When we moved into our current house, I emailed the council and had our council tax account changed form the old house to the new. Great. They emailed back to confirm the address as it didn’t quite match what they had, but no matter, it was all sorted and I was assured the direct debit …
Monthly Archive: August 2005
Aug
26
Blogging Upgrade
Just upgraded to MT 3.2 – it looks prettier without a doubt, however only time will tell if its spam blocking is just as good as Jay Allan’s spam plugin (you’d hope it would be, given he now works for Six Apart).
Aug
25
Derren Brown – Pure Effect
This week, I shall be mostly reading Derren Brown’s "Pure Effect". Review to follow!
Aug
23
Sleight of Mind – Book Review
Having devoured this book during my weekend away, here are my thoughts. As is normally the case with these specialist titles with small print runs, there are plenty of typos; but that doesn’t actually detract from the book. It has a good mix of background on mentalism in general plus a few "routines" to get …
Aug
22
Warsaw Roundup
click for more Having just spent a weekend baking in the heat of Warsaw, here are some ideas of what to do over there in the summer: Lazienki Park Vast park near the centre of Warsaw, very popular. Has lots of cafés an ice cream shops as well as red squirrels. Few toilets though! Wilanów …
Aug
17
Windows Vista – Initial thoughts on Beta 1
Yes, ok, it’s been out for a little while now, but I thought it would be nice to add my 2p’s worth. The good Virtual folders These are ace – they essentially display the contents of a search pattern you set, so "all pictures" for example. I haven’t yet worked out how to define my …
Aug
13
New book
I have a new book, and it’s going to allow me to mess with people’s minds. Or not. Detailed review to follow.
Aug
12
Death Smoothie
I’m very concerned – what I assumed to be an exceptionally healthy drink may actually cause me irreparable damage. Curses! Also, I wasn’t aware that Bees made pollen?
Aug
11
64 bit wget for Windows
Having laboured over this for the past day, I thought I’d post this here. It’s the AMD64 port of wget – it should run on Windows x64 Professional (Intel or AMD architecture) as well as the Windows Server 2003 64 bit versions. Be warned however, this doesn’t contain the SSL libraries so will not work …
Aug
08
London Triathlon
I went to cheer on my friends at the London Triathlon yesterday – the added bonus of (some) pretty boyz in wetsuits and lycra was a happy coincidence though! Click for more gallery pictures
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