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My Very Own Googlebomb
Partially out of curiosity, partially to point out a flaw in the #aber multipass system, I've made my own little googlebomb. For those of you who don't like reading, a googlebomb is where you manipulate the way that popular search engine Google into falsely linking with great priority a page that it probably should not. …
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Rory’s In Town
Met up with Rory this lunchtime in MGees: looks like he's working on moving back to AberWorld whenever he can afford it, and running his business from here. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for payware RSS/ATOM newsfeed readers, but I wish him the best of luck in it anyway. Hopefully …
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Str8Up, Fluxx, Liz’s Birthday, Etc.
Went to Str8Up at the Students Union on Monday night with Bryn, Claire and Paul. Paul complained a little about people (in general) who go to traffic-light parties (where you wear red, yellow or green to reflect your 'availability' and 'desperation' - Claire and I wore red, Paul wore yellow, Bryn wore blue), wearing green, …
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SmartRacer
Yesterday lunchtime I finished writing a program that suddenly makes our working day that little bit more exciting - SmartRacer.
SmartRacer runs quietly in the system tray of as many users want to run it - currently Matt, Haagen, Gareth and me... but I'm trying to get Alex involved, too.
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Another Fun Little Weekend
Another happy fun little weekend. Troma Night on Saturday was particularly good: we watched both Kill Bill films back-to-back, along with the usual collection of other crap. Not-gay Gareth couldn't make it, in the end (his parents are visiting this weekend), so we may have to see him some other weekend.
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I Don’t Think ACME Get Many Customers
I recently bought three board games (Munchkin 3, Fluxx and Puerto Rico) from ACME Computer Games in Bangor (yes, I know, the same guys who got confused over my order before...). Somehow, I don't think they get many e-customers: I just grabbed this screenshot from their web site -
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Bubba Ho-Tep
What's everybody doing tommorow (Thursday) night? Wanna go see Bubba Ho-Tep at the Arts Centre cinema? It scores 7.6 on the IMDB, so it's better than most of the crap we watch. I'm trying to avoid learning too much about it in case I 'kill' it, but here's the plot outline according to the IMDB: …
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Not-Gay Gareth
Not-Gay Gareth Is Back In Town!
By sheer coincidence, I bumped into not-gay Gareth, a friend of mine from my second year, who studied Film & TV while working as a projectionist at the Arts Centre cinema. It's him who introduced me to both Troma and Studio Ghibli, and therefore him who's (inadvertently) been a huge … -
WikiPlatformGame On RockMonkey
Inspired by Jon's WikiMaze on RockMonkey, the wiki-powered website that I helped Andy to set up, I've made WikiPlatformGame. Go have a play! And, if you don't mind really bad humour, try the EvilWikiPlatformGame afterwards.
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Tigris And Orkney
A somewhat low-key Geek Night last night: just a game of Munchkin and a game of the stunning Tigris & Euphrates. Matt won the Munchkin battle, with a cleverly executed win against a monster while he was at level 8, which we let him get away with (the other three of us were level 9's) …
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Halloween In Aber
I'm a big bad wolf, it seems. And last night I, along with Little Red Riding Hood (Claire), Death (Bryn), Paul (Andy!), Judge Doom [barely] (JTA), Pinocchio (Matt), and Matt (not in costume... grr), went out to the Coopers Arms to see Pagan Wanderer Lu. And he was good - some songs I knew, some …
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ClaireMelton Wanted Even More Than MisterJTA
I've been playing around on RockMonkey a little much these last two days (it's a wiki-based site I've helped Andy set up. Today, while browsing the WantedPages list (a list of pages that have been referenced by other pages but not yet defined) I noticed something interesting: the most-wanted entry is... ClaireMelton: eight pages reference …
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The Mathematics Of Woman
Here's a thought for you. We all know that women seem to take up a lot of time and money - in actual fact, having women is the product of time and money, which can be expressed thusly:
women = time x money
We also know, from the old adage, that "time is money":
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A Great Wedding Was Had By All
Bryn, Paul, Claire and I went to Kit and Fiona's wedding this weekend. Despite the hideously long drive (almost 11 hours, with driver/navigator pairs driving and sleeping in shifts in order to maintain progress) throughout Friday night - and the equally long journey back on Sunday, it was a most fantastic and memorable experience.
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Amused Me This Monday Morning
Two things of a religious nature that amused me this morning:
The Rapture Index - what happens if you take the models used to predict global stock exchange behaviour and apply them to biblical prophecy about "the last days". It's funny, right up until you realise that they're absolutely serious. Pretty site, though.
How To Tell If …