Year: 2006

  • Visiting Lecturers

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    Dr’s Vogan and Bishop popped in to the university yesterday.

  • Tired Boy

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  • New sports

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    I am an awful golfer, but I’m enjoying myself. Kim often complains that I don’t try new things because I hate being crap. There may be a sprinkling of truth in there (who likes to be bad at something?) but I think my current golfing skills indexed with the number of hours I spend each…

  • Amazing pavement pictures

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    Take a look at these amazing pavement chalk drawings using perspective to confuse. More here.

  • MSN upgrade

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    So after the post below I checked for updates, and there’s a new version of MSN Messenger for the Mac: Version 6. So I downloaded and installed it. It won’t even log me in, and only gives me an error if I put the wrong password. So now I can’t even use the software. Great.…

  • MSN Mess

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    I’ve been having problems with my Mac for the last couple of working days. It’s been really, really slow, and everything drags and takes an age to do. I work it hard, and have a lot of things running together so I couldn’t easily put my finger on the cause. So I had a look…

  • Local Golf Courses

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    Avoiding the expensive Gower golf clubs, there are a couple of golf courses I’ll try over the next couple of weeks: Palleg GC Glyn Abbey GC This is far safer than rock climbing, and I still get out and about. My life insurance premiums are much better these days.

  • Golfing family

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    This weekend I played golf with my dad and my brother. This was a new thing for me, but my dad and Nick have played many times before and this showed in their competitiveness. We had fun, even though I was crap. Dad’s course (he’s a committee member) is very nice and was in excellent…

  • Drinking tea cuts cortisol

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    Drink tea to reduce your stress levels: BBC article. I’m needing an urnfull of tea today then.

  • Lost 3

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    The new season (3) of Lost begins tomorrow night (er, in the USA – how in the technological marvel that is the internet could we possibly hope to see this new series before it ships across the atlantic?): ABC’s Lost site. The first episodes of the series are likely to reveal the most.