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• 27th April 2004 at 16:03

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This is the sound I have been listening to for the past 24 hours. Well, a lot of the past 24 hours, but I did go to sleep.

What is it?

It's the sound of inevitability. It's the sound of Okama's imminent death.

Well, actually it's the sound of my chipset fan spinning irrationally and occasionally pausing for breath. And it might not make much difference if it fails, but then again it might, so I've ordered a new one anyway, and it should get here tomorrow - with my dissertation deadline just round the corner, I don't want to risk working on an unstable system.

It was for that reason that I also bought a fancy hard drive cooler, which arrived today. My previous drives messed up, so I bought a new one, but it didn't fit in the 3.5" bays at the same time as the covers for the bays. Which wasn't really very good. So I now have something big and shiny in a 5.25" bay, with a button that lets me change the fan speed. At the moment it's on 'low' and running at 29C (or 84F) - even though that's currently 20F hotter than Gainesville FL, I'm told that it's a very nice temperature for the hard drive to be at. Most woosome.

And as for the broken lamp I mentioned, I got some superglue and glued it back together. Only I forgot that the cable was supposed to go through the middle of the bit that I superglued shut. Still, on the plus side, I think the superglue has made the break as good as new, it's as solid as a rock, despite many prising attempts...

Dissertation is making progress. Well, at least I hope it is, I haven't looked at it for a while. I told it to finish off the chapter by tonight, so I'll have a look then.

Anyway, time to leave you, singing:

I've got ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas,

I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge,

I've got lost of lovely lire,

Now the Deutschmark's getting dearer,

And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

There is nothing quite as wonderful as money,

There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash,

Some people say it's folly,

But I'd rather have the lolly,

With money you can make a splash.

There is nothing quite wonderful as money,

There is nothing like a newly minted pound,

Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker,

It's accountancy that makes the world go round.

You can keep your Marxist ways

For it's only just a phase...

For it's money money money makes the world go round.

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