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23:48 / 26.01.03

Antiviruses don't really help with spyware. Adaware is good... but in general, if you pay attention to what you're installing, and don't use IE, you won't get spyware either.

I have never, ever got a virus. I've been sent loads, but I've never been infected.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:58 / 26.01.03

Yeah - IE is my great weakness; I have Mozilla, I just always forget to use it.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:59 / 26.01.03

I'm aware that AVs don't help with spyware: hence my suggestion to get AdAware. What spyware can induce, however, is sluggishness and general shitty functioning that is analogous in effect to virus activity. So it's not completely unrelated.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:00 / 27.01.03

Are you patched, too? That does help, if you're using Microsoft.

And how can you not use Mozilla? TABBED WINDOWS! The single greatest thing in browsing, ever.

00:03 / 27.01.03

Evenin', late-night techies. This weekend's shredded what remained of my Circadian rhythms, so I've been up watching the repeat of 'Buried' (poor old Reynaldo, eh?) and trying to will myself sleepy. Had a good weekend, y'all?

00:08 / 27.01.03

There's always Opera, too.

Evenin Ganesh... saw Adaptation yesterday, so this current two-days-off-work-period has not been entirely wasted.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:09 / 27.01.03

Hmmm...not usre. Lots fo very nice things, but a friend is starting chemo tomorrow and I'm feeling horribly tense about it, though ironically he is being incredibly calm and generally groovy. It's certainly putting a lot of things into perspective...

00:10 / 27.01.03

The last two or three weekends seem to have zipped by: think I'm definitely doing too much overtime. Bleh.

00:12 / 27.01.03

Sounds pretty serious, Haus. As serious as rhythm being a dancer, even...

00:13 / 27.01.03

My weekend has mostly been uni work writing about choral music, and then singing it this morning. I now have that lovely late-night essay feeling, where you're not quite sure if you're going to finish in time or not.

Best wishes to your friend Haus, it's not fun to have chemicals pumped through you. I've had four large doses of anaesthetic now and I really didn't enjoy that.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:15 / 27.01.03

Almost precisely so. We had Burns night together. I did the address to the haggis, and he kiled the poor thing. poor creature...a life running wild and free on the haggislands of lothian, and then a tranquiliser dart and being boiled alive and punctured by a knife-wielding sassenach.

All very harsh.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:17 / 27.01.03

Oh, and I am wishing wishing wishing (I was luckiy, and) that I could get "The Surreal Life". Why do Americans get all the best stuff?

00:17 / 27.01.03

Good Lord, I'd completely forgotten it was Burns Night. If I'd ever actually celebrated it Oop North, I'd feel quite ashamed at this point. I don't actually like haggis, though, and neeps I can live without. Did you do the full kilty (this thread) thing, then?

00:18 / 27.01.03

My housemate went to a Burns night party where there was vegetarian haggis for those faint of heart (or vegetarian of course). So you know, there is another way.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:26 / 27.01.03

KILT THIS THREAD

Alas, no kilts, although the world may not be ready for my lower legs anyway. God knows, I'm not. also not a real haggis - thast is to say, not intestines in stomach lining. Becasue that's a fucking atrocious idea. Mainly we watched Without Prejudice and played top trumps. But with haggis.

Without Prejudice scares me so much.

00:31 / 27.01.03

Still not sleepy, but I've got an early day tomorrow, a day of stroppy transpunters and an after-work shift 'til 11. I'd better at least try to sleep. G'night, lovelinesses.

00:32 / 27.01.03

Well top trumps scare me, I just don't understand (and I haven't seen Without Prejudice). There is so much talk of kilts and plaid that I think there should be a barbelith weave. Colour scheme?

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:34 / 27.01.03

Grey and orange? Like the Chelsea away kit of about 1999?

I must to bed also - need lots more sleep this week than last. Night, all.

00:55 / 27.01.03

Stigmata's on now. Good thing it's crap, or I'd be annoyed at having missed a lot of it.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:33 / 27.01.03

Oh dear god. That's fucking awful.

My layout continues. Sigh.

00:16 / 28.01.03

Bez. At the Fez.

Fun, not a lot of Bez though. Bez's DJ turns up, plays tunes. Bez stands next to him with a microphone, dancing in the DJ booth (no mean feet), screaming "CAAAAAAAMMMMMBBBBRRRRRIDDDDDDDDDGGGGGGGEEEE!", "CALL THE FUCKING COPS!" and other such stuff. Mondays lyrics only over Mondays songs. Basically, they played lots of mid-nineties indie nostalgia. All the usual suspects.

Then he went away. And they did the usual Monday night Rock/Indie/Funk/Soul/lots-of-Stax stuff. Bez sat in a corner. A mate bought him a drink and chatted to him - he's doing a dissertation on the Madchester scene, you see - and affirmed that he was absolutely shitfaced. Had some dark-haired young thing all over him. Top bloke, absolutely mental, pointed at us when we pointed at him.

I had tons of fun - more exercise than I've had in ages, only a quid to get in, and I enjoyed a night out. Wow. Haven't been clubbing in yonks. MOST good. (About what you expected, realistically, Bengali?)

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:37 / 28.01.03

A lecture on Camus, I was hoping for. With some fucked up dancing.

Heh.

I'm off in search of Greek Salad, but I shall return.

08:44 / 28.01.03

Well, the fucked up dancing was most present and correct. Am looking at my post this morning and realising it's a little less than intelligble... oh well.

But as I said: exactly what everybody expected, absolutely no surprises. Still awesome though

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:58 / 28.01.03

Haus; Lower legs out fut' lads.

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:07 / 28.01.03

Well, I'm here. Just watched Sexy Beast and have developed new Ben Kingsley Awe. The caahnt.

Tryphena Absent

15:31 / 28.01.03

At this early hour may I take the time to say-
next Monday, Sean Ryder graces Cardiff Student Union, The Happy Mondays are attempting to take over our minds.

Tryphena Absent

23:03 / 30.01.03

Coo I killed a thread! I feel that people have been neglecting Late Shift #7 terribly so I'm BUMPING it up to the top of the line... now.

23:09 / 30.01.03

snow! (obligatory person who doesn't have to travel very far enthusiasm)

My house is all quiet... that's so lovely. I've had to deal with a very miserable housemate recently and it's not easy at all.

23:28 / 30.01.03

That it isn't. It's quite quiet here too - and bleddy freezing - but someone's just started shrieking outside (must have been to Fifth Ave.)

I am up and taking notes from Narcissus Luttrell's Parliamentary Diary and wondering why exactly it was that I decided to do this... seventeenth-century MPs were so fucking verbose. I need them to be xenophobic because it gives me something to write about, but why can't they be xenophobic in a pithy manner?

Tryphena Absent

23:31 / 30.01.03

I have printed out 895 words of dissertation glory and am now playing on Barbelith... very strange how much I've missed in two weeks of very limited access!

Tryphena Absent

23:32 / 30.01.03

Oh and I'm very glad I'm not doing what you're doing Kit Cat!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:34 / 30.01.03

I'm at work, with my ears whistling from the 16th hour of my Throbbing Gristle marathon. Loads of people are off tonight because of the weather (which is really unfair, cos it had all melted round my way by the time I got up) so I've got tons of extra work to do. So bollocks. I'm posting on Barbelith instead.

23:41 / 30.01.03

Am I asking too much if I want my programming assignments to be written in an easy to follow manner? I'm not asking for my hand to be held or anything, I just want to understand what the hell I'm supposed to be doing. I've spent the past 40 minutes just trying to decipher part of this damned thing.

23:41 / 30.01.03

I love it really - it's just the drudgey bits are overwhelming the interesting bits at the moment. And Sir Thomas Clarges was a wanker.

How long's your dissertation got to be?

23:52 / 30.01.03

I also get that "what does this essay title mean" thing. It's worse when it's a science or maths assignment - if you lack one piece of crucial vocabulary you're screwed. I think it was worst when they asked us to write a bit of code to represent some mathematical form which I just didn't understand at all. I hadn't a hope.

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