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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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10:55 pm
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Drove up to the parents to generally wibble & kip overnight (as have interview in Staford tomorrow, just down t'road from them).
Drag (drug?) a couple of bottles of nice french red up with me for them; end up drinking trhe majority of it myself (ghods but it's nice stuff, oops, Hic! sic transit gloria vini! ;)
current mood: sanguine
current music: Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Bibbe Leydy
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12:52 am - oops
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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7:07 pm
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Java thread synchronisation in SWT/Jface on a hot day. Owie, brain go sprong!
current music: Deborah Harry - ; French Kissin' In The USA
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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6:41 pm - Hello England
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Back to Woking (hello shoebox@HONHOI!) after a 5 day trip to St Alyre d'Arlanc in the centre of France, staying with friends at the [Linux Coaching Organisation] to see the new windows we've had put in at La Maison du Trois Chaps (no website yet, must work on that, alas http://www.lmdtc.com has gone) & for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) archaro to do some preservative work on the windows woodwork.
Returned successfully through customs & a sniffer dogs inspection of the car with but a minor haul (2Kg) of [Forme d'Ambert] steenky nom cheese & several cases of nom++good vin rouge from 2 vinyards which we went a hunting on Monday (one pinot noir from Boudes, the other a blend of pinot noir & gamay from Neschers). Hic!
current music: Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears ; 1 Mr Tinkertrain
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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1:56 am - LCO
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Off to France for a long weekends bimbling around at LMdTC (La Maison du Trois Chaps) (just up the road from friends at the [LCO]). Walking, mooching around in forests, admiring the new windows, talking old toot,book reading & listening to too much Unheilig is the probable order of the day(s)...
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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3:09 pm
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eek, this is almost a Neil H linkblast... which also serves as a place to tag these for me to potentially see them again in the future...
Yay, after several weeks of these misc. fuckers automated cold calling me daily (with number withheld) and in spite of being on the TPS, they've been / are going to be slapped on the wrist (for whatever good it'll do) [Debt firms warned over cold calls].
Oh noes, [beer mats in trouble]!
In Other News, I appear to have been years++ recently. Thanks all for the wishes / commiserations / OAP application forms :)
current music: Pink - Get The Party Started
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| Sunday, May 10th, 2009
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11:26 pm
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It wasn't going too badly till I discovered that the book I was reading ("Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days") couldn't swim when I accidentally dropped it into and it sank to the bottom of my bath.
Darn.
I'll have to make do with the (poorer) online version in the "Safari 45 day free trial" as advertised on the books (rather soggy) first inside page.
current music: Genesis - Live: The Way We Walk, Vol. 2 - The Longs ; 6 Drum Duet
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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3:43 pm
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dreamwidth = fork() ;
(thanks ramtops)
Now I guess to figure out how to read / post to both simultaneously..
current music: Anemo - slow burn ; 12 Kursk
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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1:33 pm
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And now it's time for something from the drawer of inappropriate starches!
current mood: nom nom nom mini cheddars
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11:18 am
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freaky cool - there's a bird outside that's just been making calls just like the Monster (/Security System) off Lost :)
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| Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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9:33 pm
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Decided to splash out a bit of time on some contemporary TV apart from the weekly House & Lost downloads :
Dave's Red Dwarf "Back To Earth"
E01 : what a disappointment.
E02 : Hey, I laughed a few times! Not bad, actually, that's more like it.
E03 : on the list to watch, hope it'll be good.
Started to watch the Dr Who Planet of the Dead. What a pile of unmitigated unwatchable shite. FFWD through it, nope, it's shite all the way through. Ah well.
So, cheered self up with Ian McKellen as King Lear (with an unplanned Whovian link of Sylvester McCoy as the Fool); bit of a marathon at almost 3 hrs and I'm not sure I should say "cheered self up" :) but it was a good thing to watch it and be edumificated a bit.
Must be a holiday - I've done gratuitous TV watching :)
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| Saturday, April 11th, 2009
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12:05 am
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No [plan|bottle of port] survives initial contact with the [enemy|round a mates house for an evening's wibble].
current music: Informatik - Second Chance
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| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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1:14 am
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Sigh, WTF are MS playing at now? the usual midnight (or 0100 BST) IM hiccup that my ISP seems to do that causes trillian to bounce (disconnect/reconnect) is mostly harmless, also been happening so long now it's a good reminder that it's aroundabout midnight, today my 2 MSN IDs come up with a message saying I have to change my login?
"Important service announcement: As part of a recent system enhancement, we need you to change your e-mail address to continue signing in to the Windows Live(TM) Messenger Service. To ensure that your access is not blocked and to learn more, go to http://support.microsoft.com/gp/Messenger/en"
Go there, login, and the "change windows Live ID" page says "Your Windows Live ID can't be changed at this time."
Useless bunch...
current music: Gary Numan - Love And Napalm
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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2:26 am - 2 hours of humping!
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Have rearranged office half of ShoeBox, replacing [straight desk example] with [bent desk example], then a further 2 hrs or so of plugging everything back in & routing cables; gives me extra desk acreage to furtle with more embedded linux twiddly bits.
Mr Back is not approving of this at all however. ouch, owie, grrr, buggerit.
(Straight Desk's migrated upstairs to tictactoepony's PonyRoom. It'll probably end up painted pink and with a tail on it...)
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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12:14 am
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After a bit of a cold thingy that made me quite lethargic the past month, I appear to be back to my regular mostly awake / happy coding functionality at midnight+, yay ; it's going to make a meeting Thu morning at 1000 tricky though, perhaps I should just stay awake all night Wed... ;)
current mood: embedded linux zooooooooooom
current music: Anne Clark - Windmills Of Your Mind
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| Monday, March 30th, 2009
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12:13 am - refurb & reuse or toss
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Hmmm, 3 hours to dismantle, thoroughly clean & remantle my MS Natural keyboard (2 years since last spring clean, it was **tres ick** inside). I could have just accepted that it was very dirty & a bit old n battered ("but emily loved him") and retire it & use one of the stock of 5 or so I've been buying off Ebay the past few years. But if I did that I'd have had one less in stock to last me...
current music: Ex-Voto - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (C.E.B. Betrayal Mix)
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| Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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12:31 pm
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grrrr, bloody MicroSoft, what gives you the right to demand a PC restart just 'cause I uninstalled Media Player 11??
They Still Havent Got A Bloody Clue...
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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12:05 pm - Bucket!
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"there's an explosion in my bucket, what am I gonna do"...
So I do a little [Bucket] from time to time... I've got this thing under control, I can stop anytime I want to...
current music: UB40 - Rat In My Kitchen
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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10:59 am - Betrayal and Disappointment
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I've been let down by a book :(
Was reading China Mieville's "The Scar", quite engrossed with it and enjoying the read and the ride till a printers / binders error means that what should be p567 to p614 are a reprint of p183 to 230 (Pan paperback)
Has really broken the flow of the book; I'm reading past it and reverse engineering what's happened (**1), but it's not the same...
**1 plenty (too much?) words, description, wittering (thick book, heavy to hold, why so many words? see earlier whinge re thickness of modern books vs eg classics like Asimov's Foundation) so a semblance of paper RAID5 on the missing section may be possbile
current music: t.A.T.u - Show Me Love
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| Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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2:17 am - Poynings
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(that's where my Prestel dial in node used to be)
lovely village name :)
current music: Boston - More Than A Feeling
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