Hardcore, too the max, coding

Posted on Fri 28 July 2006 in geek

I left work around 21.45 last night. I was in by 8.10 this morning. My "Get out of bed alarm" went off whilst I was fixing my uber-tag* for baseline inclusion. Today will be mostly brought to you by caffeine and loud music. How I shall stay awake …


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Transportation Metaphors Abound

Posted on Mon 24 July 2006 in general

My social calender for the start of this week has been filled in with lunches and drinks with various lovely ladies. Lee has cautioned me against smugness although I myself feel pleasantly surprised at the sequence of events.

Maelstrom was very good. The fact I didn't actually use any of …


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Score!

Posted on Tue 18 July 2006 in general

I played using a new badminton scoring system last night and today with Lucy. Essentially someone scores a point on each serve. To compensate for the speed of point accumulation the match winning score has been upped to 21 instead of the old 15. I quite like it as you …


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Drinking Lessons

Posted on Mon 17 July 2006 in general

This weekend I learnt two important drinking lessons. The first is it is in fact possible to drink too many Strawberry Daiquiris*. The second is the supermarkets are now stocking quite a nice range of decent lagers.

Friday's plan of after work gym was scuppered by the general attraction of …


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Burn as much meat as you can while the Sun is out?

Posted on Sat 15 July 2006 in general

I'm doing two BBQ's today (Daphne and Phil and Carl's) so I'm wondering if hosting one tomorrow will be too much meat? Given I've seen 5 straight sunny days on the forecast I can be pretty confident the weather will hold up.