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I really like sun. I really like Fridays. I really like drinking Diet Pepsi.

That is all for the moment. Today is a good day. :)

I just bought myself a Saitek Eclipse II keyboard and Logitech G5 laser mouse as the latest equipment to add to my computer rig, and I have to say that they’re fantastic. The keyboard is smooth beyond belief and a complete pleasure to type on, and the mouse is one of the nicest peripherals I’ve ever held.

It’s amazing how a good keyboard and mouse can improve your computing experience :) Now I just need to convince work to buy them for my desk there as well…

I went to my first funeral for fifteen years yesterday. My dad’s best friend’s father died a couple of weeks ago after being in hospital for a while, and my family and I went to go and pay our respects. It was a lovely service, filled with just as much happiness about his life as sadness that he had gone, and the weather was beautiful.

He was 92 when he died, just a month short of his 93rd birthday. That’s a good, long life for anyone these days. Rest in peace, George :)

Just for a chuckle, I present to you all a PHP version of the recently-famous “FizzBuzz” program in the style of Code Golf!

98 bytes of pure FizzBuzz excellence.

EDIT: I know I could have made this shorter (and have done since) but it’s just a proof of concept. Besides, if I posted all my shortest solutions, everyone would be able to answer easily when it comes round to the actual Code Golf challenge…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqzovAbMhcA

This is the Manic Street Preachers covering Rihanna’s “Umbrella”, and my god, it’s fucking excellent. So much better than the original it’s untrue!

I’m now on Wordpress 2.5 - it’s very, very shiny indeed. I approve!

Work is busy, life is busy etc. Can’t complain at all :)

I was just casually browsing http://www.wowbash.com (excellent site, by the way) and suddenly my monitors started shaking, along with my desk and the walls in my bedroom. It lasted about 7-8 seconds and I wondered what in the blue hell was going on. I thought I was going crazy, but then I alt+tabbed to IRC and everyone in the UK had suddenly become active - “anyone just feel that?” “what the hell” “was that an earthquake?” etc.

Various links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm
http://earthquakepredictionbytiempe.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008nyae/ciim_display.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008nyae.php

That was awesome. I’m glad I was still awake. ^^

It’s Tuesday, and this is awesome!

(Yes, I’m a little bit bored in the last half-hour of work, and I don’t have a lot to write about.)

Tuesdays are actually my favourite day of the week. I go to the gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and so I don’t get home until later on, and then have to make dinner and don’t usually get to sit down and relax until about 8pm, which is nasty. On Tuesdays, however, I get home at about 6pm and I can immediately start my relaxation. Win!

I am listening to my recommended radio station on last.fm, and it’s actually pretty good - I’ve heard a few things that I shall be following up on. If you fancy listening too… click!

I’m absolutely fine, I just wanted to post a picture of one of my new ThinkGeek t-shirts (-:

I purchased one of these on a whim the other day after someone on IRC suggested that they were fun. I have to say that he wasn’t wrong… my forearms, hands and wrists ache but I still want to play with this thing. They’re relentlessly addictive!

My top score so far is 11121rpm - I think I need gloves to go any faster than that…

Why oh why did I start playing Planetarion? This game is ridiculously addictive…

That film was fucking awesome.

Kaylee would get it. Many times.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/