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HOW TO repository

August 31st 2006

I’m forever looking up how other people have done things, and then very rarely doing them myself, thus the HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials was a little bundle of geeky joy. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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New job results in radio silence

August 29th 2006

As my hotel doesn’t have interweb access and I’m attempting not to abuse the corporate access too much! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Charity Facial Hair

August 25th 2006

I hate shaving. Hate hate hate it. I don’t do a lot of it because I loath it so much. I’m really not sure how this effort raises money for chairty (I assum he is being sponcered by people) but The [bearded] diary of James Gregson is really quite amusing. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at [...]

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53526

August 23rd 2006

As pointed out by several others this year, V sounds gash. I have festival plans for next year, but I’m keeping them secret, to help avoid the swarms of groupies who appear when I post my public movements on here. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world [...]

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If you own up now, there won’t be any trouble

August 23rd 2006

Ok, fess up you lot, who’s broken the internet? BMEzine, MODblog and zentastic are all down. I have a feeling they are all on the same server, but if it’s the US Evil Police shutting them down again, I shall be upset. Upset! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike [...]

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Comic strip help

August 21st 2006

I love comic books. I wish I could draw them, and I am slowly learning (honest gov). Anyway it is possible that Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work might be help. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Chilli+nostril = death!

August 21st 2006

Note to self: After chopping chillis wash you hand including under your nails, especially it you are likely to blow/pick your nose. Resulting pain is immence. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Bloody computers

August 21st 2006

Why oh why do all peripherals have diufferent connectors and power supplies. I have three external harddrives, each of which has a different power supply, with a different plug, running at a different voltage, so i can’t even pull them to peices and make them be interchangable. The really really irritating thing is that inside [...]

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How?

August 20th 2006

I hate folding tshirts, so much so that mine come out of my suitcase in little bundles coved in creses. How come the bloody Japanese found such an efficiant way to do it. Damn their eyes! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my [...]

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Nick Drake

August 20th 2006

I will always love Nick Drake. That is all. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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The return of the Little White Bastards!

August 19th 2006

No, they’re not a New York punk band (though it is a great name for one), it’s the little tiny white flies which attack my plants just as they are getting going. I’ve brought my chillis inside because the weather is rubbish, and what comes up of them this morning when I open the curtains [...]

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Spagetti Monster proof!

August 18th 2006

Once again the Flying Spagetti Monster shows his face, this time in smoke trails! All hail the Flying Spagetti Monster. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Comic spam names (again)

August 18th 2006

Yes it looks like another dictonary driven attack took place last night again, flooding my mailbox with spam from stupidly named people. This time the comic gems are: Wields V. Tantrums Fastness P. Nauseous Networks M. Boomeranging Administer T. Warmongering Breathlessness S. Bundle Two that almost make sense are “Illegals I. Educational” and the slightly [...]

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Re-mix central!

August 17th 2006

I love the idea of the Jay-Z Construction Set. I know it’s just a bunch of samples, but it’s a wonderful 2 fingers to the music industry (again). Also – how else can I do a JayZ/Abba remix album? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH [...]

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50382

August 17th 2006

“My favorite things” is such a wretchedly twee as fuck song, that it deserves a critique.  Bring it on. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Raindrop on roses?  Means it’s pissing down and your carefully cultivated blooms are being trashed by the thunderus onslaught of nature. Whiskers on kittens?  Make the little furry bastards [...]

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Quick and dirty icecream

August 16th 2006

Made this evening, works a treat. heat a couple of cups of frozen blackcurrents until the juice runs. Rub the whole mess through a sieve. Add a couple of tablespoons of sugar (I mixed brown and white), and a squeeze of lemonjuice. Cool and mix with a pint of pre-made custard, and a small tub [...]

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The Pipettes

August 16th 2006

This morning Amazon delivered me two packages. One contained Oreily guides to Oracle and Unix, and Steve Grand’s latest book (if you have no idea who Steve Grand is, and you’ve ever wondered how digital computer characters are controlled read his truely brillient Creation: Life and How to Make It, it’s easily accessable and entertaining). [...]

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Learning a language

August 15th 2006

It looks like I might have a bit of a commute to work, so it occured to me I should do something with the time, such as listerning to language tapes while travelling. Can you download such things as mp3s? That would be very handy. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing [...]

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Photoshop madness

August 14th 2006

I’m loving some of the manips over on limpfish.com . Sniggertastic. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Rats Cocks!

August 14th 2006

I’ve left my camera in wales. Fucking Wales! Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Desktops through the ages

August 13th 2006

I’m quitely (and very geekily) proud to say, that I have seen the majority of these live. Room 101 has a gallery of desktop software through the ages. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Wow!

August 10th 2006

OK, I love love love comics and cartoons, especially X-men, so these temporary piercings are the coolest think I’ve seen this week (possibly even this month). They’ll never stay, and I’d catch them on everything, but they rock my world. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world [...]

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Hiding in the wilds

August 8th 2006

I was up eary this morning to go catch dinner this evening, so i’m making the most of the peace and quiet to post for the first time in ages (or so it feels). I’m currently hiding in Scotland with some friends, It’s been a year since I was last up here, and this is [...]

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Americans

August 6th 2006

I love Texans almost as much as i love New Yorkers. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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Weddings

August 6th 2006

They are funny things aren’t they. This was my second in as many weeks. My favorite part of this one (apart from the rather lovely wedding itself) was hearing under a toilet cubical door “so mate, what do you do then” “I’m a professional tennis player” “bloody hell, thats a new one. Do you know [...]

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Interesting and interestinger

August 4th 2006

As I post all my photos using the Creative Commons license (as I like the idea that people can use them, so long as they are nice about it). As I understand it somebodies photos were reused and not credited (in fact – creditted as somebody else), and when the original poster comments as such, [...]

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Modern war is fucked up

August 4th 2006

I keep being astonished by Ben Hammersley’s photos on flickr, but this one shows jujst how completely mental modern warfare is. The Kandahar Base Burger King: Ben Hammersley. I’m not sure what to say. I don’t even know if it is a good thing or a bad thing that Burger King and Pizzahut have sites [...]

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Firefox 1.5.0.5

August 4th 2006

Firefox, my most beloved piece of kit, updated itself last week, and I’ve been noticing it “feels a little odd”. Tabbing between tabs doesn’t always work, forms demand I pick something from the “remembered text” in text boxes rather than type something new, and it seems to “glitch” a little. Inperseptable little pauses that make [...]

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Bah!

August 4th 2006

last night I couldn’t sleep for love nor money. I ended up getting uup, making tea (well – hot water, I figured caffine wasn’t a brilliant idea), and pinching a cheesy onion straw thing (like a long thin bit of pastry). Chrunchy salty goodness indeed, but it mean that I woke up this morning (at [...]

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Complete bloody madness!

August 2nd 2006

Hospital fined for fast treatment. Thats right – in effect, fined for sorting people out too quickly. Aparently this is because they are effectivly using money that would be used else where. Nuts, completley fucking nuts. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my [...]

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Camera+lightpen+skill

August 1st 2006

PIKAPIKA: in kitijoji, I can’t read a word on here, but it appears to be done with long exposures and lightpens. Either way, its pretty pretty. I love the duck shasing the wormm. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my browser

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