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Christmas 2011
Christmas morning: Woken up by parents (revenge for the last 15 years of 6am Christmases ( Read more... ) -
The King has returned
So, I managed to round up a couple of people from work and finally got around to seeing The Lion King while it was in the local cinemas. Personally, this is one of my favourite movies when I was growing up (I was about 8 at the time it came out) and I think it's survived the test of time in reasonably good form. It's been called Hamlet with Lions ( Read more... ) -
Huuuuuuurgh
Some days it just feels like you can't say anything right.
Some days this goes of for the whole week.
Let's try again in the morning. -
Grumble Grumble Grumble
Has anyone noticed LiveJournal ads getting really obnoxious lately?
First "ad-free" journals have them if you're not signed in.
Livejournal is hijacking links (with hidden Javascript) again! I noticed that it makes links in my friends page fail to load when I try and open new tabs (rather than just click them).
And now I just got blasted with a full ( Read more... ) -
Christmas
Hooray. It seems that I've managed to almost survive another year and back into the full swing of things after last year's sojourn.
Christmas has been a lot of catching up with relatives and eating of Christmas fare. All the usual fun of meeting up with different sides of the family (including the slight surprise of meeting a new cousin/aunt). Also ( Read more... ) -
Q&A Time (joee_girl's 5 question meme)
Leave me a comment saying "Gesundheit ( Read more... ) -
The REAL history of Ada Lovelace
As a Computer Science nerd geek student, I have a bit of an interest in the foundations of the Science. The underpinnings stretch a long way back, back to the foundations of logic in ancient Greek times by Aristotle and more recently with the ideas of computation, algorithms in the 19th and 20th century by folks like George Boole, Charles Babbage ( Read more... ) -
Desktop Wallpaper Meme (via janusd)
The Rules:- Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper.
- Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
- Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!
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Back in town
Well, here were are. The second week back home in Melbourne. And it's certainly been interesting. Catching up with family, friends, getting used to the old chores, fixing things that broke while away, getting used to not dropping down to the pub with Edinburgh mates every Monday ( Read more... ) -
Exams over = very yes!
It's finally over. After Ten exams I just crashed in a heap this weekend. None of them were too horrible, but 3 weeks with nothing but stress lurking over your back is never fun ( Read more... )