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Geek/Nerd Tests

Monday, August 7th, 2006

After seeing these tests on Planet Termisoc decided to see how I measure up.

Ben’s Post
Skippy’s Post
Ruth’s Post

My Results:

I guess there’s room for improvement…

The dark side of the house

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Recently my parents have been home improvement crazy. We have new windows, a new boiler, the lounge and dining room has been rececorated and now I have swapped rooms with my younger sister. My old room was at the back of the house (south facing), always used to get the sun first thing in the [...]

Solution to religious hatred

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

A new commandment:
“Thou shalt not get upset by jokes about thy God. He is big enough and old enough to looketh after himself.”
from The Alternate 10 Commandments

Introverted vs Extroverted

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Slashdot Comment

My elf is chaffing

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Been playing a[n]? MMORPG recently called Eternal Lands (client available for Linux, Macs and Windows) and today I found out that the name I chose for my character sounds like south German slang for “chaffing”.

I’ve got a Job!!

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Starting from tomorrow at 9am I will be a LAMP developer. Yay!
I’m sure my friends will be glad for me no longer whinging about:

Being very bored, there’s only so many times you can be entertained by watching your kernel re-compile
Feeling rejected because hardly anyone was replying to my job seeking efforts
Having no money, most of [...]

Job Interview

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

As most of my friends will know I had a job interview today for an ICT Technician at Devonport High School for Girls. The short story, I didn’t get it.
The long story is…
There were three other candidates for the job being interviewed for the job on the same day as me, down from a short [...]

DRM vs Copyright

Friday, November 18th, 2005

The original bargain of copyright is a deal designed to benefit both the creators and the public. The creator would be granted a limited monopoly for so many years (originally 28 years) so that they could make money off their work, after that time the work would be released into public domain for everyone to [...]

Sunset

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Just had to take a picture of this beautiful firey sunset.

Perhaps I should set up a webcam just to capure the view of the sunset from the loft of my house.

Panoramic Photos

Monday, November 14th, 2005

I’ve been sorting through my wonderfully organised collection of photos and found these three, part of a 360° panoramic of Dartmoor that I took from the top of Cox Tor when I was out with Ruth and Ben. The rest of them I left out because they didn’t quite join up properly.