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Virgin Media: Incompetent, hypocritical and downright rude

December 6, 2007

I’ve just got off the phone with Garlands Debt Collection and Credit Management Services, and am pretty much spitting feathers with anger. The story goes like this. Unbeknownst to me, the card from which Virgin Media are taking monthly payments runs out. It wasn’t my card – my Mum is my Company Secretary, and we [...]

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Wisdom tooth update

November 21, 2007

It has been six days since Mr Bruce Gollings extracted my last remaining wisdom tooth, and I have to say that the patient is doing well. I had very little swelling, not much pain – I only had to take painkillers two or three times over the following three days, and none since then – [...]

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Toothless wonder

November 15, 2007

The deed has been done. The tooth has been pulled… or rather, pushed. I’m not sure how that works, but there seemed to be a lot more pushing than pulling, and finally the thing gave up without a fight. It wasn’t complicated nor did it take a long time, but was expertly and painlessly done. [...]

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Jack o' Lanterns 2008

October 29, 2007

This year's carvings: My witch and cat familiar. Kev's Jack Skellington. I love carving pumpkins. This year we got a proper carving set with tiny saws, a plastic 'drill' and all sorts. Made it much, much easier than trying to do it with a kitchen knife. Probably safer, too. Me working on transferring the hand-drawn [...]

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One tooth none the richer

October 22, 2007

It's been a while since I've whined about my wisdom tooth, but it's that time again. It's been shifting about since April last year, on and off, with a series of minor infections, aches, and general unpleasantness. The other day I caught a look at it in the mirror, and frankly, it's just sitting there, [...]

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The post that would be longer if it wasn't so short

September 1, 2007

Off for nearly 3 weeks, so no blogging during that period. Back after hols. Yay! Hols!

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Weird day today

July 24, 2007

I had such plans for today, including lunch plans, that all went for a Burton when I noticed at about 10.30 that I couldn't read. My heart sank. I hate migraines, and the first sign for me is that I lose the ability to see what's in the centre of my field of vision. Shortly [...]

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Home, sweet home

June 29, 2007

Finally starting to feel human again after a very long, sleepless (and late) flight home from San Francisco. I had a nap for an hour this afternoon which generally speaking made me feel worse rather than better, but after a lovely risotto and a glass of wine, I'm feeling much more normal. I am fully [...]

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I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter

June 28, 2007

Just when I've settled into being back in San Francisco again, it's pretty much time to leave. I fly tomorrow afternoon and land Friday morning, and spend the intervening hours wishing that someone would just get on and invent that damn teleportation device we've all been yearning for. It's been a great trip, and I'm [...]

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Is it Friday?

June 23, 2007

Yes, I do believe it is. That means my mad week of conferences is over. The last two days have gone very quickly, and I've managed not to really get jetlag, although I did quite spectacularly run out of energy at 10pm last night, as if someone had just pulled the plug. I'll leave the [...]

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The many faces of jetlag, or, The real enemy is sleep deprivation

June 21, 2007

I think it's Wednesday. I could be wrong. In some time zone, and to pick a random one, say BST, I am. I'm not sure what time zone it feels like, but I know the feeling of sleep deprivation any day of the week. I'm learning that jetlag isn't predictable. Like altitude sickness, it doesn't [...]

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The existential pain of taking laptops in for repair

May 22, 2007

I have so much I want to blog about at the moment, but I've just been up to my eyeballs in stuff, and by the time I get to 10pm, I really don't want to be on the computer anymore. I have to take my Macbook in for repairs very soon and it's causing me [...]

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10.20 on a Sunday night

May 13, 2007

Probably not the best time to be blogging, but I am trying to blog more these days, so I'm going to anyway. Next week will see a shift from blogging here to blogging more at Strange Attractor, as I'm off to Xtech in Paris on Tuesday, and not back til late Thursday night. I've a [...]

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New bookshelves make for a happy Suw

May 12, 2007

I will admit that the flat has really been getting me down lately. It's very easy for such a small space to descend into untidiness very quickly when you've got too much stuff that doesn't have a specific place to live. And of course, working from home doesn't help matters – you just end up [...]

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Kitten, gym and mouse updates

May 9, 2007

It's not been quite so easy to blog every day over the long weekend – I had imagined that our time would be fairly free, but it didn't quite work out like that. Not a small amount of time was spent attempting to locate the kittens, Castor and Pollux, who appear to have become escape [...]

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