Category: Personal
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It’s Over
Tomorrow's the first day of the Fresher's Fayre, and Dan can't sleep.
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Disneyporn
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Sian wrote:
Just got back from me favourite sleepy seaside town, missing it already. Dumped my brother in Penbryn, caught up with Strokey in the Blue Creek Cafe (which now has my fave Aber hot chocolate), learnt the wonders of googlewhacking and disneyporn with Dan and … -
Dsixeyla For Bneingers
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do …
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Cottage Pie
This morning, while picking up my microwavable Cottage Pie from Somerfield (the best microwave meal I've ever had - it's really quite good considering that it's re-heated mincemeat and dehydrated mashed potato), I noticed a new product - a similar item but in a slightly smaller container, as part of their "So Good" range. Upon …
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Sheep
Outside my office window is a large field, which several months ago was divided into three smaller fields, each of which was planted with a different mixture of grass and some other leafy plant. Yesterday, half a dozen sheep with large numbers sprayed onto their flanks were moved into each of these partitions. This morning, …
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Darwin Was Wrong
The more and more humans I encounter, the more I come to the realisation that Darwin was wrong. The internet provides endless examples of humans so biosociologically defective that whatever it is that makes them tick should have died out eons ago. Us and our damned supportive society harbouring counterproductive genes will be the death …
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First Aid
Yesterday was a long day. After nine hours at work, had two and a half hours of First Aid refresher training at Aberystwyth ambulance station.
On the upside, I'd forgotten how subtly dark paramedics' sense of humour can be... when one particularly overmoral woman expressed concern at a particular element of the training: "But they could … -
Smart Alex
Alex, my incompetent co-worker, came up with the following gem in today's meeting when talking about a product that would aid employers in securely tracking how long their employees actually spend working:
"It's not going to have any of that... security... nonsense."
I shall have to beat him to death later.
P.S. told you that this thing was … -
VeriSign Adds Wildcards To TLDs
I am outraged.
VeriSign, the company which manages the .COM and .NET domain names, has done the unthinkable. They've taken advantage of and abused their power by setting up a wildcard filter on the primary DNS, pointing to their own server - sitefinder.verisign.com.
Now for those of you who are less technically-inclined, this basically means that every … -
Ding! Fries Are Done!
Here's to Paul, who's now working at Burger King Aberystwyth.
Especially for him, please click here and listen to "Ding! The Remix!". [download removed]
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Cyberethics Of Artificial Intelligence Slavery
Claire drove me to work this morning. We had a fascinating discussion on the way, on Cyberethics Of Artificial Intelligence Slavery. Cool.
This morning I gave a tour of the office to our new interviewee, Phil, who for some reason I keep trying to call Chris. If he gets the job, he'll be working full-time as … -
Second Place
I came second in the Cymru Prosper Wales "Enterprising Student" competition, which earned me £100, this morning. Pretty much made my late night and early morning worthwhile. Now I'm back at the office. Needed to come in this afternoon to deploy a new version of a piece of software to a client.
Think I pissed Claire … -
Daddy, Why Did We Have To Attack Iraq
Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
And that's why we invaded Iraq?
Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
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Amazon Embraces The Religious Divide
In these interesting times, as acts of terrorism committed in the name of religion become more commonplace, I was delighted that Amazon would give me the following suggestion:
AltAmazon - Perfect Partner: Buy Qu'ran and The Holy Bible today!
I might just click on the button, just so I feel that I've done my bit. See also … -
Quacks Do Echo, Thank You Very Much
At long last, I feel justified! As a long-time arguer (as much out of reason as playing devil's advocate) that a duck's quack should make an echo just like any other sound, recent research reported by the BBC demonstrates the fallacy of the widely-accepted myth!
In other news, it looks like my suggestion to Paul to …