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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I've spent a few hours playing with IE8 b2, and although there are a lot of improvements, they all just seem to fall a little bit short of my expectations:
- InPrivacy: like putting up a "Beware of the dog" sign on your gate, but not buying a dog. Took me less than half an hour to get my cookies to persist across an InPrivacy session. It was so easy I can't help thinking it was by design - after all, Microsoft's ads need to track people too.
- IE8 in IE7 mode is not IE7. It might be close ...
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It has been 2 and a half weeks since LAAFF, so it must be time for a report! The Friday evening saw Tristan, Mark and Meri arrive, followed shortly after by Peter and Charlene, who brought Rock Band. I cooked pizzas and sausage rolls until everyone was full, then I cooked some more just in case. Rock band was played into the night, and resumed in the morning while Laura, Natalie and Simon arrived. We then ate more food, played Mario Kart, and watched the excellent "Ninja Dragon" (which clearly wasn't two unrelated films randomly spliced together) before going ...
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This weekend is the 117th LAAFF: Annual Atrocious Film Festival, and is being held in Cheltenham. The organisers are expecting better attendance than the previous 114 film festivals - which consisted of me slowly working my way through my DVD ollection.
I'm now expecting 8 friends from uni to arrive at my flat at some point today or tomorrow. This is sadly down from 10 as two had to drop out, but the up side is that 8 people are more likely to fit in my flat than 10. Especially as they will be sleeping on the floor.
I am ...
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No entries for weeks? That can mean only one thing - it's business as usual at chateau radiac.
Well, not quite; last week we had a couple of days off and went down to Bath for the day. Went into the bath spa thing for a couple of hours - was very relaxing, especially the steam rooms. Then went over to Shakeaway and had a wander round looking for pigs:
I have also finally joined twitter, so add me or follow me whatever it is you do on this thing.
In my free time over the past few weeks I've ...
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Seen moments ago:
rm -rf /usr/lolcat/nginx
That's some serious typo skills - some part of my brain meant to write that. You know that bit in that show where that guy realises he's going insane? I'm that guy.
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