Dinosaurs

Great news, my PC is fixed. My power supply blew its brains out, and along with it the UPS’ fuse for good measure.
In Malaysia, I would have just went to the nearest shop and have a chat with the first available salesman – there are endless numbers of them- and be immediately up to date [...]

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Drawn Lines

In a moment of extreme carelessness (and a healthy dose of stupidity) I accidentally switched off the power of my computer, at the wall, while it was shutting down. What resulted was a flash of light, a “pop”sound, and later, a frustrated groan of understanding. I do use a UPS (they had me believe it [...]

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Greetings from Prague

As the title clearly implies, I am in the city of a Hundred spires, and it is, of course, very pretty. It’s after all yet another important European city with a long history, and all these historical cities are of course peppered with the accomplishments, so to speak, of combined rulers’ egos over the centuries, so you can imagine [...]

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So I was going to blog earlier, but I got distracted, which is usual, by an article about physics that I was trying to read most of the night. Trying, because I was in turn distracted from the article by a website showing badminton matches on youtube. Eventually I finished it though;  both the badminton [...]

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Grouchy

Everything is at our fingertips at these days – whatever you wish to know, whatever you need to buy, whatever you need to do.
There’s not many of them nowadays, but I remember a time when the internet still had good, quality blogs. Some of these served as my motivation and my inspiration, helping to keep [...]

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I Like New Year Resolutions

Looking around the blogosphere, it seems that quite a number of people do not like making New Year Resolutions. “It’s pointless”, they say, “Resolutions should be made year-round, not just during the New year. Plus, nobody keeps their resolutions anyway… So, why bother?”
While I see their point, sort of, I constantly feel bemused because personally [...]

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2009 – Trading alcohol for herbal soup

For the first time in years I will not be waking up on New Year’s Day afternoon with a terrific hangover. Exactly a year ago, I polished off a bottle of Martini vermouth mostly by myself and got completely drunk. On this New Year’s Eve I stayed around home, did my groceries, cleaned the house, [...]

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