August 2010
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Aug 8th
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July 2010
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Ye gods, I’ve not blogged in months.  What a terrible state of affairs - this ‘working’ malarky sure gets in the way. On the plus side, tumblr seem to have sorted out back-dating posts (either that, or it’s taken me this long to grow the necessary brain-cells to convert the date to US-stylee) which means that if I ever get a spare week I can finish uploading a bunch of...
Jul 4th
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Jul 4th
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March 2010
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Mar 21st
Mar 21st
February 2010
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Feb 27th
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Feb 13th
August 2009
35 posts
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Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 26th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Brand New (5)  Silversun Pickups (4)  Everclear (4)  The Mountain Goats (3)  The Temper Trap (2)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 24th
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 22nd
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Linux installation by dummies
Years and years ago I was friends with a really smart guy who kept plugging Linux.  He kept singing its praises but was really not winning anyone over with the DOS-like interface and all the command-line coding. Given my recent decision to embrace my geekery and feeling rather confident I thought, ‘Fuck it, let’s try it’.  I chose Ubuntu purely since it’s the one everyone...
Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 21st
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Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16) →
Silversun Pickups (12)  The Mountain Goats (10)  Paloalto (7)  Brand New (6)  Owl City (6)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
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Awesome seatbelt bag
WANT!  This ‘Day of the Dead’ bag is awesome!  And a total steal at just $49.99.  She also has other designs of seatbelt bags at her Etsy store
Aug 17th
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Aug 16th
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Vivienne →
Darnit, if my parents had gone ahead and named me Vivienne like they’d planned then I’d be one of 344 people alive today with that name (with a most common age of 80)!  As it stands I’m one of 635289 people. Mind you the other option was Kylie.  *shudder* In other news, who the hell gives a boy the name ‘Amy’?!!
Aug 14th
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Aug 14th
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Aug 13th
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DNA art →
WANT!  I would positively LOVE one of these DNA portraits.  Prices start at £136, and this company (DNA11) seem to be cheaper than the alternative (DNA art).
Aug 13th
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Aug 13th
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Microsoft Vine →
Microsoft’s new messenger concept.  Only available by invitation at the moment.  Could be interesting.
Aug 13th
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Aug 10th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-9) →
Silversun Pickups (10)  The Mountain Goats (3)  Cut Copy (3)  Discovery (2)  Brand New (2)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 10th
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Aug 8th
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Flower (PS3)
I downloaded Flower from the PlayStation Network last week.  I must say, it’s really impressed me.  As simple as the concept is, it really is an enjoyable experience.  I wouldn’t really call it a game, as such, since the tasks are not particularly difficult or taxing in any sense.  It is just really relaxing and beautiful: Your aim is to repopulate areas with flowers and bring...
Aug 8th
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In which I babble about life, death, and uni
*flops down and sighs* I swear, if I could go back in time and put the same amount of effort into my undergrad as I have in this MSc then I would have recieved a first. I got my uni work handed in.  Now I just have the presentation in a couple of weeks and then it’s either pass or fail time.  Soon I could have MA (HONS) MSc after my name.  Or I could just have MA (HONS) PgDip. With the...
Aug 8th
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Aug 6th
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Aug 6th
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Aug 6th
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Aug 3rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2) →
The Mountain Goats (6)  Silversun Pickups (5)  The Dead 60s (4)  Muse (4)  Five for Fighting (3)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 3rd
July 2009
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Blasts from the past
I’ve just finished reading this article from The Guardian website about the demise of Point Horror books and it took me right back.  I used to devour those books.  Many a day was spent with my head in a book, pondering who would turn out to be the killer in this one - the janitor, the window cleaner, the main character’s split personality… That was back in the days when...
Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 31st
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Jul 29th
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Christian Bale Rant Soundboard →
You too can make Christian Bale swear like a loon.
Jul 27th
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The Box - a grown up Donnie Darko?
As a huge fan of Donnie Darko, I was super-happy to see that its director, Richard Kelly, has a new film in the pipeline which was inspired by The Twilight Zone - dude, that sounds AWESOME. The film is based on a short story by Richard Matheson - basically a man appears at Cameron Diaz’s character’s front door, offering her $1,000,000 to press a button in the next 24 hours which will...
Jul 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Discovery (22)  The Smashing Pumpkins (13)  Radiohead (11)  Muse (10)  Florence + The Machine (10)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 27th
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“The cruelty had gone out of the sun and the day was gloriously warm without...”
– Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (chapter 12)
Jul 26th