Monthly Archives: August 2008

The skills to pay the bills.

Apparently what Ad-Rock et al meant was that they had the skills to obtain and perform tasks in return for money with which to to pay the bills.
So apparently there’s a definition of ‘job’ other than this one. Who knew? Anyway, as the possibility of my actually getting to Dublin this [...]

Agatha

For the uninitiated, Agatha is one of my laptops (younger sister of Oscar). She’s an Advent 4211, running a dual-boot system of Windows XP (which came preinstalled) and Ubuntu (which I installed using Wubi, as Ags didn’t come with an optical drive). I’ve not gone all the way and put Ubuntu on its own partition, [...]

Daedalean upswings & Icarean falls…

Way back during my Freshers’ Week (October 2004 – fact fans) I finally got my reading list for the first term. Why Greyfriars hadn’t been able to post it to me is a question I still haven’t found the answer to, although I’ve got my suspicions… Anyway, said reading list featured, amongst a variety of [...]