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  • Hollywood Pizza Menu (2001 edition) - front

    Hollywood Pizza Menu



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    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 May, 2003
  • Easter Break

    I'm sitting doing some work on a web site for one of our clients, and Reb (you know, the ex-girlfriend) sends me another text message:
    you around for easter? xx
    As it happens, I won't be. I could go visit my family for Easter, but this would result in two things happening:

    My family โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 8 April, 2003
  • Chasing The Paycheck

    What with unavailable accountants and worse, I've not been able to get my paycheque until today - a week later than expected. I have ยฃ2.50, half a loaf of bread, a tin of beans, and a packet of super noodles to live on until my cheque is cashed. I don't think that Sainsbury's Recipe Finder โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 7 April, 2003
  • Claire Goes To Norfolk

    My love, Claire, disappeared to Norfolk today. I won't see her for a week. My horniness is going to be unmeasurable within days. Hmm... I wonder how much a prostitute costs around here?

    A quick search on PunterNet UK (a prostitute review site) doesn't find any ladies for hire in Aberystwyth. That's disgraceful. I think I โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 6 April, 2003
  • A Message From Reb

    I received an interesting text message from my ex-girlfriend Reb today. It read:
    I was thinking, you know how you used to say i could have your diaries when you died. can i still? not that i wish you dead or anything, i was just wondering.
    Yeh; sure - it sounds like you love me โ€ฆ

    Read more (151 words)

    • Article
    • posted 4 April, 2003
  • April Fools Day

    April Fools Day has always been an oppertunity for me to get back at the ineffective dickheads that are the management of Penbryn Hall at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. This year was no exception. Building upon the success of my last big prank, Penbryn-Hall.co.uk, a spoof 'official' site which almost got me expelled from โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 1 April, 2003
  • Scatman's World

    [this page was originally posted to AvAngel.com but is archived here; the links have been adapted to improve usability]
    Introduction
    After playing around for some time with Corel Photo-Paint and Adobe Premiere, I decided it was time to make a cool music video that quite blatantly took the piss out of Bagpuss, a โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 3 June, 2002
  • New Site Preps For Launch

    The new version of AvAngel.com is under full developmental swing... and within a week or two it'll be uploaded. Of course, you know what we're like for deadlines, so don't hold your breath - but if you don't believe us, catch Dan online (e-mail him for his ICQ number) and he'll show you what he's โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 16 January, 2002
  • AvAngel.com Censorship Lifted

    After a bit of a battle between Information Services at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and I, resulting in the semipermanent blocking of the Unversity's right to see www.penbryn-hall.co.uk, and the temporary blocking of AvAngel.com (Woohoo! I'm officially censored by the University), access to the site from the University's network is now re-opened. Thanks to โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 7 April, 2001
  • Dan Arrested; Carrying Offensive Weapon

    Dan gets stopped by two police officers while carrying a battle-axe through the streets of Aberystwyth. Original content on AvAngel.com appeared, as follows:
    Andy's account -
    I wonder how many police officers, when asked by the guy they've just stopped on the street for carrying a battle-axe, will actually go to the URL he tells โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 18 January, 2001
  • A Brief History Of Me

    [the following was originally posted to AvAngel.com in 2001; a copy is archived here]
    Like an autobiography, only without about 99% of it being here...

    Babyhood
    I was born unexpectedly on 8th January 1981, in Inverness. Actually; that's not correct. I'm pretty sure that my birth was pretty much certain for almost nine months โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 1 January, 2001
  • Postcard reading: Gran, Hi! I didn't know that you didn't have my address down here in Wales until my mum sent me an e-mail and told me, so I thought I'd send you a card and tell you what it is, so that when the money runs out and I end up in the eating-cold-baked-beans-straight-from-the-tin stage, I can phone you and you can send a food parcel... Only kidding. Course is great; freedom is better; ladies are gorgeous. Lovely place here. All my love, Dan

    Postcards to Grandma

    Dan sends some postcards to his grandmother from University.

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    • Article
    • posted 18 December, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #55:

    In a fit of inspiration, after people keep on coming in to your room, in particular the guy in the room next door, and wiggling the cord of your wind chimes, much to your irratation, threaten that next time they โ€ฆ

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    • posted 21 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Content Warning This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now. I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 20 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #53:

    Get an advent calendar! (the least said, the better)

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 19 November, 1999

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