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2004

January
- 1st
  - Album new year
- 5th
  - Post Waves!
  - Post What we gonna do, when the money runs out?
  - Post Reviews! Reviews!
  - Post The filmworks gallery
  - Post Careless design: lamp
- 6th
  - Post Student life can be hazardous to your health
- 7th
  - Post Americans queue for 8 hours in Brazil
  - Post The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- 8th
  - Album deh out window
- 9th
  - Post Search test
  - Post Hot Pixels
  - Post This is the corporate dream
  - Post The Eye of Bushron turns to Mars
- 11th
  - Post Dude, are you being sarcastic?
- 13th
  - Post Berlusconi rolls deep on everyone
  - Post Zucker Brothers Mazingness
  - Post Quote of the month
- 15th
  - Post Keep flags off Mars!
- 16th
  - Post Adobe(R) Newspeak(R)
- 19th
  - Post The value of comments
- 20th
  - Post Block an exit, go to jail
- 22nd
  - Post Labs in the news
- 24th
  - Post Post 0x90 Spectacular
  - Post One-liners
  - 2:03 p.m. Hybrid song. The Amiga invented dance music, I'm telling you...
  - 1:57 p.m. Elwood scene mp3s! "Past and Present" is the best
  - 6:34 a.m. Final test...
  - 6:26 a.m. Excellent b3ta punnery
  - 6:20 a.m. This blog will now degenerate into an indiscriminate linkdump.
  - 6:09 a.m. 73Mbits of alien data! NTK was right!
  - 6:01 a.m. Second test. These should be archived here.
  - 5:45 a.m. Testing testing testing.
- 25th
  - Post Gawd-dayam scienticians wid' deir edumacation
  - 8:37 a.m. Isn't Usenet lovely?
  - 8:33 a.m. 100 things to do instead of "it". Funny how "talk" is number 56... (via BoingBoing)
- 27th
  - Album snow
- 29th
  - Post Snowfight
  - 3:50 p.m. Sarah's favourite song turns out to be the worst song I've ever heard.
- 31st
  - Post Daily Mail World
  - Album calculator experiments
February
- 1st
  - Post The Hitch-hikers guide to the Hutton Report
  - Post Property is theft
  - Post Iain M. Banks Culture megafanboi geekfest
  - Post Overexposure is great
- 2nd
  - Post What does half a decade of email look like?
- 3rd
  - 11:43 a.m. Did anybody else think the music in Pirates of the Caribbean was a mixture of the themes from The Rock, and The Settlers?
  - 10:28 a.m. I have a pencil sharpener made by RAPESCO. I tried to comply, but the site is being DDoS'd.
  - 6:34 a.m. Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden
- 4th
  - Post Hair Monster found in Mathspace
  - Post Steel enlightenment
  - 12:50 p.m. All the Sim City 3000 music, apparently legally
- 5th
  - 1:25 p.m. Ultimate BTTF tie-in merchandise: flux capacitor y-fronts!
  - 1:03 p.m. "If you rely just on tabloids for your information, then perhaps you deserve to misunderstand"
  - 12:53 p.m. Ironic typo of the week comes from Coding Theory: 'Error-correcting cod'
- 6th
  - 12:57 p.m. Is this week the first ever where NTK contains a non-sarcastic exclamation mark?
- 7th
  - Post Barbarian hordes swarming M14
  - Post Computerless computing
  - 4:58 p.m. House full of eBay junk. A not-so-funny OCD tale (via BoingBoing)
- 8th
  - Post Number Theory Tools
- 9th
  - Post Landspeeder
  - Post Ministry of Scain
  - 12:58 p.m. An Eccles classic: "You see, the university has removed most of the blackboards, and the ones left are only two dimensional."
- 10th
  - 1:59 p.m. Set phasers to meme
  - 1:29 p.m. CSS visited pages disclosure. Just thought this one up myself; glad to see it's known.
- 12th
  - 4:39 p.m. World's first realistic flash animation. Its offensive start is thoroughly explained (via b3ta)
  - 4:41 a.m. MP to meet minister over cocklers. Why did I read "MP to meet minister of overclockers"?
- 13th
  - Post Teengers: thieves, thieved
  - 1:12 p.m. Fortunately the next full moon on a Friday 13th won't be until June 2014
  - 1:11 p.m. "Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday 13th."
- 14th
  - 5:23 p.m. Encyclopedia Mythica
  - 1:14 p.m. The Marmite FAQ. "The breweries pay Marmite to remove the yeast from their factories."
- 15th
  - 3:56 a.m. Religious studies to cover atheism. Marvellous. We'll corner the beast sooner or later.
- 18th
  - Post Coding vs. Gaming
  - 4:39 p.m. There are so many of us, but they are so rich.
- 19th
  - Album old trafford
- 20th
  - 1:11 p.m. How long will it be before Nestle get their chocolately hands on http://aero.aero?
- 21st
  - Album the oxford
  - 5:47 a.m. Yahoo search now has a cache link. Will they beat Google to offering this as a paid remote backup service?
- 22nd
  - Post Sony vs. You
- 23rd
  - 3:53 p.m. "Choose an orthonormal basis"
  - 3:48 p.m. Number Theory Tools 1.1 for your number theorising pleasure. Lets you check whether you have an efficient number of fingers or not.
- 24th
  - Post London == leftists?
  - Album pancakes at kelly's
- 25th
  - Post TEH PASHION OF TEH CHRITS!!11!1
- 26th
  - 9:32 a.m. Michael Howard tries to rid the Tory party of its racist scumbag image by sacking racist scumbag MP. Could be setting precedent for sacking the rest too.
- 27th
  - 6:41 p.m. Mitch and Dane - Gloria.sid. So much tune in only 8Kb.
  - 6:37 p.m. "Anyone get the feeling that we're about 17 minutes in the future? And when the next three tick by, it ain't gonna be pretty?"
  - 7:52 a.m. All in the name of science, honest.
- 28th
  - Post Size down, dumb down?
  - 7:58 a.m. Eek. I made a 'media' category.
March
- 2nd
  - Post Do you like scary rocks?
- 5th
  - 11:02 a.m. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. This is excellent. (via Memepool)
- 8th
  - Post LOTR DVD release timetable
- 9th
  - 3:06 p.m. Amazon has tons of books but hardly any hardbacks.
- 16th
  - Post Amiga dies, again
  - 10:36 a.m. Performance related pay for teachers. "But what about the bad teachers?!"
- 17th
  - 8:02 a.m. Tough on orcs, tough on the causes of orcs.
- 19th
  - 12:43 p.m. Hoho. NTK. It so funny. But I can play too.
- 20th
  - Post Starsky and Hutch and ants
- 22nd
  - 1:02 p.m. Why is Wicca a compact religion? Because every open coven has a finite subcoven. BA-DAH-BOOM-CHEE!
- 24th
  - Post When 12-year-olds attack
- 25th
  - 1:10 p.m. Advert on bus: "Volunteers wanted for wound healing experiment"
- 26th
  - Post Review: Dawn of the Dead
- 30th
  - Album lightning in ipanema
- 31st
  - Post Lightning
April
- 1st
  - Album apartment views, birthday
- 3rd
  - Album driving to rosa dos ventos
- 4th
  - Album horse riding at rosa dos ventos
  - Album rosa dos ventos and lake
- 5th
  - Album leaving rosa dos ventos
- 25th
  - Album university in spring
May
- 18th
  - Album new cf card
- 22nd
  - Post True Wisdom
- 24th
  - 8:55 a.m. Government-funded university project suggests subsistence hen-farming for doomed city dwellers. Aaaaargh!
- 29th
  - Post Gimpshopping attempt #1
  - Post The Unabomber is a Mathematician
June
- 1st
  - Post Dell Inspiron 8000 long term review
  - Post BBC categories
  - Post $BlackadderJoke
  - 2:53 p.m. France celebrates 60 years of peace - "Surface-to-air missiles have already been installed along the coastline."
- 3rd
  - Post Pound World
  - 12:45 p.m. Babylon 5 Series 2 is UKP30 cheaper at WH Smiths than HMV.
- 6th
  - Album harry potter and manchester and pool
- 13th
  - Album olympic torch
- 14th
  - Album lucy
- 15th
  - Album jardim botanico
- 16th
  - Post Michael Schumacher is the greatest environmentalist of all time
- 20th
  - Album corcovado
- 26th
  - Album chinese circus
July
- 6th
  - Album pousada tankamana
- 10th
  - Album tankamana, santarem and return journey
- 31st
  - Album sugarloaf climbing
  - Album various living room pics
August
- 6th
  - Album centro and harbour tour
- 18th
  - Album rio quente
- 21st
  - Album rio quente midweek and tennis
  - Album rio quente mountain climbing
- 23rd
  - Post Demoscene tunes
  - Post The Man in the High Castle
- 25th
  - Post Scooter racing
  - 9:27 a.m. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64638,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 The nature of the gaming timesink becomes clear
- 29th
  - Post Oil prices versus geek superheroes
- 31st
  - Album return from rio quente and experiments
September
- 2nd
  - Album sitio burle marx
- 3rd
  - Album centro, church, cafeteria colombo
  - 5:04 p.m. Alien vs. Predator was much better than I expected!
- 5th
  - Album rio zoo
- 6th
  - 11:24 a.m. http://james.lab6.com/2004/zoo/ Horrifying zoo sign
- 9th
  - Album copacabana fort
  - 8:48 a.m. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941187/ There's something about autonomous flesh digesting robots that seems like a bad idea...
- 12th
  - Post World's greatest phone number
- 13th
  - Album test
- 14th
- 20th
  - Album new camera
- 21st
  - Post Outdoor Window
  - Post "Blair's a Fool"
  - Post Middle-Rusholme
  - Post Not Wanted
  - Post I love vodka
  - Post HHGttG: Tertiary Phase
  - Album freshers fair day
- 24th
  - Album umist, quiz, manchester
  - 11:17 a.m. If all stories were written like science fiction stories
- 26th
  - Album keswick hike
- 28th
  - Album royal exchange theatre
  - 1:26 p.m. Punch-up at tomb of Jesus
- 29th
  - 11:51 a.m. The trouble with the internet is that you *very* quickly come to the point where you've heard it all before.
  - 9:17 a.m. Player of the century? Only 96 years until we find out...
October
- 2nd
  - 10:22 a.m. Heard: "Anchorman? Some kind of superhero?"
- 3rd
  - 10:03 a.m. Nice to see Kind Hearts and Coronets not being ignored for once
  - 10:02 a.m. The 1980s were worth it for this photo
  - 10:01 a.m. First peek at A380
- 4th
  - Post Kes at the theatre
  - Post Get the hell outta my car, old man!
- 5th
  - Post Screen Select
- 6th
  - Post Drugs
- 9th
  - 4:57 a.m. Opposition candidates arrested in USA. Go, two party dictatorship, go!
- 11th
  - 4:33 a.m. One of science's greatest spokesmen dies
- 15th
  - Post Cottage Cheese and Beetroot Sandwich Recipe
  - Album sandwich
- 16th
  - Post More fear mongering
  - Post Brain Implants!
  - Album squirrels and breakfast
- 19th
  - 1:23 p.m. I know what I want for Christmas
- 20th
  - 3:18 p.m. I've always said it: Gattaca is the best SF film of all time
- 21st
  - Post Geometry renamed
  - Album sky captain, DEH sky
- 24th
  - 6:40 a.m. More of this please
- 26th
  - Post Legends dropping at alarming rate
- 27th
  - Post Presenting your new reality
  - 5:56 a.m. I would just like to say that Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is every bit as great as people say.
- 28th
  - Post Mini-reviews of recent watchings
- 29th
  - Post An evening with Iain M. Banks
  - 9:07 a.m. Halloween Costumes
- 30th
  - Post See it before the americans!
November
- 1st
  - Post US Election 2004
- 2nd
  - Post Reason
- 3rd
  - Post NHS + Microsoft = You're feeling safer already!
  - Post Windows XP is no longer viable
  - 2:09 p.m. I imagine I'm late to the party, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the book, is quite good.
- 4th
  - Post China being clever again
- 5th
  - Album manchester and hall miscellany
- 7th
  - Post Slackers
  - 1:36 p.m. Nuclear waste kills
  - 12:40 p.m. Bush opponents literally killing themselves. Maybe Bush won in 2004 because too many Democrats killed themselves after 2000
- 9th
  - Post Geography for Chefs
- 10th
  - Post Must... protect... children!
  - Post Sim City: The C is for Communist!
- 11th
  - Post Death by Logic
- 12th
  - Post Intravenous gaming
- 13th
  - 8:47 a.m. Fractal Cabbage!
- 14th
  - Post The evil of borders
- 15th
  - Post *-bomber
  - 2:52 p.m. Today I had the lecture on which Greg Egan's Diaspora seems to be based!
- 16th
  - Post Mini-reviews of recent watchings
  - Post My lungs! The smoking ban - it does nothing!
  - Album random manchester and hall
  - 3:44 a.m. Soon they will build a casino so big it will destroy them all.
- 17th
  - Post Mathematics Defined
- 18th
  - Post Tesco spam
- 19th
  - Post The one you've all been waiting for: Reality TV
- 21st
  - Post UK zombie panic 2004
- 24th
  - 4:16 p.m. In the future, all photos will be haunted, as seen in The Ring.
- 25th
  - Album quiz, cinema, german market
- 26th
  - 1:28 p.m. Matti, who openly tells Nazi jokes in front of Germans, dissects Manchester.
  - 7:42 a.m. Computer disaster at the benefits office. Centralisation strikes again.
- 29th
  - Album ferris wheel in city centre
December
- 3rd
  - 11:53 a.m. Oops
- 4th
  - 4:44 a.m. "I hate manure."
- 5th
  - Post Delisting
- 8th
  - Post Blunkett vs. The Church
- 9th
  - Album hall miscellany
  - 1:55 p.m. Classic lecturer quote: It's unfair to use the word simple for simple groups, because in fact they are extraordinarily complicated.
  - 1:43 p.m. 253 - The Novel. I love the fact that there are other people around who do this kind of thing so I don't have to.
- 10th
  - 12:05 p.m. A remix of my why-24-hours-in-a-day post, thanks to Creative Commons.
- 11th
  - 1:23 p.m. The theory behind why all pop music sounds the same.
  - 5:36 a.m. There's a Fight Club game. And it's a beat'em'up. The horror.
- 14th
  - 3:47 p.m. Rapist on the loose. An interesting new way to deal with pedophiles. Let them loose, publicise their picture, and see who gets them first. You humans are psychotic.
  - 2:47 p.m. The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
- 17th
  - 4:02 p.m. The bus driver said it was a bomb scare.
  - 9:48 a.m. I love that there is an international French-speaking society whose name rhymes with cacophony.
- 18th
  - Post Immigrants vs. chemistry
- 19th
  - Album testing
- 21st
  - Album journey to cambridge, rio
- 26th
  - 8:45 a.m. Amidst the horror, it's cool to see that the second link on the BBC News main page is to write-in reports from non-journalists.
- 28th
  - Album lucy, ralph, christmas
- 30th
  - Album catacumba park, copacabana fort

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