Miniblog articles for July 2005
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Friday 1st, 00:01
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- For a limited time only, some of Beethoven's symphonies are available for
download from the BBC as MP3 files. Numbers 1–5 have already been and gone,
but 6–9 are still there.
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Monday 4th, 21:56
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- Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear: how is it that the version by
The Muppets is so much better than the Harry Nilsson version? It's just so
much more funky.
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Wednesday 6th, 08:15
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- Digital Photography Review has
an article about the current BBC4 TV series
about digital photography, and the associated competition.
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Wednesday 6th, 22:40
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- XMMS deserves its cock-shaped soundwave just for having a ‘close’ button
that small. After a few beers a user should not have to maneuver a mouse
pointer to within three pixels of a low-contrast ‘X’ icon.
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Friday 8th, 23:15
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- I have some more work, starting on Monday. In an accidental celebration I went
to Nafee's and had seekh kebabs and a fish masala. Yummy.
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Monday 11th, 22:41
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- If you haven't already heard the Happa-tai's (Leaf Team's) Yatta (Japan's
answer to YMCA) then check out the videos. As the lyrics say, “Long as we've
one leaf on, we're doin' fine! Hey, we're lucky just 'cause we're alive!”.
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Monday 11th, 22:54
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- In any case, that last is better than the bloke in the pub tonight
giving me his rendition of Danny Boy in Japanese, apparently in
kansai dialect.
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Wednesday 13th, 19:09
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- For some reason the lemon jelly babies are the squishiest.
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Friday 15th, 15:52
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- Just had a copper round asking if I've heard anything about the London bomber
who lived nearby. Nothing I could tell him, but it's all a bit scary being
just down the road.
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Sunday 17th, 19:51
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- “He decided to sip surreptitious sup and slipped. Splash.”
—John Steed, The Avengers,
A Surfeit of H2O, 1965
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Wednesday 20th, 14:24
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- Google maps, already provided for several terrestrial countries, now has
a small part of the moon, to commemorate
the first lunar landing, 36 years ago today.
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Wednesday 20th, 23:00
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- “…at Narita I found myself staring at the tiny rear ends of the stylish Tokyo
girls walking in front of me, wondering how they could sit on something so
small. Yep, I'm back in Japan now!” —Peter Payne, J-List, 2005-07-20
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Thursday 28th, 11:16
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- My webserver, bluebeard, is finally in its new home in Leeds (after a trip to
down to London to pick it up) and actually starting to work again. w00t.
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Thursday 28th, 15:16
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- Pleased that I'd cleaned the lens carefully, without scratching it, I then
manage to sit on my camera. Fortunately it seems to be fine.
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Friday 29th, 13:52
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- What kind of imbecile calls their company ‘foo.com’ without
registering that as a domain name, or in fact without having a website at all,
at least that Google can locate?
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