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A Day in the Life

Eleven hours in the labs and we’re not even in the last fornight :\
I made my Last.fm charts program available for anybody to use and it’s had a positive response, hurrah, though people are far too reluctant to give feedback. It’s good to know there’s others out there who like to investigate every inch [...]

February 5th

Tape Loop, keeps on turning round, forever.
Hey, I reappeared, with everything intact.
Life went by, I spent a silly amount of time in Appleton Tower’s labs, and my musical life became electronica oriented – Amon Tobin, Venetian Snares, Pitch Black. I discovered the Amen Break and its extraordinary implications for the music we know. [...]

This Year

I’ve found a girl, lost a great friend, travelled something over 4,500 miles by train and realised that when I was small ‘2007′ was far away enough to be totally unimaginable; by then inventions on Tomorrow’s World would be around. I spent silly days in Korcula pulling faces and failing to guess ‘keys’ in a [...]

A Few Things

Third year 0_o. I’ve chosen Operating Systems, Computer Design, an Introduction to Vision & Robots, Logic Programming, Agent Based Systems, Security and Language Semantics and Implementation (the best of a bad bunch, no way I’m doing ADS eh), along with a course in professional issues, an individual practical and a group project. We [...]

Five Fireworks

Taken on 02/09, from Waverley Bridge. They had a soundtrack and everything, pretty cool. Bigger versions here.

Could do with a sixth eh

Mexican Standoff

Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]

Horses and KFC and Menstrual Cups

Edinburgh Uni hosts an i love kfc and horses also mailing list. I’ve been looking for this for years.
And: Why is GMail recommending me menstrual cups?