Year: 2004
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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....
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How To Make Invisibility Paint
(shamelessly stolen from http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/sbos18.htm)
How To Make Invisibility Paint
If you put invisibility paint on anything, it turns it invisible. Here's how to make invisibility paint:
Start by taking a large tin, which must be able to hold enough paint to fill it. Take one ordinary apple (or, if you don't have an ordinary apple, a doughnut-shaped one). … -
Lariam Dream The Fifth
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Wierder than all the rest, this dream's insane. Perhaps it's time to be thankful that I only remember fragments … -
A Selection Of News Items From Around The World
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Here's some stuff I found interesting this weekend:
Swedish health workers, in an effort to stem the growing cases of … -
Conversation Of The Morning With My Dippy Co-Worker
"Umm, Dan? I've connected my laptop to the network but I can't get on the internet."
"That's a phone socket you've plugged it in to."
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Fucking Car Alarm
Somebody's parked a car opposite our house and left it there, last night. It keeps on setting off it's own alarm (a noisy horn-and-siren affair) - about once ever two hours, for about a quarter of an hour during the night. This morning, it's been consistently going off for the last half hour: it keeps …
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The Register Takes Off In Aberystwyth
The Register have this story and photo, taken in Aberystwyth: can anybody identify the woman in the picture?
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Letters After My Name
Results day today, and so I finally get to find out whether or not I get a degree in exchange for my last five years at University. And I do. I'm now entitled to put letters after my name, which is nice.
I've got a lower second, which is (I know) less than I'm capable of, … -
Back From Malawi
Yay! I'm back in Aberystwyth!
For my next task, I'm going to have to sift through over 7 hours of video footage of my trip, to produce DVDs for the consumption of the cycling team. Which is nice.
It feels good to be back in Aber (it feels good not to be eating nsima!). To give me … -
He's coming home, he's coming... Dan is coming home
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Claire wrote:
Owing to Kenya Airlines being arsey, Dan will now be home Monday, instead of Wednesday! Yaaaaay! Pity they couldn't do their tour of Zambia as well as Malawi, but it means he'll be home early. I'm going to pick him up from Preston. If … -
Off To Malawi!
I'm off to Malawi!
I've found my bus ticket (stupid train strikes), my passport (stupid immigration laws), my juggling balls (stupid... no, wait... juggling is good)... I guess I'm ready to go.
Contrary to my assumption that my bus would be leaving from the bus station, it's apparently leaving from Plascrug... which is... somewhere... hmm...
Anyway, y'all, take … -
It’s Not Just A Games Console…
...it fits in your living room, detects intruders, and has a 3-year warranty!
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, go have a play with my latest software toy, Product 'X'. Eventually, we'll be able to replace both innovators and (more importantly) marketers with a system like this: it generates instant … -
It’s Like An Umbrella, But It Can Be Deployed Within Minutes
This'll be a giggle. I've got a little project on the go that should amuse you all for a good few minutes (we've all been laughing our socks off here at it this evening). Given my way, I'll be deploying it tomorrow afternoon.
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Pre-Malawi Update
Here's the state of play before I leave Aber for awhile, in answer to all the questions that people keep on asking me and that therefore I ought to answer in a centralised manner, here, to save them from doing so (and me from repeatedly having to say the same replies):
Yes, I leave for Malawi …