I feel the need to write something about the election, partly because all the cool kids are doing it (and, I suspect, have become heartily sick of reading them), and partly because given my rate of LJ-postiness I might not otherwise manage one during the lifetime of this government ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend on a company ski trip. On the downside, the location (Hemsedal) is four hours drive from Oslo, and to save money we flew from Stanstead to Torp, so we essentailly lost a day to travel each way, setting off at an ungodly hour on Friday and getting back Monday evening. On the plus side, the company paid for travel and most of the ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday schlepping boxes and sofas and the like into my new house - the run-up to the move was all a bit fraught as the varying excuses banks use to hang on to money for as long as possible meant it took over a week to transfer the money from my NS&I account to current account and be able to pay it out - as such I was making the bank ( Read more... )

Well, I've now signed the contract on the house, and in theory there won't be any more delays until I can take possession on the 5th of next month. Go house!

I've finally given in and joined Facebook; resistant as I've been to the idea of belonging to two different and incompatible social networking sites (I still think some sort of LJ/Facebook/Twitter/Bebo/Myspace aggregator would do well) it was simply becoming too much hassle not to.


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LARP has always seemed one of those things I'd enjoy, but I've never had the impetus to actually take part in properly. But this weekend I was invited up to Broxbourne to monster at a Lorien Trust Lions event - monstering meant I didn't have to worry overmuch about character or kit, but could just focus on hitting people with latex weapons ( Read more... )

I was woken up at around 2:15 this morning by a crashing noise from the other side of the house. Since in my time I've managed to cheerfully sleep through fire alarms, storms, and a couple of earthquakes, it must have been a hell of a noise. Anyway, there are a few more bumps, so I pull on my dressing gown and slippers and grab a torch ( Read more... )

A mere decade after Kazaa, there's finally a service I can download music from legally which fits my various requirements (mp3 format, decent bitrate, no DRM) - play.com, who I already had an account with because they sell cheap DVDs ( Read more... )

I've been working on Windows GUI code recently, and was tickled to discover that when it came to drawing a border, my variables names produced a lovely cascade effect when it came to lengths. Defining all four edges of a window, as well as the four corners, produces:
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