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Archive for August, 2003

Sun-a-rise, early in the morning

5:06 pm on the 20th of August, 2003

When you use the name of a song that Rolf Harris did for your title you know it can’t get much worse but anyway, to today’s main point of business, a photo I took yesterday morning at just after half past five, here it is in two sizes for your enjoyment.
1024×768 or 800×600

Normal service will resume as soon as I get broadband sorted in my flat which I move into on Saturday.

blogging research

11:43 am on the 12th of August, 2003

I’ve finally got around to filling in a form for a student at Edinburgh Uni who’s doing research into the habits of bloggers. You can find more out here or go straigh to the experiment here

O2=bad

4:30 pm on the 5th of August, 2003

15 days and several increasingly angry emails after ordering my new phone and it still isn’t here. I’ve had just one reply from o2 and that was an automated respsonse passing the blame onto Securicor! I can’t even check if it’s been dispatched anymore because the ’shop is having technical difficulties at the moment - please try again later, we’re trying to fix it’ (read ‘we’ve realised that you’re getting pissed off at us for being incompetant so we’ve decided that we’re going to make you phone our premium rate phone number to cancel instead of letting you cancel online’) and now I can’t do anything but wait.