I got a laptop from the department today. It's nice and spacious on the hardrive, dual boots with both Windows 2k and Debian, has a battery that holds a charge and is all mine to with as I see fit. It's currently in the hall connected up to the router while I'm copying my music collection onto it slowly but surely after having spent time at work ( Read more... )

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Had a lovely evenning yesterday with swan_song around. We watched The Chorus. I'd seen it in the cinema but I love the story and the music on there and so I was very happy to watch it again seeing as she'd never seen it. We used Telewest's pay per view system, which is quite expensive, you can't pause the film and you have to select specific watching ( Read more... )

I'm currently in Schipol. Things are going generally well, although my flights been delayed by an hour and a bit (although not as delayed as they made out, because just now they called it, bugger). Thanks to the delay, I've managed to get some sleep as opposed to waiting for the plane to sleep and I feel much better. Pulled out the Mac and I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday had managed to be a productive day but today has managed to be abysmal. This is because I think I've caught something off my mother. She was ill this weekend when she came to see me although she didn't look it greatly so it was easy to ignore it, but today I woke up with a sore throat and a weird head but otherwise no other bad effects ( Read more... )