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Yesterday I got lots of important things done. I visited Tiverton to pay off my phone bill debt to my ex-landlord (over 100 quid, mostly dial-up internet charges). I visited Neil, Caroline and baby Alex to give Christmas presents. Also met up with Matt and Chris (guy Matt was trying to set me up with). [...]

This afternoon I had to lead a discussion about “Business Intelligence”. It was terrible. It was one of those modules that I am sure only got put in the degree to weed out people with technical skills and ensure that only management-types get degrees. So that the PHBs can still look down on techies and [...]

I tried burning some of the stuff that I was drinking yesterday. As expected it burnt very well (80% alcohol tends to do that), it looked pretty too. It burns better than turpentine and doesn’t leave any bad smell around. I took a picture of it. In the picture I used less than a capful [...]

It’s Wednesday morning. I have some coursework due in at 4pm. I woke up at around 9am and considering the amount of alcohol I consumed last night I should either feel like a) like I’ve been bashed repeatedly on the head with a heavy object b) very sick or c) dead, but I don’t. I [...]

I’d forgotten how fun debugging can be. I was helping Ben with a script last night from 11:45pm to about 4:05am (thank goodness for caffeine mints). It in nice to get things working and also to show off my 1337 5|<i11z I was also working on my own blog script, the one that I didn’t [...]

I was thinking of trying to create a login area using PHP. Then I thought about one-time passwords. User enters in their user name which then shows their password encrypted by their public key. The user decrypts this and logs in using the decrypted password. The login causes the users random password to be regenerated. [...]

Was sorting through tons of floppy disks today. Found one that was corrupted, it said it had 13.2GB of files on it! The corruption was probably caused my obsessive got-to-tidy-everything mother who decided it would be a great idea to store them right next to a magnet. Good job there wasn’t anything important on them. [...]

I ordered some caffeinated mints online a few days ago. According to the order tracking they are currently in Kentucky. They will help with the programming coursework that I have to do over Christmas. Went out for “lunch” with the guys from Termisoc it turned into something that lasted into the evening. We ended up [...]

Yesterday I wrote a script to log visitors to this site. It is working very well. I know that two people have visited already from google after searching for “how to play emacs Dunnet” and “dunnet emacs“. So I added a link to a Dunnet walkthrough. I’ve also written a couple of simple SQL queries [...]

The sunrise was very nice this morning. This is a view of it from my bedroom window.