Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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In the years before…
…when the internet was young[1] I used to collect the odd video. You’d find some bizarre things out there. They’d be uploaded in all their 320×240 glory, usually in mpeg or flv format… It’s not a massive collection, and mainly these things can now be streamed on youtube in vastly higher quality. But I have…
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Just a little bit…
Because Linux’s move command is actually copy-then-delete if it’s not within one partition, I have to do this file shuffling in multiple chunks. Which means selecting a group of files, saying “move them”, waiting an hour while it does that, then selecting more files and doing it again. It seems to be working, so far,…
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So far, today has gone better
I spent this morning watching Big Clive tearing down a cheap USB charger which, for unfortunate part-failure reasons – passed mains straight through to the USB port. Sadly for the makers, who actually seem to have given a fig about design – and who’ve actually gone to more trouble than seems common to build a…
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Questions, questions
So… [poll id=”2″]
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Things are conspiring
I’d kinda blocked today out to do my computer non-upgrade – well, case-upgrade, motherboard is kind of a horizontal movement. This was, of course, foolish. Foolish because whilst the board was meant to arrive today, early, and the case ‘before 10am’, this almost never happens. I mean, technically, the board was meant to arrive last…
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Creeping Americanism
So, my card holder finally no longer contains my British bank cards. They’re now securely & safely stored away… I’ve not quite had the heart to remove some of the loyalty cards from the independent retailers in Bristol. But the transition plods on. I more or less remember to say pants at work, and ask…
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Landed gentry
We started the day feeling pretty positive. The sun was out and we made our way towards Centralia, our destination for the day, where we were checking out a “it might be a place you’d like to start a business” suggestion and to have a look at property. By the end of the day we…
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I have turned productivity up to 11.
Well, maybe not 11. Maybe something like 7. Perhaps. I made a list of things to do today, and I’ve done many of them. I hoovered the house – the new Roomba is yet to prove its worth, waiting as it is for me to steel myself to order it a new aerovac dust bit.…
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It lives! At least a bit.
So I went back to 4th Dimension Computers because the insurance co were unhappy with “it’s dead Jim” as the reason my PC was dead. I’d replaced the power supply when I got here with a brand spanking new one, because the one in it was irritatingly only rated for 240 volts. Having traded in…
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Scoping out the possibilities
So, my ‘scope arrived, rather the worse for its cross country journey. It’d been wrapped into a layer of bubble wrap, placed into a box – several inches wider than it in every direction (except vertically) – with a garbage bag…and then shipped. The fragile 40 year old plastic that covered several of the controls…