Tag: 2004-07-11 fully recovered
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Lariam Dream The Fourth
Perhaps the most disturbing dream yet since I started on this weird medication. And I promise you that if you know the people starring in it, you'll be scared, too...
Warning: Sexually Explicit Content - You Have Been Warned
I only remember fragments of the dream, but two particular images stand out:
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World’s Highest Bridge Completed
With it's road surface 270 metres above ground, and 2,460 metres long, this bridge could be visualised quite well if you imagine a bridge joining the tops of Pen Dinas and Constitution Hill, in Aberystwyth. Just another impressive feat of engineering I thought I'd share with you. I like bridges. Read the full story here.
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Blimps… In Space
Now here's a funky idea - sub-orbital spaceflight in enormous helium balloons, up to a two-mile wide sub-space station (a permanant facility at the very boundries of our atmosphere). This could be used to carry spaceship components for assembly in orbit, and then launched using ion drives at a fraction of the price of rocket …
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Lariam Dream The First
I'd been warned that this stuff could give you weird dreams. Last night I dreamt entirely in anime. Which is pretty impressive, I thought. I was a character in a Studio Ghibli-esque anime flick (it was dubbed, so I was moving my mouth in Japanese and somebody else's voice came out in English - the …
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Hide & Seek
Claire, Paul, Bryn, Ruth, JTA, Andy and I went to the beach this evening to play frisbee and watch the sunset. We even got Bryn participating, which is somewhat a rarity for any of this fun outings that involve physical activity. Everybody seemed happy to be taking a break from exams. Aber is wonderful this …
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I AM Scared Of Bootloaders
I've spent the evening looking at bootloader source code (small programs, crucial to every Operating System, which do the first fundamental steps towards loading the kernel, the 'core' of the OS). Just to show you quite how scary this stuff is, here's a snippet of code to "stop the floppy drive motor from spinning":
mov dx,3F2h
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Remember Microsoft vs. Netscape?
Then you're old enough to appreciate this: OSNews is running an article about the upcoming fight between Google and Microsoft. Where the Netscape/Microsoft battle involved web browsers, the weapons of the Google/Microsoft battle will be search engines and e-mail services.
If you're confused as to how companies can be fighting by trying to increase the market … -
Half-Life 2 To Be Released As Twin-Pack
Yay! Take a look at this piccy (especially you, Paul).
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New XML-Based Markup Language: MRML
Take a look at this, fellow geeks.
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“To Test Security On Your PC, You Must First Make It Inherently Insecure”
WTF??? If you go to Symantec's Online Virus Scanner using most browsers, you'll be told that you need to use Microsoft Internet Explorer to continue! Isn't this just asking for trouble? It's like saying, "Yes, we'll check your house is secure. Now just unlock your door..."
Just plain weird.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The ID Card But Were Afraid To Ask
The Register are running an article about the new UK ID card, and what it all means. They're always a great source of information on such things, if slightly cynical... and this document is no exception. Go read it. Then throw rocks at Mr. Blunkett. <grin>
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Last Few Dreams
Last night's dream
Claire was complaining at me because I'd bought online driving lessons, which she considered to be significantly worse value for money than 'traditional' ones. I argued that I didn't actually want the lessons, but they were only 10p each and I only had 20p pieces and I needed 10p pieces, so I bought … -
Sponsored Masturbation
Feel like taking part in a sponsored masturbatathon? The internet remains a strange and wonderful place, as this form [PDF] indicates. Go take a look.
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All Questions Answered
Have you seen AQA (All Questions Answered), a new online/SMS service? The idea is that you text message a question to 63336 (only on O2, Vodafone, and Orange, right now: costs £1) and their server uses a clever combination of intelligent algorithms, data mining, and human researchers to provide you with an answer.
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Minutes Of The Incorporation Meeting Of Peter Huntley Limited
If you're interested, you can read the minutes of the incorporation meeting of Peter Huntley Ltd., of which I seem to be a director: Minutes [PDF Format].