Archive for March, 2004

Plug ‘N’ Pray

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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Looking to change your religion using an easy, clean interface? Try Plug ‘n’ Pray from Holy Corporation.

A site well-worth reading….

Plug ‘N’ Pray

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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Looking to change your religion using an easy, clean interface? Try Plug ‘n’ Pray from Holy Corporation.

A site well-worth reading….

My New Work Computer… Won’t Be Delivered Today…

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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It turns out that there’s been a huge fire in a BT service tunnel, knocking out 130,000 phone lines and numerous data links in the Manchester area.

This, in turn, has caused Microland UK to be unable to process our credit card details and deliver me my new work PC, a swanky-looking Athlon 64 3GHz…

Free Parking Jackpot

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

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Am I the only purist here?

I am, of course, referring to Monopoly. Pretty much everybody I know doesn’t play Monopoly by the correct rules, as laid down by Waddingtons. And how many arguments does this cause? It’s unbelievable!

What’s even scarier is the number of people that honestly believe …

I’m Still In Aber. Yay.

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

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I’m still in Aberystwyth, which I thought was a good thing even before people who don’t have the same benefit complained [Alec complaining, Ruth complaining, Adam complaining] about it. Aberystwyth is great this time of year - it’s still a little too early for the tourists to arrive, but it’s warm and sunny and feels like springtime.

Sadly, I still have heaps of work to do - Simon, my boss, is breathing down my neck… not to mention the fact that I need to pretty-much finish my dissertation over the Easter break. And an assignment. And start my revision. And train for Malawi.

As Claire reported, we went for a picnic up Pen Dinas at the weekend, followed by an evening of board games in Rummers and back at The Flat. The game we played in Rummers, ‘NTropy’, is really particularly good - you have to build unstable structures with sticks such that other players are …

Picnic Time

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

We’re off on a picnic! Bryn, Claire, Paul and I are making sandwiches and we’re off up Pen Dinas to scoff them and watch the sunset. Which is nice.

It feels like springtime.

All We Need Is A Microsoft-Hating US Judge And…

Friday, March 26th, 2004

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First, some info for the non-geeks out there, so you can truly appreciate the irony in what’s to come:

Lindows - manufacturer of a distrubution of Linux which is designed to be easy to migrate to for former Windows users - have been in court with Microsoft in the US for some time, who claim that …

Windows XP Box

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

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This is scary. This guy’s managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box… inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It’s a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained the co…

Dissertation Poster Session Two

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

The second poster session for my dissertation is today. This will involve me standing in front of a board in the Llandinam concourse with some pretty pictures and explaining them to people.

This also brings home the realisation that my dissertation needs to be handed in in just a month’s time. Still got many, many thousand words to write. Gonna be a busy Easter.

Hooray! I’m Sexy! Official!

Monday, March 22nd, 2004

Just got a text message from Liz:

Stay sexy! Lx

Not sure if that’s supposed to be for me or not… hmm……