Firstly, last night. England 2-0 Trinidad and Tobago. Well, the match clashed with the weekly college service, so we watched it “as live” on tape-delay on the big screen in the Common Room after the service. England were abject for most of the ninety minutes, the only light for most of the match being Steven …
Monthly Archive: June 2006
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Jun 15 2006
Yesterday
Well, as I mentioned in my post last night, it was another karaoke night at the Double Top last night. Prior to that, I finished BS204, although I think I’m going to tweak it slightly before submitting it. Annoyingly, the hard-drive in weasel seems to be giving up the ghost, disk errors being thrown as …
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Jun 13 2006
Tuesday
Native Google Earth for Linux is now available. It’s the latest beta (version four), but seems rock steady. Just download the installer and run it. You can install it locally as a user, so you don’t even need to be root. Runs pretty quickly on my machine (Intel Core Solo 1.66 GHz/512M/GeForce Go7300+OpenGL), I suspect …
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Jun 12 2006
Three heads are better than one…
Mixed day really. My intentions to start work on my CTW204 essay were scuppered for reasons for too mundane to go into. I’ll be attacking BS204 tomorrow instead. Deadline for both is a week today, so time’s not too tight. After that, some interesting discussion on opensuse-packaging about GNOME 2.15, wherein Jonh and I might …
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Jun 11 2006
Guantanamo suicides
Three Guantanamo hostages (sorry, I cannot use the term inmates, these men are hostages, plain and simple) have committed suicide. In a typically hawkish statement, the camp commander described this as an act of war. Subsequently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy (whom the BBC describe as a ‘top US official’, seems …
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Jun 10 2006
Green curry
Thai meal for Jo’s birthday was fantastic, had a great time. The amusing thing for me was that on Thursday night, the college meal was Thai green curry. Also on Thursday it was, as most Thursdays are, a college open day. I was hosting a prospective student who’s an engineer at HP. He mentioned he …
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Jun 07 2006
Wednesday
Amanda’s bag was stolen this morning! Thankfully she got it back, but all the cards were taken (and so, cancelled). So annoying, and to say what I think about the people (or person) who did it wouldn’t look good for a proto-vicar. New DSL router arrived today, with a built in WAP, so I’m now …
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Jun 06 2006
Laptop
New laptop arrived today, and it’s niiice. SUSE 10.1 is now installed, installation went like a dream – Windows partitions were resized perfectly. Interestingly, I’ve managed to find a laptop where the WLAN adaptor is supported out of the box (Centrino), but the NIC isn’t[1]. So, I now have a nice, widescreen, Xgl-enabled notebook. [1]02:00.0 …
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Jun 04 2006
Weekend
Spent a fair proportion of Saturday in Derby helping Liz celebrate her birthday, saw the last 15 minutes or so of the England – Jamaica match, so not in a position to comment other than to say that a hat-tick from Goal Machine Crouch can only be good news. I look forward to seeing the …
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