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Jobs
4:33pm, Friday 9 June 2006

I futz with computers all day. One of my brothers gets given free hi-tech toys to play with. I occasionally wonder who has the better deal...

House
4:18pm, Friday 9 June 2006

Our offer on the house we want to buy has been accepted.

Now the fun starts!

Spam of the day
11:02am, Monday 5 June 2006

Subject: contemptuous headgear

Now, is that a Molly reference or what?

Power cut
10:23am, Friday 2 June 2006

We had a power cut most of yesterday, apparently due to an underground cable fire. I discovered (1) that Powergen are actually quite good at keeping their customers informed of what's happening during the event, and (2) that smokeping makes an entertaining monitor of home power.

Descriptive error message
11:18am, Monday 22 May 2006

An HSV110 controller has been ousted from the Storage System.

Ousted, I tell you.