Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 11th, 2008
I went to an off-site training seminar yesterday, on the basics of vibration shaker testing. It turned out to be a little too basic overall, but there were a few moments that were of interest, and I got to see the phallic student digs of Loughborough university again.
To get ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's at times like these that I would rather I were a bit more knowledgeable about various internet services. I'm currently unsure whether I have gone wrong in setting something up or if I just need to wait for DNS records to propagate.
Right now, the best thing I think ...
Posted in Technical | Comments Off on A little shift
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Wondering what to do next with my Draenei warrior last night I ended up logging out without really accomplishing anything, feeling a little WoW-malaise again. This malaise is affecting me more these days, although I can shake it off and spend another evening gaining easy XP soon enough. ...
Posted in Gaming, Personal | Comments Off on Current gaming choices
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
I'm currently re-watching the first series of The Wire. I borrowed the DVD set from a friend after finding out it was written by David Simon, who wrote the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which I read recently after being reminded of it, and on which ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
It snowed overnight, leaving a white world to wake up to. It's quite late for snow here, although it has snowed in May and maybe even June before, and the only other snow we've had this year was over the Easter weekend. The Easter snow wasn't much to ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I will listen to music in different ways. Having my iPod plugged in to my hi-fi system allows me to have my whole collection at my fingertips, and I take advantage of that by putting the iPod on random album shuffle. I also use my multi-CD player so ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Further to my recent thoughts about buying a new guitar, I went looking on-line for a new book to help me get back to practicing playing. As much as playing along to songs is fun and helps in its own way in picking up some skills it isn't the ...
Posted in Audio, Print | Comments Off on Guitar exercise book
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I recently learnt the basics of Bridge at a really quite relaxed club at work, and am enjoying playing and learning the game. On 1st April, some of the players conspired to play a prank on one of the members and got everyone else, all five of us, involved. ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I bought some tiger ears for my crash helmet last year. I was initially concerned with how well the ears would stay attached to my lid, being secured by only a sucker cup each, and was always relieved when I got to my destination with both ears still present. ...
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