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Dreams Of Scrabble
Odd dream last night:
Claire, Matt, Sian, Andy R and I were sat in a circle on the large pavement outside the dry cleaners on Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, playing Scrabble. I wasn't very comfortable sat where I was (between Claire and Sian), so I swapped places with Matt (between Sian and Andy), which was … -
Recipe Of The Evening
Got a recipe suggestion for you all, again: Bryn's Challenge is at least allowing me to be a little bit more imaginative and try making things that "come to mind" (the bad ideas don't make it here). So, today's meal - which Claire assures me is "really, really good", is presented below:
Chicken And Bacon … -
Curry With Friends
Went out last night for curry and beers to Cafe All Spice with:
Jen - professional cynic
Claire - professional mimic
Bryn - protestable critic
Andy - procrastinating graduate
Sian - political constitutionalist
and Paul - pineapple coconut
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Sam’s Spam
I just got swamped by about 150 bits of trackback spam. Not a problem - I know how to deal with it and I was able to get rid of it all in line of SQL code... and it was also interesting to see that I rank highly enough in common searches to find 'open' …
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Free Gift For First Hundred Customers
I'm sure that by now you'll all be aware of the upcoming opening of Nice 'n' Naughty, the latest in a chain of sex shops (the latest of which was opened in Bangor, of all places), in Aberystwyth. It'll be opening on Pier Street, on the site of the old Little Amsterdam (who's web site …
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First Season Of Diplomacy
As I'm sure I've said, I'm running an online game of Diplomacy: my web-based adaptation of a classic 1959 board game of strategy and diplomacy. It's an unusual board game, in that (apart from the random assignment of countries, at the beginning), it involves no luck - the game is based entirely upon your ability …
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Tsunami Relief Concert
On Saturday night, Claire and I went to the Tsunami Relief concert at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which was pretty fab. We arrived at about 3:15pm, just as things were starting to kick off - on one of the many park and ride services being operated especially for the event. The buses and their …
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When The News Comes Close To Home
On Sunday, Claire was reading me a BBC News article about a woman who fell from Constitution Hill this Saturday, sustaining a severe head injury.
It turns out that the woman was Nia, the receptionist from the Technium. We found out when she didn't turn up for work this morning. The Technium manager sent a text … -
Extra Haggis For Geek Night Players
I seem to have come into posession of a couple of haggises (or "haggii", as I prefer). Would any of you Geek Night regulars like to join Claire and I a little earlier this evening for a haggis supper before we get down to the board games? A vegetarian alternative can be arranged for, if …
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Technium Phone System
Grr! Yet another fuck-up by the folks who run the Technium phone system: right now, every sixth call (exactly) to SmartData's number is put through to the WDA's answerphone (the WDA share our building). It's a fucking joke.
This is on top of the various problems we've had with our voicemail. And don't get me started … -
More Flash: “Second Term”
Jon has posted to his blog about "Second Term", JibJab's most recent parody of the American policial system (you'll remember It's Good To Be In D.C. and This Land, which I blogged about earlier). In any case, the versions you'll find on JibJab and Yahoo are surrounded by advertisements and can't easily be resized (hey; …
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Flash MX 2004 Data Integration/XML Features
Geeky post.
I've just been playing with the data integration and XML-parsing features offered by the new version of Macromedia Flash (traditionally used for animation on the web, but nowadays used for all kinds of things, like those silly games at Shockwave.com). They're actually quite impressive - here's the result of my fiddling this evening (requires … -
Geek Night: Diplomacy
After last Sunday's Geek Night, I've observed that there are a fair number of us (well: Claire, JTA, Ruth and I, at least) who would be interested in an online, one-day-per-turn game of Diplomacy, an entirely skill-based strategy game made in 1959 and based on World War 1. It's a really, really simple game, but …
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Freedom Sport And Surf
There's a lesson here for any business with a web site:
I'm sure that you may be familiar with Freedom Sport & Surf, the sports goods shop on Alexandra Road (opposite the carpet shop formerly known as Rumbletums Cafe). Well; they had a website - FreedomSportAndSurf.com. But they let the domain name expire, and it's been … -
Urgent Message For Paul!
This is an urgent message for Paul M:
Some of us in Aber are concerned that your original travel plans had you returning to Aberystwyth on Monday 17th January. It is our understanding that you have an exam on the morning of Monday 17th January, and we're not sure you're aware of this. We have tried …