Category: Daily

  • Women prefer Barry White

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    This is a great study published in Hormones & Behaviour: when looking for a mate, women are more likely to go for deep, gravelly voiced men like Barry White. But we all new Barry White was the man, right? Deep, masculine, dominant voices have long been thought linked to high levels of testosterone, higher reproductive…

  • Hot Dust

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    My main PC was crashing an hour or so into some CPU intensive tasks (i.e. DivX), so I cracked open the case to check out the cooling. Eurgh, I’ve got a dead hamster in my radiator (water-cooled). Hoover…. Aha, the CPU’s now running 15C cooler. And no hamsters. I can happily encode stuff to DivX…

  • My Own Personal Experiment

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    I’m always using myself as my own personal experiment. It’s hard not to if you’re at all interested in anatomy, physiology or biology in general. So recently I’ve had a bit of a cold. It’s my second in about 2-3 weeks (like buses you don’t see one for ages and then two come along at…

  • Battlefield 2 patch

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    Hey, the new Battlefield 2 patch is out! If you’re a player you’d better get it. It fixes the thing that pisses me off the most: people jumping around like tits and shooting me in the head. Now if they’ll just stop people firing anti-tank weapons into my chest from 3 feet away like we’re…

  • New photos

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    I haven’t blogged much this week, mostly because I’ve been busy. When I’m busy, I’m often boring. To make up for this I’ve added a new batch of photos to the photos page. One geeky thing I did this week was buy a new external Lacie hard disk for my photos and video editing work.…

  • Read yesterday’s Dilbert cartoon. It’s

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    Read yesterday’s Dilbert cartoon. It’s Friday night, and I’ve taken 2 tech support calls from friends tonight so far.

  • Repaint

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    Over the last couple of days the interior of my house has been getting its third paint. You may remember that they rushed the job to get us moved in on time, and then had to repaint the whole house from top to bottom to bring it up to standard, because the previous painters had…

  • I’ll Do It Tomorrow

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    In addition to that previous entry, I thought I’d mention that I finally got round to filing my tax return this evening (for year ending April 05). Just one day before the deadline. Sheesh. Every year I say I’m going to do this thing in April. It doesn’t even take that long to submit online.…

  • Work avoidance techniques

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    I went to see Blue C the other day. He’s not all powered up yet, but he’s all set up in a nice big room. He’s our new IBM supercomputer at Swansea University, by the way. Yes, OK, it’s Sunday evening and I’m blogging because I’m procrastinating. I’m preparing my teaching for tomorrow morning (the…

  • Updates

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    Just to update you all, that thing the other day went fine (they always do, and I didn’t hack up on anyone important), Cheltenham lost 2-0 to Newcastle (and made an awful lot of money in the process), and all of my computers are currently working. Kinda.