Month: April 2006

  • On The Mend

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    Gaming PC repairs have begun. I’ve repaired its radiator with waterproof plastic glue & PTFE tape, & it is now on a 24 hour leak test. If it passes that I’ll buy a cheap replacement motherboard. I hope that apeases all of the Battlefield 2 gamers that keep badgering me.

  • New Tree

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    Look what appeared in our garden. A tree was on the plans, but we didn’t really expect one. Apparently it is a rowan tree, with some hocus pocus druidic mythology attached to it.

  • Waiting…

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  • Headcrabs For Sale! Come And Get Your Headcrabs!

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    Valve are selling plush headcrabs in the run up to the release of Half-Life 2 Episode 1. An unbelievably excellent idea. I’ll be needing a plush crowbar to go with that. Preloading of the new Half-Life 2 episode begins via Steam this month, with activation on June 1st. Damn – I really am going to…

  • No XBox360 for me

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    Some of the reasons why I won’t be buying the XBox 360: www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/blogentry=000178/Blog.aspx Microsoft really seem to have missed the point AGAIN. Lots of people may sway towards the 360 as a living room multimedia hub, but not if it is noisy, not if it doesn’t interact with existing kit, and not if you can’t…

  • Exam Time!

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    Anatomy spotter exam 2 was this morning. Hence the tie.

  • Textbooks

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    It seems to be the time of year for the publishers Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins to send out new versions of their textbooks to us lecturers. For those of you interested, Moore’s Essential Clinical Anatomy is now on edition 3, Langman’s Medical Embryology is on edition 10 (some nice additions in there), and there’s a…

  • Sea Fog

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    Cycling home tonight a sea fog had rolled in, blanketing Mumbles (on the right). The sky dropped to the sea, and the horizon came close to the beach. It almost made marking exam papers for 5 hours worthwhile. Almost. The really cool thing is that this panoramic image was made entirely within my mobile phone.…

  • Drowning in paper

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    I’m in the midst of marking and second marking a pile of 2000 word essays, and am about to receive 2 sets of 70-odd exam papers to mark from 2 exams this week, of which each paper deserves the same attention as all the others. Mondays, eh? Far too much coffee will be drank in…

  • 17″ MacBook Pro

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    Apple have released a huger 17″ version of their new top-end notebook for sale: MacBook Pro Looks nice, but it’s too big for me. I’m waiting for the 12″ that’ll fit into my bike bag easily, weigh less than a kilo and have a terabyte hard disk. OK, that last bit’s rather unlikely for a…