I shall be seeing Superman Returns* this afternoon, courtesy of work. That's worth a couple of hours even if I have to pay $2 for parking. Oh and apparently Brandon Routh is the new gay icon. *Link removed – since when did IMDB start using interstitial ads?
A strange storm
Last night I was awakened at about half past midnight by either Mrs Elbeno or some thunder, I'm not sure which. At any rate, there followed over the course of a few minutes about 6 or so flashes of lightning and accompanying thunder. The storm was less than two miles…
The backups worked
20 DVDs' worth, all correctly restored. Yay.
The essentials
I’m coming off the back of another Windows install, so I now have a directory containing about a CD’s worth of software – the essentials for installation on a clean system. In alphabetical order (from my folder listing): 7-zip – for dealing with .zip, .rar, and all other archives. nVidia…
Are you old?
Can you hear this? I'm tempted to wait a couple of years until I can't, then play it out of my speakers at full volume while working. 🙂
Happy "Summer" solstice
In just under 7 and a half hours' time, the northern hemisphere will be at its maximum tilt towards the sun. So rejoice and be merry. (Even if it is, for you, actually a “Winter” solstice 🙂
RIP TOTP
30th July will be the last episode, reports the BBC. Well I can't pretend that I've seen it recently or even that when I last saw it, the top 20 was really anything special, but a little part of me is sad.
earphones
Got myself a pair of Shure E2c earphones, after wondering for a while about noise-cancelling headphones. I'd heard good things on the grapevine and from a coworker about the Shure ones. They seem to be working out well. They were a little strange at first, but they come with small,…
Brain Age
The Brain Age tests are fun. I do well at the sudoku. However, the Stroop test (say the colour of the word, not the word) has problems with voice recognition on “blue”. It’s a bit frustrating! But every day my brain is getting better. Today I unlocked the Head Count…
a maths day
Since is always posting about his antics bending Maya to his will, I felt like sharing my working day. Without going into detail about what I’m working on (which is still hush-hush until it’s announced), I can say that today I did more maths than I’ve done in a long…