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[May. 11th, 2008|08:04 pm] |
Chair
Originally uploaded by ruudb0y.
This chair might not be all that to look at but man, it's comfy. |
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[May. 10th, 2008|11:53 am] |
I can haz van! Fortunately, in the two years since my car died I don't seem to have forgotten how to drive, and also, VAN! Driving a van is great, isn't it?
I can also haz XBox, but I don't get to play with it until I've moved I've decided. I'm going to be up packing until a million o'clock tonight probably, so I can't be playing games really.
I went to look at the flat as well this morning - it's been nicely cleaned and it's looking good. I'm all excited now for the point when I've actually moved all the stuff. I'm going to live opposite two dirty chicken shops, and two Chinese takeaways. Whether or not this is a good thing is left as an exercise for the reader. |
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[May. 7th, 2008|12:16 am] |
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This seems to me like one of those annoying stupid questions that I hate people asking on the internet, but meh. The flat I'm moving to is down some stairs from the front door of the block, but is on the same storey as the back door. For insurance purposes, would this be a basement flat or a ground floor flat? |
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| So near, and yet so far. |
[May. 6th, 2008|05:55 pm] |
Parcelfarce tried to deliver my Xbox 360 today, but obviously I was at work so they dropped it at the Post Office over the road. Aagh! I can almost reach out and touch it, but I can't get there while they're open until Saturday morning!
Oh well, it's probs for the best rly. |
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| Picking the scab |
[May. 6th, 2008|01:09 pm] |
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You see, I can understand "I can't vote for Ken because of supposed anti-semitism/corruption/dodgy friends/generally unsavoury behaviour". I don't necessarily agree with it, but I can understand it. What I don't then understand is how that can possibly translate to a vote for Boris, who has just as many black marks to his name. For every Lee Jasper, there's a Darius Guppy. For every remark about concentrations camp guards, there are picaninnies with their water-melon smiles. For every refusal to fund Gay World Cups, there are comments about a man marrying a dog. To give a vote to neither of them is an entirely reasonable position to hold, but if one's being as pragmatic as most people were, and holding their nose and acknowledging that it was realistically Ken v Boris, I don't understand how you could get that far and still vote Boris. I haven't heard anyone say "No, I don't want reduced bus fares." or "No, I don't want increased service frequency on the London Overground since TfL took it over." I don't understand what they do want though. |
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[May. 6th, 2008|01:08 pm] |
Aagh, the packing nightmare! I flaked out on two friends' social events at the weekend - you know who you are, sorry about that dudes - in order to get packing done. I put loads of stuff in boxes, to the extent of finishing two (already partially used) rolls of brown tape and I seem to have made only the tiniest dent in the piles of stuff to be packed. Ah well, buy more tape at lunchtime and knuckle down again tonight.
Other thing I have to do at lunchtime - arrange mail redirection. This is because the royal mail website, where you can supposedly set it up online doesn't work - it refused to accept the two perfectly good cards I tried to use to pay for it. HSBC internet banking was also messing about at the weekend, refusing to let me set up the payment for the first month's rent on the new flat. Is this the meltdown of the banking system that we've heard so much about? Should I get as much cash as I can get my hands on and shove it under the mattress?
There's so much rubbish that I don't know what to do with. Anyone want a 17" CRT monitor? It's bulky, but it's a good monitor. Anyone want a colour laser printer that works, but is susceptible to paper jams? Anyone want a big pile of blank videos? Anyone want some computer bits - there's a 10 year old Handspring PDA, some PC game controllers, a PC joystick or two, one of those things that looks like a console computer that plugs straight into the telly and there are loads of games inside it. If anyone wants to come and collect any of this junk this week, it's yours. |
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| Photos of the weekend so far |
[May. 5th, 2008|01:29 am] |
Baking
Nature
Censorship
Dancing |
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[May. 1st, 2008|02:59 pm] |
I overheard what I think is the most abbreviation-filled snippet of conversation ever at lunchtime: "...yes, the DGs of the CBI and the IOD...". Can you do better than that?
Also, why does the stupid annoying Yahoo! toolbar keep on reappearing when I open IE, no matter how many times I deselect it in the View menu? |
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[May. 1st, 2008|12:03 am] |
I had an adventure in North London tonight. I got delayed at work until six, then I set off to collect my camera from City Link at Staples Corner. I decided to follow the TfL recommended route, and completed the first part of it to Willesden Green easily enough. I had to get the 266 to there, but when it turned up instead of going to Brent Cross shopping centre, it was only going to Cricklewood bus garage. Bah. I eventually got to Staples corner, and then had a bit of an adventure getting to the other side of it. It's not really designed for pedestrians is it? City Link found and provided me with my parcel with the greatest efficiency - well done them - and then I had to get another bus back. This was supposed to go to Turnpike Lane, but was only going as far as Arnos Grove station. 2 for 2 there, well done the buses. From there I got the tube to Wood Green, where I can get a W3 home from. One turned up almost straight away, hooray! It said "Wood Green" on the front. FFFS.
Still, I've got a new camera now! It's small enough to fit comfortably in a trouser pocket, yet it has a 10x zoom lens. This makes it a bit better I think than my current 12x zoom but far too big to carry in nearly any pocket camera. I suppose the next camera upgrade step from here would be to get a digital SLR. Maybe in a couple of years or something that would be nice.
Also, I ordered an XBox 360 and GTA IV bundle today. Hooray, I'm going to shoot whores! |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|11:27 pm] |
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I have an animated gif I want to make into an lj icon. What Mac or Linux software can I use to resize it? |
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| FAO: The entire programming language industry |
[Apr. 30th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
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Can we please establish a standard to determine whether the final parameter in a substring function is a length, or a finishing position kthxbye. |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|10:53 am] |
The softball game was called off yesterday, but not before we'd all schlepped to Wandsworth Common to stand in the pouring rain for a few minutes, looking up at the grey skies for miles around and saying "It's not going to get any better, is it?" There was no harm done though, as I managed to get home in time to watch the football, which contained the scariest 76 minutes of my life. Excellent performances all round though, well done the boys.
I'm at London Bridge today - there's no sign of any big flooding and the office is back fully in action as if nothing ever happened. I splendidly managed to get on the wrong tube train this morning - I change onto the Northern Line at Moorgate when I come here, and I saw a train and jumped on it when I got to the underground platform. In retrospect, the announcement saying that passengers for Edgware should get on this train and change at Camden Town should have rung alarm bells, but it wasn't until the train got into the second station and I thought "Hang on, this is Angel. Why isn't it London Bridge?" that I realised I'd got it wrong. Whoops. Look at me, I'm like a tourist, I should be ashamed.
I ordered a new camera on Monday, and the company I brought it from use City Link as their couriers, which means I have to go out to their depot at Staples Corner to collect it. Great. The TfL journey planner's pretty firm that the best way there from here is a tube to Willesden Green and then the bus, but it's going to be horrific isn't it? Why don't people just use the post office, so that I can walk there to pick up the parcel on Saturday morning. Why do they have to show off by using these other companies? |
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[Apr. 29th, 2008|09:44 pm] |
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[Apr. 29th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
I've booked some more holidays, to do stuff. In July, I'm going to go to Latitude. Apart from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shewho, who I already know about, is anyone else I know going?
I've booked time off to go to Edinburgh as well. I'm going to go up on the last Thursday, and come back on the following Monday. Hooray for the bank holiday, always letting me spend an extra day in Edinburgh. I was all ready to book a train for this too, but you can't book trains that far in advance apparently.
I've booked a day off to go and play in the Manchester softball tournament in August too. The softball season proper starts today, and as the rain's stopped now I guess the game will be going ahead. If I'm honest, I'd rather it was called off because (i) I want to go home and watch the football and (b) The pitch will be soggy, and it will be harder to run and stuff, but whatevs. I'm sure it will be fun. Man, Wandsworth Common though, that's a crazy place to play.
I might try and squeeze in a bit more holiday as well, later in the year. I'm thinking of a weekend in Lisbon as a possibility, or maybe Madrid as I should probably go to some part of Spain that isn't Catalunya at some point. Now, bearing in mind that Italy's out of the picture as I'm currently planning that for my main holiday next year (Rome, Pompeii and ???):
Poll #1179692
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWhere should I maybe go for the weekend later this year? |
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