October 2003 Archives

I missed the first day of the show because I ended up at a party last night that didn`t stop till 14:30Hrs :-)

We all get fed with old style hotdogs with boiled onions in a roll, soup, sandwiches, jacket spuds with cheese, and coffee or tea....

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Today I have to go and inspect a load of fireworks.....

The Vicar is well cool as he knows I am predominantly Pagan and not a Christian, and dosn`t hassle me on religion at all...he just gives me ?120 to buy fireworks with and leaves me to it....

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Wednesday sees me off to "The London School of Economics" in Aldwych for a "Privacy International" public debate called "Scrambling for safety....

Trying to find the toilet in that place is a nightmare...but I found one at the Student Bar...
Wahey, Cyder at ?1.45 a pint in a glass or downstairs in a plastic glass ?1.00....

Heh, the lorry`s are still trashing our street...one lampost and one pole both in two weeks....

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Here we go again, and I wake up with the beginnings of a migraine,

I am to meet a friend to go to a book signing by Neal Stephenson author of several books such as :- In the beginning....was the command line, Snow crash, Zodiac, The diamond age, Cryptonomicon and the one that he is signing today...

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So she asked can it be bodged?....after careful consideration I said yes....

They didn`t have time to get a "Linux/Unix/BSD etc" team on it, to spend months or so working together to set it up...."their" words not mine.....

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I went to the mid month meeting of London 2600, 6 of us turned up and shared the bar with a Korean birthday party....

We got to Hammersmith to find 25+ men in orange high visability vests outside the tube station forming on mass...

Whilst on the way to the bus we saw a interesting modification to the front doors of Shaftsbury avenue Fire station...

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Sorry this spans a few days, but I havn`t had time to get online :-(

Heh, tomorrows the "Securex" show at Earls Court 2...don`t worry, I will let you all know if anything happens...and if it does it wasn`t me ;-)

I am walking along the side of the building to go to the tube station and get hustled with a few other people out of the gate quickly by security saying that there was an emergency....

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I decided to go to the Linux show up the road at Olympia, (no students allowed as they don`t buy anything policy) and was chatting to a friend about what name I was going to call myself for the pass,

I had a few ideas but my friend said as IBM were there why not use SCO?, so I went for Rev Adrian Rat, Software Protection, S.C.O.....

I was very surprised that I didn`t get the usual slating for using Windows products and get the run of the mill Unix, Linux, BSD etc., supremacy lectures, I have W2k Pro, on most of my boxes....

I guessed right about the out come of my "gropers" sentencing, he got sectioned for 28 days....

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Well it was nice and peaceful for a couple of days and all of a sudden ...lunchtime, the scaffolders are back, throwing clips and poles left right and centre but at least I can see out of the window again.......

I went to the 2600 meeting and this time there was around 30 people, so it wasn`t so hectic as the last meet.
Dr-K was there again and signed my copy of "Hackers Handbook" :-)

I went to meet a friend at Waterloo station to go off for a traipse in the countryside, I was supposed to meet him at 16:00hrs.....

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Weird...It must have been a bad day at the office....

Went to the Internet cafe in Earls Court and noticed upon boot they had got a boot virus, WYX Virus....

Yesterday the scaffolders started work and got a visit from the Councils Health and Safety people...

Last night I went out and about and found an "Arcam Alpha 6" amplifier

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