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28th September 2003
Got up at a ridiculously early time, and got myself ready to go. Borrowed Raveens bike and cycled up to Jo's house again. Actually met him this time (he was asleep yesterday, so if I would have knocked harder I would have probably woken him) and talked for a bit before heading back into town again. Met Sid & Raveen to go to Wagamama (original, I know) but it was closed. Bummer, I was hungry. The 4 of us walked over to the Rose & Crown for a lovely wholesome brunch before I had to get back to London.
Track of the day: Skin - Lost
27th September 2003
Went to Nottingham today, I missed my friends. I got into town by sometime in the afternoon and tried to find Jo's house. I kinda managed to find the building he lives in (its a massive place with a zillion rooms and corridors which look the same, and doors with no labels), but I didn't know what room he was in, he didn't know I was coming, and he has no kind of telephone (erm, *hint*). Anyway, I found a lovely couple from New Zealand who lived in this maze of a building who kindly helped me on my mission to find him. The cryptic clues Jon gave on the phone about kitchens, washing up liquid and pasta just made it more and more like playing a level of Zelda on the Nintendo. After a really long time of the 3 of us walking about in circles and knocking on random peoples doors we narrowed it down to one room that he could be in - but he wasn't there. I left a note and had to get out of the labrynth.
I walked through the Goose Fair listening to the new Skin album that I bought as I left the train station while the sun was setting, and everything was beautiful. Turned left after the park and down the road back into town I met up with Craig the Bing. We sat in his living room for a bit, watched Simpsons, ordered pizza and chilled out in true style until he had to go to work, and we both walked back to Market Square.
I walked all the way back to Lenton and was having a great time listening to my new album on my cd player. It was real good to be back at 'home' with Sid, Raveen and Kavita. I got a call from Ruth.
Walked (wish I had my bike) over to Beeston to meet lovely Ruth who I haven't seen in aaaages (he was in the US last year). Back at her house, watched the end of some soppy random girl movie with Laura, Helen, Michelle and Hannah too. Talked for a while before walking back late to collapse knackered on the spare bed.
Track of the day: Skin - Faithfulness
22nd September 2003
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Track of the day: Lamb - Gorechi
21st September 2003
Went to Bournemouth and Poole today, met up with Jon, Markus and Ben. It was cool, we drove about, did some on-the-fly sightseeing, had lunch and messed about. It was fun :)
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Track of the day: Incubus - A Certain Shade of Green
20th September 2003
Track of the day: Sublime - What I Got
18th September 2003
New ADSL modems (X-Modems from adslnation) arrived today. They work well. Anyway, I met Sid in London and messed about, walking around in Regents Park waiting for Jon. We ended up in Trafalgar Square, met Jon, ate Pizza and went to the National Gallery. It was awesome seeing original Monet, da Vinci and Van Gogh.
Track of the day: Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
16th September 2003
I thought the fan in my laptop was busted today. It sounded like a crazed turbine that was about to explode. Well, it was out of warranty and I wanted to watch the rest of Resident Evil on DivX, so I guess I should fix it. The bottom screws hold the heyboard and palmrest in place, which then lift off after carefully unplugging the ribbon cables that hook it all to the motherboard. After a lot of jiggling and prising, the side port covers come off as they are held on by annoying little clips. Then the covers for the hinges can be carefully unclipped using a small screwdriver and the large cover incorporating the power button unscrewed. More cable unclipping for the speakers and power button, and this lifts off leaving it very naked. Then three screws on the northbridge heatsink are off to get at the fan at the very bottom of the laptop. It turns out that the fan was not worn or broken, there was just an annoying black piece of fibre stuck in there and had tied itself to the spindle. Grr. Found some tweezers, hoovered the heatsink a bit to get rid of a little dust, and put everything back just as it was. Great, it wasn't too hard, took < 10mins. Its now much quieter and cooler than before :) Oh, btw, Resident Evil is a kick ass movie!
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Track of the day: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
13th September 2003
I'm a generally unfuckwitted, liberal, disgustingly generous, pathetically simple-minded, dribbling child!.
Track of the day: Feeder - Summers Gone
12th September 2003
Was at my dads shop today, messing about with the 'Dabsvalue Conexant ADSL Router' (PTI CAE-CE81) trying to get it to work in PPP Half-Bridge mode with OpenBSD. But it wasn't having any of it and was being a horrible flaky piece of poo. I thought I might update the firmware so I downloaded it, and clicked 'Network Code Image Update' which then proceeded to download new firmware all by itself. OK, that'll do, I thought. Then it rebooted and I couldn't get into the web admin page because the password had magically changed to something that was unknown and not the default. That was until it stopped working altogether and couldn't even be reset. I hate crappy hardware.
Track of the day: Black Eyed Peas - Lets Get Retarded
10th September 2003
Went to Total Jobs Live 2003 (its a job fair) in the Business Design Centre, Islington. It wasn't quite as big as I expected it to be, and the few companies that I was interested in did not want any IT staff. Hmm. The IT recruitment agency that was there said they were not interested in graduates at this stage as there are many people with experience looking for the same jobs as I am. It wasn't very helpful and after wandering about talking to a few companies and listening to people telling me that there are very few opportunities for about half an hour I left. I don't believe them anyway. Just as I was leaving a guy wearing a smart blue shirt and tie drives out of the underground carpark. He steers his gunmetal Elise S2 111S in Race Tech trim with red alcantra out to the road and it glides along, not making any noise at low speed. He stops a the lights and people cross, a cute little kid in his school uniform with his lunchbox in his hand pulls on the back of his mums trousers, "Mummy, mummy, look... Lotus!". One day.
Went into a record store and bought 'Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk' and put it into my portable cd player. Its a really really great album, and put a big smile on my face with its phat lines, catchy tunes and quality lyrics. Then wondering what to do. I walked about for quite a while, through a park and was generally chilling out. After about a couple of hours or so, I found the Tate Modern. I'm sure a lot of people scoff at modern art and just don't get it, and there are loads of pieces that I don't understand either, but I had a really good time there. There are loads of really strange wacky and odd things to see! There were silly videos, crazy paintings (and of course Dali too), and some pretty amazing sculptures. Notable things that made me smile was a video of a strange man wearing a clown suit jumping up and down, and then another video of the same guy in a different coloured clown suit jumping up and down, but the video is rotated 180 degrees and placed under the other one. Its crazy, its quite good fun to watch for a short while, but I laugh at people who take it so seriously. "Yes, this piece shows the inbalance in our modern society and the contradictory twist we take in our perception of comedy and pain"... Whatever! There were some interesting 'paintings' which were just canvases in a fetching blue colour. It really makes me wonder what goes through an artists mind when they create such a "masterpiece". There was Paul McCarthy's massive inflated sculptures outside the gallery, Blockhead, a Pinocchio with a huge block for a head was quite awesome. The Tate Modern is great, and I'm sure to go again next time I'm near.
Track of the day: Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up
5th September 2003
Woo Yay, I finally got around to finishing writing up my log of when I was away in Malaysia and Thailand. I had such a good time :) It starts at the top of this page.
Track of the day: Toploader - Achillies Heel
3rd September 2003
Track of the day: Macy Gray - She Didn't Write Songs About You
