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Hmm. I absolutely sprinted out from Tai Chi tonight in order to be home by 8:30 to meet the 3 potential new flatmates that were coming around tonight.
It's now 10pm and there's been no sign of any of them, and my housemate hasn't appeared either.
I'm starting to wonder if I'm in the right house [...]

Just quick writeup or I'll get so far behind I'll never catch up ! Last Sunday (Aug 21st) Charlie, The Puzzler and I elected to go to the Isle of Wight for the Garlic Festival. Owing to it being such a stupidly long trip to get out there (but then London traffic's like [...]

Quite busy with work this week, as well as all the usual nonsense (tai chi, kickboxing, etc.) and sorting out bits & pieces on my computer. I really hate my P.O.S. laptop, but it's been downgraded to 'bearable' since I procured a 2nd monitor for it, as well as a new USB hub that [...]

By convention, when you arrange to meet someone to catch up it means that you are in fact planning to be in the same place as them. So imagine my excitement when I got a phone call today to tell me that the person I was meant to be meeting after work in London [...]

OK, firstly a correction - the band we saw the other night that bored me to tears wasn't Queens of Noize at all; they were some DJs who were on after that band. The band we saw was called Kill City. Not that it makes one hell of a difference, cos I still [...]

Normally I tend to pussyfoot about on this thing in order not to upset people and/or companies, but right now I'm pointing fingers. Last night I saw the shittest band I've ever seen.
A bunch of us went to Barfly last night (after a pretty groovy meal and some choice Belgian beers at Belgo) to [...]

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2. Pass it on.
1.~How did you meet lisacasey? Sat next to her at a wedding reception in Queensland.
2.~What would you do if you had never met thornae? WOuld have had to found another way to get those 8 buckets of jelly down from Flinders Uni.
3.~What do you honestly think of masterkill? Seems like [...]

Hmm… Explained the problem with my work PC to the “Help”desk dude, and he shook his head and said it wasn't the PC - it must be the software I'd installed on it, and set to work re-imaging the hard drive. I suggested it could be dodgy RAM, and he shook his head [...]

Grr. Crap day. Lost half a day chasing silly code problems around in circles, largely because our database debugging tools don't play nice. Then PC at work melted down (stopped recognising hard drive). Waited an hour and a half for helpdesk guys to get me a working one, then an hour [...]

This just HAD to be commemorated on the web, I'm afraid.
My antipodean compatriot and gig buddy Mr Paul Bird today was sporting the most impressive of moustaches, as was proper for a work cricket match. Sadly, the magnificence of the effort was lost on many of those present as “80's Australian fast bowlers” isn't [...]