jack

Today

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:49:50 GMT

Got up ✓
Swimming ✓
Work ✓
Jogging ✓

Next: go to end of beer festival, then meet Liv (yay).

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Happy Christmas!

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:46:54 GMT

OK, I'm off to Rachel's and my Grandparents for Christmas. Happy Christmas everyone!

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12-21 12-12-12

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:23:40 GMT

12-21 12-12-12... Happy microphone testing day everyone!

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Buy more gloves

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:11:46 GMT

OK, I bought more gloves. From the internet.

I always forget that that's a sensible option. I just get used to what I have, and never stop to think "could this problem be solved in less than £10 with no additional effort", even though if I did the answer would be obviously yes.

And if the old pair of gloves turns up, I'll have spares. Go me!

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Textile recycling

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:30:02 GMT

When Follow That Page told me that the council had added "textiles" to the "what you can recycle in which bin" webpage, I was all excited.

But it turns out that they just added it to the list of "do not put these things in your green bin".

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Stuffed toy hanging from telephone wire

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:05:36 GMT

There's a stuffed toy hanging from a telephone wire across Chesterton High Street. Is it worth seeing if BT care? I asked the council and they say it's not their problem and to phone BT, but if it doesn't harm the wire I don't see why BT would care.

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Synchronised work and home bookmarks

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:06:34 GMT

Synchronised work and home bookmarks ✓

This should be really easy, but I've procrastinated over it for ages. For some reason I had trouble getting firefox sync to work, so I decided to try Opera.

Having several major browsers sharing market share seems to be really helpful for interoperability, switching was really easy, and everything works much the same, but slightly snappier.

There's little things that bug me though -- you can't middle click to open a menu item from the bookmarks toolbar, or drag it onto a text box, or delete it?

I know sync should be a small thing, but I think it's actually really helpful, because if I'm obsessive about putting "to read later" things onto a bookmark menu, it's LESS work because then I don't carry them around in my head.

I've not actually tried it from the other computer yet. So far it seems to merge the bookmarks reasonably sensibly, coping with deletions as well as additions, and syncing promptly without losing a bunch of changes each time, but I'll see if it lasts.

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Mobile Welder

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:07 GMT

Jack's life advice: a mobile welder sounds awesome, but if you're a mobile welder, don't paint a sign telling people "rob the mobile welder" on the side of your van :)

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7.45 AM

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:44:19 GMT

Stupid body. I've persuaded it it likes getting up at 8 every day, but now I can't explain that "every day" doesn't include Sunday.

Body: Rise and shine! Fresh as a daisy!
Me: ... OK, but I thought maybe I'd have a lie in today actually
Body: Oh, you're wonderfully well rested. You can't stay in bed, there's websites to design and blog posts to write...
Me: I have a job now. I can validate myself by doing THAT well. I can spend all Sunday walking in the sunshine and watching DVDs.
Body: No, let's get doing! Go! Go! Go!
Me: ...

:)

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Carlton fire

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:48:08 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-12031520

Apparently there was a serious fire at the Carlton: the upstairs was damaged, but everyone and the rest of the building is mostly ok. I don't know any more than in the link. Eek!

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No snow

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:26:55 GMT

I left my car outside overnight, and when I came back, all the snow had gone away and the windscreen washers miraculously started working again. Apparently Cambridge is a hitherto unsuspected bosom of enveloping supra-zero warmth.

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Head is all carefully shaved and is all strokey-fuzzy again

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:30:49 GMT

Head is all carefully shaved and is all strokey-fuzzy again

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Fictional medical mystery

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:57:25 GMT

I solved a medical problem before the characters on the show did. But it was Scrubs, not House, so that probably doesn't count as clever.

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In London this aft

Thu, 20 May 2010 01:47:43 GMT

I am probably in London this afternoon, but probably returning late afternoon or early evening so not staying long enough to meet anyone; but do let me know if you think I'm mistaken :)

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Breaking news

Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:22 GMT

As predicted, according to BBC, Labour/Lib talks are not going through, Lib/Con talks seem to prosper, several people talk as if it's essentially settled, Con look happy, and it's as yet unknown if Lib are happy.

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Rain

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:12:12 GMT

Today the snow has given way to lots of rain, which to my surprise, I rather like.

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