Robin

Can't really see myself bothering to update LJ much more in the future, sorry. Email me if you've got something important to say.

I appear to have bought a Norwegian laptop by mistake. Not quite sure how Dell Outlet UK managed to list this but hey, will find out soon enough.

Tattoo:



It’s the outline of the bracelet that was my Dad’s. I haven’t taken that off yet, and the tattoo means that I never will have to *g*

New Burial album? Preordered.

RIP Raffles. He got to 17 at least and had a good life.

Ffs, I wish people would stop nicking cash out of my account :( At least Nationwide were nice about it (they picked up on it before me) and are getting me a full refund with minimum hassle. For what it's worth, if you’re Googling 0845 7778833 it is the genuine Nationwide Security Team number.

Edit: what scares me is that it took Google less than half an hour to index this post and add the number to its SERPs. I remember when that would have taken over a month...

I've got new friends in the house:



Altogether now: aw...

(luckily Rentokil’s humane traps and peanut butter seem to be working)

jQuery at its best:

if ($(this).is(":not(:checked)")) { ... }

Code that reads like English is great. Actually, this is meant to be the promise of RoR. I ought to look into that properly at some point. Was put off by the horrific mess of inline event handlers that it produced though; maybe that's changed?

My noWax choices:

1. This is How It Goes - Billy Talent
2. Fear (Rez Edit) - Adam Freeland
3. Oooh - De La Soul
4. Hybrid Rainbow - The Pillows
5. A Day at the Races - Jurassic 5
6. Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliot

Saturday night out at Dirty Martini, thanks to leadfoetus for organisation.


Libs and Jonty.


Will, Rick, me and Oli.


solulo's massage techniques pay off on Fin :)

Uh-oh...

I almost feel ashamed for posting this, but LOLCODE made me giggle.

Went to see 65Days last night in Camden. Supporting were Miramar Disaster (good metal) and Lethal B (god know why, I wouldn't have put down 65DOS fans as particularly into grime but hey, he was good). Only problem though was that while we managed to get to the front row were were right in front of one of the bass stacks. I thought it was bad when my clothes were vibrating but when my skin, throats and sinuses started as well it was a new experience. Still, a serious solid gig - 65DOS are ridiculously tight - it was definitely worth the beating from the speakers.

Bought 2kg (!) of mussels today. Got Sam to cook them with coconut milk, white wine, tom ka spice paste, coriander and some birdseye chilis. Delicious.

The tune is ... serious

My noWax choices:

1. Goldfinger - 99 Red Baloons
2. Ferry Corsten - L.E.F.

Unfortunately we were down to 2 tracks each by the time I got on, so 群青日和 - 東京事変 had to fall by the wayside. There’s always next time...

Short hair for summer:



The conversation went like:

Hairdresser: How much shorter do you want it then?
Me: Dunno, couple of inches?
Hairdresser, to herself: ‘Couple’? That’s, what, 6 or 7?
Me: *takes glasses off*

Sooner rather than later I'm going to have to have a caffeine-free month.

My first patch for an open source project was just accepted, albeit a year after I made it :) It adds a red or green favicon to validator.w3.org's output depending on the result.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2788

This seems obvious now, but bitter melon is really bitter.