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shiny. (579)

Good mood so far today. Managed to get lots of bits of css done yesterday, was an interesting day.

Lots of people running around like headless chickens as David, my line manager, leaves on Friday. Greg wandered over to one of the programmers near me and informed him that as David was leaving he'...

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Late again. (571)

I wonder if I can bribe anyone cute to share my tent

""Celebrating the queen’s birthday by putting her face on our cover in a thinly veiled attempt to sell more of our excreable rag (clicky)
Got sidetracked by doing things to freakcity. I should really not touch it in the...

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Weekender. (561)

It’s a fucking Monday

Blogging on the move with a crufty old Palm Wireless Keyboard :D (clicky)
Blogging on the move with a crufty old Palm Wireless Keyboard 😁
Friday — finished work shockingly late at about 7pm. XMLC was being a bitch and I abandoned it at the point where it was rewriting my Javascri...

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Oooh... (513)

It’s pretty, but it’s also a bit late to be up on a schoolnight. I is nawty 😡

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Pretty pretty (643)

CVS. Crawls Very Slowly

Pretty pretty walls. (clicky)
Pretty pretty walls.
It’s sunny. At lunch I had to visit Oxford Circus so went for a wander through the arse end of Soho to the forrin exchange place by the station. Walking through Carnaby Street, sun in the s...

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hur. (508)

“u are a complete asshole babes, and manners u need a lot of”

That told me then!

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wooyay (509)

What did he want?

My Crappy Bus. (clicky)
My Crappy Bus.
(Small).JPG Finished a big chunk of work and learnt a few things too. I’m on exit controllers today, should be a right giggle.

My freakbag is full and by my side. Slightly more in it than my coat ...

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Yay! (630)

^_^ . o O ( Does my bum look big in this? )

Freakbag, modelled by world famous pornstar Steven Paige :D (clicky)
Freakbag, modelled by world famous pornstar Steven Paige 😁
(Small).JPG My freakbag arrived today 😁 Innit gorjus!

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Hm. (493)

I am possibly late, possibly due to me playing with my new broadbeans. Almost double the upload speed! 😁

Sad geekery aside, I’ve decided I want a Palm T|X.

Sad geekery aside, shiny Javascript works everywhere in the new work thing. Still didn’t finish until 7 though.

Bought cheap stuff fo...

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Ooh... (592)

MAN GIVES BIRTH! (clicky)
MAN GIVES BIRTH!
Forgot to mention. I accidentally upset some Labour politicians on Monday. Got a leaflet through the door from them so opened the door to chuck it in the recycle bin. I’m guessing they’d presse...

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I.............. (512)

Just one piece left...

Look and feel better...with TAMPAX! (clicky)
Look and feel better...with TAMPAX!
(Small).JPG ...just ran for the bus. God I’m unfit.

Lots done yesterday. Plus I booked the campsite and confirmed my holiday too. My line manager is going to work for the peop...

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Gah! (585)

Some fucker’s put an ad on Gumtree using my email address for “Camden Crawl” tickets. I got bored of replying to random people after the first 10 or so. Bah 😢

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Looooooooong weekend (473)

...and I did pretty much fuck all. TJ in his “drought period” so no money. It happens every month at around the same time but he never seems to realise or prepare for it. If he was a farmer he’d starve during winter 😉

So I got loads of bits of freakcity done.

I wish Javascript was threadsafe ...

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yay! (635)

Hi from CafePress.com!

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This package contains:

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Some things die (485)

nummy treats

The writing’s on the path. (clicky)
The writing’s on the path.
(Small).JPG Much of yesterday was spent making javascripty DOM stuff, a welcome change from the monotony of Javay DOM stuff. Owen agreed to help with SQL Server. I agreed to pay him in gi...

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I am naughty... (599)

Everyone dies alone

Scott on tour! (clicky)
Scott on tour!
(Small).JPG Unfortunately for everyone I had time last night to build more freakcity. Heh. I also did something with my fabulous cafépress store and designed some things, including a rather lo...

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What is The Matrix? (596)

It’s just like riding a biker...

Novak, now with 4, yes, that’s right, you count 'em, FOUR hard drives attached... (clicky)
Novak, now with 4, yes, that’s right, you count 'em, FOUR hard drives attached...
Lots done at werk. Ate toast, drank cawfee, that kinda thing. Managed tofinally fix a bug that’d been annoying us for fucking...

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wah! (574)

...sent my phone off to be fix0red. It’s buggered, stripes on screen and crap battery doing strange things like being full one minute and empty the next. 3 business days after they receive it I should get it back. That’ll be Friday I hope.

And I’m hoping I can get all my contacts back on to the f...

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Weekendness (490)

Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race

Bizarre artwork in the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design window (clicky)
Bizarre artwork in the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design window
Friday I went straight home after work – feeling mingy and crap. Did bits of FC and chatted to people. Bed quite late, but hey. "Mog...

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Righty... (624)

We’re now on a much faster box. Everything should be quicker. We also now have a bigger DB capability and 2.5x more bandwidth to use up per month 😊

Soo...I shall attempt the upsizing to SQL server some time over the weekend. Beta will start running as a seperate DB for testing, and I’ll finish g...

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Hm. (509)

They have Johnny Vaughn in the lifts at Covent Garden now. And somehow he sounds almost exactly like Robert Elms. Cunning use of “celebrity”.

Snowed under at work, splitting my time between 3 people. Fun!

Left the office at 7:30 (ugh) to go to Owen's leaving do but felt exceptionally ming...

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Thank fuck it’s Thursday. (572)

Spiritual Ambivolence

Work got a little hectic. That and irritating certain self important people on a certain website took up much of my Wednesday. bump and deev told me off a bit.

Work was split between playing with the callflow editor tree, updating the UI code for the videomail themes so it’s XHTML (grr....

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