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Good old Opera
Posted Sep 26, 2003
Thanks to (finally) getting a new webbrowser working, I can use h2g2 again without the bizarre sluggishness. Hurrah.
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Announcement-o-news
Posted Sep 21, 2003
Partly because this site is now too slow and slothful to be bothered with any more and partly because just because, I'm no longer going to update my journal much. Anyone wanting to know what I'm up to can look at my brand spanking new Weblog.
http://www.zaggers.blogspot.com
I'm going to try and update it every day. And it'll be looking much nicer once Milo gets around to sending me a better template. Ta ta.
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Time off
Posted Sep 11, 2003
Not going to be here much in the future due to my PC being insane and thinking it's a 1980s 286 when accessing h2g2. Piece of s**t. Sorry, but being fond of long posts I can't be bothered waiting for the kettle to boil whilst I wait for what I've typed to actually appear onscreen.
P.S. This does not happen with other websites so I now have another reason for being annoyed at the Beeb's webserver.
Zag 
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Aberdeen
Posted Sep 7, 2003
All that way for a meet of, erm, six people.
But it was worth it, I've never been to Aberdeen before and it struck me as a nice city. The first pub we went to had the misfortune to be near a blocked drain so your enjoyment of your pint kept being punctuated by the smell of sewage (and at one point an old man with a bible in his pocket saying "keep away from my sister!"). The next pub was a little better, though, and it had interesting ales for £1.29 a pint 
. After searching high and low for somewhere to get food (and for some of us to empty our bladders) we eventually settled on a Czech-themed pub. They had a well-known car-racing game for the punter's use, the name of which I won't bother trying to replicate because I can't spell it (see Log). After decamping to yet another pub (and bumping into Peet's friend who must have given Jamie beard-envy) a certain person had to catch the train back to Glasgow. And for what happened after that I'll wait for the log.
A big hello to everyone who made it and a 
for the researcher formerly known as "Lost" who sent a text to tell us he wouldn't be making it. At around 7pm.
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Local Radio Hell
Posted Sep 5, 2003
Working in back-filing as I often do, I end up tuning into local tinpot radio stations. Usually because at a certain time in the morning they play "But wot wos da year?" Golden Years shows and I am a sucker for hearing old forgotten records. Even though one station has an unerring ability to pick out the most crap records from a certain year (they once featured 1996 and chose Phil Collin's slapheaded "classic" "Dance Into The Light" rather than, say, a records from 1996 that people bought, liked, or would actually want to remember).
Now, perhaps I'm anal or overly interested in cultural-history but the "facts" that DJ-Killmeplease or whoever the chap that does these shows is called regularly regails us with "from this year" are, very often WHOLLY WRONG!
For example, I was struck to learn that the "Internet" finally "arrived in the UK in 1995". By truck presumably. And those who were internetting in 1994 in Britain must have been using a grey-import Internet. Oh, and Microsoft also released Windows in 1995, apparently, so the version of Windows I remember using in 1994 must have been some sort of coffee-induced hallucinogenic fantasy. Or I was looking into the Future like Nostradamus and David Copperfield.
Oh, and I was also informed that 1986 was "the year of Neighbours and Kylie and Jason".
And if they're not getting that wrong, then they are making other fantastic clangers, like telling us about how their esteemed colleague will be on BBC2 "talking on the Queen of Mean Anne Diamond on The Weakest Link".
I mean how difficult is it for a Radio Station - that no-doubt has potloads of money from the advertisers whose awful awful radio Ads ("Come and buy muh carpets. They're dead good. Branches all over Glasgow") they make us listen to every three songs - to hire some researchers?
Sorry, I'll shut-up now.
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