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And now back to your regularly scheduled programming:
The Glastonbury Festival (aka Pilton Pop by locals) is over for another year. Two years this time actually. Not having been this year, I have no funny stories for [...]

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Time to get serious for a moment.
The following is an email I’ve sent to pretty much everyone in my address book, but there are people out there who I don’t have current addresses for (Ceres, and JB, for starters), so I’m talking about it here as well.
~*~
Dear all,
On the 17th of July I will be [...]

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Aren’t you lucky lucky people - a post a day for the last three days! And it’s not that my life has been that exciting really. I’m just in the mood to blog.
Follow up on the whole mouse issue: I now have a new mouse, Kevin. He was a bargain from Argos. Cordless, rechargable, and [...]

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I am on the hunt for a new mouse, and the traditional techniques of a trap and some cheese are just not working. My trusty mouse (Kenny) is on the verge of giving up the ghost as we speak - the number of post-its around my computer are multiplying exponentially as I frantically work out/define [...]

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I do like it when I’m right. It doesn’t happen often enough, so when it does, I gloat.
I mentioned just the other day that as Pilton Pop (that’s Glastonbury Festival for you grockles), was this weekend, would expect to see the heatwave end 1 [It is possible I said this in my head and not [...]

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…This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. (Jef Raskin)
Which is my way of saying: ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I loath computers with a firey firey passion, and wish that we all still did things with pen, paper, and an abacus. No, that’s still too high tech. I want us to go [...]

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I doubt any of you will have noticed, but I haven’t got a pb at the gym for a while. There are several reasons for this. When I was in the midst of assignment-hell, I barely left the house for three weeks, let alone went to the gym. This is now over. But, for some [...]

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At least when you are in San Francisco.
Well, that’s what Moose says is the law there.
WARNING!
What follows is the first of my thesis-related rants. There will no doubt be many more over the next three months, but I’m starting as I mean to go on. Feel free to avert your gaze. On the other hand, [...]

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I have been tagged. No, not as painful as it sounds, though it did cause me to actually use my brain and come up with decent answers for once. I have no objection to responding to it because reading is one thing that I couldn’t do without. I had tried to do something along these [...]

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There just aren’t enough words…
Suica commercial
Eternal love and devotion to JB for finding this. I can now die happy.
On a similar penguin-in-advertising note, I’ve just remembered the penguins in the Switch/Maestro advert, and in the recent Oasis advert1. [Not totally sure if I mean Oasis, but it is some form of drink that is meant [...]

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