…especially when you have a vomit-comic zerogravity plane to arse about in with water ballons! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Last week I finished John Peels book, where at one point he muses on the idea that he could have helped Elvis and Curt Kobain by getting them involved in family life and living on the farm. Anyway having read The Sun Online this morning, I’m making the same offer. I have no idea how [...]
Yes it’s true! I woke up this morning, but Home Truths has returned! I’ve been entertained by tales of Laurence Staig, who’s dad was Hobo John who rode the wall of death and who helped invent the Invicible Ray and who lived in a circus next to Captain Fritz and his performing seals and many [...]
Yes, it’s Pimp My Snack. It’s just missing X to the Z xzibbits. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Maybe it just appears to the faffer and fidder in me but sites like Instructables and MAKE: Blog just rockk my world at the moment. They’re bloomin’ marvelous, even if I’m kak handed and rubbish. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
It’s strangly calming. It’s abit like being slid into a white plastic drainpipe, and played Dressed in Wires. I quite enjoyed it really. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Reason number 273: my old street being the home of a murderer (and a terrorist bomber last year by coincidence). Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
So, I finally get to see a consultant about this crappy back of mine, and it turns out I might well have a prolaspsed disc. This might be confirmsed by an MRI scan in the morning (piercings to be removed before hand – or they might heat up!) If it is confirmed then the options [...]
“Bay City Rollers at Mallory Park during motor-racing incorporating Tony Blackburn in a speed boat driven by a Womble and the eclipse of Slade”. Few men could pull off that sensence. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Stumped on an old cassette whilst clearing my room, labelled in handwriting I don’t recognise. I now have the joys of a very old Joy Division albumn on, which I don’t recognise. It has a few things on it I know (it opens with Love Will Tear Us Apart), but it’s not anything I already [...]
and I can’t sleep. Using google maps to hunt for a new flat, but blaming the pint of Death Coffee at 11pm for the insomnia. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Another late night, but for a reason – I have tomorrow (er – today) off, and Monday! Woo’s all round. Bad news is that today has just been eyeburningly dull staring at Excel, and tonight has been hardcore geekery to get that same stuff done only 40x faster. How do people live with only Windows? [...]
Taken from the bDaily: Times Online reports that drivers are following sat nav instructions so faithfully that when instructed to ford the river at Luckington, they are ignoring all the warning signs and trundling on – only to find themselves stranded in three feet of water. The ford, known locally as The Splash, is usually [...]
This evening I’ve been sorting photos, so thought I would throw a few up here for people to see. I’m not posting the actual images (breaks my rss feed I suspect) so I give you …The girl’s amazing hairand the geek necklace (which I made) and Daffy in the garden (last year)Durham Cathedral formt the [...]
Well, I decided I was going to make the most of being in a new team (who generally leave at 6) by leaving work, and going swimming. Good it as too, even if I had to buy new goggles because I’ve lost mine (subnote: try typing goggles when you type google 97 times a day). [...]
I’ve just had to change channels so I didn’t see the bloke on Due South’s dog die because it would be a crap end to the day. However The Saint, theres non-offencive TV, so long as Roger Moorse’s smarm is kept to sensible levels. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa [...]
I think it escapes ok, but this mouse made me smirk. Now where can I build a human sized one? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Take not eyoung ladies – advertising used to be brutal. Take Lysol Feminine Hygiene: for example. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
I love travelling on trains, and one thing that really really anoys me is the total lack of people speaking to each other. The wonderful thing about trains is they are the ultimate social melting pot (nearly). So a few weeks ago (on the way to Nottingham, I met a man who had just walked [...]
I’ve just woken up, and listered to the end of what I thought was Home Truths, thinking it sounded a little odd. Right voice, wrong intonations and snippets, and then I realise, it’s not Home Truths. It was something about being selfish, which was very interesting (especially considering the post I make about worring I [...]
I am not doing another week (or two) like this: 120(ish) bits of code (featuring over 28,000 files), 2 apps servers, 2 web servers, 3 databases 8 people 2 hotels 2 x 70 hour weeks countless coffees 1 serious argument (inc’ threat of resignation) 4 minor argument 4 trains 2 300mile car journeys 20 million [...]
So today, a day of calm. Hopefully werk has mostly fucked off until tomorrow, when the hell begins. So I’m taking the time to chill out a bit, something I firmly beleive most people do far too much of, far too badly. So thus far today I has, done the girls washing, and hung it [...]
Yesterday I had a simple shopping list, a new ball bearing for my piercing to replace the one that I lost in the hotel last week, a new pair of shoes, and something for the girl. 3 hours later I have been pushed around, spoken rulely too and generally not achieved anything bloody useful (except [...]
I live by my mobile phone. I have no other number, for werk or play, and being able to type and tlak (and walk and talk) at the same time is a really helpful thing, so handfree kits are kind of a necessity, even if they do make me look like wanker (and there’s no [...]
Are you a geek? Is your life aided by regular expressions? Do the trickysy little varmints drive you nuts? Apparently you need New The Regex Coach – interactive regex thing in your life! As yet untested, but looked very very cool. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my [...]
OK, so if you are viewing this via coldclimate, you will now see a comment link below, just like you always used to, and if you are viewing this through the wonders of LiveJournal, you shall see the normal LJ commenting system being available! What I’ve done is a nasty cheap hack, but should work [...]
Sorry I missed it. Hope Mogwai were wicked. Sorry I missed that too. [if you've no idea what I'm talking about, and your name's Owen, and it wasn't your birthday, then just asume this isn't me going nuts] [honest] Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH [...]
I quote people quite a bit, often misatributing it, but this one is all mine! ” All things are shades of grey, even black and white.” Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
Well – this has been the week of hell. After an amazing weekend (really really great actually), this weekend was never going to be fun, but it’s been wank. From 7 hour conference calls till one in the morning, through the joys of 6am taxis and 4 hour train journels, past the low points of [...]
OK, so I knew this was going to be a busy week but…. this is taking the piss. Also – firewalled out from everywhere/thing to having to use somebodies dial up in a massive security breach. Nevermind – fire me if you have issues. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa [...]
I love my little dance flat eric icon. I’ve got the KLF’s White Album on, and 3am Eternal is perfect for the little yella-fella. He’s loving it. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser
So another stupidly busy day, so I’m sorting out being away for the rest of the week. Shirts, pants, socks and the iBook, pod and toothbrush. Check. On another note, I’ve got myself an offline LJ client called Xjournal, which should let me do these things out when off line, and ram them upline when [...]
Today: woke up late, had to say goodbye to ourLass for what might be close to a month with werkShite going on, travelled on a shitty train (damn it – I have become a firstclass snob, but it just is so much nicer), got home, set up to werk from there (yay for my boss), [...]
This might prove handy later today when I’m not stuck in the office. 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
Ok, so, in the time I’ve been on thei wretched call I’ve managed to buy an LJ account (or rather upgrade), work out how to make it feed rss, made my LJ page prettier, and then hardcoded coldclimate to take it’s hints from here. I’ll need to get it to grab the rss feed every [...]
Right – conf call so dull, I’m going to blog at the same time. I make (or rather flavour) booze, some of it good (very good) and some of it bad (very very bad) and so just plain surprising. So, here are things I’ve made, in roughly chronological order, with comments. Pepper vodka – first [...]