I have “Especially For You” by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan going round my head at the moment. I have no idea why, and I wish it would go away! Help!
December, 2005
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Evil 80′s Pop!
December 31, 2005 by Cas
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Merry Christmas
December 23, 2005 by Cas
I’ll wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year now, because I am returning to the Land that Broadband Forgot (Somerset), and so will be stuck with an expensive and unreliable dial-up connection till I return in about a week.
Also, you know, I should spend some time with the family. I mean, I am going back to see them after all
Eat lots, watch lots of bad movies, drink too much (if you are so inclined), and generally be merry.
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yoghurty-goodness
December 23, 2005 by Cas
The Cute Canadian has his moments, the latest being when he braved blizzard conditions to tromp into Toronto to get me some yoghurt covered pretzels, and mailed them to me to arrive in time for Christmas.Don’t ask me to explain yoghurt covered pretzels to you. I tried on as a dare on time when I was visiting Brother Dearest in NY, and I got hooked. I think it’s one of those Marmite things – you either love them, or you hate them. They are also impossible to find in this country. Not “get them in a specialist store in London” impossible. “Google can’t find what you are looking for” impossible.
Always one to try and find the silver lining in every situation, I decided that the CC having to return to his native land for a short while was an excellent opportunity to feed my craving for salty, yoghurt-covered goodness. (OY! No, not like that you dirty minded so and so’s!)
A huge box of them arrived this morning, and I am having to restrain myself from gobbling the entire lot in one go. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
*does the Homer-drool*
(And yes, odd choice of Technorati tags, and very ugly formatting, but I want to check two things before I add them to the template proper. (1) how well this new Perfomancing extension works, and (2) if Technorati likes my new blog anymore than the old, and is indexing my tags yet.)
Technorati Tags: yoghurt+covered+pretzels, performancing
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Anyone got any crayons so I can colour in my Ph.D?
December 22, 2005 by Cas
So maybe not a Ph.D (that comes next – maybe), but still an MSc.
Yup. Handed it in this morning.
Wish I could feel more excitement, but I’m just too exhausted.
Anyway, that’s me done. Excuse me if I don’t blog for a day or so. I just want to sleep. I might blog, but I also might not. I’m not sure.
First things first though, I can now install OS X Tiger like I promised myself I would when I got done. Yay
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My Cas, what shiny teeth you have…
December 21, 2005 by Cas
Ok, I am an odd individual. I printed out the final (bar typos and adding figures) version of the thesis last night, and what’s making my day?
Discovering that Macleans White’n'Shine toothpaste now comes in a clear tube.
Actually, if you think about it, that’s not such a bad idea. Never again will I wonder if there’s enough toothpaste left in the tube for one last squeeze (at least until I get another brand at any rate).
It’s been rather a disjointed couple of days regarding toilettries. Awful Radox shower-gel. Wonderful Macleans toothpaste. What does the rest of the week have in store I wonder?
And before you ask, no, I am not being paid by the manufacturers of my toothpaste to big it up on the World Wide Web. You’d think they’d have the sense to pick on a blogger with a readership of more than about five (ten maybe in a good week).
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Performancing First Thoughts
December 20, 2005 by Cas
Feel free to ignore this Mini Meadow post. I am trying out a new tool from Performancing. I’ll let you know what I think of it when I’ve had a chance to play with it some.
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Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway
December 20, 2005 by Cas
If someone were to ask me today for one piece of advice, I would gift them with the following piece of knowledge:Always check the scent of your shower-gel before you purchase it.
I forgot to do that last time I went shopping and this morning I found myself emerging from the shower emanating a subtle fragrance of apricots.
I loathe the smell of apricots.
Normally, having a shower is one of the highlights of my day – at least, it gets my day off to a good start. Today though it was ruined by the sickly sweet aroma of apricots.
Damn.
So, just a tip – check before you buy!
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excuse me whilst I just go lie down in the corner and die…
December 19, 2005 by Cas
:shock_tb:
Miracles will never cease.
I am sitting here with a full, yes that is full second draft of the thesis.In case you didn’t here me properly just then over my shrieks of jubilation, I am sitting here looking in blank bewilderment at upwards of 35,000 words that I wrote myself about how archaeologists and wikis could be a match made in heaven (or not, but that would be telling
).Yes, after six months, the thing that has literally broken me into a useless puddle of uselessness is very nearly finished.
Now I’ve just got to go and make it 15,000 words fewer (that’s what appendices are for
) and check that in my insanity I haven’t concluded by calling my supervisor a penguin or something.Looks like I will be handing it in for Christmas after all.
Don’t look at me like that! It could happen.
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Ouch!
December 18, 2005 by Cas
Wow. Moving your blog to a new domain is one sure fire way of completely removing your presence from the web. In one fell swoop, my Google page rank has dropped from a slightly-alive 3 to a very-very dead zero. Ditto my Technorati presence (9 to nil).
This is a general call to everyone out there – if you have a link to me please can you update it? It’s most likely going to be in a linkroll you’ve forgotten about, or on some ‘about’ page.
I’m not saying that I used to have a *large* web presence, but, well, I wouldn’t mind getting back to where I was before
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The important thing is not to stop questioning
December 18, 2005 by Cas
Ok, how many people live in Antarctica? Seriously, I am curious, because my host-stats include a breakdown of traffic from the continent of Antarctica. Not surprisingly, I have no people visiting me from Antarctica. I have one person from Nambia, another from the Sudan, and 6 from Uruguay (I like the name of Uruguay), but none from the frozen polar wastes. Odd, that. The Arctic doesn’t have a column, so why should the Antarctic?
If, by some very very odd coincidence, I now have readers reading this from some Antarctic research station, then hello! I was wrong, quite clearly. Oh, and can you get me a picture of some penguins?
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