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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I've been using my new monitor for a couple of days now, and I'm still really pleased with it. Finished rearranging my desk:
Next up for an upgrade is the machine itself. I'm still on Windows 2000 at the moment, but have software that requires XP or Vista (like Office and CS3). I had been putting off moving to XP because Vista was always just around the corner, but now that it's here I get the feeling that this machine would struggle a bit. I'm therefore thinking I'll just go for a short-term upgrade ...
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You know what stinks, figuratively? Neighbours who don't pull their weight. You know what stinks, literally? Used nappies that have been sitting in a broken bag, in an outside bin with a broken lid, for the past 2 weeks. And I thought being woken up at 3am was the worst part of having an upstairs neighbour with a recently activated sprog.
We have a little open-roofed shed out the back that is home to 5 wheely bins, and the inhabitants of the other 8 flats in this building are quite happy to fill the bins. However, when it comes ...
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My 19" CRT monitor is coming up for its 6th birthday, and I've been thinking of replacing it for a while. After I'd been using it for a bit on Saturday, I thought 'hey, my eyes feel weird'. Then I looked at the edges of the screen, and saw that the picture was slowly shrinking and expanding. On top of the voltage regulation issue that it's suffered for years (where the brightness suddenly drops out), and the fact that at its very brightest I still can't make out dark greys, I decided that enough was enough ...
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With less than a week to the end of the month, I suddenly noticed that there have only been two entries. Well, had better remedy that - now there are three.
I've just tidied and hoovered my office - everything is now very clean. While tidying, I discovered an old folder that I had filed away in the wrong place. It held a list of people to contact that I moved house (in September 2005). Well, at least that explains why I haven't heard from some companies in a while. Oops.
Tristan came up to visit at the weekend, which ...
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I went along to Oxford Geek Night 2 on Wednesday, helped set up, talked to the few people I recognised, and watched the talks, which were (on the whole) very good. They included web typography, Amazon's web services, some stuff about Second Life (Linden Labs sound like an awesome place to work for) and Yahoo Pipes - things that I'd heard about, thought sounded good, but never made time to find out about.
There was a camera crew for the local BBC news (see it here), and many photos were taken, but despite that I appear to have avoided ...
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