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Oooooh Vienna!

July 1, 2004

Ok, I am off to Vienna tomorrow for BlogWalk on Sunday and BlogTalk on Monday and Tuesday. Blogging will be sporadic at best, so you'll just have to amuse yourselves in my archives for a while. If I owe you an email, sorry, I'll get back to you, er, at some point. If you need […]

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The Wimbledon Dream is over for another year

June 30, 2004

After Tim Henman's amazing match against Mark Philippoussis, I was really looking forward to today's match against Mario Ancic. Henman sparkled on the court against the Australian, but today, well, the sparkle had gone. Ancic is like an octopus – honestly, that man was returning balls that shorter, less gangly men would have missed. He […]

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Tim's through!

June 28, 2004

Best tennis I've ever seen from Tim Henman at Wimbledon this evening. Well, for the first two sets anyway. Got a bit iffy at times during the second two, but pulled of the fourth set tie-break to go through to the quarter finals. He seems to be playing with much more confidence, and is going […]

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Squeaky clean and minty fresh!

June 27, 2004

After a flurry of reinstallations, I am now ready for the beginning of the working week tomorrow. I think I have all the software I use on a daily basis reinstalled, and the stuff that isn't I either still have on CD somewhere, on is lurking in my downloads folder, or can be scraped off […]

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Success… mainly

June 26, 2004

Ok, I now have a computer with Win2k on it, and it's running just fine. I have my essentials installed, and just have to finish up installing other software tomorrow. The only thing that isn't working properly is the display. I have two monitors running off an ATI Radeon 9200 card, but they will run […]

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Beep … beep … beep … beep … beep …

June 25, 2004

Getting ready for the Great Clean Re-Install tomorrow. Backing up like nobody's business. It takes a long time to move so much stuff via wifi to another box. I will have the laptop, so even if the worst should happen I will be able to get online, but I am hoping the the worst will […]

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Where is my head?

June 22, 2004

Been doing a lot of intensive reading today – and I'm not talking Thomas the Tank Engine. I fear my brain is soon going to start dribbling out of my nose. Long evening of writing ahead of me. Results will be worth it though. I hope. Please cross your fingers.

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Scholes scores!

June 21, 2004

Ok, so it looks like he gets a foot in the crotch, but he didn't really. 15 mins to go, England are up 3-2 against Croatia, there's a blog post in this about digital cameras on the touchline and the immediacy they provide, but I can't write it tonight. Fingers crossed England don't pull defeat […]

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Happy Solstice!

June 21, 2004

Why does the midsummer solstice always creep up on me every year? You'd think I'd have got used to it by now, but no, every 21st June I think 'Oh my! That came around quick!' And every year I think 'Oh, so now we start the long descent into winter. Damn. I'd only just got […]

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Unintended effects

June 19, 2004

Ok, so it's been about a week now that I've been on this six-meals-a-day plan and so far it's been equal parts good and bad. Some days it is amazingly difficult to stick to, some days it is easy. I have modified my diet a little bit: more fruit, veg, nuts and seeds; less simple […]

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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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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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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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Six meals a day

June 10, 2004

Ok, so this post feels a bit odd for me, a bit too confessional, but I'm gonna go all counter-intuitive and post anyway. I figure that if it's of no interest, you'll just skip it. A couple of months ago I fainted. On what was, I guess, a date. A first date at that. Luckily […]

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Sunday's little get together

June 10, 2004

Sunday night, after NotCon, a bunch of us met up for dinner at the Anglesea Arms in Kensington. Guilty parties were: Stephanie aka bunny, James Cox aka imajes, Jason from South Africa, Jyri Engeström, Gerard aka insert coin, Matt Freestone, Perry de Havilland, Hugh Macleod aka gapingvoid, Julian Bond aka jbond, Mike Jones aka imsickofmaps, […]

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