Kind: Articles
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Who’s A Little Stresspuppy? Is It Me? Is It?
Argh bluh fuckshit arsebanditwankers.
Work stuff. Tuesday stuff. Home stuff. Student Skills Competition stuff. Name change stuff. Bills, code, letters and stuff that chases them all. Suddenly finding yourself using skills you probably should have forgotten. Drinking the wrong amount. Eating the wrong amount. Being ill for a whole weekend and a bit. The … -
Kid Radd
Have just read Kid Radd, a webcomic that ran for a few years awhile back. It's a story told from the perspective of - and through the medium of - retro video game sprites. And it rocks. It's moderately funny and sometimes clever, but it's full of fantastic random geekery that tickled me quite a …
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Plans For The Weekend
Paul's outlined the plans for the weekend, but I'll repeat and elaborate on them here for the benefit of anybody who might read my blog but not his (who is that, anyway?). And 'cos people are probably used to me announcing this kind of crap by now.
Visitors - There are people … -
Wanted: Wingman
Wanted: Tech Support Wingman For Student Skills Competition
Owing to a change in career plans by the previous position holder, a vacancy has opened for a Tech Support Wingmanf for the 2007 Student Skills Competition. The successful applicant will ideally be a confident computer user and a good communicator, and be comfortable with working in a … -
Heroes Night?
Following the recommendation (LJ friends-only) given by Rory the other day, I've acquired the first few episodes of "Heroes." Anyone who fancies it ought to gather at The Cottage this evening and we'll see if it's any good (i.e. good enough to keep us amused in-between Crystal Maze Night and Troma Night, now there isn't …
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Invisible Girl
Last night I met the most invisible person ever. She was sat in the Ship & Castle with some of the regulars when I introduced myself. "Yeah, we've already met," she said. Some way later into a conversation, we'd determined:
I'd seen her before at the Ship & Castle, and looked right … -
Treehouse Breakfast; Q (Again); Troma Night
Claire, Jimmy, Paul and I just had breakfast at The Treehouse. They were doing an "all you can eat" Fair Tade buffet - basically; heaps of muesli, organic bananas, breads, and other hippy goodies. It was nice to do something different, but I'm not sure it was worth the fiver it cost.
Overheard a … -
A New Generation Of Grafitti
For the second time today, I saw some grafitti which contained a myspace URL. Is this what all the cool kids are doing these days? It's just that it seems to me, with many of these pages containing full names and photographs, that this might be a bad strategy when you're doing something illegal. Just …
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Q
A couple of deeds poll later, and Claire and I are half-way to having changed our surnames. Our new surname: Q. I hereby declare this blog post to be the official FAQ of the Dan/Claire name change. So there, Ms Q.
1. You've changed your names?
Yes, we've changed our names. I'm now … -
A Determinist Atheist’s Story
I find it amazing that people look at the chaos and the beauty of the world and somehow come to the conclusion that there is a god. I know that sounds like it's backwards, but I mean it. The other day I was watching a spectacular sunset. The sun hung low in the sky and …
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Away For The Weekend
Apparently I'm giving a presentation at 9am tomorrow morning in Keele about a bit of software I've been working on. Suppose I ought to pull my finger out and decide what I'm going to say.
In any case, this of course means that Troma Night this week will be hosted by Paul (if it's … -
Philosophical Health Check
Came across a survey that was floating around the blogosphere, which attempts to challenge you to think about the tensions in your own personal life philosophy. It's pretty simplistic, and it doesn't seem to have been designed to tell you your beliefs are wrong or hypocritical so much as to make you think about the …
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Armadillo Run
Over the last few days, I've mostly been distracted by Armadillo Run, a fabulous little shareware game (Windows only... for now) somewhat reminiscent of The Incredible Machine. It's great fun, and the download is under 2MB, which makes it a reasonable download even if you're on a modem (who does that, these days?).
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Abnib Breaks Stuff, Fixes Stuff, Keeps Ticking
As you might have seen, the new version of abnib went live this afternoon. Just so I don't keep getting the same comments over and over:
Right now, it's a little fixated on the PST time zone. I'm not sure why this is, but I'll fix this soon.
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What Did Matt Leave This Time?
Last time Matt visited, he left his mobile phone charger. It wasn't all bad: it gave him an excuse to come back again.
This time, he left his razor and a can of deodorant. That's all we've found so far; but we're convinced that he's trying to move in by installments. This gives him …