Diary: March 2005
It was my birthday yesterday! For the third time this year, yay! :)
Leela came over with breakfast and lots of presents - the new Lemon Jelly album, Dodgeball dvd, a book called 'The curious incident of the dog in the night-time', and a box of extremely tasty cookies and flapjacks. Then we went out for lunch and had a sandwich at that place that used to be called Mudd - they were like Pitstop sandwiches, only with less bread. Very good. Then we went and saw Hotel Rwanda at the cinema - not a particularly cheery birthday film, but it was very good ...
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My replacement hard drive arrived yesterday, which is good. It was delivered to the shop on the corner because I was out - I looked up the signature on the ParcelForce delivery tracking service, then looked up the name in the phone book. I think I would make a good detective, apart from all of the paperwork, I don't think that would suit me. I see myself as more of a rebellious yet stylish LA cop who busts drug lords and slave traders and child pornography rings while dealing out my trademark catch phrases and having a witty repartee with ...
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I am fed up with software written by developers who know best.
Open office falls into this category. I just typed 'February 2005' into a cell in a spreadsheet, and it converted it to '01/02/05'. Did I mean 01/02/05? No, if I'd meant that, I would have typed it in - I actually meant the whole of February. So I have now spent 10 minutes looking for the option to turn it off, haven't found it, and have given up, opting for the add-random-characters-to-confuse-their-parser approach.
This is of course not a problem that open office ...
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Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of this is my life. Today I am going to talk about nothing in particular, before rattling on about something that only I am interested in or have any clue what it is that I'm talking about, and then finishing before I fall asleep at the keyboard.
The past few days have been busy but fun. I was going to go home on Monday, but didn't leave until Tuesday because I wasn't feeling well at the weekend, so decided to put off the journey until I was convinced that I ...
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When putting on those muff-style circumaural headphones (you know, the ones that cover your ears), check the insides for spiders...
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