I suppose I should try out this new posting form everyone was bitching about on the last lj news update. Sure it's a bit brighter than the old one but not so terrible, surely ( Read more... )

I finally got myself a portable Ogg player. It's pretty funky so far - only 20Mb built in storage, but it takes RS-MMC cards, so it's expandable. (It even came with a 64Mb one, but I'll probably pick up a 512Mb one sometime ( Read more... )

I hadn't changed my mobile phone contract since I got my phone, years ago. It's not a bad deal (Everyday 50 on orange, 50p/day for 50 off peak same network minutes, but on peak or off network is pricey), but I don't use my phone much, and when I do it's often on peak. I've been looking around, and saw t-mobile's flext 20 rate (which is 15 pounds a ( Read more... )

I thought this was funny - Magritte meets Crocodile Dundee. From here.


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Yesterday on the train the drunk lunatic sat 2 seats across from me, and held a rather loud and obscene conversation with his imaginary friend who was apparently sat between us. The imaginary friend had apparently accused him of being gay, and the lunatic wasn't best pleased with that. I ignored him, but some other bloke came along to ask him to be ( Read more... )

I'm 30 years old (have been for a while now if you weren't paying attention). I live in a country where it's legal to buy alcohol from the age of 18, and since I don't look particularly young for my age or anything, I've never been asked to provide proof of age for buying stuff. Never. Until today. The checkout lady in tesco wouldn't let me buy ( Read more... )

After reading about jaq's recent rails day experience, this upcoming PyWeek thing looks quite interesting. I did once write a game from scratch in a weekend (which was published, and I got paid for), but that was a long time ago, and the game wasn't very good. I have also not done a lot of python programming (I have written about a screenful in total ( Read more... )

Note to CD-WOW: Civilization IV is not the same thing as the Warlords expansion pack for Civilization IV. Pah. Now I must return it and wait longer for the expansion pack fun :(

It's been rather warm lately, which has caused me some trouble with my computers. I can do basic stuff, but compiling/dvd encoding takes the cpu temperature high enough that the motherboard's overheat protection kicks in and shuts it down. This is a little annoying, but it seems to be a couple of degrees cooler today ( Read more... )