Archive > February 2004

Damn snow

Well the snow from the night before last was obviously only the precursor to big daddy snow. We got about 6 inches on the ground this morning (yeah, I know it’s not a lot, but this is the first time we’ve had snow anywhere near that deep on the ground since 1997) which in [...]

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Interesting facts

via Toby who doesn’t have a blog but sends me tons of this shit via email every week:
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise except for Venus,
which rotates clockwise.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A hippopotamus can run [...]

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Whoo looks like the quizzes are back up to speed

You’re The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! by C.S. Lewis
You were just looking for some decent clothes when everything changed quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse, it is still hard to tell. Now it seems like winter will never end and you feel cursed. Soon there will be an epic struggle [...]

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I get to do a quiz tonight

Following my immense success with bingo over Christmas it has been decided that I am a worthy candidate for the post of substitute quiz master tonight at my local.
Only one slight problem – so far the quiz that the regular guy was supposed to prepare has yet to materialse… oh dear.
Fortunately, I don’t have a [...]

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Fucking snow???

Welcome one and all to the sun kissed Channel Islands… the forecast for today looks bright with a slight risk of snow flurries throughout the day …
Yes it’s snowed in Jersey. This ridiculous behavior began late last night and has continued, on and off, throughout this morning. It’s a pain in the arse. We don;t [...]

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Crashy Badness

So Windows is back on (nice clean fast new install which will remain that way for about … ooh a week) and I finally got Mandrake to install but only in text based mode.
It seems there is something in my system at home that Linux just doesn’t like and I can get about 5 – [...]

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Flux

This weekend marks a pretty major change in my lifestyle, the first of such changes for a good 3 years. Moving out is going to be a good thing *hopes* but there’s so much to think about that every time I start I nearly drive myself crazy. The big stuff is not really a problem [...]

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It’s been a while…

But Pixy found a great lil quiz thing:
Rob

Guppy
Agility: 7
Strength: 8
Stamina: 8
Battle Rating: 23
Origins
Rob is the spawn of nuclear sludge released into a lake

Can your fishy beat Rob ?

Heh, my fishy kicked Pixy’s fishy’s ass! Yay piscine violence

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The fates are conspiring against me

I’d like to apologies in advance for this blog being a bastion of technicality for the next couple of days but there are big changes afoot in the way my home PC is organised.

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Only 1hour 19 minutes to go

Until the third and final disc image of Mandrake is safely sat on my hard-drive. We were talking about his in the pub last night – the way that expectations have changed with regards to downloading software from the Internet. The time was that we would think nothing of connecting to the Internet at speeds [...]

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