May 2005
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Tasty
Art, fashion, design. They are all subjective. But where do we get our sense of style, our own personal tastes? Are they developed over time, moulded by society and our exposure to culture, or is it a genetic inheritance? A bit of both? Is my love of minimalist – think Scandinavian (no NOT IKEA) and…
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HHGTTG
Movie info from IMDB Movie revies from Metacritic Finally saw the movie of the book that has been twenty years in the making. Initial impressions are favourable but with room for improvement. The casting isn’t too bad, but I don’t think any of the actors did a particularly good job, although despite my hope Marvin…
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Tipping Scales
Willpower. Anyone got any to spare? I should check my biorhythms I think as I’m certainly cyclic when it comes to my mood. Not whether I’m in a good or bad mood, but whether I’m in a “get a grip” mood or a “ohh bugger this” mood. That latter is prevalent for the most part…
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Attention Deficit.. Thingy
Stuck. Paused. Diverted. I have a couple of new projects to work on, a couple of projects that are stuck at the “hard bits” (both in theory and in workload) and I’m managing to avoid them all at the moment. Filling my time researching, taking care of other small tasks. I’m partway through “Getting Things…
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Greenery
When we bought our house we desperately wanted somewhere with a garden so we’d have somewhere to sit on those summer evenings. Somewhere in the last three years all that changed. We did a fair amount of work on the garden in the first year, last year the weather and our social calendar conspired against…
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Thunderbird
When it was released and whilst I was still flush with the joy of switching to Firefox, I thought I’d have a go at Mozilla’s new email client Thunderbird. I’ve been using it for about 3 months now, here are some of my thoughts. PROS Installation and import is easy The installation is painless as…