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Archive for February, 2006

The baah-ley don’t you know…

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Today I managed to rope myself into going to see a ballet, and despite it being ‘Edward Scissorhands’ I still half expected something pretentious, inaccessible and dull. Still, I thought, you’ve got to try these things once. Although I doubt anyone has been on their deathbed thinking, ‘Damnit, if only I’d seen a ballet,’ I’m [...]

Sony? Portable Reader SystemPRS-500

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

To put it simply I want one of these. I’ve wanted an eBook reader for a while, as I get terrible guilt trips every time I print off the twenty odd pages associated with a PDF file. (Research papers are distributed in PDF format.) Unfortunately, Sony’s prior effort, the Libre, was so wrapped up in [...]

Karen “F’ing” Samson

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Of course, that isn’t her name. That’s probably fairly obvious as few people have profanities for their middle names, but what I mean it that it isn’t even her name sans profanity. Indeed, names have been changed to protect the innocent, or rather to protect me, when the innocent decide to do a vanity search [...]

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