JL6

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January
- 1st
  - Album Unsorted
  - 1:06 a.m. Standing at the centre of the galaxy (roundabout), watching the red giants (chinese lanterns).
- 7th
  - 4:56 p.m. Really impressed by the Dabs returns process.
- 8th
  - Post Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000: function keys won't work
  - 4:52 p.m. Shreddin' like the FSA are comin'.
- 9th
  - Post Lazy years
  - Album offices
- 11th
  - Album halifax, briefly
- 12th
  - 10:52 p.m. Inception awesome.
  - 5:46 p.m. Information Engineering.
- 14th
  - 10:25 a.m. Happiness: being grateful for what you have, and not being resentful for what you don't.
- 15th
  - 7:03 a.m. When water freezes, it expands. So when prices freeze, do they go up?
- 22nd
  - Post How to get the Gobble Gobble achievement in GTA4
- 27th
  - 10:13 a.m. As a species, our abilities in statistical and economic analysis far outstrip the quality of our data. GIGO.
- 30th
  - Post The Litterer Strikes Again
  - Album dark january
February
- 3rd
  - Album leroy's leaving dinner
- 5th
  - Album long walk round patchway
- 12th
  - Post Just checking: software is still awful
  - Album complaining in town
  - 10:10 a.m. When you're young, it's the metal. When you're old, it's the energy.
- 17th
  - Post Celebrity Masterchef Junior Australia: The Professionals
  - Album lillies
- 19th
  - Album vampire pebbles and flowers
- 20th
  - 10:14 a.m. Perhaps the perfect joke can only be understood by one other person.
  - 8:37 a.m. Mobile FireFox for Android is quite cool. Still buggy in beta though...
- 24th
  - Album blue planet birthday
  - 6:43 p.m. The piano is the command line of instruments.
- 25th
  - Album abersoch
- 26th
  - Album new sofa in the new conservatory
- 28th
  - 6:46 p.m. "You're not human, you're a parsing machine"
March
- 1st
  - 8:16 p.m. 100 days uptime.
- 5th
  - Post British Passport Application
  - 10:23 a.m. I Love You Phillip Morris, 8/10.
- 11th
  - Album weekly artifacts
- 12th
  - 10:14 p.m. Nine: no rating; actually turned it off 30 minutes in.
  - 10:12 p.m. G.I. Joe, 2.5/10.
  - 10:10 p.m. Fantastic Mr Fox, 7.5/10.
- 13th
  - 11:46 a.m. On a mission to destroy hate and negativity!
- 18th
  - Album skypephone miscellany
- 19th
  - Post Clock drift on Amazon EC2
  - Album bristol city 2 - 0 burnley
  - 11:24 a.m. Into the top 18000 on Stackoverflow. Whoah!
- 22nd
  - Post Worse than worst
  - Post Datetimes in naïve cameras
  - Post Built-in version control in Windows 8
  - Post Body Clock
  - 9:45 a.m. On course for a billion hits by the year 2350!
- 26th
  - Post Random inaccuracy in Google Latitude
  - Album wales 0 - 2 england
- 31st
  - 6:05 p.m. Windows XP still dominates the commuter trains.
  - 8:20 a.m. Last day I can reasonably round down.
April
- 4th
  - 10:20 p.m. Extract: 7.3/10.
  - 10:20 p.m. Hot Tub Time Machine: 6.5/10. Yes, it's better than you think.
  - 10:18 p.m. Deer Hunter: 5/10.
- 5th
  - 9:16 p.m. Bolt: 6/10. "Every minute I'm with you is the new greatest minute of my life."
- 6th
  - Album sunshine hits the streets
  - 4:59 p.m. Enterprise Wisdom: A problem isn't a problem if it's definitely somebody else's fault.
  - 1:49 p.m. Terminology: "diary-buster meeting"
- 7th
  - 11:09 p.m. 11905 untagged photos. Might be finished by 2015!
- 9th
  - Post Rio: The Movie
  - Album bristol high streets
- 13th
  - Post Efficient logging using Django and Apache
  - 9:40 p.m. A manager is anybody with more work to do than time to do it in.
- 16th
  - Album suits and ralph at sunset
- 17th
  - Album ralph and bluebells in the woods
- 24th
  - 12:42 p.m. Action in film should be used like punctuation in text, not like the American nasal drone in speech.
- 25th
  - 2:28 p.m. You've played too much Portal 2 when: the female announcer on the leisure centre tannoy worries you.
- 26th
  - Album easter, rings, sofa-less garage
  - 12:33 a.m. Fast Five: 4/10. Featuring two of the world's most muscley, beefed up cables.
- 28th
  - Album A puzzlewood
  - Album B symonds yat
- 30th
  - Album in town for shoes
  - 8:34 p.m. The invitation font is SIL open font licensed, and the guest list is in third normal form.
May
- 1st
  - Album invitations
- 2nd
  - Album berkeley castle
  - 10:54 p.m. Law Abiding Citizen: 4.5/10. Pointless violence.
- 8th
  - 2:37 p.m. Portal 2 co-op on the PS3 is solvable by one player using two controllers! Only had to use my feet once.
- 11th
  - Album post-exam celebration
- 12th
  - 9:30 a.m. Math is like taking the elevator down to the basement of the universe. You get to see what holds everything up, you meet things you never knew existed, and it's less crowded.
- 14th
  - Album swim and chores
  - 7:32 p.m. Get Him To The Greek: 3/10. I feel drunk. Kinda psycho-funny.
- 17th
  - 9:07 a.m. IQ sets your top speed and gives you a head start, but says nothing about motivation, willpower, stamina, or character - all essential components of victory.
- 20th
  - Album zero degrees and burritos
- 21st
  - Album weekend working
- 22nd
  - 6:12 p.m. Pirates of the Caribbean 4: 3/10. Boring, unsparkling, shameless. The points are for the voodoo.
- 26th
  - 8:15 a.m. Reggae Reggae pizza gooooooooood.
- 28th
  - Album mark's 30th
- 29th
  - Album A trafford centre
  - Album B salford quays, university
  - 10:32 a.m. Limits at 5 miles: knees, pins and needles in feet.
- 30th
  - Album A man utd trophy parade
  - Album B rhyl
- 31st
  - Album cath's 60th
June
- 1st
  - Album holyhead mountain
  - 1:01 p.m. Mental energy accounting: favours are free, but compromises will run out.
- 2nd
  - Album great orme
- 3rd
  - Album burnley
- 4th
  - Album england 2 - 2 switzerland
  - 10 p.m. "There's one born every minute" - evidence that this is a gross underestimate can be gathered by observing camera flash use at stadia.
- 5th
  - Post Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- 9th
  - 3:49 p.m. Seniority: measured as the length of time you can slack off before anybody notices.
- 10th
  - Album thermal lance
  - 8:37 a.m. Bitcoin is already a success if only for forcing people to confront their understanding of what money is.
- 11th
  - Album 6024 king edward i
- 12th
  - Album bradley stoke 10k
  - 7:27 p.m. Manhunter: 8/10. Style and substance. Pacy and clever.
  - 5:22 p.m. Nerd archaeological joy: typing screen -dRR and reconnecting to an ancient yet pristine session.
  - 3:47 p.m. 1h 5m 27s. Must do better.
- 14th
  - 8:15 p.m. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: 5/10. Would have watched this 12 years ago, but it's 10 years old.
- 16th
  - 9:12 p.m. Priscilla Queen of the Desert: 4/10. Looks good, sad on the inside.
  - 9:11 p.m. The Back-up Plan: 0/10. Fully redundant.
- 18th
  - Album still alive party
  - 8:18 a.m. The Karate Kid 2010: 4/10. Jacket off hurr durr.
- 24th
  - Album foodies
- 25th
  - 12:32 p.m. Salt: 6/10: Not likely.
- 28th
  - 8:09 p.m. 5 in 3 years. Doesn't get much better than this.
July
August
- 5th
  - 11 p.m. Recovering...
  - 8:35 a.m. The Lovely Bones: 4.5/10. Good fantasy, good suspense, but it's one of those overexposed pastel Tragic Life Stories; recreational grief.
- 6th
  - Post Disaster recovery from ephemeral datastores
  - Album final gorillas
  - 3:49 p.m. Investigating timestamps...
- 7th
  - 11:46 p.m. Coneheads: 2.5/10. I remember seeing this in a video rental shop 15+ years ago. There always seemed to be something better to rent. Now confirmed.
- 9th
  - 9:34 p.m. Declare marital law!
- 10th
  - 11:32 p.m. Caramel coffee pep pill.
- 13th
  - Album A pre-wedding build-up
  - Album B wedding
- 14th
  - Album aftermath
- 15th
  - Album flying to las vegas
  - midnight The Social Network: 8/10. Accurate haxxoring, good baddies, and bad goodies.
  - midnight Harry Potter 7 part 1: 2/10. Just get on with it.
- 16th
  - Album A wynn las vegas
  - Album B the strip
- 17th
  - Album A the strip by day
  - Album B downtown vegas, strip by night
- 18th
  - Album A leaving las vegas
  - Album B san diego sunset walk
- 19th
  - Album seaworld
- 20th
  - Album A san diego zoo
  - Album B la galaxy 2 - 0 san jose earthquakes
- 21st
  - Album A santa monica boulevard
  - Album B universal studios
- 22nd
  - Album A leaving santa monica
  - Album B disneyland
- 23rd
  - Album A apple farm
  - Album B pacific coast
- 24th
  - Album 17-mile drive
- 25th
  - Album yosemite
- 26th
  - Album A across california
  - Album B evening in sacramento
- 27th
  - Album A downtown sacramento
  - Album B wine country
- 28th
  - Album streets of san francisco
- 29th
  - Album golden gate loop
- 30th
  - Album alcatraz
- 31st
  - Album nob hill and wharfs
September
- 8th
  - 11:06 p.m. Tron Legacy: 8/10. Eight out of ten for eighties love.
- 13th
  - 10:34 a.m. The Illuminati conspiracy model of control is broken. Having shares in a company does not give you fingers on the keyboard of a root console.
- 16th
  - 11:13 p.m. Jackass 3D: 1/10. Not really a film. More of a YouTube video.
  - 11:11 p.m. Burke & Hare: 4/10. Not sold on sort-of-true stories. Neither here nor there.
- 17th
  - 10:33 p.m. Eat Pray Love: 2/10. Trite Pretentious Shit. Nice food though.
- 18th
- 21st
  - 9:31 p.m. Body of Lies: 3/10. Ungripping. Too soon. Better off reading the news.
  - 9:30 p.m. When Harry Met Sally: 5.5/10. Puts modern romcoms to shame.
  - 9:29 p.m. Bronson: 7.5/10. Exciting. Like Clockwork.
- 23rd
  - Album dorset, graffiti, derelicts
  - 11:03 p.m. The Joneses: 5/10. Good idea, average execution. A better synopsis than film. Add a point if you stop watching 60 seconds before the end.
- 24th
  - Album alex and di's wedding
- 25th
  - Album goodbye gorillas
  - 8:40 a.m. Lots of spiders at Canada Lake Lodge.
- 30th
  - Album weeklies
October
- 1st
  - Album A castell coch
  - Album B llandaff cathedral
  - Album C st fagins
- 2nd
  - Album A weston pier
  - Album B burnham pier
- 3rd
  - Album C clevedon pier
- 5th
  - 8:54 a.m. Toy Story 3: 4/10. Watched a while ago. It did not stay with me.
- 7th
  - Album weeklies
- 8th
  - Album gloucester road
- 9th
  - 10:35 a.m. Occupy Wall Street: First they came for the 1%...
- 10th
  - 7:55 a.m. Herbert West - Re-Animator: Apparently I started my Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft ebook with the worst one.
- 11th
  - 8:32 p.m. LVM is amazing! How have I spent so much time doing volume management without it?
- 12th
  - 10:57 p.m. Bram Stoker's Dracula: 4.5/10. So serious, so cheesy. Obvious why so many have tried to do better - but generally failed.
- 13th
  - 10:12 p.m. Cemetery Junction: 7.5/10. Nicely done, good writing, worth watching... once.
- 14th
  - 8:19 p.m. REALLY looking forward to the generation raised on Siri who are forced to make their speech precise and actionable!
  - 8:18 a.m. 42 people in the O2 4S queue by 7:58am.
- 15th
  - Album park and ride to bristol
  - 5:44 p.m. Successful in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10.
- 16th
  - 8:58 p.m. Portal 2 Peer Review also eminently completable with one player cranking both controllers!
- 18th
  - Album occupy bristol
  - 8:37 p.m. The Colour Out of Space: Brilliant, and so short it's dead easy to justify investing in reading it.
- 21st
  - 4:59 p.m. No pain, no publications.
- 22nd
  - Album gloucester
November
- 2nd
  - 6:38 p.m. What do you do when nobody knows what to do?
- 4th
  - 10:46 p.m. Tintin: 8/10. This is more like it! Young Indiana Jones in the Canny Valley.
  - 10:43 p.m. Alice in Wonderland: 3/10. For a story about imagination, this leaves nothing to the imagination.
- 10th
  - 9:29 p.m. Going the Distance: 1/10. Nothing new or interesting at all.
- 15th
  - 10:28 p.m. Zoom H2n: First impressions impressive.
  - 11:28 a.m. Windows 7 is a tool whose primary purpose is to locate, download, and install updates to Windows 7.
  - 11:02 a.m. Ah the joys of reinstallation, boot partitions and flaky hardware.
- 19th
  - 10:33 p.m. Vampire Bollocks Part 4a: 1/10. Wedding procedural with no new material.1 point for Brian Clough.
  - 6:25 p.m. Up: 7.5/10. Suspension of disbelief.
- 21st
  - 8:22 a.m. Paranoia: evenly spacing your PIN entry beeps to defeat information leaks via audio side-channel.
December
- 7th
  - 9:02 p.m. Why are pirates careful about their trademarks? They just ®.
- 28th
  - 1:54 p.m. Gmail 22% full after 6 years.

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