Archives for March, 2005
did someone say something about silence being golden?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
boingboing reports that in order to keep the local licensing bodies happy at Glastonbury, late night ‘raves’ will take place by wireless headphone.
whether the weather
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
just thought i’d say, the weather today is amazing.
that was a very British thing to say. and on that note, rising slowly is a weather blog.
how lazy/posh are you?
Saturday, March 19th, 2005
On my way to urgently find a potato from an independent food retailer this evening, i took a detour down Montpelier Villas. With the heat as it was in the early evening, and the palm-like trees which line this street (a designated nature reserve), I could have been in the mediterranean.
But what’s this? Near [...]
how do you take yours?
Saturday, March 19th, 2005
In the United Kingdom, adding the milk first is historically considered a lower-class method of preparing tea – the upper classes always add the milk last. The origin of this distinction is said to be that the rougher earthenware mugs of the working class would break if boiling-hot tea was added directly to them, whereas [...]
wait
Thursday, March 17th, 2005
waiting for Matlab to spit out the results of training backprop nets is the new watching paint dry.
smooth criminal
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
last night was a late session in the lab, i caught the last train home at 00:15.
after a quick stop at budgens to find something to eat (luckily, covent garden carrot and coriander soup was on special offer), i headed back to my flat, only to be stopped 1 street away by 2 policemen, [...]
waking troubles?
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
i so need a clocky.
dvd destruction
Sunday, March 13th, 2005
my flatmate purchased a DVD from amazon, that’s amazon for real, not amazon 2nd hand.
when it arrived, it was badged ‘WH Smiths’. odd.
upon trying to open it, it appeared to be locked by the badge. I suggested it would have been sold to them by a distributor and returned under a distribution agreement, [...]
get a move on
Saturday, March 12th, 2005
a late night in the lab means i only just got home. barely a car on the road, so an easy ride home.
or so you’d think.
instead, i found myself waiting at traffic lights at a B road, joining an A road. these lights changed, allowing the drivers on the A road to continue [...]
pictures pictures
Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Now I have my bluetooth dongle, I am able to extract photos from my camera phone.
Despite the annoying noise it makes when I take a photo, the quality of the camera is surprisingly good. 2 new galleries:
a few pictures from Athens
outstanding pictures of Brighton in the snow from the last few weeks