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Monthly Archives: July 2005

Upcoming Kiwi music

Friday, July 15, 2005

I’m some three months behind the news, but it seems that my current favourite Kiwi band, TrinityRoots, is no more. Damn shame, their albums are great (especially the first, True) but the live show was something else. Check it out, I recommend Egos in its True incarnation (track 14 on their streaming player), for the [...]

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Miracle! (well, a minor one)

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Clive Thompson’s blog collision detection put me onto the extremely addictive little flash game Chaos Theory. It’s pretty cool, but not in itself worth re-blogging. But Clive (whose blog is a great collection of weird research, as well as simple-but-addictive time-wasters) also mentioned that the highest score he had achieved was 121. (The game gives [...]

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More robot madness

Sunday, July 10, 2005

A robotic talent show! What could be cooler! Some of this stuff looks really fun… Headsup from Erik.

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New dimensions in scamming?

Saturday, July 9, 2005

I’m not sure quite where I’m going with this yet, so bear with me; the tale will I hope grow in the telling. I’ve been struck over the last couple of days by a scam phenomenon that’s at least new to me, and that seems likely to me to get more and more prevalent. (It’s [...]

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Ik ben verhuisd

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Finally, I’m into the new place. There have been a few hitches along the way, mainly involving keys (first the bloke who was supposed to give them to me left for Spain, then a new set was duplicated and sent through the post… and are presumably still somewhere in the post…). But I’m in now, [...]

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Declare

Monday, July 4, 2005

(Update: this review was originally titled “Cosmic Horrer in Tim Powers’ Declare“. Unfortunately I was playing clever-dicky with my then brand-spanking-new blog, and hard-coded the requirement that titles of reviews are the book title, and nothing else. Eventually I’ll get around to changing this (really really stupid) system, but until then, the review gets a [...]

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Antisocial, but great with the one-liners

Monday, July 4, 2005

We’ve had some problems recently with an antisocial flatmate. I’m working at counteracting my naturally aggressive response to his behaviour by trying to see the funny side. And actually, there have been some mildly hilarious moments.

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