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Just not a lot happening at the moment. Nothing bad, just been busy with stuff, and not much to tell. Have played a lot of NHL Hitz 2003 on the Gamecube. I need to win the Stanley Cup before my wrists give out, and I think I made the mistake of setting it to an 80-odd match season. So far I have scored around 10 goals a game as well, which suggests I may have it on the slightly too easy setting. But I have started now, so seems a shame to stop it.

Good programme on ITV last night about World of Sport, my much-missed obsession from childhood. Have a little tear in my eye thinking about it now. Did get it stored on the Sky+ box for later enjoyment though.

but not the best idea on a schoolnight. Ouch. Still, only 7.5 hours to go before I can sleep.

Tired now, tried to get an earlier night, but it was just too hot to sleep well, so I am grumpy and trying to cure myself with coffee. Have some new things I want to read up on, namely a web technology called Ajax (which I don’t really understand yet, but basically it does some of the twizzy javascript things in gmail) and Tomcat, which allows Java applets to be run on a server. It is something that is used at work that I don’t understand, but I might have a bash at setting up on my webserver if they let me (which I suspect they might just). If I can, there may be an interesting announcement in a few weeks about something new on the site, won’t spoil it until I get myself motivated to do it.

Not much to report, mrsfb’s brother A came to visit us, we took it easy, went out for a meal, played plenty of console games, generally took it easy. Good fun. I found a real console bargain, picked up four old games for £20, Tony Hawks Underground, TOCA Pro Racer, Wave Rider, and the unexpected star of the show, NHL Hitz 2003. Very good sports game, beautifully done. And not bad at all for a fiver 🙂

Well, signed up to it. Very easy to get online with it, and to start using it under Linux, which impressed me greatly. Have it running in GAIM on there. One thing I do like is that if you reply to an e-mail in gmail, it adds the person as a potential contact immediately. I suspect partly with Google Talk that it is something the financial sector in the states had suggested they do, and they have done so in a very cheap and effective manner. Their share price went up 2% in the states within a day. Nice.

Google Talk

Instant Messaging and Voice client. It looks like it is based on the Jabber protocol, so you can use it straight away in GAIM and Trillian if you have them clicky for instructions

See you on there!

Well that was a useful evening, watched the third episode of Lost, which is moving at a beautifully slow and brooding pace. Wrote a couple of shortform ideas for a writing project I have on the go at the moment. And set up a new website, well just the start of it. It is somewhere for me to place programming stuff which I have written.

So that feels quite good 🙂

So just a quickie. Watched Lost last night, up to episode 2 thus far, hopefully getting to see 3 tonight. There are plot holes, corny acting, yadda yadda yadda. And yet I love it. Something that gets me about a tv show with a proper sense of brooding mystery. It doesn’t quite have the shine of a Twin Peaks, not yet anyways.

Speaking of which, the remastered DVD box sets of that are due out soon, and may have to go on the flotsky shopping list. Can’t wait frankly.

Quiet one with mrsfb on Friday night, then Saturday my niece T came to visit. Fun day catching up, then mexican food and lashings of Singstar in the evening. I am better at being Beyonce than all reason would dictate. Lots of good fun.

Today my sister E leaves the country for good, she is moving to a new life in France with her husband. I’m going to miss them a hell of a lot, but I’m happy for them, going off to do something new in their lives.

about postscript. I am not going to talk about my weeks-long battle with it to make it print out something relatively straightforwards in the manner I had asked it too. I will not complain that it is an archaic language and Adobe needs shooting in the arse.

There. I feel better for not posting that.