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2003-01-20

The fracture clinic

Filed under: other — kevin @ 20:38

Had a appointment at 2pm today. Addenbrookes has come up with a cunning plan where you get called on time… to go and sit in a different waiting room.

When the consultant turned up he asked me the same questions that the doctor in A&E had on Saturday night, tried to give away as little information as possible and told me to make an appointment for next week.

I’m sure I was supposed to fall on my knees and thank him for seeing me, but somehow I just didn’t feel like it.

2003-01-19

Tignes photos

Filed under: travel — kevin @ 16:59

Here are a few pictures from last week. I kept meaning to get someone to take a picture of me boarding but never quite got round to it.

This first one is the view from Le Lac, the main part of Tignes, just before 9am:
Picture of mountains with their tops lit by the sun
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I’m back!

Filed under: travel — kevin @ 10:44

Got back from my week of trying to learn how to snowboard, unfortunately not in quite the same state as when I left.

Oh yes, it’s one-handed typing time, I broke my shoulder (in two places) on the fifth day.

Some nice scenic photos of the Tignes area will follow soon, first I’ve got to sort out my insurance claim.

The rest of this post is the full story of what happened…
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2003-01-10

Holidays

Filed under: travel — kevin @ 19:23

I’m off on holiday tomorrow, away skiing for a week in Tignes. The snow is looking good, or at least it was before it got dark.

There should be some photos and information here when I get back.

2003-01-08

Donnie Darko (again)

Filed under: films — kevin @ 21:02

Just noticed I hadn’t posted for a while, so it’s good that I’ve got something to talk about.

Went to see Donnie Darko again last night with a couple of friends, the Picturehouse has it on for another week due to popular demand. It doesn’t make much more sense the second time around, see my previous entry for my thoughts then.

Don’t read on unless you’ve seen the film
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2003-01-05

Old Games

Filed under: tech — kevin @ 18:34

This weekend I’ve mostly been playing games. I’ve discovered that one of my favourite games of a few years ago, Dune II, works on Linux with DOSEMU.

The sound doesn’t work, which is a bit of a shame as you lose all the digitised voices warning you of impending attack and providing other useful information. It’s still utterly absorbing though…

2003-01-01

Happy New Year

Filed under: other — kevin @ 18:19

Almost forgot. Happy New Year to anyone reading this.

Journeys: North America updated

Filed under: site — kevin @ 18:17

After months (years?) of the North American part of Journeys consisting mostly of placeholders I’ve actually done some more work on it.

The North America page now includes a brief outline of the route we drove, with links to some of the places we visited.

I also reorganised the files a bit, the Slovenia section was almost completely content-free, so it has gone now. The addresses have changed a bit as well, probably breaking some links but my clever new 404 error page should point people in the right direction.

The next step is to get round to rescanning some of the pictures. Quite a few of them are a bit too dark.

One, less noticeable, change is that <link> tags have been added, this makes navigation easier for people using text mode browsers and other non-graphical ways of using the web.

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