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Try again
2:21pm, Wednesday 29 March 2006

An advertisement board near where I work used to carry an advert for a pub, with the text "Luxery en-suite accommodation". (Doh.)

It was recently "corrected" to read "Luxury en-suit accommodation". (Doh again.)

I'm not sure whether it's more impressive that they managed to insert a mistake while fixing another; or that they managed to spell "accommodation" correctly both times.

What's new?
1:33pm, Tuesday 28 March 2006

Hello, world! (And Mark, and Lisa, and Rachel, and anyone else who's just (re-)discovered me via LiveJournal.) Have a duck.

Last week I was in Durham, which is hilly, with a couple of colleagures for the UKUUG spring conference. There are quite a few pubs there:

• The Shakespeare - small, friendly, the back room down a winding corridor had a draughts board but only one draughts piece which made for a rather short game.
• The Elephant - not a pub, but all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet for £7.99. Recommended.
• The Fighting Cocks - was disrecommended by someone who went to university in Durham as being rough and usually having a police van parked outside. So naturally we had to go in - and we were the only people there...
• The New Inn - loud, studenty, big TV screen with football, no nice beer.
• The City - nice beer (well, Bombardier at least).
• The Three Tuns - actually a hotel, where the conference dinner was held. There was a free bar but only one barman. Oops!

And in other news, I've just discovered how to make my office phone send all incoming calls straight to voicemail. Quiet, innit?

Alarm clocks and dungeons
11:42am, Wednesday 15 March 2006

Shiny: the top ten most annoying alarm clocks (I want a "Clocky", that's about the only thing that could reliably get me out of bed); and some rather old maps of "Dungeon", the adventure game. From the new to the old...

Subtitles
10:58am, Thursday 9 March 2006

I was watching the TV news while eating my breakfast this morning. To avoid disturbing everyone else who was still asleep, I had the subtitles on. [more...]

Four ceilidhs and a funeral
5:58pm, Wednesday 1 March 2006

My weekend was eaten by IVFDF. [more...]