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Following up on Claire’s post about Easter, here’s the best joke I’ve heard all week:

What did Jesus say to his disciples as he was being nailed to the cross?

I’ll be back on Monday, so don’t you dare touch my fucking Easter eggs!

That is all.

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Post Offices, eh? But those aside, it’s now been a year since Claire and I changed our surnames to the letter “Q”. Here’s a quick look back:

The Good Things

• It still feels like it’s “ours,” and something that’s ours alone - a great sense of identity and togetherness that we ( Read more... )

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A return to Troma Night form. This film is absolutely terrible. Watch it.

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There’s a mailing list I’m on that just got a message that started as follows:

Subject: March 1st - Self-Harm Awareness Day

Just curious…

a) How many of you knew it was self-harm awareness day on March 1st and

b) Are you doing anything to mark it?

It’s pretty bad that the ( Read more... )

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The first postcard has arrived from Jimmy’s world tour (right now he’s in Thailand).


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On behalf of a client of a client of SmartData, I was responsible this weekend for moving a website over from one server to another. It’s a monolithic old custom-written content management system, in Perl, which over the last four or five years has been passed from ( Read more... )

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I have a mountain of stuff to do in the next 52 hours, and my PC just kicked the bucket.

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None of the four of us (JTA, Ruth, Claire and I) had planned to make anything special out of Valentine’s Day, which is why I was quite surprised last night to come home from work and find The Cottage kitted out with candles as part of Ruth’s last-minute secret plan to cook ( Read more... )

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Oh yeah, suppose I ought to finish writing about Bulgaria now that we’ve been back a couple of days.

MORE SKIING: Aced The Wall in the end, and damn it’s a good run - long and fast and challenging, even when you think you know it. Coming back up on the chairlift I met a ( Read more... )

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Fresh from the slopes, over GPRS (at charging rates starting at “two limbs”), comes this report from the Bulgarian Holiday Team (Claire and I, along with my dad and my sisters).

JOURNEY: Uneventful, but tedious - three and a bit hours on a plane followed by a five hour bus ( Read more... )