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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.

Microsoft Train Simulator

Peter showed me this FAQ for Microsoft's Train Simulator

Q. Can I just sit back and enjoy the ride as a passenger?

A. Yes

Wow. How come I never got this game?!

My Italian Job poster arrived yesterday, and my CD burner arrived today. But I have some work to do before I can start playing with that.

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Test The Nation - Am I Dumb?

Missed Test The Nation last night, not helped by the fact that I dont have a television... anyway, took it just now. Got 128. Apparently above 130 classes as a genius... I think I'll take it again... :)

I've been listening to Herb Alpert tracks all day. He rules.

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Valentines Day

This (thanks person I'm not going to mention!) reminded me that I never stopped/announced the winners of the Valentines 2002 competition. And thats because of the disappointingly low number of entries I recieved. So I declare everyone who posted an entry a winner, and everyone who didnt, a looser. Lo-hoooo-ser.

Some money came through for a website, and I wasn't expecting it, so I bought a Plextor 40 speed cd writer (yep, it reads and writes at 40x... rewrite is a bit slower, but why would I want to rewrite when dabs sell cd-rs at 20p each ...

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Good and Bad

Good news is that I've now nearly finished the first version of tonbridge school's event script; raw csv parsing script is complete, save one new feature I need to add (support for entries which need to be displayed with multiple lines...), and the display script should work without too much hacking.

The bad news is that it's just gone 4 am, and I have a 9.15 tomorrow. Hmm. No, not tomorrow, today. I have a lecture in 5 hours. Hmm.

Time for bed.

Oh, and I'm still playing battlegrounds... it's so addictive! Damn you ...

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