Happy Birthdayish
I’ve been doing Aquarionics for four years.
This is the fifth year of me doing Aquarionics.
I registered Aquarionics.com on the 27th of December 1999 in the final act of a dying century, and uploaded Aquarionics.com version 1 to an IP address. DNS resolution started to happen on the 1st January 2000, when the first visitor who wasn’t me went to the site. This is where I count the founding of Aquarionics dot com from. That is w
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03/Jan/2004 00:14 — AquarionicsRe-View
Today, I did nothing.
Well, that isn’t true. Today I watched about 12 episodes of the first season of Scrubs, wished I didn’t have a sprained wrist, and pottered around fixing lights, shelves and code. I’ve still yet to unpack from New Years, but generally life goes on.
So, a review of the year then:
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04/Jan/2004 03:04 — AquarionicsGunstrike
[More...]Aquarion in Gunstrike
In this action packed kill-fest, Aquarion (Nicolas Cage) is an elite soldier with a passion for justice. He needs to silence LoneCat (Jennifer Aniston) before the vile elf with a banana (John Travolta) employs her. To the detriment of many peripheral characters, he demolishes an underground castle when given permission to do so. Watch this movie if you like rubbish!
06/Jan/2004 14:49 — AquarionicsReasons IE Sucks chipmonks though chainlink fencing, Number 11 in a series of infinity
Given this URL:
http://www.aquarionics.com/gallery/Gid_[and]_Suzi’s_New_Year_2003
IE does the following:
http://www.aquarionics.com/gallery/Gid_%5Band%5D_Suzi/’s_New_Year_2003
Now, I realise the escaping error in the generated URL was my own stupid fault, but the fact that IE automatically reverses any backslashes in a URL - to retain compatibility with Windows&
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06/Jan/2004 15:31 — AquarionicsIn The News
Lord Archer is once again under arrest, this time for sharing CDs with Baroness Thatcher.
He’s been accused of operating an illegal peer to peer network.
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A man with a split-personality lost his transportation yesterday when somebody stole his bi-psyche lock.
08/Jan/2004 20:32 — Aquarionicsv.g
Copies of Bridget Jones’ Diary read today: 1.
Am unable to write sentences in proper way. non-v.g. Should fix.
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11/Jan/2004 01:51 — AquarionicsNightstories
I’ve just woken up.
Saved the world from a collective of comedians lead by Noel Coward (Played by Leslie Phillips) including Angus Deyton by joining a collective of “White Cheese” comedians lead by Milton Jones.
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11/Jan/2004 15:33 — AquarionicsThat which is redesigned
Development, regression and dotted lines, all in one handy package.
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12/Jan/2004 17:53 — AquarionicsAq10
This is Aq10, the 10th design for Aquarionics since… well, since I started numbering them. It was designed with the following ideals in mind:
- It should look nice
- It should have somewhere I can muck around with for temporal-designs
- It should be cleaner than the old design
- It should validate
- It should display the content first.
Of which I have failed number 4, and suceeded with the rest to my satisfaction.
13/Jan/2004 10:41 — AquarionicsSnick
You see, once upon a time there was Marathon, which was a chocolate bar with peanuts in it.
The name change from Marathon to Snickers was one of the Great Name-Change Annoyances of the last few years.
So now they have launched the New Snickers Marathon! A Long Lasting Energy Bar.
They are bastards. All of them.
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14/Jan/2004 20:18 — AquarionicsPause
I’m writing again. All else is suspended until further notice.
In case I forget to mention it, or haven’t bounced at you yet, or anything:
We have a house. We are moving. We sign the contracts on the weekend of the 24th, and move soon after. Yay.
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16/Jan/2004 16:38 — AquarionicsBug Tracking
[13:57] <<a href="http://cus.org.uk/~ccooke/">ccooke > morning
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[13:57] Saw this and thought you might be interested: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html
[13:58] oooh
[13:58] thanks
[13:59] drop the tube.html from the end to get at the graphics without the irritating JS
[14:05] aww, shame
[14:05] they only
17/Jan/2004 15:36 — AquarionicsUpdates
Aquaintances now exports a valid OPML file.
This was far more work than it needed to be, because I have been unable to find a reference for a valid OPML file anywhere, blo.gs OPML files got imported by Dave’s Wonderful New Toy as “0 feeds added”, which is odd, because they were in exactly the same format as Dave’s old Blogroll before he re
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19/Jan/2004 01:18 — AquarionicsHousing
The house.
That we.
Were due.
To move into.
This Saturday.
Has just.
Gone off.
The market.
I am less than happy right now.
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19/Jan/2004 13:20 — AquarionicsBlogies and Pie
Ah well, another year goes past and I’m not nominated for a Bloggie or anything. I shall withhold my disappointment and carry on with a tear in my eye…
The amount of ways I’m screwed has decreased by three since my paycheque cleared today, which lead to me being able to get to work this morning, always a bonus.
On the minus side, we have a governmental inspection tomorrow to prove we actually exist an
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20/Jan/2004 17:39 — AquarionicsLonecat's Christmas present has arrived
The Saga Of The Christmas Gifts will be told at the weekend, when it ends.
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20/Jan/2004 22:46 — AquarionicsPower Cycle
As part of Wet Blunket’s Anti-Social Behaviour act, Traffic Wardens and Security Guards are going to be given the right to fine cyclists who ride on the pavement 30.
I have mixed feelings about this. As a pedestrian, I find people who ride bicycles on the pavement to be an irritation, but as an ex-cyclist (Our
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21/Jan/2004 12:38 — AquarionicsCodified
As is traditional, at the begining of every even-numbered year I update my GeekCode. The new code is:
GCS$/PA d+(-) s+:+ a-- C+++ L++$ P+ E--- W+++$ N+++ o K w O- M>++ V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5++ X R+ !tv b+++ DI++++ D++ G++ e+ h- r++ y?As is just-as-traditional, since before Aquarionics existed, I've added it to the Codes Page, and in order to compare it more easi
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21/Jan/2004 14:24 — Aquarionics12 minutes.
I’ve just sold you all to pay for my sanity.
Details in Feburary.
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21/Jan/2004 17:26 — AquarionicsJanuaphobia
Some time in the future, when I’m rich, famous and living in a huge mansion house somewhere, I shall declare January null and void.
I shall, on returning from whatever New Years party I go to, retreat into a room with a water supply, a kettle, a large amount of tea leaves, mug, sugar, spoon, a series of notebooks and a sofa.
This room shall already contain my music system and all MP3s.
I shall then emerge only for meals for an entire month. I shall not leave t
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21/Jan/2004 22:35 — AquarionicsFrowny Light Bulbs
As promised, the explaination for this week’s header:
I am a coder, a writer, a usenetter, a sysadmin, an IRC person, and a whole host of other things which usually require me to use a keyboard for long periods of time.
This means that one of the continual dangers of my existance is RSI. There are several ways of countering this, starting with setting up decent ergonomics at every desk I work at, buying a decent keybo
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22/Jan/2004 12:47 — AquarionicsMaking a hash of it
Cannabis is still illegal, but differanty so
Ah well. Doesn’t really affect me.
Don’t smoke, don’t do drugs, can handle a sword a little.
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22/Jan/2004 13:15 — AquarionicsShort Notice Meet
The Time: 18:30pm GMT.
The Date: Monday, January 26th
The Place: The Green Man, Euston Road, London, England. (More info here)
The Reason: Guess
The Invite: If you can read this, you’re invited.leave a comment here if you wish to warn me of your probab
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23/Jan/2004 19:36 — AquarionicsSplurge
‘pologies livejournalers, I asked LJ to start using the RSS2 feed, which – in a drastic break from tradition – they have done.
They’re still using the non-HTML feed, which was the aim of the exercise. Ah well.
The meet, BTW, is because it’s my birthday on Monday.
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24/Jan/2004 21:17 — AquarionicsTwenty Three
It seems like only yesterday I was 22.
Oh, yes. Of course.
Being 23 is very much like being 22 so far, only with more cookies and less pasta.
And, of course, the startling knowledge that I am now offically closer to 25 than 20.
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26/Jan/2004 16:15 — AquarionicsApples, Rhubarb & Custard
- 256MB DDR266 SDRAM - 2 SO-DIMMs
- 60GB Ultra ATA drive
- DVD/CD-RW
- Bluetooth Module
- AirPort Extreme Card
- Keyboard & Mac OS
- 1GHz PowerPC G4
- 14-inch TFT display
- Two USB ports
- One FireWire port
- Power Adapter
- Battery
Subtotal
27/Jan/2004 14:49 — AquarionicsToo many penguins
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28/Jan/2004 22:12 — AquarionicsCrazy Game
Courtasy of Mr. Gillen comes the Crazy Game, which is a whole 27k.
Your challange is to last… ooh, thirty seconds?
The rules are easy: If it’s moving, it’ll kill you if you hit it.
08:24 – It’s a Windows executable
16:33 – You’ll have to save it as something.exe for it to work properly
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30/Jan/2004 08:04 — AquarionicsTrading up is hard to do
Okay, I’m now six weeks ahead on Header graphics changes, which may be a little far. OTOH, the last two have been pushed back so I could get the next few in, some of which are obscure to the point that I’m going to need to write at least three paragraphs to explain them, others are just one-off jokes.
Still others don’t have a semi-amusing tagline. Shock, horror.
Headers are now, as I mentioned, sticky, so the header that was displ
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30/Jan/2004 19:23 — AquarionicsMoving
Can’t blog, floor will eat me.
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31/Jan/2004 13:38 — AquarionicsOutcome
To: The world in general
So, Lonecat has now moved out of the flat.
There is an empty room where her stuff once was.
I would like, if this would be possible, to have a house at some point soon.
I would also like not to move next year. That would be nice. An entire 12 month period where I’m living in the same house and have a job would be a novelty. In fact, just the house would be good.
I would also – and this is a concentrat
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31/Jan/2004 18:48 — Aquarionicstidakada ta-da
Michel Valdrighi, one of the founder members of the sinister1 and complicated Blogite collective2 who used to be at tidakada.com is back with his shiny new domain, and shiny new WordPress install3 and shiny new weblog at
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31/Jan/2004 20:19 — AquarionicsData for this is generated by Lifestream, which is open source. No. There isn't an RSS feed.
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