Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
I have been toying with the idea of buying a new guitar, a Les Paul replica most likely. I am hoping this would spur me in to playing more regularly again and trying to learn more theory rather than just ape songs, and not just leave the guitar standing ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
The internet is a marvelous beast. It can inform a person how to peel a mango properly so that the delicious, juicy fruit can be best separated from its peel to be enjoyed in a bowl with some cream.
What the internet cannot do is tell that same person that ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
My Google Reader subscription has now picked up the feed for this blog. It didn't before today, and that may have been because I was using a release candidate of Wordpress, whereas now I am using the full release, although I would have thought that the RSS link would ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on RSS feed activate!
Friday, March 28th, 2008
I've been re-watching all the Seinfeld series. I recorded them years ago when BBC2 first showed them and watched them quite a lot on VHS, but since I discarded my old VHS machine some time back I haven't seen any episodes. With the series becoming quite cheap on ...
Posted in Video | Comments Off on Morris and Morris
Friday, March 28th, 2008
When Kenickie first started venturing outside he would go a-hunting in his own way, and this led to him bringing in his 'kills', which were leaves. He was probably attracted to them being blown around by the wind. This was rather cute, if a little messy after they ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This is mildly interesting: if I include the OpenDNS servers in my internet configuration I can connect to my MSN Messenger account in Adium, but then I get DNS problems connecting to this subdomain, which means I can't view my own blog some of the time. If I remove ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on DNS troubles
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I just finished THE CHEESE. It looked so tempting in the fridge, even with chocolate lying nearby! On the one hand, I should really have limited myself to at least half what was left, not the rest of it, even though it looked perfectly manageable, and on the ...
Posted in Personal | Comments Off on When will I learn?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I tried to get Portal up and running in Crossover Games last night, after failing to do so the other day. It was peculiar because I managed to get it working in Crossover Mac before, so I saw no reason why it would stop working in the newer version ...
Posted in Gaming | Comments Off on The Orange Box in Crossover Games
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Months ago I was encouraged to try my hand at sewing. I personally need a tangible project to complete for me to get involved with a hobby, and I was able to come up with the idea of making a duvet cover from fake tiger fur to get me ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
A little while back I received an e-mail at work that I didn't care to read right away, but also didn't want to delete. However, I wanted to reset the new mail envelope notification in the systray so that I would be aware of further new mail when it ...
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