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C64 games on Wii Virtual Console. The “abandonware” excuse will become harder to defend.

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The new EOS 450D only supports SD cards. Is this the beginning of the end for CompactFlash?

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Microsoft+Yahoo: The AOL+Time Warner of the 2000s IMHO.

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The Ugly Truth About Anonymity Online: “Hint: if you see a van with several antennas arranged in some geometric pattern on the roof, that would not be a positive development.”

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HOWTO make money from Free software: be MySQL and sell yourself to Sun for a cool billion.

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Gizmodo on what’s coming at Macworld 2008: “…it may be some kind of magic tablet…”

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Status

6:10am, 15th June 2008

Waiting in Bristol airport, keeping an eye out for terrorists.

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8:19pm, 12th June 2008

Scanning scanning scanning…

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5:14pm, 10th June 2008

Walking across the M5 sliproad.

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8:37am, 4th June 2008

Well done Obama! Now watch out for the Republican sniper bots…

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11:05am, 30th May 2008

New experience: opening an alarmed emergency exit and leading my team down the fire escape. Thrilling!

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5:37pm, 28th May 2008

On the train to Wembley to see England v USA!

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3:16pm, 22nd May 2008

They’ve installed a 6-digit alphanumeric password to the toilets in the city centre office, the madmen.

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11:08pm, 21st May 2008

Just watched Manchester United win the champions league.

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8:33am, 21st May 2008

I get the best reception in the third cubicle.

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8:39pm, 19th May 2008

Hot and stifling or cold and empty?

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5:46pm, 14th May 2008

Preparing for a long long drive to Anglesey.

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5:36pm, 13th May 2008

Wearing my hat for the first time this year.

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6:33pm, 4th May 2008

I proposed to Rhiannon today! :)

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8:03pm, 2nd May 2008

At a wedding!

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1:41pm, 27th April 2008

Having an eye test for the first time in about 2 years.

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12:41pm, 27th April 2008

Back in the city centre consuming…

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8:42pm, 25th April 2008

Walked into Game and just asked for a copy of Wii Fit and they had one!

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7:44pm, 24th April 2008

Avocado + Soy Sauce = Awesome!

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8:48pm, 20th April 2008

Editing a 1.8 million line file with vi.

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5:25pm, 20th April 2008

Bugfixing.

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10:33am, 19th April 2008

Located and bought Mario Kart Wii!

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2:34pm, 17th April 2008

We are all in constant communication with the future. Me especially.

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1:24pm, 15th April 2008

Making progress, in general.

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8:34am, 13th April 2008

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5…

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7:06pm, 11th April 2008

Apparently Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.

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8:49am, 11th April 2008

Holihalfday.

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4:24pm, 10th April 2008

Wondering when to spring a surprise…

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4:02pm, 9th April 2008

Went to work with no trousers on today!

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11:09am, 8th April 2008

We just had chicken fajitas as it turned out. Must try harder next time.

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4:19pm, 7th April 2008

Going to a mexican 40th birthday dinner. I have promised to try something new.

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6:32am, 7th April 2008

Waiting for the shower.

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2:10pm, 5th April 2008

At Lands End.

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1:57pm, 4th April 2008

Actual honest paid work!

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12:28pm, 1st April 2008

Wii fit!!

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12:28pm, 31st March 2008

Cold pasta.

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10:29pm, 26th March 2008

Worry is a disease. You are not born with it. You catch it. It can be cured.

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8:59am, 26th March 2008

Working for my car. Need to simplify.

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3:09pm, 23rd March 2008

Sitting on a hill in Cheddar eating a cookie in the sun.

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10:24am, 23rd March 2008

Going to Cheddar Gorge!

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9:04am, 22nd March 2008

Going to Megafobia!

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8:36pm, 20th March 2008

Scanning and sorting old receipts, ready for the shredder.

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3:16pm, 17th March 2008

Contemplating bendy men. The cleaners stole our old ones.

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1:53pm, 14th March 2008

Need a remote control…

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9:18pm, 12th March 2008

Bloody everybody has an N95. I’ve seen 12 or 13 in the wild just on a couple of weekends out.

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7:26am, 6th March 2008

Gettin’ on my bike.

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3:42pm, 2nd March 2008

Hypothesis: most photos taken on cellphones stay on cellphones and are lost when the handset is upgraded.

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7:51pm, 1st March 2008

Just participated in my first pitch invasion!

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4:54pm, 1st March 2008

In the terraces at Cardiff Arms Park!

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10:42am, 1st March 2008

Going to Cardiff.

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9:52am, 29th February 2008

Opera seems to be an order of magnitude faster than Firefox for executing certain Javascript.

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5:05pm, 27th February 2008

Wishing I could ride my bike to work.

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5:03pm, 26th February 2008

My ride’s in dry dock! Damned super secret companies.

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5:08pm, 22nd February 2008

Last time I recommended a Mac to someone was 1996, and it was probably a PowerMac 9500. Now it’s a MacBook.

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9:40am, 21st February 2008

Hypothesis: if some genres of music "all sound the same", then it should be possible to write a more efficient compressor for that genre.

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5:08pm, 20th February 2008

Going to see Juno.

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9:03am, 20th February 2008

Our post office/pharmacy never opens on time…

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4:11pm, 19th February 2008

Planning much driving.

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8:58pm, 17th February 2008

Bed time.

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5:13pm, 15th February 2008

Queuing to see Jordan at The Mall! Seriously.

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5:45pm, 13th February 2008

Not allowed to see something in tesco…

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11:58am, 12th February 2008

Knowing somebody’s phone number is now an indicator that you don’t know them that well.

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7:54pm, 8th February 2008

Heh. The ball of the foot is actually in a completely different place to where i’ve always thought it was.

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7:26pm, 8th February 2008

How do undersea cables cross rough terrain? Do they stretch across submarine gorges like rope bridges?

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12:22pm, 8th February 2008

I only ever seem to update this when i’m waiting for something, and this time i’m waiting for a train.

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9:11pm, 6th February 2008

England 1 - 0 Switzerland.

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6:32pm, 5th February 2008

Fantasising: Obama/Paul bipartisan ticket.

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10:01am, 5th February 2008

Does old tech get cheaper with time? Not necessarily. DDR1 is now about 3 times the price of DDR2.

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8:15pm, 4th February 2008

Eating raw chili peppers really does cure a headache.

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8:11pm, 4th February 2008

Watching the mad girl dance.

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5:03pm, 4th February 2008

40 minutes there, two hours back. Buses suck.

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9:08am, 4th February 2008

Getting the X73 into town. It’s cold.

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2:01pm, 3rd February 2008

Turning my back to the checkout so I don’t see my present…

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5:05pm, 1st February 2008

Waiting contentedly.

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4:36pm, 31st January 2008

Cashing seven years worth of pennies.

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9:49am, 31st January 2008

Car insurance is up for renewal. My current provider turns out to be the cheapest. Convenient or suspicious?

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5:03pm, 30th January 2008

Building an aspelund!

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3:06pm, 27th January 2008

Installing an EPSON DX4450 on Ubuntu 7.10. Wish me luck.

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11:03am, 27th January 2008

Missing the last set(s?) of djokovic vs tsonga…

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9:56am, 26th January 2008

Testing updates from tinytwitter.

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3:15pm, 24th January 2008

Enjoying the sun after 3 solid weeks of grey.

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5:58pm, 23rd January 2008

Off to see Balls of Fury. Hmm.

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3:20pm, 23rd January 2008

Wrestling PHP.

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9:27am, 23rd January 2008

Why can’t you put envelopes in the recycling bag? Is it the glue?

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2:48pm, 22nd January 2008

Waiting for the gas man. GAS MAN! GAS MAN! GAS MAN!

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4:40pm, 16th January 2008

Going to buy newspapers. My god, has it come to this?

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4:35pm, 15th January 2008

Fretting.

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3:16pm, 11th January 2008

Testing new features!

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