Month: November 2004
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A Slogan For SmartData
SmartData's considering this as a new slogan to replace "Enjoy smart business. Make data work for you." We've all been asked to 'try out' the proposed new slogan with friends/family/whoever and get some feedback, so I thought I'd put it on my blog. Here we go:
Free time. Work easy. SmartData.
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Error Message Of The Day
Sometimes being a geek is funny.
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Str8Up, Fluxx, Liz’s Birthday, Etc.
Went to Str8Up at the Students Union on Monday night with Bryn, Claire and Paul. Paul complained a little about people (in general) who go to traffic-light parties (where you wear red, yellow or green to reflect your 'availability' and 'desperation' - Claire and I wore red, Paul wore yellow, Bryn wore blue), wearing green, …
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SmartRacer
Yesterday lunchtime I finished writing a program that suddenly makes our working day that little bit more exciting - SmartRacer.
SmartRacer runs quietly in the system tray of as many users want to run it - currently Matt, Haagen, Gareth and me... but I'm trying to get Alex involved, too.
When you click on the system tray … -
Fluxx
Yay. Fluxx arrived. I need one to five volunteers for a pre-GeekNight test game of it tonight. Who's in? -
Another Fun Little Weekend
Another happy fun little weekend. Troma Night on Saturday was particularly good: we watched both Kill Bill films back-to-back, along with the usual collection of other crap. Not-gay Gareth couldn't make it, in the end (his parents are visiting this weekend), so we may have to see him some other weekend.
We've proposed a few more … -
I Don’t Think ACME Get Many Customers
I recently bought three board games (Munchkin 3, Fluxx and Puerto Rico) from ACME Computer Games in Bangor (yes, I know, the same guys who got confused over my order before...). Somehow, I don't think they get many e-customers: I just grabbed this screenshot from their web site -
Notice that I'm looking at Munchkin 3, … -
Munchkin game... Of Doom!
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
Dan: "Let's play Hacker!"
Andy: "No, let's play Munchkin. It'll be shorter."
General Agreement3 and a half hours later:
Dan finally wins. All players have been at level nine almost constantly for about half an hour. Several attempts at winning have been made, but all have … -
8pm, Arts Centre, Be There Or Be Elsewhere
Contrary to my perpetually changing plans, we're off to see Bubba Ho-Tep at the Arts Centre tonight - 8pm. If you're in town and need a slightly more relaxed night out, come along!
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National Full-Stop Shortage
Extract from a personal (online) conversation, today:
Rockmonkey: it was very boring well no not boring but i could understand law like u and a simple web site so didn't pay attention and explained it to others after
AvaPoet: Here, have a packet of full stops, you must have run out: [.................] -
The Silence Of The RockMonkeys
Argh! Nothing's happeneing on RockMonkey... I'm being forced to waste time by making phallic sculptures out of blu-tack.
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Bubba Ho-Tep
What's everybody doing tommorow (Thursday) night? Wanna go see Bubba Ho-Tep at the Arts Centre cinema? It scores 7.6 on the IMDB, so it's better than most of the crap we watch. I'm trying to avoid learning too much about it in case I 'kill' it, but here's the plot outline according to the IMDB: …
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Not-Gay Gareth
Not-Gay Gareth Is Back In Town!
By sheer coincidence, I bumped into not-gay Gareth, a friend of mine from my second year, who studied Film & TV while working as a projectionist at the Arts Centre cinema. It's him who introduced me to both Troma and Studio Ghibli, and therefore him who's (inadvertently) been a huge … -
Dudley’s Dungeon
Another fantastic Dudley's Dungeon (comic for Nethack-lovers) today.
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WikiPlatformGame On RockMonkey
Inspired by Jon's WikiMaze on RockMonkey, the wiki-powered website that I helped Andy to set up, I've made WikiPlatformGame. Go have a play! And, if you don't mind really bad humour, try the EvilWikiPlatformGame afterwards.