Year: 2004
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Hooray! I’m Sexy! Official!
Just got a text message from Liz:
Stay sexy! Lx
Not sure if that's supposed to be for me or not... hmm......
Update (20 March 2012) - Crosslink: Not long after I originally wrote this post, Liz wrote about sending these texts out.
Update (23 March 2019): To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the "Stay sexy!" text, … -
Nightmare!!!
A (1) nightmare and a (2) just-plain-freaky dream last night. My brain's playing up:
1. Claire and I, older, are in a train. She has a heart attack; I try to get and then, failing that, provide, help, but fail to and she dies. Then I woke up.
2. Strange semi-futuristic post-apocalyptic world, reminiscent of The Postman … -
Dan, A Vamp Babe, And A Tarantula
This picture just appeared on the new May Ball site.
Yes; it's me, tied to a wooden board by a vampire babe, stripped of my tux, and being scampered around on by a tarantula.
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PHP 5 RC1
Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I'm writing with it could be considered the same...
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A Week Less Busy
Phew. Survived running the tech. support side of the Student Skills Competition. Winners were mostly what I'd have expected. The technical side all went pretty much to plan, albeit with a lot of stress, mostly caused by teams bring in presentations on CDs etc. at the last miunute, and expecting me to be able to …
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Paedophile-Luring And Artificial Intelligence Ethics
[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]
[further fragments of this post were recovered on 12 October 2018]
Fun in the sun.
Kit and I had an idea for something like this a while back, and we were … -
Little Balloon Animals
Little balloon animals;
Pretty little things that catch your eye,
After a few drinks, money changes hands.
An evening’s entertainment for the price;
Of a lager or wine or a whiskey on ice.
Little balloon animals;
Craved when you were a just a boy,
Now in control; new in your palms.
Smooth and warm from the artist’s touch;
That in your youth you wished … -
I Want One Of These
Some professor has invented a device that uses on-the-fly destructive sound wave interference to cancel out the whine of computer fans. Wow! Toy! Want! Estimates suggest fans with these could be made available for just $20 more than the price of regular fans.
In other news, does anybody else find it scary that this site selling … -
Sliding Doors, My High School Crush, And Wierd Dreams
Last night I had a weird dream which I've therefore decided to share with you. As usual, written first-person and present-tense:
I'm 16 and back and high school in some kind of 'sliding doors'-esque alternate reality in which things went somewhat differently. In this one, I actually ask out Marguerite, a girl at school who I … -
Student Skills Competition - Dress Rehersals
Fun in the sun. Today I get to sit at the back of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre Theatre and shout "Speak Up!" at random second year students from 13 different departments, interspersed with periods of tech-talk about what can and can't be done with a data projector, laptop, VHS cassette player, a pre-set configuration of …
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Why Do I Work At This Place?
I'm too good for this place or the money I get. Here I am, working on a Sunday to fix a handful of bugs that my co-workers couldn't cope with (admittedly, the first of these [which I've just fixed] is a killer), but hey - I'm running several hours ahead of myself and it's not …
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Typically Busy
[this post was lost during a server failure on 11 July 2004; it was partially-recovered on 13 October 2018]
Another couple of weeks of academic nightmare coming up, followed by the Easter Break (during which I'll be working, ho hum). I've got to do my second "poster session" presentation for my dissertation a week on Wednesday; … -
Sian wrote:
People are funny. I get to look at the accounts of people who have signed up for Children First newsletter updates, and their passwords make me laugh. The number of people who’s password question is just their password is scary.
I also worry for the person who put their password question as ‘opposite of … -
Warning: May Contain Cars
[this post was damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has not been possible to recover it]
[this post was partially recovered on 24 November 2017]
I had a thought yesterday afternoon, and I found it funny, so I drew it.
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The Internet Saves The Day
You've got to love it.
Claire today took her car to a garage in Capel Bangor to be serviced and to have it's brakes fixed. Unfortunatley she didn't anticipate the scope of this operation and found herself stuck there for (potentially) two hours.
However, with the joy of the world wide web, I was able to find …