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Everything I needed to watch, I learned from XKCD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)
We're ten episodes into a Nathan Fillion (Mal from Firefly) series, and nobody's told me yet?
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DreamWidths "improved" access controls
Alledgedly, DreamWidth has better access controls than LiveJournal. At least, that's what people seem to think. The actual explanation is over at http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=124
Actually, it looks to me as though it's worse than LJ ( Read more... ) -
LJ Crosspost test
Ahah. I was getting thoroughly confused by DreamWidth's crossposting form, because the form has half a dozen visible fields, which are then hidden with JavaScript. Since I was running noScript, they didn't hide. And left me wondering what they all did.
With the JavaScript running, it all became trivial! -
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No, you daft bugger! If you throw the knife at them, you haven't got the knife any more!
http://wimble.mybrute.com -
Fastest snail in the world
Look at that S car go ( Read more... ) -
Worst Journey Ever!
Left home around 12.30 this afternoon, for the 180 mile drive to Eastercon, at Bradford ( Read more... ) -
Must write a proper update
... but, in the meantime:
You've seen the episodes of Blue Planet with baitballs, right? (It's probably every weekend on cable!)
It turns out there's an arms race:
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Redemption
Am packed, and stuff is all in the car. Things like clothes, laptop, last night's episode of Lost freshly downloaded.
Amazingly, it all went into the boot, despite the size of some of the toys I was instructed to load up.
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I know. I'm sad.
After the debacle of failing to find my MOT certificate last week, the garage gave me a new certificate which runs from the expiry date of the old one anyway. Amazing what you can do with these electronic centralized systems, ain't it? (Turns out I'd got until tommorrow ( Read more... ) -
Lost and Found
Things not found:
my current MOT certificate.
my V5 document (the ownership document).
Things found:
My previous MOT certificate. It expired on 15th Feb 2008.
Meh. Maybe now I'll sleep.
ETA: The nice man at http://www.air-cooled-engineering.co.uk/ says they can do me an MOT ( Read more... )