Category Archives: Lent2006

Lent 47: And so it ends….

Well – I’ve made it. 47 posts on 47 consecutive days. There were moments when I thought it would never end, or that I would give up halfway through, but now it is finished! It’s been an interesting experience; probably … Continue reading

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Lent 46: V for Vendetta

Went to see this last night, and was very impressed. I’ve never read the comic book, so it was probably hard to be let down in that way, but I was impressed that they managed to keep it ‘British’, and … Continue reading

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Lent 45: Things that stick

I don’t know about you, but, while I’m in some ways a massively habitual person, I also have a tendency to float between different things in life – ‘fads’ as it were. My parents vividly remember the period of time … Continue reading

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Lent 44: New != Better

This morning I went to buy my season ticket for my daily commuter train to IBM, only to discover that they had installed a new ticket system. Now – there are benefits to the new system, I’m sure, like Chip … Continue reading

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Lent 43: Only a few days left

…..until I get my 8MB broadband! PlusNet are due to upgrade all 2MB customers to 8MB during April, on the day of their payments. I pay on the 15th, so by this time next week, I should have quadrupled my … Continue reading

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Lent 42: Gameplay is King

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been replaying the game ‘Driver’ on my laptop (AFAIK Driver won’t install/play under WINE, so I am running it on the works WinXP install, I confess). Driver bears a lot of similarities to … Continue reading

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Lent 41: Things to do if you want to annoy me

We all know that the world would be a darn sight better without all these other people doing things wrong. This is aggravated the more people you have the misfortune to interact with, and thus as a worker in a … Continue reading

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Lent 40: 1 week to go

Well – almost there. True to form, a bit of a summary-type post: LUGRadio Season 3 Episode 13 is likely to be out today – I’m preparing the mirror as we speak This morning I managed to preach a half … Continue reading

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Lent 39: Something broke

After the excitement of the stats from the other day, it would appear that something is now broken, and so you might get an error message when you post. I am looking into it mrBen

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Lent 38: Famous blog; tragic story

I spent some of today reading the rather tragic story of Jason Mewes’ (aka Jay) drug addiction problems, through the eyes of Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) on My Boring Ass Life. It’s a wonderfully told story, but really heart … Continue reading

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Lent 37: SerenityStuff does exactly what it says on the tin

I’ve been a frequenter of SerenityStuff.com for a couple of months now – it’s a great (wordpress-based) site for finding out everything that is happening on the retails side of Firefly and Serenity. Plus they have great competitions each month, … Continue reading

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Lent 36: Naked Day!

“ What happened to the design? To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information. ” As per Simon Willison, I decided to stick the ‘Moose into ‘naked … Continue reading

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Lent 35: How evil am I?

I can’t believe it’s this far through Lent before I’ve posted a personality test….. You Are 22% Evil A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind … Continue reading

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Lent 34: Stats

A great find by Noelinho now means that we can have some exciting statistics on the ‘Moose. For the moment, I have just shoved them in a page on their own, but I may look to having some in the … Continue reading

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Lent 33: Confession

OK – it was an April Fools Doesn’t look like it fooled that many of you, but it was worth a try mrBen

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Lent 32: Changing Tack

Well – it’s coming up to 3 years since JediMoose started, and, what with the hosting bill having coming around again, Al and I have decided it’s time for a small change of tack to the site. This will take … Continue reading

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Lent 31: Random

Well – I’m now approximately 2/3 of the way through the lent postings, so time for a quick roundup-type post: LUGRadio Season 3 Episode 12 came out on Monday, and very good it was too. Well worth a listen. Jokosher … Continue reading

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Lent 30: I’D rather not

Well – it looks like the House of Commons have finally bullied the House of Lords into accepting the ID cards bill. This makes me sad. I had a big discussion at work with one of my friends from South … Continue reading

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Lent 29: From stripey-faced, to all billed up

Last night I decided that I had had enough of not being able to do work for Jokosher on my desktop, and so I took the plunge and upgraded from Ubuntu’s Breezy Badger (current stable release) to Dapper Drake (the … Continue reading

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Lent 28: ATMs

Despite having never read The Design of Everyday Things (recently reviewed on LUGRadio) I have found myself thinking more about how things are designed, and how usable they are. One thing that has always bugged me is ATMs. Firstly, that … Continue reading

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