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No diary entries for a week or so... Thats because I havent really had much to post about. And because I'm lazy. Mostly because I'm lazy.

I'm 'teaching' the holiday courses again. Actually, I'm trying to write a diary entry, and the kids keep asking me questions which I have to go answer, so it's taken me 10 minutes to get to here. Fear ickle children, for they are all evil. And just in case any of them or their parents are reading this, to put your minds at rest, I mean every word.

Tristan's on the train to France at the moment. Quite why he want's to go Paris for the weekend, I don't know. Waste of time, money, and he'll probably catch several dangerous diseases and end up having to pay a hefty fine after customs find, hidden in his backpack, two afghans, four vietnamese and eighteen french stow-aways, all in search of a better life. To be honest, who can blame them because, after all, England is a great country. We should play a cruel trick on them by pretending to believe that they wanted to come to Britain, and send them all to Scotland or Wales, or possibly Manchester.

Well, it's now taken 45 minutes to get to here. Oh the pain. Just can't get any work done with these kids asking me questions all the time...

Tried to set up an HTTP tunnel so I could spod and IM, but unfortunately all the HTTP proxies we have here are authenticating proxies, and the HTTP tunnels I can find can't cope with that. Which is a shame. And if you're computer illiterate and didn't understand a word of that, go into a chatroom and shout 'A/S/L? WANT CYBER? WOW, YOU ON AOL TOO?!'.

I should record some set phrases and play them back at the kids whenever they ask. I've just had to show someone how to put a picture into another picture (cut and paste) for at least the 15th time in 3 days. It's amazing how slowly some people can pick things up (although, to be fair, after 19 years I still can't seem to figure out how to use a knife). Anyway, 50 minutes.

What else? Have seen a few films recently; the new Ali G one (watchable), Ocean's Eleven (great), Three To Tango (splendid - Matthew Perry's films all seem to be good... apart from the Microsoft Windows 95 Video... Mr Perry, regular reader that you are, what were you thinking?!), Waynes World (and it was the first time I'd seen it... um... 'interesting'... ;) ), and Commando (wooo! go regular reader Arnie! Looking forward to seeing you in Collateral Damage, and while you're in London for the opening, we really should meet up for that drink).

Ate WAAAY too much chocolate over Easter, and I'm still feeling the after-effects (ie I'm a little hyper and feel sick). Never mind. Most of it was very nice, thank you if you gave me some, and if you didn't, you'd better have a good excuse, or have some for me next time you see me.

Went over to a friend's house yesterday and played Grand Theft Auto 3 on his PS2. That's a fun game - you can kick people to the ground, then beat them until they die and drop their money, do drive-bys with an uzi, steal shotguns from police cars etc. The gameplay is even better than the original, and it's fully 3d to boot. Nice.

Hrpmh. 1 hour and 5 minutes. Just took the kids off to lunch, which is good. Different group this afternoon, learning about the internet. Wonder how many times I'll have to tell them how to get to The Bubblegum Club website...

Hmm, can you sense the pain I'm suffering here?

Then again I'm getting paid quite a bit. But it's not enough. It could never be enough. After the 6 weeks of this in the summer, I hate this place. This zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I cant stand it any longer. It's the smell. If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I feel as if I have somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive, isnt it. I must get out of here. I must get free. And in this mind is the key, my key. *

*Achem*

Sorry. But after 6 weeks, I actually do stink of children. It's horrible, takes me the rest of the holiday to get clean... Anyway...

Don't think there's anything much else to say, apart from Neve Campbell looks a lot better in Three to Tango than she does in Scream. Sorry, I know you're a regular reader and all, but it's true.

Well, it seems I lied to you at the start - I did have quite a bit to tell you. Although none of it was interesting, so I was almost right. And since you've just read all this, and I'm guessing you're now disappointed and contemplating revenge, here's something to cheer you up.

Well, I'm off to play Jared at Quake 2, then corrupt some kids by pointing them at rotten.com (I don't want to know what you were searching for when you found that, stu). Heheh, the fun just doesnt stop in my little world...

Oh, and if you're reading this, please email me! I can check my e-mails from here! It's my only form of communication! Argh!

Well, that's computer art finished. They've done the stuff I was going to do, so they're playing web games and doing more pictures. They're having fun, they've done the work and I'm getting paid. Everyone's happy.

Now all I need is earplugs.

And e-mails! Send me e-mails!

Got my pay slip for this week.

Hmm

Well, I wouldnt say that it's made it more enjoyable, but it certainly made it more bearable...

Mmm. Pub tonight. Yay.

Oh, that's a point; went to the pub with Chris last night, ended up going to see Blade 2. That's a fun little film... no story line whatsoever, but solid violence from start to finish. Apart from some semi-thriller-esque bits when they're walking through some sewer or something, and a couple of filler scenes where they try to inject a little storyline, and fail miserably. But it doesnt matter. Quality violence for all the family.

Well, I'm enjoying ADSL, and I managed to max it out just now :)

Had a good weekend; went to a LAN on Saturday, played games for a few hours, then I went to the pub and drank. Got home, plugged in my computer, tried to go on the internet, realised I wasn't on the network, so plugged it in... that was fun... Woke up today and realised I was on the 10mbit hub rather than the 100mbit switch (which I took to the lan in case it was going to be useful)... swapped them over. And to think you didn't believe me when I said I have an exciting life... Shaun just brought Mir back to me (I left it at the lan for some people to use for, um, backup purposes). In case you didn't know, Mir is my uni linux machine... A linux machine with a 160gb hard drive on a 100mbit internet connection...

Aaaaaaaanyway, went to see Collateral Damage today. When you hear the plot, you think 'Oh, standard Arnie film' - someone kills his wife and kids, he goes off on a killing spree. Well, if you think that, go watch this film - you'll be pleasantly surprised. Because it's exactly what you were hoping for, but persuading yourself that Hollywood would have messed up with some romance or over-complicated story line. OK, to be honest, the beginning is cheesy and crap. But it gets better quite quickly, and there are some classic lines in there. Worth watching :)

And I would just like to say that my 7up at the Odeon really really sucked tonight. It was carbonated water; I'm pretty sure someone forgot to put the syrup in.

BTW, thanks to everyone who sent me an email after my desperate plea for emails. Thanks Ben Charlton and radiac...

What else? Oh yeh, took the duck test:

Aw, cheer up little ducky. Why so glum?

And last, but certainly not least, thanks to Something Awful for todays link... go here and watch the 'Hooked on a feeling' video... you will be truly impressed :)

My internet connection has been continuously up for over a week now, but now I need to recompile my kernel...

Nothing much, just felt like posting a diary entry.

Watched a few films today and yesterday, including '2001', 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'The Whistle Blower' (last one's only £5 from play.com... hmm, they should be paying me, what with me keeping them in the black and advertising for free to boot). All quite good.

There was a good story linked from slashdot basically about how Mr Lucas of Star Wars fame is an unimaginative literary theiving bastard (no offence intended, frequent reader George), and how he should give credit where it's due, with the authors of stories he's ripped chunks out of, and stuck together with a large tube of super-glue and a couple of rolls of Selotape. And from there I found a story about a Star Wars fan who disliked Episode 1 so much he recut it and released it on the internet as 'The Phantom Edit'. Interesting, very interesting. Also very sad.

Speaking of being sad, I've spent my day working on a website which I'm very possibly never going to see go live, let alone see any money for. They don't like the first version, and whether the second version ever sees light of day (and I get any money) depends on how fast I can get it finished, and that depends on how fast people give me information to put on the site. Ie I'm very possibly never going to see it go live...

And I'm still enjoying ADSL. Must be about to hit 10gb total downloaded, thats ignoring what I must have uploaded... steady 10kb/sec for the past week and a half? Ow...

Went to the pub with Chris. Had a little difficulty parking in the spaces at the side of the road... first I tried driving into one, just about got it straight, but I was about 4 feet away from the pavement. Then I parked in a drive-straight-in space, but decided to move because it had those 'don't park here' lines all over it. I then tried reverse parking in a similar space to the first one, and ended up about 4 feet on the pavement. In the end, I got out and went to the pub... *shrug* at least it was easy to find...

Tonbridge School website is going well. Doing an events section now...

And I'm back to university on Sunday. How exciting. Will probably be back soon though...

I am a Thrust-ship. I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. I hate rocks. Bloody rocks. What Video Game Character Are You?

Myess....

Been playing with winamp 3 today. There's a nice skin you can put on it to make it sit in the corner. And it does transparency very nicely.

Also went to Tonbridge to deliver some bounced emails (someone forgot to pay for the .org address, where all emails go)...

Heh. So drunk.

Haven't been this drunk since, oooh, the weekend before the new year (failing that, the summer holiday). Honestly it is a wonder that i'm managing to type (although it did take me 15 minutes to get this far without any spelling mistakes ;) )

And with that, I'm off to drink a bottle or two of volvic so I don't feel too bad in the morning... good night,,,,

I'm back at uni, nearing the end of the first full day, everything's back to normal.

But due to my dad's very bad job of packing them into the boot, my two desktop uni machines, Mir and Okama, are now scratched. Okama's case is a Lian Li PC60 (big shiny aluminium thing), that has a few small scratchey dents on the front right corner, not too bad. However, Mir (the tiny machine in the Shuttle SV24 case) was sitting right next to the bottom of Okama, and the way my Dad drives... well, one side is scratched all over.

*Sigh*

Life sucks sometimes.

Anyway, found Need To Know, which has some quite funny/interesting links. Worth checking out...

The Italian Job game arrived yesterday! And it absolutely sucks!

How anyone could make a game that bombs so completely, given the fact that this is one of the greatest films of all time, is beyond my comprehension. It's a straight port of the playstation game. Well, ok, they added support for a keyboard controller. But that's about it. The graphics suck, the gameplay sucks, it sucks. And to top it all off, the film DVD has been pushed back to August 5th. That must be at least a year and a half later than its original release date... Grr... *Sigh* at least the game was only £14 from Play.com...

The next DVD of Stargate SG1 arrived today (although I haven't watched it yet), and I made another Sainsburys online order today (they're going to hate us again - 32 bottles of water...), bought some things off ThinkGeek.com (couple of t-shirts, some mints and some fridge magnets :) ), and, of course, some more DVDs off Play.com.

I found The Internet Archive earlier tonight... have been re-living some happy memories - Jackie's Force9 Rogues Gallery, Planetquake when it was about the only version of Quake worth playing - and some of my past mistakes :)

All good fun.

And omg there seem to be a lot of these around now:

	You are Rowlf! You don't draw attention to yourself much, preferring to keep your cool and stay in the background.
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

Oh, and Tristan has now apparently made it his mission to get mentioned in my diary more than anyone else. So that's why I'm not going to mention him again :)

Oooh, and hey, just noticed we've broken 10,000 hits to the front page! W00t! And probably only half of them were me! :p

I wonder if it works...

'Bullit' and 'Jackie Brown' arrived today - two more cheapo ones from Play.com.