And the results are in...

Posted on Mon 23 May 2005 in general

Yesterday I reached the culmination of my training yesterday and completed the Great Manchester Run 2005. I was quite pleased with my result of 1h08m15s although I didn't make under the hour which was one of my targets. I did however keep going for the whole 10k without breaking into …


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In brief

Posted on Sun 22 May 2005 in general

I went, I ran, I finished and kept going until the finish line. More later after the post run beers have worn off....


Many Threads

Posted on Sat 21 May 2005 in general • Tagged with gentoo, running

I've spent most of the morning trying to properly fix the glibc on my Gentoo system. It appears after much analysis my problems stemmed from the backward compatibility to the old Linux Threads system (TLS). Once I specified nptlonly in my USE flags and rebuilt glibc everything worked fine. I …


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Episode III

Posted on Fri 20 May 2005 in general

Well its over. My overall conclusion, not as bad as I feared it could be. In fact I enjoyed the whole film although it was slightly marred by the poor dialog, especially some of the Yoda stuff. It seems they wrote the dialog and then just went around switching words …


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A Whale of a Time

Posted on Wed 18 May 2005 in general

I went to see Moby at the Apollo last night. I like the Apollo. It may be a little dirtier and out of the way than the MEN Arena but its also a lot more intimate as a venue. You get a good view from most places on the ground …


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