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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I've decided to defect from Boots to Specsavers, on account of Boots being incompetent - Bath were OK, but Sevenoaks, Truro and Cheltenham were not. The final straw was when I noticed that they had kindly cancelled my contact lense direct debit without telling me, leaving me with no contact lenses.
I had my first appointment with Specsavers today; my eyes hadn't changed too much, but my glasses are pretty old and I feel that it's time to get new ones. Makes me a little nervous, for as regular readers may recall, I have had mixed results when ...
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Interesting, they've released Safari for Windows!
First impression is that it is very mac. I can't see this release making much of a dent in the market share of the other Windows browsers - the interface, menu structure etc feel like they are the result of extremely direct porting, and it ignores the standard Windows interface features, such as no middle click scroll mode, and no resizing at the edges. I'm sure it's a nice browser, but I can't help thinking that it will suffer from the same obstacles to adoption that Firefox and Opera suffer ...
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I love my reference books, because every so often you stumble across gems like:
This has all the advantages of being a variable rather than a subroutine. It has all the disadvantages of not being implemented yet.
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This bank holiday weekend has been a frenzy of going to the gym and cooking unhealthy things to try to balance it out. We made some cheese scones and chocolate muffins (new recipe!):
They both turned out incredibly well, even though Leela did accidentally try to bake the muffins under the grill. I should have taken some photos just after they came out of the oven, but sadly these were all that were left by the time I found my camera. Think I need to go to the gym again.
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As I mentioned in my previous entry, I have a fair bit of software that now needs XP or Vista. I thought that now was the time to upgrade my desktop so I can run it all on my nice new screen, rather than the small-dull-and-tiny screen of my laptop.
As my machine is quite sufficient at the moment, I didn't really want to upgrade the hardware. However, at nearly 3 years old it wasn't quite beefy enough for an upgrade to Vista, so I went for XP.
I have spent most of the past couple of days ...
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