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Performancing test

Just come across this little extension for Firefox – my web browser of choice – and it basically pops up a nice little text box at the bottom which I can format with all the regular stuff, bold, colour, bullets, etc. But then it automatically adds it to my blog. Sweet. Just what I need when I’m surfing the web and find something I want to tell everyone about: I simply press the “pen and pad” icon and type.

This is the first attempt at using it. Here’s the link: Firefox addon

If your reading *this* then it’s worked. Brilliant!

#Flag: Software, firefox, blogging

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Fat man shrinking across America.

This is a really nice story of a man losing his way in life and trying to lose some weight.

This is the link:

http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/page/66308/

He’s walking the 5000 miles across America to find himself and lose some weight in the process. Mostly following Route 66 and there’s also lots of photo’s too.

Quite inspirational… I think I could do with a little weight loss… Time for a walk me thinks.

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Maze of Rah

This is a cool little game I’ve come across. The idea is the mummy walks along and kicks the last part of the pyramid into place. The puzzle is, he can only follow a certain route and the route changes as he walks over it.

Bonus.com® – Fun and Games!

Be warned, there’s 100 levels…

Edit: you can’t link straight to the game so have a look at the maze sections.


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Oh you, story teller….

I’ve been working though the OU story writing course over the last few weeks and I’ve been really enjoying it. The course is here.

I may post some of my stories online if I’m feeling brave… although thinking about it…. that’s probably unlikely… Forget I mentioned it…

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I've got a bedroom!

Its come at last. Two and a half month‘s after ordering it. I’ve finally feel like I’ve actually got a bedroom, instead of a few cardboard boxes I’ve been using as bedside tables!

Shipped all the way from Malaysia, I now have two bedside tables, a three door wardrobe and a 6 draw dressing table. Oh, and also two king size beds… You can’t have enough king size beds you know…. OK, so I actually got the second one because it came in a set with everything else but only worked out to be £10 more! So I’m going to try to sell it maybe at work or somewhere.

Nice dark wood, Japanese style, king size bed FOR SALE…

Edit: actually the spare bed is just a double one…


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End of the Month review

OK, so the end was actually about two weeks ago, but I’ve been a little worst for wear later, and I’ve just not had the time to keep it up to date.

I went to the doctors to see what it was but unfortunately they didn’t know and thought it was probably nothing, possibly even just my imagination… which I guess was better than being on death’s door although it does open the possiblity that I’m completly nuts… Cool!

I think the possibility that I might be ill, was actually making me ill. And that got my depressed that made me ill…. etc, etc, etc… Oh well enough about that.

So februray wasn’t a great month, but it had its moments.

Going to Chesterfield for a friends birthday party was good fun back up north where I used to live. Sharon and I stayed in a nice four star hotel which we had got for half price. “The Chesterfield” it was called and it was pretty good. We had a corner room, which was fairly small actually, but adequate for what we needed.

Can’t think of anything else for this month, but I think it was mostly all good.

#flag: February, Chesterfield, Sharon, illness

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totd: Registering at Doctors

Do NOT wait until your ill to register at a Doctors.

It will take longer than you think, I’d put aside a week from the point you decided toregister until the time you see a doctor.

You’ll likely need to take in some ID and fill in a load of forms, so you’ll need to know your previous Doctor’s name and address. Once you’ve proved who you are, you’ll probably need to wait another 48 hours for them to process your details and put you on their computer and of course, eventually you’ll have to wait until a doctor can fit you in.

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The Feast of Lupercalia.

So today is the day after what is usually a pretty miserable day for me. Usually, I’m all on my lonesome at home… (sob, sob…) but this year was different, this year I decided to go out and be lonesome somewhere else. Just kidding, this year of course, I had my girlfriend, Sharon, over.

I even got presents! No less than several acres of martian land! Cool. Some rather fetching boxer shorts, and a new computer game “Metroid Prime 2” for my GameCube. (I’d tell you what I bought her, but she’d only get embarrassed when I mention how extremely revealing the skimpy underwear was….)

Still, there’s always a down side to Valentines day, and this years’ was I let Sharon pick a DVD to watch… “A perfect catch” – , a romantic comedy, quite a recent release, about a girl who meets a bloke, and he turns out to be “mad” about baseballs’ “Red Sox”. In my opinion, the madness didn’t go far enough, I don’t remember laughing at all. The whole film seemed to go nowhere, incredibly slowly… (Of course, there was one redeeming feature)

Now, I bet your wondering what Lupercalia is… Well its all to do with the beginnings of Valentines day, back around 2300 years ago… back Romans, shepards and wolves. This website has some nice information, if a rather sickening background (pink, with hearts on…, girls….), and so does this one.

In closing, I’d just like to sing a little valetines song, and bring back a long forgotten tradition from England: (see website above)

Good morning to you, valentine;
Curl your locks as I do mine—
Two before and three behind.
Good morning to you, valentine.

Doesn’t that just put a cheer in your heart.


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Out of the office

On the request of my company, I’ve been taking a course in C#. And actually, I’ve quite enjoyed it. The full course title was: “Developing Applications with the .NET Framework using C#” – rather catchy, no? I went with a company called QA and I can highly recommend them, at least for the course I was on anyway.

The course taught, .Net (forms applications), ASP.Net (web forms applications) and ADO.NET (database driven applications). It was quite interesting and enjoyable, and I left that little bit more knowledgeable. The course can be found here, and just so you know, I went to Swindon QA.

(I wouldn’t recommend driving there every morning from Oxford though! It was taking me 1.5 hours to drive the 30 miles to Swindon… I hate traffic… especially when its dark and you can hardly see the road for the glare of the on coming traffic… but that’s another story…)

Now I’ve got my certificate of completion I think I’m virtually guaranteed a pay rise when I get back to work on Monday… Not. (Which is actually tomorrow – the weekend goes so quickly….) But at least I’ll be working on some new stuff when I get back to work, I can hardly wait…

#flag: course, QA, link, works

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End of the Month review

Wow, the month really goes quickly, seems like an eternity since the 1st of January. Lots of things have happened to me this month, but the main one is the awfully large amount of money I’ve spent – or at least will spend as soon as my furniture arrives (which is unfortunately still over a month away – this means another month sitting on the most uncomfortable futon…)

Of course, this was also the month I got rejected zero percent finance – I’m yet to find out why.

Also the month I got my broadband connection in. I’ve been working on my new website for a couple of weeks but haven’t got anything I’d want to share yet.

And we’ve started a new project at work – the current one everyone been working on (I”ve been on it for only a couple of months) is finally finished, but its amazingly two years late and has cost 2.5 times as much as was budgeted (I think around half a million!)

Overall, it’s been a good month but looking back I don’t appear to have had much play… That’s my target for next month: Less work, more play!

#flag: January review, money, work