iPod earbud died

I was just walking to the shops this morning when the left earbud started playing up, turning off and on. I thought it was my iPod – a reasonable assumption given the general unreliability of the little bastard – but now that I get home and play with the earbuds with my Powerbook, no, it… Read more

Ahoy

So I did survive the trip. It went quite well in fact. I don’t have time to write anything right now, but I’ll try to throughout today, and get some photos up.

Ah… that’s why

I think I mentioned a little while ago that I cop a surprising amount of flack as a result of things I write here. Quite often it’s about things that I never even slightly anticipated being an issue. Then last week I apparently put Sarah out quite a bit with my write up on paintball.… Read more

The history of the internet

So let’s go through the net connections I’ve had in my life: 33.6k BBS – Lord-Data used to run a BBS, which was my first encounter with digital telephony. It was awesome. A hodge-podge of warez, games, forums and so forth, which everyone who was anyone frequented. He had only a single phone line for… Read more

Thesis strikes again

I’m reminded again that I’m no longer a straight-A student, thanks to thesis, on which I got a B (77%). Apparently my weighted average mark (to date) is 88%. I need an average mark of 96.9% for this semester’s subjects to get it to 90%. Hmm… probably not going to happen. Damn thesis.

Really reinforced dieting

I’ve just noticed that the Rainbow Choc Chips that I’m presently devouring by the full packet-load list titanium dioxide as one of the ingredients. … The rest is mainly food colouring. I’m already getting a headache. But it was worth it. :D

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Well today was highly exciting… I spent most of it reinstalling MacOS X, and occasionally reading the ADD lecture notes. Yep, that’s about it. Very exciting times.