tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64887234655643884672012-01-22T17:42:10.144ZBeing a manifestation of the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter of legend.trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.comBlogger8261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-27063505901354672432012-01-22T17:42:00.000Z2012-01-22T17:42:10.157Z

So, my first weekend blog post.My original plan was I would actually post on both Saturday and Sunday, but to be honest I pretty much forgot to do one yesterday.Anyway, what have I been up to?Well, obviously I started my new contracting job this week.  That doesn’t mean I lost my job or anything, but it does mean I’ve been working at a different location.  The best way to think about it is the (

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Well, this is the last blog of the week and I’m also pretty sure it’s going to be the last daily weekday blog for a while.As mentioned before chrimbo I’m starting on contract and it will be impossible to update the blog at work from now on.  Since I’m probably not going to be keen to then spend time in the evening doing it (I’m pushed to do much more than watch TV) this will therefore become a

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So when I returned from my Dads I obviously wasn't feeling great, as the second cold was still in full swing.This cold wasn’t quite as intense as the first one, but it seems to have lasted longer - I’m still sniffling now a good couple of weeks later.  What this did mean is that the week between Chrimbo and the New Year wasn't as fun as it could have been.I’d arranged to see a few chums and while

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I watched a few rental DVDs over the Christmas period, the first of which was white noise 2.I seem to recall I quite liked the first white noise, mainly because the ending was somewhat unexpected.  It led up to something that, while I don't think I would really classify it as a twist, was quite an interesting ending.The second film is less successful.Mainly, I have to confess, because it seems to

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First day back to work today.It feels a bit weird, as I’ve had quite a long time off.  Well, actually it’s only just over two weeks, but it feels like it’s been a nice long break.So I guess I should talk about Christmas and the new year and holiday.Christmas I went to see my dad and my sister at my dad’s.  We had Turkey for Christmas lunch.  It’s a bit weird having Turkey as my Dad and sister

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I hope you have a good Christmas and New Year period :)I am away on holiday now until the 10th of January, so I thought I'd post my usual Chrimbalo message for over the festive season.As I mentioned earlier this week I will actually be going on contract next year, so the blog will almost certainly switch to being a weekly one next year.  The contract doesn't actually start until a little after

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My basic feeling when I reviewed saw 6 was that it had kinda disappeared up its own fundament.The saw films have always tried to have an approach where there's a twist to them, so when you get to the point of having 6 or 7 films, you've piled on so many twists that you probably don't know whether you're coming or going.  It also probably doesn't help that (as the commentaries indicate) none of it

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-9287846962112983952011-12-20T08:12:00.002Z2011-12-20T08:12:55.202Z

Right then, a bit of an announcement.The intention of this blog was always that I would post every weekday about things happening in my life or giving my opinions on things that were happening and to post up reviews of stuff.  Fairly mundane stuff, but at the least it kept me writing and it makes it more like a diary, which was kinda the idea.Anyway, this was all pretty much based on my work

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Total Wipeout appears to be properly back this time.It also appears to have started in a "Winter Wipeout" format.  Whether this is a temporary Christmas thing or the whole series will be Winter Wipeout I'm not sure.It was again very quiet in the Laundrette.  Not sure why it was quiet, but I did therefore take the opportunity of not being worried about my machine ending without me there (not from

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Wow, it's only a week until I go on holiday and then a couple of extra days and it's Christmas.As I mentioned before I'm quite looking forward to it this year and the news there's less than a week to go is very pleasing.I've pretty much done all my Christmas shopping now.  A few things are still to arrive, but all should be here by the time I go away.  If not, it's not a disaster, as I can just

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I mentioned before that when I got back I'd had a radiator installed and that necessitated a move of my bed across to the other side of the room.  Now that actually sounds a lot more spectacular than it was - it was actually a move of about 1.5 metres.However, it did mean I was now closer to a different window compared to where I was before and so it took me a while to get used to sleeping in

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I made a bit of a cock-up here.See, I thought that fast and furious was the first film in this series, but it turns out that the fast and the furious is the first in the series, and fast and furious is the fourth.I'm not sure when the trend of not simply giving sequels a number started, but Fast and Furious seems to be a chronic case.  The second film is 2 fast 2 furious, so that has numbers, but

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Well that was a good weekend.And I don’t mean that with any sort of sarcasm - the weekend went well.The work chrimbo lunch was okay.  We went to the same place as we did last year and I have to say the food itself wasn’t as good as last year.  It was okay, but it was better last year.However, it was slightly marred by the fact I ended up sat next to someone who, well, they were nice and all, but

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-12913049799958616852011-12-09T07:19:00.001Z2011-12-09T07:20:02.069Z

It's the work Christmas lunch today.Some companies have a full-on bash, and we used to do that when I first joined, but a few years back it turned into more of a long lunch at a pub thing.  It's usually okay, marred only by the fact that we have to go back to work afterwards.I went for traditional Turkey and Christmas Pud of course.  I know some people don't really like turkey - the breast can

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We now hove a vaguely decent connection speed at work.It's a weird package we're on, in that it's like a managed service.  This idea is that it has very little downtime, but you pay a premium for that and it really is expensive compared to most packages.Quite how they guarantee that up time, given the reliance on the bits of the service being provided by BT, I'm not sure.  But what's also weird

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Well this was disappointing.A big part of the charm of the original film was the relationship between Will Smith's and Tommy Lee Jones's characters.The basic set up was that Smith was a world-wise cop who wasn't phased by anything, but then he got pushed into the MIB world where there are aliens everywhere and suddenly he was a wide-eyed noob making errors everywhere.Meanwhile Jones was an

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There's a cupboard at work with a combination lock that I occasionally had reason to get into. We actually have several such cupboards, but this one used to have some bits in that I would regularly need to get to.  I say "used to", because I have transferred the bits I need access to over to another cupboard. The reason I've done that is because the lock is fucked on the other cupboard. I

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Well that was a crappy weekend.On Sunday I really fell foul of a cold that seemed to be brewing all week and essentially spent the day in bed.  I still feel really crappy and don’t really seem to be over the hump yet.The cold has come from someone at work, who’s been suffering for more than a week.  I really hope it doesn’t last that long for me - I really don't fancy a week of feeling crap and I

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I'm really looking forward to Christmas this year.Well, I'm looking forward to the holiday.This year has been absolutely manic - I've never known a period like it since I joined the company.I've booked a smidge over two weeks for holiday - my first day off is the 23rd and then I don't come back until the 10th.  I've actually also booked the 12th off so I can do my last few bits of Christmas

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-11887306932092413332011-12-01T15:47:00.001Z2011-12-01T15:47:34.045Z

I received my first spam post on this blog recently.I made a post about the new heating my landlord has installed and the spam post was basically vaguely aimed at trying to look like a post but then giving a link to some random plumbing company.I always wonder about things like that - has the company set up its own spambot?  Or have they hired someone to do it?  Perhaps they've paid some company

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Now here's a difficult review.I'd heard that Battle: Los Angeles was an awful film.  And it is.  But I actually kinda enjoyed it.One of the clichés of Hollywood is that when they pitch movies, they do so by going "it's x meets y".  So, for example, a film might be "top gun meets love actually" or whatever.Well, battle is basically that - it's Independence Day meets Black Hawk Down.  Well, there

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-72312054568921220482011-11-29T09:28:00.001Z2011-11-29T09:29:26.277Z

Before I went away I did a bit of a back-up.I've got some USB hard drives I use for backing up everything.  This can take ages to do, as I've the best part of a terabyte of stuff to back up.  In all honest, I therefore tend to do an incremental back-up on some of it.For most I delete the old backups and redo the whole lot, but for other folders where I know I've not changed anything I keep them

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This weekend saw the last Grand Prix for the year in Brazil.Usually Brazil is a good race and while I wouldn't classify this last weekend's as a great race, it was certainly among the better ones this year.There were a few interesting battles and overtaking manoeuvres and there were some strong strategic elements to the race.  Also it's an interesting circuit, and is very fast, so it's always an

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Obviously I don't generally blog over the weekend, but the beeb announced just how badly they're going to screw us F1 fans on Friday night, so I figured a special blog was warranted. My overall feeling is that the news is very mixed. Firstly, they've announced two types of highlights packages - a 90minute version and a 120minute version.  Obviously we will have to wait and see what this

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-5644862870247098242011-11-25T08:18:00.001Z2011-11-25T08:18:55.351Z

This weekend sees the final race of 2011 at Interlagos in Brazil.The championship was decided a while ago of course and it's actually fairly rare that it comes down to the wire, so since Brazil is normally towards the end, usually it's been decided before then.The place where the race is in Brazil is not a particularly nice area, as I understand it.  Brazil has a lot of poor people and big slum

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While I was away I saw this Downton Abbey people seem to have gone nuts for.I can't honestly say I understand why it's so popular.  It seemed very poorly written and had an odd, staccato feel to it - like all the scenes were filmed with the intention of being the last in the show, or just before an ad break.You know the drums you get at the end of Eastenders and there's that dramatic pause while

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I seem to recall quite a lot of negative reviews for tron legacy when it came out.  However, looking at the page on Wikipedia it describes critical reaction as "mixed". I think that probably sums up my opinion of it too - mixed. I can't honestly say I've watched tron in a while.  I have seen it quite a few times over the years, but I guess with it being from the very early 80s it's not

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-16811160773790790142011-11-22T08:09:00.001Z2011-11-22T08:09:33.870Z

I discovered a little problem with audible and itunes the other week.Basically, I like to listen to audio books while I'm walking.  I found music difficult to walk to as the tempo mismatch was disruptive.  The best audio books to listen to are autobiographies and non-fiction, as they tend to be in the form of little stories and you don't have a big plot to follow.Anyway, I use audible, which is

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-18795427970867727962011-11-21T11:33:00.001Z2011-11-21T11:33:56.775Z

For the last few months (since around summer, in fact - so the best part of the last six months) I’ve been struggling.I've been struggling to make it below the 19 stone mark.19 stone doesn't represent anything in particular.  It doesn't signify a shift in my BMI from one category to another.  It doesn't represent any particular milestone (well, give or take it's about vaguely half way to my hoped

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-78395010122994190072011-11-18T08:30:00.001Z2011-11-18T08:30:29.783Z

I really need a haircut, but I doubt I'm going to get the chance this weekend.In fact I know I won't get the chance, as I need to do loads of washing and I do that first thing Saturday, so I won't be able to go to the hairdresser's early, which is my usual slot.  Plus it's a cleaning weekend and that takes up all day Saturday anyway.I'm a bit sick of this new pattern of doing stuff - it's kinda

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-48982116425704632592011-11-17T08:58:00.001Z2011-11-17T08:58:55.399Z

So what was this mention about Liverpool all about then?Well, it was a trip for work and it was very interesting.  Unfortunately, I can’t really tell you any details about the reason for the trip and what we did, but what I did want to talk about was the journey.It was, to be frank, rather horrible.I basically set off at 8AM and got back at about 9PM.I went by train and went via London.  This was

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Yesterday I mentioned I’d talk about Liverpool tomorrow, because today I’m going to give a few thoughts on call of duty: modern warfare 3.I went into the weekend wondering what I was going to do, but then MW3 turned up and basically absorbed a whole chunk of my spare time.  MW3 is the third in the modern warfare series and I played through the whole campaign and a few of the spec ops missions

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-26223002354405878592011-11-15T09:23:00.001Z2011-11-15T09:24:23.634Z

While I was away my landlord had a radiator fitted to my room.I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before I went, but if not, basically he’s increasing my rent by £5 a month and for that I’m getting a radiator in my bedsit area.  It’s plumbed into my landlord’s heating, so I don’t have any control over it (well, I can turn it on/off and I can adjust the “balance” - whatever that is) but it’s better

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-56979933315185878292011-11-14T08:31:00.001Z2011-11-14T08:31:40.549Z

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this last weekend.On previous occasions it’s been horribly dull. Last year it was where the championship was decided and that, to be frank, was mainly because neither Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber nor Lewis Hamilton could make overtakes that they needed to.As such, I was pretty much not expecting very much from the race.  They’d introduced two DRS zones, both of which were

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It's the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend.I can't say I'm particularly looking forward to it as it's not really produced any classics so far.  It's one of the newer races and it's also one of the duller ones.From memory it's held in the evening, so it starts out fairly light but the sun sets during the race and it's dark at the end.  This doesn't really add much to the race, but I guess it's

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-47105025903481614042011-11-09T08:27:00.002Z2011-11-09T08:27:37.985Z

The Indian Grand Prix was on while I was away.In fact it was on while I was at my Dads and so I watched it down there.I have to confess it wasn't the greatest of races - there was very little overtaking (mostly the rubbish DRS type overtaking) and not much really seemed to happen.  I think there were a couple of reasons for this dullness.Firstly, and probably most crucially, Pirelli brought the

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-27214491694800279492011-11-08T08:22:00.002Z2011-11-08T08:22:36.554Z

So I got back last night and discovered there was no water.I knocked on my landlord's door, thinking he may have turned it off and forgotten to turn it back on (I'll explain why in a future blog post), but actually it turned out there's a burst main and there's no water for the whole street.  It had, apparently, been off for more than four hours at that point already.Why does this stuff always

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-13337400315156192802011-11-07T19:58:00.003Z2011-11-07T19:58:44.518Z

So, back to work today. Can't say I enjoyed it. I dunno, normally I'm pretty happy to go back, but this time it just felt like the worst thing ever. Part of the problem was that the holiday just flew by.  It really doesn't feel like I've been away for more than a day or two, but I've actually been off for more than a week. The first part of the holiday as spent at my Dads - Friday to Monday,

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-8864413370176464512011-10-27T08:33:00.000+01:002011-11-07T19:58:44.522Z

So today is my last day in the office for a while.I'm off on holiday, but it's nothing spectacular - I'm going down to Devon.  Initially I'll be seeing my dad over the weekend and then I'm booked in to a travel lodge until the end of the week.IT was my dad's birthday at the beginning of the month, which is why I want to see him, but I've also not seen him since the British Grand Prix back in July

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-73141272423064339192011-10-26T07:37:00.002+01:002011-10-26T07:38:03.662+01:00

There are some things on my rental list where I'm really not all that sure why they're there.Black Swan was one of those things.  I mean, I'd heard good things about it, but I can't say that the thought of watching a film about Ballet was really very high up on my list of things I want to do.I can't really be doing with Ballet.Well, to be totally honest I can't really doing with dance.Oh, I've no

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-12679875514556560192011-10-25T08:37:00.002+01:002011-10-25T08:38:22.300+01:00

With the lack of posting I naturally also got a bit behind with posting reviews of stuff.It's actually a short week for me as I'm off on holiday Friday (thank god) so I thought I'd post reviews today and tomorrow before wrapping the week up.So a few weeks back I watched source code.I actually quite enjoyed it, but I'll actually start at the end, if you see what I mean.No, I don't either - what I

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So last week I posted only two blog posts, because things were so manic at work I just wasn't getting the time to write blog posts.I mean, I could theoretically have written them in the evening, but to be frank, I was so tired in the evenings I could do little other than watch a bit of telly and then go to bed.So what was I so busy doing?Well, I'd need to explain quite a bit about how my company

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In this small chunk today I appear to have hit a slight lull in work.I've basically managed to finish what I needed to do slightly early and it's taking slightly longer for someone else to finish what I will next have to work on.  As such, I though I'd do a quick blog post so the blog isn't totally empty all week.Well, I should definitely be able to post Friday and I hope Thursday we're finished,

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-20346730396768095082011-10-17T17:31:00.004+01:002011-10-17T17:31:41.983+01:00

Unfortunately no blog post today as I've been incredibly busy at work just recently - so busy, in fact, that I've used up all the pre-written posts I put together and haven't had a chance to generate any more. I've a fair few things to talk about, just not the time to write the posts.

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It's the Korean Grand Prix this weekend.As I mentioned last week I have absolutely no idea whether it's a good one or not.  In fact, I don't actually have any memories of it at all.Well, I say that.  I'm pretty convinced it was only held for the first time last year and that it was the one where it was delayed because of the weather, Webber spun out because it was so wet  and it ended up

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I seem to have developed rather a lot of nose hair.I've always had a fair bit of nose hair, but it used to be that you'd have to be really looking up my nose to see it.  I mean, since puberty I've been very hairy, but in the last year or so my nose hair seems to have exploded out of my nose so that loads of hairs are poking out and are visible just from looking at me.Now obviously I could leave

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the core is probably one of the biggest misfires I've seen in a long time.It somehow manages to tread a fine line between believable science and science fiction... sorry, I should say, it manages to blunder around, stomping on the line between science and science fiction, making a general mess of everything.The biggest crime it commits is the complete bogusness of the science it tramples over.So

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When I was quite a lot younger I used to get tonsilloliths.I didn’t know I used to get tonsilloliths, because I didn’t know what tonsilloliths were and I didn’t know they were a proper thing.Basically, tonsilloliths are a sort of lumpy accretion that can build up in your tonsils.  They don’t tend to be that deep and kinda poke out of the duct.  Indeed, they can often ‘grow’ out of the tonsils an

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I have no idea what I mean by that as a title.But then to be honest, I'm struggling to know quite what I mean by anything today, as I got no sleep on Saturday night.Well, I've a sneaking suspicion I got about an hour at 4:30AM.  But certainly from 11:00PM on Saturday night I was doing stuff right through until about 4:00AM on Sunday morning.I don't really know why I didn't get any sleep.  I

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So this weekend it's the Japanese Grand Prix from the famous Suzuka track.Suzuka is one of the classic tracks, like Spa and Silverstone, and it usually produces some good races.  There are a couple of spots that have always been good for overtaking and hopefully the new rules will mean it's another cracker.  I'm certainly looking forward to it.Unlike Singapore, the Japanese race is held at normal

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I thought today I'd try to do some musing on telly stuff, as it's been a while since I've done that.I finished the most recent series of Torchwood.  It was quite good, but it wasn't as dark as the Children one.  I liked it, but it did end with quite a lot of questions unanswered.Now some of those were good in that I think they were intended to set up future series, but the main thing, which was

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There's quite a clever trick in the Talented Mr Ripley where you are essentially made to empathise with a killer.Well, I say empathise.  It's more like you feel on his side.  Well, ish.  It's more like you feel a conflict as to whether he should get away with it or be caught.  However, that's more in the beginning.  Towards the end it's more difficult to feel the same as he does more and more

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I gave google chrome a go the other week.It has some nice touches.  The integration with other google features is quite nice, the back-end interface is quite nice and it seems quite quick.  I also got it because recent versions of Firefox seems to have some real memory leakage problems.When I use Firefox to view crunchyroll or even do stuff on animepaper like download a bunch of scans, it doesn't

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I've been having some serious financial issues just recently.There are a number of causes.The primary one is my spend-thrift ways (you don't acquire hundreds of unwatched DVDs and unread books without spending a hell of a lot of money), but extra pressure has recently been building due to the rise in the cost of living.In particular, Petrol now costs an absolute fortune.  I easily spend more than

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I've been pre-writting most of my entries for the last few weeks.I've mentioned this before on here - it's basically where I try to pre-write a bunch of posts at the weekend so that they're ready to just slap on the blog when the days roll around.  The big advantage of this is that, if the week is very busy, I don't end up missing days simply because I didn't have the time to write an entry.The

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I mentioned last week I would take some pics of my shelves, so I thought I'd present those today.There are actually two shelves.First is the one on the right. A: Ink CartridgesB: Some of my important documents.C: Stack of important (and non-important, to be frank) documents that I haven't sorted out yet (though I'll need to go through them soon as I need to find something).  Plus this

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Luc Besson is a director/writer I have a bit of a mixed reaction too.He's made some stuff I've really liked - Nikita, Fifth Element, The first Transporter - and other stuff, like the Transporter sequels, I've really struggled with.  Taxi is probably a perfect example of the later.There's a lot to like in the film - some interesting characters, some really great car chases, some nice funny stuff -

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I ate loads of crap last week and so got on the scales expecting a gain, but found I'd lost a pound.I really found it all very confusing.  The only theory I've got is that all the work I've been doing has really been sucking the energy out of me and also I had real trouble sleeping on Thursday night.It was actually one of the weirdest bouts of insomnia I've ever had, in that I didn't actually

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Sebastian Vettel very nearly took the championship this weekend.Well, let's be frank - he has the championship, but there's a mathematical chance that Button could win it.  However, it's so slim a chance that it's negligible - Button would have to win every single race from here on out (a couple of the circuits - Japan definitely - suit the Red Bull car down to the ground) and Vettel would have

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Singapore Grand Prix this weekend.I’m guessing it will also be he weekend when Sebastian Vettel gets his hands on the championship.It will also likely be another very big challenge for the new rules as Singapore is a dire race usually.  Like Valencia and Monaco it’s on a tight street circuit and therefore ends to produce dull races.  Unlike Monaco, Valencia was still dull and I would guess

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I mentioned a bit ago that I needed to get some dental treatment.Usually on Thursday I’d talk about my weight, but it was pretty rubbish again this week.  I lost a pound (which I didn’t understand as I ate crap but then I thought about how much work and little sleep I’d had, so maybe it makes sense) and walking was average, so instead I want to talk about my dental work.I had the last one the

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Coraline is based on a book by Neil Gaiman.I have to confess I’m not hugely familiar with Gaiman’s work.  I probably should be, but I dunno, I’ve never really had any exposure to his writing.  I also understand that the book is quite different to the film.The film uses stop motion animation, which is something that I don’t gets enough exposure nowadays.  I think one of the main problems is that

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Yesterday I ended with a mention that I was selling a bunch of stuff on e-bay.One thing this did throw into sharp relief was that I’d started slipping with my anime watching.  Part of this was because there’s been a load of stuff I’ve wanted to watch on TV, but another big part is of course that I’ve had so much work to do.  I’d actually thought I may need to come in this last weekend, but in the

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Last Friday I briefly mentioned what I would get up to on Saturday morning.Well, actually I mainly talked about how it had been a hell of a week.  Friday was by far and away the worst day.  I actually did what was basically a 12 hour day at work, and that was before having to go shopping and do a bunch of other bits so that the weekend would be easier.I ended up basically passing out at about 10:

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The weekend is rapidly approaching, and boy do I need it.It's been a tough week at work, not least of all because several people seem to have gone on holiday at the same time.  That's meant that I've had to pick up a lot of stuff from them on top of my regular stuff.There have been several things that have therefore gone un-loved if I'm honest.  And if I hadn't managed to clear off some of my own

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I rearranged my DVDs and books. Again... again.I liked the idea of my plan when I rearranged them last time, but the results were a bit of a mess.  The big problem was that I mixed stuff up and tried to put books, anime and normal DVDs all together.Trouble was the ‘slots’ on the shelf weren’t the right size and so what I ended up with was more like a jumble of stuff where I was trying for a more

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John Carpenter's The Thing was the first Blu Ray I bought.It was also the first Blu Ray I watched.  Or at least, the first Blu Ray I tried to watch.  I then discovered that there's actually no Blu Ray player software built into windows, so I had to install Power DVD.I then discovered that there appears to be some protection that appears to prevent you from playing Blu Rays via a DVI cable.  I

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Got a bit of a soaking again this last Sunday on my walk.I went a bit earlier than I usually do, as I’d checked the forecast and it suggested the rain would come at about lunchtime.  In the end it was quite sunny across lunch.  I think the forecasts were struggling a bit this last weekend because apparently the leftovers of a hurricane were drifting over us.I didn’t get too wet, as it was more

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It was the Italian Grand Prix this last weekend.It’s held at the Monza circuit, which is almost flat out - the track is mostly long straights with only a handful of corners.  They’ve actually added a few chicanes over the years to try to slow things down, but even with them it still only takes about an hour and 20 minutes to run.When you think that some f the tracks (Singapore in particular) they

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I mentioned a while back that I’d gotten myself BT broadband. Well, unfortunately I recently had to boost my package to the unlimited downloads one.  This is quite a lot more expensive (the broadband bit of the package basically doubles), but there was no way I was going to be able to keep within the bandwidth limit, and they charge you a huge amount for each gb you go over. There are two basic

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They appear to have tweaked the layout and structure of blogger.Generally speaking I often find myself having quite conservative reactions to changes like this.  I try to be open minded, but it’s difficult sometimes, especially if you’re talking about something that works perfectly well (or suits your needs perfectly).  Change for change’s sake is rubbish - if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.Of

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I kinda new what signs was about before I watched it.In fact, actually, you can pretty much tell what signs is about from the title and the box / poster art.  However, being an M Night Shyamalan film, I was also expecting some sort of twist.  Or, more specifically, I knew the film was about aliens, but I was expecting some sort of twist on that.And while there was a twist, it wasn't really

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My new regimen seems to be working okay.  Well, ish.An unfortunate downside seems to be that the Sunday after the cleaning weekend I end up shattered.  It’s difficult to say for sure that it’s entirely down to the new regimen, but it seems very likely.The problem with being sure is I’ve not been doing it very long and of course this last weekend I was coming off the back of a very tiring week (

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I got an absolute soaking on yesterday afternoon’s walk.I’d checked the forecast the day before, so I kinda new rain was forecast.  In fact, to be honest, I was actually hoping for a bit of rain.My afternoon walk on Saturday had been rather sticky.  It was surprisingly warm for the time of year (are we going to have an Indian summer, I wonder?) and I’d thought a little sprinkling of rain might

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So obviously there was no bloggage post yesterday. Hopefully the reasons are pretty obvious.  Having had very little sleep on the Tuesday night, Wednesday was a bit of a right off, so stuff got pushed forward to Thursday.  I also had two meetings on Thursday, so they sucked up loads of time too. And of course I was still pretty tired on Thursday, so I pretty much went straight to bed when I got

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Horrible night last night, as I think I got about an hour's sleep. The worst aspect of it was that I don't really know why. My best guess is that it was a combination of factors; these being eating too much, not doing any exercise, spending all day driving and a meeting. Basically, I had a meeting all the way down in Dorchester, which meant I spent around 5 hours on the road yesterday. It was

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Does that make six u's or three w's? Anyway, my entire bank holiday weekend can be summed up as Watching, Walking and... er... Scanning... Widiculous amounts of scanning? Er, yeah, no, it doesn't really work. But it's still true. On Saturday and Sunday I essentially spent all my time watching stuff. It was the Belgium Grand Prix, so that involved loads of hours of watching practice,

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So F1 Grand Prix is back. The first race post-summer break is the famous Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, which is always a cracker. My dad and sister have actually been to the race. When they went it was bitterly cold and very wet and they were sat on top of the famous big hill, so it was a bit of a miserable experience, though they naturally enjoyed the actual racing. They tell me that

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Obviously one of the things I didn't manage to cover last week was the old diet. It's not gone particularly brilliantly, mainly as I continue to not stick to my diet properly. If I wasn't exercising I think I'd probably gain weight, but since I am, I've broadly been staying constant when I've had a bad week. That basically covers what I should have posted last week. This week it went better

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Really, 127 hours has a very simple plot. I don't think I'm spoilering it if I say it's about a guy who gets his arm stuck in a weird accident and spends 127 hours trapped. I also don't think it's a spoiler to say how he eventually got out, but I won't in case you don't know. Given that very simple plot, how would you go about making a film of it? You've got to portray the fact that he's

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Thought I'd do a broad update on the animu situation. I've actually been watching loads recently, and most of it has been DVDs. I could probably have watched more, but not a lot more. And to be fair, it has been part of the reason I've not done so much scanning or some other bits - there are only a finite number of hours in the week, after all. One thing I did try to do was re-arrange my

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Last week was bonkers. It actually started the week before, and I ended up working most of the Saturday, just in order to get everything done in time. See, during last week I had several meetings that meant I effectively 'lost' one and a half days. Also, quite a lot of the stuff I do is rather time critical, so I often end up in situations where three different things are all due on the same

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was out at meeting all day yesterday, but here's another review I had 'stacked up'. When I do these reviews I often like to take a look at see what the critical reaction was. I don't do that in order to parrot back a similar view, it's more to see if people also enjoyed/disliked it or if my views are different. But I also like to look up some of the history/background, partly so I sound more

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You know, I have to say I found Burke and Hare more than a little disappointing. It's difficult to really pin it down to one single thing, but if I was forced to do so it would be that it just wasn't funny enough. Comedy, of course, is a very subjective thing, but generally I like black comedy's, which this is - it could hardly be anything else, given its subject matter of two people murdering

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all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it seems as though they're here to stay. I didn't post yesterday mainly through forgetting, but it was forgetting that was almost entirely due to the fact I've been really busy with work. I actually came in on Saturday and was here for the best part of 4 hours. It was pretty much unavoidable, but not very much fun. To be frank, I'm also not really

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No change in my weight last week. This was a little disappointing, but then I'd forgotten I was expecting to go out for a meal, so that was a load of calories I wasn't otherwise compensating for, but also I... well, I was going to say cocked up, but that's not the right phrase. I did actually make the error I made deliberately, it's just I didn't think it was an error at the time. Basically, I

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The other week I mentioned about how F1 is on its summer break. A particular hope I had is/was that I would be able to use this increase in spare time to get a bit of scanning done. As an added 'bonus' I actually dropped a couple of TV shows that hadn't really turned out to be as interesting as I'd hoped. These were "The Hour" which I'd thought was going to be about the founding of a TV show

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-33077242543475096542011-08-10T08:18:00.000+01:002011-08-10T08:19:05.169+01:00

I have to confess I know next to nothing about the Green Hornet. I've seen Dragon - the Bruce Lee story, so I know there was a TV series and that Lee played Kato, the martial artist that kicked bad guy ass, but apart from that, nothing. Oh, and it was obviously set in the 60s. I'm also vaguely aware of Seth Rogan as a comedy actor. He was in the somewhat underrated Zac and Miri Make a Porno,

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I thought about including this in the smaller posts, but I think I need to explain in more depths. Basically, last week I made a decision to start washing my own clothes. One of the big problems of my flat is, due to the size, I don't have a washing machine. Even if I did have a washing machine, I don't have any space to hang wet clothes up and a tumble dryer would be even less practical than

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Thought I'd continue the smaller thoughts from last Friday.Phone HackingThe big news while we were away at Silverstone was the shit really hitting the fan at the News of the World over phone hacking. It's something that's been bubbling away for months, with several papers - the guardian and evening standard are the ones I know of - really rootling around trying to expose practices at several of

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Turns out if you want Sky Sports 1 and/or 2 via BT Vision (their TV thing) you have to pay an additional subscription, so there goes that idea :(.Anyway, this last few weeks I've really been struggling to cover all the stuff I wanted too in the blog. This is something of a turn-around from the usual situation, where I'm struggling to find enough to talk about for all five days.I therefore

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Turns out if you want Sky Sports 1 and/or 2 via BT Vision (their TV thing) you have to pay an additional subscription, so there goes that idea :(.Anyway, this last few weeks I've really been struggling to cover all the stuff I wanted too in the blog. This is something of a turn-around from the usual situation, where I'm struggling to find enough to talk about for all five days.I therefore

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-85321473566019381912011-08-04T08:26:00.000+01:002011-08-04T08:35:20.354+01:00

So it's been a while since I did an update about my weight and related issues.Last I mentioned I'd been on holiday for the Grand Prix and subsequently put on a little bit of weight, although I was pleased it wasn't a huge amount.Last week there was no change in my weight - it stayed at exactly 19 stone 6 pounds, and I do mean exactly - both weeks the scales said 6.0 pounds exactly.I kinda

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Well this wasn't quite what I was expecting.I have to say I wasn't expecting much. I knew it was a war film and I knew it was an old war film (as in a film set in an old war, rather than being black and white or something), but if I'm totally honest I wasn't entirely sure if it was WW2 or the Korean War. Certainly the imagery suggested that sort of time period, rather than, say, Vietnam.What I

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So from next year, the BBC will not be showing all of the F1 Grand Prixs live - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9550930.stmAs with all sport, I'm sure there are some who are pleased there's going to be less of it on TV, but obviously this is my sport, so I'm bitterly disappointed. It is not a complete disappointment. As I understand it, the BBC will show half the races

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I'm gonna do a proper post tomorrow about the announcement over the coverage; today I thought I'd talk about the Hungarian Grand Prix.Generally speaking, the Hungarian Grand Prix is boring. The problem is a real lack of any overtaking - generally it's won from the front as overtaking is really difficult.I'm putting that as a kind of excuse, because I didn't really watch the Grand Prix properly.

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-42656574481219708942011-07-29T09:42:00.002+01:002011-07-29T09:47:30.717+01:00

So, race day at last. I appreciate this is some serious overkill, but I don't get to go to an actual Grand Prix every year so you'll forgive me posting multiple things about it.I've also actually not got much to say about race day itself. We basically headed straight down to our assigned seating in Stowe and stayed there all day. There was less in the way of on track action, with the final

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Saturday started off with another early rise and the coach in to the circuit. We actually went with a tour company, as it just makes everything so much easier.The weather on Saturday was better described as "sunshine with occasional showers", where it had been "showers with occasional sunshine" on Friday. This made things more pleasant, but unfortunately for Practice 3 it was again wet, so the

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-26615125277620460712011-07-27T08:51:00.002+01:002011-07-27T09:08:52.010+01:00

After first practice, we met up with my sister and her friends.They were camping, where me and my dad were staying in a hotel. I know that sounds 'unfair' but there's a bunch of things that are a bit private that explain why that was the case.Anyway, having met up with them we set out to get our fanvision. These used to be known as Kangaroo TV (the devices themselves still had Kangaroo on them)

trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-23236939524777165342011-07-26T08:40:00.003+01:002011-07-26T08:56:24.179+01:00

My week off started on the Thursday, when I drove down to my Dad's in Devon. This was essentially going the opposite way to the Silverstone circuit to some degree, but the idea was that me and my Dad would go up in the one car and share the driving. The easiest thing to do was therefore for me to drive to him and then we could go up from there.I obviously packed in the morning. Naturally I

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