June 2004

Dragons Fandango

June 16, 2004

My good friend and filmic co-conspirator, Vince, has started a blog all of his own, Dragons Fandango. Why don't you pop over and take a look, and give him a wee traffic spike?

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Happy 2nd Birthday CnV!

June 16, 2004

This day, two years ago, I thought to myself, 'Ooh, wouldn't it be fun to start a blog?' and so Chocolate and Vodka was born. For the first few months I didn't really know what to do with it. My early posts were mixed in tone and style, and probably very dull for anyone who […]

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OS update

June 16, 2004

Despite my recent reinstall of WIN98don'tlaughSE, my computer's behaviour is no better. Still crashing several times a day. So I'm going to be upgrading to 2K today. I may be some time… UPDATE: Oops. I appear to have accidentally partioned my c:. I now have a partition with Win2K on, and one with Win98SE on. […]

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Never admit…

June 15, 2004

Never admit to anyone, least of all Joi Ito, that you had a dream that you were a glamour model. Otherwise things like this might happen to you. UPDATE: Some people have too much time on their hands. Google, a copy of Photoshop, boredom. They're a lethal combination. Ik ben de baas, for sure.

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Who wants to be a cool kid?

June 15, 2004

I have three one invites to Gmail to give away. Last time I had three invites to give away I happened to mention it on IRC and whoompf! They were gone! Not sure why. Something to do with signing up to Gmail making your more cool*. I've heard that you immediately become more attractive to […]

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Blake's 7 – it's not just fiction anymore

June 15, 2004

Cast your mind back to the late 70s/early 80s, to cult sci-fi TV show Blake's 7. Remember ORAC, the rather condescending talking computer? Well, ORAC lives! The goal [was] to create a clear-cased computer where everything on the inside looked as good as the outside, and from all angles; Where cabling was a feature, not […]

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Sir Richard Branson sets amphibious Channel crossing record

June 14, 2004

From the BBC: Sir Richard Branson has set the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel by an amphibious vehicle. He drove into the Guinness Book of Records on Monday in the Warwickshire-built Gibbs Aquada, crossing in one hour, 40 minutes and six seconds. How cool is that? Now, if I were going […]

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Looks like I'm on my own, then

June 14, 2004

Just got back from the doctors. Nice enough guy, but I could tell immediately that he wasn't a 'believer' in hypoglycemia. I knew exactly how the conversation was going to pan out the moment he said “So, what makes you think you have hypoglycemia, then?”. Where in the justice system it's 'innocent until proven guilty', […]

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I know Kung Fu

June 13, 2004

Best t-shirt evah!

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Having a ripping good time

June 13, 2004

When I was a kid, I thought there were only two radio stations: Radio Two with Terry Wogan and Jimmy Young, and Radio Yokel, er, I mean, Solent. It wasn't until I was much older that I discovered Radio One, with it's cringe-inducing Roadshow and Gary Davies. (Hm, maybe that should be the other way […]

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Man beats horse

June 13, 2004

For 25 years the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in mid Wales has held the Man versus Horse Marathon. Every year the horse has won. But not this year. Huw Lobb won the £25,000 prize yesterday, completing the 22-mile course in two hours, five minutes, and 19 seconds. Second was Kay Bee Jay, ridden by […]

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More photos from the London blogger dinner

June 13, 2004

George, one of the guys who came along to dinner with Joi on the 6th has posted his photos. Thanks George!

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Dozomo up for sale

June 12, 2004

Well, their time is up, and 24hdc have finally put Dozomo up for sale on eBay, as they promised they would. It needs to sell for 1000 Euros to break even, and it has three days in which to do so. The final site is kinda cool, allowing you to search a bunch of services, […]

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Noxious copyright warnings; noxious copyright websites

June 12, 2004

Earlier today, James 'did a Cory' and took his camera with him to the cinema so that he could take a photo of the noxious copyright warning at the beginning of The Day After Tomorrow. He didn't quite get the same reaction Cory got, but did get a link to the FACT (Federation Against Copyright […]

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24hdc unveil dozomo

June 12, 2004

So, the guys over at 24hdc have finally unveiled to the world the product that they've spent all night coding: dozomo, a site that allows you to search any search engine. At the moment, 'any' means 'Google' and you have to write 'google' before your search string, which is a touch clumsy, but this is […]

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