Monthly Archives: February 2010

A day to not forget

By Mark | Published: 20:29 Sunday 28 Feb 2010
Family aside today ranks as one of the best I have ever experienced. It would be no use writing what happened because in many ways it was hardly spectacular but the people I was with, where we went, how we got on and other stuff that was from in me and what I wanted all [...]
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Walking in the rain

By Mark | Published: 08:15 Sunday 28 Feb 2010
Was yesterday. Got the tube with Naoko and Noel there. Did I mention I met Noel for the first time the day before? Top bloke. The Community Centre venue was good (they drive on the proper side of the road here which makes crossing them so much easier and safer) and I found a drinks [...]
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Speedy small one

By Mark | Published: 20:37 Friday 26 Feb 2010
Wandering back through the rain in the darkened city is always tricky because places look so different at night, navigation becomes more difficult. I am really deep down tired so I had to give my journey my fullest concentration and at some point an old lady overtook me. She wasn’t running, she wasn’t on wheels [...]
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Number 5

By Mark | Published: 00:56 Friday 26 Feb 2010
Starbucks in Leicester the staff have always been polite. There may be a touch of work-weary there at times but polite is always there. London they were good. The Starbucks in San Francisco I don’t remember. In New York it was straightforward. It wasn’t rude, more like “You want coffee I’ll give it you – [...]
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About Google. Again.

By Mark | Published: 20:15 Thursday 25 Feb 2010
Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for example.com What is the current listing status for example.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the [...]
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Slowly slowly

By Mark | Published: 07:33 Thursday 25 Feb 2010
Took me well over twice the time it should have done to get from the hotel to nulabs, I managed to miss the Starbucks, missed what the map says is an Apple Store but we have those at home so no loss. What we don’t have is the colorful signage, or so many cars that [...]
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Wednesday starts.

By Mark | Published: 07:50 Wednesday 24 Feb 2010
7am and I’m sitting in a japanese hotel room bed using photoshop elements to crop a photo of me for a business card. I can see myself bungee jumping one day, I could picture myself doing many things but on a list of a thousand things the above sentence just wouldn’t figure. Wonderfully bizarre. And [...]
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Somewhere new

By Mark | Published: 01:15 Wednesday 24 Feb 2010
I thought I had a good idea of how to get back to the nulabs office from the hotel and had this shopping mall not looked so good I might have proved I knew. Wandered into one which turned out to be pretty long and the street I found myself on also looked interesting as [...]
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Hotel speed.

By Mark | Published: 08:07 Tuesday 23 Feb 2010
I get a better ping at home but at 7x the overall speed who cares about pings? (except when gaming of course)
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A first impression

By Mark | Published: 07:45 Tuesday 23 Feb 2010
Polite, quiet, clean, unrushed, friendly, safe are just some of the words so far. By the time I had left the airport on the coach to Haneka I was impressed by the level of politeness from not just the staff – who were the embodiment of all things polite – but every Japanese person I [...]
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