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Been thinking recently about friends who I've not seen for a while. Ironically for such a technophile, I'm really bad at keeping in touch with people by email, so there's loads of people from university who I consider really good friends who I've not heard from in years. I've been trying recently to get back in touch with some, with mixed success. Heard back this morning from my best [wo]man from my wedding, Ruth, which was just great, but another friend who I'd got a message through to about three months or so ago, I've not heard from.
The ironic thing is that there are some people who I didn't spend vast amounts of time with at uni, who by virtue of using the same MUD or IM system are now people I chat to every day, which makes me wonder: When I next move on, which of my friends will I stay in touch with? Will it be the ones I'm closest to, or the ones who happen to use the same MUD/IM? (In some cases those are the same people). I'd like to think it'd be the former, but my past record does not bode well...
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Well, I'm in Taunton, ahead of Soul Survivor, and I've actually had a haircut!
Now, anyone who's seen me knows that my hair is very important.
But fear not, I've just had a trim to get all the damage and split ends out, and now it should grow better.
Now, anyone who's seen me knows that my hair is very important.
But fear not, I've just had a trim to get all the damage and split ends out, and now it should grow better.
For a couple of weeks at least. This evening we'll be heading down to Somerset ahead of the start of this year's Soul Survivor events. I shall try to blog while I'm there, but I dunno if it's really going to be possible.
This week has been quite quiet in terms of GNOME updates, although I did pick the brains of another James who's a GNOME hacker about how better to install default settings using GConf. Didn't want to do updated packages with such a major under-the-hood change just before vanishing for the best part of a month, so ulb-gnome 0.4 has been put back till probably the beginning of September.
We were present on Tuesday when a mate of ours was ambushed by London Weekend Television for the pilot of a new show hosted by Davina McCall. they gave him a [much needed ;)] makeover, and then he picked one of the assembled ladies to go out on a "date" with. Amanda was amongst the ladies who had been planted (nearly all of them were friends of his), so she might be on telly!
This week has been quite quiet in terms of GNOME updates, although I did pick the brains of another James who's a GNOME hacker about how better to install default settings using GConf. Didn't want to do updated packages with such a major under-the-hood change just before vanishing for the best part of a month, so ulb-gnome 0.4 has been put back till probably the beginning of September.
We were present on Tuesday when a mate of ours was ambushed by London Weekend Television for the pilot of a new show hosted by Davina McCall. they gave him a [much needed ;)] makeover, and then he picked one of the assembled ladies to go out on a "date" with. Amanda was amongst the ladies who had been planted (nearly all of them were friends of his), so she might be on telly!