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Swine Flu. Patient Zero

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How may words for snow can you sms?

So, the other day Annette and I were at the house we want to buy, waiting for the real estate agent to show up. We’re sort of purposelessly standing on the corner of the street, in this quiet suburb, at night. Just waiting for this dude to arrive and

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Yo Way Yo

I had a dream the other night in which I was told my dear friend, Mr Chris Rigby, had died in a motorcycle crash. My immediate reaction was to sing the Battle Hymn of the Brunnen-G. Upon waking, and reflection, I believe it’s what he would have wanted.

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Credit crunch? What credit crunch? ... Oh, THAT credit crunch. Right. OK.

So, we’re waiting on word from the bank confirming our new mortgage. And it’s taking freaking ages, and driving us crazy. Now, this particular mortgage is not that large, specifically because we’re putting down a fairly plump deposit. In fact, the largest deposit I’ve ever put

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There's no way this could go wrong.

Our apartment sold today, at auction. Not quite for our reserve price, but very very close. We’re quite happy with the sale price. So that’s a done deal. And we haven’t actually bought a new place yet. So ..yeah. I’m sure there’s no possible way

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Paper wraps Rock! Hah! Now I'm in command of this squad!

I just watched an episode of CSI where the investigators are sneaking up on a suspect who is using a terminal at one end of a large data center. The data center in question contains dozens of racks, all chock full of active servers. The CSI dudes are trying not

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You did NOT just shoot that green shit at me!

I just cleaned bits of our kitchen. Which doesn’t sound like a big deal, but you see because it’s on the interior of the building, the kitchen in our apartment has no windows. And the range-hood doesn’t actually have a vent, it just runs air through the

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Illin'

There’s little I hate more than being sick. There’s not a much worse intrusion to my otherwise comfy world than have a continuous sort of background low-grade lurgy that saps energy and concentration in greater and lesser degrees. Sucks. I feel slightly better this afternoon, I sure as

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The 1934 BMW R7

[Whimper!] http://www.thecoolhunter.net/transportation/1934-BMW-R7/ How much could one of these possibly cost? I’m sure it’s not that much.

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Bleh

Tried to get up and go to work this morning. Managed to make it from the bed, all the way across the apartment, before getting kinda dizzy and ill. Went back to bed, slept for another 9 hours or so with terrible dreams and sweats. Seriously, sucky flu.

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We be illin'

I keep meaning to post more stuff about Japan .. I have a lot of fragments of things in my head about it, but nothing that is actually coherent. I should probably just start writing, and things will come together. So I have some kind of lurgy – felt kinda shit all

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Tokyo - Ueno and Akihabara.

Ueno held our attention because it had the very cool Yamashi Roya, which is a toy shop several stories tall. There were more Gundam style toys than I could conveniently describe to you. And there was pretty much a whole floor of model tanks and planes and things, and about

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O HAI JAPAN

We got in late last night, checked into our hotel, then crashed. We spent today wandering around Ginza and Marunouchi. I’m posting this from a cafe at our hotel in Ikebukuro. Some initial thoughts on Japan: – The combination of the Japanese dislike of any fuss, coupled with our inability

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HA HA! I DO NOT SPEAK JAPANESE!!!11!!!

So, Annette and I got married yesterday. Which was awesome. I shall post pics, as soon as the photographer gets them back to us. It was great fun, we had the exact ceremony we wanted, and everything went off without a hitch. There were a few friends that I wished

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Hip hip! HOORAY!

Work gave me a morning tea and a card signed by all for my birthday today. Here’s some excerpts from the card: “Happy Birthday and Many Ph4t Lewts!” “I was going to say that I hope there were no network outages on your birthday .. but too late!”[1] “I’

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A good time was had by all.

Friday night was my Stag Night, kindly organised by by good friend Chris. He and my other groomsman Grant attended, as did various other chums. I requested something civilised, since I’m old enough that the prospect of hookers and drunkenness[1] fills me with an emotion that I’m

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Operating Systems _AND YOU_!

So, as was my custom, I was thinking about operating systems the other day. It occured to me that after my first two computers (a ZX81 and a ZX spectrum), I had a Commodore Amiga. This was around 1986 or so. Used it right through to the early 90s. The

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A Delicious Slice of My Life

[MojoBob] jsr: aren’t you supposed to be getting married or something? It’s February [jsr] Affirmative. [jsr] Wedding looming. [@jenza] Where you holding it? [@jenza] Ironforge? [jsr] jenza: Man, that would be _sweet_. [@rob2] Only if you could book it out. [jsr] On the AH bridge [jsr] FTW [@jenza]

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Awayyyy!

Annette moved to the edge of a sheer, icy cliff and paused a moment, surveying the battlefield below. Even at this height, she could hear the noise of the Lich Kings’ undead forces clashing with the combined might of the Alliance and the Horde. She thought back on the countless

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More like iFAIL amirite?

My iPhone has started being normal volume in the left channel, and really quiet in the right channel. This behaviour persists through several sets of headphones (and headphones perform normally on other audio devices) and through a complete iPhone restore, including firmware. I .. I think it’s actually … broken. Can

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Traslated Lyrics: "Did a lot of coke, voted for Thatcher."

As I write this, Annette and I are watching the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest, which I acquired because I thought it would be funny. It is. There are hosts, and singers, and cutaways to video clips which showcase various participating countries. You’ve probably got a mental picture of a

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...and in the darkness bind them.

So, we bought our wedding rings yesterday. They’re being resized now, and will be ready in a week or so. Annettes was not so bad, but mine needed to be resized to an absurd level to fit the mighty paws I use to scoop salmon out of rivers and

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Best. Business. Plan. EVER.

Todd Peters, VP of marketing for the Windows Mobile Division said that while Microsoft was looking into beefing up WinMo’s features, its strategy for the new year was to limit the number of devces using the OS. Right now about 140 cellphones use WinMo. Peters said Microsoft is hoping

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I think you'll find it's actually "GNU/Linux" ...

So this morning I put on a pair of jeans and some sandals, as it’s quite warm currently. This resulted in the following conversation: JSR: “Do do you like this look? Am I rocking it?” Annette: “You .. look like you should have a favourite linux distribution.” [Pause] JSR: “I

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Population: Tyre

Mid afternoon today, I phoned my friendly and excellent mechanic (since he’s now back from holiday), and I said “I’ll bring the car in tomorrow morning, it’s started sort of juddering and wobbling a little bit, and the juddering increases with speed. I’ve checked the tyres