Month: February 2006

  • Beach photos

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    I took some snaps at the beach today: Jack on a bench on the Gower coastal path. Ele on the sand.

  • Hot Dust

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    My main PC was crashing an hour or so into some CPU intensive tasks (i.e. DivX), so I cracked open the case to check out the cooling. Eurgh, I’ve got a dead hamster in my radiator (water-cooled). Hoover…. Aha, the CPU’s now running 15C cooler. And no hamsters. I can happily encode stuff to DivX…

  • My Own Personal Experiment

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    I’m always using myself as my own personal experiment. It’s hard not to if you’re at all interested in anatomy, physiology or biology in general. So recently I’ve had a bit of a cold. It’s my second in about 2-3 weeks (like buses you don’t see one for ages and then two come along at…

  • Battlefield 2 patch

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    Hey, the new Battlefield 2 patch is out! If you’re a player you’d better get it. It fixes the thing that pisses me off the most: people jumping around like tits and shooting me in the head. Now if they’ll just stop people firing anti-tank weapons into my chest from 3 feet away like we’re…

  • 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…