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Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.
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September 2004 - Posts
All You Can Eat
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 7:39 PM
Some time back I signed up for Napster. It is a deal where I get access to all of their music on my PC as long as I pay a monthly subscription. At the start I was a bit worried it might be a silly idea. But over time it has won me over. The range of music
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Go Hull Com Soc!
Monday, September 20, 2004 9:50 PM
When to a good meeting of Hull Computer Society today (otherwise known as Hull ComSoc). They've had a massive number of members sign up and it was really great to see a really good turnout to a meeting. People sign up for stuff and then never actually
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Sad Watch Buyer
Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:39 PM
I have always had a weakness for watches. I've got a few now. I've just done a deal with number one son to buy one that he got from Tokyo and now doesn't have a use for. It is great fun, if rather impractical. I intend to wear it at weekends when the
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Anchorman
Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:06 PM
So, tonight the review of Anchorman which I saw last night and should be there in place of the Thursday question which should be here. Oh well. Term has started and thing are a bit busy at the moment.Anchorman is not as good as Dodgeball. It is not even
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Busy Busy Busy
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:55 PM
Some days I go to work and things are just a whizzy blur. The last two days have been like that. I can explain why in two words: "Term started". All over the campus new students are wandering around clutching a wad of papers in one hand and a mobile phone
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The Things You Do...
Monday, September 13, 2004 7:35 PM
Spent a chunk of the evening taking pictures of crashbarriers (and who doesn't). We are having a little competition (open to all) to see who really knows their video games. I've take pictures of 10 crash barriers from 10 driving games. If you can get
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Burnout 3 Review
Sunday, September 12, 2004 5:55 PM
I bought Burnout. It was good. I bought Burnout 2. It was better. Much better. So when Burnout 3 came along I found it very hard to resist. Particularly as number one son had read nice things about it online. So I bought it. And oh boy, it is the best
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Mature Students
Friday, September 10, 2004 7:20 PM
I gave a talk today to a bunch of mature students who are starting at Hull. This was kind of scary, in that I think I was older than most of them. Mature seem to start early these days. I wonder if I'll ever get there.Anyhoo, I told them lots of sensible
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Speed Up Your Life
Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:05 PM
Today I did something which has made my use of the computer a lot quicker. I've sped my mouse up. All I had to do was go into mouse settings in control panel and adjust the pointer speed bar in the pointer options tab. I can now move from one side of
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Catch Dodgeball
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:58 PM
OK. I've got six minutes to review Dodgeball before the next episode of "The Grid", a big budget slice of American-English co-production tosh which I quite like, comes on to BBC at 9:00 pm.If you didn't think that a film about a game where you have to
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Class Act
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:41 PM
May have used that title before. Never mind, it is a bit late here. I've been setting up the Classrom Server material we are going to be using for our C# programming course. Classroom server looks like fun. It takes away all the hassle of managing students,
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Good Times in York
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:36 PM
Went to a meal with a bunch of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals last night. We ate at Meltons in York. Very nice French food. Very good company. Met up with Marc, a fellow MVP who runs a couple of great web sites about XP here and here. He was a
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White Van Man
Friday, September 03, 2004 9:04 PM
I'm exhausted. Dad has been moving house and I've been driver and mover and shifter. We started at 9:00 am this morning and we finished around 8:00 pm. You never know how much stuff you've got until you try to move it all. Anyway, the move went well,
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Thursday Puzzle
Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:46 PM
Now here is a puzzle. Apologies for setting such a stinker, and I did promise no more "number in sequence" ones - but here goes. 6, 2, 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, 3 (or sometimes 4), What is the next number?
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Sanity Check
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:23 PM
I think I need a sanity check. Consider the following sequence:
Person buys TV set over internet from company.
TV set arrives and proves faulty with an intermittent power supply fault. Several people witness fault and remark that it is broken and
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