Month: October 2005

  • Blown Away

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    Nice. Today was one of those very few days where the wind switched and I actually had a tailwind to work and a tailwind from work. Sweeet. Time to buy a lottery ticket.

  • More Comment Spam

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    Snigger. Some twit bot just tried to comment spam a “comment spam” posting on my blog. Blocked and deleted.

  • Home Media Hub Mac?

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    With the new Apple iMac and Front Row software (see this page for a demo), the video iPod, video sales of TV shows on iTunes, and Quicktime’s MPEG4 encoding/decoding abilities (giving small file sizes of high quality video), Apple is finally stepping hard into the video distribution market as predicted. With the iMac’s built in…

  • Last weekend

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    A random bunch of photos from my phone, from last weekend.

  • Buying a New House

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    So as most of you have heard, it looks as though we’re finally moving to Swansea. We’ve been trying to sell our house in Cardiff for almost a year now, with no luck. The solution? A part-exchange on a new house (Kim’s idea). It turns out that when the housing market is weak, people building…

  • Video iPod

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    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Apple’s new Video iPod yesterday. But hey, you all knew it was coming, and I’m sure you read about it elsewhere. No? OK then, here’s your link: Video iPod The funny thing is, it’s not a “Video iPod”. It’s just the new iPod. So if you go out and…

  • 24 Series 4

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    This latest series of 24 is pissing me off. It’s so full of holes, dodgy plans & screwy concepts that I’m now hoping the bad guys are going to win out. CTU & all are doing such a bad job, & the bad guys are as competent as ever suggesting that they deserve to succeed.…

  • Simon Pegg in MI:3?

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    Simon Pegg, star and writer of the Spaced series and Shaun of the Dead, will be alongside Tom Cruise in the next Mission Impossible film. Apparently. I’m not sure. This rings a little close to an old BBC interview he gave once where he mentioned exactly that film… By the way, when you watch Land…

  • You know you use computers too much when…

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    You know you use computers too much when you’re filling in a form with a pencil and when you’re about to leave it you look for the “save” icon. Like I just did. When writing in my lab book I look for red squiggles to appear beneath words when I’m not sure of their spelling…

  • Winters Coming

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    Autumn is here & winter is on the way. My lights went on my bike this morning for the first time this season, the paths are slippy with wet leaves, & I got a rear wheel puncture. Strangely this was shortly after thinking, “I haven’t had a puncture for a while now”. It’s as though…