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Life and updates

September 30th 2006

Updates continue to be sporadic, because unfiltered interweb is scarce. Sorry kids, stay tuned though. 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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Language of bull shit

September 28th 2006

Whenever you hear a consultant, or anybody for that matter, say “basically”, “essecially”,  “what you have to understand is” or “what I’ll say to you is”, they are speaking Cuntish, a language of cover-your-own-arse management bullshit. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp my [...]

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Food from the wild

September 27th 2006

Something very close to my heart (and stomach) the BBC has an online video about Food from the wild. Go dig in the hedgerows and be happy. There is nothing more tasty that something fresh from the bush. Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? [...]

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Hurray for the renegade posty!

September 26th 2006

Roger Annies is a hero to all! All hail Annies! 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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Online comics

September 23rd 2006

The Perry Bible Fellowship has been making me snigger for an hour. Snigger in a sick and dirty way, but still a good fun way too. 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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Driving fun

September 23rd 2006

Normally, I’m not the biggest fan of driving, it’s just a functional thing to get me from where I am, to where I need to be, but today, was a different matter all together. I left my lasses mothers house, driving up to Cumbria, and it all changed. I was sitting in the middle lane, [...]

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Need to sort out internet on the move

September 22nd 2006

Only having non-corporate internet through the week is killing me. I can’t read half my rss feeds (just in case), I can’t check my email and I can’t update my private blog. Damn it! I wonder how expencive these mobile cards are? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks [...]

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Great knowledge, terrible photo.

September 19th 2006

Want to know all about statspack and other Oracle features? Then Using STATSPACK to monitor Oracle performance is an ok little page. However, check out the photo! Scary. 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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59708

September 18th 2006

It would appear that Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is now a ghostly floating disembodied headdisembodied head! The danger of dark robes. 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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More graphic geeking

September 16th 2006

I’m loving some of the links on Dagoneye’s del.icio.us pages tagged with “graph” . I’ve still not found anything useful for New Project(tm) though. 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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Self directed force graphs

September 16th 2006

You know, for when you need to organise stuff prettily in Javascript. 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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I will update. Honest

September 16th 2006

I’m home for the weekend. I have an internet connection. I will update. Honest. With some really good shit too, you know, the really quality stuff. Just as soon as I find some. 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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Eejits

September 13th 2006

Getting lost in the outback and having to be rescued. Tragic. Getting lost in the outback again that same week and having to be rescued, again. Idiot. 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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news from the front

September 12th 2006

updates and slow and rubbish at the moment kids, sorry. I’ve no internet connection monday > friday other than the corporate one, which I’m trying not to abuse too much. Nothings amazingly new. I’m travelling lots, and as a result having more “social beers” especially Monday and Wednesday, if any of you happen to to [...]

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Tube maps google maps mashup

September 12th 2006

This is what happens when two things you love collide. i love (love love love) the tube map and I love (really quite like) Google maps. Combine the two, bake at 180o for 5 minutes and you get…jstott.me.uk: Google Maps – London Underground Map. So so handy for removing unneeded tube journies, of which I [...]

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Friday afternoon read

September 8th 2006

yes it’s the talented digital monkeys inverviewing a much love old man on kids tv about stuff. Also known as B3TA : interviews: Tony Hart. My favorite question has to be “What is the biggest thing you have ever lost and where did it go?” to which I would be very stuck for an answer [...]

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Shiny comic goodness

September 7th 2006

Yes – it’s a timeline of Comics . Prime lunchtime reading for the officebound. 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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Carry on bags

September 7th 2006

What people try to carry on as hand luggage is hysterical. MOre importantly, where is all the seized stuff in the UK sold off? I could do with a new Leatherman and a chainsaw) 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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5 Great Technologies

September 6th 2006

In no real order… TCP/IP:It runs all of the networking stuff we now take for granted, and it doesn’t really go wrong. DVD: VHS was rubbish.  DVD is cleaner, neater, more robust, and faster (remember rewinding VHS).  CHS was more “pausable” though. USB: Non faf, no hassle, and coupled with USB Mass Storage Driver, it’s [...]

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Windows is a bag of shit

September 5th 2006

I’ve done nothing out of the ordinary, and this moring, when I double clicked an xls file and Windows is REINSTALLING OFFICE! I don’t have the cd. I never have. I can pre-installed on my corporate laptop. So how the fuck is it going to try and install! Wretched mother fucking OS. Possibly Related Posts: [...]

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Quote of the night

September 1st 2006

I shall reuse this in a meeting one day. “Are You a nazi madam? Us Wagner fans are a rum lot, I myself bugger skinheads. Now kindly do not tell me what I can and can’t do.” Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at werk Ah ha! Harp playing Lisa Simpsonalike rocks my world PLAY-DOH aftershave? Pimp [...]

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Things that have come up today…

September 1st 2006

Include, what is  Endianness and can I use spray Malt in my next brewing project,  did they use some sort of new film to record Collateral  because all the night shots are beutifully exposed, without looking “wrong”, and when will Pimp That Snack feature my Mac Daddy Fruit Pastel ? Possibly Related Posts: Stuck at [...]

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Spam salad?

September 1st 2006

Something I relly don’t need in my life Gingered Spam Salad. 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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Miceal Portloo on Rdio4

September 1st 2006

Everytime I turn on radio4 this week, I’ve heard Micheal Portillo talking about meercats. Honestly – every time. Are they repeating it ad-infinitum, or am I just unlucky? 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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