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+1 funny, -1 flamebait, 1984, advice, alan moore, alcohol, and why are you letting me?, apocalypse, apple. ui design, atheism, attention seeking, backups, bad taste, belief, birthday, bloody people, board games, bombings, books, brains, breakfast, buffy, c#, cable, cannibalism, capitalism, cbt 101, celebrity, chat, children's tv, christmas, cinema, client, coding, comedy, comic, comics, communications, computers, concert, concerts, cowboy neil, crivens, cthulhu, cthuloid gods, culture, cuteness, dates, dave mckean, definitely made of cheese, delicious glue, design, despair at the stupidity i see around me, devon, discworld, dr who, dreams, driving away the readership, duh, dupe, economics, edinburgh, edward scissorhands, eee he's not wrong, electronics, email, emotions, ennui, environment, family, fandom, fanzines, feedback, festival, fiction, file sharing, film, films, finally remembering to use tags, firefly, firefox, fish fingers, freedom of speech, frustration, fucking microsoft, funny, funny picture, g8, gaiman, games, gaming, gay marriage, geekiness, geeky, gimmick, google, gosh i can write anything in there can't, goths, half life 2, happiness, harry potter, hey we can make our own tags? sweet!, hitler, homophobia, i really hate the way lj arranges tags, icons, identity, in alphabetical order and truncates them, indescribable lateness, information, interests, internet, iraq, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's annoying it loses capitals too, job, joke, jokes, kilroy woz ere, kitten, law, life, lilian, link, linkage, links, linux, livejournal, lj, logic, london, lotr, made of cheese, man-flu, map, medicine, meme, memes, microsoft, money, monkeys, moo, morality, movie, movies, music, nature, neal stephenson, neighbours, neil gaiman, new orleans, new year, news, nine inch nails, no, nosiness, notifications, nurture versus nature, octopi, ontologies, p2p, penguins, phone, phones, photos, picture, pictures, pink floyd, please disregard this tag, politics, poll, pratchett, presents, presumption of innocence, programming, psychology, quake, question, questions, quiz, quote, rambling, rant, recommendation, relationships, religion, resolutions, review, reviews, rss, rug muncher, sceptic, serenity, sex, sexuality, sf, sharks, shaving, slashvertisement, sleep, sloth loves chunk, society, software, somewhere near blefuscu, spam, spiders, spoilers, star wars, status quo, stirling, stupid bloody decisions, stupidity, syndication, tag kidnapped by rogue clowns, taglist longer than entry, tags, tagtastic, tech, technical, technology, teh coolness, terrorism, test, the 80s, the coolest idea ever, the internet, the media, the prodigy, theferrett, this is almost like a wiki, thoughts, tidying, time travel, toys, trailers, tv, unlikely cover versions, unpleasant food experiences, usa, v for vendetta, video, voip, want, warren ellis, watch the damn video, web 2.0, webcomics, what no more room?, whedon, whining, why let others edit your tags, wikipedia, wildlife, will never succeed as a librarian, work, worldcon, worldof, writing, yorkshire, you asked for it, you can edit them, you can edit these you know
12:30 pm - Take the test
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I failed.

Will you?

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

(cheers to [info]theferrett)

(also: the amazing colour changing card trick)
02:08 pm - Dinner
Calvin's Brain, Aaaaaardvark, Sex, fish bicycle, Smiley, Soccer Archery, running with fire, unintended consequences, how awesome I am, Livejournal, Teddy of Borg, kitten crying, 2012, cats and dogs, Shade, slogans, House with a silly face, Hold Me, roleplaying HP, cards of love, lesbian tea, Eightball, The Question is not "Is She Gay?", smoking horse, KittenPenguin, obey, plasticine, Humanity, psychodrama, wikipedia, Attack!, Fight Calvin, Portal!, Eschaton, Needs More Robots, multimedia errors, witch, Animated, Cartoon, circular reasoning, book power, Focus!, Experience, Santa, Monkey in charge, swirly ball of doom!, Join Darth, Back slowly away, obey the penguin, cat chases butterfly, Dr Who, bubble, minifesto, Academically speaking, Unless I'm wrong, south park, Whoa!, time to live, movie review, devil, conspiracy theories, It's a trap!, pickup lines, Exciting, hairy, Cutest Kitten, mononoke thingy, android fisting, Serious, kitty, Sexy, Java, Vaudeville for the next five miles, bullshit detector, Wibbledy Weep, Flying Squirrel, The Hair!, Juggling, Big Grin, headshot, default, screaming hedgehog, Jesus!, dating curve, wanking, Master and Doctor, HP Spoilers, sheldon, ZOMG!, Big Neil, cute, Says Tom, Monkey and Me, lady face, calvin dancing, reaper, Evil Pizza, how big?, livejournal blackout, vulture vomit, Alone without the stupid people, running lego man, STFU says the doctor, Made of Love, Batman goes back to the closet, Find X, sleeping doggy, overwhelming firepower, bombed to freedom, Made of Win, Offensive, whoever invented boredom..., Tentacular, Lack of Pants
Was at [info]is_not_well and [info]vereybowring's place last night, where they prepared a magnificent repast, with extra food provided by [info]poisonduk and [info]joexnz, and alcohol provided by everyone (including champagne by [info]surliminal). I'm off over there now to help tidy up the carnage.

[info]poisonduk managed to take this rather nice photo:

which I like a lot.
04:47 pm - Slowly Increasing my Technological Dominance of The Situation
Calvin's Brain, Aaaaaardvark, Sex, fish bicycle, Smiley, Soccer Archery, running with fire, unintended consequences, how awesome I am, Livejournal, Teddy of Borg, kitten crying, 2012, cats and dogs, Shade, slogans, House with a silly face, Hold Me, roleplaying HP, cards of love, lesbian tea, Eightball, The Question is not "Is She Gay?", smoking horse, KittenPenguin, obey, plasticine, Humanity, psychodrama, wikipedia, Attack!, Fight Calvin, Portal!, Eschaton, Needs More Robots, multimedia errors, witch, Animated, Cartoon, circular reasoning, book power, Focus!, Experience, Santa, Monkey in charge, swirly ball of doom!, Join Darth, Back slowly away, obey the penguin, cat chases butterfly, Dr Who, bubble, minifesto, Academically speaking, Unless I'm wrong, south park, Whoa!, time to live, movie review, devil, conspiracy theories, It's a trap!, pickup lines, Exciting, hairy, Cutest Kitten, mononoke thingy, android fisting, Serious, kitty, Sexy, Java, Vaudeville for the next five miles, bullshit detector, Wibbledy Weep, Flying Squirrel, The Hair!, Juggling, Big Grin, headshot, default, screaming hedgehog, Jesus!, dating curve, wanking, Master and Doctor, HP Spoilers, sheldon, ZOMG!, Big Neil, cute, Says Tom, Monkey and Me, lady face, calvin dancing, reaper, Evil Pizza, how big?, livejournal blackout, vulture vomit, Alone without the stupid people, running lego man, STFU says the doctor, Made of Love, Batman goes back to the closet, Find X, sleeping doggy, overwhelming firepower, bombed to freedom, Made of Win, Offensive, whoever invented boredom..., Tentacular, Lack of Pants
Having tried a couple of different methods of carrying my state around with me I've settled on PortableApps versions of Thunderbird and Firefox. I really wanted to carry around a VM of Ubuntu, but what with everyone I know having USB 1.1 connectors on their PCs (making it very slow) and Ubuntu over VMWare not being able to hibernate (meaning it had to boot from scratch every time), it took 5-10 minutes from plugging in the USB stick to having my email. Which sucked.

The portableapps thunderbird takes about 7 seconds to load, which is much better. And with Foxmarks keeping my bookmarks in synch and ScheduleWorld keeping my Thunderbird contacts synchronised everything should be the same as it is at home. Oh - I've also got TabMix Plus and AdBlockPlus installed as well, obviously.

Oh well - eventually I'll have an excuse to carry around a linux distribution, but apparently not this week.
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