Category: Daily

  • Gym

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    I popped to the UWS Sports Centre today. It’s right next to the new Wales National Pool, which I’ll also be making a visit to. I met Brian, the rottweiler (not a real one), who has been working there for 20 odd years (a UWS lifer?) Apparently the climbing wall is off limits unless you…

  • Yet another webcam!

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    Oh dear. Another webcam has been added. This is from my iBook via my iSight, so could come from anywhere, I guess.

  • Screencam

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    I’ve changed the screen cam to show a screenshot of my main home PC instead of my work PC. I seem to just use my Mac most of the time these days…

  • New boy

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    Yep, I started my new job today. And I got a fair few hits to my website today from you lot wanting to find out how I was getting on, which was nice! Sorry, but only minimal internet access via my mobile phone and lots of stuff to do meant it had to wait until…

  • Hungover

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    I’m rather hungover this morning after my leaving do yesterday. My burps taste of Scotch. I’m attempting to remedy this by eating a pie.

  • Snow

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    How the hell is there so much snow everywhere else in Wales that you can’t even get on the motorway by Swansea, but not a single flake in Cardiff? Swansea University webcam Cardiff University webcam

  • Packing up

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    I started packing up my stuff at work today. I start my new job in Swansea on Monday. I’ve actually done as much lab work as I can do, so I’m not too busy this week. Nice. Time to catch up on my emails.

  • XP vs OS X

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    Sorry, I haven’t got a hard link, but this is from Furo and Lockergnome’s IT Professional newsletter: “Apple is called out for spending $1 billion to develop Mac OS X for a relatively small number of potential users, while Microsoft spent $1 billion on Windows XP, which holds a far greater number of customers. Simple…

  • Blogging

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    Ah. 5 minutes to blog: Jack’s much better. His teeth seem to be settling down, and we had our first full night’s sleep last night. And he woke me up perfectly on time this morning. He’s very snotty though, and a bit hot, so he seems to have a bit of a cold. He’s much…

  • Borrowed

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    Phew! I’ve managed to borrow a power supply from a very kind Mac person on the 1st floor.