New Look

After a week or so of hacking about with my CSS and HTML, the new look for Paste is finally live… phew! Do hope you like it. Please let me know if you spot anything funny, particularly if you’re using a non-standard browser. (It should all work perfectly in IE 5.5/6, Firefox and Opera). If you’ve got an older browser, then it might not be quite right (and you’ll get a text-only display if you’re…

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Theme Pub

On Sunday, we decided to avoid the worst of the weather by not venturing much further than our local cinema in Islington. Finding ourselves with a few minutes to kill before the film, we stopped for a quick drink in Islington’s very own suburban townie themed pub, the sub-Weatherspoons establishment at the top of the N1 shopping centre that offers all the fun of Croydon without having to leave central London. On Sunday it offered…

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Old Stuff

On Saturday, despite the ominous colour of the sky, we foolishly ventured out to the British Museum, and after getting thoroughly soaked in a torrential downpour between Russell Square and the museum itself, we spent a couple of hours wandering around looking at things my ancestors had stolen from various countries around the world (although contrary to what I thought, there is actually some stuff from Britain there, it’s just hidden away in one of…

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It’s Been A While

Sorry kids, but after another couple of weeks of silence round these parts, I feel compelled to write yet another entry apologising for not writing any entries recently. I’m not sure why, actually. It’s not as if I haven’t had anything to write about, but I just don’t seem to find the time these days. Anywhere, rather than pontificate on where my life has disappeared to, here are some of the things I might have…

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User Documentation Experience

Earlier this week, I finally joined the 21st Century by upgrading my mobile phone from that Nokia that everyone had in about 1999, to that Nokia that everyone had about 6 months ago, with the camera, colour screen, java games and polyphonic ringtones. Not, you understand, because I actually need any of that stuff–my requirements in a phone don’t extend much beyond being able to make phone calls, and send text messages–but more because my…

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