Diary: February 2008
It's two weeks since my last entry, and two weekends since Leela's birthday. Things have been busy! On the 26th I took Friday to Monday off, sent Leela to a spa on Friday, and over the rest of the weekend we traveled round the countryside visiting exciting places and doing exciting things, including trips to museums, galleries, theatres and a zoo. It was awesome, and there was cake. I have many photos, some of which will find their way onto this website at some point.
In other news, last week I moved my mail servers, so if you ...
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Am I the only person who gets freaked out when I'm wearing headphones and someone comes into the room behind me and taps me on the shoulder without me hearing them?
More to the point, am I the only person who tries to prevent it by pointing all of my webcams behind me so I have a full 360 view of the room without moving my head?
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As all regular readers know, I've had a long and happy history with Play, so I'm extremely pleased to see that they're the first UK company to bring us DRM-free MP3s. At last, I can stop buying my music from the Ruskies!
I went straight in to buy something, and must admit I'm a little disappointed; it's just EMI at the moment, so a lot of the artists are a bit rubbish, and - as always with Play - it's a bit of a pain to browse for what you want, or for what you might ...
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I'd forgotten it was half term this week. Needless to say, by the time my train had reached Kemble this morning, I had remembered.
I was surrounded by children, who were all shrieking or crying, while their parents stared on in admiration, oblivious to the fact that they're in a quiet carriage and that people around them were trying to work. Yes, I dare say that if it had been my child I would have also taken great pride in its ability to make enough noise to piss off the entire train, but as the lucky passenger who ...
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