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  • 06/20/2002: Cool things

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    06/20/2002 Archived Entry: “Cool things”

    Hrm, some things that have been pointed out…:

    monty python’s evil bunny… and An escaped robot makes a bid for freedom ;-)

    Been working on the Business Plan.

  • 06/20/2002: A Bit busy….

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    06/20/2002 Archived Entry: “A Bit busy….”

    Just a bit busy…

    2:37pm up 1 day, 14:36, 6 users, load average: 4.58, 2.70, 2.27

    113 processes: 108 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

    CPU states: 64.0% user, 35.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle

    Mem: 190900K av, 186660K used, 4240K free, 0K shrd, 12324K buff

    Swap: 200804K av, 76396K used, 124408K free 94128K cached

  • 06/19/2002: Bikes are Hell

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    06/19/2002 Archived Entry: “Bikes are Hell”

    So, I went to swap the front wheel for the cast front wheel on which I’ve spent such a vast amount of money. Does it fit? No. This is because for no readily explicable Kanuni have changed the size of a spacer.

    Which Burwin didn’t know, and can’t check until tomorrow.

    So I can’t put the new front wheel with the nice tyre on.

    And I’m not too convinced by the other, original wheel bearings. So I’m feeling rather wary about riding said object, which is rather a shame because I wanted to go out tonight :-(

  • 06/14/2002: Which is worse?

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    06/14/2002 Archived Entry: “Which is worse?”

    Me singing with my headphones on….or my music *very* loud?

    [grin]

  • 06/14/2002: Bye bye bikey

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    06/14/2002 Archived Entry: “Bye bye bikey”

    So, I finally got around to putting my old motorbike up for sale (well, actually advertising it as opposed to just sticking a sign on it) – be sad to see it go.

    In other news my body’s hatred of being kept inside has started to show – I’m feeling crap just ‘cos I’ve not been outside for a few days…..

  • 06/14/2002: It’s all Richards fault

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    06/14/2002 Archived Entry: “It’s all Richards fault”

    [Tracy Ullman – Breakaway]

    [The Strokes – Last Nite]

    [Cornershop – Brim full of Asha]

    [Republica – Ready to Go]

    [Garbage – Push It]

    Get me to a decent soundsystem. I need to DJ. (It’s all Richards fault)

  • 06/14/2002: Nuts.

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    06/14/2002 Archived Entry: “Nuts.”

    Yeah, yeah, same title as before, I know.

    (from rec.puzzles)

    A couple of days ago I tried to weigh the Earth by turning my
    bathroom scale upside-down, but given the size of the Earth it should
    come as no surprise to all you savy folks that the scale was
    immediately crushed flat. Now I am unable to remove it from my living
    room floor, because there is no way I am going to be able to lift up
    the entire planet to get the scale out from under it.

    I got that from this page, thanks to Diane.

    So, completely unrelated to the short intro type text….the holiday is off. Now, the awake of you will have realised that there must be a probably my-dad-related reason for that. And that’s the case. The doctors have said “don’t go”. *sigh*. I hope he’s not too depressed about it – I know that they booked this holiday after he was diagnosed and it was sort of a “something to look forward to” and I don’t know what effect not going is going to have on him. I know how much both my parents love Switzerland.

    Anyway, I’m off to see them again at the weekend….

    I *was* going to go on my motorbike, but it seems that, well, my wheels *still* haven’t arrived. However, for the inquisitive I’ve taken a photo of the chicken strip on my current indonesian IFA tyres….however, you’ll have to wait for that. Of course, using a digital camera reminds me of how convenient they are – and thus how much I want one of these – although I’d put up with one of these.

    I’ve actually been off doing other thins and now I’m completely confused as to what the hell I was talking about. So I’ll stop now and have lunch. Yes.

    Replies: 1 Comment

    BTW, bug in your weblog thingy: It doesn’t show the title of each entry on the index page. So when you said “Same title as before” it made no immediate sense.

    Posted by Rachel @ 06/14/2002 08:21 PM GMT

  • 06/13/2002: Odd mood, continued.

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    06/13/2002 Archived Entry: “Odd mood, continued.”

    So, yes. What prompted me to get a live journal was actually a rather long and convoluted process; and one which is related to my rather odd mood I suspect.

    So, long story.

    I can’t exactly remember what I was doing, oh yes, I can actually. Being very, very bored, I was trailing though the links page on here, and I suddenly thought, “hrm, I wonder how Kim Wall is getting on”. Now, a bit of explanation. Kim is someone I met a longish time ago (3ish years), who was on a mailing list I was on. Now, I didn’t know her, but I liked her posts, and y’know how you can be vaguely attached to people even if you don’t really know them? Well, Kim was one of these people.

    Not only that but she was on one of the IRC channels I frequented (I think), and eventually was part of the group of people who started the mailing list I now run. So, very infrequently I tend to have a nose at her website and her live journal – although I’d not really looked at (or noticed) her livejournal before today. Long before the LJ, I met her briefly at CCDE2000, which was nice….albeit brief….

    Anyway, so, feeling a bit rough – I’ve been out for exactly the wrong period of time – too long to be able to stay inside and too short to really get the benefit of going outside (it’s funny, but I always feel crap when I do this).

    So, back to the main tedium. So, anyway, happened to read some stuff in hers, then ended up following links all over the place – and seeing livejournals of people from my not-so-distance past…

    Which was a bit weird. But anyway. Yes, in the end it lead me to the ‘I may as well get a livejournal’ kind of thought, just because, well, it did. mmm’kay?

    Where is it? It’s here.

    [Who’s livejournals did I visit? Well: beth kim Nat]

    If any of you don’t want to be associated with me, e-mail me here.

  • 06/13/2002: I give in…

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    06/13/2002 Archived Entry: “I give in…”

    Okay, so it’s finally happened – I’ve given in and got a live journal. Don’t think for a microsecond that I’m stopping using my normal diary entry stuff, indeed most of the time the livejournal’ll probably be a duplicate of the my own site – apart from the different comments…

    If there are any comments…

    Anyway. Enough for now…