Pad Thai

Posted on Fri 17 March 2006 in general

I was dragged out (kicking and screaming mind you - otherwise I would of gone to the Gym) by Mark and Lee last night. We went for a very nice Thai meal at the Siam Orchid. I even tried Lee's monkfish which was quite nice. I've been informed the reason I …


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Good Things about working in Town #6342

Posted on Thu 16 March 2006 in general

I went to the Picadilly Box office which I was unaware was just round the corner from work to see if I could snarf some tickets for Henry Rollins. Luckily I managed to get the last 3 they had. So now I know if ticketmaster (or other rip off online …


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Necessity meet Mum

Posted on Tue 14 March 2006 in geek

Occasionally when I'm feeling appropriately inspired I'll get an idea in my head for an invention. This is a bit of a family tradition as we often would come up with ideas on how to solve particular problems around the dinner table. Such an idea occurred on the way to …


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Advancing Years

Posted on Sat 11 March 2006 in general

Considering the road outside my house is a lot quieter on Saturdays compared to the rest of the week how come I'm always up by 9.30 despite my best attempts at having a lie in?

I've had my parents visiting for most of the week while my Mum as …


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Last.fm

Posted on Mon 06 March 2006 in geek

I've been playing about with Last.fm over the last few weeks. The basic concept is you enable your music player with an Audioscrobbler plugin which transmits meta-data* about each song played to their servers. From this Last.fm can build a profile of your listening habits. From this data …


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