Layer violation enables innovation. Layer obedience enables quality.
(#)Prometheus: 5.8/10. Some baaaaaaaad science here.
(#)Iron Man 3: 7.7/10. Recalibrate the ISDNs!
(#)Broadband last mile ≈ Virtual Reality last millimetre. It's here in all but the final delivery technology.
(#)Scary Movie 5: 2.5/10. The roman numerals in the title guarantee a sixth.
(#)Men in Black 3: 4.5/10. Now that's what I used to talk about.
(#)The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: 3/10. Saw it years ago and apparently forgot nearly all of it. Must be the disappointment.
(#)Still no 5TB hard drives, still no stable btrfs, still no fibre broadband. Is the world slowing down?
(#)3.5 years, £32.
(#)Naming things really is hard.
(#)Wreck-it Ralph: 8.5/10. Faithful and beautiful.
(#)Argo: 7.5/10. Tense.
(#)Paranormal Activity 2: 5/10. Repeat.
(#)Rango: 8/10. Incredibly crafted. Get a 4K TV.
(#)The Artist: 7.9/10. Worth persevering.
(#)Music notation is just a very precise Gantt chart. Time to work on a mpp2midi utility...
(#)Hugo: 7/10. Surprisingly true.
(#)The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.: 7/10. Luxuriant.
(#)The Dictator: 3.5/10. Only a few more jokes than in the trailer, and quite nasty.
(#)Johnny English Reborn: 2.5/10. Waits for laughs.
(#)The Hobbit (HFR 3D): 7.8/10. Can't argue with more Rings, but HFR ultra-realism is for live sports and video games.
(#)Viva Forever: 1/10. Cash-in.
(#)What To Expect When You're Expecting: 2/10. Product placement, apparently.
(#)Bitcoin block reward halving success. Sustaining 30Th/sec.
(#)The Inbetweeners Movie: 7.7/10. A good implementation of the Kevin and Perry spec.
(#)Twilight 4.2: 5/10. Not actively bad, just passively totally what you expect.
(#)Liston: an individual item on a list.
(#)650KiB/s uploads on a train!
(#)Mad Max: 5.5/10. An ugly film but Carmageddon wouldn't exist without it.
(#)Skyfall: 8/10. Practically a clip show but a damn fine one.
(#)Killers: 1.5/10. Totally unnecessary. Really adds nothing to anything.
(#)Pretty disappointed by the instability of Ubuntu 12.10.
(#)All instances of Conway's Game of Life take place on the same grid, but separated by such great distance that they simply haven't met yet.
(#)Red Dwarf X: Trojan. This, on the other hand, was fantastic! Perhaps low expectations are the key.
(#)Red Dwarf: Back to Earth: 3/10. Painfully self-conscious, empty and fanservish. Then it goes and downgrades parody to imitation, and again to Family-Guy-esque acting out scenes and lines from Blade Runner. All would be forgiven if it were more than slightly funny.
(#)Homeland is good; new Red Dwarf tonight!
(#)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: 8.1/10. Could change about 5% of the scenes and lines and make an awesome Bond film.
(#)Super 8: 7.9/10. Finely crafted by professionals but genre-bound.
(#)The Hangover Part 2: 5/10. "Let's make the same film again, then people can give us their money again!"
(#)Unpatched kernel = cast 250+ days uptime to the wind.
(#)Harry Potter 7 part 1: recap viewing: still 2/10. Just fast-forward to the animation.
(#)Capitalist e-Buddhism: To alleviate oneself of all physical possessions, whilst becoming absurdly rich in digital possessions.
(#)Captain America: The First Avenger: 5.5/10. Better as part of the Marvel series.
(#)Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe: 1/10. What hipsters did before blogging each other.
(#)The Dark Knight Rises: 7.9/10. Bain!
(#)You strike like a dairy farmer!
(#)Beavis & Butthead Do America: 2.5/10. Hasn't aged with its audience.
(#)If a lifetime is 100 years, a Full HD recording at a bitrate of 44Mbit/sec would be about 16.5 PiB. Only three orders of magnitude above consumer accessibility.
(#)The Adjustment Bureau: 7/10. Good stuff, but maybe too explicit to be truly perturbing.
(#)Friends With Benefits: 4/10. This advert will not date well.
(#)SciFi DB design: CREATE TABLE person (name INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (name) );
(#)A photo is just a bookmark in life's video.
(#)Rain stopped play.
(#)Thor: 7.5/10. Epic! Heimdall 2: Into the Hall of Worlds.
(#)Having a data modeling learning experience.
(#)Siri doesn't understand the audio commands off the iPhone 4S advert when held in front of the TV.
(#)Grass, clay and hardcourt OUT. Puddle, snail and tripwire IN.
(#)Time to buy Bitcoins, Spaniards!
(#)Nooooooreng.
(#)Acoustomorphism: Vampire Weekend - White Sky ≈ Paul Simon - Crazy Love.
(#)What does my pet radioactive millionth-scale corvid emit to get your attention? My-crow-waves!
(#)What do radioactive chickens emit? Eggs-rays.
(#)What do radioactive pigs emit? Gammon rays.
(#)SCAM: singer, celebrity, actress, model.
(#)Senna: 8/10. Gripping, though morbid given that everybody knows what's going to happen.
(#)Faster: 5.5/10. Well executed.
(#)The Lord of the Rings 1978: 3/10. Fascinating in the light of the modern films. But desperately lacking in budget, scope and technology.
(#)1TB online: Dropbox $795/yr, Ubuntu One $1500/yr, Raw AWS EBS $1200/yr. Google waiting in the wings.
(#)From Paris With Love: 7/10. Muslims BAD, women BAD, guns GOOD, violence GOOD, John Travolta ego trip FUN!
(#)Sister Act at the Hippodrome: 2/10. A bit funny, mostly showtunes stereotypes.
(#)Can you imagine a gravy mars bar? I can.
(#)The Rock: 8.5/10. Still awesome.
(#)Running taking all my time and energy and spelling.
(#)Roundabout still the best view in town. This year, video Skype chat.
(#)Gmail 22% full after 6 years.
(#)Why are pirates careful about their trademarks? They just ®.
(#)Paranoia: evenly spacing your PIN entry beeps to defeat information leaks via audio side-channel.
(#)Vampire Bollocks Part 4a: 1/10. Wedding procedural with no new material.1 point for Brian Clough.
(#)Up: 7.5/10. Suspension of disbelief.
(#)Zoom H2n: First impressions impressive.
(#)Windows 7 is a tool whose primary purpose is to locate, download, and install updates to Windows 7.
(#)Ah the joys of reinstallation, boot partitions and flaky hardware.
(#)Going the Distance: 1/10. Nothing new or interesting at all.
(#)Tintin: 8/10. This is more like it! Young Indiana Jones in the Canny Valley.
(#)Alice in Wonderland: 3/10. For a story about imagination, this leaves nothing to the imagination.
(#)What do you do when nobody knows what to do?
(#)No pain, no publications.
(#)The Colour Out of Space: Brilliant, and so short it's dead easy to justify investing in reading it.
(#)Portal 2 Peer Review also eminently completable with one player cranking both controllers!
(#)Successful in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10.
(#)REALLY looking forward to the generation raised on Siri who are forced to make their speech precise and actionable!
(#)42 people in the O2 4S queue by 7:58am.
(#)Cemetery Junction: 7.5/10. Nicely done, good writing, worth watching... once.
(#)Bram Stoker's Dracula: 4.5/10. So serious, so cheesy. Obvious why so many have tried to do better - but generally failed.
(#)LVM is amazing! How have I spent so much time doing volume management without it?
(#)Herbert West - Re-Animator: Apparently I started my Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft ebook with the worst one.
(#)Occupy Wall Street: First they came for the 1%...
(#)Toy Story 3: 4/10. Watched a while ago. It did not stay with me.
(#)Lots of spiders at Canada Lake Lodge.
(#)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.
(#)Body of Lies: 3/10. Ungripping. Too soon. Better off reading the news.
(#)When Harry Met Sally: 5.5/10. Puts modern romcoms to shame.
(#)Bronson: 7.5/10. Exciting. Like Clockwork.
(#)District 9: 7.5/10. Very cool first half, successfully builds wonder, but does not quite develop its universe.
(#)2108 wedding and honeymoon photos, 22.6GiB.
(#)Turning point: when you realise you have already downloaded all the music you can possibly listen to in one lifetime, and that therefore new music is not necessary.
(#)Eat Pray Love: 2/10. Trite Pretentious Shit. Nice food though.
(#)Jackass 3D: 1/10. Not really a film. More of a YouTube video.
(#)Burke & Hare: 4/10. Not sold on sort-of-true stories. Neither here nor there.
(#)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.
(#)Tron Legacy: 8/10. Eight out of ten for eighties love.
(#)Harry Potter 7 part 1: 2/10. Just get on with it.
(#)The Social Network: 8/10. Accurate haxxoring, good baddies, and bad goodies.
(#)Caramel coffee pep pill.
(#)Declare marital law!
(#)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.
(#)Investigating timestamps...
(#)Recovering...
(#)The Lovely Bones: 4.5/10. Good fantasy, good suspense, but it's one of those overexposed pastel Tragic Life Stories; recreational grief.
(#)Cloverfield: 6/10. This is a Müller Fruit Corner yoghurt. They took the plot out and put it online, so you have to go and look it up yourself. It's a good package overall, once you've put the fruit back into the yoghurt, but I dock it a point for making me jump through hoops...
(#)Possibility paralysis again.
(#)Shaft (2000): 3/10. Violence is OK if you're cool.
(#)The Boat That Rocked: 6.5/10. The right setup for the greatest anarcho-comedy of all time, but it's diluted by drama. Story's made up anyway so why not make up something better?
(#)Zombieland: 4/10. A competent zombie horror mash, but incongruity is not comedy.
(#)Sex Drive: 3/10. Follows the recipe to the letter, but gets there in the end.
(#)Office Space: 5/10. Good, but superseded by Fight Club and The Office.
(#)Risky Business: 7/10. Came for the Tangerine Dream, was not disappointed. Half the marks are for the soundtrack. Watched in two stints with a 3 month gap between.
(#)Iron Man 2: 4/10. Cool techno-effects, but these are just robots smashing at each other without consequence.
(#)Knight and Day: 2/10. Stupid Tesco Value action filler.
(#)Moon: 6.5/10. So much potential. Slightly amateurish. Fails to sell itself. Maybe I just need to see it again, but I feel a director's cut or version 1.1 would help.
(#)A 1000Mbps leased line costs £53,675.20 per year, plus £4,856 setup.
(#)Grown-ups: 3/10. Hugely mild and unexceptional; competent but never gets going.
(#)Bad Teacher: 3/10. No class.
(#)Climbing hand in hand.
(#)Scott Pilgrim vs The World: 7.5/10. One big gimmick - but it's a good one.
(#)The A-Team: 3/10. Generic milporn fan service.
(#)Rear Window: 8/10. Classics are classics for a reason.
(#)5 in 3 years. Doesn't get much better than this.
(#)Salt: 6/10: Not likely.
(#)The Karate Kid 2010: 4/10. Jacket off hurr durr.
(#)Priscilla Queen of the Desert: 4/10. Looks good, sad on the inside.
(#)The Back-up Plan: 0/10. Fully redundant.
(#)Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: 5/10. Would have watched this 12 years ago, but it's 10 years old.
(#)Manhunter: 8/10. Style and substance. Pacy and clever.
(#)Nerd archaeological joy: typing screen -dRR and reconnecting to an ancient yet pristine session.
(#)1h 5m 27s. Must do better.
(#)Bitcoin is already a success if only for forcing people to confront their understanding of what money is.
(#)Seniority: measured as the length of time you can slack off before anybody notices.
(#)"There's one born every minute" - evidence that this is a gross underestimate can be gathered by observing camera flash use at stadia.
(#)Mental energy accounting: favours are free, but compromises will run out.
(#)Limits at 5 miles: knees, pins and needles in feet.
(#)Reggae Reggae pizza gooooooooood.
(#)Pirates of the Caribbean 4: 3/10. Boring, unsparkling, shameless. The points are for the voodoo.
(#)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.
(#)Get Him To The Greek: 3/10. I feel drunk. Kinda psycho-funny.
(#)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.
(#)Portal 2 co-op on the PS3 is solvable by one player using two controllers! Only had to use my feet once.
(#)Law Abiding Citizen: 4.5/10. Pointless violence.
(#)The invitation font is SIL open font licensed, and the guest list is in third normal form.
(#)Fast Five: 4/10. Featuring two of the world's most muscley, beefed up cables.
(#)You've played too much Portal 2 when: the female announcer on the leisure centre tannoy worries you.
(#)Action in film should be used like punctuation in text, not like the American nasal drone in speech.
(#)A manager is anybody with more work to do than time to do it in.
(#)11905 untagged photos. Might be finished by 2015!
(#)Enterprise Wisdom: A problem isn't a problem if it's definitely somebody else's fault.
(#)Terminology: "diary-buster meeting"
(#)Bolt: 6/10. "Every minute I'm with you is the new greatest minute of my life."
(#)Extract: 7.3/10.
(#)Hot Tub Time Machine: 6.5/10. Yes, it's better than you think.
(#)Deer Hunter: 5/10.
(#)Windows XP still dominates the commuter trains.
(#)Last day I can reasonably round down.
(#)On course for a billion hits by the year 2350!
(#)Into the top 18000 on Stackoverflow. Whoah!
(#)On a mission to destroy hate and negativity!
(#)Nine: no rating; actually turned it off 30 minutes in.
(#)G.I. Joe, 2.5/10.
(#)Fantastic Mr Fox, 7.5/10.
(#)I Love You Phillip Morris, 8/10.
(#)100 days uptime.
(#)"You're not human, you're a parsing machine"
(#)The piano is the command line of instruments.
(#)Perhaps the perfect joke can only be understood by one other person.
(#)Mobile FireFox for Android is quite cool. Still buggy in beta though...
(#)When you're young, it's the metal. When you're old, it's the energy.
(#)As a species, our abilities in statistical and economic analysis far outstrip the quality of our data. GIGO.
(#)When water freezes, it expands. So when prices freeze, do they go up?
(#)Happiness: being grateful for what you have, and not being resentful for what you don't.
(#)Inception awesome.
(#)Information Engineering.
(#)Shreddin' like the FSA are comin'.
(#)Really impressed by the Dabs returns process.
(#)Standing at the centre of the galaxy (roundabout), watching the red giants (chinese lanterns).
(#)Acoustomorphism: Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster ≈ Monkey Island incidental music.
(#)In Welsh, there is an I in team.
(#)The perfectly wise man remains silent, indistinguishable from one who never lived at all.
(#)Who will be first to win the Saturday night double? X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing?
(#)The two-tailed t-value hits!
(#)MANOVA bored.
(#)Completed Bioshock.
(#)So how does releasing a list of assets considered important to US security promote transparency and accountability in government?
(#)Today's overhead indictment of modernity: "I put my divorce on my credit card"
(#)Acoustomorphism: Air - Left Bank ≈ The Wicker Man Soundtrack - Willow's Song
(#)What do you do when a sauce owes you flavour? Send in the bay leafs.
(#)Bad idea: multi-driver cars. Steers based on the average input of all drivers.
(#)Heroism is not just about spending a week climbing Everest. It's also about spending fifty years providing for your family.
(#)What romcom do they enjoy at Japanese life assurance firms? Love Actuary.
(#)480 mile weekend.
(#)Out in Harrogate.
(#)Pushing back the boundaries of hard work.
(#)Longest day so far.
(#)Transformers 2: mostly just bits flying around.
(#)Date set.
(#)So happy that chiptunes have become mainstream. On BBC Cymru anyway.
(#)Second in the fantasy football league!
(#)Missed the balloon fiesta again. Maybe next year.
(#)Getting my house in order.
(#)20th century : buying a house :: 21st century : using Debian stable.
(#)Trying to want to learn to love statistics.
(#)Winner > Loser > Spectator
(#)Regardless of feasibility, constant growth is a necessary goal.
(#)Planning for ticket efficiency.
(#)14323 untagged photos. The project continues.
(#)Working on a Saturday!?!
(#)Need to refocus on creation.
(#)The vocabulary of 21st century manual labour: "cranking Excel".
(#)Mario Galaxy 2: 71 stars.
(#)Wedding blino.
(#)Engineering is Theory's siege engine against Reality.
(#)Bristol still smells of pasties.
(#)Very interested in data entry.
(#)A life spent reading will well prepare you to start living perfectly.
(#)Living without windows, literally, no capital W.
(#)Loving Super Mario Galaxy 2.
(#)Met her date her serve her.
(#)Mmmm... coconut and chlorine.
(#)Marriage procedural.
(#)Watching Sex and the City 2.
(#)Doing Data Quality.
(#)Hunkering up.
(#)2006 was a deeply grim year.
(#)The trick is to stay on top of the rubble.
(#)Acoustomorphism: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head ≈ Lemmings 2 Sports Tribe!
(#)Simplicity patterns.
(#)It's anarchy! Yet somehow life goes on.
(#)Judging people by what they have done more than by what they haven't done.
(#)Blogging is dead. Everybody has gone to Facebook. Personal publishing remains though.
(#)Back in the Maw of Chaos.
(#)Teach the method, not the conclusion.
(#)Acoustomorphism alert: The XX - Intro ≈ Toumani Diabaté - Tapha Niang
(#)FlashForward + Antikythera Mechanism = impending cascading mysteries failure, X-Files style, I fear.
(#)Karmic Accounting: Happiness = Creation - Consumption.
(#)Today I won an election, campaigning under the name Bob.
(#)Cracking, enlightenment, magic: to work one level of abstraction below the opposition.
(#)Executing 16MiB of mkdir and cp commands takes longer than you'd think.
(#)You got to ro-oh-ohl with the punches, and learn to warp steel.
(#)Poking my fingers into the Machine.
(#)Ran 3 miles for the first time ever.
(#)Don't let your employment interfere with your work.
(#)My memory is not what it used to be. Soon this blog will be more me than I am.
(#)Doing a bit of well-needed system dev.
(#)Potential performance is valued higher than actual performance; the Next Big Thing is actually the Current Big Thing.
(#)"IT" is a framework in which people can do computer work without having any interest in computers.
(#)Making things do things they were never built to do.
(#)Building a case for Free software in the enterprise.
(#)This light makes me feel like I left work early.
(#)Deleting Attachments. One by one.
(#)Roming.
(#)Scaining!
(#)History: to live through change and remember what it was like before.
(#)Staying upbeat on a rainy Wednesday morning is a competitive advantage!
(#)Done my first interview.
(#)Fixed a 4 year old bug in my CSS. Perfectionism is addictive and debilitating.
(#)Still got one foot in the future... but the future keeps moving too.
(#)Building a Javascript debugger in Javascript in IE6.
(#)Got a Dell 3008wfp. My eyes aren't good enough for this thing.
(#)Seemingly accumulating the world's largest collection of car park photos...
(#)Back at SAS, on the macro course.
(#)Cold again.
(#)Planning a new box for the first time since 2005!
(#)Almost squished by a careless lorry near Sandbach...
(#)Avatar was amazing!
(#)Queueing for Avatar.
(#)Running out of disk space. Unbelievable.
(#)Everything I do is right, except the things I don't think about...
(#)Excited about work!
(#)SAS have sent me another helicopter!
(#)I am listening to The Journey. The universe is a function of one variable: me.
(#)On PaCE AOM. In n+1th gear.
(#)Watching Derby lose.
(#)Sunny and pretty... but -8C.
(#)Mainframes need to die NOW.
(#)Loving computing. Hating computers.
(#)Cold. -6C freezing fog cold.
(#)Testing my regexps for Y2K10 problems.
(#)Paranormal Activity is kind of scary.
(#)I saw the best minds of my generation feed their digital life into the one-way black hole of Facebook.
(#)3 days at SAS Institute makes me want to work for them.
(#)Back at the American supper disco. Less music, more light, still hate everything.
(#)Training home for christmas.
(#)Using 1993-era gzip 1.2.4!?
(#)Hey Monday morning.
(#)Weather conditions: umbrellacidal rainiac.
(#)Deparameterisation: the longest word I've ever used in a legitimate business context.
(#)Being an emergency knowledge extraction commando in hostile offices.
(#)Working hard, playing hard.
(#)Real commuting.
(#)Going deeper. Armbands not required, drowning is the norm.
(#)In at the deep end.
(#)My N95 is reborn!
(#)Contract posted. Last week here. All that remains is to get into the time machine and go for it.
(#)Zack and Miri Make A Porno is good.
(#)The sum of my year's work so far: 883MB, zipped.
(#)Rushing home to see my sweetheart.
(#)Back in Leeds. Before, I was the student. Now, I am the master.
(#)I'm never happier than when gardening on the web.
(#)10 working days left until my new job starts.
(#)Testing testing.
(#)Inefficiency is redundancy.
(#)Team efforts are overrated. Great designs are usually the product of a single architect.
(#)Nothing is a waste of time if properly documented.
(#)Eating out instead of trying to wade through the traffic.
(#)Sometimes a complete specification of the problem is equivalent to the solution.
(#)Eaten by Fudge. Watching Fame. All around me losing their heads.
(#)Preparing for a horrifying weekend.
(#)Watching Puppetry of the Penis.
(#)Reliable.
(#)Knee deep in the data.
(#)Eaten Little Chef food for the first time in at least 12 years. See you again in 2021.
(#)Disappearing down the branching black hole of possibility.
(#)Starry Night is NOT in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
(#)Tempted by the Nokia N97. Brain says wait for the N98.
(#)text/html: sometimes you must take responsibility for problems that aren't your fault.
(#)Happy 10th birthday Lab 6!
(#)7 days until exam.
(#)WD40 works on spiders too.
(#)Inducting fellow showermates.
(#)Feeling that it would be wrong, in a personal development meeting, to state the exact date by which you want to be chief executive.
(#)We completed on the same day it was announced that house prices are rising again.
(#)What is the difference between alumni and alumnae? The first is masculine, the second is feminine.
(#)Moved house, living in glorious chaos.
(#)Watching Angels & Demons.
(#)Successfully deployed Django on Dreamhost!
(#)I have an immune system reaction to marketing people.
(#)Lifestyling.
(#)Anticipating a day of stress and negotiation.
(#)The shower queue returns.
(#)"Friends of the sausage hospital"... 2 days late.
(#)Thinking about persistence.
(#)Watching Zool Amiga longplay on my phone in the car while waiting.
(#)Received a stonking fat wodge of paper from our solicitor.
(#)For the first time in my life, I've found a printer I don't hate.
(#)Enjoying Kubuntu 9.04. They're making amends for the disastrously premature migration to KDE 4.
(#)It's 2009 and I'm still fucking around with ethernet cables.
(#)Infiltrating head office.
(#)Achieving a massive physical and digital spring clean.
(#)Bought a CD from Dub FX on a street.
(#)Giving blood.
(#)Feeling like I've sold out because I missed the new episodes of Red Dwarf.
(#)Contemplating those with self-inflicted ailments.
(#)Reading Matter.
(#)Finally been somewhere worse than Lewis's flat. Holy crap.
(#)Lemminging it up to Wales.
(#)Planning my trip to Cloudforce.
(#)Sitting on a hill.
(#)'avin a scain on the mainframe!
(#)My retirement plan is to preserve my earning capacity into old age.
(#)Mario Sunshine: £1. Gamecube controller: £9.99. DVD gift box from game: -£1.99. Total: £9. Galaxy is so much better.
(#)Considering my anarchist roots.
(#)In the mood for development.
(#)Despairing of the state of web photo gallery software, even after all these years.
(#)A cynic is someone who has spotted a pattern to the madness, but still doesn't know what to do about it.
(#)Our car passed its MOT without fuss! It'll be a classic next year.
(#)Performing well.
(#)Gazumped already :( Better earlier than later...
(#)Accepted!!
(#)Should I stay or should I go?
(#)All excited about tying in a trip to Akademy in Belgium with our trip to Holland... then realised Belgium was 2008.
(#)Awaiting acceptance.
(#)True or false: gigapixels + crop = megapixels + zoom?
(#)The Environment Agency's logo looks like Steam Hands Man.
(#)On volume 204!
(#)It is important to have at least two workstreams at all times, else you might get stalled on one forever.
(#)How long it seems since I last praised the reception in here.
(#)Just logged into the real twitter and discovered I have 7 followers. What the hell?
(#)Being driven.
(#)I like the new Wordpress 2.7 admin interface. Yeah, I'm slow.
(#)Surrounded by salespeople.
(#)You can never have too much sauce.
(#)Learning at a geometric rate.
(#)Plotting to take over the company.
(#)Approaching Paddington.
(#)I used a CRT monitor today for the first time in at least 3 years.
(#)Buying things we can't afford to eat.
(#)On volume 140 now.
(#)Waiting in a car park. I don't like waiting.
(#)Enjoying the first season of Prison Break these days.
(#)Tagging photos. I've fallen way behind. Approx 23,537 to go.
(#)Uploaded 79 volumes.
(#)Suffering from man flu. No less than two days before an interview!
(#)Mmmm... steak and ale pie.
(#)At an American Supper Disco. I fucking hate everything.
(#)Dealing with accounts nonsense. Pay your bills on time you deadbeats.
(#)Passed my mock Foundation exam on day 0 of the training without any actual training! :)
(#)Made our first offer on a house.
(#)Just played Sonic 1 on a PS2. Old games are hard and rubbish.
(#)Uploading Volume 43.
(#)Waiting in Bristol airport, keeping an eye out for terrorists.
(#)Scanning scanning scanning...
(#)Walking across the M5 sliproad.
(#)Well done Obama! Now watch out for the Republican sniper bots...
(#)New experience: opening an alarmed emergency exit and leading my team down the fire escape. Thrilling!
(#)On the train to Wembley to see England v USA!
(#)They've installed a 6-digit alphanumeric password to the toilets in the city centre office, the madmen.
(#)Just watched Manchester United win the champions league.
(#)I get the best reception in the third cubicle.
(#)Hot and stifling or cold and empty?
(#)Preparing for a long long drive to Anglesey.
(#)Wearing my hat for the first time this year.
(#)I proposed to Rhiannon today! :)
(#)At a wedding!
(#)Having an eye test for the first time in about 2 years.
(#)Back in the city centre consuming...
(#)Walked into Game and just asked for a copy of Wii Fit and they had one!
(#)Avocado + Soy Sauce = Awesome!
(#)Editing a 1.8 million line file with vi.
(#)Bugfixing.
(#)Located and bought Mario Kart Wii!
(#)We are all in constant communication with the future. Me especially.
(#)Making progress, in general.
(#)Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5...
(#)Apparently Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
(#)Holihalfday.
(#)Wondering when to spring a surprise...
(#)Went to work with no trousers on today!
(#)We just had chicken fajitas as it turned out. Must try harder next time.
(#)Going to a mexican 40th birthday dinner. I have promised to try something new.
(#)Waiting for the shower.
(#)At Lands End.
(#)Actual honest paid work!
(#)Wii fit!!
(#)Cold pasta.
(#)Worry is a disease. You are not born with it. You catch it. It can be cured.
(#)Working for my car. Need to simplify.
(#)Sitting on a hill in Cheddar eating a cookie in the sun.
(#)Going to Cheddar Gorge!
(#)Going to Megafobia!
(#)Scanning and sorting old receipts, ready for the shredder.
(#)Contemplating bendy men. The cleaners stole our old ones.
(#)Need a remote control...
(#)Bloody everybody has an N95. I've seen 12 or 13 in the wild just on a couple of weekends out.
(#)Gettin' on my bike.
(#)Hypothesis: most photos taken on cellphones stay on cellphones and are lost when the handset is upgraded.
(#)Just participated in my first pitch invasion!
(#)In the terraces at Cardiff Arms Park!
(#)Going to Cardiff.
(#)Opera seems to be an order of magnitude faster than Firefox for executing certain Javascript.
(#)Wishing I could ride my bike to work.
(#)My ride's in dry dock! Damned super secret companies.
(#)Last time I recommended a Mac to someone was 1996, and it was probably a PowerMac 9500. Now it's a MacBook.
(#)C64 games on Wii Virtual Console. The "abandonware" excuse will become harder to defend.
(#)Hypothesis: if some genres of music "all sound the same", then it should be possible to write a more efficient compressor for that genre.
(#)Going to see Juno.
(#)Our post office/pharmacy never opens on time...
(#)Planning much driving.
(#)The new EOS 450D only supports SD cards. Is this the beginning of the end for CompactFlash?
(#)Bed time.
(#)Queuing to see Jordan at The Mall! Seriously.
(#)Not allowed to see something in tesco...
(#)Knowing somebody's phone number is now an indicator that you don't know them that well.
(#)Heh. The ball of the foot is actually in a completely different place to where i've always thought it was.
(#)How do undersea cables cross rough terrain? Do they stretch across submarine gorges like rope bridges?
(#)I only ever seem to update this when i'm waiting for something, and this time i'm waiting for a train.
(#)England 1 - 0 Switzerland.
(#)Fantasising: Obama/Paul bipartisan ticket.
(#)Does old tech get cheaper with time? Not necessarily. DDR1 is now about 3 times the price of DDR2.
(#)Eating raw chili peppers really does cure a headache.
(#)Watching the mad girl dance.
(#)40 minutes there, two hours back. Buses suck.
(#)Getting the X73 into town. It's cold.
(#)Turning my back to the checkout so I don't see my present...
(#)Waiting contentedly.
(#)Microsoft+Yahoo: The AOL+Time Warner of the 2000s IMHO.
(#)Cashing seven years worth of pennies.
(#)Car insurance is up for renewal. My current provider turns out to be the cheapest. Convenient or suspicious?
(#)Building an aspelund!
(#)Installing an EPSON DX4450 on Ubuntu 7.10. Wish me luck.
(#)Missing the last set(s?) of djokovic vs tsonga...
(#)Testing updates from tinytwitter.
(#)Enjoying the sun after 3 solid weeks of grey.
(#)Off to see Balls of Fury. Hmm.
(#)Wrestling PHP.
(#)Why can't you put envelopes in the recycling bag? Is it the glue?
(#)Waiting for the gas man. GAS MAN! GAS MAN! GAS MAN!
(#)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."
(#)Going to buy newspapers. My god, has it come to this?
(#)HOWTO make money from Free software: be MySQL and sell yourself to Sun for a cool billion.
(#)Fretting.
(#)Testing new features!
(#)Gizmodo on what's coming at Macworld 2008: "...it may be some kind of magic tablet..."
(#)Playing Quake II inside QEMU!
(#)Tired and in search of a Nintendo DS.
(#)References are in and I'm cleared to move to my new house!
(#)Just fed a whole steak to my bottomless pit of a cat.
(#)Standing in line at the post office and there's a light on.
(#)Returning to TGI Friday's after a 7-year foul-food-enforced absence. So far so good.
(#)Waiting at the railway station, pushing back the boundaries of 20 minutes free parking.
(#)Testing twittering from Pidgin.
(#)Testing sms->twitter->wordpress pipeline!
(#)Stir-fried Wikipedia. The future of the world is translation problems.
(#)How to Create a Sexy Pop Star: making music when you can't play, write, or sing.
(#)Software Carpentry: an amazing-looking crash-course in hands-on geekery.
(#)And more than 3 days later, my Wordpress theme is out.
(#)Mind the Gap: an essay by Paul Graham on wealth, riches, poverty, and why income inequality might not be so bad (cf.)
(#)How to price software (or not).
(#)Never heard of hapax legomenon before. Probably never will again.
(#)The Hutter Prize: compress Wikipedia for fun and €50,000.
(#)Super Stardust HD. Retro-remakes forever!
(#)Ultimate geek-lifestyle power tip: sign your new credit cards with a CD labelling marker pen, for superior legibility and +2 hax0r points.
(#)What is the canonical spelling of canonicalize?
(#)The latest best things ever: steampunk keyboard, steampunk monitor.
(#)The phrase "gr9 m9" does not appear in Google anywhere. WHAT?
(#)Reading twitter's startup pages. What a delicious waste of time this looks. And I had the same idea about 3 years ago, dammit.
(#)AWESOMAZIN narrated animation of a cell's internal workings (via MeFi).
(#)A test link to a test website.
(#)Oh my Jesus! I'm doing a course featuring the work of a German mathematician called Dr. Killing.
(#)Defending yourself is OK after all. But we still can't set traps for burglars? WTF am I supposed to do with this mechanical engineering textbook?
(#)Self defence with a walking stick. This is the best thing evar.
(#)Hilarity: The swedish for pirating software is Piratkopiering
(#)Neocon joke of the day: What do you call someone informed by the UN? UN-informed.
(#)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.
(#)Classic lecturer quote: It's unfair to use the word simple for simple groups, because in fact they are extraordinarily complicated.
(#)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.
(#)Oops
(#)Today I had the lecture on which Greg Egan's Diaspora seems to be based!
(#)Bush opponents literally killing themselves. Maybe Bush won in 2004 because too many Democrats killed themselves after 2000
(#)I imagine I'm late to the party, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the book, is quite good.
(#)I would just like to say that Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is every bit as great as people say.
(#)Heard: "Anchorman? Some kind of superhero?"
(#)http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5941187/ There's something about autonomous flesh digesting robots that seems like a bad idea...
(#)http://james.lab6.com/2004/zoo/ Horrifying zoo sign
(#)Alien vs. Predator was much better than I expected!
(#)http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64638,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 The nature of the gaming timesink becomes clear
(#)Babylon 5 Series 2 is UKP30 cheaper at WH Smiths than HMV.
(#)France celebrates 60 years of peace - "Surface-to-air missiles have already been installed along the coastline."
(#)Government-funded university project suggests subsistence hen-farming for doomed city dwellers. Aaaaargh!
(#)Advert on bus: "Volunteers wanted for wound healing experiment"
(#)Why is Wicca a compact religion? Because every open coven has a finite subcoven. BA-DAH-BOOM-CHEE!
(#)Performance related pay for teachers. "But what about the bad teachers?!"
(#)Amazon has tons of books but hardly any hardbacks.
(#)Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. This is excellent. (via Memepool)
(#)Eek. I made a 'media' category.
(#)Mitch and Dane - Gloria.sid. So much tune in only 8Kb.
(#)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.
(#)Number Theory Tools 1.1 for your number theorising pleasure. Lets you check whether you have an efficient number of fingers or not.
(#)Yahoo search now has a cache link. Will they beat Google to offering this as a paid remote backup service?
(#)There are so many of us, but they are so rich.
(#)Religious studies to cover atheism. Marvellous. We'll corner the beast sooner or later.
(#)The Marmite FAQ. "The breweries pay Marmite to remove the yeast from their factories."
(#)"Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday 13th."
(#)World's first realistic flash animation. Its offensive start is thoroughly explained (via b3ta)
(#)MP to meet minister over cocklers. Why did I read "MP to meet minister of overclockers"?
(#)CSS visited pages disclosure. Just thought this one up myself; glad to see it's known.
(#)An Eccles classic: "You see, the university has removed most of the blackboards, and the ones left are only two dimensional."
(#)House full of eBay junk. A not-so-funny OCD tale (via BoingBoing)
(#)Ultimate BTTF tie-in merchandise: flux capacitor y-fronts!
(#)Ironic typo of the week comes from Coding Theory: 'Error-correcting cod'
(#)Did anybody else think the music in Pirates of the Caribbean was a mixture of the themes from The Rock, and The Settlers?
(#)I have a pencil sharpener made by RAPESCO. I tried to comply, but the site is being DDoS'd.
(#)100 things to do instead of "it". Funny how "talk" is number 56... (via BoingBoing)
(#)Hybrid song. The Amiga invented dance music, I'm telling you...
(#)Elwood scene mp3s! "Past and Present" is the best
(#)Final test...
(#)This blog will now degenerate into an indiscriminate linkdump.
(#)Testing testing testing.
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