Category: Personal
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Wake Up, America!
Tony Long at Wired has written a great article. An extract:
1968. It was the height of the Vietnam War, the year of My Lai and the Tet offensive. Student riots in Paris nearly brought down the French government. Soviet tanks put a premature end to Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring.
In the United States, the streets were … -
An Unusual Wikipedia Project
I love Wikipedia's community nature... that fact that anybody on Earth can start a project like this one...
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Move To The Cottage
Well, Claire and I's move is now confirmed: on 5th June 2006 we'll leave The Place and head down to our new home, The Cottage. As usual, all offers of help with the move will be much appreciated and rewarded with beer and/or food, depending on the time of day at which the assistance is …
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Murder Mystery In Progress
I'm currently in the middle of a murder mystery night: The Brie, The Bullet, And The Black Cat, and I just wanted to point out how clever it is! My character is a secret agent from England in Casablanca before the British invasion of Africa. My alias - a French nightclub owner - has been …
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Paul’s Curry - 7:35pm
Well, not Paul's curry per se, but the-one-he-organised.
Except he didn't organise a time. It was always a bit up-in-the-air because it depended upon what time Ruth and JTA would have finished their cock-beating activities.
Well; I've done the research for him and collated that with his proposed times, and we get 7:35pm as the final time. … -
Open Mic Tonight At The Angel
As Matt said, there's an open mic night at The Angel, tonight at 8pm, £2 on the door. In the past, these open mic nights have been variable, with some really good performances and some less good ones, but the audience demonstrates it's Aberystwyth spirit and is welcoming to pretty much anybody.
So, I'm going to … -
Troma Night… And More?
Ahoy there, mateys. Troma Night tonight will be kicking off simultaneously at Adam's and at The Place at 7pm sharp for Doctor Who, and then reconvening at The Place for the rest of the evening.
If you're not coming along for Doctor Who, then try at least not to turn up at half-past seven, just as … -
NatWest Continue To Impress Me
Just over a month ago, sick of the interest rates, I paid off my NatWest credit card by going into the Aberystwyth branch and saying "how much money do I have to give you to have you cut up this card and never bother me about it again?" I paid three-hundred-and-something pounds, direct from my …
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Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers.
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Jon vs. The Air Conditioning
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Rails Reference
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Rails Reference.
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Most Annoying Habit In The World Ever
Statto's not the only one to get pissed off at some of the ways people abuse and misuse their language. I'm not perfect myself (contrary to my bedpartners' claims), but there's one form of linguistic butchery that really gets my goat.
The thing that really gets to me is the persistent and habitual misuse by some … -
“Wii!” Shout Sony
Heh. Had to happen. Sony have developed a new controller for the PS3 which sounds remarkably similar to that of the Nintendo Wii - a tilt-sensing remote control.
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Sundeep’s Birthday and Snowdon
Sundeep had decided that we were to celebrate her birthday by climbing Snowdon, so that's what we did. My legs are sore now, not least because I thought it would be wise to jog most of the way back down again.
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Off To Snowdon
Some friends and I are off to Snowdon, somewhere in the galaxy of the universe. They are made out of meat, but I won't hold that against them. We'll be taking two nuclear physicists, just in case.
It was a somewhat unusual Troma Night, which goes some way to explaining why I'm talking like this.