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Hi Blog, it's been a while.

Cambridge without students, I can handle. Cambridge without tourists, I can (definitely) handle. Cambridge without either set of people is REALLY weird. Anyway, I digress. So yeah, um, busy Christmas. I’ve not blogged for a while because I’ve actually been fairly productive over the vacation, doing a whole bunch of academic and non-academic Things That [...]

Yay for PINE

Having returned home to Devon earlier today, the logical thing to do tonight was, of course, stay up late watching movies (Napoleon Dynamite, Independence Day) on Film4 with beer and crisps, then stay up later hacking my Linux-based laptop onto our home wifi. That done, the laptop was due a rather large number of updates, [...]

Notes on gOS

I got around to downloading the ISO of gOS the other day, and had a look. It started up AOK, and reasonably quickly for a liveCD (especially given I’m still running on just 512kB 512MB RAM), which is reassuring given that it’s basically just Ubuntu under the hood. I wasn’t massively enamoured of the look-n-feel, [...]

Go by coach?

*Struggles to think where he was and what he was up to when he last blogged* A lot’s gone on recently. I’m now based back in Devon, until around the end of September when the call of Part II Psychology will get too strong for me to resist. I arrived home the Friday before last, [...]

I can't believe I've seen *another* film

That brings my count this summer up to, what, four in as many weeks? Which is a lot for me…