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Harry Beck’s map – a design classic

Posted: September 5th, 2003 Comments Off on Harry Beck’s map – a design classic

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Finchley Central, evening

Posted: September 5th, 2003 Comments Off on Finchley Central, evening

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Meital

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Amos

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Thoroughly skippable: CSS blogwank rant (with bonus Mozilla bug tip)

Posted: September 4th, 2003 | 9 Comments »

Subject: My weight ruined my life jplbktzmqotag

(after Leonard)

I normally try to avoid writing posts like this. Blogging about blogging is bad; blogging about IM conversations is bad; blogging about fights amongst bloggers is bad; blogging about stupid CSS tricks is bad; blogging about in-jokes with your famous blogger mates is very bad. In combination, about it I should be taking an avoidance route with a continent-sized margin. But a challenge has been made, generic and it must be met. (By me, anyway. You can skip all this. You’ll lead a better life for it.)

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The exact moment he became too fat to type

Posted: August 28th, 2003 | 5 Comments »

Subject: My weight ruined my life jplbktzmqotag

(after Leonard)


New oil pipeline to also extract calm, urine

Posted: August 27th, 2003 Comments Off on New oil pipeline to also extract calm, urine

Silent Scope 4: Gynecologist

Spent most of the afternoon beating my head against the fresh RH9 install on our new little Linux box at work. (It’s an Asus Terminator K7. So small! So cute! So cheap!) Basically, dosage the base perl/CPAN install was failing over various module installs. Turns out that this is easily fixed with export LANG=C. And thus the hate-hate relationship between Redhat and Perl continues – I think it’s been somehow broken in every other release. More info here.

Across the world, more about game sites’ forums have filled with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Lone gamers wander the streets crying, their clothes torn. This month’s popular computer entertainment publications will come with cover-mounted ashes. It is, in fact, all really bad.

Half-Life 2 has been delayed.

Yet, astonishingly, gaming life goes on elsewhere. As of today, I can now officially kiss goodbye to any more attempts to do something creative with my life because my favourite time-sucker has risen again: Natural Selection 2.0 is out!

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Bob and me, taken two months ago

Posted: August 7th, 2003 Comments Off on Bob and me, taken two months ago

Silent Scope 4: Gynecologist

Spent most of the afternoon beating my head against the fresh RH9 install on our new little Linux box at work. (It’s an Asus Terminator K7. So small! So cute! So cheap!) Basically, dosage the base perl/CPAN install was failing over various module installs. Turns out that this is easily fixed with export LANG=C. And thus the hate-hate relationship between Redhat and Perl continues – I think it’s been somehow broken in every other release. More info here.

Across the world, more about game sites’ forums have filled with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Lone gamers wander the streets crying, their clothes torn. This month’s popular computer entertainment publications will come with cover-mounted ashes. It is, in fact, all really bad.

Half-Life 2 has been delayed.

Yet, astonishingly, gaming life goes on elsewhere. As of today, I can now officially kiss goodbye to any more attempts to do something creative with my life because my favourite time-sucker has risen again: Natural Selection 2.0 is out!

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Time to evolve

Posted: July 31st, 2003 | 3 Comments »

Silent Scope 4: Gynecologist

Spent most of the afternoon beating my head against the fresh RH9 install on our new little Linux box at work. (It’s an Asus Terminator K7. So small! So cute! So cheap!) Basically, dosage the base perl/CPAN install was failing over various module installs. Turns out that this is easily fixed with export LANG=C. And thus the hate-hate relationship between Redhat and Perl continues – I think it’s been somehow broken in every other release. More info here.

Across the world, more about game sites’ forums have filled with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Lone gamers wander the streets crying, their clothes torn. This month’s popular computer entertainment publications will come with cover-mounted ashes. It is, in fact, all really bad.

Half-Life 2 has been delayed.

Yet, astonishingly, gaming life goes on elsewhere. As of today, I can now officially kiss goodbye to any more attempts to do something creative with my life because my favourite time-sucker has risen again: Natural Selection 2.0 is out!

Read the rest of this entry »


RedHat 9 and Perl problems

Posted: July 31st, 2003 | 1 Comment »

Silent Scope 4: Gynecologist

Spent most of the afternoon beating my head against the fresh RH9 install on our new little Linux box at work. (It’s an Asus Terminator K7. So small! So cute! So cheap!) Basically, dosage the base perl/CPAN install was failing over various module installs. Turns out that this is easily fixed with export LANG=C. And thus the hate-hate relationship between Redhat and Perl continues – I think it’s been somehow broken in every other release. More info here.


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