2006
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Laptop Digital Picture Frame
Happy Christmas!
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Back Home
Woo, back in Scholes for Christmas!
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IE7
After downloading Internet Explorer 7 today, I spent the morning sorting out a few CSS bugs across the Media Network. One thing I like is that the
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Full College Bar Crawl
Heavy night…
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Microsoft vs Apple Advertising
For the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft have released a viral marketing campaign featuring Demetri Martin.
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First Ever DUFMS Flash Mob
Today, we had the first flash mob in Market Square. The mission: everyone had to freeze for two minutes when the cathedral bells rang 2pm.
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Casino Royale & Planet of Sound
A very different Bond…
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Climbing
Wednesday’s climbing was interesting, to say the least…
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Berghaus
I finally managed to make the Berghaus Leap of Faith!
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Less Than Jake + Dropkick Murphys + The Living End
Such an awesome gig!
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Faith Restored in WLM
I have re-installed Windows Live Messenger today, after attempting to get it working before and being a bit miffed. For one thing, the contact list seemed to have lost any control over showing display pictures as per MSN Messenger 7.5, and plugin control for Messenger Plus! Live was handled rather differently.
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Jay’s New Memory Card
Jay managed to get a Sony M2 memory card. It’s tiny!
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Firefox 2.0
I have just installed and started playing with Firefox 2.0. I’m afraid to say that the first thing I did is install the Winestripe theme, which is essentially the FF1.5 default theme — I wasn’t impressed with the 2.0 default!
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Boarding Tryouts
This evening was spent at the artificial ski slope at Silkworth Sports Complex in Sunderland. It was supposed to be tryouts for the DUSSC, but didn’t seem that organised: Upon arrival I purchased a membership card (for £5) that meant I got a discount — except that it only applied to skiers. Thankfully the staff also thought I was a skier and charged me the cheaper skiers’ price for entry! Reg managed to pay for both the membership card, only to then be told that he didn’t need it, but was going to have to pay full boarding price…
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Spanky’s 20th
What a night!
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The Automatic + Mumm-Ra + Alterkicks
Last night we went over to Newcastle University Union to see The Automatic, supported by Mumm-Ra and Alterkicks.
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First Climbing Session
Yesterday we took the new HBMC members to Sunderland Wall. It was a big turn-out, requiring four cars in total — our biggest turn-out yet, I think!
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Love Shack
That’s where it’s at…
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Waiting to Exist
Headaches of waiting for university registration, and the inevitable solution.
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Back in Durham
I got back to Durham yesterday afternoon. I haven’t unpacked anything, except my computer — important things first!
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Dell Laptops Suck
I hate Dell PCs.
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Cotswolds
Damn server down-time. Here’s the reason:
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Mosaic Images
Whilst browsing the Facebook Developers’ Directory, I happened upon a product called Photomosaic.
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Birthday Night Out
What a night…
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Amy’s Party
So, Brown’s is a posh place, eh?
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My Personal Festival
I think I’ve now managed to work out whom I saw at the festival now:
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Lake District & Leeds Festival
I got back from Leeds Festival last night. I would have made a separate post about the Lake District trip, but I pretty much went straight to the festival after that!
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Getting Paid to Blog
I’m writing this from Hayes labelling machine. I have nothing better to do…
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Pub Quiz & Biking
Last night we had a go at the quiz down at the Barleycorn in Scholes. I remember the days when we used to be glad to scrape half the score of the winners — this time a fairly impressive 28 put us considerably closer to the winning 35 (remember this is a pub where our group at least halved the average age). Not long now, soon we’ll be regular winners…
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Tad Run & Climbing
Yesterday saw the legendary Tad Run being completed in excellent style by a number of us. We started at the Falcon for a bit of lunch (the usual Brit doesn’t do food on a Monday), and working an interesting route around to finish at the Angel in plenty of time. All in all, a very respectable Run, with minor closing hiccups being dealt with promptly!
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New Bike
Today saw my change from a 26″ to a 20″ bike — with a purchase of an Onza T-Mag Spec 2 from Aire Valley Cycles. Managed to scuff the frame a little within the first two hours, so maybe an Armourdillo is required. Also bought some nice shin pads, but it was too hot to wear them, so when my foot (inevitably) slipped off the pedal, I got a few more marks on my shin!
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Back Up & Running
It now seems that the server is back up and running rather well.
