Year: 2005

As you all know, Bryn's nemesis and everybody's favourite pseudolesbian are having a birthday burning and unchristmas party on the beach tonight. More details here, here, and here (can you tell they've been planning this awhile?).

Anyway; in order to make sure that people know, I'll post this message here: I'll bring all the barbeques you …

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People have asked me for GMail invites again, but one of these people's @aber.ac.uk e-mail address doesn't seem to be working, says GMail, so here are some "ready to pick up":

Invite 1 (used) Invite 2 (used) Invite 3 (used) Invite 4 (used) Invite 5 Invite 6 Invite 7 Invite 8 Invite 9 Invite 10 …

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I've just seen haggling taken to a new level. A marketing company called us up and offered us 100 executive-type pens, branded with our company information, with no commitment to buy. They delivered them, and they're... okay... but they really don't fit the company image. The total value of the pens is £290, and we're …

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Don't you hate it when you can't draw the line in your memory between your dreams and waking life: I'm very hazy on last night, and can't remember whether a conversation took place or if I just dreamt it.

I'm more certain, however, on a nightmare I had last night: Claire and I bought a villa …

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Not quite so productive a weekend as I might have hoped, but still - plenty got done. Geek Night on Friday is best described by Ruth. Saturday saw me interviewed by some Theatre, Film & …

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Tried to post from my mobile, but it lost the post. Tried to post a summary from my mobile, but that died too. So here's the short, short version:

Just witnessed frustrating argument. Not least because I felt 'banned' from it. That may be for the best, because if I'd have participated I think Claire would …

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Alec and Suz are visiting Aberystwyth at the moment, in a hunt for a place to live next year and possibly over the summer too. Suz has a final year to go in her degree (having spent this academic year, and the next few months, traipsing around Europe as part of her course), and Alec …

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Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.

In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, …

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A brave physicist claims that black holes don't exist at all, but what we are interpreting as the existence of black holes - where stars have collapsed into tiny, superdense masses with an event horizon within which matter/energy escape is almost impossible - are actually... dark energy! (yes, yet another dark-matter/dark-energy claim)

It's a good one, …

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I did the Commonly Confused Words Test (hey; shouldn't that be the Frequently Confused Words Test): here's my score -









English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to …

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Things are making progress re: the film - JTA's made a few script changes that actually make a couple of the relationships in the story make sense, to which Paul said "These changes make the story work... I don't like them..."

In other news, my parents have each agreed to lend us their respective video cameras, …

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