Year: 2006

  • Valentine’s Day

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    I hate Valentine’s Day (sorry Kim). Actually, that’s not totally true, I’m just very, very annoyed by Valentine’s Day. It all feels so false, contrived, cheap and tacky. I guess when you’re single it can be fun (or can drive you to suicide or a killing rampage or both), but I don’t really remember that.…

  • ReadyWhenUR Kettle

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    Now this is my kind of a pointless gadget. A kettle that you can switch on by texting it “switch on” from your mobile phone. Completely pointless, and I want one. This kettle was inspired by Wallace and Gromit, and developed by Orange and PG Tips. It would go nicely with my red-nosed-when-hot Gromit mugs.

  • 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.…

  • Climbing Jack

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    At a friend’s party Jack went for several climbs up the gym bars. No fear. Kim’s just there for our reassurance, not his. His down-climbing is good too.

  • 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…

  • Frosty

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    The beach was frosty this morning, and the tide was high and the sun low. The view from Jack’s bedroom window is of frozen fields and woods this morning. And rising houses.

  • 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.