Welcome to the Blogosphere!

January 8, 2007

I'm happy to say that my T'Other has finally got himself his own blog. It's fantastic having him on Strange Attractor, of course, but that's our work blog and frankly we talk about work far too much already. So Kev's started himself a WordPress blog: A little Jack with that? There, he says he's going […]

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Typo, typo, how I love thee

December 29, 2006

I haven't had a chance to look at my Ruby on Rails for a few weeks, but finally on Wednesday I had a few hours to play with it. I had left my charger in the suitcase that Kevin had by his desk at work, though, so my window of opportunity would last only as […]

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I've got my replacement phone

December 26, 2006

Haven't had a chance to blog before now, but Saturday, as soon as we got off the coach in Dorset, Dad took us down to Poole to pick up my replacement Nokia E61. Phew. I have to say, the staff in the Poole Carphone Warehouse were lovely, and the entire unpleasant experience was very much […]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have a lovely day today, and that Santa has seen fit to spoil you rotten!

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Good news about the phone

December 22, 2006

I had a message last night that Carphone Warehouse have accepted my claim and that I can go into any branch and pick up my replacement Nokia E61. Yay!! Very pleased about that (although I'll be more pleased when I actually have it in my hands – tend to be a little wary of getting […]

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Just had my phone stolen

December 18, 2006

I think I'm going to give up on mobile phones. My shiny new Nokia E61, which I purchased a mere 19 days ago, just got stolen. I was chatting to a friend on my way to Waitrose, and when I got there I put the phone in my coat pocket and picked up a basket. […]

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WordPress and importing/exporting content

December 17, 2006

Having decided that yes, I am going to look through all my old posts to see if any of them might possibly work in dead tree form, the next thing to do is figure out precisely how to do that. My current preferred methodology is to have a local installation of WordPress on my Macbook, […]

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Book meme

December 17, 2006

Although Wendy didn't tag me, I'm going to do this book meme anyway, because I think it's fun. Grab the book closest to you. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog Name of the book and the author Tag three people Ok… […]

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Deg o bethau i wneud yn Gymreg ar y we

December 10, 2006

1. Gwyliwch teledu efo S4C Mae 'na lawer o raglenni teledu ar gael ar wefan S4C nawr. Dach chi'n str?Æmio 4 Wal, Chez Dudley, a Natur Anghyfreithlon, a lot o betha eraill. Yn anffodus, does 'na ddim is-deitlau, sydd poen yn y din amdani i (achos dw i ddim deallt unrhywbeth fod Dudley'n dweud.) 2. […]

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Where have all the Christmas carols gone?

December 10, 2006

This morning, having woken up in a particularly good mood, I decided to play the mix CD that my friend Stuart had kindly (and unexpectedly) made and sent me with my first Christmas card of this year. The first track was the wonderful Nos Galan, by the Treorchy, Morriston Orpheus & Pontarddulais Male Choirs with […]

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I'm all for not exaggerating beauty but…

December 4, 2006

I just saw an ad on Sky Three promoting the concept that using condoms is cool. Four young lads are walking through the park to have a game of footie. Boy A asks Boy B if Boy B could give him back the condom he loaned him. Boy B says no, he's used it. Intercut […]

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A hypothetical question

December 3, 2006

If you were to find yourself in a lift with blogger who had, say, been writing for the last… oh, four and a half years, and that blogger said that, despite an underlying feeling that it was in some way cheating, she was considering pulling together some of her best posts and tidying them up […]

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Thank you for Amelie

December 3, 2006

Earlier in the year, someone, somewhere bought the Amelie DVD for me, from my Amazon wish list. I don't know who you are, but thank you. Because I hadn't changed my address on Amazon, the DVD went to my parents' house in Dorset, and arrived whilst they were in Australia. My brother forwarded it on, […]

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Posted from my new Nokia E61

November 30, 2006

Currently at home, using my Nokia E61 to post to my blog using the standard Blogware web interface, via my Dad's wifi. Nice!

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So much for a quiet day

November 27, 2006

Jeeze, but it's been a mad day. I had thought that today would be a nice quiet day – land at Gatwick at 10am, potter home, repack my bags and then mosey down to Waterloo to catch the train to Bournemouth. How wrong can you be? The madness started almost as soon as I got […]

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