Happy New Year
Aquarionics is seven today.
Meaning I’ve been writing stuff for seven years.
Golly.
Happy New Year, people, and I’ll speak to you all more next year.
Promise.
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01/Jan/2007 00:23 — AquarionicsAnother One
Aquarionics Year Eight starts like this:
I had a good New Years.
I went, as I always go, to Wales for Gid and Suzi’s awesome brand-new-number holiday spectacular. I saw people I haven’t seen for years, months and in a couple of cases days. I drank some beer, quite a bit of vodka and passed on the wonders of vodka and cream soda unto a new generation.
My new resolutions for the year are:
- New Job
- New House
- New Car
02/Jan/2007 20:43 — AquarionicsGotwick
Epistula has a Location system, designed so I can tag any Entry, Writing, Photo Gallery, Article, Blink or whatever with a latitude and longitude and the place will appear below the post.
When I designed it, I put in the major cities in England, plus the places I’d ever lived.
For the first time since Aquarionics started in 2000, this isn’t sufficient.
I’m currently sitting in the departure lounge of Gatwick Airport, heading out to Amsterdam for a
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03/Jan/2007 05:30 — AquarionicsThese are the fables
I made it to Amsterdam.
When I entered Gatwick Airport at half past five on the third day of 2007, I started my trip to Amsterdam by having a subautomatic machine gun pointed at me. Not out of malice, more out of there being any other suitable place for the armed police on duty to point them as they yawned. I located my ticket (I couldn’t automatically log in as I didn’t have the credit card I bought the ticket on with me), checked in my small blue bag and wandered though
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05/Jan/2007 12:08 — AquarionicsHere
Home again, incidentally. Now off to work.
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08/Jan/2007 07:49 — AquarionicsBrick
I have just seen the movie Brick, possibly the finest classic film-noir movies ever made in a high school.
(Really. it’s a classic dames-and-guns detective story set in an American school. The dialogue is pure noir, the characters 90210. It’s really, really cool and well done)
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10/Jan/2007 20:38 — AquarionicsSubscribeme Update
Er, Missed this one. At Aquarius’ suggestion, SubscribeMe, the subspecific syndication subscription selection system, now supports Google Reader. Which is the RSS reader I use.
Oops.
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13/Jan/2007 21:12 — AquarionicsBlack
Yesterday someone mentioned to me she thought there was shortly going to be a Film Noir resurgence in popular culture. I disagree, but only because I believe it’s already here.
The Dresden Files
While looking for air-flight material over Christmas, I saw a series of books in the Scifi/Fantasy section that I’d never seen before. A series of eight books, in fact. This was something of a surprise, as it would take quite an event for six years of a fantasy series t
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14/Jan/2007 21:39 — AquarionicsConflict
On the one hand: “Rah! Only just finished Christmas! Rampant commercialism! Grr! Argh”
On the other, I have both tea and hot cross buns.
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16/Jan/2007 20:05 — AquarionicsRains and Pours
Busy week
Okay, right now I am unemployed. My final day at Evolving was friday. They bought me leaving presents, and beer, and we went for a drink and I will, to a large extent, miss the company and all the people in it, it’s been part of my life for a couple of years, will remain my longest continuous employment period until I’m 28 at the very least, and is a decent place. They’re looking for PHP
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23/Jan/2007 09:11 — AquarionicsPareidol 8
(I’m now employed by hotxt. Yay. More later, probably)
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24/Jan/2007 16:15 — AquarionicsIt is better to help people than garden gnomes
Films you should see if you haven’t already done so:
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25/Jan/2007 11:39 — AquarionicsDouble Plus
Half my life ago I was a teenager.
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.
Anyone fancy a drink tomorrow? Say, Cambridge, The Castle, Early Afternoon?
No?
Just me then.
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26/Jan/2007 00:00 — AquarionicsGreat author humbled
David Eddings burns down his office
Next week he intends to do the same thing, but with different names.
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27/Jan/2007 21:22 — AquarionicsYour own dancing stick figure
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28/Jan/2007 19:09 — AquarionicsComrade
This weekend was the Double XP event in City of Heroes. Basically, from Friday night to Sunday midnight (US time) everything you did in the game gave out double the XP and Influence (the game’s currency). One of the best ways of getting XP in CoH is Task Forces – WoW players: think “Raids”, -ish – a series of interconnected missions with the following parameters:
- Once a task force team is joined, you cannot invite new people in.
- You can
29/Jan/2007 02:30 — AquarionicsPretending blogging matters part X
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
(George Bernard Shaw)
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29/Jan/2007 09:34 — AquarionicsThere are just two things that I blog
I do humbly apologise to anyone expecting to read this weblog for techical stuff. It’s all gone a bit cheese sandwichy, hasn’t it?
There’s a reason for this.
The first is that we started off as a cheese sandwich blog, and then I decided if I was going to do a cheese sandwich blog I could do it on fucking livejournal and this was going to be only for splendid and worthwhile posts on technology and XML and Linux and Sysadmin
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