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A Selection Of News Items From Around The World
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Here's some stuff I found interesting this weekend:
Swedish health workers, in an effort to stem the growing cases of … -
Fucking Car Alarm
Somebody's parked a car opposite our house and left it there, last night. It keeps on setting off it's own alarm (a noisy horn-and-siren affair) - about once ever two hours, for about a quarter of an hour during the night. This morning, it's been consistently going off for the last half hour: it keeps …
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Back From Malawi
Yay! I'm back in Aberystwyth!
For my next task, I'm going to have to sift through over 7 hours of video footage of my trip, to produce DVDs for the consumption of the cycling team. Which is nice.
It feels good to be back in Aber (it feels good not to be eating nsima!). To give me … -
Off To Malawi!
I'm off to Malawi!
I've found my bus ticket (stupid train strikes), my passport (stupid immigration laws), my juggling balls (stupid... no, wait... juggling is good)... I guess I'm ready to go.
Contrary to my assumption that my bus would be leaving from the bus station, it's apparently leaving from Plascrug... which is... somewhere... hmm...
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It’s Not Just A Games Console…
...it fits in your living room, detects intruders, and has a 3-year warranty!
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, go have a play with my latest software toy, Product 'X'. Eventually, we'll be able to replace both innovators and (more importantly) marketers with a system like this: it generates instant … -
Pre-Malawi Update
Here's the state of play before I leave Aber for awhile, in answer to all the questions that people keep on asking me and that therefore I ought to answer in a centralised manner, here, to save them from doing so (and me from repeatedly having to say the same replies):
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The Importance Of A Sensible Patent System In Europe
If Haydn had patented "a symphony, characterised by that sound is produced [ in extended sonata form ]", Mozart would have been in trouble.
Click Here -- Sign The Petition
Just thought I'd share that link with you. This is something which could eventually affect the way we all use computers. To those of you … -
The Doctor That DOESN’T Just Tell You What You Want To Hear
I went to the doctor this morning to discuss the side-effects of the lariam tablets. I'd made the appointment just a week ago, when I was still having weird mood swings and not being able to sleep, like, at all. Since my last tablet, though, last Tuesday, I've been pretty much fine: nothing worse than …
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind last night with Claire and Paul. It's an absolutely stunning film (currently ranking at #49 in the IMDB's top 250 films list), a must-see! Go watch it! But try to know as little as you can about it before you do; it'll only improve the expeirence.
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Random Drunken Piano Appreciation Society Of Aberystwyth
So Paul, Claire and I are in The Flat. Paul's reading, I'm coding, and Claire is playing the piano. It's half past eleven. The doorbell rings.
Who could that be? None of us are expecting anybody, and most of the folks we know have already left town to be with their families, etc. I go downstairs … -
Lariam Dream The Fourth
Perhaps the most disturbing dream yet since I started on this weird medication. And I promise you that if you know the people starring in it, you'll be scared, too...
Warning: Sexually Explicit Content - You Have Been Warned
I only remember fragments of the dream, but two particular images stand out:
Lots of men in … -
Calling In Sick
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Feel rotten. And I'm supposed to be back at work, today. Called in sick, especially apologetically.
Had another lariam-induced mood swing yesterday, and became especially grotty to people, so went … -
Bizzare Definitions That Come From Weird Conversations
Claire and I came up with the following definition:
Quamplicated [adj.] - being or relating to a thought about something on your person or some sensation that, by nature of thinking about it, alters the target of the thought.
All of last week I've been seeing people who are leaving. Yeh, I know, I ought to be … -
Lariam Dream The Third
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Another weird dream last night. Surprisingly similar 'cast' to some previous ones.
Some friends and I, and my mum, are … -
Claire Doesn’t Seem To Know What To Do With Herself
Claire doesn't seem to know what to do with herself. She had her last exam for the year this morning.
Previously, she'd play computer games in an effort to procrastinate on revising. But now she doesn't have to revise, so she can't find anything to procrastinate from doing.
Perhaps I should give her something to do.
And in …