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Went to Harvesters for lunch with my mum and gran. It was very pleasant, especially their 'Rocky Horror' - chocolate fudge cake, cream and ice cream. Very nice.
I'm getting there with that thing I said I'd do. I've written a very nice little script to generate thumbnail images of any URL I specify - works on about 50-75% of sites I've tested it on, which is quite a good hit rate methinks... However, when I hook it into the site or not is another matter, since I want to use a mysql backend, but I want to ...
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Yes, it's the guide you've all been waiting for, you can stop flooding my mailbox with cries of 'Where's the guide to baked beans, I can't stand toast much longer!'... it is finally up, and you can read it in my Guide to Cooking.
Good luck!
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So far so good... I wrote:
Description of problem:
I can hear someone talking in the background - crossed line? Quiet, but loud enough to hear what she's saying, and it is very distracting to hear someone ordering underwear when I'm trying to hold a conversation.
This has been the case since I got the line sometime in '99, but last time you said you'd send someone, nobody turned up, and since I use the line mainly for internet, I gave up. However, she has a very loud and nasal voice, so I thought I'd try again ...
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I'VE DONE IT!
I know what some of you have been saying, like 'Yes, he may be a culinary genius, but I bet he can't manage baked beans'.
Well... HAH! I have now proved all you nay-sayers wrong! I have done it! I have cooked and eaten baked beans!
Cooking instructions for this will go in my guide to cooking asap - I am aware how badly students of the world need this information, and I will endeavour to have it on there by the end of the evening.
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Well, it's time to take the Christmas decorations down again. Now, I remember that on the 11th of December I said I'd be implementing some of my ideas by the time I took down my Christmas decorations, but... well... I would have done, but I've forgotten what they were, and I didnt write them down anywhere.
So if anyone knows, please tell me. It was probably a search engine, a MySQL back end for some stuff, and oooh, I've remembered one of them now... bbiab :)
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