Archive for May, 2007

3 weeks

It’s 3 weeks today till I start my 2 month exodus to Seattle. 3 weeks today I’ll be about 2 hours away from landing in Philadelphia. Then I’ve got just over 4 hours there and then a further 6 hours till I land in Seattle at 4:50am UK time. Since I’ll be leaving the house [...]

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Anonymity

I was just reading an article on the BBC News Technology website about how China has scrapped plans to make it a law that anyone who writes a blog must use their real name on it. That goes against everything that the internet is, the internet shouldn’t be owned by anyone, it shouldn’t have laws. [...]

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Vienna

Mac users often don’t get versions of software that’s on Windows, it’s one of the biggest drawbacks of the system in the eyes of Windows users. Stuff like Windows Live Messenger and Outlook just don’t exist because the makers of it don’t make Mac versions of it. Luckily there are often better Mac-only versions available [...]

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All things come to an end

All my shows are finishing for the season. There are spoilers after the jump so don’t read if you haven’t watched the season finales for any of the shows I watch.

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Doctor Who Episode 7 ‘42′

After having to suffer the Eurovision song contest last week, insert shudder here, it was good to see the Doctor back. Overall it was a pretty good episode. Michelle Collins was really good. The idea of a living sun was cool as well, even if it did materialize itself as a Darth Vader wannabe. Martha [...]

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A torture of the new MacBook user

I just finished reading this article entitled “A torture of the new MacBook user” and I have to agree with everything on it but one thing, video playing.
Safari is an awful browser, for some reason it displays some pages wrong. I think it is something to do with CSS but then it is only some [...]

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Seattle and birthday update

Just in case anyone was wondering, it’s 3 weeks on Wednesday (June 13th) till I go to Seattle and 5 weeks on Thursday (June 28th) till my birthday. Also since I will be in Seattle on my birthday I think everyone should just give money to my mum and she can deposit it in my [...]

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Tesco a go-go

Tesco Express Clarkston opened today, and who was sitting (sitting!) beside the cash machine outside? Oh yes your neighbourhood smelly homeless person selling the big issue. Ugh.
Anyway the Tesco itself is pretty nice, the aisles are a tad cramped but it seems to have a good selection of goods. Only 4 tills and 2 self [...]

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Games, games, games

It’s been a good week for gaming. The Halo 3 beta came out on Wednesday night/Thursday morning and it’s pretty fun. I’m not gonna play it much though because I want the game to be nice and fresh when I get the proper product in September.
On Thursday I got Spiderman 3 on rental. It got [...]

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Being Sick

I’ve been pretty rough the last couple days, trying to fight off a cold. Every time I think I’m getting rid of it, it comes back and bites me in the ass. It’s a sentient cold.
Who gets a cold in May anyway?

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