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January
- 3rd
  - Album A kelly's back garden
  - Album B carringtons
- 4th
  - Album kelly's house and cats
- 5th
  - Album icy road
  - 7:37 p.m. Waiting in a car park. I don't like waiting.
  - 12:10 p.m. Enjoying the first season of Prison Break these days.
- 6th
  - Album posting daniel's birthday present
- 7th
  - Album putting baubles away
- 9th
  - Album at the carvery again
- 10th
  - Album A sort it centre
  - Album B aztec west lakes
- 14th
  - Album walk to the doctor's
  - 6:56 p.m. On volume 140 now.
- 15th
  - Album cupboard in shower room at work
- 16th
  - Album dinner at the hungry horse
- 17th
  - Album rhiannon on the settee
  - 2:47 p.m. Buying things we can't afford to eat.
- 18th
  - Album apple pie & soup
- 19th
  - Album tidy house
- 20th
  - 7:54 p.m. I used a CRT monitor today for the first time in at least 3 years.
- 21st
  - Album meeting in london
  - 12:48 p.m. Approaching Paddington.
- 22nd
  - Album meeting in manchester
  - 5:24 p.m. Plotting to take over the company.
- 23rd
  - Album dinner at bottelinos
- 24th
  - Album A rhiannon at parkway
  - Album B making vegetable soup
- 25th
  - Post Using xine to convert mods
  - Post Laserdisc: 1978-2009?
  - 6:16 p.m. Learning at a geometric rate.
- 26th
  - Album trip to leeds
- 27th
  - Album A the village hotel
  - Album B allianz office, mill house
- 28th
  - Album hotel room
- 29th
  - Album leaving horsforth
- 31st
  - Album A me with pizza boxes
  - Album B new tv
February
- 1st
  - Album walk and play in meade park
- 2nd
  - Album A train to peterborough in the snow
  - Album B playing in the snow
- 3rd
  - Album snowy morning
- 5th
  - Post Installing Python at work
  - Album commuting through the snow
- 6th
  - Album A aztec west closed
  - Album B walk to meet rhiannon
- 7th
  - Album long walk to cribbs
- 8th
  - Album snowcat
- 9th
  - Album pork chops for dinner
- 10th
  - Album cycling past snowy field
  - 1:11 p.m. You can never have too much sauce.
- 11th
  - Album bristol bus station
- 13th
  - Post Please help me find an uninsured driver
  - Album A premier inn yeovil
  - Album B dinner at the green room
- 14th
  - Album A breakfast, leaving premier inn
  - Album B fleet air arm museum
  - Album C lucy, ralph and settlers
- 15th
  - Album A settlers and illuminati
  - Album B walk on dunyeats heath
  - Album C lucy
  - Album D 88888 miles
- 17th
  - Album allianz broker conference, the stratford
  - 4:58 p.m. Surrounded by salespeople.
- 18th
  - Album A the stratford hotel
  - Album B mileage, rugby club
- 19th
  - Album return of the amaryllis
- 21st
  - Album A marwell zoo
  - Album B dinner at carnarvon arms
- 22nd
  - Album filthy flat
  - 4:35 p.m. I like the new Wordpress 2.7 admin interface. Yeah, I'm slow.
- 24th
  - Album A birthday dinner at sergios
  - Album B birthday cake
- 25th
  - Album back in the birmingham office
  - 6:29 p.m. Just logged into the real twitter and discovered I have 7 followers. What the hell?
  - 9:34 a.m. Being driven.
- 26th
  - Post Baby rental
  - Post Kubuntu is so bad it broke my monitor
  - Album A meeting rhiannon at parkway
  - Album B rhiannon's birthday presents
- 28th
  - Post How normal people browse the internet
  - Album guitar hero 3
March
- 2nd
  - Album waiting at the medical centre
- 4th
  - 9:40 a.m. How long it seems since I last praised the reception in here.
- 5th
  - Album moving desks at work
  - 6:27 p.m. On volume 204!
  - 9:09 a.m. It is important to have at least two workstreams at all times, else you might get stalled on one forever.
- 7th
  - Album house viewing expedition
  - 9:02 a.m. The Environment Agency's logo looks like Steam Hands Man.
- 8th
  - Album walk to the culvert
  - 1:18 p.m. True or false: gigapixels + crop = megapixels + zoom?
- 9th
  - Album walk to bus stop
  - 6:34 p.m. Awaiting acceptance.
- 10th
  - Album picking up rhiannon's cheque
  - 9:48 p.m. All excited about tying in a trip to Akademy in Belgium with our trip to Holland... then realised Belgium was 2008.
- 11th
  - Post The beautiful game
- 12th
  - 6:35 p.m. Accepted!!
  - 9:26 a.m. Should I stay or should I go?
- 13th
  - 1:30 p.m. Gazumped already :( Better earlier than later...
- 15th
  - Album A slimbridge
  - Album B wedding fayre at the barn
- 16th
  - Album garage in clifton
- 18th
  - 9:49 a.m. Performing well.
- 19th
  - Album walk from the mot testing station
  - 6:21 p.m. Our car passed its MOT without fuss! It'll be a classic next year.
- 20th
  - Album A redwood house
  - Album B the culvert sold
  - Album C arriving at the cottage
- 21st
  - Album A st ives
  - Album B walk back from carbis bay
  - Album C dinner back in st ives
- 22nd
  - Album A trengwainton garden
  - Album B sennen beach
  - 6:29 p.m. A cynic is someone who has spotted a pattern to the madness, but still doesn't know what to do about it.
- 23rd
  - Album in the doctor's waiting room
- 24th
  - 6:38 p.m. Despairing of the state of web photo gallery software, even after all these years.
- 25th
  - 6:39 p.m. In the mood for development.
- 27th
  - 6:28 p.m. Considering my anarchist roots.
- 28th
  - Post Babingatron
  - Album our tiny front garden
- 29th
  - Album cribbs retail park
- 30th
  - 8:28 a.m. Mario Sunshine: Â£1. Gamecube controller: Â£9.99. DVD gift box from game: -Â£1.99. Total: Â£9. Galaxy is so much better.
- 31st
  - Album A buy love get kiss free
  - Album B dave webber's retirement poster
April
- 1st
  - Album birthday, cabot circus
  - 8:51 a.m. My retirement plan is to preserve my earning capacity into old age.
- 2nd
  - Album my desk at work, printing
- 3rd
  - Album mortgage paperwork
  - 9:59 a.m. 'avin a scain on the mainframe!
- 4th
  - Post Fridge
  - Album return to tyntesfield
- 5th
  - Post Garage in constant use.
  - Post 4given
  - Album clevedon court
  - 2:32 p.m. Sitting on a hill.
- 6th
  - 10:48 a.m. Planning my trip to Cloudforce.
- 7th
  - Album cloudforce, london
- 8th
  - Album A flat from the outside
  - Album B cctv at the venue
- 10th
  - Album travel to holyhead
  - 6:53 p.m. Finally been somewhere worse than Lewis's flat. Holy crap.
  - 8:13 a.m. Lemminging it up to Wales.
- 11th
  - Album A fishing on vhs, sheep
  - Album B plas newydd
  - 6:21 p.m. Reading Matter.
- 12th
  - Album A lamb
  - Album B penrhyn castle
  - Album C llanberis
  - Album D jet on the trailer
- 13th
  - Album anglesey aluminium country
  - 11:29 a.m. Contemplating those with self-inflicted ailments.
- 14th
  - 5:12 p.m. Feeling like I've sold out because I missed the new episodes of Red Dwarf.
- 17th
  - 5:14 p.m. Giving blood.
- 18th
  - Album shopping in bristol
  - 4:16 p.m. Bought a CD from Dub FX on a street.
- 19th
  - Album spring cleaning
  - 10:29 p.m. Achieving a massive physical and digital spring clean.
- 21st
  - Post Mainframes, IBM, Microsoft and Google
  - Album tidy kitchen
- 22nd
  - Album train to guildford
- 23rd
  - Album A premier inn, guildford
  - Album B gho
  - 11:02 a.m. Infiltrating head office.
- 24th
  - Album A premier inn, balsall common
  - Album B working in birmingham
  - Album C rhiannon's freebies
  - Album D romantic dinner
  - 9:16 a.m. It's 2009 and I'm still fucking around with ethernet cables.
- 25th
  - Post Irony
  - Post Geocities: 1994-2009
  - 12:30 p.m. Enjoying Kubuntu 9.04. They're making amends for the disastrously premature migration to KDE 4.
- 26th
  - Album A brunel ford
  - Album B playing monopoly
- 27th
  - Album rainbow, medical centre
- 28th
  - Album making lunch
  - 12:49 p.m. For the first time in my life, I've found a printer I don't hate.
- 29th
  - 5:48 p.m. Received a stonking fat wodge of paper from our solicitor.
- 30th
  - 9:20 p.m. Watching Zool Amiga longplay on my phone in the car while waiting.
May
- 1st
  - Album lucy from below
  - 5:43 p.m. Thinking about persistence.
- 2nd
  - Album A breakfast with mum and ralph
  - Album B ashwood drive garden
  - Album C corfe castle
  - Album D swanage
- 3rd
  - Album A walk with ralph
  - Album B british isles jigsaw
  - Album C me and rhiannon in the mirror
  - Album D kingston lacy
  - Album E playing settlers
- 4th
  - Post Swine flu insurance
  - Album A very old radiator
  - Album B mezza luna, poole park
  - Album C lucy on the bed
  - Album D artifacts around the house
  - 11:02 a.m. "Friends of the sausage hospital"... 2 days late.
- 5th
  - Post RIP Fravia
  - 8:27 a.m. The shower queue returns.
- 6th
  - Post Unlimited star
  - 8:43 a.m. Anticipating a day of stress and negotiation.
- 8th
  - Album me under bubblewrap
- 9th
  - Album streets of bristol
- 10th
  - Album healthy and unhealthy dinners
  - 12:51 p.m. Lifestyling.
- 11th
  - Album on the way to the gym
- 12th
  - Post Thief 4 and Deus Ex 3 in development
  - Album retail strategy
  - 2:51 p.m. I have an immune system reaction to marketing people.
- 15th
  - Album train, dinner at richoux
- 16th
  - Album touring london
- 17th
  - Album breakfast, st. paul's, thames walk
- 19th
  - Post Bughunt
  - Post The telephone revolution
  - Album lift control panel
- 20th
  - 6:44 p.m. Watching Angels & Demons.
  - 1:23 p.m. Successfully deployed Django on Dreamhost!
- 21st
  - Post Data point
  - Album installing windows xp
- 22nd
  - Album preview buffet bar
- 23rd
  - Album A white goods shopping
- 24th
  - Album A ps3 shopping
  - Album B dad, luz, clifton, flavourz
- 25th
  - Album roman bath
- 27th
  - Album buffet for dst meeting
- 29th
  - Album A walk back from medical centre
  - Album B the house is ours
- 30th
  - Album moving house
- 31st
  - Album chinese at ashwood drive
June
- 1st
  - Album clearing the flat
- 2nd
  - Album plants in the car
- 3rd
  - Album packing and unpacking
  - 10:07 a.m. Moved house, living in glorious chaos.
- 4th
  - Album polling station
- 6th
  - Album breakfast at ikea, brazilian cafe
- 7th
  - Album babi on sofa
  - 9:37 a.m. What is the difference between alumni and alumnae? The first is masculine, the second is feminine.
- 9th
  - Album ian firth's retirement poster
  - 9:56 a.m. We completed on the same day it was announced that house prices are rising again.
- 11th
  - 9:31 a.m. Feeling that it would be wrong, in a personal development meeting, to state the exact date by which you want to be chief executive.
- 12th
  - Post Buying a house for the first time
- 13th
  - Album brick in bristol
- 14th
  - Album neat and tidy garden
- 15th
  - Post Recession is planned
  - Album dinner at coal, cabot circus
- 16th
  - Album A empty flat
  - Album B pizza and pasta in the house
  - 8:21 a.m. Inducting fellow showermates.
- 17th
  - 11:51 a.m. WD40 works on spiders too.
- 18th
  - 5:32 p.m. 7 days until exam.
- 19th
  - Album chinese with mum
- 20th
  - Album saturday in bristol
  - 11:23 p.m. Happy 10th birthday Lab 6!
- 21st
  - Album garden centre
- 23rd
  - Album A salesforce meeting in swindon
  - Album B b&q, repotting
- 24th
  - 12:02 p.m. text/html: sometimes you must take responsibility for problems that aren't your fault.
- 25th
  - Album empty garage, building chairs
  - 10:43 p.m. Tempted by the Nokia N97. Brain says wait for the N98.
- 26th
  - Album A empty flat
  - Album B strawberry meringues
- 27th
  - Album A brunch in bristol
  - Album B rhiannon sunbathing
- 29th
  - Album carluccios
July
- 2nd
  - Album waiting for the shower
- 3rd
  - Album picking up rhiannon from the doctors
- 4th
  - Post New Google Search Results Layout
  - Album bristol grot
- 5th
  - Album bath and thermae spa
- 9th
  - Album upgrading hard disks
- 11th
  - Album hinton grange hotel
- 12th
  - Post GiBs and GBs, TiBs and TBs
  - Post On the KDE to Gnome migration
  - Album deck plants, monopoly
- 15th
  - Album return to redwood house
- 17th
  - Album dinner at old orleans
- 18th
  - Album A ramada grange hotel
  - Album B vanessa mae
- 19th
  - Album sofa shopping
- 25th
  - Album A bath with kelly and bret
  - Album B severn beach walk
- 26th
  - Album last journey of rhiannon's car
- 27th
  - Album horsley park
- 28th
  - Album picking up the new car
- 29th
  - Album new car in the morning
August
- 1st
  - Album jools holland at dyrham park
- 2nd
  - Album walk in the nature reserve with ralph
- 8th
  - Album A rush, flight, train, arrival
  - Album B football in dam square
  - Album C first night in amsterdam
- 9th
  - Album A exploring amsterdam
  - Album B heineken experience
  - Album C back on the canal bus
- 10th
  - Album A canal bus blue line
  - Album B ajax arena
  - Album C bathtime, dinner
- 11th
  - Album bike tour of waterland
- 12th
  - Album museums, more heineken
  - 3:15 p.m. Starry Night is NOT in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
- 13th
  - Album A off to den haag
  - Album B scheveningen
  - Album C den haag at night
- 14th
  - Album A walk to den haag central
  - Album B duinrell
  - Album C dinner al fresco
- 15th
  - Album journey home
- 16th
  - Post Things that are so brilliant we barely notice them
- 22nd
  - Album new sofa, patchway, mum, go
- 23rd
  - Album mum taking the toyota
- 24th
  - Album homemade pizza
  - 9:38 a.m. Disappearing down the branching black hole of possibility.
- 29th
  - Album house on lon trefignath
- 30th
  - Album max, jet, myrddin's dessert
- 31st
  - Album little chef on the way home
  - 7:59 p.m. Eaten Little Chef food for the first time in at least 12 years. See you again in 2021.
September
- 1st
  - Album piccadilly gardens
- 3rd
  - 5:32 p.m. Knee deep in the data.
- 4th
  - Album lucky dragon chinese restaurant
- 5th
  - Post Frijj Cookie Dough Milkshakes
  - Album frijj cookie dough
  - 10:08 p.m. Reliable.
- 6th
  - Album frozen fish for tea
- 8th
  - Post Stupid adverts
- 11th
  - Album laser quest
- 12th
  - Album A lunch at ikea
  - Album B puppetry of the penis
  - 7:45 p.m. Watching Puppetry of the Penis.
- 13th
  - Post Product Placement
  - Album sofa up for sale
- 19th
  - Album dyrham park
- 20th
  - Album back at ikea for the desk
- 21st
  - Album toblerone
- 22nd
  - Album cats protection
- 25th
  - 5:34 p.m. Preparing for a horrifying weekend.
- 26th
  - Album kitten goodies
- 27th
  - Album fudge and splodge at kim's
  - 3:18 p.m. Eaten by Fudge. Watching Fame. All around me losing their heads.
- 30th
  - Post SAS lock-in
October
- 1st
  - Album bike on brick
- 2nd
  - Album fred and pebbles
- 3rd
  - Album kittens in the morning
- 4th
  - Album sleepy kittens
- 5th
  - 1:30 p.m. Sometimes a complete specification of the problem is equivalent to the solution.
- 7th
  - Album work, dinner
  - 6:03 p.m. Eating out instead of trying to wade through the traffic.
- 8th
  - Album more sleepy kittens
- 9th
  - Album even more sleepy kittens
- 10th
  - Album wrestling kittens
  - 4:01 p.m. Nothing is a waste of time if properly documented.
- 11th
  - Album savage's wood
- 12th
  - Album dinner for everybody
- 13th
  - 5:34 p.m. Team efforts are overrated. Great designs are usually the product of a single architect.
- 17th
  - Post Condescending digital photography workflow tips
  - Post Gmail vs Email
  - Post Top n demoscene tracks
  - Post Screenshot licensing
  - Post On naming mp3s
  - Post Juno, Balls of Fury, and the Camp Quality Curve
  - Post Getting Things Tidy with yearly folders
  - Post Ghost neighbourhood
  - Post Using email filters properly
  - Post NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRD
  - Post Quick review of the state of web photo sharing
  - Post Matter
  - Album A ram upgrade
  - Album B orienteering
  - 6:36 p.m. Inefficiency is redundancy.
- 18th
  - Album kitten playtime
- 20th
  - Album video of work
- 22nd
  - Album more kitten cuteness
- 23rd
  - Album thai tea
- 24th
  - Post A note on migrating from Wordpress to Django
  - Post Virgin Media Advanced Network Error Search
  - Album amaryllis, ralph
- 25th
  - Album hunting posts with ralph
- 30th
  - Post Playing Excel
  - Album owl prowl
- 31st
  - Album kittens outside, inbox
November
- 1st
  - Album A hair dye
  - Album B spectrangle
- 3rd
  - Album kittens playing
- 4th
  - Album fred and pebbles in the news
- 5th
  - Post Poking pivot tables
  - Album aztec west roundabout
- 7th
  - Album hardware shopping, sushi
  - 11:26 p.m. 10 working days left until my new job starts.
  - 10:55 p.m. Testing testing.
- 8th
  - Album more orienteering posts
  - 9:56 p.m. I'm never happier than when gardening on the web.
- 9th
  - Album back to leeds
  - 4:30 p.m. Back in Leeds. Before, I was the student. Now, I am the master.
- 10th
  - Album leeds commercial office
  - 2:34 p.m. Rushing home to see my sweetheart.
- 11th
  - Album home made sushi
- 13th
  - 10:13 p.m. Zack and Miri Make A Porno is good.
  - 5:07 p.m. The sum of my year's work so far: 883MB, zipped.
- 14th
  - Album pebbles
- 15th
  - Post A life of music
  - Album final orienteering session
- 16th
  - 1:59 p.m. Contract posted. Last week here. All that remains is to get into the time machine and go for it.
- 17th
  - Album fred and babi on the bed
- 20th
  - Album last day at work
- 21st
  - Post Tarka dall
- 22nd
  - Album fred in the box, dominoes
  - 1:12 p.m. My N95 is reborn!
- 23rd
  - 5:22 p.m. In at the deep end.
- 24th
  - Album walk to station, evening
  - 11:53 a.m. Going deeper. Armbands not required, drowning is the norm.
- 25th
  - Album walk from station, morning
  - 8:11 a.m. Real commuting.
- 26th
  - Album the long commute
- 27th
  - Album christmas dinner
  - 7:22 p.m. Working hard, playing hard.
- 28th
  - Album german market in bristol
- 29th
  - Post Some SQL
December
- 2nd
  - Album aylesbury office
- 3rd
  - Album avaya and iphone
- 4th
  - 4:39 p.m. Deparameterisation: the longest word I've ever used in a legitimate business context.
  - 12:39 p.m. Being an emergency knowledge extraction commando in hostile offices.
- 5th
  - Album diy and ice skating at the mall
- 6th
  - Album A kittens running free
  - Album B breen down
- 7th
  - 10:45 a.m. Weather conditions: umbrellacidal rainiac.
- 9th
  - Album holiday inn aylesbury
- 10th
  - Album A harbourside walk
  - Album B fred in the sink
- 11th
  - Album A foggy docks
  - Album B thai basil
- 12th
  - Album christmas tree shopping
- 13th
  - Post Outline of a content-aware compression scheme
  - Post Missing log files on Dreamhost
  - Album A cats curling on a coat
  - Album B decorated tree
- 14th
  - 8:09 a.m. Hey Monday morning.
- 16th
  - Album christmas starter
- 17th
  - 10:16 a.m. Using 1993-era gzip 1.2.4!?
- 18th
  - Album more thai in town
  - 5:01 p.m. Training home for christmas.
- 19th
  - Album netbook shopping
  - 9:19 p.m. Back at the American supper disco. Less music, more light, still hate everything.
- 20th
  - Album grandad's car, tumble dryer
- 21st
  - Album sas institute, long drive home
- 22nd
  - Album A snow at hotel, snow at sas
  - Album B bourne end
- 23rd
  - Album down to dorset
  - 7:45 p.m. 3 days at SAS Institute makes me want to work for them.
- 24th
  - Album christmas eve
- 25th
  - Album christmas day
- 26th
  - Album bladerunner helicopter
- 27th
  - 10:19 a.m. I saw the best minds of my generation feed their digital life into the one-way black hole of Facebook.
- 29th
  - Post Candy GOC58F
- 31st
  - Post AЯMA☭EDDOИ
  - Album last night out of the year
  - 8:05 p.m. Paranormal Activity is kind of scary.

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