life

I'm not the only one with a line on my PowerBook

February 21, 2005

Just sitting in a Starbucks in San Francisco with Dave NTK Green, Danny NTK O'Brien and Maciej Stachowiak, using Danny's PowerBook which used to be Cory Doctorow's. It has a whitish-yellowish line just like mine. Suddenly I feel in such good company. Had a great lunch with some great conversation and stuff I'd blog if […]

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Damn jetlag

February 19, 2005

Why is it that the one night I really need a full night's sleep, I get only four hours because my stoopid brain thinks it's time to wake up at 2.40am and refuses to go back to sleep again. I'm gonna be mincemeat by lunchtime. I hate to think how incoherent I am going to […]

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Vancouver, the Shiny City

February 17, 2005

Arrived in Vancouver last night, tired and dying for sleep, yet I managed to say awake long enough to meet up with Jon and his partner Raman, with whom I am staying. Theirs is a lovely flat close into the centre of Vancouver. Jon took me on a whistlestop tour of the city this morning, […]

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Wuwzy Suwzy in The City

February 17, 2005

Whooa, I feel so woozy right now. I'm sitting in a bar at SFO airport and I'm so tired that I feel totally light-headed and all spinny-roundy, despite having not touched a drop of anything more interesting than Sprite. Waiting for my flight up to Vancouver, which starts to board in about and hour and […]

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Off to Vancouver

February 15, 2005

I'm leaving this afternoon to go up to London, and will be flying out to Vancouver via San Francisco tomorrow. It's going to be a long journey, but I have books, copies of the New Scientist, my iPod and my laptop, so no real excuse for getting bored. If you're going to be at Northern […]

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Lunch in San Francisco, 21 Feb

February 14, 2005

I am going to have a few hours to kill in San Francisco on 21 Feb, so I thought it would be nice to have lunch with whomever's around. My good friend Maciej is going to pick me up from the airport and we'll be meeting up with Kevin as well, so if anyone else […]

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4-0!

February 14, 2005

Went to see AFC Bournemouth play Oldham Athletic yesterday and, as you may have sensed already, we won 4-0. My brother works for one of the club sponsors so we were in an executive suite this time round, which made a nice change from the last match I saw from the terraces when it was […]

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Ick

February 11, 2005

I hate eye infections. They itch and the ointment makes me half blind. *whines*

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Very proud

February 3, 2005

Yesterday I got the news that crw, my better half, has got the job he applied for at Six Apart. He starts working there as a Software Engineer on 1 March, so has to get all his stuff together and move across the country from Rochester NY to San Francisco before then. It's a big […]

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Oh, the irony

February 3, 2005

When I landed at Heathrow after an arse-chillingly cold few days in Boston, I went into the Body Shop and asked them for the most moisturising bath stuff they had. They recommended their Africa Spa Indulgent Bath and Shower Cream, so I bought some. How ironic that after a week of using this stuff, my […]

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A glimpse of the past

January 30, 2005

I made this about a year and a half ago. Oddly, I still seem to be having trouble with the financial settings, but otherwise I seem to have troubleshot (troubleshooted?) my life quite successfully. Funny how things going horribly wrong can sometimes turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.

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Boston photos up on Flickr

January 26, 2005

Photographic evidence of my Boston trip, including lunch with Frank, Betsy, Joey, Wendy and Chris: Me, with eyes to match my top, and Chris: And snow. Lots of snow:

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The red line of death

January 26, 2005

Just before Christmas I blogged about how my PowerBook, affectionately known as the 'interim solution', had developed a green line on the screen. Having asked around and actually had my qualified Apple engineer friend Gerard take a poke about inside the screen, it was ascertained that the line probably could not be easily fixed. Well, […]

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Taking the rest of the day off

January 25, 2005

Back, bathed and bloody knackered. Nineteen hours door to door. Think I need a snooze. Sleeping on the plane may keep one from passing out later on, but it's not exactly restful.

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Waiting

January 25, 2005

Unsurprisingly, my flight back to London has been delayed by an hour, so I thought I'd stump up for the wifi and play online for a bit. Kills time faster than reading, I tend to find. At least they have wifi here at the gates which is a blessing. Was a delight to meet up […]

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