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The latest addition to my life. One Cat. Well, not mine, Vicki’s
really, but she is living with us now.

I have never had a cat or a dog before. My experience has only
been owning one rabbit, and its quite a difference actually having a
pet wandering around the house, climbing into the spare room wardrobe,
and generally letting us know she thinks she owns the place. Madeline
is quite well behaved though, generally assaulting only the scratching
posts. Its just her urge to eat that can get annoying, any rustling in
the kitchen results in a cat around your legs in the hope that the
food in the packet is for her, not us.

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Phone Rings.

Scrabble around for phone. get it. answer it…

" Is that Yaxley dental surgery?"

" Er… No…."

" Oh, I must have a wrong number. sorry. Bye."

I try to go back to sleep at 6:03am

GRRRRRRRRR…..

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I spentthe weekend before last in Brentwood, Essex. More accuratly though, I spent it in a wooded area surrounded by houses, also known as Thriftwood.

We do quite a lot of camping, and nights away. this was my 12th night away with the troop I think. I also spent one night under canvas in the last 12 months on a training course….

It was only a one night camp, so an early start on the Saturday was required. This led to a rather subdued coach on the way there. Which was nice! Once we arrived on site, it was a case of getting all the kit onto our site (and the scouts were accusing me of having lots of kit. I think i was about average. And part of my kit was a tent) and then getting the tents up.

Afternoon activities included climbing, Ice Wall, Cork Guns and Lasers. We only had one session of climbing, whihc I was helping with, and then I loitered with intent around the Icewall.

The Ice wall consists of a surface with a slope at the bottom, and a slight over hang at the top, with a verticle section inbetween. This is clad in high density foam (the type for packing military rockets apparently). The site had modified some ice axes so that they had a point instead of the more knife like shape usually found, along with a disk welded on to stop the axe penetrating too far. the shovel type rear part of the blade had been cut off and covered with a tennis ball, and the spike at the abse had been cut off. On your feet were some home made crampons, safety shoes with a plate screwed to the sole, with two prongs on the toe end of the plate.

It was just a mater of technigue really. Keep the ice axes high, and your body close to the wall and up you could go. Well, I managed to hit the bell at the top!

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I am Sad. Not so sad that I read my server logs. No. I just read the detailed results of my bbclone results. I seem to be getting a lot of attention from the google bot at the moment. And in there, someone has been reffered here from M00ple.

Hello stranger!

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The other day I found an anagram version of the London underground Map. Thought I would share this fact.

I cannot remember what my source was, so it may be a site many of you check too…

I ought to add a history of the tube map link for those who do not know it, and there are loads of other versions of the map out there.

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This should produce a lis of posts on some other sites. And it should always update…

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I wanted to make a phone call to a number I often call. The quickest way to get to this number is usually (not always, but i think on average it still is) to press the green button on the phone, and get it from the list of recently called numbers. Often its the first one.

This time the number at the top of the list was 999.

This makes me feel annoyed. and guilty. and annoyed for being made to feel guilty. I think it is an example of really crap design. Being able to call 999 from a mobile may one day be very useful to me. I certainly am not going to suggest that 999 calls from mobile phones should be banned. What confuses me is how someone decides that I cannot lock my phone, and that if the “9″ button, whihc is conveniently on one corner of the phone face, accidently gets pressed, then it goes through to the emergency operator. Even if my phone is locked.

Why do designers do this? Their priority seems to be to make a phone be able to call 999. And so this leads to a large proportion of the calls emergency operators recieving being spurious mobile calls. So what if you have to unlock the phone to dial 999? you are still in a “better” position than if you needed to track down the nearest payphone.

Interestingly, it seems that “112″ (the new unified european emergency number whihc is preprogrammed into many mobile phones) produces almost entirly spurious calls. Ho Hum….

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I rebuilt the Pentium 3 lastnight. Although it was not as plain sailing as it should have been for some reason. I managed to find A solution in the end though….

In the meantime, I also yesterday gave in and decided to purchase yet-another-hard-disk which will facilitate me upgrading all my other PCs too…. I only did this as I was buying a DVD burner at the same time! I think this should make the pentium 3 into a reasonable general use machine for a good few months.

What is currently my windows box may then become a linux box. This is because it is a tower, and might take up less space in the lounge. The remaining PC will in anycase then become my backups server. What OS it will end up running is still up in the air. Linux may be easier for me to manage though, as it can then also act as a mailserver which i think will be the easiest way to store mail.

Linux Mandrake Discovery 10.1
Linux Mandrake Power Pack 10.1

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I started trying to Reinstall a Pentium 3 last night. It did not exactly go well, but did lead to a discovery. The PC only has a 20Gig disk. this was a surprise, I thought it was going to be four times that…. So I am going to have to rethink the plan for rebuilding all the machines….

Plan B will be to get the Pentium 3 running with XP, and then use that as a Games PC, whilst I sort out the other 2…. I need to archive a pile of material that has built up over the last couple of years, and then I should be able to rebuild my Linux box. All the important data can then be moved across to the Linux box, and then My old windows PC can be rebuilt.

At some point a bigger disk in the Pentium 3 may be a good plan, but i think i have enough disk space right now, it just needs organising, and data archiving so I know where it all is….

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