Monthly Archives: August 2005

Still not over the weekend

Tired now, tried to get an earlier night, but it was just too hot to sleep well, so I am grumpy and trying to cure myself with coffee. Have some new things I want to read up on, namely a … Continue reading

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Long Lazy Weekend

Not much to report, mrsfb’s brother A came to visit us, we took it easy, went out for a meal, played plenty of console games, generally took it easy. Good fun. I found a real console bargain, picked up four … Continue reading

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Google Talk

Well, signed up to it. Very easy to get online with it, and to start using it under Linux, which impressed me greatly. Have it running in GAIM on there. One thing I do like is that if you reply … Continue reading

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Today’s new Google service is…

Google Talk Instant Messaging and Voice client. It looks like it is based on the Jabber protocol, so you can use it straight away in GAIM and Trillian if you have them clicky for instructions See you on there! Filed … Continue reading

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Feel good factor

Well that was a useful evening, watched the third episode of Lost, which is moving at a beautifully slow and brooding pace. Wrote a couple of shortform ideas for a writing project I have on the go at the moment. … Continue reading

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Waiting for various things to run and work here

So just a quickie. Watched Lost last night, up to episode 2 thus far, hopefully getting to see 3 tonight. There are plot holes, corny acting, yadda yadda yadda. And yet I love it. Something that gets me about a … Continue reading

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Nice mellow weekend

Quiet one with mrsfb on Friday night, then Saturday my niece T came to visit. Fun day catching up, then mexican food and lashings of Singstar in the evening. I am better at being Beyonce than all reason would dictate. … Continue reading

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I am not going to write this post

about postscript. I am not going to talk about my weeks-long battle with it to make it print out something relatively straightforwards in the manner I had asked it too. I will not complain that it is an archaic language … Continue reading

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The Shamanistic Factor to Technical Support

We have built computers, in part, as a reflection of ourselves. They have brains, they have memories, several parts of a computer are our own electronic version of a human. When we make a human, as well as passing on … Continue reading

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I have a dream…

Last night I dreamt about a word. Keope. I also dreamt about it a week ago. An odd dream, all about searching, both in the literal and spiritual senses. And technological, can’t explain it, but it was all very important. … Continue reading

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