Archive for November, 2005

Goblet of Fire

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Thursday evening. Parts of it were enjoyable, but I was left with an overall feeling of disappointment. I can’t really put my finger on what would have made it better, but here are a few complaints (N.B. likely spoilers):

Terrifying

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

The (landline) phone bill has a charge of over £45 for my call to Catherine’s Austrian mobile a few weeks ago! Something gone wrong there, I hope: I had called the Just Dial number for calling mobiles, so it should have been 15p/min. Instead it seems to have charged over £1.10/min. Possibly [...]

Oh dear, oh dear…

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Found these on Emma’s LJ and just had to see what I came out with. Which File Extension are You? Hmm, not too sure I like that, it’s a bit boring. Onward… Which OS are You? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! On a more positive note, this is my first post via a wireless connection. I’ve placed the router in my bedroom, [...]

A long day ahead

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

My current task at work is modifying a bunch of old programs to take out some processing that never happens any more. This would be alright but the test packs seem to be in a very haphazard state, and also it takes several minutes (occasionally ~20mins) for old files to be recalled (automatically) from [...]