England and Warwick! It's not as cold as I expected it to be, thanks to all the fog, but I haven't...

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0 comment

The wonder that is Memepool has supplied me with the neverending stories of Sam the goat. Hint: Sam...

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0 comment

Okay, so this is a little bizarre: according to astronomers, the average colour of the universe is...

tagged with astronomy, reference, terrypratchett

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End of week 1, term 2, year 2. Finished my assignment on time, so yay, and also managed to visit...

tagged with life, london, university

0 comment

It's Sunday, and I should be working, so it's time for a blog update! It's all very technical this...

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A word about my weakness... I'm totally addicted to bass.

tagged with music, reference

0 comment

Apparently one of my lecturers, Alexandre Tiskin is evil. Be warned. That is all.

tagged with random, university

0 comment

A pretty good article from BBC News about the Tories changing their attitude to homosexuality. Now,...

tagged with bbc, conservatives, gay, politics, queer, rights, uk

0 comment

Partly because it's funny, and partly to motivate him to update the damn thing, I'd like to point...

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0 comment

Okay, so I haven't been updating this at all. This is because I've been busy, okay? But I've been...

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0 comment

Second blog in two days! Can you guess I have an exam? A combination of sleep deprivation and...

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Okay, so I slept for like 45 minutes last night. Which isn't good. But I did finish my HCI...

tagged with deadlines, university

0 comment

Hmmm, I need sleep. Yay for the one-click personality test (which I found surprisingly accurate),...

tagged with meme, personality, quiz, web

0 comment

You heard it here first (unless Raymond, who recommended it to me, told you first): Alanis is back....

tagged with alanismorisette, music, review

0 comment

My second blog for the day, I'm trying to get up to date. I was amused by a controversy that...

tagged with education, georgewbush, government, sex, stupid, usa

0 comment

This timeline of the future is a pretty interesting read, especially when you consider that the...

tagged with future, prediction

0 comment

I recently discovered the video for Do the Evolution. The song's lyrics are excellent, but the...

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0 comment

Fab! More webcams of Warwick's campus! Check out what's currently going on in Cholo and the cooler!...

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0 comment

Home on a Saturday night. Z is a bloody evil language; a recurring theme with languages I've had to...

tagged with games, university

0 comment

Thanks to Timothy for the link to the definitive penis size survey. Go on, you know you want to...

tagged with sexual, statistics

0 comment

For sheer sad-git comedy value, you don't get much better than Planet Timmy. Check out the...

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0 comment

My favourite news site, Slashdot, has recently mortgaged a little bit more of its soul and...

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0 comment

So, some friends and I were having a discussion, and it seems to us that there is a very strong...

tagged with biology, gay, naive, queer, science

0 comment

I've done rather a lot of blogging in recent days, but what the heck, it's not like anybody reads...

tagged with play, sillythings, writing

0 comment

Maybe it's just me, but did you ever wonder where it is science writers for magazines and...

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0 comment

Evil corporations can be funny! Watch as the Coca Cola Company spews propaganda on every possible...

tagged with cocacola, marketing

0 comment

I've noticed that recently BBC News Online seems to always have the same three types of article as...

tagged with bbc, media, meta, news, reporting

0 comment

And in other IMHO history-making news, the UN security council formally backed the creation of a...

tagged with history, middleeast, news, palestinians, un, world

0 comment

Another week without sleep, another deadline met. Having caught 14 hours of sleep to make up for...

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0 comment

Easter vacation has begun! Yay! It's my first day off with no deadlines around the corner that I've...

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0 comment

The Great Blog Backlog, Episode 2: I rediscovered Oasis Magazine, which I first read when I was...

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It's been a quiet week of Easter vacation so far, verging on mind-numbingly-dull. There have even...

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Still working on an update to the site... it's looking quite nice, if I can be bothered to finish...

tagged with blogging, design, meta, seldo.com

0 comment

I notice that I quietly let the one-year anniversary of this blog slip by nearly two weeks ago. But...

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0 comment

Okay, my unsorted-bookmarks list has got long enough, so it's time to blog. In reverse...

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0 comment

Hey, Slashdot posted a story I submitted! Yay.

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0 comment

Buggy Browsers

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2 comments

Friendships

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5 comments

How to be happy

tagged with articles, idea, naive, writing

6 comments

Me versus God

tagged with atheism, rant, religion, science

1 comment

Nature versus Noise

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0 comment

On Stimulation...

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0 comment

Philistines

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0 comment

Recloseted

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0 comment

Why Science Fiction is the only kind worth reading

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0 comment

Why Science and Religion will never agree

tagged with articles, religion, science, writing

41 comments

Ever had a sitcom moment?

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0 comment

Stages of computing expertise

tagged with articles, naive

0 comment

Why Microsoft must be stopped

tagged with articles, microsoft, naive

0 comment

World Peace

tagged with articles, naive

5 comments

Connection

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0 comment

Dance, Dance, Dance!

tagged with poem, thirdwave

0 comment

Dirty Little Secret

tagged with poem, thirdwave

0 comment

Three Years On

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0 comment

Can't Forgive You (Alternate version)

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0 comment

I Miss You

tagged with poem, thirdwave

0 comment

Like Me

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0 comment

I hope they love you too

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0 comment

Leaf in the stream

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0 comment

The River's Course

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0 comment

My Inner Self

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1 comment

He's sitting there thinking

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0 comment

Cruel

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1 comment

Sideshow

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0 comment

Soul music

tagged with firstwave, poem

0 comment

The Beauty

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1 comment

Why so down?

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0 comment

Feeling sort of Blah

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0 comment

Random

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0 comment

Shallow

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0 comment

The Hardest Fall

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0 comment

Thoughtflow

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0 comment

Wrong

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0 comment

Another chapter

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0 comment

Cliches

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0 comment

Good Enough

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0 comment

Growing up

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0 comment

Inspiration

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0 comment

No reason to Hide

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0 comment

Raypist

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0 comment

Snow

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0 comment

Story of a boy

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0 comment

New Title

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0 comment

Winning

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0 comment

Advice

tagged with poem, secondwave

0 comment

Model Child

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0 comment

Crazy boy

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0 comment

Humble Girl

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1 comment

Neurotic

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0 comment

Second Kiss

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0 comment

Pretty Boy

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0 comment

The Lad

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0 comment

Slut

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0 comment

Lonely Woman

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4 comments

Drama Queen

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2 comments

Shy

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1 comment

The arena was vast, and dimly lit by the rays of the dying sun reflecting as a velvet haze from...

tagged with fiction, writing

0 comment

(I like Shield best, but isn't it already the name of some kind of superhero group from D.C....

tagged with fiction, writing

0 comment

Why I hated my school

tagged with cic, education, ego, history, homophobia, identity, personal, school, trinidad

42 comments

Better than U

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0 comment

Who and Why

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6 comments

Anywhere but Here

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0 comment

Well, I think I've finally got the weblog back-end working -- I've been too busy to work on it. But...

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0 comment

Saturday, and I'm supposed to be revising. To amuse yourself, I invite you to read all about the...

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0 comment

Mondays suck, especially when you have to revise. All that revision is why there's not going to be...

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0 comment

You always wanted to know, really: the lyrics to Duel of the Fates. In sanskrit, naturally. Other...

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More random entries from the Great Blog Backlog: What do you get when you send inner-city inmates...

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Yes, so I've been avoiding revision by reading more SatireWire. In particular, finally a good...

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The Scientific American Web Awards are really quite good. Among my favourites are the Living...

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Well, 2 down, 9 to go, but unfortunately my brain's also gone which is going to make the remainder...

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0 comment

Some encouraging -- and extremely surprising -- news from the Evil Recording Industry People:...

tagged with copyright, law, riaa, scratchpad

0 comment

Hmm, maybe everybody spoke to soon about that economic recovery... the markets are in freefall....

tagged with business, news, recession

0 comment

I was reading this MSNBC article (surprisingly critical of Microsoft for a company owned by MS)...

tagged with articles, business, microsoft, news, technology

0 comment

I am so tired of this shit happening every bloody day. On the lighter side, an query on Google...

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0 comment

Okay, so as of this week, thanks to the brilliant state of corporate finance, it would be a bad...

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0 comment

Hey, I'm in New York! And it's surprisingly like a bigger, slightly cleaner version of London. It's...

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Well, day six in New York. I've seen Central Park, the statue of Liberty (from a significant, 9-11...

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Last night in New York, spending it like I have nearly every night here: hanging out in Ed's...

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Yeah, I know, two in one day. I'll stop soon, I promise. But I just had to point out the joy that...

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0 comment

It's official: the US is sick of hearing about Afghanistan and the Middle East again. So it's back...

tagged with afghanistan, cnn, media, meta, reporting, usa, war

0 comment

Oooh, pretty-looking crop circles.

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0 comment

Okay, day 3 at IBM. I'm at the office now -- my accommodation only has dialup, and I haven't set it...

tagged with ibm, summer, work

0 comment

Okay, so it's amusing to think that the ex-dictator of Sierra Leone is broke and living with his...

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0 comment

Interesting links today include a story about invisible comets, coming soon to an extinction-level...

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0 comment

Saturday night's all right for fightin', and for not a great deal else, apparently. Yay for living...

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0 comment

Mass Transport Rant

tagged with comparison, london, nyc, paris, transport

3 comments

Ten Commandments 2.0

tagged with articles, geeky

1 comment

In the news today, it seems that British children are officially banned from having fun in any way,...

tagged with childhood, government, law, regulation, stupid, uk

0 comment

Second blog for the day, WOW I'm slack. But work today has actually been a lot better: I actually...

tagged with ibm, work

0 comment

Ah, the Dow: my favourite spectator's sport. What will it do today? Will it plunge downwards again,...

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0 comment

I can't believe FARK reported this story as real. Yes, diving humour can be funny, folks: you heard...

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0 comment

I wish the upcoming recession (I tell you, it is going to happen) would just get it over with, so...

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0 comment

So there I am, being my usual cynical self, and then I hear about Gander, a town in Canada,...

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0 comment

Far be it from me to let a good meme go unnoted. So go, everyone, and watch the Lego men build a...

tagged with meme, web

0 comment

Oh, and the news today is that, um, yeah, UFOs are probably real after all. The US military has...

tagged with conspiracy, military, usa

0 comment

Okay, I have to admit it: I have gone from horrified fascination to being really quite enthralled...

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0 comment

Somehow unreported until today, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died two days ago on August 6th 2002. Although...

tagged with computing, dijkstra, history, obituary

0 comment

The Dow's been climbing for the past 3 days in a row -- triple-digit climbing, mind, none of this...

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0 comment

I was quite interested to find today that, contrary to my expectations, Google has in fact indexed...

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0 comment

Yet another story indicating that Yasser Arafat is gay. Coming on the heels of this earlier story...

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0 comment

Roll on the space elevator. In 15 years time, low earth orbit will be a four-hour elevator ride,...

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0 comment

A fairly random grab-bag of items have been occupying my consciousness in the past 24 hours. Last...

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0 comment

Come, spend hours browsing the ad graveyard -- don't be fooled by the really tiny "[more]" links,...

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0 comment

This guy exists for the sole purpose of making me jealous. Yes. Yes he does. Also, this is very...

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0 comment

Okay, no funny links today. Today, I'm going to indulge myself and write a totally self-involved...

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0 comment

The gifts that keep on giving: cows. The Masai people of Kenya gave the city of New York nine cows...

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Aw, fuck. Just when I was forgetting.

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0 comment

Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, needs to have a go IMMEDIATELY on Celebdaq. A...

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0 comment

Ah well, I suppose I really should credit Matt Elton for directing me to When Office Supplies...

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0 comment

Retro-futurism reaches its logical peak: VW is bringing back the camper van, this time with a...

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Today, my pretties, I adjust my monocle, stroke my white persian cat and present you with two...

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The great joy of the Internet is that the size of the audience means that any niche market, no...

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0 comment

So this is what the BBC has to say about Trinidad. I've already sent them an e-mail pointing out...

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0 comment

I find it difficult to express how disturbed I am at the contents of this article from the...

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0 comment

Okay, I'm amused. Those fine people in charge of Harry Potter merchandising came up with a great...

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0 comment

My birthday is coming up.

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0 comment

The Dow dropped an amusing 355 points yesterday. Raymond, Ed, Martin and basically everyone else...

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0 comment

Your alarm clock may annoy you, but at least it doesn't make your heart stop. Totally unrelated,...

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0 comment

Heeeeeeere's bloggy! I took Friday off, and went into London. Joy. There I met up with Lee, and...

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0 comment

I'd forgotten these guys existed, and this is way out of date now, but I'm still amused. What do...

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0 comment

I have been long in searching. There have been many pretenders to the throne. But finally I have...

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0 comment

September 12th is officially "take the piss out of September 11th" day. So share their pain as...

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0 comment

I hear you, brother. Just had a fabulous birthday weekend in London, thanks to all who turned up...

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0 comment

Enjoy the inaccurately-named tribute to Ray Harryhausen; how often do you get to see Skeletor...

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0 comment

On compulsory English speaking as a requirement for British citizenship: My probabily ill-advised...

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0 comment

I love the Weekly World News. Stories this week (all exclamation marks theirs): The sun will...

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0 comment

Microsoft TNEF file decoder

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1 comment

Top of the mornin' to ye. I've been browsing Freshmeat a lot recently (word to the clueless: it's...

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0 comment

There's not been a whole lot of blog this week, because I've been working really hard. So you'll...

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0 comment

Last day at IBM Hursley today; back to Warwick! Woohoo! In other news, there may be life on Venus....

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0 comment

Back at Warwick! Living on campus rocks. Being the tech support for the campus network rocks not...

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0 comment

Anyone fancy a new ice age? I thought it was cold yesterday...

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0 comment

Been busy with -- gasp -- real life recently, so not too many interesting web finds. LindowsOS is...

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0 comment

I work in tech support these days. Also, I think you know you're living in an excessively litigious...

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0 comment

So it seems we've discovered a new planet. It has the funkiest-sounding name ever; well done there...

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0 comment

Now available: fog screens, as last seen on SeaQuest. (Y'know, Lee was right, the SeaQuest font...

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0 comment

Living in the US is so exciting! Suicide hijackings, anthrax in the mail, hideously overpublicised...

tagged with scare, terrorism, usa

0 comment

Until about 2 minutes ago, I was having an unbelievably shitty day. I went to bed last night with a...

tagged with dental, health, writing

0 comment

Fuck that woman rescuing her worm, my face hurts and the world sucks. Ow ow ow. The dentist says...

tagged with dental, health, shit, whine

0 comment

In case you were wondering, my tooth still hurts. A lot. But probably not as much as this did...

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0 comment

Boy, did I get a lot of complaints about Tuesday's entry. Here's the ideal solution to raising the...

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0 comment

Y'know what? The legal system sucks. On November 26th, 2001, a previously-convicted child molester...

tagged with crime, law, paedophilia, stupid

0 comment

Fire alarms should not be allowed to go off at 5.30 in the morning when it's below zero outside....

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0 comment

Bright feathers

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0 comment

Can't Forgive You (Natural structure)

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2 comments

Okay, it's time for big old backlog of links, since I didn't get to post much recently. First up...

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0 comment

Download your mind to silicon by 2040. What else can I say? How about YES, YES, HELL YES! BRING IT...

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0 comment

So, you're the police chief, and a mysterious sniper is running around several states randomly...

tagged with cnn, media, meta, reporting

0 comment

Congratulations to Scott Adams for continuing to push the boundaries of being the biggest sell-out...

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0 comment

In possibly the wittiest bit of American advertising I've ever seen, a new campaign points out how...

tagged with government, marketing, politics, usa

0 comment

You assholes! The way to resolve a hostage crisis is not to lob nerve gas into room full of 700-800...

tagged with russia, stupid, terrorism

0 comment

I'm beginning to buy into this whole CNN-makes-the-news conspiracy. People were beginning to get...

tagged with cnn, media, meta, reporting

0 comment

Hey, I'd switch just for him. Does the sexy geek come with the sexy computer? His name is Jeremiah...

tagged with apple, gay, gaygeeks, geeky, jeremiahcohick, marketing

0 comment

And today's We Are Amused� prize goes to BBC News Online for "Moodiest Picture of a Mouse and...

tagged with bbc, media, meta, reporting

0 comment

This is what it look like in Trinidad right now. I hate winter. Veering randomly to a totally...

tagged with scratchpad, trinidad

0 comment

Brace yourselves, it's time for another one of those semi-meaningful all-about-me blogs... November...

tagged with gay, identity, personal, queer

0 comment

Calling Mr. Sharon... we haven't even started the war on Iraq yet; is it really necessary to start...

tagged with arielsharon, iran, politics, war

0 comment

I love sitting 6 inches from a window when I'm at my computer this year; it's almost like going...

tagged with claycroft, life, university

0 comment

And so, after a long hard struggle, the battle is over, and democracy has lost. President Bush has...

tagged with government, politics, usa

0 comment

Old lady gets weepy, nation goes apeshit with in-depth analysis of what might have made the Queen...

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0 comment

Oh all right then, I'll blog, if you insist. Things to check out today: Those clever people at...

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0 comment

Brain-dead text editor

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0 comment

Hey, America! Getting a bit chubby? Maybe 1 in 3 of you are obese or something? No problem! Why eat...

tagged with culture, diet, food, usa

0 comment

Living on campus again is a unique and fascinating experience, which leaves me filled with...

tagged with drugs, funny, life, smoking, university

0 comment

The world is in safe hands, courtesy of Melton :-) And it's good to see Bush's supporters are not...

tagged with computing, encryption, enigma, geeky, history, trivia

1 comment

"If Sharon and Bush are men of peace, we are also men of peace" Al Quaeda makes a good point.

tagged with al qaeda, terrorism

0 comment

Okay, I just had to blog this. Entitled US Youth can't find Iraq, an article from CNN reveals the...

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0 comment

A funny thing happened to me today. I was reading this article about President Bush, and for a...

tagged with georgewbush, government, history, politics, usa

0 comment

I really love the Economist (thanks for the subscription, dad!). Apart from being amusingly...

tagged with economist, funny

0 comment

'Tis the season to make money. And what better way than to play my current candidate for...

tagged with games, monopoly

0 comment

Fog is like rain that has been caught in the act. It hangs there, motionless, guilty, waiting for...

tagged with articles, fog, idea, weather, writing

0 comment

God bless Scott Adams. From the Dilbert Newsletter 44.0 ("A little ray of bitter...

tagged with business, dilbert, funny, ibm

0 comment

How could I possibly resist? And if you want to pretend to yourself you're doing more than just...

tagged with art, gay, men, photography, sexy

0 comment

6.50am: Fire alarm. Uh oh. We've heard this tune before... 6.52am: And again. Thought...

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0 comment

December! And as my first blog of the festive season, I would like to present a checklist of the...

tagged with christmas

0 comment

And so it's the final Monday of term... I sit at Moz's computer in New Gaggle House, waiting for...

tagged with gaggle, life, university

0 comment

In London today, a bus collided with a tree. One bus, with one tree. Interviewer: So, Mr. Britain,...

tagged with art, funny, news, uk

0 comment

See? Sometimes I blog before midnight... Last blog before Trinidad, woohoo! Bring on the tropics!...

tagged with trinidad, vacation

0 comment

Woohoo! I'm in Trinidad. It's hot, it's sunny, and my tan is only just beginning. As I type this, I...

tagged with trinidad, vacation

0 comment

I'm not really online at the moment, being in Trinidad and all, but a few things have been brought...

tagged with scratchpad, trinidad, vacation

0 comment

I have written another play, tentatively titled Spree. This one is very firmly aimed at Freshblood...

tagged with play, spree, writing

0 comment

Not that I want to distract anybody from checking out Spree, but this is interesting: Ever heard...

tagged with comics, gay, gaygeeks, play, queer, spree, writing

0 comment

You know what I did today? Today, I woke up around mid-day. I had a liesurely breakfast of bacon,...

tagged with trinidad, vacation

0 comment

First, read this article in the Register to find out who Elliot Spitzer is. Then read his speech to...

tagged with finance, law, politics, theregister

0 comment

Back from four days in Tobago, the even-more-tropical, even-more-paradisical sister island. I...

tagged with christmaqs, tobago, trinidad, vacation

0 comment

As the US moves ever closer to the fundamentalist police state it supposedly dislikes, on top of...

tagged with freedomofspeech, government, politics, usa

0 comment

Happy new year, you bastards! England will be getting this 3 hours early, Trinidad six, and the...

tagged with 2003, nye

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