Lot of it about apparently

Posted on Mon 24 November 2008 in geek

Despite thinking the company was relatively immune to the credit crunch it now seems rather less so. When VC money wants to be matched by normal borrowing in a credit crunch something is going to give. There was a fairly glum faced meeting today as rather swinging redundancies were announced …


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Snow Days and Ducks

Posted on Mon 24 November 2008 in general

I went past a number of ducks this morning that had their heads tucked into their wings. I don't think they were ignoring me because of my consumption of a rather tasty duck on Friday, I think it was the cold.

The servers at work have been down since Friday …


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Is the Economy Stupid?

Posted on Thu 20 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with politics

The economy has been very much at the top of the news agenda (modulo dancing hysteria). I've recently added TV superstar Robert Peston to my feeds and I do find his articles very enlightening.

There seems to be a growing furor over the banks reluctance to start lending again. What …


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DLC

Posted on Wed 19 November 2008 in general

Soul Calibur IV has been seeing a resurgence of play on the PS3 recently. I bought it on a whim because it's always worth having a least one fighting game in your collection and I was disappointed with the sterility of Virtua Fighter. Soul Calibur is basically more fun to …


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Requiem For a Tune

Posted on Tue 18 November 2008 in geek

I wanted to listen to some of Fliss' music that she had recently brought. However unlike CD's tunes purchased via iTunes require a bit more work to get playing on anything other than the iTunes it was bought on or a limited number of Apple Firmware iPods.

There exists a …


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