Diary: January 2005

Hurrah!

I'm a day late on this one, but here's a proper entry seeing out last year, which had many incredibly good things and many incredibly bad things, and seeing in the new year, which brings with it many challenges and blah blah blah. How about I skip all that and get down to what really matters; my predictions. Last year I predicted many things, and got them all bang on, so this year I'm going to do the same again and see just how well I can do.

  • Scientists will invent a small space ship with impulse ...

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I Help Support Terrorism! (maybe)

I have created an account on mp3search.ru, apparently legal, but could just be a front for the Russian Mafia. It would be an alternative explanation as to why it hasn't been shut down, due to the authorities being afraid. And as various government authorities are keen to tell us, the mafia funds prostitution and drug smuggling and dvd counterfeiting and terrorism and other evil things. So I may have just contributed to their funds. However, I prefer to believe what I read, so I've actually just bought 330 songs for $30. Whatever.

This shouldn't be funny ...

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We Love Obscure Problems

So, today I woke up with the aim of getting down to some work. I've been holding off as long as possible in the hope that someone I'm working with would send me his work before I start so I can make sure we're going in the same direction, but with the deadline looming (less than 3 months away now), I thought it was probably time to just get started.

So, up at 8.10, scared Laura by waving at her, had a shower, had breakfast, greeted the gas man and pointed him at the central heating ...

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Time Flies When You're Bored

So much work. Woke up this morning at 9.30 to many many e-mails from one person wanting updates done to the website, had a phone call later from another person wanting things fixed and added to something I did for them, so I have spent all day fixing/updating/whatever their stuff, and I still haven't got on to the Flash to catch up on what I missed yesterday because of what I missed the day before because of the samba thing. So now I have lost an entire day from the Flash project, and although I would ...

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