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Uhng, I hate these early mornings.

Well, here's the interesting stuff that's happened to me recently:



And thats why I haven't made any diary posts.

I've just had a look through my logs at the referers, and search engines referals in particular... and you would not believe the kind of things some people have searched for when they end up at my 'guide to love'...

To those of you who fall into this category... YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK! GET OFF MY WEBSITE!

Hello everyone. I'm back at home again. Very exciting.

My exhaust just fell off.

I was driving round a corner, and heard a 'clunk' noise, then a 'ktzzzzzzzzzzzz' noise.

I stopped and looked - the ftoopid thing's snapped and fallen off.


On another note, just read an interesting article at the register about SI names for multiples of bytes; ie a kilobyte is actually 1000 bytes, and 1024 bytes is actually a kibibyte... Well, I thought it was interesting... I know, I know...

Anyway, AMD is planning on bringing out a processor in 2003 that will perform at 4400 mhz... mmm nice, I'll take two please...

It's my last evening in sevenoaks during this reading week thing. Going to the pub in a bit (wooo :))

Someone just pointed me at this. Kinda sick, but kinda funny :)

Hi! I'm back in Bath again after my 'reading' week... the weekends were good fun, but I spent the week (apart from a couple of hours at Tonbridge taking more photos) working on a forum script... my god that was boring.

And I'm on my new computer, trying to make it see other computers on the network so that I can map drives and install stuff...

Hi y'all :)

For some reason, I'm very happy at the moment. w00t! :p

Check out the excusinator...

Also, thanks go to Shaun for pointing me at Day of Defeat (a half-life mod). Very cool WW2. And if you want to give it a go, Sturmbot seems quite good...

Heh, and my laziness reached a new level today; I've worked out how to use my creative remote control to control stuff... now all I need is voice recognition software... :)

Here, play this...

A firework display just started in the field behind the building over from my window - it's very pretty, and free, which is great :)

I'm very annoyed with the bath socks proxy; FTP connection is very slow to do anything, long pauses between commands getting through (it took nearly an hour to upload a 40k file)... I guess the proxy has a maximum number of connections and it has to wait for one to become free before it can use it or something... still, thanks to the rediculous delays, it's taken me all day to debug two subroutines in a perl script... gah.

Apparently reversing while my exhaust pipe was hanging behind the rear wheel wasn't a good idea.

My car now has new tyres.

My dog Eliza was put down at lunch time today.

It wasn't unexpected; she was quite old and had been deteriorating for the past couple of months; first she stopped eating, then she started having fits, then started walking around until she collapsed from exhaustion, kept getting stuck in corners etc. She was no longer the happy bouncy dog who would wag her body at you when you came home, who'd race round the garden madly etc.

Gonna miss her...

Dan Brusca sent me here, and this confirms my suspicion that most of the population of the world are very very stupid. I'm too lazy to think for myself, so here's some of what Dan said:

Proposed legislation in New South Wales will make it a criminal offence to publish online any material unsuitable for children.

It seems to me that legislators in Australia need to be woken up. I don't recall a time when I've ever seen such a draconian piece of legislation denying freedom of speech. It's important that wherever we live we try and stop this legislation being passed. As things stand right now, it's likely that it *will* be passed in the week commencing 26th November 2001.

If you feel strongly about this issue, please visit the EFA's alert page and pass this URL on to
other people. If you have a website, post it here, or to mailing lists and forums that you frequent.

Stand up for people's right to freedom of expression!

Go Dan!

So let's be a good MEDC and help them help themselves...

(Sorry Nick and Simonne, just had to be said ;) )

Grosse Point Blank DVD and 512MB ram arrived today.

Have some other DVDs on order too...

My godfather just sent me the url to some demotivational posters. Very funny.

I have just bought the coolest domain. And you'll love what I've done with the place...

yay.org.uk

'The Whole Nine Yards' arrived on Friday (watched on Friday), and 'Evolution' today (just watched). Both excellent films :)

It looks like 'The Parole Officer' (probably the funniest film of 2001... no, Jurassic Park 3 doesnt count, it was supposed to be scary) will be released on R2 DVD in February 2001. W00t!

Now all I have on order is the next Stargate DVD (released later today iirc! woo!), and 'The Italian Job'. Unfortunately, play inform us that 'the studio has deleted this title for reasons unknown to us'. Which sucks. Maybe they thought it would be bad taste to release such a violent film in the wake of the terrorist attacks on america... dammit, that attitude annoys me. People say 'oh, we can't do such-and-such, that would be such bad taste'. You were going to do it before it happened, if it's *that* wrong you shouldnt really have been doing it in the first place. But I mean, I read somewhere that someone was censoring Counterstrike, so that it was made of 'Attackers' and 'Defenders', and the bomb was replaced with a radio. Oooh, attackers, quick turn on the radio and win. You shouldn't stop there either, replace all the weapons with feather dusters and people don't die, they giggle until they have been tickled so much that they are unable to move due to laughter. Honestly, people should show less sensitivity. Yes it was tragic, yes lets all be upset, but no, don't spoil things that are good because our society is so hell-bent on not offending anyone. Let's face it; if it wasnt for offensiveness, life would be a very boring place.

While on the subject of Counterstrike, I've found some very cool Half-Life mods recently:

• Scientist Hunt - there is a map full of scientists. You have guns. They run...
  
• Snow War - snowball fights! looks good fun, but the only bot patch I could find sucked
  
• Wanted Half-Life - A big Wild West TC. Excellent :)
  
• Azure Sheep - you're a security guard and have to escort a female colleague to safety... again, a big patch, but very much half-life. Something to do while you're waiting for half-life 2...
  
• Day Of Defeat - I know I posted it the other day, but I'm being thorough...
  
• Paintball - looks fun, but couldn't find any bot patches. Also be wary of the link - everywhere says this should be the site, but it looks like a porn site :p

*Shrug* while being thorough... here's some bot stuff

• Pod Bot - excellent bot for Counterstrike
  
• Sturm Bot - bot for Day Of Defeat
  
• Bot Epidemic - the bot site. Every bot for every game. Apart from half life paintball

Also (unrelated) check out Ant City, and who remembers Angband? :)

Well, there's an essay. Think that makes up for some of the lack of posts over the past year and (almost) 7 months (eek!)... So I think I'll go to bed now :)

Oh yeh, and you all know what's going to happen in 4 days time... it's all ready, I just have to type one line into my prompt... :)

It's a Lego movie of the Camelot scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail - click here

I found a very funny site today - Something Awful. Although
this is just plain weird.

Yes, that's right, boys and girls, 6 hours left... hope you're all as excited as me...

Wooooo...

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