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{ Monthly Archives } July 2006

Clerks II

I had been looking forward to it and was planning to go to the cinema to see it, but I gave in and downloaded a copy.
I had a choice between 2 TeleSyncs: a 1-disc Xvid and a 2-disc SVCD. It was a close-run thing but I thought that the SVCD copy was (maybe) slightly better [...]

And There Are No Diamonds In The Mine

Oh the joy! The office has gotten in the coffee supplies again. Imagine my suprise when I opened the cupboard to discover row upon row of bags of the stuff.
I’ve been reading through the archives of a blog I stumbled upon a while back and came across an entry about coffee which mentioned it’s procurement [...]

Syd is Dead, Long Live Syd

I’ve been visiting my family for this week and on the journey from the bus station to my Mother’s house I heard on the radio that Syd Barrett had died.
His death occurred on friday 7th (as a result of complications due to diabetes) and was reported on tuesday 11th and I can definitely say he [...]

Wee Me

I was sorting through my bookmarks in Firefox and I found a link to this site which allows you to create a minature clone of yourself (in colour!) Here’s what I (mostly) look like today:
Pretty much a Regular John, huh?
I should really get back to some “proper” work, instead of creating things like this:
Google [...]

New Docs

I put in my monthly expenses claim yesterday morning and decided to follow through on a plan that had been on the back burner for a while now: getting myself some new footware.
After sorting out the new firewall at the office I strutted my way down to the Doc Shop and bought a new pair [...]

Revolution Now

Up until a few hours ago we had a Symantec firewall appliance protecting the office network from script kiddies and the like, but unfortunately it was prone to crashing and required regular rebooting.
As I was returning from my coffee break I passed Kev who was leaving the room to go reboot said device.
I was in [...]