i got sent this link to the top ten things overheard on the london underground each week. my favourite is “Sophie Dahl has very large eyes. It looks like someone has nailed boiled eggs to her face”
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dentist
unbelievably, it has been six months since my less that enjoyable series of visits to the dentist. i had to go for a check-up this morning fearing the worst but it turned out rather well. there are no problems and my teeth are better than last time he saw me thanks to the extra flossing …
tim-tams
it looks like tim tams may be making an appearance in the uk. must be all the aussies pining for the taste of home which has done it.
french
fancy reading this site in french. babel fish is a really cool tool!
herald
and now simon has been quoted in the international herald tribune and is due for a radio interview on the bbc this evening!
la-la-la
manchester… la-la-la… manchester… la-la-la i have decided that i don’t know this country well enough so i am going to try and visit some of the biggest english cities. to start me off i drove up to manchester yesterday. it was a good drive and a good day all round really. i forgot that manchester …
wagamama
we went out for lunch for the first time since i have been back to work today. the release has finally been put to bed so we celebrated with a trip to the city branch of wagamama. it’s a chain of noodle bars which i used to spend a lot of time in as a student …
quoted
got an e-mail from my brother this morning, he has been quoted in the daily torygraph. i wonder if i can now live vicariously through his fame?
again
yet another early start this morning, in london for 07:30 again. yesterday turned into a bit of a monster. our design went out fine but then there were vast replication problems due to a hardware failure which meant everything was out of action until 04:00 this morning. the upshot being that we had to come …
early
yet another early start. one of our systems is being released this morning so several of us have to be in to perform data upgrades and make sure the whole design update process runs smoothly. so far so good, but i am the only one in yet.
Matt White 