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This post is coming to you over the airwaves from Cloud via Ben’s wireless PCMCIA card and Skippy’s access point. I have finally managed to get the card connected using ndiswrapper with the Windows XP drivers. Now I can write really pointless things here.
Apologies to people who like the this blog to be technical, I’ve [...]

On Wednesday me, Ben and Skippy went all the way to Somerset just to get some chips. There’s a restaurant in Dulverton called Woods and they do very delicious chips. I discovered it whilst I was on industrial placement and have been meaning to go back there ever since.

The experiment produced an interesting non-poisonous and edible substance. It tasted sweet and surprisingly non-chocolatey considering the amount of chocolate that went into it (250g).
One of the test subjects commented “There’s nothing wrong with squidgy”.

Today, I’m attempting to make a white chocolate cheesecake.
More details to follow when it’s ready… assuming that I don’t burn down the house in the process.

Unexpectedly, this morning I received my university results. I’ve been worrying about these for a long time I had no idea whether I’d passed or not. Thankfully, I’ve have.
In honour of this joyous occasion I’ve added a shiny bit to the top of my website :-).

Over a year ago I acquired a free second-hand laser printer. It was detected under Linux and looked to run OK, except that it had run out of toner. Being as I couldn’t afford the extortionate amount for a replacement toner cartridge I thought it’d be more fun to dismantle the thing and scrounge any [...]