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Oh, and by the way... who knew? It's World Goth Day. I had no idea until 6music told me this morning.

And then I forgot, and by the time I remembered, I was listening to 3 Colours Red (I know, I know, I'll be listening to Ocean Colour Scene before I know it). Anyway, I've queued up Floodland next.

I have no clue what one does for World Goth Day. One can download a free single, apparently[*].

I'm probably barred anyway because I've got a red jumper on.

[*] Edit Or you can stream it, and decide it isn't worth giving them your email address for ;)

Current Music: 3 Colours Red - Pure

Fringe benefits of being on the university campus...

( I guess we're near the art department then... )

Current Music: The National - Boxer

There is something wrong with the world. In my day-job, I regularly use two different IDEs: Visual Studio and Eclipse. Because I'm like that, I have Eclipse set up to use Emacs as its text editor.

So, I'm regularly switching between environments with different key-bindings. In one IDE, I can sort out the indentation on code by hitting Ctrl-I. In the other, it's Ctrl-K Ctrl-F.

Here's the weird bit: Ctrl-K Ctrl-F is Visual Studio.

To anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, the correct response is "wow, that's quite surprising, you'd expect it to be the other way round". If you want to make a more oblique comment, you could say http://xkcd.com/378/.

Current Music: Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

Recently, a colleague who comes from a family of meteorologists has been explaining to me how the only reliable weather forecaster is the Met Office. People like the BBC lift their forecasts directly from the Met Office's predictions. Metcheck, he tells me, get their data from the Met Office, but use their own models and are unreliable.

I actually think Metcheck is more reliable than the the Met Office. On Sunday night, having seen the TV weather forecast, we hastily changed our plans and on Monday we fled south before the threatened snow arrived. The Met Office said snow, snow, snow. Metcheck said pshaw, just a bit of rain.

An sms from the mother this morning confirms that Metcheck was indeed correct. Bother.

Anyway, I'm ignoring meteorologicalTim for now and trusting Metcheck.

( Which makes me quite scared about what's going to happen on Wednesday... )

Current Music: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part

I was just re-reading a comment I'd made on someone else's LJ (proof read before hitting the post button, y'say? crazy) and noticed something distressing.

I cold-bloodedly used the word "improval". As in "you should see signs of improval in a short time".

Worse, I only thought it looked kind of odd, and I spent some time wondering how I should have spelled it before I finally realised that it's not a word.

Three smacks on the nose with the complete OED for me when I get home this evening, to be repeated daily until there is some improvement in the situation.

Current Music: Dave Myers - Hung for Singing

( Another one for the daily WTF... )

Current Music: Supersystem - Always Never Again

Following on from recent stupid error messages, the following was caught in the wild on an estate agents' webpage at the weekend...

( Feel the stupidity! )

Current Music: Boldwood - Feet, Don't Fail Me Now

Another one for the Daily WTF...

( Software futility )

Current Music: Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back

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It's the magic number

I'm living in a powder-keg and giving off sparks

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