Things I Mean to Say

on a computor that I am not sat at is a long list of subjects for Weblog entries. For a vairety of reasons they have as yet not made it to the view of the world. And of course, it may be feared that they may not. This si something of an inconvenience, although it does give some sort of insight into the way that my mind works. At least when it comes to Motivation.

I am currently typing this whilst sitting in a room in the Student Union at Imperial College. Which is nice. This is because I want to see a play. I dont know how this is going to pan out when i now want to see a series of plays in the next few weeks. I have a funny feeling I might start using up that Anual Holiday I have kicking around. Though I kind of have plans with that. Maybe.

This really isnt going anywhere is it? Losing the plot? Maybe. Maybe not. Time, as ever, will tell.

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I have been getting around

I bought a T-shirt, and suddenly I seem to officially be part of medics drama and their production of Alice in wonderland.

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I have been getting around

I bought a T-shirt, and suddenly I seem to officially be part of medics drama and their production of Aklice in wonderland.

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The Roving Reporter

I have been inlondon for these past few days, more on this story later, or rather these stories, as it comprises a play, some elections, and other bits and pieces.

But dont fear. I intend to post something in the not too distant future….

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Status : Updates

I have fixed the picture issues that I had previously been having. Frankly MicroSh@ft IE sucks. Mozilla is a standards complient browser which i quite like.

Brothers Antics

I have been updating the IdleOne website. So you can now make comments about the weblog posts on there, like you can comment about my posts. I have not yet given him a guestbook, in time it will be just like my guestbook which noone seems to be signing <snif!>

Little bro, and others from a certain dark organisation are trying to point out to someone their views on a certain item known as the MasterShite. I look forward to seeing how it goes.

Funny Strings

Meanwhile, my reports on my website traffic is giving some bizzare statistics. according to there, recent searches have been the following.

Now that second result…. Well, its better than what the FoggyLog has been attracting

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Spring is, Well, Springing

Its not quite spring really, and the weather is not terribly good of late (with bright sunshine, and then heavy downpours ad infinitum) but I have started to grow stuff so I get the garden I want

I am aided in this by a big plastic tent. in my conservatory, which is helpting me protect the plants from frost. In time I expect it will go off outside, and I will grow pepers out there.

My conservatory is not going to freeze however this is not all that is needed to get seeds started. they usually need a little warmth, and for this I have an electric propogator bought from Focus (‘cept their website is crap) which by putting it on the covered shelving will keep the temperature in there a little warmer. As you can see in this photo on the right, there are some plants just growing now!

My only problem is going to be how to look after the plants whilst I am away for a bit… Hopefully they will not really need pricking out into their next pots or trays until I am back :-s

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If At First You Don’t Suceed…

Well done to powergen for their phone system. Well, when it does the ringback thing it is quite usefull….

Whilst the company formerly known as British Gas have managed to now get my name in, I am still trying to sort out the mess that is PowerGen. I think they have the direct debit instructions right now, so its not the standing order variety, but actually takes the right amount…. however, what is the right amount?

I dont know what they think i am doing. Their estimates for energy useage are alarmingly high. they figure I use about threetimes as much as I actually do during the day, and then for the economy 7 rate make that this is the same amount (by their calculations) which is more like 8 times the right amount….

This would be in theory easy to fix. but, you see, they have screwed up even worse. As they entered my starting figure wrongly in the very beginning. So their system will not accept the current meter readings, as their start figure is somewhat more than my current position. I guess it will be annother phone call in a few days time to see how they are doing….

Offers.

So I am on the verge of changing supplier. However its not going to be so easy as claiming I will save money. It strikes me as odd that they always ask you much you spend currently or just blindly promise they will be cheaper. So. Here is my idea, if any electricity firm wants to quote me a better price than I currently get then I might just be persuaded by the economics. Your price will of course be broken down into its comonent parts, so I will need to know the standing charge (if any) and the prices per Kilo Watt hour. Oh, and the breakdown of the charging tiers (i.e. first X kW are tier one, next Y are tier 2, rest is Z i need to know X, Y and Z. And of course the time period)

The cynic in me suspects this is too much to ask….

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Keeping up to date

All I wanted to do was send one funny email to some friends. And now I recieve the bounces, as I have sent emails to out of date addresses. Ho Hum. Better go prune my address book I suppose.

I suppose most of my email addresses in my address books are now of no use. For everyone i know i probably have at least 2 addresses. Certainly anyone i have known for the last 4 years. And then there are all the addresses from people that I may have only sent one email to about some union related thing.

There is something like 500 addresses in my address book. though some may be duplicates (as I have pulled address books over from windows based mozilla and outlook). I doubt it will be anything like that when i finish!

Of course if Imperial had not decided to change its domain name…..

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We should all recycle more…

… but an article today on BBC News Online on better ways to save the environment does point out that recycling helps, but it seems to be people’s life styles whihc are having a bigger effect on the environment as a whole…

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