28 Feb 2009 (Saturday) 

It looks like Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine are doing another 'Last Chance To See'! Ian pointed me to Stephen Fry's pictures on 'twitter' where he's filming some stuff and I noticed who he was with - and a little research later, that's what they're doing. Yay. That should be pretty good to watch. Although, reading about it, I see that the Yangtze river dolphin is in all probability extinct now, which is very sad.

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27 Feb 2009 (Friday) 

Bad Guy: "What the heck is that ?" Good Girl: "I'm a ghost actually." Bad Guy: "Really ? That's so cool... Can you like... move things and walk from room to room ?" Good Guy: "Um, you know I think normal people can do that too" [ A ghost actually; Being Human ]

Guy: "That was pathetic. We were like the world's gayest Ninjas" [ Ninjas?; Being Human ]

Someone on the SlimDevices forum mentioned 'Songbird' earlier. It's ... an open source version of iTunes. For pete's sake... iTunes has a crappy interface... the only good thing about iTunes is... well, it plays music. That may be it. But there are other things that do that, and do it better. There's MP3Toys, for a start. And for an end, too... it's just really nice, unlike iTunes which... really, really isn't.

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25 Feb 2009 (Wednesday) 

I've been tired and not sleeping for quite a few weeks now. And feeling pretty crappy. I'd hoped that'd change but... nyah... Oh well. There's not a whole lot to say recently anyhow. I'm pretty fed up with most things and irritable, but I'm hoping that will improve.

On the plus side, I discovered Psych on BBC One recently, which has been quite fun enough to cheer me up. And Being Erica; that's still quite fun too.

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17 Feb 2009 (Tuesday) 

After opening every computer-bits box in my room to try to find a USB hub, I remembered that it's with mum and dad. And the one that Caroline got me for Christmas is at work as an extension for the webcam. So... bother.

As a result the room was a bit of a mess, so I tidied up the boxes and took the opportunity to put away the mouse and keyboard from Virginia (the old RPC test machine), which was itself removed about 9 months ago. And then to put away the mouse and keyboard from the main RPC, as it hasn't been used in probably about 12 months, and the Viewfinder card is currently half hanging out of the back since it came out of the back plane when I disconnected the VGA cable 5 months ago.

So... it's a little tidier on the desks. But only a little.

In other news, life sucks.

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4 Feb 2009 (Wednesday) 

"Napoleon bad guy, Big armies, dashing cavalry, really deep snow, masses of cannon, really masses of cannon" [ Tolstoy with writers block; StephenH ]

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