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Borders comedy
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Kids of today, etc
The Cambridge Union is the home of aspiring politicos but no aspiring proofreaders it seems. While selling copies of the Big Issue to bemused tourists this afternoon outside the Round Church I spied the following poster advertising upcoming “ents” (student slang for entertainments, or events) and talks. I found seven mistakes just reading it through. How many can you spot? (You might want to view it larger.)
Yes, I know this is super-nerdy.
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La Plagne 2006 video
10 min 58 sec, or 20.3 MB, of glorious widescreen ice is now available from Avaragado Pictures.
Anyone used Google Video or YouTube or similar? (Dis)recommendations?
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Birthday do
Last Saturday…
- Ran about madly in the morning, getting things finished.
- Made sure my new amp and speakers worked. (Spent some more money on Friday.)
- Had the premiere of my new video – La Plagne 2006 – to a select few. Not yet uploaded. Started drinking.
- Toddled as a group down to The Pickerel. Continued drinking.
- Joined by others, including former workmates. Shazzie bought some champagne.
- Went to La Margherita. Ate, drank.
- Went to Sino Tap. Drank until Sunday.
Nothing much happened on Sunday.
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The Great Redundo
So ANT have kicked me out.
I was told last week that they were proposing to outsource my role (and also all documentation, my boggling readers) and that consequently, unless alternative employment could be found for me in a two-week consultation period, I would be made redundant. (This was about three weeks after giving me more line management responsibility and telling me this was the first step in growing my team.)
Today they cut short the consultation period, told me there was nothing suitable, and asked me to clear my desk and sling my hook. Which I did, via the pub with some workmates. People were still asking me questions about JavaScript and DOM virtually as I was walking out of the door.
Their loss.
I suspect, but cannot prove, that the directors have been replaced with space lizards. I think I saw one of them devouring a stunned gerbil on Monday.
No concrete plan yet except to take some time off. I might go freelance again.
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Wherein money is exchanged for consumer electronics
32 inches, HD-ready, LCD. Marantz.
Currently perched on a chair in front of my old CRT TV, until I can dispose of that humanely.
It’s very good. It shows up the low bandwidth of digital terrestrial TV magnificently. Haven’t tried out the HD yet – I’ll need to plug the Mac in for that.
However, its built-in digital tuner UI is pretty awful (ranting available on request). My old Nokia 221T set-top box is much better, even if channel-changing is slower, so I’ve plugged that in.
I’m currently watching 1000 Dame Edna Everages dancing in the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Quite what some commonwealth countries are making of this I’m not sure.
Brrrm crack
Drove down to deepest Heathrow today for business. Had meetings. Drove home.
On the way back, a gen-yoo-ine M25 stone took a chip out of my windscreen. Well, it woke me up I guess.
Wonder whether I can expense it?
In related news, today I discovered that ten minutes at 40mph in roadworks on the M11 under the beady eyes of number-plate-reading, average-speed-checking cameras is actually more tedious than ten minutes at 0mph.
On the plus side I was home by 5:30, which hasn’t happened in a while.
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