April 2008
Big waves. Nice.
At the fortune of war
played a bit of GTA IV at lunch. it’s great.
..though after playing a lot of burnout paradise, the vehicles in GTA handle like they’re driving around in a few feet of very thick treacle
i want to stay in a yurt in wales http://www.hiddenvalleyyurts.co.uk/
Haff gta4
Vista: so far, i really like it.. *ducks*
‘Local paper’ Argus has made 21 staff redundant and is outsourcing to India instead: http://icanhaz.com/newsquest (from @racheldorman)
I like Vista so far. Just using it for Media Center + Extender (xbox 360)
installing vista, just to see how bad it is
camera, 500mm lens, tripod, OS map, backpack. getting the 77 up to the downs
wondering what to do today. other half is shopping all day
off to the foundry with some littlelouders
At the tin drum playing board games
More Lightwave scripting. Now watching the characters bones move correctly..interesting stuff, wish i could spend a few weeks doing this.
At starbucks talking tech things
just booked ticket for geeKyoto
oh my god netvibes is down again :( I can’t function properly..agh
Hacking about with Lightwave scripts. it’s basically C, so not so bad.
Trying to order FOTB tickets and getting an error. FAIL
FOTB person called; all is sorted now. phew. :D
More FOTB ticket buying FAIL.
Yey bt engineer is here
london today, off to meet IBM
adobe flash updater just broke the flash install on my machine. wd adobe.
Played drinking games with red wine. Nasty
pint anyone?
I see a few brighton twitter profile pics on p7 in the guardian, paul annet, @rellyab, @natbat, jim callendar (on mobile can’t lookup names)
Reading about flechette shells as used by the israeli army (m546 apers-t). Who designs these things? How do they justify it to themselves?
still on the phone to bt. how hard can it be to get a line activated…. ffs
being flung around BT departments by idiots
my god, almost 2 hours on the phone to BT to get this sorted…
LOLing at @downingstreet on the front page of the guardian. excellent!
i’m quite impressed at how the guardian handles the whole ‘online’ thing. gratz.
…want to go to GameCamp
5 aces, yey! I win :)
installing twhirl as well
you going to wales then? :D i’ll send it over when i’ve tidied it up..
oh.my.god. BT are beyond incompetent.
can’t some government body force BT to stop being utterly, utterly useless?