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Year One - A Happy Post That Everybody Will Misunderstand To Be An Unhappy One
Ruth and I celebrated the first anniversary of our being a couple, this weekend. She came down to Aber and we took the steam train up to Devil's Bridge, wandered around the waterfalls, and spent a good few hours sitting in a pub (pretty much the pub in Devil's Bridge, tiny place that it is) …
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ZibraZibra
If you haven't already, take a listen to ZibraZibra - they've got the silly little player on their MySpace page, so you can tune in there. They describe themselves as "Space age. Sonic Synthesis + Guitar Shredding + Scandinavian and American Mentalities + Soaring Vocals + Hott Beats + Jumpsuits + Circuit Bending + Classical …
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Swimming To Work
Dan's coworker Gareth leaves a window open and floods the office.
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What Not To Do When You Lose Your Mobile
Maybe this is just a pet hate that is exclusively mine, but there's something that really gets on my nerves and it's happened under one of the two scenarios below at least three times within the last month. It's as if the very second you let people loose on social-networking site Facebook they immediately lose …
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Demolition Of Y Tabernacle
Following the fire at Y Tabernacle, Mill Street, Aberystwyth at the weekend, the decision was made that it was structurally unsound and had to be demolished. It's sad to see such a beautiful (pics) old building torn down, but one can't help but marvel at the speed and efficiency with which they did it. This …
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The Evolution Of Socks
There's an evolutionary process occuring in my wardrobe.
I have an approximately equal number of dark-coloured and light-coloured socks, but since we moved to The Cottage in the summer of 2006, I've been keeping my socks not in drawers but in a compartment in my unlit wardrobe. As a result, I can only really see the … -
Eat Bertha's Mussels!
On the way back from Geek Night at Rory's, saw the following bumper sticker:
A little googling places it as belonging to a restaurant in Baltimore. But it caught my attention on the way back through Aberystwyth tonight, so I thought I'd share it. Perhaps the marketers among you can learn something from this compelling … -
ICANN Invent A Whole Universe Of Mess
In case you hadn't heard/didn't care, ICANN have authorised the creation of arbitrary privately-controlled top-level domains. So what does this mean?
Well, the happy hippy theory fun about it all is that suddenly there's the capacity for pretty much anybody (well, anybody with a particularly deep wallet, and - for now - a demonstrable business plan) … -
Talking About Suicide - A Revelation
"Asking about suicidal feelings cannot 'put the idea into a caller's head.'" If you've ever worked in a listening organisation that will openly talk about suicidal feelings, like a branch of Samaritans or a university Nightline, you're likely to have heard this said. In virtually every training group to which talking about suicide is first …
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Firefox 3 "Download Day"
Downloaded your copy of Mozilla Firefox 3 yet to help them make the world record? I've been using Firefox 3 since the early betas and I've got no qualms about recommending it wholeheartedly. The awsomebar is simply that: awesome, the speed and memory usage have become far better than the previous version, and the care … -
The Beer Is Breathing
Hurrah! I feared for a while that the yeast I'm using might have died (either of old age, or of being kept in our utility room, which alternates between being very warm and very cool), but when my latest homebrew beer started breathing this morning, I knew that everything was going to be all right.
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Enter The Ninja
So, like a handful of others, I'll be participating in Andy's Ninja Burger game tonight. He's asked us each to throw together a character - or at least to look at character generation - so here's mine:
Name: Ava Kurosawa
Job Title: Driver
Qualities:
Average [+0] Ninja
Average [+0] Driver (just because he does it … -
Vanilla Sky, A Letter, And A Trip
VANILLA SKY
Perhaps Vanilla Sky wasn't the best choice of film to finish Troma Night last night on, based on the dream I had:
I dreamt that I was dreaming, and that during that inner dream I became lucid [not so hard, actually, and something I periodically do normally]. In the inner dream, I'd broken my … -
Reasons To Tick The "It's Complicated" Box
Assuming you're reading Abnib in chronological order, you're already aware that Claire and JTA split up a little while ago. I don't think I've ever seen so mutual, so on-equal-terms, so amicable a breakup, ever. While Ruth and I sat on the beach and discussed how we'd need to be ready to provide support to …
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How To Make Money, You Hobo - A Cautionary Tale
Last night I had a particularly vivid and unusual dream:
JTA and I were homeless and living on the streets of some foreign city (it was somewhat reminiscent of London, but most folks spoke French, so I guess it wasn't); jobless, hungry, and generally sleeping in the central railway station, except when the police or …