October 2003

But it's coooooold…

October 21, 2003

It was so snug and comfy and lovely and warm and cozy and nice in bed. And out of bed… it's not. Who invented mornings? I want them lined up behind the potting shed immediately with a firing squad all pointing the business ends of their rifles at them.

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The chain is complete

October 21, 2003

Today my parents found both a buyer for their house and a house to buy. Well, a bungalow. Tomorrow offers will be made and soon they should complete. There are only five vendors in the chain and this middle link is the last to be finalised. If all goes smoothly, we will be moving just […]

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Living in the sticks is bad for your brain

October 20, 2003

That's one problem with living in the arse end of nowhere – nothing in, nothing out. I have ten minutes before the 'working' day starts, and I find myself this morning with nothing to say. I almost blogged about my cat. Almost. I caught myself just in time, because the moment I start doing 'funny' […]

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House of electricy death, part whatever

October 20, 2003

Swans and power lines are a bad mix. Still, what better way to start your week than with no electricity? Meantime, roast swan anyone?

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Headless chickenosity

October 20, 2003

Parents now doing their best impression of headless chickens, looking for somewhere to buy. Their favourite so far is a three bedroom bungalow in Verwood, although quite how I'm going to fit a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, tv, desk and computer, filing cabinet and three bookshelves into a room that's 7'6″ by 7'6″ I'm […]

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Watch out! A blogberg!

October 20, 2003

Via Joho, I found a report called The Blogging Iceberg, published by Perseus. They've taken a survey of 3,634 blogs and extrapolated figures for the whole blogosphere from that. Apparently, they estimate that there are 4.12 million blogs in existence at the moment. Most of those are stagnant, with only 1.4 million blogs still current. […]

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A new sense of urgency

October 19, 2003

My parents have been trying to sell their house, on and off, for a couple of years now. It's a lovely house, in the Dorset countryside north of Bournemouth. Semi-detached, five bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and lounge, big garden, garage. However, it's on a private unmade road and I think that did put […]

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Dirk Gently's Holistic I-Ching Calculator says

October 19, 2003

THE JUDGEMENT OF KING WEN: 48. THE WELL There Is A Divine, Eternal Life – Source, On Which Each Can Draw. One Should Draw As Deeply As Possible From This Mental Fountain, Rather Than Engage In Shallow And Near-Sighted Projects. Organizations Should Be Planned Around The Deep Needs Of Their Members. The Members Become And […]

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New! The five step high-stress fiscal restriction diet! It really works!

October 18, 2003

This new diet is guaranteed to work! You'll feel the pounds just falling away – and the good news is that you don't have to count calories or weigh your meals, just check your bank balance daily to see if you actually have the money to buy food in the first place. Follow these five […]

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That time of year again

October 17, 2003

It's again time for British Bloggers to swallow their breakfast and enter The Guardian's British Blog Awards. I didn't enter last year because I wasn't blogging regularly, but now I am I will. Not, you understand, because I have any hope of winning – my chances of getting anywhere are zero – but well, just […]

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BookBrain – what a fabulous idea!

October 17, 2003

If you're addicted to buying books, as I would be if I had any money, then you really want to bookmark BookBrain. It's like Kelkoo, but for books – they don't sell you anything they just compare prices for you. What makes BookBrain particularly special, though, is that they also compare p&p costs and availability, […]

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Staten Island Ferry

October 16, 2003

The strange thing about this is that I was watching the Staten Island Ferry just last week from the Battery Park, and trying to pursuade my travelling companions that we'd get just as good a view of the Statue of Liberty from its decks as we would if we took the Circle Line boat. (Of […]

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The Journals of Workspace/Cat Interactions

October 16, 2003

Recent experimental evidence shows that it's a really bad idea to allow mixing between particularly fluffy moggies and newly warmed up blobs of blu-tack. Neither cat nor blu-tack benefit from the interaction.

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Breaking the back of the afternoon

October 16, 2003

One of the drawbacks of waking up at 7.10am, getting up at 7.30am and being all dressed and raring to go (if you rare quietly, of course) at 9am is that you end up in a sleepy lull at about… oh… now, I'd say. Why aren't siestas de rigeur here?

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What's that you're wearing, Michael?

October 16, 2003

Seems that Michael Stipe has stolen the shirt from Stuart Hughes' back. Literally. I wonder if Michael will give it back when he's done with it?

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