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Eurgh

September 16, 2003

Up and online by 6.50am. It can only mean one thing – off to London today! Maybe a day out in civilisation will restore my equilibrium a little. Got virtually no sleep last night, which is about typical considering today's going to be a long day. Will report back later. If I last that long. […]

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Today's job seeking chores

September 15, 2003

OK, so I know this is as tedious for you as it is for me, but to document this job search publicly gives me a momentum I might otherwise not have. I'd hate for you to think I was sitting here on my arse having fun all day. Today I have searched all the job […]

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A ripping yarn

September 15, 2003

I never really understood why people would rip large quantities of music onto their computer. That was until I found myself without room to unpack my stereo and the small mountain (very small, compared to some people I know Mr McIntyre) of CDs to go with it. I suppose I could put the stereo on […]

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Persistence will win through where talent falls short

September 15, 2003

What better to start your Monday, and your week, than with a job search. I really hope that this doesn’t set the tone for the week, otherwise I’m in for another five days of unremitting tedium. Thing that gets me about some of these job web sites is that they are so hard to search. […]

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Britain BC

September 14, 2003

This evening I watched an interesting documentary by Dr Francis Pryor called Britain BC. I think it aired first earlier in the year, but due to the fact that I rarely watch TV, I missed it. Anyway, Pryor takes look at Britain before the Romans invaded and examines the assumptions and misconceptions commonly held about […]

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SP2 moving on apace

September 14, 2003

Just thought you'd like to know that I hit 57 pages today and have now converted everything I'd written in prose form, except for one scene which didn't fit in anyway. I'm sure much of it will be cut once I've finished the first draft but I suspect quite a lot – it's been an […]

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Is it really any wonder no one likes to use the train?

September 13, 2003

I've just checked the cost of train tickets from Bournemouth to Manchester. Nearly 80 quid for a return. It would actually be cheaper to get the train up to London, then get a 'bargain return' to Leeds, and then go over to Manchester from there. Admittedly, it'd take over six and a half hours, but […]

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House of electricy (and watery) death, part 3

September 13, 2003

Phones were still half knackered after last weekend’s little episode, so today we went through the whole dial tone/no dial tone thing again whilst Dad tried to fix them. Then the trip went because Mum dared to do something as radical as put the kettle on. Shortly after electricity and phones were restored there came […]

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The single most evil word in the English language

September 12, 2003

If

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The second most evil word in the English language

September 12, 2003

When

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Phobophobia

September 11, 2003

Via Neil Gaiman comes an index of phobias. It seems that my fear of driving, which could I suppose be loosely interpreted as a fear of cars or vehicles and riding in them, is ?amaxophobia?. However, cruel is the only word to describe the person who decided that a fear of long words should be […]

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Joining in with the new national sport

September 11, 2003

For a limited period only, the new national sport has become Blaine Baiting. Seeing as the pompous idiot has suspended himself in a perspex box within firing range of a bunch of Londoners, it’s really only to be expected that someone at some point should start launching projectiles at him. As far as I know, […]

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Mad world

September 11, 2003

I still can't get over Gary Jules' verison of Tears for Fears' Mad World, used on the Donnie Darko soundtrack. It's strangely and hauntingly beautiful. How on earth anyone could then speed it up and put a dance beat behind it, and still be able to live with themselves afterwards, is beyond me. There's a […]

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Oops. Wrong drug.

September 11, 2003

I'm all for transparency in drug education. Honesty. Telling people the truth about drugs (warning: coke turns you into a twat!), rather than horror stories designed to scare them (warning: e will kill you!). Thus I'm happy to see real scientific studies into drugs to see what they really do, as opposed to people spouting […]

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Hm? what's that I smell?

September 11, 2003

An interesting post about this whole RIAA thing from Jonathan over at The Final Analysis, who links to a Wired article about how the music industry is benefiting from data gathered by a company called BigChampagne which monitors P2P downloads. In a nutshell, BigChampagne tracks downloads then sells – yes, that’s right, sells for actual […]

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