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Gents Toilets Mystery
The gents toilets on the first floor of the building where I work is a complete mystery to me.
That's not strictly true. I know where the stalls and the urinals are. I know how to make the taps - little push-button ones - work. I know that the hand dryer to the right typically warms … -
All Ready For NaNoWriMo
Well, here goes nothing.
Words written: 0 / target: 50000
As many of you already know, I'm participating this November in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month contest. The aim is to write, from a standing start, 50,000 words in 30 days. So... about 1,700 words a day. There were days that my dissertation got … -
Dan and Alex
Dan and Alex now has it's own subdomain, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to. Yeah, right. There's a new episode up, and you can even subscribe to the new RSS feed (or just pick it up on Abnib).
Expect to see more of Dan and Alex in the near future.
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Genius Filmmaking
This is just a piece of genius filmmaking. 5 friends in Machynlleth made huge chipboard letters akin to the ones famously on the hills above Hollywood did so secretly, deploying the letters the night before Mach's weekend-long film festival started.
But better than that, they filmed themselves doing it and entered their short movie into the … -
Who’s My Daddy?
I've seen some pretty stupid test memes. So I've made one of my own:
Who's My Daddy?
Peter Huntley is my daddy.
Generated by the "Who's Your Daddy?" Test Meme
In other news, "Hook" by Blues Traveler (lyrics) is a spectacular song.
I have an unbelievable amount of work to … -
eBay Context Advertising
You've probably seen eBay's context-sensitive advertising on Google: you search for, say, "children's toys", and one of the Google ads on the right-hand side of the page tells you how you can buy and sell children's toys on eBay. I've always thought that this system was probably just waiting to be abused, so I had …
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E-Mail Server Configuration For Dummies
Well; I feel like a wally.
SmartData's taking on a new client for a content-managed web site, web and e-mail hosting. In anticipation of the domain transfer going through without a hitch, I reconfigured our web and e-mail servers to already be ready to accept connections to their "new" web site and for e-mails to come … -
This Weekend’s Events
Just so those of you in Aber know, here's some of this weekend's highlights:
Geek Night tonight is cancelled, as JTA and I are building his new PC (possibly with the help of Paul and certainly while being hand-fed peeled grapes by Ruth). A number of us are discussing seeing the 2:30pm matinee showing of … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge III - Results
Thanks to everybody who played Dan's Dingbats Challenge III; it was great to see some of your answers. Almost everybody did really well on points this time around, but many were let down by their times.
Here's the final scoreboard and answers:
Position Player Time Taken Right Answers Total Time 1 Faye (Aber)Very quick; every one … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge III
It's back! Dan's Dingbat Challenge III!
If you've not played Dan's Dingbat Challenge before, you'd better go back and look at the first and second ones, and Andy's one. Or just go look at the answers to my first and second ones. Or just give it a go.
I've made a few changes since last time:
There's … -
3 Brazilian Soldiers
Donald Rumsfeld was giving the president his daily briefing.
He concluded by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President yells. "That's terrible....just terrible!"
His staff watches as he buries his head in his hands and saying, "This is bad; bad for the coalition."
His staff sits stunned at this display since he had never shown … -
The Way Lunch Should Be
There's a right way to go for lunch during your break at work, and, if you're in Aberystwyth, this is it.
Starter
I started in Scholars, where Matt (in the Hat) is spending the entire day as a birthday celebration. I treated Matt to a pint of Guinness, and had a half myself, thereby giving … -
Abbey National’s Rebranding
Is is just me who sees Abbey National's new logo - the result, inevitabley, of thousands of pounds worth of rebranding as part of their "new appeal", as looking like some kind of symbolic steaming turd?
Perhaps it's just me, but when I first saw it in Aber high street the other day, that's the first … -
Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP
Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …
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The Flat Is Tidy
Thanks to JTA for his help. Huge thanks to Matt (temporarily minus his hat) for his help: feed the guy oatcakes and rum and he'll mop your floor! Winnage!
This is, of course, a result of the anticipated sale of the building we live in. The owners of MG's cafe, below us, and - in fact …