Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Mar 30, 2009 17:08

I just noticed that my clock stopped forty minutes ago. "Hang on, it can't still be twenty-five past four!" I thought to myself, before looking at my watch and confirming that no, it was five past five ( Read more... )

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necaris March 30 2009, 16:40:44 UTC
That is enormously odd. What other things did you have in your system tray / taskbar? Could they have been getting in the way?

I have to use Windows at work too :S It's a pain, but at least there is Firefox. And I've got a couple of scripting languages on here as well so little sys-admin tasks aren't as horrendous as they would otherwise be without a real shell.

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rossblog April 1 2009, 16:21:15 UTC
Ever get anywhere with that binary clock? I'm buggered if I can.

We never got round to updating our alarm clock so it's been an hour fast all winter. It was finally correct when we switched back to BST, and almost immediately there was a power cut, so now it thinks it's 00:00 in flashing digits, all the time. Sooner or later I'm going to have to get up and go over there. Tch.

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pozorvlak April 6 2009, 12:14:06 UTC
The binary clock's working fine, though I still have to spend a couple of seconds puzzling it out each time. It's fun to watch the pretty patterns the lights make, though.

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