Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Coolest Personality Test I’ve Ever Seen
As I've said before, I don't just jump onto every memeing bandwagon that crosses my path, but now and then, one comes along that really impresses me. This one is a 'smart' personality test that attempts to define you by asking a series of questions... yadda yadda... but this one learns from it's mistakes, and …
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Two Films I Want To See
Children Of Men, due for release this September, looks good. In the near future, all the women on Earth become infertile, and science is at a loss to explain why. By 2027, no children have been born in 18 years, and the future of humanity is bleak. There's a trailer about, too. It all looks …
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Dreams Of Trucks
Unusual dream last night. Gareth challenged me to a race: driving lorries (which fluctuated in size throughout the dream from mini-vans to huge artic' trucks) along a dirt track somewhere up in the Welsh hills. Jon was his co-driver, and Bryn was mine, but somewhere along the way to the racecourse our vehicle broke down …
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The Coolest “Learn A Programming Language” Tool. Ever.
Not only is it the coolest "hands on" tutorial to a programming language I've ever seen; it's also (technologically) quite impressive as a web application, too. I'm talking about tryruby.hobix.com, a stunning tutorial in the Ruby programming language that's simple enough for anybody to get started and doesn't require you to install anything. Everything is …
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And That Was That
Well; we've burned my gran (well, not us personally; our involvement in her actual cremation was limited to watching her disappear behind some curtains and resisting the urge to shout, "Uhh... a cuddly toy... a toaster oven... umm...") and we're on our way, by installments, back to Aberystwyth: we should be back in time for …
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How To Run Downloaded Stuff On Your Nintendo DS
14th July 2006: I've updated this article with some information on what could be an even easier and more cost-effective way to achieve this effect. Scroll down.
Here's a guide to what you need to easily be able to run homebrew software like DSLinux on your Nintendo DS or DS Lite. Some things to know:
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On My Grandma And The Nature Of Time, Space, And Models Of The Universe
I'd hoped to finish writing this post before my gran died so suddenly yesterday, but I guess I was a bit slow. I realised that there were so many changes of tense to be made to make the article make sense that it was actually easier to start again. So I did.
On The Nature Of … -
Out Of Town Again
My gran's condition is only getting worse, so Claire and I are going to skip town for a few days and go up there to join my mum and visit her in hospital. Claire is an absolute star and offering to drive me around the country. It means quite a bit to me to be …
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Getting Your Money’s Worth On Pizza Hut Salads
I've always enjoyed free food at pizza places. On my 16th birthday, I went to Winston's Pizza in Preston for their lunchtime buffet "all you can eat" deal. We took board games. Four hours (and many, many slices of pizza and bottles of beer) later, we were finally thrown out: the manager let us have …
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A Question Of Honour
If your girlfriend and your sister are in a fight, who are you supposed to defend?
That's one of the many questions that went through my mind on Saturday at Houghton Tower's orchestra and fireworks display. It was the usual affair of music and fireworks and excessive patriotism, dampened only by the dampening effect of the … -
And We’re Off
Right; off to Lancashire. For those that remain:
Adam's offered to host Troma Night. Which seems brave considering that he'll just have come to an end of his 22hr15min Dr. Who marathon.
Bryn: I managed to do it - this morning, I surfed BBC News from my DS Lite. It'd have been easier … -
Fun With A Nintendo DS
This post starts very geeky, but becomes about computer games later on. Feel free to scroll down three paragraphs if you like computer games but don't like computer hardware hacking.
My M3 Perfect and some related hardware arrived today. Basically, it's a SD card reader that plugs into a Game Boy Advance slot (which are found … -
Umm… About Troma Night (Plus: Last Night’s Dream)
Oh yeah; Claire and I won't be around this weekend: we're off to Houghton Tower again (again!) for classical music and fireworks from the comfort of a gazebo, which we've recently started pronouncing "gay's bow". The net result is that Troma Night won't be at The Cottage - if somebody else wants to host it …
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Dan’s Lazy Beef Stroganoff
Another recipe for you all. This experimental stroganoff worked well, so I thought you might enjoy it too. I've no doubt it could be multiplied up wonderfully to serve more people.
Dan's Lazy Beef Stroganoff
Serves: 2-3
Ingredients
2 medium-sized sirloin steaks, thinly sliced (use a very sharp knife and try to cut slices no larger than … -
And The Meme Goes On
I promised a few people I'd do this meme with them, you see...
In case you'd forgotten, here are the things I'm writing about:
I’ll respond with something random about you (it'll probably be something particularly random, because it'll be the first thing I thought of - it may or may not be pleasant).
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