Archive > December 2006

Season’s Greetings

The script (or lack of it) for my Christmas this year came straight out of a Mike Leigh film except for being considerably more middle class. Most of the time I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Hope you had a good one.
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Real life attention seeker

Gods know she doesn’t need it, but Amber Night is a real attention ‘escort’ (her word, not mine, because apparently it’s classier but she’s a goddamn yanqui so what the hell would she know about class). She’s also very funny (if a little full of herself and quite delusional) although I’m not entirely sure [...]

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Fogbound

So, travel chaos, freezing fog, no flights in or out of Heathrow. What are my thoughts?
Only that it’s 6pm, I’m in Dublin airport and my flight home is already delayed by an hour. More guinness?

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DING!">Bada DING!

I finally reached the dizzy heights of level 60 in WoW this week. It was my goal to do so before the expansion came out and as far as transitory and meaningless achievements go, I was pretty chuffed. (Geekage continues after a word from our sponsors).

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Many Places

Raph Koster has announced a new project thing with a classical name: Areae. The world and his virtual dog are discussing what might be going on his big brain over their late night milk and cookies although Amber’s inciteful insightful and disarming interview with the man himself tells you all you need to know [...]

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New Toys

Shortly after starting my new contract, my old phone (okay, my wife’s old old old phone) broke. This is the phone I used after my last phone died (and I dithered about whether or not to get a new one). Now I’m a contractor freelance software consultant, a mobile is definitely a necessary [...]

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Music Quiz

Daisy asked what the music was in the video of my hatchling. She’s actually about the third or fourth person to ask me that out of about five who’ve seen it (and the first to comment about it on here so thank you Daisy, it’s nice to know that someone’s paying attention). I’m [...]

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Over the shoulder

Tonight I learnt why you shouldn’t read other peoples papers over their shoulder. Because if you do so, you’ll read articles about recent stories this.
While the weather outside is lashing rain and strong winds.
And you’re on a plane.
A Ryanair plane.
*gulp*
(Of course, I’m home safe and sound but I don’t like flying at the best [...]

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