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16Jun/050

Afternoon Roundup

We're in desperate need of a new poll, but I've gone and broken the plugin, so that'll have to wait until it gets fixed :-) Sorry.

I just listened to the first five chapters of Earth Core, and it seems pretty good. It's nicely written, at least so far, and has the potential to be quite exciting. I'm looking forward to the next chapters.

If anybody wants a fridge, a set of chests of drawers or Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, do head over to eBay...

Why can't you buy Outlook online? It's annoying. You'd think somebody somewhere would sell a downloadable version with reg-key via email, but apparently not. I really need a decent calendar program, and now that various services like Plaxo offer internet synchronization, there's no reason not to go for the biggest and most compatible. I can't be bothered with ordering physical products, though :-)

13Jun/050

Thoughts Plucked From My Head

I got covered in pooh this morning. Well, not covered. Just smeared. Gross. Meg just can't keep still when I'm attempting to clear up after her, which resulted in her lead being dragged through it, as well as the bag I was using, which promptly brushed against my clean trousers...and it was naturally quite a slimy one (you read my blog, you get the details :-) ). While not getting covered in pooh, I listened to:

  • Adam Curry's Daily Source Code - A regular feature on my playlist. He's very entertaining, and plays some cool mashups - today's (actually from last Thursday) was a combination of S Club 7's "Don't Stop Moving" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", which worked far better than you'd think!
  • The Productivity Show - A new show that helps you get yourself organised, although it does assume you know of the existing methodologies (Getting Things Done etc.) already.
  • 5 Minutes with Wichita - I highly, highly recommend this if you want to add a surreal touch to your day - like the title says, it's just five minutes, and I bet you find yourself grinning
  • In Our Time - BBC Radio 4 show presented by Melvyn Bragg that's always interesting, although at 40mins there's sometimes a little too much information to take in in one sitting.

Despite this, I had a particularly happy day. I can't say why, but I spent much of today smiling. I watched an excellent episode of Firefly last night and woke up still giggling, so that helped. There's also the fact that it's only two weeks until my exams are over. But I have a suspicion that it's mainly down to my life coaching. I've been able to do things without thinking that four weeks ago would have had me worrying for hours. I've just got to prevent myself slipping backwards, now.

Making good progress on the eBay challenge, by the way. I've sold

21Apr/054

Thought Roundup

Beginning mind-dump now.

  • Mandrake has gone. I am now sad. He grew to full size in front of me and has now flown the web. I feel so paternal.
  • Coronation St is pushing things a little, isn't it? An entire family is being dismantled, so far by means of one murder, one suicide and an imprisonment. It's not the most cheerful show to be watching at the moment. It's perhaps more depressing when the advert breaks are crammed full of plugs for Hell's Kitchen and Celebrity Wrestling, mind. Is it me, or are ITV completely losing the plot?
  • All my eBay items sold! I'm now officially into profit. Woo.
  • Bloglines is now picking up the BBC newsfeed fine, but there're still no LiveJournal updates
  • There are a couple of new additions to the blog, most notably gravatars on comments. What do you think of them? I don't know whether the default monkey will stay - I may alter it to only display images for people who have them.
  • Off dancing tonight where we'll hopefully get more information on the promised dancing weekend, which sounds very interesting.
22Mar/050

A Promising Start

I'd been bidding on a couple of items, including a physics revision guide. It was listed at 99p, and I put in an offer at that price, but with a limit of

22Mar/054

eBay Challenge

I want an iPod. More specifically, I want an iPod photo 60gb. They currently stand at