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Houses are doom
4:12pm, Monday 31 October 2005

Gina found a house that, while not ideal, would just about fit us (and all our tat) 'til we got a loft conversion or garden room sorted... and it would cut my commute from a bum-numbing 22 miles to a cycle-able 3 miles. We viewed it on Saturday. Today, it's been sold. :-( (And I'd even had the scary "yes sir, you can borrow an infeasible amount of money" conversation with the bank already.)

How to build a pyramid
11:21pm, Monday 17 October 2005

Take several handfuls of sand, about 100ml of PVA glue, some cling film, a baking tray and a piece of cardboard. Oh, and two excitable children.
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Silly meme
11:44am, Friday 7 October 2005

• Dave needs plywood
• Dave needs some advice
• Dave needs a vacation
• Dave needs a kidney
• Dave needs to work one of these into his live appearances
• Dave needs to get back into form and get his hair cut
• Dave needs to understand the seriousness of his position

On blogs and commenting
12:19pm, Tuesday 27 September 2005

Some weblogs let you add comments. This one doesn't. Why not? [more...]

Peeve of the day
11:04am, Thursday 22 September 2005 (Updated 11:12am, Thursday 22 September 2005)

Users who complain "I'm getting lots of spam!" when they don't have the efficient and featureful system spam filter turned on.

Update:

The OED doesn't think featureful is a word: tough. It does, however, have feawterlocke which is a lovely word.