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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
My pathetic excuse for a diary has not been updated properly for nearly a month now! I've been busy and writing diary entries while I have work to do seems like a waste of time, but that's not a very good excuse. Must try harder. So, in the spirit of things, here is a summary of what I've been up to recently:
Work:
- Registered as self-employed (at last, just in time)
- Finished the first interactive CD for the publishing company
- Spent far too long trying to get an odd 3 column css layout working, so gave up ...
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I think I have surpassed myself this year...
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When putting on those muff-style circumaural headphones (you know, the ones that cover your ears), check the insides for spiders...
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Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of this is my life. Today I am going to talk about nothing in particular, before rattling on about something that only I am interested in or have any clue what it is that I'm talking about, and then finishing before I fall asleep at the keyboard.
The past few days have been busy but fun. I was going to go home on Monday, but didn't leave until Tuesday because I wasn't feeling well at the weekend, so decided to put off the journey until I was convinced that I ...
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I am fed up with software written by developers who know best.
Open office falls into this category. I just typed 'February 2005' into a cell in a spreadsheet, and it converted it to '01/02/05'. Did I mean 01/02/05? No, if I'd meant that, I would have typed it in - I actually meant the whole of February. So I have now spent 10 minutes looking for the option to turn it off, haven't found it, and have given up, opting for the add-random-characters-to-confuse-their-parser approach.
This is of course not a problem that open office ...
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