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Ahh... Champagne in a hot tub in mid Wales with friends. The good times are back 8^D

Mobile internet from 3, my phone browsing speedtest.net, top floor of Pret in central Oxford, it says 4.5 Mbit/s download and 1.36 Mbit/s upload, with 104 ms ping time.  It's not usually that good ( Read more... )

Ouch ( Read more... )

I was just reading the Slashdot comments on which college someone should go to, formative experiences in early adulthood, advice on how different environments equip one with various social experiences and personality-forming memories and so on, and had a wonderful little dual perception moment.

I saw me being a friend to the person, 'me' - 'this ( Read more... )

Well, I must say
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This year has been quite interesting. I'll have to write about it sometime. But Christmas was a gentle anti-climax. After much fretting over presents for tiny nephew and even tinier niece, it turns out I was too ill to visit the family, so I stayed in Oxford. My first Christmas in Oxford! It's been so very dull ( Read more... )

To anyone that was thinking of texting or phoning me, or who has done recently... I lost my phone last Saturday. Soon, perhaps, I will have another. Until then, messages left by answerphone will be picked up eventually, and texts will not be received ( Read more... )

Today (in about 24 hours) I received approximately 12,000 spams. I was very surprised; last time I checked it was only 6,000 per day.

I was recently treated to a frubble, and it was very nice thank you very much :-)

Very busy am I this week.