| I want joost |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|02:42 pm] |
I have no idea how long it has been since I posted here... forever. my own blog site is nowhere near ready, but there's the chance of a beta invite to joost if I link to eirikso.com with a post.
So, in blind hope, I hereby cite the aritcle on eirikso.com and perhaps if I get the beta invite, I'll have something interesting to talk about!
Fingers crossed! |
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| Not sure I'd agree... |
[Jul. 28th, 2004|11:25 am] |
Perhaps I should have seen it coming through the line of questioning...
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| Mr Potato Head |
[Jul. 15th, 2004|08:51 am] |
"The requirements are secondary to getting it right."
Give me strength. |
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| Tea Leaf 2: Return of the Bags |
[Feb. 2nd, 2004|09:00 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | drinking tea | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The English Teeth, Lagers, Chips And Pies | ] |
I'd be the first to admit that the return from a prolonged silence should have been a tale of more depth than the disappearance of some tea bags, but this event was the most interesting thing to happen in my workplace for some time. Also that it had happened once before about a year ago made the mystery all the more compelling (to those involved - me). A draw full of wondrous pleasures all for the taking and it is an unopened foil wrapped pack of sixty "one cup" typhoo tea bags that goes. Not a handful of the opened one that may have gone unnoticed or both. A tidy and specifically targeted heist. One that could cause no great harm or distress to anyone. Just a bit of confusion and the worry that I had in fact lost my mind through drinking too much tea.
Over the weekend I had ultimately decided that that is exactly what must have happened. Severe work related boredom had manifested itself in a chronic tea abuse of kidney stone proportions. It was the only answer, unpleasant as it was for me to take.
This morning they're back. Well not exactly the same foil wrapped packet, but a foil wrapped packet of typhoo tea bags nonetheless. Neatly replaced into the box along side the open one, now a little worse for wear after the repeated examination and counting that went on last week.
Now if you don't think that's interesting, I don't know what is! |
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| Tea Leaf! |
[Jan. 29th, 2004|10:58 am] |
I can't believe it, someone's pinched my tea bags again! |
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| No fly posters |
[Dec. 2nd, 2003|09:38 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | numb | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Killing Joke, Blood on Your Hands | ] |
I was about to make a post so I looked what my last one was and smiled fondly at the memory of the LED Sign.
Unfortunately it seems the site is now dead and I cannot find any trace of it popping up elsewhere. I feel a profound sense of loss and can not go on with my intended post at this time.
Sorry. |
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| Welcome to the LED Sign |
[Aug. 18th, 2003|01:41 pm] |
No posts in ages, but this site has driven me out of my self imposed silence.
The LED Sign
and the following quote says it all:
"What the hell is this crap? It's like renting a movie where the main character is reading a book all the way through, and the camera just reads over his shoulder. How stupid! I watched for hours and hours!" |
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| Sod's Law |
[Jul. 22nd, 2003|09:59 am] |
Starting with the statement "It has been a month since my last post" make it sound like a bit of a confession, but I've had a busy month, well actually, it's probably more true to say that I have had a peculiar month.
After my stay in hospital I was under house arrest for two weeks unable to leave due to the piles of various tablets blocking the door. The first week wasn't so bad, because I did feel unwell and my being at home therefore felt somewhat justified. The second week was harder to cope with and by the end of the week I broke my curfew and went to work. I should have gone in on the Tuesday, I would have liked to seen ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) korruptor off.
Then the following week my parent were visiting to take charge of the little one while I whisked Mrs Teeth away for surprise wedding anniversary trip. A long weekend in Venice. This meant that although I was at work nearly a full week, stuff going on around was certainly at the forefront of my thoughts. When I got back to work the following Tuesday I felt like I could finally settle down to some sort of routine again.
And I could have if I hadn't' developed a sore throat over the weekend. If I hadn't recognised the symptoms so clearly.
I thought I would be writing this, once again, from my hospital bed, but not just yet. I shouldn't really be at work, but there's so much to do. Too much really to be writing live journal posts but what the hell. I'm so full of pills I wouldn't trust what I work did anyway.
The post I have wanted to make in the month gone by (but didn't get round to) was about how well I have found the NHS. I accept that I have been fortunate in this, but very rarely do the positive get voiced. Now though, I am in fear of invoking sod's law by doing so. A trip to hospital yesterday has furnished me with yet more pills and a couple of days before a return appointment to see if I need to go under the knife again. Sod's law would surely state that anything good I might have to say would come straight back at me and bite me on the arse. I shall therefore hold off until I know what's going to happen. I will remain here trying to do as useful stuff as I can today and hope that it will not be the total repeat I expected yesterday.
I should also mention that gargling TCP is rank. |
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| Sore Throat II |
[Jun. 19th, 2003|06:36 am] |
Well, after my post yesterday about a sore throat, I didn't expect to be waking up this morning in a hospital bed! Drip in the arm, ill people everywhere, the whole works!
Still, seems the bedside internet access seems to work. Dread to think what it's costing... |
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| Sore throat |
[Jun. 18th, 2003|09:48 am] |
When I lived in Italy I often found myself starting conversations or making statements before I realised that my knowledge of the language was woefully inadequate and I was incapable of finishing what I had begun. This would result in frustration , stuttering and inevitably the loss of any impact that may have been desired.
I am once again experiencing the same sensations, as my sore throat has severely restricted my powers of speech...
Quite apart from the pain, it is a weird feeling having this communication difficulty in my own tongue. |
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| Thrills from The Kills |
[Jun. 13th, 2003|10:09 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | chipper | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Kills, Fried My Little Brains | ] |
The hairs on the back of my neck are still prickling from the opening number The Kills performed last night. Superstition, the opening track on their album Keep on Your Mean Side which I feel I have played pretty much back to back this week. And why not, it's a fantastic album.
The Kills have had some mixed press due to comparisons being drawn with the White Stripes. Sure this is a two piece male-female band playing raw bluesy tracks and releasing material with an eight-track recording mentality. Admittedly the success of a band like the White Stripes may have made it possible for a band like the Kills to emerge. Whatever the comparisons or parallels they could be selling this band short.
There's nothing new or ground breaking here, the are a bit of PJ Harvey, Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain and Velvet Underground. Quite derivative in fact, but these are all great role models and influences to have and the results are full of a character of there own and oozing with style.
The material translates really well to a live set, even with a drum machine/tape backing. The energy and sexual tension was palpable. Even the way the microphones ended up so VV & H were facing each other, sing to each other helped reinforce this. It was like a cross between Sonny and Cher and a brawl.
"I'll get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get hitched"
Fantastic stuff. |
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| The on-going saga of Fad Gadget |
[Apr. 2nd, 2003|03:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | patient | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | still waiting... | ] |
Having pushed a spare 16 MByte smart card into my mp3 player meant I actually had a mind boggling 48 MBytes to fill. Not the 32 I suggested yesterday.
Perhaps it's reasonable therefore that it's still going!
No?
You think it's taking too long?
I'm determined to let this thing finish before throwing the damn player in draw for another couple of years.
Saying that, in some respects the device is superior to some modern devices. At least it holds what is stored on it. A year or so with no battery and until I reformatted it, the contents of the memory were still accessible. The XDA we have here at work was allowed to discharge in a draw for a month and it had no recollection of anything. User data, phone books, settings, nothing. All gone.
The XDA really a disappointing piece of kit. |
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| Fad Gadget |
[Apr. 1st, 2003|03:51 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | technojealous | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | None - still uploading it to the bloody thing! | ] |
I've been battling with my old mp3 player and Windows XP.
It's an old device, an MP Man MP-F20, run from the parallel port and boasting a whopping 32 MBytes of internal memory. Cutting edge and extremely gratefully received when it was given to me as leaving gift from Logica, now it is a bit of an albatross I suspect it is responsible for the pinging noise emanating from my hard drive. At least I suspect the third party shareware software that reputedly works on XP is causing the pinging noise emanating from my hard drive.
Even if the current test does work, a upload time estimated at 24 hours does seem a little excessive for 32 MBytes.
realradix just has to think of a tune for it to magically appear on his phone and he can even take a picture of himself listening to it and post it as a journal entry. And I'm not even going to start with korruptor's blue tooth enabled lifestyle. |
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| It's like the World Cup all over again |
[Mar. 19th, 2003|02:48 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | Worzel Gummidge | ] |
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| | Orbital, Doctor Who | ] |
During the world cup, everyone was a football expert.
Now we stand on the brink of a war, Military Strategist seems to be the head of choice. |
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| What not to wear... |
[Mar. 12th, 2003|08:37 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Einstuerzende Neubauten, Morning Dew | ] |
If you are a gentleman of reduced stature, avoid knee length coats. |
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| What's XML for? |
[Mar. 10th, 2003|10:56 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | working | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Echo & the Bunnymen, History Chimes | ] |
I was talking with a student over the weekend, she is taking an degree in the area of electronic media, progressing her career from the publishing house she previously worked at. One of the aspects of her course we found ourselves talking about where the PHP and XML components of the project work. She was finding the XML difficult to get her head around, more so than the PHP despite have no programming background. I was a little surprised by this. Due to the majority of those around being complete laymen in as far as computing goes, I didn't want to geek them out entirely, so I didn't get too deep into what she was trying to do with XML. There were some problems in explaining to those present why XML was there and what was different to HTML. Even from the girl studying it I found the slightly skewed perception of XML as a technology, a language and something difficult that was in the way of doing things hard to ratify. Everyone being quite drunk, I was fighting a losing battle. I thought I nearly had it when I pointed out that, as far as most of them would need to know, XML was just comma separated files with more elaborate commas but being drunk I missed out on my much better arguments of XML (well an old SGML argument) allowing the author of a document to concentrate of the content of the material rather than the presentation. The more common use of XML these days as a means of data interchange was not really what this group needed to understand.
I felt I had something important to say, but I was frustrated at hitting that sort of glazed look people get when they lose interest or things go over their heads before I managed to articulate it. |
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| Home Front |
[Mar. 3rd, 2003|12:34 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | uncomfortable | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Retalik, Higher Than You | ] |
Yet another weekend goes by and I was kept too busy to even switch on my computer and crack on with things I've been hoping to crack on with for months now.
Still, at least it was busy and productive on the home front. Lots of DIY projects wrapped up and new ones set up for after an imminent short spate of visitors pass through our home. Considering I am still suffering from a lingering sore throat and my conjunctivitis has spread from my left eye into the other, I am relatively pleased with how much we accomplished this weekend. Now though, I am staring through aching eyes at a very blurred world that seems way too bright and work doesn't seem to offer the same level of distraction to make my current maladies bearable that home jobs did.
I should really go to the doctors. |
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