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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Survival of the fittest
So, in roughly 1996 my parents bought me a new computer. A StrongARM RiscPC. It was terribly, terribly shiny. Seriously shiny. It was 5 times faster than it’s predecessor, the RiscPC 700… and I was totally stoked to own something new and fast. Seriously fast. I loved that computer. It still felt fast the last…
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It’s a weakness
So I’ve finally given in. Nikki has been showing off the joys of Plex. I did try it before, but I think that the woeful inadequacy of the media server (Athlon 2800+ FTW) somewhat screwed that pooch. So after various thoughts of upgrading and several occasions of looking optimistically at various upgrade options I’ve given…
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It lives!
So I popped around to John’s today to take over his Xmas present (yes, I’m aware that it’s late), and also to have another stab at finding the Squeezebox2’s failure point. After much investigation, probing and poking we thought we had it down to a single component. Specifically a ‘high speed low voltage operation switching…
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It looked so innocent
So Kathryn gave me some CDs for Christmas. One was St. Vincent, the other Elizabeth Cotten. Being as I’m trying to be better about these things; and also because I fancied listening to Elizabeth Cotten over dinner, I ripped it and plonked it over on the media server. Unfortunately, it did not deign to quite…
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Misplaced Mojo
So, those of you who remember, we’ve been trying for a baby. This month we had our second go, and we found out this morning that it’s not worked. My beloved isn’t pregnant. Truly, we found out it was unlikely yesterday, in the tail end of ‘our xmas’* but kinda clung to the slim, slim…
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Capped and Tiled
So, our roof was, as was suspected, hideous. Although the original survey stated ‘The roof will need to be replaced at some point in the future’, a statement that I felt was both startlingly accurate and also startlingly useless (up there with ‘surveyors are unable to see through solid walls’), I’d hoped it’d make it…
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The Massive Ripping Project
It has been, it must be said, a total failure. Why? Because I’m lazy. And added to that problem I love music, and film, and so there are an enormous, and continuously growing number of disks. DVDs, Blu-Rays, CDs; they keep arriving (at least sporadically), to say nothing of the Vinyl and the odd digital…
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Melancholy and Lack of motivation
I’ve caught a cold; this is never good for productivity, but I’ve been feeling a bit… well. Negative. Both K and I have been hoping to move to the states; specifically at the moment we’ve been looking at Port Townsend. The problem with this is that essentially doing this requires taking a leap of a…
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Deep and Abiding Joy
So yes, the roof. Our house is, almost certainly, sporting its 1936 era double roman roof tiled glory. It’s possible, given that it’s been lined with some sort of tarry-paper-stuff that it’s been re-roofed at some point in its lifetime, but it was certainly not a recent event. Unfortunately, as some of you already know,…
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Finally, finally.
So, I’ve been crossing items off a list that doesn’t really exist except in my head. I’ve fixed the dishwasher, I think. It’s working at least and not tripping the RCD. The noise suppression capacitor on the mains appears to have been the fault… it’s quite nice to throw things in and have them come…