Month: July 2004
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Money, Money, Money (Or The Lack Thereof)
A thought for current undergrads - do not underestimate the size of your debt. As a newly-graduate, I've had the oppertunity to step back and look at the size of my debt... or; to put it another way - the amount my income will be sapped for the next quarter of my life.
Not that I'm … -
God Violates Intel Trademark
It's all news, today! Lots of fascinating little stories and nothing about me. I mean, who's blog is it anyway?
According to The Register, the authoritive source on such matters, God may have infringed upon Intel's intellectual property. Only moderately funny, but nice and geeky.
In other news, I hear that AMD are planning to release a … -
Singing Flowers
Remember those silly plastic flowers that danced? Well, here's the next inevitable step: a Japanese inventor has developed a device that can be buried in a plant pot and uses vibration to cause the leaves of plant therein to oscillate as speakers.
Grow your own speakers. Yay.
Personally, I'd have far too much fun burying such a … -
MEP From Yorkshire States “[Never] employ a lady of child-bearing age.”
The BBC have an article: "UKIP MEP in row over working women". It's worth reading, if only to laugh.
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Developers Play Air Guitar To Megadeth
The Register have a report on a survey of the musical tastes of IT specialists, by profession. If you're a geek, date a geek, live with geeks, or whatever, it's worth a look.
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Reb, Hell, And Unreal Tournament 2004
After I saw Faye's weblog post about her own design for hell, I couldn't help but leave an anonymous comment. If you've ever met Reb, my ex-girlfriend from a few years back, perhaps you'll appreciate.
In other news, I spent far too much of the weekend playing the demo of Unreal Tournament 2004. I haven't had … -
HSBC Advertising
Gotta love HSBC. No, this isn't a real ad. -
Dan's Graduation
Also available on:
QTube
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Scatmania, Version 2
Welcome to Scatmania, Version 2!
After my disasterous data loss the other day, I decided to take the oppertunity to redesign Scatmania into something altogether better-suited to the purpose (i.e. doesn't use a silly flat-file system). And here it is (well; unless you're reading this through LiveJournal).
I'll be graduating this afternoon, which will mostly involve standing … -
Scatmania.org Coming Back
Yay!
However, working from backups, I have no record of posts ocurring between Sat 29th Nov 2003 at 4:08 pm, and Tue 2nd Jan 2004 at 01:33 pm, when my blog started posting duplicates LiveJournal, too. Even there, I don't have a backup of anything but what LiveJournal has.
If, for whatever reason, somebody's taken screengrabs or … -
Scatmania.org Gets Deleted
Arg!
The server on which Scatmania is hosted malfunctioned, resulting in the deletion of the entirety of my weblog. I'll be trying to recover bits of it in the near future, but I'll probably lose (at least) the last few weeks.
Not happy.
On the upside, I may use this as an excuse to re-write the engine behind … -
Hot Puppies, Troma Night, And A Fantastic Transcript Of A Speech On DRM
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
Went to the castle to see The Hot Puppies yesterday evening. Everything I'd heard was true - they really are very good. They play well, they sing well, they … -
Suz. And Naivety.
Just been having on online chat with Suz:
(15:53:41) Dan: It [an online weather forecast on a web site I run] says we should expect a wet weekend, clearing up for an overcast week.
(15:53:54) Suz: and who puts it on the web site?
(15:53:59) Dan: The BBC.
(15:53:59) Suz: i always thought it was paul
(15:54:02) Suz: oh
(15:54:06) Dan: … -
Photos From Malawi
[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004]
[an image in this post was recovered on Thursday 30th December 2004]
Here's some photos of my trip to Malawi, as the group have now started uploading photos to me at last!
Dan looks down on Lake Malawi.
Dan on the descent.
Two baboons, at Vwasa National … -
Live Music, Anyone?
Sounds like an excuse to lounge on soggy grass and drink real ale if ever I heard one. Yay....