Category: Daily

  • Trading Places

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    With the internet, the roles of parents & children become reversed, & I don’t mean in the way you’re probably thinking of. Offspring have to protect their parents. We have to warn our mums & dads not to reply to emails from strangers (particularly from Nigerians promising cash), not to click on pop-ups (no, you…

  • Live or later

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    Is it me, or is it weird that on the internet the big thing with video is live vidcasting, and yet with TV the thing to do is timeshift and watch it when you want?

  • Welsh Windows

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    Did you know you can get Welsh Language versions of Windows XP and Microsoft Office? Download the language packs: Link.

  • Summer Silence

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    It’s so quiet. It’s August, and most of the Medicine academics (certainly the lecturers in my wing of the school) have gone away on holiday. The students are on their summer break, and the research labs are quiet, with the occasional confused PhD student. I’ve got another couple of weeks before I go away, and…

  • Radio 1 Podcast

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    Blimey, Moyles’ Breakfast Show from BBC Radio 1 is now a podcast (or at least, selections of it are). He’s sitting pretty at the top of the iTunes Top Podcasts list already. This means I can listen to Moyles on the train to work in the morning on my iPod, without a radio. Sweet.

  • Cycling at 40mph

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    I was late leaving work for the train today. Luckily, on the main road out of the uni I let a coach pull out in front of me & jumped into its slipstream. I haven’t done this for ages (don’t try it at home kids) & only do it on roads I know really well.…

  • Going All The Way

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    Fuck. That was close. And the expletive is necessary. My train home got delayed part way. I didn’t hear why, but we were slow by about half an hour. It’s Friday. Unusually, I started to doze off listening to a Dawn & Drew Show podcast (it was probably Drew’s melodious tones that did it). I…

  • Port Talbot

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    A “suspicious package” at Port Talbot’s train station has evacuated it & prevented our train from passing through. This has left me with this view for some time. I don’t know when I’ll get to work this morning. I actually quite like the view. They’ve been dismantling this (whatever it was) for over a year…

  • Nostril Vomit

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    Jack’s been feeling a bit poorly over the last day or so. He woke up last night, so Kim gave him some milk to help him go back to sleep, causing a nasty reaction in his stomach. I haven’t seen anyone puke through their nose for years, and I’ve never seen anyone pass chunks through…

  • Battlefield 2 Statistics

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    My online ranking for my current game of choice.