Category: Daily

  • A Quiet Morning

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    I’m not teaching this morning. It feels strange. I’ve been teaching anatomy on Monday mornings for a couple of months now, and I feel a bit left out this morning. I’m quite happy to have a little less to do, but I’m definately missing it. This must mean that I enjoy teaching, right? That’s good…

  • Houses

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    We’ve been looking at houses this weekend, with a view to moving to Swansea. I think we saw 7 houses yesterday. Eurgh. Hard work, especially carrying around a little boy who loves exploring & climbing stairs. We got a good feel for some suitable areas and even saw some suitable houses (gosh). These things take…

  • Halloween

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    It’s Halloween. I’m playing Doom III. I’m pretty scared. ‘Nuff said.

  • Lockergnome

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    I have just unsubscribed from Lockergnome. I’ve been reading the weekly tech emails from this site for probably a decade. Recently the format has changed, and the emails have just become a list of links – not particularly useful to me. I can use Google myself. Thanks Chris, but no more. So there’s a big…

  • Revisiting the Salmon

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    Wow, what a day. My gaming PC should be back up to full capacity this evening (it was down for 49 days in all), so I get to finish playing Doom 3, AND HalfLife 2‘s release date was officially released today. And this time it looks like it might actually happen. It’s gone Gold. It’ll…

  • Costs Spiralling

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    The death toll inside my PC case has risen. The new motherboard (which at least boots – woohoo!) tells me that my hard drive also got fried. *Almost* everything important was backed up. Aaargh! When did I last backup my Grand Theft Auto save games? My CPU and RAM seem to be OK, at least.

  • Spinning A Jag

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    Tee hee! I also spent my Sunday spinning a Jag on a track (download movie).

  • Grumpy

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    I can be a right grumpy bugger sometimes. Anyway, to continue the saga of my gaming PC, the parts finally arrived to finish rebuilding it yesterday (after a brief excursion to Chester – thanks Amtrak!) But I seem to have made a mis-diagnosis. The new graphics card exhibits the same symptoms as the old. I…

  • Futility

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    I am a salmon. I am swimming against the current, going nowhere, fighting a path upstream to some unknowable goal, for some intangible reason. At the moment I am stuck beneath a weir; some man-made bullshit designed to keep my nose pressed down against the slimy bottom of the river. I can’t find a way…

  • HalfLife 2 Delay?

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    Could HalfLife 2 be delayed another 6 months? Link.