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Finally uploaded some photos
We caught the overnight train from Barcelona to San Sebastian last night. Slept in our six-berth sleeper, which was quite pleasant. We've finally found an Internet cafe we can upload photos from. They…
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Business at the back, party at the front
Geo: 41.38788,2.20392 We've been in Barcelona since Monday night and in our first twenty-four hours, we spotted at least forty Iberimullets. It's certainly a popular haircut around these parts. I have…
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Our worldly possessions
Geo: 51.550703,-000.087496 This is our stuff for the next eight months! About to head to the airport. I can barely lift my pack. Eek!
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Holly's birthday
Last night we celebrated Holly's birthday and had our leaving do here in London. Lots of fun had by all. Thanks to all who came! Photos here.
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Holly's birthday brunch
Geo: 51.557758,-000.080551 We're having a tasty breakfast for Holly's birthday.
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Staying at Pyrland
Geo: 51.550611,-000.087570 We're spending the week at Scott and Katie's place in North London. This is my shiny new moblog thingy. You'll notice I've got a link at the top of the post where you can se…
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Finally, in-ear headphones that don't suck!
I just bought a pair of these Sennheiser in-ear headphones. They're one of these deep ear canal designs, with various sizes of soft rubber insert. Instead of sitting in the outer ear, they go right in…
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Well that's it for work
Today was my last real work day. Tomorrow is my last official day but we're having our end-of-project day, which means going to the National Gallery then boozy lunch and more drinks. Nice that work ar…
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Quick and easy fish
Holly has recently discovered she likes smoked mackerel. I've been eating it for years because it has many advantages: cheap, not endangered, tasty and being an oily fish it's got lots of the good stu…
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Finally, a union with a clue!
So all the council workers are out on strike today. Their union, Unison, has put excellent information about why they're striking on their web site. Compare and contrast with the fatcat train drivers…
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Death and Taxes
This is a fantastic visualisation of US government spending. Would be great for comparison purposes to do something similar for other governments.
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New music
Bought some CDs recently. Remember them? Maybe ask your grandparents what those were. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done is by a band we caught after going tothe Barfly in Camden to see Melbourne…
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Can we have store-and-forward SMS please?
So I'm on the tube this morning and realise I need to tell Holly something. I send her atext message on my phone. Now this is pretty damn advanced phone, you'd think it could handle that. There is, of…
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Very odd dream
I don't normally remember my dreams but this morning I had a very vivid one, which seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie. It was all about an evil Russian scientist who drugged me and implanted…
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Ahhh election season
There's one good thing about election season: I get to tell Tories quite how much they disgust me in the comfort of my own doorstep. And they have to be polite! Hours of entertainment. This is more fu…
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Tim Flannery tonight!
Last night I went to the launch of Ryan Heath's book Please Just Fuck Off, It's Our Turn Now (Holding Baby Boomers to Account) at Australia House. Quite a fun evening, and the debate was quite enterta…
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Translation tools
This interweb thing is great! I've been translating a bunch of strings in our software at work from English into French. We used a translation company for most of it, but these are the little bits tha…
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Not a good start to the day
We had a rather abrupt start to the day this morning: the ceiling in our kitchen collapsed! There's now a 2m diameter hole in our ceiling. A few months ago upstairs had a leaky bath. The ceiling start…
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Shittybank does it again
Last Friday I had a rather unfortunate experience with my bank card. It stopped working, with conflicting messages from different points: ATMs said "your bank is unable to process your transaction" wh…
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Howard's 10th Anniversary
Today is a good day to reflect on the fact that there will be kids in Australia starting high school this year who can't remember a prime minister other than John Howard. Scary. The sooner we get the…