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Typo, typo, how I love thee

I haven't had a chance to look at my Ruby on Rails for a few weeks, but finally on Wednesday I had a few hours to play with it. I had left my charger in the suitcase that Kevin had by his desk at work, though, so my window of opportunity would last only as […]

I've got my replacement phone

Haven't had a chance to blog before now, but Saturday, as soon as we got off the coach in Dorset, Dad took us down to Poole to pick up my replacement Nokia E61. Phew. I have to say, the staff in the Poole Carphone Warehouse were lovely, and the entire unpleasant experience was very much […]

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have a lovely day today, and that Santa has seen fit to spoil you rotten!

Good news about the phone

I had a message last night that Carphone Warehouse have accepted my claim and that I can go into any branch and pick up my replacement Nokia E61. Yay!! Very pleased about that (although I'll be more pleased when I actually have it in my hands - tend to be a little wary of getting […]

Just had my phone stolen

I think I'm going to give up on mobile phones. My shiny new Nokia E61, which I purchased a mere 19 days ago, just got stolen. I was chatting to a friend on my way to Waitrose, and when I got there I put the phone in my coat pocket and picked up a […]

Wordpress and importing/exporting content

Having decided that yes, I am going to look through all my old posts to see if any of them might possibly work in dead tree form, the next thing to do is figure out precisely how to do that.
My current preferred methodology is to have a local installation of Wordpress on my Macbook, import […]

Book meme

Although Wendy didn't tag me, I'm going to do this book meme anyway, because I think it's fun.
Grab the book closest to you.
Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence
Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog
Name of the book and the author
Tag three people
Ok…
digon - enough
digonedd (m) - abundance, plenty
dwbl […]

Deg o bethau i wneud yn Gymreg ar y we

1. Gwyliwch teledu efo S4C
Mae 'na lawer o raglenni teledu ar gael ar wefan S4C nawr. Dach chi'n str?Æmio 4 Wal, Chez Dudley, a Natur Anghyfreithlon, a lot o betha eraill. Yn anffodus, does 'na ddim is-deitlau, sydd poen yn y din amdani i (achos dw i ddim deallt unrhywbeth fod Dudley'n dweud.)
2. Chwyliwch y […]

Where have all the Christmas carols gone?

This morning, having woken up in a particularly good mood, I decided to play the mix CD that my friend Stuart had kindly (and unexpectedly) made and sent me with my first Christmas card of this year. The first track was the wonderful Nos Galan, by the Treorchy, Morriston Orpheus & Pontarddulais Male Choirs with […]

I'm all for not exaggerating beauty but…

I just saw an ad on Sky Three promoting the concept that using condoms is cool. Four young lads are walking through the park to have a game of footie. Boy A asks Boy B if Boy B could give him back the condom he loaned him. Boy B says no, he's used it. Intercut […]

A hypothetical question

If you were to find yourself in a lift with blogger who had, say, been writing for the last… oh, four and a half years, and that blogger said that, despite an underlying feeling that it was in some way cheating, she was considering pulling together some of her best posts and tidying them up […]

Thank you for Amelie

Earlier in the year, someone, somewhere bought the Amelie DVD for me, from my Amazon wish list. I don't know who you are, but thank you.
Because I hadn't changed my address on Amazon, the DVD went to my parents' house in Dorset, and arrived whilst they were in Australia. My brother forwarded it on, but […]