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Best movie this year so far, no contest.

I want to see it again. I think this will be added to the “Watch every year” list, which features other such films such as LOTR.

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Sudo

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Two new albums

Misc Cat Pics
Boots in the sink
New Computer Room

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BookKeeper

I’ve been working on this application I’ve called BookKeeper which is to help those who use their mac to listen to audiobooks while going to sleep.

What it does

What this does is let you set the minutes for a countdown, which when finished will pause what iTunes is playing. There are already apps for this, but the main difference is what happens after the countdown ends.

When the countdown is finished, a five minute countdown is begun at the end of which the mac will sleep. However, if you press play on the apple remote during this time it will restart the initial countdown.

Why is useful? Well, if you’re trying to get to sleep, the last thing you want to do is have to wake up your mac and restart whatever program was counting down to sleep mode.

How to use it

Simply set the number of minutes you want it to run in the main window.

The apple remote can do the following things…

• Press Menu at any time to get a status update
• Press Play while the sleep countdown is running to restart the main countdown
• Hold Play at any time to close the application

Unfortunately right now you can’t skip tracks or increase/decrease volume using the remote when using this app. Sorry

Download:
BookKeeper.app

I’ll maybe make it more user friendly sometime in the future. I mostly made it just for myself.

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Discworld Quiz

Excellent. I can’t be having with rubbish quizzes.

You Scored as Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax You are Granny Weatherwax! The most powerful witch on the Disc! You often use headology rather than actual spells, and are a very good witch, despite the fact that you sometimes wish you were a bad one. You play a mean game of Cripple Mr. Onion, and have a very powerful stare. By the way, you should really get that broom fixed… Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 75% Carrot Ironfounderson 63% Death 56% Cohen The Barbarian 56% Lord Havelock Vetinari 50% Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 44% Greebo 44% Commander Samuel Vimes 38% Rincewind 31% The Librarian 31%

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Snipers

Snipers in TF2 which still use the normal sniper rifle, go back to counter strike. Now.

Nothing annoys me more than some loony who has spent days of their life practising with one weapon, and headshot you in mid-air, instantly, etc. We don’t need your kind here.

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Win

I just noticed this in my icon pack for mac os x:

BSOD

Epic win.

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Microsoft Visual C++ Express

I was trying to install Visual C++ Express on Windows 7 recently, and found it failed before it even started installing. The other day, however, I was offered a fix for a completely unrelated issue which also fixed this.

The command:

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions /va /f

Now happily coding with Visual C++ on Windows 7! =)

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Computer Room

Thought I might post some pics of my families computer room

It contains 7 computers, with a few laptops around the house that can be brought in to make an 8th seat. We use it to play Age of Empires 2 routinely with friends (the max players for that is 8)

I can tell you, these old computers struggle with about 400 units fighting on the screen at the same time!

Computer Room Gallery

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Pics of Kitten

http://simie.co.uk/gallerys/kitten/

Some are a bit blurry. Might sort out the rest later…

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