I took possession of a set of these headphones this week. Once you work out how to fit them into your ear - tip, wet them and slide them in until they feel a little uncomfortable, then tug your earlobe, seems to do the trick for me - the sound is amazing. And [...]
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20/20 World Cup Winner’s Curry
A comfortable victory for Morris in the 20/20 World Cup Fantasy Competition was celebrated last night at Rajmoni on Upper St with the presentation of the Desmond Dekker Memorial Cup. However tragedy struck soon after with Morris accidentally breaking the cup in half as he enthusiastically put it down on the table. All’s [...]
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Getting pidgin working with gtalk
After installing version 2.2.2 of pidgin I couldn’t connect to gtalk with it, due I believe to firewall restrictions here at work. I kept getting a disconnected error. Changing the following advanced properties sorted it for me.
Change the port to 80
Set the doman to talk.l.google.com
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Reading list
The books I have read. The most recently read is at the top of the list.
The Shock Doctrine
London Fields
Songs of the doomed
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Winning on Betfair for Dummies
Blink
Fooled by Randomness
Fighting Fit: Complete SAS Fitness Training Handbook
The Book of Dave
The Alchemist
The Myhtical Man Month
How to Get Rich
Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow
Scrum [...]
Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard
I recently built a new machine to run MythTV on. It’s based on a Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard. The manual for it is here.
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Sony KV-28LS60U
My television is not what I thought it was, the manuals that came with it all those years ago are the wrong ones. According to the details burned into the back of the TV it is in fact a Sony kv-28ls60u and here’s the manual for it.
To access the engineer’s menu, to change the screen [...]
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What happened to the MaccyD cheeseburger?
Drunk last night I walked into the MaccyD’s on Oxford St for my regulation two cheeseburgers only to find out that the Oxford St MaccyD’s wouldn’t sell them to me, they only do value meals. What the hell is going on? Still drunk, I politely declined a huge meal and wandered instead into [...]
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My top 20 albums
Paul and I have been discussing our top 20 albums of all time, a difficult list to compile. What’s the criteria for getting onto the list? For me it’s the albums I keep going back to time and again, and no matter how many times I listen to them they never get dull. [...]
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Tube lies
Explain this to me. I’m stuck on the Victoria Line because of signal failure at Oxford Circus this morning. When I eventually reach my destination at Victoria the automated annoucement kicks in and tells me that there is ‘a good service on all lines’. Firstly, is the communication in Underground so bad [...]
Morbid memorials
I can’t help but wonder as to the new craze of creating make shift shrines to lost loved ones at the site of accidents. I can fully sympathise with the grief and loss felt at the death of a loved one, but to create a shrine at the site of the death seems to [...]
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