µblog - archive for 2008-04

Stayed up until <12:30> last night reading “Black Man”. Richard Morgan is great

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tomorrow is a holiday, yay for Internationalist Socialist solidarity!

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stupid mothership hasn’t realised that there are real live people in the EU that THEY HAVE TO SUPPORT

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yes, I am a bit miffed, why do you ask?

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wtf slashdot.org down??? ALIENS ARE HERE

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w00t got a new used ergoforce keyboard belonging to the coworker who’s gone to China

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had to take a low-power nap to prevent me from seeing double with fatigue

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Waiting for the Last day of April bonfire

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I can kiss the Xbox goodbye now that Leo has got GTA4

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“Oracle7 Server SQL Language” – best reference EVAH

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hmm Disqus now hooks into services like del.icio.us, flickr, and inevitably, Twitter

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I’ll grab a coffee NOW(tm)

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Waiting for the end of Viking’s gym class

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planning on selling the car, even if we don’t get much money we’ll be out ahead by not paying for gas, repairs, insurance

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after a rocky start, Nick Sagan’s Idlewild is hitting its stride

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man i love my old keytronics ergoforce kb, pity some of the keys are wonky

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the dearth of new blog entries on Monday makes me sad…

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big-name car dealer didn’t want my car, time to look at the second-tier

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3 new spam followers, blocked. Fruitless but you gotta do something

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You know what Twitter? Feel free to truncate my tweets to 140 chars, but fucking lay off hijacking my keystrokes if I cross the limit, mkay?

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First half of day done: fixing stuff and cleaning at daycare. Now for the housing association spring cleaning

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Staying up until 3am playing Crackdown was, in retrospect, not the best decision

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Yay car still where I left it

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vero we recently added ourselves to the Swedish list, it takes 6 months to go into effect and we’ve never received more calls :P

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sort of a spam filter for phones

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fetching Hanna

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Woke half an hour before the alarm, now eating a leisurely breakfast

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punching in

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getting messily involved in email “marketing” for work and not liking it one little bit

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Like most things SOX-related at $mothership, the latest access tracking app seems rushed

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LOL @ GTA4 pirate release

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thinking of knocking off early and spending my paycheck

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heading home early

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Awkward weather, just too cool for just a suit jacket but you feel like a Snowman in a coat

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Dude just because you have Ibrahamovic’s nose doesn’t mean you should have his haircut

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On the bus heading towards Systemet and some not-so-cool brews

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Stupidly we threw out Leo’s old cards in the move

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starting the day with wrestling with Outlook. DO NO WANT

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Zeropunctuation has its ups and downs, but even at its worse it’s TEH AWSUM

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time to sort out some lunch

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doing the timesheet

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waiting for the conference call to begin

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more SOX stuff on the immediate horizon, yay

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on an Elvis Costello jag, dunno why

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waiting for the queue at Gunthers to die down

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back from Günthers, half hour wait for a double kabanoss in French bread but worth it. Sauce and mustard are HOT

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my oral cavity feels as if it’s been napalmed

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now using irssi for work IRC, feels good

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Consolas is a really nice fixed-width font

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ah the last half hour before going home… productivity plummets

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time to move off home, I hope my new used lens has arrived!

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Waiting for my burgers at Max

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cannot help but follow @jwz, in spite of (or maybe because of) his message to new followers: http://tinyurl.com/3ueb6x

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I say: all follow @jwz, let’s get him more followers than @scobleizer!

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SE newspapers bought the Google triumphalist propaganda hook line and sinker

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haha

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damn forgot both my memory card and “Accelerando”

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crackdown would be a mite cooler if you could play as a woman character

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At the playground, lovely weather, perversely wishing being inside playing Crackdown

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Viking has found another boy his age to play with. Lucky for him because I lack all energy

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The other kids mom and her friend are on a conference call planning a wedding on conference call

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Whoops didn’t rewrite that last tweet b4 posting :P

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ok so megacorps are tracking mentions of themselves in Twitter, has the service “arrived” or has it jumped the shark. And why should I care?

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punching in

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created a playlist with songs w/ playtime <2:42> as per http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003073.html

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testing AlertThingy

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FriendFeed serves no purpose for me whatsoever

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hmm looks as if I can’t access TechCrunch from work. No great loss.

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God my spelling has gone to pot

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Starting early, Joanna is leaving Viking to daycare

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Always surprised to see affluently-dressed people smoking

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Note to young Swedish women: black scarves with bright floral patterns are fugly

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Seeing a messenger bag with the logo “Bonnier Gaming” - cognitive dissonance. Bonniers is the local century-old publishing/media company

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Half past 7 tram crowd is different from the half-past 8 one

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Ticket line at Gullmarsplan is suboptimal during rush hour

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my sound system is flakey :( no sound in the right channel. Maybe it’s my reciever from 1982 that’s giving up

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moved the mouse out of reach so I will be forced to use the trackball on the other side

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one nation, under Twitter

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“In the United States, the (avoirdupois) pound as a unit of mass has been officially defined in terms of the kilogram since the Mendenha …

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amusing myself by writing LOLwords in bug report screenshots

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I lead DN with about 1.2 years: http://xrl.us/bjg5e vs http://xrl.us/bjg5g. Go me!

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what’s with the sudden spate of stupid popup survey requests? every other site I visit has them now!

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reading http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/, fascinating

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unfollowing the tweets from CNN

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finally the 24mm I’ve bid on is on its way

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heh, Iraq buys arm from Serbia, ticks off the US: http://tinyurl.com/59gdxl

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GTA4 sounds impressive in preview: http://tinyurl.com/6qyvvy

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punching in

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Dell customer satisfaction surveys SUCK but I was very happy with the service and I hope the rep gets the feedback

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just got a call from wife, the unemployment office she works at is to be shut down on 1 Jul

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having great fun shooting coworkers in SoFII

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going home

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punching in

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The twitter backlash begins. Soon all the cool kids wil be moving to some new hot service w/o spammers. It’s like slash and burn.

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I suck at leaving comments

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Lunch @ Bonnier konsthall

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counting down for beer

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mmm coffee

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down to 2 tickets in the support queue, which is nce

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100.00 USD = 63.16 EUR, it’s not funny anymore, starting to feel scary…

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BEER TAJM

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smirnoff ice is a guilty pleasure

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shutting down Outlook

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In a pub cellar, Cowboy Junkies on the stereo

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Wtf the kitchen is out of filet of beef @ 19 local?!!

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Waiting for my Philly cheese steak sandwich

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Mmm sated

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gah, another gray day

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After using twhirl a bit, it’s just not cutting it. Web and gtalk ftw!

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Made the mistake of taking the bus instead of the tram and missing the subway connection. So now we’re running late :(

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This day has “crap” written all over it

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“Jennifer Government” is getting better from a slow start

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heading home

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Heading to the car, then to pick up Hanna

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Feel like kneecapping the whooping kids in the tram

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having breakfast

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running late

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creepy how lots of SA military hardware is in use around the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_APC

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penny-wise, pound-foolish: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080407/172509780.shtml

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recommended wordpress.com and tumblr.com for coworker on his way to work in Shanghai

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damn union has lost my email addy

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installing Soldier of Fortune II, selecting the Full Violence option!

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man I so want to play Call of Duty 4 right now… I wonder if I could get approval for an Xbox 360 in the office?

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hmm, perhaps I will ;)

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heading off

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It’s <6:35am,> d’you know where your brain is?

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stress testing the new motherboard and LCD panel, just got replaced by Dell support

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added to the list of “things that are slow as molasses”: importing Outlook archives

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wow this is a good day for @mc, KU won some championship and Google just said “Python is the shit”

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tried out Safari on Windows. Weird-ass keyboard shortcut for switching tabs. DO NOT WANT

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unsubbed from dave winer’s blog… should have done that a long time ago

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yawn time to get going

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what does it matter if my US stocks are rising when the friggin USD is heading for the ocean depths?

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does that mean no Olympics, or will they have to backtrack and get a new flame?

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there’s talk of letting some leaders “protest” by not attending the opening ceremony, but afai concerned you either boycott it all or not

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“extingiushed by officials”???

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mmm 430g bag of M&Ms on the desk

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I’m equally torn between reading “The Execution Channel” and wasting time on the internet.

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time-wasting on the internet won!

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Up early on a Sat, preparing for the arrival of kid guests later

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we may have survived the Great 6 Year Party of 2008

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my Bloglines sub of my del.icio.us contact’s links is maxed out at 200, time to dig in…

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found some interesting mil aviation links in maciej’s feed

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also I know BSG isn’t on HBO but the issue’s the same. TV is global now

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time for bed

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In the subway on my way into work

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i had a meze wrap with chicken, not bad

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man people are haussing The Wire

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this is weird, as late as 1970 Helsingborg was spelt “Hälsingborg”

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“Brazil” is looking more and more timely each passing day

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time to submit some tickets

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I need new clothes

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just got a call from the wife, they’ve waited 40 minutes for the tram and Viking is cranky. gonna head home and cheer him up with pancakes

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ok installed Twhirl, and so far I can’t see the point..

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where the fsck’s the fscking point…

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time for bed…

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So, plan was to get up at 6 and do some stuff. Like there was any chance of that happening :P

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wow lots of stuff going on at work today

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god Maria McKee has a heavenly voice

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does anyone under 21 use Twitter, I wonder

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really enjoying the tumbleblog blogging lifestyle, even if it does replace creative thought with mindless meme-replication

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marked 3 gmail screens of Gunroom messages as read, gotta start over

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It’s always disappointing to hear a pretty girl sound stupid on a mobile phone

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thank god April Fool’s is over… people who aren’t funny shouldn’t try to make jokes

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taking half the day off to prepare for the b/day party on Sat

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I’m the 4th oldest employee by hiring date at this time

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god I’m stressed

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best 04-01 joke so far: http://tinyurl.com/39rxvp

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anyone know the specific shade of magenta that T-mobile have trademarked?

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the colour is RAL 4010…

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“4010 Telemagenta”: http://tinyurl.com/2llqkr

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fun fun fun, new webbased time sheet s/w only accepts IE

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follow-up question from the time reporting support: “what internet are you using?”. Not AFJ

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digging some old Lone Justice

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Danish and Swedish Posts are to merge, maybe they should have announced it tomorrow

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i’ve gotta get moving soon, haven’t done too much work today unfortunately

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heading off to pick up the sprog

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Preparing to toodle off and get an Olympus XA or 2

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