Its very rare that I boot into Windows XP, but when I do the computer is extremely unresponsive for a good minute or so after login. There is no hard disk activity and no response from clicking anything, even the Start menu.
The cycle ride is over, and I'm in the process of collecting those pledged sponsorships. People have an amazing ability to not have any money on them when its time to pay up, which is pretty convenient for them.
I think the email I sent to customer services explains it perfectly
I was checking mum's Google Analytics today, and happened to glance at my own:
<em>To all those people who told me I should switch my cycle ride's direction to 'John O'Groats to Lands End':</em>
I was featured in this week's issue of the Market Rasen Mail, regarding my sponsored Land's End to John O'Groats Cycle ride.
Apparently, all the cool kids are blogging their shells' history. Cool, I thought, I'll do it too. But in zsh, the code they used only gets the history of the currently opened session, and I'd just closed all of mine, plus I use multiple shells in Yakuake.
I read in the latest edition of Which? that you can get a card that entitles you to 20% off food and drink in many outlets in stations. It appears to be valid on franchises run by SSP - including Pumpkin, Burger King, Caffè Ritazza, Camden food co, Millie's, The Pasty Shop and Upper Crust outlets in stations.
Featuring Bush, McCain, Clinton and Obama. See it here
I've decided to cycle the length of the UK for fun (and charity as well). And what better way to get in the mood by trying to learn Django and make a semi-useful Python app. So, I've given it a shot with a GPS/Google Maps mashup thing to analyse blogged route parts from maemo mapper on one of Andrew's Nokia internet tablets. Obviously you won't be able to see all of that until after we have actually blogged something - so check back after Monday, 12th August to see live progress (if it all works that is).
Previously, I thought that that the cheapest way to travel from Market Rasen to Oxford and back was a Saver Return (Route not via London) with a <del datetime="2008-06-25T17:20:00+00:00">Young Person's</del> 16-25 Railcard, costing £32.35.
I have recently started using Opera for my day-to-day surfing, as Firefox 3 Beta 5 locks up now and again, and decides to use 100% CPU. This usually happens when I have a few tabs loading that have Flash video in them. However, Opera's javascript engine isn't quite like IE or Firefox's.
Lately people have been telling me about emails that I never received. A quick analysis reveals that these ended up in my Trash folder - meaning that SpamAssassin gave them a high spam rating.
I needed to buy some train tickets today, after getting the times from National Rail. Of course, National Rail don't sell tickets, instead referring you to the train companies themselves. Well, I know what you're thinking - that I could just buy tickets from my station. My station doesn't have a ticket machine, nor is it staffed. So I try a few train companies' sites. It seems they all subcontract our to The Train Line's buggy system. The Train Line is a horrid site to use. It relies heavily on sessions, needs you to register before it shows you prices and generally irks me all of the time.
For all you foreigners, the NHS is Britain’s free state-funded health system.
Slashdot and The Guardian recently reported about the arrest of the owner of tv-links.co.uk and the sites subsequent closing down. TV Links was a site which linked to videos on other sites (like Youtube and Veoh) where users could see TV series. The arrest was made by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.
First, let me apologise for neglecting my trusty readers. But I'm back, back my magical journey.
CentOS 4, VMware and SSH are three things that I cannot get to work together. Let me tell you the whole story and hopefully you'll be able to spot a blindingly obvious mistake that I can't.
I've finally decided that enough is enough with DirectAdmin. It's haphazard way of downloading tar.gzs and compiling from source to random places that it only knows is a sure way to make a disaster in the future. Not only does this make applying updates a cumbersome process, as it doesn't use any sort of repository or anything, it also means that when something does go wrong it can take ages to track down.
So it was just before 5pm yesterday and I was bored. After checking a few things on #friends, Donov and I set out on an adventure. Our drive took us through many places including Lincoln Rush Hour, the M1 and the entire width of the Peak District, including the Cat and Fiddle (A537 Buxton-Macclesfield - hilly and bendy with cliff edges and real fun to drive on).
More and more recently, I've been wanting a new laptop for no reason other than that the novelty of this one has worn off. I've been researching, and it seems very few companies indeed offer laptops in UK without Windows. This is almost certainly because it would adversely affect their OEM Windows price.
I couldn't resist this quote from an "Advertising Feature" in this week's Market Rasen Mail. Sorry for the wonky scanning!
The Department for Transport recently announced that the franchise for trains in Market Rasen station will be taken from Central Trains and Stagecoach Midland Rail Ltd (most likely trading as East Midlands Rail) will be serving us from 11th November.
That's right, the exams are over. Ended at Ewert House, Summertown with Linear Algebra/Calculus.
Today I read an article about problems with Hotmail's spam filtering triggering false positives if the sending server's reverse DNS does not match the domain part of the email (even with SPF records). So I thought I'd perform some testing myself, using smtp.ox.ac.uk to send from my maniacmartin.com address.
Here's my argument on why we need ID cards in Britain, and why I think they should be implemented differently to how the government suggests.
Before I start on evil calculus, let me tell you about a project.
How much do I need?
<img src="http://www.worldcenter.it/imgprd/nokia_3330.jpg" alt="Nokia 3330" />
I was bored today, so I ripped out every microfilter and replaced them with brand-new matching Speedtouch ones. The phone has stopped buzzing.
Broadband restored;
11.12 am on day 2 (Tuesday) and it seems the Speedtester is working again, and that it's raised our IP profile :D. Still no word from Demon.
This is the start of what will probably turn out to be a lengthy story. On Saturday I returned home from university to find that my parents had bought a new phone. Also the internet was painfully slow.
Compsoccers by definition (read: stereotype) are not born to lead groups of people, or even to interact with others. And you can't program guest speakers to appear to give talk.
This morning I got an email from my server's hosting company saying that they are ceasing to trade. My server will be unplugged on 1st March. Its now 27th February. What a lot of notice.
Hi all - I'm afriad its a mish-mash of news snippets
Hi all. I seem to have been neglecting this blog as usual so here a digest of what's you've missed.
It's been a while since I last posted and since I know no-one reads this I thought I'd update it. Anynow, on to the unrelated items of news:
I'm in Green's Café waiting for another lin<strong>yah</strong> algebra lecture to start. Everyone is really excited about this cool matrices lecture. Only 3 more days of lectures this term, including today then i'm off home yey!
Hi again. It's been a while since I last posted, so here goes.
Ubuntu is now fully installed on my HP nx6325.
Hi all
Hi all
I'm actually going to commit to this blog, as its linked to Facebook and other places via XML. I must say Wordpress is very nice
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