Month: June 2006

  • New Spaced DVD

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    What the hell is this all about? A new compilation DVD box set for Spaced? They’re a bit late for cashing in on Shaun of the Dead, so are they trying to tell us that it’s over (after promising a third series) or are they suggesting that a new series is being considered? Simon Pegg,…

  • Evening Bourbon

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  • Sunny Weekends

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    I didn’t blog on the weekend, probably because I finally fixed my gaming PC. I’d like to point out that my watercooling rig didn’t actually cause any damage. Sure, the radiator leaked, but the graphic card was the only thing that got dripped on, and it survived. The damage was caused by me swapping bits…

  • Another thief shamed online

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    OK, so yes, I am taking a time out and catching up on the web, drinking a coke. It’s Friday and I’ve had a busy week. Anyway, here’s another tale of someone losing something expensive, and someone with low morals finding it and not returning it. Again they’re getting humiliated online. The beauty of this…

  • iPod more popular than beer?

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    apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/06/08/1954233.shtml And while I’m linking to /. articles, here’s another one about the prevalence and importance of the iPod at Universities. The information is based upon US uni’s, but from my own experience I’d apply it to UK institutions too, and suggest that this is a very good reason for providing students with podcast based…

  • Wales on Slashdot

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    Cardiff to be the centre of a rollout of a new telecom platform from BT. slashdot.org/articles/06/06/08/1725215.shtml

  • Cardifftri.net stats

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    I haven’t looked at the stats for cardifftri.net for a while. I killed the page counters that it had when the service started throwing up pop-ups and pop-unders. May and June are usually the busiest times of year for that site because of our two main races, Try-a-Tri and Cosmeston. I was happy to learn…

  • GMC

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    Our regulating body (the General Medical Council) visited today. They’re studying our course this year to make sure we’re up to scratch and to recommend improvements. Needless to say, we’ve been building up to today for some time, but in the end didn’t really put much on for show, as Thursdays are good clinical teaching…

  • Website Down

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    Apologies – I almost lost this website yesterday, and as a result of restoring from backups some of the comments have been lost.

  • Birds Nesting

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    Outside the School of Medicine, in a cigarette waste bin, there are a lot of little “cheep cheeps”.