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For My Mum…
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Claire
45 minutes ago Claire went to get dressed so we can leave the house. She's just finished putting her jumper on.
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Toaster Death
Our toaster at work just blew up. It's an Inspirations 4-Slice Toaster and I'd recommend against it to anybody. It's actually the second such toaster we've had: Alex bought one from Woolworths so we could toast things and before long it developed a problem such that only 2 of the slots actually worked (the others …
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Could Be A Lot Worse
At least my week's getting better towards the end. Extracts from an e-mail from my mum:
...work - complete nightmare, back-to-back meetings most days with no time to implement the outcomes and so much work looming I don't know where to start... ...XXXXX is pregnant and leaving in a month or two (not to be replaced) … -
Andy’s Dingbats Challenge
Remember my dingbats challenges? (challenge 1, answers; challenge 2, answers) Well; Andy took my engine and made one of his own, which I forgot to link to earlier. Anyway, go take it if you like, but the answers are probably out by now.
It's a little bit more random and weird and off-the-wall than mine, mind. -
Busy Busy Busy
It's going to be one of those weeks. I can tell: I haven't finished stuff I was going to do on Monday morning yet. It's not helped by the fact that we've had various computers fall over and we've got two French students (as part of the Leonardo da Vinci scheme) who need leading-by-the-hand for …
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IXUS 5 Repair Guide
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: IXUS 5 Repair Guide.
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Paul Mann Categorises The Wiki World
Paul seems to be celebrating finishing his hand-ins by categorising the entire RockMonkey wiki. Go see the newly-improved RockMonkey category structure, starting your explorations at category root...
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Geek Night
Last night's Geek Night was fab: thanks to everybody who came. I didn't win a single game, but that's not what it's about at all, really, is it. Kings & Things was fab, and it was great to get to play Tigris & Euphrates again (and lose for a change, damnit, at it). It was …
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Hollywood Pizza
Hey, I was just looking at Troma Night's last Hollywood Pizza receipt, and I've noticed that they've stopped writing the full address at the top of the receipt for the delivery driver. Now they just write "Cambrian Place".
After 75+ Troma Nights, we've finally managed:
To be their only customer in Cambrian Place: or, at least, … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II - Results
Great turnout for Dan's Dingbats Challenge II. Thanks for playing, all of you who did! Here's the scoreboard:
Position Player Time Taken Right Answers Total Time 1 The Amazing WonkoBest score, great time to boot... beat Jimmy by just three seconds. 3mins, 42secs 13.5 4mins, 2secs 2 JimmyFastest overall time and a very good … -
Lib Dems In Ceredigion
Lib Dems win in Ceredigion over Plaid Cymru, by 219 votes, after a recount. Our little election party just took off...
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A Diversion From The Election
Looking for a diversion from the fun of tonight's vote-counting? Here's Wikipedia's "List Of Frivolous Political Parties.
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Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II
Hot on the heels (that'd make a good dingbat!) of Dan's Dingbats Challenge I (results and answers here) comes Dan's Dingbats Challenge II! The dingbats are, on average, a little easier (and a little more logical), but the penalty for skipping one or getting it wrong has been increased to 40 seconds added to your …
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Paul Is The Most Fucking Random Person In The World
Paul M: fucking nutter. The most random person you're ever likely to meet. But you've got to love his sincerity.
This morning, I'm happily sat at my workstation, staring, as I do, at program code and pausing from time to time to check the RSS feeds of the usual crew, when the phone rings: Matt answers …