and half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.

(I like the Blues Brothers. Particularly “Are you the police?” “No ma’am, we’re musicians”.)

And we have advertising… Martin has sold out to the commercial world! Please click over there —> to earn me some money… pretty please…

Admittedly, I’ve tried this before, and I don’t have high hopes. But oh well… it’s not too intrusive, and who knows.

Saw the Broadford Amateur Theatre Society (BATS) production of “Hello Dolly” on the weekend. With Ross Abraham as Barnaby Tucker. Very funny… I haven’t seen good amateur theatre for a long time. May not be as polished as professional stuff in the city, but has lots more energy, and don’t forget that tickets are a fraction of the cost. Who needs Jon English?

I have today received a coffee grinder… Gaggia MDF. It now sits proudly next to my Gaggia Classic espresso machine. My own personal cafe is complete! Home Italia-style coffee here we come…

Shrek 2 = very very good. No really.

My last exam was this morning. It went quite well.

I’m quite pleased that exams are over. I’m not as excited as I was in first year, since this sort of thing happens all the time, but I’m quite pleased. Might even go to the pub on Thursday or Friday with the rest of the CS mob.

Now for some serious KoL…

User Friendly comes up with the goods (and perfect timing) again…

As I mentioned in the last post, I have a GMail account. I have come up with something to use it for - archiving all my old emails. And let me tell you, ’tis quite something. 1Gb of space isn’t really the main purpose, though - the whole thing seems to be designed around never needing to delete another email. Mails don’t go in folders, they get “labels” and then I can look at only the mail with the “Horde” label, or only the “Ceels” label. So far, the same as folders… but emails can have more than one label - so when Ceels sends an email to the horde, it shows up in both views. Also, it doesn’t show you one email per webpage, but instead you get the whole “conversation” on one page. And you can Google-search your emails.

Some observations from archiving my emails:

1. You can plot when various movies came out by everybody’s subject lines… “nobody likes a kiss ass”; “I steal from the rich and give to the needy”; “Do I detect a hint of minty freshness?” around Christmas ‘01 (and many many more Shrek references)
2. 1Gb of emails is really an extraordinary amount
3. I do have a very large number of emails.
4. Sorting a very large number of emails takes lots of time and hence is an ideal activity to take up 2 days before my exam.

Anyway, back to my oodles of old emails…

Update: 1. is in fact mostly Lu and Ceels, and almost all Shrek. Lu and Ceels like Shrek. Lots.

The Kingdom of Loathing. An Adventurer Is You. Need I say more?

I have a level 9 Accordian Thief and a level 7 Pastamancer. I’m sure I don’t have the time for another character (and another 40 turns per day)… I’m sure…

In other news, I have a GMail account now. I wonder what I can use it for (that’s more useful than catching spam and signing up for websites…)