14:59 Nov 18, 2007
There are things in life that suck. This list is not of things that suck, it’s of things that are awesome.
Awesome.
13:51 Jul 30, 2007
Filed Under: brighton, cram, glasgow, hero worship, lugradio, open source, outside world, san francisco, second life, travel, work, xbox
It’s time for another Cram Post, Neuro Style.
june » to san francisco for a couple of weeks to acclimatise to linden lab culture and processes, very chilled yet productive fortnight, i can now convert pounds sterling to/from US dollars and PDT to/from BST in my head; july » had great fun trying to procure a macbook pro for work, to wolverhampton for lugradio live 2007, gave a quick talk and demo about second life, got more enjoyment out of picking up an xbox 360 on the cheap, to brighton for the develop conference and a linden recruitment event, beer is not cheap in brighton, got to meet peter molyneux and aleks krotoski which rocked – aleks, the pigeons are still not safe!, saw the simpsons movie – basically a 90 minute episode of the simpsons and that’s not a bad thing, housemates who moved in here in march are moving out to a bigger pad near glasgow *schniff*, the geekha.us shall continue tho!
15:39 Jul 16, 2006
cram post á france » thursday 6th july > trip down to portsmouth, hot as hell on the m6 toll, nice smooth sail overnight on brittany ferries; vendredi 7éme juillet > en france, lunch with friend jc who owns l’equinoxe bar at agon coutainville, crashed hard after reaching the gite near coutances; samedi > spent the day in gévezé for stage 7 of le tour de france, beers at half ten, vin rose for lunch, coffee on the way home 
dimanche > lazy day, gutted at france being put out of la coup du monde on penalties; lundi > lazy day, finally started watching season two of lost; mardi > went to villedieu-les-poêles for the weekly market, usual mix of fruit+veg, faded-in-the-sun DVDs and leather wallets — left with today’s international herald tribune; mercredi > visited memorial at caen — huge memorial site commemorating wwii and the cold war, met up with friends starting their holiday in coutances today; jeudi > lazy day, picked up new sony headphones, munchies at oncle scott’s country restaurant et bier mexicaine, found the horse soldiers on arte in english with french subs — woot! — then packing, packing, packing; vendredi > bastille day: vive la france, last minute shopping, un grande dejeuner á l’equinoxe, nice leisurely drive to cherbourg, high speed ferry back to portsmouth, ; saturday > » sore back, had breakfast with amanda, back still sore, warm drive, ow back, home, unpack, ow back, collapse, ow
20:04 Jan 10, 2005
Crap.
I love blogging, but sometimes I just zone out and forget all about it. So it’s time for another CramBlogEntryDuNeuro™ …
november > new car > dj’ed (!) at john and sabrina’s wedding > videoisland died > december > firefox 1.0 > rediscovered celestia > blagged myself a free iPod mini (a gold one, bling bling) > culturekitchen > smoothwall’s site got hacked 
> new phone > chill out! > finally sold the tivo > sun must buy red hat or die! > rediscovered dooce > cheerio blunkett > ny times firefox ad > ruff! > strange people at my work make christmas video card > equally strange, but absolutely superb, works night out > on call from 24th to 31st 
> enjoyed quiet christmas with family, slightly marred by getting called out on xmas eve, plus some evil boxing day late-nightness due to some bloody worm > tsunami badness > rediscovered chunk’s snowball > finally managed to download grand theft auto 2 > january > came off call, drinkies, sore head, oy > thank god the west wing is back > rediscovered queen of sky > pro evo soccer 4 kicks serious arse > brad and jen split up — so she’ll be shopping around then … > learndirect sucks > so looking forward to huygens landing this friday …
… and relax.
18:32 Mar 29, 2004
sat 1445 GMT home -> car to mcphabbs (loads of guinness and munchies) -> air organic (loads of lager, spirits and a nice boak in the loo) -> $randompub (water and crisps) -> solid rock (guinness and crisps) -> kebab shop (keeebab!) -> firebird (guinness and chips) -> crash at a flat -> sun 1215 GMT awaken -> watch first half of old firm game -> taxi to car -> car to home -> celtic 19 points clear of rangers — no a bad weekend
Cheers to everyone who turned up on Saturday for my pre-birthday drinking sesh, which didn’t quite follow the route as intended, but it was all good — I’ll get pictures sorted from folk as I only took about 3 meself. It was great to see everyone, especially those I hadn’t seen in an age from WS Atkins! I’ve got another 21 hours of being a twenty-something to go until 3:30pm tomorrow — 30 years after I was born. I have the slippers and cardigan on standby with ‘break glass now’ hammer beside them.
01:54 Aug 18, 2003
saturday > figuring out how to install debian woody over network using pxe netboot / tftp > successfully installed > grab old write-to-serial-lcd perl script to do cool stuff on newly built deb box > remember how to do rc.local equivalent in debian > pack > drive to town > drive past town to PC World > misread opening times and confuse 21:00 with 18:30 > drive back into town > grab random munchies at woodlands shell station > drive to neil’s > irc from ground floor via wifi to get let in front door to neil’s flat > lan party > sunday > more geekage > the stand, featuring Sandy Nelson (don’t believe this review, he’s funny as hell), Alfie Joey (bloody excellent), Shazia Mirza (almost embarrassingly too self-deprecating to be superbly funny), and ably compered by Michael Redmond (yes, he was in Father Ted), with superb piss-taking of an arsehole heckler all through the night > Uisge Beatha > monday > chips in curry > drive home > soggy chips munch > random genghis produced evolt tool > blog > crash (predicted) > thud
