tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52409542011-06-23T08:58:28.064+01:00Personal logs of a weary researcher Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1151666037224366742006-06-30T11:59:00.000+01:002006-06-30T12:13:57.236+01:00

Well I've finally got online and had enthusiasm to write a post again. My motivations wax and wane and sadly my laptop is usually switched off when i get the waxing feeling!Motivation for this post comes from the comments to my pod-tastic post. Much obliged to the two genuine comment makers and slightly scared that my reputation or identity has been leaked to cause the other posts. For posterity

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I haven't blogged for some time.I have been lazy.I've been pootling about, doing stuff, yadda yadda...I had to blog today - I got my ipod :DI may not blog again for some time...

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I've been to the seaside and I didn't take a bucket and spade but I did draw a picture in the sand and bring back a stone. Actually in Winterton-on-Sea (my holiday destination) you aren't allowed to remove anything from the beach unless you live there. I figured as my mother is a resident I count by proxy. Mr B and his Bro joined me in the roundhouse for the first weekend then one of my houseys

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Well I was politely reminded today that I haven't blogged since January so here goes for yet another catch up blog. So, what's new?Well I've officially passed the half year mark in my first year of my PhD. I've been taken to my first live football match (and yes, I did enjoy it so it just goes to show)! What else? I've had another sort out of my room - still far too much stuff hoarded for

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Ok, so I'm not *that* old but sitting here at home huddled up under the duvet for warmth with a blanket over my shoulders isn't exactly a resoundingly youthful position to find myself in. I swear over the last few months my bones have even begun to ache when wet weather is coming on. Maybe it's because I'm the second oldest in the house and we've just celebrated a housemate's 24th and before that

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Ok so here is the truth. I struggled to find stuff to say, wrote a really jokey bit about my time at the erotica exhibition, discussed blue wigs and stick on bras. I also wrote a brief yet telling story about xmas dinner in which I was referred to as a "pretty zombie" (the first insult was just zombie - but you had to read the whole story). So i did write all that stuff but then I wiped it

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Why is it that this happens, one minute you are pootling along deciding you aren't gonna let things get as complicated again for a while and then whallop, smack back you are there before you can shake two rats tails (or however the saying goes). Ah well, as a wise man said to me, life is like that so accept it. I am trying to accept it, but it is complicated! Still, aside from life's

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Well well, it would seem the spirit of new start has not completely worn off yet - I received 3 yoga videos in the post today (thanks to the postman who rang 3 times then ran off leaving them on the doorstep)! Not only have I ordered the videos but I also, at 8am no less, decided to try a basic programme from one of them. Me! Up doing yoga at 8am! Who would have adam and eve'd... One of the most

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Well here I am, living the life of a poor stoodent again. For those of you who have been hassling me to add another entry here it is. So what is new? Well, the packing finally got finished, no thanks to the red wine! I now reside in the sunny town of Ipswich - the east side, I'll have you know! I am officially a stoodent now that the paperwork is sorted! I am settling into my fab new office

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oooh, I had to blog (and yes, for those of you who know I'm moving, the idea of blogging tonight at this time *was* a packing-avoidance tactic!). I apologise to those of you who have waited patiently for a reply to comments on my blog - I didn't realise any of you were bothering to leave comments! In all honesty it was mostly an exercise to see if I could get comments on the page - it never

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Well it's been such a long time I thought I'd better blog something just to remind myself of my password and how to do it more than anything else! So what's new? Well I've sealed my fate for the next 3 years and accepted place for PhD. Signed up for another 7 person shared house in Ipswich (I must be bonkers). I wouldn't mind but this new place is actually properly managed and I even had to sign

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1088179016552786792004-06-25T16:49:00.000+01:002004-06-25T16:56:56.553+01:00

Well, having been intrigued by a friend's results on brain usage (you know who you are) I did a search on the internet and found the site. Here for posterity are the results - startlingly accurate in some places. (I think it was trying to tell me I'm a control freak...). The low auditory figure might explain why i can never remember band/ song names until the chorus...? Am also a little concerned

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Hmmm, interesting discovery of the week: apparently burglarised is an actual word. I thought it was a made up word but apparently it is an americanism. I will now swap to the much better reference of 'hamburgled' in future references to events last week. Muchos gracias to a friendly canadian who reminded me of the good old character of the hamburgler, a childhood memory supressed until the right

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Well ok, i might not be sleepless for exactly the same reason as in the popular film by a different name but insomnia should be recognised regardless of location or reason, i reckon. It's been a while since i've blogged (again) so a bit of water is under the bridge again. Not a lot to share except my amazement at the horoscope writers on msn. For something made up on the basis that it will be

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Ok guys, my mate needs some help with his reasearch so please, please, please, fill out this questionnaire if you keep a blog - tis all for a good cause and my mate will much appreciate it! Questionnaire is here

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My first ever parking ticket. Saturday. 5.34pm. Doh.

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I am not a devout religious worshipper but i shall say a quiet prayer tonight for poor old George, the Blue Peter tortoise - may he rest in peace bless him. It seems George has finally shuffled off this mortal coil and is no longer to be subjected to a life in the public eye and being kicked across the studio by accident.

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Well, it's official. I finally did something different. I finally took the first of my snowboarding lessons and man does my body know it! I think the three layers of trousers and 6 on the top definately helped cushion my fall(s). Judging by the wincing my instructor kept doing everytime I fell, I think it probably should have hurt a lot more. As it was I suffered the embarrassment of

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well, it's been a long time since i last blogged, mostly through laziness more than anything. so, anything exciting happened since Feb 12th? Hmmmmm, gimme a couple of months and i might just think of something... Well, I had my birthday. Went out to Jongleurs, didn't take any photos on my new digital camera as *someone* recorded a voice recording on it by mistake and this poor old thing couldn't

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well, i spent some time browsing random blogs and came across a bizarre test based on colours (http://colorquiz.com). The results are in places accurate and in some places quite random but seeing as I have very little else to blog about atm (yes, the effort to fill life with excitement is not going 100% to plan atm)... Your Existing Situation Acts in an orderly, methodical, and self-contained

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well, here it is. I'm rapidly approaching the past quarter century birthday and am feeling the pinch of life in my bones. I suddenly have the urge to step up and seize life and do something interesting for a change. Realising you've sat on your bum for many years and got nowt much to show for it tends to wake a person up (thanks to the Ipswich guys for shaming me into realising it!). So! what am

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Well Happy New Year! here we are, 2004 already, eh? My first blog of this year is a bit of a cop out as I'm only going to post my horoscope forecast but I thought it would be good to have it for posterity to be referred to later in the year... so, according to ivillage.co.uk here is my year ahead: 2004 Overview - Pisces The miracles you started working during the holidays are alive and well

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well I got this from someone's blog - you know who you are... I filled it out and look what I am going to be - not good, no wonder I end up always looking at lighting! The World Is MINE! by DemonacName:You will conquer:Marguerita-Ville (now you get royalties every time they play that song).Your title will be:DirectorYou will succeed by:Default (you should have picked something more challenging

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Well i'm back again and what a time it's been! In the time i've not been blogging i've posted something to my website, managed to ruin a perfectly good keyboard and matress with red wine and been to Plymouth and back. It's been a busy old time. For anyone who might be considering doing a drive from ipswich to Plymouth in one day - I'd recommend not! It was shattering and my eyes were bloodshot

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Well, i changed my blog to include comments (thanks to Mr Brady for the help, and comments on my stupidity ;) how was i supposed to know i had to sign up for the service? bad design on the website - not very intuitive for the novice user... ) I also have added an emergency fire escape so I can duck out of the blog quickly if my boss walks past - though what i'd be doing reading my own blog is

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Well mine are definately lazy - born to sleep, i reckon. Decided earlier today that i must have been a cat in a previous life and reckon if i have any say in it i might just go back to being one in the next life. Oh, to be fed and watered, affection on demand (but not when unsolicited) and to be able to sleep all day if that's what i feel like these lazy bones need. They say you need sleep to

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Well, i survived my weekend in Ipswich - god knows how after mixing actifed and vodka! I discovered mixing in this way definately makes hangovers worse! They should write that on the bottle i reckon... Anyway - was an excellent party on the friday and after a snooze in the pm on saturday the club night on saturday was also an experience. Lindsay got lumbered with her usual 40 year old jazz fan

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well now, another weekend and another party... it seems never ending (i hope it does soon, i'm running out of cash!). This week is a birthday celebration as opposed to halloween night when it was a leaving do (i think that was what i was going to blog about when I got distracted last time. Anyhow it was uneventful except for Nicola's dead bride outfit which was a classic. She put us all to shame

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well i'm sure i signed in to write a blog about something but along the way I got very distracted. as i sign into blogger i often choose to browse the recently updated blogs (i don't like the ones they recommend). well anyway, this one http://life-regret.blogspot.com/ somehow appeals to me - i'm not sure if it's the writing style or the content but I could read the saga of Nigel and cheehao for

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Congratulations were shouted at my gran today (we aren't cruel, she is going deaf) in honour of her 98th birthday - only another 2 to go til she gets that telegram! It has always been embarrassing for me to admit to people that my gran can touch her toes and I can't. The older she gets, the more embarrassing it is! Still - it's a ripe old age to reach with all your marbles intact, if not your

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Well, what a weekend guys. No paintballing took place but a good weekend was had. My matey from Ipswich came to visit and we had a good old natter catching up on old times. We also had a very eventful night out in Pavlov's Dog and the Fez club and I will spare the parties involved's blushes by saying no more on the matter. I also ran into (or rather he ran into me) some PhD/ researcher who

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well, it's a pretty trashed up temple if it is :-( Still, one has to start somewhere and at least i managed to start the treadmill up (couldn't actually work out how to program it to do hills and stuff but that's a minor point - the important thing is that I ran on it and I didn't fall off - though I did wobble a bit when I kept trying to watch the class in the next room over)! I'm sure the guy

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I can't believe I spent an entire day off work doing laundry. My room now looks ( and the only positive side is that it also smells) like a laundry room. It's very nice to go to sleep smelling all clean and fresh in the room but it's annoying that every door knob and drawer has about 4 hangers dangling from it! Nowt much else happening, no sign of Humphrey II. Sorted out a shoebox full of

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You know when you are sleeping the sleep of the righteous and having the most amazing dream in the world such that the first couple of rings on the doorbell can happily be incorporated into the dream but the third one drags you unwillingly into the land of the awake and cold, horrible, cruel morning? Well, that happened to me this morning :( I wouldn't have minded so much if the items to blame

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Well, it's all over - I'm all lectured out. Mental note, next time I get roped into doing such things I must not go to pub night before, I must not drink 4 doubles, I must eat some food at some point in the evening and I must finish writing notes to go with lecture the night before so when I turn up and they spring it on me a couple of hours early I can go ahead and do it without worrying quite

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Ok - I'm still feeling yuk, i was up til 2am trying to concentrate on writing lecture (think I've got about 25 mins worth now so only 20 more mins to go...). On top of that I've had a bit of a health scare this week and I bumped into Chris today, almost literally, while i was carrying large tray of tea mugs - looking highly intellectual there, well done Lindsay.... If only Humphrey II was here,

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1066137788846119032003-10-14T14:23:00.000+01:002003-10-14T14:23:11.026+01:00

Someone is watching me - can someone please explain to me how come it is that when I post messages on this blog it uses my messenger name that I only assigned some time after I set this blog up? that's freaky... Mr B, please teach me how to do comments (the ones that work) so that someone can explain the finer details of this blogging lark to me...?

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There comes a point in every illness, no matter how minor the illness is, where you think your time is up on this earth. Today my fears were confirmed by my horoscopes: 'It's impossible to find time for the people and activities you love when so much change is occurring. Putting off unpleasant chores will only compound your problem. Sit down and attend to problems involving sex, joint finances,

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I appreciate that this post comes only a fraction of an evening after my previous rant but it would appear that i neglected to check my last browser window and found a company that will take an order on special delivery, delivering within 3-6 weeks! hurrah - Humphrey II is on his way. Also, as a nice little touch when i went to sign in to proceed to checkout I was prompted with three sentences:

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Well I ask you - does no one value paper skeletons these days? While on messenger the other day I was reminded of Humphrey, my old friend who was a paper skeleton - lovingly crafted our of paper and split pins when I was the tender age of 15. I remembered how relaxing it was to be in his company and how we practiced yoga together and competed to see who could do the half and full lotus positions

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Well my coasting, doing nothing days are definately over. I'm now kind of working on 3 things (officially) so better so something on at least one of them. I'm not sure which is scarier - the prospect of being involved on two projects at the same time or having to give a lecture to mature Masters students (the ones who always ask tricky questions) on a subject I really know very little about, in

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ok, it had to be done. I've just got back from the Spread and i'm kinda tiddly (but not so emotionally drunk i tell you all what lovely eyes you have - though i'm sure you do). I just thought that everytime i log into blogger they always have recently updated sites from ridiculous times in the morning and i wanna see my site in that top 10 so maybe i'll stand a chance this way.... Word of

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Well, i continued in the online examination of my character and discovered that it's actually all going to be ok :-) I'm a generally unf***witted, liberal, disgustingly generous, relatively well adjusted human being!See how compatible you are with me!Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

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Well i did the following test after seeing it on another blog - you know who you are... and came up with this: "Aww, give us a cuddle. You're an Emotional Drunk! "But I thought he liked me. It was all going so well. I can't take it, you know? Not again. Why me, you know? My life is so fucking shit. I'm just a worthless piece of nothing shit. Everything I do is shit, or it turns to shit, or I

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Right, well the car is back in the garage and I didn't even shout or look cross at them. I hate the way I get myself all worked up about how people have been unjust in the way they've treated my property and then when I square up to tell them how I feel a whole string of apologies come oozing from my mouth. I don't know where all my humble apologies come from but sometimes i wish they'd just

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1064771752818930442003-09-28T18:37:00.000+01:002003-09-28T18:55:52.160+01:00

ARGH, What is it about cars that makes you both love and hate them? I can tell you exactly why I hate my car. It waited until 30 minutes after I'd picked it up from the garage (the exact length of time needed for me to get onto a dual carriageway section of Reading at peak hour, and incidentally also the exact point at which the garage owners would have finished locking up for the week) before it

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1064423855367703682003-09-24T18:17:00.000+01:002003-09-24T18:26:38.750+01:00

Well some of you may or may not have heard why this is called 'If it ain't Baroquen...' (next line 'don't fix it' - it's a quote from a disney film) but i just found an even better one - I don't know who to reference for this so I'll give the quote and then the URl so I'm not accused of plagiarism! 'This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach?)' -

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I'm *finally* going to see pirates of the carribean tonight - it's been built up by everyone for so long now that I think it's going to be a real let down but I'll try and reserve judgement... Didn't go to pub quiz last night - I know it's shocking - i think it's only the second week I've missed in the last 15! Still one has to rest the old brain cells every so often! ;-) (of course that implies

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1064242814550236152003-09-22T16:00:00.000+01:002003-09-22T16:00:19.020+01:00

Well another week another need for blagging. Still haven't heard from my police record check - am beginning to suspect that I may have done something bad at some point and i will be revealed as a fraud in some way (if only i could remember having committed a crime...) Thursday at Jongleurs was great (too many cocktails as usual) and stonking hangover on Friday making listening to interview tapes

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1064241711681405892003-09-22T15:41:00.000+01:002003-09-22T15:41:51.300+01:00

Have spent much of the morning checking out my horoscopes and am frankly shocked at what my friends could potentially read about me - have included some of the more shocking excerpts below (I feel it's best that you hear it from me first, so I at least have a chance to defend myself) Russell grant believes this of Pisceans: 'Pisceans are either way up at the top of the tree or at rock bottom;

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-106388171954502962003-09-18T11:41:00.000+01:002003-09-18T11:41:59.186+01:00

Ok ok - can someone please tell the BBC it was my idea first - just as I'm trying to find things to add to my list of things to do they go and release a program full of 50 things to do before you die! I felt sordid just watching it - it felt like I was cheating by getting ideas from them. The same sort of feeling you get when you are really thinking hard over a pub quiz question and then

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This conversation is recorded here for posterity - makes me simultaneously giggle hysterically and worry immensely for my sanity... i feel a wibble coming on... Lindzzzzzay says: the problem is, in the fight between snoozes and wibbles, wibbles always win you see... woja says: would it be good or bad to be on the side of the wibbles, since you seem to be in that sort of direction?! Lindzzzzzay

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1063383600979208132003-09-12T17:20:00.000+01:002003-09-12T17:20:00.970+01:00

Well the weekend starts very soon and I have a quiet one planned, consisting mostly of reading up on computer fixing so I can use all the shiny things I've bought, including my shiny blue neon light to go inside my computer case :) I hope i get extra geek points for that :) A new housemate moves in to Tim's old room today - am beginning to feel a little paranoid about just how many people have

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1062674437548217572003-09-04T12:20:00.000+01:002003-09-04T12:20:37.510+01:00

After re-reading my last post can I please just clarify that it was the office that smelt of methane, not me!

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1062674316121108942003-09-04T12:18:00.000+01:002003-09-04T12:18:36.103+01:00

This week I have mostly been discovering Funk :-) This makes a pleasant distraction from the normal work processes (mostly time wasting) but does get me a few strange looks from my colleagues when I can't help but exclaim 'Feel the spirit of the boogie' at various points in the day. Ah but I'm sure they'll miss me when I've gone! Brighton last weekend was good - much vodka drunk and muchos

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1062083503832347032003-08-28T16:11:00.000+01:002003-08-28T16:11:43.840+01:00

Well here it is, thursday again! My weekends have been flying by and I've been so busy once again I've been rubbish at bothering to record anything on this site. Probably just as well as my mother's move to Norfolk was pretty stressful and I don't think it would be overly polite to record my thoughts and feelings from the last weekend! Still, at least she has the most comfortable garden shed to

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1059751446674717302003-08-01T16:24:00.000+01:002003-08-01T17:03:12.093+01:00

I'm very excited about the weekend - I've been out so much recently and now I've got Kate and Amy coming down for a girly weekend before the great FlugTag in Hyde Park on Sunday! Rog came to share his travel stories on Tuesday night and I drank rather a little too much for someone who hadn't eaten any food all day. I'm ashamed to admit there are points in the evening I can't remember but I'm sure

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1059412199703473472003-07-28T18:09:00.000+01:002003-07-28T18:09:59.703+01:00

what can i say - brilliant! soooooo funny words escape me. Especially the variety that form a googlewhack! i have now set myself a challenge of trying to find a googlewhack and it's going to be some time coming I fear. I have tried many variations with rambunctious just coz i think it's a great word but now i think it's time to move on... will attempt to keep track of my attempts here at a later

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1059405506215430372003-07-28T16:18:00.000+01:002003-07-28T16:18:26.186+01:00

Well - i discovered today I have a high tendency for a number of personality disorders, something I'm sure my relatives and close friends would queue up to admit they'd known all along - still, histrionic and narcissistic might be taking it a bit far I feel! this is an attempt to preserve my results for posterity, here goes: DisorderRatingParanoid:HighSchizoid:ModerateSchizotypal:HighAntisocial:

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-1058894124077107312003-07-22T18:15:00.000+01:002003-07-22T18:17:09.783+01:00

Oh dear me, has it really been that long since I last posted? Well, needless to say I haven't quite checked out the mandoforms website and it's probably way too late to use it now anyway! I think it's probably fair to say I have no readers of my site so the only way is up... Once again I've spent the day moving office, very tedious, not to mention that most of the things we were moving and

Baroquenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10309546145830861073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240954.post-919228172003-04-03T17:51:00.000+01:002003-04-03T17:51:30.936+01:00

Well here goes. I guess this will be a dumping ground for all useful and useless info that I discover during my research. Hopefully something interesting or useful may be posted here eventually along the lines of lighting or accessible design, design for all. I have to start somewhere so I guess I'll start with todays knowledge gained - heard about a company publishing guidelines for accessible

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