Archive for February, 2005
Friday, February 25th, 2005
A few weeks ago my Inspiron 8100 died (again). Having already replaced the hard disk, I decided it was time to replace the whole machine and went shopping for a new laptop. A few days later I had decided that an iBook was the right choice. Why? Well, on the desktop I am a very […]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Today’s Piled Higher and Deeper is particularly apt for me at the moment! Progress on actual writing has stalled for the moment: this week I’ve spent a lot of time supervising, generating results graphs and producing the camera-ready version of a paper for iTrust. Hopefully my word count will start moving (upwards!) again next week!
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
A short spell of insomnia last week caused me to watch a late-night TV programme about the top British bands of 2004. Liking what I heard, iTunes’ excellent music sharing facility allowed me to preview the albums of Snow Patrol and Franz Ferdinand. I’m not convinced about the latter, but Snow Patrol’s Final Straw is […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Online shopping is great. You can shop around for the cheapest prices from the comfort of your bedroom instead of having to tramp around town (or worse, drive from place from place), you can check out online reviews and product specs that are far more detailed and knowledgeable than any shop assistant and best of […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Something else to distract me from my thesis write-up, a new version of WordPress (the software that runs this site) was released today. The official changelog is rather brief — here’s a more more comprehensive review of improvements, and upgrade instructions for the previous stable version (1.2).
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
The world needs more anger! Vote Matthew Garrett for Debian Project Leader!
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
A close end to the match — I’m glad I didn’t go to bed at 24-14, but in the end the Eagles just too sloppy in their execution. Interesting to see the game shown on ITV this year — clearly more money to spend on presentation than Channel 5’s usual offering. Lots of ad-breaks in […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
As hoped the Eagles came back almost straight away with a nice drive to level the score and open up the game. Ominously for the Eagles though, the Patriots are beginning to look very comfortable running the ball, giving them control of the line of scrimmage, the clock and I think, ultimately the game. We’ll […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
Having seen just one gridiron game this season I wasn’t sure if I was going to watch tonight’s Superbowl, especially being so busy at the moment. When I joined 5 (game) minutes into the first quarter it was a very scrappy affair with lots of unforced errors on both sides of the ball (Eagles in […]
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Sunday, February 6th, 2005
Pointless, silly and overly-complex plot punctuated by a couple of comedy moments. Too long, boring and dull — don’t bother.
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