| Welcome |
[Dec. 4th, 2020|08:20 pm] |
You can find more info on my userinfo page - but this is just here to say that I'm very happy to be friended by anyone that wants to read me. I rarely post friends-only, and that only tends to be about things that mention work, so if I don't friend you back you're not actually missing much...
If you do friend me, this would be a good place to leave a comment introducing yourself, and letting me know how you found me! |
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| Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-28-2009 |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:02 am] |
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| Grammar WIN! |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:17 pm] |
via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) theferrett |
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| I never liked 2001 |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:45 am] |
But this crossing of it with Dr Who's The Wheel In Space is very nice - especially for the ending.
via cavalorn |
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| Viene tormenta! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|06:32 pm] |
You may remember "Nation For Marriage" and their "A Storm is Coming" ad against gay marriage:
if so you will probably be very amused by this:
Afterwards you should head over to http://www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com/...
(Thanks to drainboy for that one) |
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| update |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|02:50 pm] |
Insurance company are going to pay the £500 it cost to get Building Company A to find the leak. *phew*
Building Company B are coming round on Wednesday at 8:30am to take a look at the room and decide whether they need to put dehumidifers in place for a few days before starting proper work on the 10th.
I've given up gaming until after Christmas (at least) so that my time is more flexible.
I'm looking forward to making updates that aren't just about building work.
I have finished Defense Grid though - and I'm looking forward to going back and doing some earlier levels better. Also, Julie and I went out for dinner last night, which was nice. So it's not all bad.
ETA: And I won the national lottery. A whole £10!!!!! |
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[Nov. 26th, 2009|11:02 am] |
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| Dubai defaults on its debts |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|09:30 am] |
Here
If it was just a large Dubai-based company then I wouldn't be that surprised - but this is the largest government owned investment company in Dubai.
An awful lot of expansion over the last 15 years has been based on debt - and we're going to be seeing more and more of it unwind. Which is what happens when your model is based on getting into debt and then paying it off faster than the interest mounts up - you live on the edge, balancing incomings against outgoings on a constant basis. The longer the recession lasts the more companies will be pushed over that edge. |
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| BEST REVIEW EVAR!!!! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|08:10 am] |
Seriously. I just giggled the whole way through.
Massive spoilers for New Moon - but I'm never, ever, ever, ever going to see it, so I really didn't care about that. |
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| OpenID Neatness |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|11:39 pm] |
If you have a Google Profile (and anyone using Google will have one, you might just not have set yours up yet) then it's now usable as an OpenID!
Mine is https://www.google.com/profiles/TheAndrewDucker if anyone cares :-> |
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| Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-25-2009 |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|11:02 am] |
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But they're not blocking it - and a damn good thing too.
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This is pretty much how I feel about organised religion.
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I'm not convinced he _does_ weigh more than a duck...
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it's not just a matter of humanities vs. science, or education vs. business, either. In an e-mail, Arreola told me, "The same gap is often seen within engineering itself. Bioengineering has been growing to the point where we could see a 50/50 split of women and men majoring, and there have been some reports of salary staying flat or going down. Engineering fields where women are less than 20 percent pay more."
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| A heartbreaking work of staggering genius |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|12:21 am] |
Gets better and better as it goes along
(via 7 or 8 people on my FL today) |
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| I love technology |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|02:16 pm] |
Letter arrived from the builders. Julie shoved it in the printer/scanner/copier, which chucked the results over its WiFi connection to her machine as a PDF, which she then emailed to me at work so I could phone them and tell them they were doing it wrong.
I had to rotate it so it was the right way up, but you can't have everything :-> |
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[Nov. 24th, 2009|11:01 am] |
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| Why would I buy music? |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|10:01 am] |
Spotify for S60 has been released - which means that any Nokia smartphone (plus a smattering of others) can now have Spotify on the move.
I downloaded it onto the phone yesterday and gave it a whirl. So far I like it an awful lot. It's not perfect - it doesn't really do albums, so you have to right click on albums you want and say "create a playlist" and then tell the phone to "make available offline". But I could create the playlist on the PC and then just go through and select each one on the phone, which didn't take long at all.
It did take a while to make the tracks available offline, although I'm not sure if that's because of the speed of download or because the phone/memory card is slow. It certainly wasn't anywhere near maxing out the broadband or WiFi speed.
The interface is also annoying on two minor counts:
No text prediction (which isn't as annoying as it might be, as most band names aren't real words anyway)
The "hang up" button on my phone returns me to the main screen for most apps, leaving the app running in the background. Spotify actually quits. Which isn't the end of the world (pressing the menu button twice has the same effect) but it's not ideal.
Oh, and their selection of music isn't universal. There's a _lot_ of music there, but there's a fair chunk that's missing too. I'll have to supplement with some albums from my MP3 collection.
But in the meantime I have a big wodge of music on my phone, and more than I have time to listen to waiting next time I feel like something new. |
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| Awwww/Ack! |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|06:47 pm] |
Poll #1489386
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 60Polar Bears Pandas |
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