I quite wanted to make good use of the long weekend (albeit 3 days only) here to get out and travel a bit, but I never really committed to anything early enough to actually organise it… but I was still determined to do something (ergo the bike riding on Saturday). Today, on the suggestion of… Read more
On Saturday I went for a ride up towards the reservoir in the hills west of here. I was interested to see how difficult it would be, to gauge my relative fitness since riding up there last time I was here. I was fairly pleasantly surprised – I rode the entire way from home to… Read more
Disclaimer: I see no harm in doing this as shown below, simply for the sake of changing the colours and [playfully] the strings, but of course don’t be a jackarse and subvert the app for other uses or whatever. Also, if anyone knows a way to use your own CSS and XML files without having… Read more
I finally got off my posterior and rejoined the gym last Tuesday or somesuch. I haven’t actually been yet… I thought there was some process to be done before I could officially use the sign-in machine, but, I haven’t heard anything thus far, so I guess I’m all set already. So, I might go tomorrow… Read more
I didn’t get up to much yesterday – just watched a movie, did some washing, played far too much Halo; all the usual. I did even less work today; I had intended on going for a bike ride and maybe catching a movie in the evening (Stardust caught my eye by way of it’s trailer,… Read more
I couldn’t get the quality up where I wanted it, but DVD Player and VLC both have the same issues playing directly from the source… I don’t recall all these minor glitches when we were watching it in the hanger, but that doesn’t surprise me – computer DVD drives typically suck at playing DVDs. Anyway,… Read more
Last night I got a call from Ryan to finally organise the carpool down to skydiving this morning. We met at work (the universal meeting place, it seems, for interns) at 9ish and from there all headed off in my car – Ryan, Jeff, Deepu, Stephane (guy, actually – French :P) and myself. The trip… Read more