Archive for October, 2004

... into the month of October and I’ve blogged something on 4 of those days. Sure this is some kind of important record? Heck, the two I missed were only void due to me leaving the house to have a real life. Now if only I had something useful to say.

In my search for the Super Furry Animals “The Man Don’t Give A Fuck” super-mega-special-edition-live single today, I failed to find a CD, but HMV did have two copies of the limited edition etched vinyl version.

Now, I know nothing about vinyl. I have no idea if if being ‘etched’ refers to the way in which [...]

On mentioning my current habit of writing NME bashing song lyrics, Sarah just recited me this poem.

I’m sleeping with the nme tucked underneath my bed,
and while I sleep it tries to put opinions in my head

If anyone happens to have the rest of that poem, I’d be glad to hear it. Google has failed on [...]

Well, I finally started using my GMail account. It took a while as I’m a long term lover of standalone email apps. I’ve used Outlook mostly but gave Mozilla’s Thunderbird a run out for a couple of weeks.

Ultimately, the combination of living in three different places led me to actually give GMail more attention. It’s [...]

I’ve spent 4 days reinstalling my system. Only now, after much swapping of PCI cards, hardware conflicts, crackling sound and the eventual (and unwilling) disabling of my RAID controller do I have a system that resembles stable.

I bought an iPod (it’ll arrive in a few days I expect). For that to be of any pleasurable [...]