Archive for October, 2005
Could you pass 8th Grade Math?
Ok, so it’s American (so it means Year 8 – 12/13 year olds), but still… quite entertaining!
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You Passed 8th Grade Math |
 Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! |
Nu Popes
I went to see the Nu Popes at Marsden Jazz Festival on Friday night. Photos here!. I was originally going to play bass with them, but I couldn’t make any of the rehearsals – so Clinton stepped in and played brilliantly. The whole band were awesome and I’m not sure the New Inn will be the same again!
Technological Order and Chaos
I’ve been trying to get my life back in order after moving back to London, and sorting out a few of those things which have gone unsorted for too long, a lot of which comes down to technology. So lets see how I’m getting on shall we:
| Steps forward | Steps backwards. |
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| I was dumped into a new assignment (with all the stress which that brings) the day after I arrived back in England | |
| My company laptop, upset at being carried around for the first time in ages, developed a spurious screen/graphics card problem, before I’d taken a back-up of the last 2 years worth of photos, code and other files. | |
| I bought myself a shiney new computer with big hard disk | Despite dell advertising super-cheap desktop PCs, I clicked through the website, added a few optional extras and ended up spending £1200. Bit more than I was intending to spend, but what the hell. |
| I got broadband internet into my home. Having had this in Switzerland I became hooked, and realised it was easily worth the money | I changed my mind about which package to go with on plus.net, and ended up accidentally chosing one which didn’t include php support with the webspace, hence I haven’t been able to re-host harrywood.co.uk as I had intended. |
| Beezly fiddled with my wireless router, and got that to work, so that Sarah was on the internet upstairs too | My ADSL modem can’t plug directly into the router, so untill I purchase a new modem, this will only work by going via my computer (Bad, because my computer then needs to stay switched on) |
| My dad also managed to get hooked up to broadband back at home in Yorkshire | Within hours of having done this, his machine has been crippled by trojan/virus infections, and he has been calling me constantly to ask me what to do about it |
| I got my camera hooked up to my new PC, no problems. And this flickr website certainly looks like a good way to plonk bits of my photo collection online. | In an attempt to avoid putting a dodgy old cracked copy of compupic on my nice new PC, I hunted around for a different peice of photo management software. It seems like a million companies want to give you 30 day evaluation copy of this kind of thing, but what about open source photo managment software? I’m very disappointed. There’s a bajillion different web photo gallery generators, but what about organising, renaming, resizing, cropping, brightening photos offline? A huge home-computing software genre, and the open source community has come up with hardly anything! The free software picasa looked very promising, until I realised that it doesn’t let you save your changes back to file. Bah! |
| I moved some crap from my room into the attic, and I even threw some stuff away | What with all the new computer bits, I still don’t have space for all my junk in my room |
On balance… technology is helping my life to become less organised by the day.
Meme!
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The Keys to Your Heart |
 You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when everything is uncertain, one moment heaven… the next moment hell. You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future… one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something that will confine you. You are afraid of marriage. In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted. |
JET visit
This week I’ve been to a meeting in Culham, Oxfordshire for 3 days. The highlight of the meeting was a visit to the Joint European Torus where I took a few photos. Impressive stuff.
