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Suit

To go with my new boots I bought a new suit. I measured myself and my chest, waist, and hip sizes indicated that I was a small, but at the upper limit of the height range. To be on the safe side I opted for medium and awaited delivery.

When it arrived I tried it on. The first warning was when my foot could barely fit through the elasticated ankle. The I started to worry when it was tight around the thighs. To cap it off I had zero room around my crotch and could barely do the zip down the front. Medium my arse!

So I sent this back and asked for the large. Also I hate dry clean only clothing. It’s all added expense.

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Shoes

I followed the online guide to calculating my shoe size and ordered a pair online. I was concerned I was being over generous with slack space. I needn’t of bothered if anything, they are too tight – less than half a cm gap between my big toe and the tip of the shoe. Also the shoe is very narrow.

Question: Do I send them back (incurring mailing costs) or keep the shoes and hope the stretch a little?

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Ninja!

My ‘Big Shuriken’ arrived yesterday. The installation was painless if a little fiddly. The large overhang of the heatsink and its proximity to the PSU made attaching the locking mechanism difficult and the same for the fan headers.

However the proof is in the pudding. Running Handbrake with the stock cooler would cause my machine to overheat and shutdown within a couple of minutes. With the Big Shuriken installed the highest I saw was 68C.

Rock on!

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Technical?

From a job description on my daily subscription: “You will be working with ambiguous technical requirements”. They can’t be that technical if they are ambiguous, nor can they be requirements if you can’t discern what the requirements are due to their ambiguity.

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Location, location, location

I cannot now live without my HTC Desire but it is no means perfect.

One of the most annoying things is the weather widget that is displayed on your home screen.

It detects that I am currently in Stockton-on-Tees but shows no weather for here. Enter the app and do a search for Stockton and it presents you with Stockton-On-Tees – note the capitalised O?

It has been a while since I did any Java programming but I am pretty sure there is a tolower() function available.

While on the weather widget, it has Stockton but not Middlesbrough. Eh?

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Emprex keyboard

I bought an Emprex keyboard with track ball to replace the brown bread Keysonic. My first thoughts is the keyboard is nice but the track ball is horrible. Also the lack of scroll wheel is frustrating.

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Apologies

My apologies for lack of updates. A project I am on is currently sinking for a multitude of reasons, some of which I want to write about, but not when I am doing 10 hour days to regain the missing weeks of time.

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Twitter

You can follow my karting exploits this weekend via the power of Twitter. Just look me up.

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R.I.P. Gizmo Bain-Reeds

At a little after 10am, my friend and faithful companion for the past 6 years passed away.

Rest In Peace, little one.

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Object of desire

This post and the one that came previously, were written on my HTC Desire.

The WordPress app will allow me to write posts as and when they occur to me instead of what happens now which is they occur to me but are forgotten as I am not near a keyboard at the time.

A big hurrah for modern technology!

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