Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
With Kung Fu Panda the best film of the year so far, and my being a bit of a furry with a penchant for cats, I was quite excited to see that there is a stuffed Tigress toy available for sale! I was less excited to find out that ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Imagine you learnt to wrap otters in carpets solely by playing against a carpet-wrapping computer. The computer plays quite well, but you learn by playing him often, and get bored of playing such a predictable opponent. You decide to go to some place where other people wrap otters in carpets, ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I poked around the new application store for the iPhone and iPod Touch when it was opened a couple of weeks ago. Apart from getting the Remote application, which allows my iPod Touch to control iTunes on my desktop machine over the wireless network, nothing really grabbed me as ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Objectives I'd like to achieve, in no particular order:
learn Chinese, either Cantonese or Mandarin;
learn to play jazz guitar;
write a work of significant merit;
earn an advanced degree.
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
I completed an idle user-created quiz on old-school World of Warcraft raiding earlier, somewhere on the internet. A part of me quite fancied seeing how much I remembered of my epic warlock days.
Coincidentally enough, although I didn't realise it at the time, today I'm wearing my 'I killed Onyxia' ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A little over a year go I got an espresso machine. Although I like coffee-flavoured ice cream and sweets, I had never really got in to the habit of drinking coffee before, probably because it seemed to me more like getting in to a habit than enjoying a drink. ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I didn't sleep terribly well this weekend. I had two nightmares Saturday night, both waking me up and one causing me to try to scream in my sleep, which wasn't pleasant. This left me feeling a bit tired on Sunday, although it was mostly a pleasantly relaxing day. ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Interesting sights in the past couple of months whilst commuting:
A lorry overturned on to its side on the roundabout, stopping all through traffic;
A car on its roof on a bypass early in the morning, with a police car stopping anyone driving in to it;
A car on fire on the motorway ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
In their latest newsletter, Thinkgeek highlights the Nintendo Wall Graphics product, which is a set of large vinyl stickers that can be reversibly applied to most walls to create scenes from either Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong. I have quite a soft spot for Super Mario Bros., having ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Melmoth's keen websense tingled a few weeks back and he pointed me towards the Gelaskins website, which sells 'artist-designed removable skins' for various iPods, portable computers, and gaming devices.
I browsed through the iPod Touch section of the Gelaskin range, which offers a large variety of different skins. I quite ...
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