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January
- 1st
  - Album new year's night
  - 6:42 p.m. Testing my regexps for Y2K10 problems.
- 2nd
  - Album ice shadow
- 3rd
  - Album severn circular walk
- 4th
  - 11:25 a.m. Cold. -6C freezing fog cold.
- 5th
  - 12:55 p.m. Loving computing. Hating computers.
- 6th
  - Album trudging through the big freeze
  - 10:33 a.m. Mainframes need to die NOW.
- 7th
  - Album A the big freeze continues
  - Album B delayed trains, second christmas
  - 10:53 a.m. Sunny and pretty... but -8C.
- 9th
  - Album derby vs scunthorpe
  - 4:06 p.m. Watching Derby lose.
- 10th
  - Album premier inn ripley, leaving
- 11th
  - 5:33 p.m. On PaCE AOM. In n+1th gear.
- 13th
  - Post IT infrastructure will be outsourced to employees
  - 8:37 a.m. I am listening to The Journey. The universe is a function of one variable: me.
- 15th
  - Album digital photo frame
  - 12:50 p.m. SAS have sent me another helicopter!
- 18th
  - 8:32 p.m. Everything I do is right, except the things I don't think about...
  - 8:14 a.m. Excited about work!
- 19th
  - 12:23 p.m. Running out of disk space. Unbelievable.
- 20th
  - Album prince of persia
  - 7:53 p.m. Queueing for Avatar.
- 21st
  - 8:24 a.m. Avatar was amazing!
- 22nd
  - 3:53 p.m. Almost squished by a careless lorry near Sandbach...
- 23rd
  - Album A garage loft clearing
  - Album B segontium
  - Album C caernarfon castle
- 25th
  - 5:35 p.m. Planning a new box for the first time since 2005!
- 26th
  - 8:27 a.m. Cold again.
- 27th
  - Post Avatar: Aliens vs Titanic for real
  - Album blue hoardings
- 28th
  - Album crowne plaza, marlow
  - 9:02 a.m. Back at SAS, on the macro course.
- 29th
  - Album new pc, first components
- 30th
  - 6 p.m. Seemingly accumulating the world's largest collection of car park photos...
February
- 4th
  - Album pc building
  - 11:34 p.m. Got a Dell 3008wfp. My eyes aren't good enough for this thing.
- 5th
  - Album new pc in action
  - 5:07 p.m. Building a Javascript debugger in Javascript in IE6.
- 6th
  - Album biohazard, opensuse
- 7th
  - Album fence damage, cuties
  - 11:16 p.m. Still got one foot in the future... but the future keeps moving too.
- 9th
  - Album aylesbury town
- 10th
  - Album hotel room, naughty fred
- 13th
  - Album clean car, at cribbs
- 14th
  - Album dell 3008wfp
  - 4:29 p.m. Fixed a 4 year old bug in my CSS. Perfectionism is addictive and debilitating.
- 15th
  - 12:38 p.m. Done my first interview.
- 17th
  - Album risotto
  - 10:40 a.m. History: to live through change and remember what it was like before.
  - 8:08 a.m. Staying upbeat on a rainy Wednesday morning is a competitive advantage!
- 19th
  - Album A harbourside walk
  - Album B grain barge
  - 5:37 p.m. Scaining!
- 20th
  - Album cats in the window
- 22nd
  - Album A lightly snowy commute
  - Album B fred, pebbles, ben, jerry
- 24th
  - Album planes, trains and automobiles
  - 11:49 a.m. Roming.
- 25th
  - Album A rome by bus
  - Album B rome by foot
- 26th
  - Album A vatican city
  - Album B spanish steps, trevi
- 27th
  - Album A ancient rome
  - Album B trastevere
  - Album C historic rome, protest
  - Album D villa borghese
- 28th
  - Album journey home
March
- 1st
  - 9:12 a.m. Deleting Attachments. One by one.
- 2nd
  - 5:39 p.m. This light makes me feel like I left work early.
- 3rd
  - 3:44 p.m. Building a case for Free software in the enterprise.
- 4th
  - 5:09 p.m. Making things do things they were never built to do.
- 6th
  - Album cat portraits
- 7th
  - Album dual screen supreme commander
- 8th
  - 8:54 p.m. "IT" is a framework in which people can do computer work without having any interest in computers.
- 11th
  - Album vans on trains
- 12th
  - Album toby carvery
  - 9:27 p.m. Potential performance is valued higher than actual performance; the Next Big Thing is actually the Current Big Thing.
- 13th
  - Post 100Gbps fiber considered harmful
  - Post How to not get hired for a web job
  - 6:36 p.m. Doing a bit of well-needed system dev.
- 15th
  - Album bt infinity
- 16th
  - Album professional shopping
- 19th
  - Album morning walk
- 20th
  - Album dinner in dorset
- 21st
  - Album cows on dunyeats heath
  - Album lucy and ralph
- 22nd
  - Album astronomical signpost
- 23rd
  - 1:11 p.m. My memory is not what it used to be. Soon this blog will be more me than I am.
- 25th
  - 8:18 a.m. Don't let your employment interfere with your work.
- 27th
  - Album bristol fashion week
  - 12:27 p.m. Ran 3 miles for the first time ever.
- 28th
  - 3:45 p.m. Poking my fingers into the Machine.
April
- 1st
  - Album back at grain barge
  - 8:13 a.m. You got to ro-oh-ohl with the punches, and learn to warp steel.
- 2nd
  - Album eos 550d
- 3rd
  - Album cats in the wash
- 4th
  - Album A test subjects
  - Album B batheaston
  - Album C bradford on avon
- 5th
  - 6:59 p.m. Executing 16MiB of mkdir and cp commands takes longer than you'd think.
- 6th
  - Post Credit Card Illuminati
- 7th
  - Post How to get free petrol from supermarkets
- 9th
  - Post The Abbatoir
  - Album random bristol
  - Album rhiannon and the rose
- 10th
  - Album A fred and pebbles out and about
  - Album B painting
- 12th
  - Album harbourside spring
  - 5:56 p.m. Cracking, enlightenment, magic: to work one level of abstraction below the opposition.
- 14th
  - Post Random error
- 16th
  - Album red celosia
- 17th
  - Album A diy, repotting
  - Album B sunset walk
- 18th
  - Album pre-painting
- 19th
  - Album hazy town centre
- 22nd
  - Album A media circus
  - 4 p.m. Today I won an election, campaigning under the name Bob.
- 23rd
  - Album media circus aftermath
  - 9:41 a.m. Karmic Accounting: Happiness = Creation - Consumption.
- 24th
  - Post Notes from recent system dev
- 25th
  - Album post-painting
- 26th
  - 11:19 p.m. FlashForward + Antikythera Mechanism = impending cascading mysteries failure, X-Files style, I fear.
- 27th
  - Post The BNP is not a hate party
  - 7:29 p.m. Acoustomorphism alert: The XX - Intro ≈ Toumani Diabaté - Tapha Niang
- 28th
  - 11:34 a.m. Teach the method, not the conclusion.
- 30th
  - Album solicitor, spooky wood
May
- 1st
  - Album A holyhead breakwater
  - Album B the maw of chaos
  - 5:52 p.m. Back in the Maw of Chaos.
- 4th
  - Album A people's hustings
  - Album B negative campaigning
  - 8:40 a.m. Blogging is dead. Everybody has gone to Facebook. Personal publishing remains though.
- 5th
  - Post Conversation models
- 6th
  - Album bristol resistance
  - 7:50 a.m. Judging people by what they have done more than by what they haven't done.
- 7th
  - 8:10 a.m. It's anarchy! Yet somehow life goes on.
- 10th
  - Album colston hall
- 11th
  - Album fred in the tree
- 12th
  - 9:28 a.m. Simplicity patterns.
- 14th
  - Album mexican
- 15th
  - 2:13 p.m. Acoustomorphism: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head ≈ Lemmings 2 Sports Tribe!
- 16th
  - Album swings
- 17th
  - Post Appreciating Openness
- 18th
  - 1:23 p.m. The trick is to stay on top of the rubble.
- 21st
  - 4:11 p.m. 2006 was a deeply grim year.
- 23rd
  - Album sunny day with bread
- 24th
  - Album bright harbourside
- 25th
  - Post Withdrawal
- 27th
  - Album cookies
  - 8:31 a.m. Hunkering up.
- 28th
  - Album in search of flowers
- 29th
  - Album meringue
- 30th
  - Album roast, sports, roof
- 31st
  - 11:42 a.m. Doing Data Quality.
June
- 2nd
  - Album yamaha f310 unboxing
  - 8:11 p.m. Watching Sex and the City 2.
- 3rd
  - 8:09 a.m. Marriage procedural.
- 4th
  - Album england flags
  - 10:49 a.m. Mmmm... coconut and chlorine.
- 5th
  - Post FlashForward
  - Post The SAS Base Certification Exam
- 7th
  - Album cats, graffiti
- 9th
  - 2:22 p.m. Met her date her serve her.
- 10th
  - Album suv wagons
- 11th
  - Album football in bristol
- 13th
  - Album community festival with ralph
  - Album windowsill miscellany
- 15th
  - 8:10 a.m. Loving Super Mario Galaxy 2.
- 16th
  - Album dust
- 18th
  - Album queen square signage
- 19th
  - Album flight to rio
- 20th
  - Album A midnight sushi
  - Album B apartment under construction
  - Album C drive to the fazenda
  - Album D at the johnson farm
  - 6:05 a.m. Living without windows, literally, no capital W.
- 21st
  - Album A farm grounds
  - Album B areal, petropolis, quitandinha
- 22nd
  - Album leblon, beach, puppy
  - 10:12 p.m. A life spent reading will well prepare you to start living perfectly.
- 23rd
  - Album leblon, zoe, sheikh
- 24th
  - Album A urca and sugarloaf
  - Album B fifa fan fest
- 25th
  - Album zoe and babi
- 26th
  - Album A prainha, barra da guaratiba
  - Album B downtown, citta america
- 27th
  - Album germany 4 - 1 england
- 28th
  - Album lagoa rodrigo de freitas
- 29th
  - Post Face recognition login in Windows 8
  - Album A apartifacts
  - Album B cristo redentor
- 30th
  - Album A forte de copacabana
  - Album B arpoador
July
- 1st
  - Album maracana
- 2nd
  - Album A more apartifacts
  - Album B proposal
- 3rd
  - Album A jardim botanico
  - Album B ipanema viewpoint
  - 12:45 p.m. Very interested in data entry.
- 6th
  - 5:30 p.m. Bristol still smells of pasties.
- 7th
  - Album staff memo
  - 9:34 p.m. Engineering is Theory's siege engine against Reality.
- 9th
  - Album ullesthorpe court
- 10th
  - Album stuart and charlotte's wedding
  - 11:50 p.m. Wedding blino.
- 12th
  - 11:28 p.m. Mario Galaxy 2: 71 stars.
- 13th
  - 5:45 p.m. The vocabulary of 21st century manual labour: "cranking Excel".
- 14th
  - Album htc desire
- 15th
  - 12:54 p.m. Need to refocus on creation.
- 17th
  - Album A work, grillstock
  - Album B bluereef aquarium
  - Album C walk home
  - 10:25 a.m. Working on a Saturday!?!
- 18th
  - Album grey weston
- 21st
  - Album carved bench
  - 5:06 p.m. Planning for ticket efficiency.
  - 8:19 a.m. 14323 untagged photos. The project continues.
- 24th
  - Album upgrading opensuse
- 25th
  - Album car boot sale
- 27th
  - Post Decision 2010: iPhone 4 vs HTC Desire
- 28th
  - Post Taste, Intelligence and Boredom
  - Album household misc
- 29th
  - Album festival prep
- 30th
  - Album festival market
- 31st
  - Album A bristol harbour festival
  - Album B bristol city 2 - 0 blackpool
  - Album C walk back through the festival
August
- 1st
  - Album cookies
- 2nd
  - Album festival aftermath
- 3rd
  - 9:44 a.m. Regardless of feasibility, constant growth is a necessary goal.
- 4th
  - 7:58 p.m. Winner > Loser > Spectator
- 5th
  - Album willow brook chores
- 6th
  - Album sleeve towers
- 7th
  - Album A burnley 1 - 0 nottingham forest
  - Album B out in manchester
- 8th
  - Album salford quays centenary walk
  - 2:36 p.m. Trying to want to learn to love statistics.
- 10th
  - Album anniversary dinner
  - 11:47 p.m. 20th century : buying a house :: 21st century : using Debian stable.
- 13th
  - Album vet
- 15th
  - 6:16 p.m. Getting my house in order.
- 16th
  - Album babis
  - 8:17 a.m. Missed the balloon fiesta again. Maybe next year.
- 17th
  - Album abandoned hotel
- 18th
  - 10:04 p.m. Second in the fantasy football league!
- 21st
  - Album A steffie and breakwater park
  - Album B crusaders 10 - 36 st helens
  - 3:17 p.m. So happy that chiptunes have become mainstream. On BBC Cymru anyway.
- 22nd
  - Album trearddur bay
- 24th
  - 9:22 a.m. Date set.
- 27th
  - Album night out at planet pizza
  - 8:27 a.m. Transformers 2: mostly just bits flying around.
- 28th
  - Album fence building
- 29th
  - Album cycling into work
- 30th
  - Album sunny bank holiday
September
- 1st
  - 8:31 p.m. Longest day so far.
- 3rd
  - Album england 4 - 0 bulgaria
- 4th
  - Post Using Amazon EC2 in the UK
  - Album bathroom
- 5th
  - Album A train to berne
  - Album B evening walk round berne
- 6th
  - Album A berne munster
  - Album B afternoon walk round berne
  - Album C berne at night
- 7th
  - Album A basel munster
  - Album B switzerland 1 - 3 england
- 8th
  - Album A leaving basel
  - Album B first day in geneva
- 9th
  - Album A jet d'eau
  - Album B league of nations
  - Album C geneva at night
- 10th
  - Album A cern
  - Album B geneva lakeside
- 17th
  - Album dragon boat racing
- 18th
  - Post RIP Cuil
- 19th
  - 5:48 p.m. Pushing back the boundaries of hard work.
- 22nd
  - Post It's Never Easy
- 24th
  - Album desk decoration
- 25th
  - Album burnley 0 - 0 bristol city
  - 7:18 p.m. Out in Harrogate.
- 26th
  - Album leaving harrogate, grandad
  - 8:13 p.m. 480 mile weekend.
October
- 1st
  - 8:19 a.m. What romcom do they enjoy at Japanese life assurance firms? Love Actuary.
- 2nd
  - Album the animals in dorset
- 3rd
  - Album A home artifacts
  - Album B jazz cafe, sandbanks
- 6th
  - Album uwe map
- 7th
  - Post How to sum the size of selected files
- 11th
  - Album bank reflection
- 14th
  - Album back to the future
- 16th
  - Album signs at the mall
- 17th
  - Album cats in the window
- 18th
  - 5:03 p.m. Heroism is not just about spending a week climbing Everest. It's also about spending fifty years providing for your family.
- 20th
  - Album A unchanging harbourside
  - Album B uwe compsci
- 21st
  - Album graffiti, long fred
- 22nd
  - Album home after pizza and pasta
- 23rd
  - Post Great Scott
  - Album anti-cuts rally
- 24th
  - Post On Priorities
  - Post Home Taping
  - Post Further thoughts on the HTC Desire
  - 6:44 p.m. Bad idea: multi-driver cars. Steers based on the average input of all drivers.
- 29th
  - 6:39 p.m. What do you do when a sauce owes you flavour? Send in the bay leafs.
- 30th
  - Post Amazon EC2 reserved instances are not worth it
- 31st
  - Album weekly artifacts
November
- 5th
  - Album the sound of music
- 7th
  - 11:52 a.m. Acoustomorphism: Air - Left Bank ≈ The Wicker Man Soundtrack - Willow's Song
- 9th
  - 8:15 p.m. Today's overhead indictment of modernity: "I put my divorce on my credit card"
- 11th
  - Album bowling
- 13th
  - Post Never use regular expressions to enforce type
  - Post Chinese Remainder Theorem
- 14th
  - Album laundry time
- 15th
  - Album new attractions
- 16th
  - Album illegal parking
- 20th
  - Album walking-speed run
- 21st
  - Album love
- 24th
  - Album ef-s 17-55 f2.8 is usm
- 25th
  - Album pace reward outing
- 26th
  - Album snow, harvester
- 27th
  - Album the big freeze returns
- 29th
  - Album furballs
- 30th
  - Album pure frost
December
- 1st
  - Album fast food, bright lights
- 3rd
  - Album frozen harbour
- 6th
  - 3:49 p.m. So how does releasing a list of assets considered important to US security promote transparency and accountability in government?
- 9th
  - Album freezing week
  - 3:05 p.m. Hot, lava-temperature ice is possible, at 1GPa+!
- 12th
  - 6:02 p.m. Completed Bioshock.
- 13th
  - 8:28 p.m. MANOVA bored.
- 14th
  - 10:50 p.m. The two-tailed t-value hits!
- 17th
  - Album working week
- 18th
  - Album first proper snow
  - 10:41 p.m. Who will be first to win the Saturday night double? X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing?
- 20th
  - Album snowy office
- 21st
  - 10:24 p.m. The perfectly wise man remains silent, indistinguishable from one who never lived at all.
- 23rd
  - Post Bioshock
  - Album cats in snow
- 25th
  - Album christmas in anglesey
- 26th
  - Album ice cold shore walk
  - 11:22 a.m. In Welsh, there is an I in team.
- 29th
  - Album bristol city christmas
- 30th
  - 1:49 p.m. Acoustomorphism: Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster ≈ Monkey Island incidental music.

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