with Kitkat to create the uber chochy goodie. Just in time for summer slimming. Damn their eyes! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Dilemas

April 18th 2005

You spend 80% of your waking day at werk. Office relationships are a bad bad idea. You only meet new people via werk. Thank the lord for the Internet Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very [...]

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music

April 17th 2005

I’ve just watched the “top 100 albumns” and not got completely pissed off. In fact I pretty much agreed. Interesting that OK Computer was number 1. Anyway – working notes – I need to buy… sex machine – james brown parrellel lines – blondie neil young john coultrane – a love supream marvin gaye – [...]

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Lauren Laverne

April 17th 2005

i love Lauren Laverne. Shes a Geordie. She very pretty. She’s got great musical taste, and she’s made a few good tunes as well. She’s fun and funky and punky and a pop pixie. Now were can I buy me one of those? Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, [...]

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Funny placenames

April 15th 2005

You know it – everybody finds comedy place names funny. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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DNA?

April 15th 2005

Just a little DNA will brighten the heart of any geek. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Boobs!

April 13th 2005

Admit it – you heard that Britney confirms she is pregnant and all you can think is “wow – bigger boobs”. Well done – you’re a man. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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all the signs

April 13th 2005

Faint taste of late night cornish pasty? Tongue a little fuzzy? Oddly metallic zincy smell? Coordination a little off? Damn it – I am hungover then. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Wonder Boys

April 11th 2005

A film I saw years ago, and really enjoyed, and could never remember the name of, and have just seen an advert for. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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HIV puppets/

April 11th 2005

OK, education is generlly regarded as a good thing. AIDS is generally regarded as a bad thing, but is an HIV positive puppet on seasemy street the best way to go about it? Maybe – maybe not. Atleast its a little less fun than Cookies are a sometimes food! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming [...]

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Buchenwald

April 10th 2005

Look and learn people – look and learn. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Celebrity Blogging?

April 10th 2005

Im guessing that this isn’t actually alastair campbell’s blog but you never know. Blogging was a massive think in the American elections last year, but hasn’t really made the paper in the Uk yet. I guess we’re about 3 years behind politically (that seems to be the general estimate that I read somewhere). Still – [...]

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Wireless trains and google

April 10th 2005

I love the wireless access on GNER trains – means I can chat and blog and work whilst travelling. Howver there must be something very odd about how the route their traffiv becuase google keeps redirecting me to their .se (Sweddish??) site. Must be where thier satalite base-station is based. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water [...]

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Blogs, bloging and theBlog.

April 10th 2005

When I fist started the blog, nearly 6 years ago now (5 certainly – butIve lost some of the early archives so I’m far from positivd now), it was used for linking to comedy stuff I found on the net and wanted to share (read: show off to fellow geeks.) The longer is runs the [...]

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Picking a release date?

April 7th 2005

Does sfotware annoy you? If you’ve never done any dev’ work before it wll annoy you lots. If you’ve done a bit of dev work it will annoy you more. If you’vev done lots of dev work you’ll take it for granted. Joel on Software is often a good read, but this article on picking [...]

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Multi – Mono?

April 7th 2005

I need to learn a new language. As much as I hate learning Microshite languagues it looks like C# (c sharp for those like me who thought “c hash” was a shit name) is pretty good. Thank the lord for Mono and the very handy looking MonoDevelop. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]

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How good’s your Engrish?

April 7th 2005

I once bought a knife that had “do not keep in children” written on it. Genius – but not as good as half of engrish.com Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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John Hegley

April 6th 2005

I love John Hegley’s voice. No two ways about it, its brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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geek speak and geek humour

April 6th 2005

I get accused of speaking geek. Its true – I am a geek, and proud, but really if you don’t know this stuff, you’re buggered believe me. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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Clear thinker

April 6th 2005

I’ll always cite Douglas Admas as one of te clearest thinkers of our times (para-phrasing R. and N. two of the clearest thinkers I know.) However, upon hearing of the death of Saul Bellow this morning I am determined to become a clearer thinker, and to read some of his works, because I’ve haven’t and [...]

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Think people thing

April 6th 2005

Having just been angrered by some nasty little question avoiding Labour shit I feel compelled to post. NHS=fucked top up fees=here to stay iraq=wrong thing for very wrong reasons weapons of mass distruction=lies Use your heads people, there are other options. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a [...]

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Technorati Ping

April 4th 2005

I think, hopefully, that this post should ping Technorati when I post it. Im sure nobodies bother by thing, but I have to post something to make it work! Wow – Im bloddy hungry! I’ve chilliroast pork which should be brilliant. Hopefully. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find [...]

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Tags

April 4th 2005

I’ve added a new feature called tags to my blogging software. hopefully this should make Technorati and other things play nicely. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things

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