23 Feb 2008 (Saturday) 

My legs have been sore today. The back of my left leg feels like it's got cramp and the back of my right is incredibly sensitive. I'm guessing I slept awkwardly last night.

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17 Feb 2008 (Sunday) 

Went to bed so late last night that I decided I couldn't be bothered with getting up so early, so I tried to sleep as much as I could. Turned out to be about 1pm when I decided to get up, and I do feel a little better for it. On the other hand, all this morning I've had Left Outside Alone, from Anasticia, by Anastacia going around my head.

All my life I've been waiting For you to bring a fairytale my way Been living in a fantasy without meaning It's not okay I don't feel safe [ Left Outside Alone, from Anastacia, by Anastacia ]

I decided today to make sure I keep a backup of my SlimServer changes in case I accidentally broke the server in the future or - more usefully - if someone wanted to use the same changes as I'd made. Also it gives me an indication of what I've changed recently. Essentially it's not that complex - just diff the source each day and if the differences are different to those we uploaded last, keep them and upload to the website. If they're the same, then just delete the difference file.

Something that a someone said recently has been nagging at me all weekend. I've been telling myself over and over that I won't let it bother me. Only... I just realised that it is bothering me if I'm repeatedly telling myself that.

Had a nice evening chatting to Caroline, which unfortunately ended quite late. But it's been nice anyhow .

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16 Feb 2008 (Saturday) 

Today's just been an 'urgh' day. Lots of little irritances and then the general frustration that usually finishes them off. The good things today have been updating my Jive remote to fix some of the more obvious of the shortcomings that have frustrated me, and discovering AudioSurf - a game that tailors itself to the music you're listening to, which is quite fun.

A bad bit this evening (other than the irritances and general frustration) is that if I stretch my right arm it hurts under my armpit. There's a little lump there that is hurting, but I think it's just a spot. A little bothering as I now can't stretch my arm. Not that I want to, particularly. It hurts, so I don't want to do that. The other bad bit is that I was playing AudioSurf for ages and it's now after 2am. Bah.

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15 Feb 2008 (Friday) 

I had a day off today. Since I've been working here, I've actually only had 2 days off, aside from being ill and the general company holiday, so this is still a bit of a novelty. I went to see Caroline. This was somewhat hampered by it being a Friday, so had to catch a later train and her not having a car. Aside from only being able to spend about an hour with her, it was a lovely day.

As with many of the times I've been to see her, I found myself thinking "oh my god, what are these words that are coming out of my mouth ? stop now!" Oh well.

Finally got back home at about 11:30, which wasn't too bad. A number of good connections on the tube meant that I could catch a slightly earlier train home. It's always a long day for just a short time with her, but I'm happy to get even that. And I didn't feel quite as crap as I usually do, which is also a bonus.

I've just asked if there was anything I've missed today. To which the reply was 'Doughnuts'. I like Fridays at work, but I had a way better day than doughnuts by so very much that I can't complain in the slightest.

Having now read up on what happened today at work, I feel far more fed up.

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13 Feb 2008 (Wednesday) 

I'm not up on many things. In fact I'm usually quite out of it when it comes to... well, most things. Stargate Atlantis I was watching a few days ago, an episode called Trio where they were playing 'Who Would You Rather'. Fair enough. First game, the options being 'Brad Pitt or George Clooney'. Third game (the second being Carter's choice and she chose physicists) being 'Robert Redford or Paul Newman'.

I was watching '30 Rock' tonight - I'm way behind, but my brother said it's good so I'm trying to find out whether I like it - was 'The Baby Show' and first game... 'Paul Newman or Robert Redford', second game 'Brad Pitt or George Clooney'. Are these just the only people that are used as examples in these games ?

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10 Feb 2008 (Sunday) 

Today feels like a really long day. I got up at about normal work time, which for a weekend is quite early. I hadn't slept all that well (quelle surprise), and now it's midnight and I'm feeling tired.

I've done a couple of work things this weekend but not half as much as normal. I guess I'm just tired of using my weekends for work now. What I did do yesterday, though, was update the SlimServer code to make Jive support the 'sort albums by year' properly. I was actually looking for how to update the information page to give details in line with the player, but in the process found the stuff for sort by year as well. It's quite need that that works really.

Today I had a quick look at how subtitles work for .avis. It appears that .srt files are very similar to the equivilent .lrc files for music. A little more advanced, but basically the same sort of thing. They're interpreted just fine by the KiSS DVD player I have in my room, and by the XBox XMBC, and by Media Player (with a filter installed). Anyhow, I thought it'd be nice to have the subtitles with the programmes, so that if I want subtitles I can have them - say if I'm not wanting the volume on loud, or (as drobe suggested) I could search for a particular phrase in the programmes I have. That'd be cute. Anyhow, I've done all the code that is needed for one site's back end. I might need to be more clever if I want to use multiple sites.

And caroline rang this evening, which was really nice. Spent ages chatting to her and Jessica, which was really quite neat. I miss that.

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8 Feb 2008 (Friday) 

gerph discovered that the squeezebox has a load of sounds built in gerph: so I'm listening to the sounds of rain and thunder Ian: You don't ever really do anything that could be described as ordinary, do you g ? [ Ordinary; Ian and Justin ]

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7 Feb 2008 (Thursday) 

Julian's in Reading today, so I got to meet up with him and Simon and go out for tea, which was quite nice.

My Duet's arrived today. I'll cut a long story short by saying that I remembered that the wireless network was MAC locked, but only remembered to enter the controller's MAC address into the router. Then wondered why the SqueezeBox Receiver cou1dn't see the network. Silly me - I need to give its MAC address to the router as well. Other than that, it's nice. Working quite well and no problems. The only thing that I can say is.. there's no display. Maybe I could live without it. Hmm.

Caroline also rang this evening, which was lovely. I had meant to go to bed at about 9, but playing with Duet and then chatting to Caroline has left me at 11pm, and since I've been awake since 6am and don't sleep so well at the best of times, I think I'm a little tired now.

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6 Feb 2008 (Wednesday) 

I've had a very tiring day today. Yesterday I woke up at about 4:30, and by the time it came to the evening I'd got so fed up with things and had a huge headache that I just went to bed. Woke up at about 6 this morning, so I'm still quite tired. Caroline's been very upset yesterday and today and there's nothing I can do for her .

I kept waking up last night, despite being quite tired. Unfortunately everything I was thinking of was related to either work or a sinking ship. Running through the ship, trying to keep out of the water, and trying to find someone. I don't remember much of it other than that, though.

Logitech are sending me a new remote and the receiver as well, apparently. It seems to be sitting in Birmingham at the moment. Might be here tomorrow, I guess. Coo.

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4 Feb 2008 (Monday) 

My shoulder's still sore today. Doesn't seem to have got any better over night, but then I didn't sleep well again. Dreaming of stuff. The last thing I remember was trying to go to the toilet and making a mess everywhere and then finding that I'd been bleeding out of my leg and it was blood that had been making the mess. Someone found my in the toilet and called for an ambulance. Caroline wasn't anywhere around when I was asking for her, and I was a little paniced.

I hate my dreams.

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3 Feb 2008 (Sunday) 

I did some stuff this evening to SlimServer to give it a more extensible track information interface. At the moment, the track information menu is fixed, hardcoded to only ever use certain entries. Which means that for the AudioScrobbler, and Favourites, they have to be hacked in to the TrackInfo library, rather than being in the relevant plugins. My new design takes out the core construction routines and makes them into a registration interface. Which works quite a bit better, I think. It should allow a Lyrics sub-menu to be added to the track information much more easily.

I'm not sure if it's going to be taken on by the developers, but at least I've done it.

Today my right shoulder's been really sore. Moving it in certain ways really hurts. I think I must have been sleeping badly on it. I know I was sleeping badly as I woke up so many times last night .

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