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Bored Beyond Belief

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If you are online and want to have a very stupid conversation with a very bored person (who has his webcam switched on), give me a shout.

Chuffed To Little Mint Balls

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Where on earth does the phrase “chuffed to little mint balls” come from? All I know is I am extremely pleased because the programming I have been working on ...

Is It Really May Already

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Just a quick message to say thanks to all those who have sent me messages on Yahoo, MSN, and so on to let me know they are there and reading this Blog I hav...

Missing An Old Friend

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I have just lost two games of chess in a row on FICS (the free internet chess server). I played like a complete idiot. My skills are definitely not “impressi...

Back From Ireland

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Following a 15 hour journey home, we are back from our holiday in Ireland, and I’m back at work slogging away on the project I’ve been working on for the las...

Fed Up With Blogging

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I’m really fed up with posting boring entries to this blog, and not really knowing if anybody reads it.

Back To Work

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It’s the Tuesday after easter and I am back at work (sat here with a cup of coffee as I write this - probably my last coffee for a while, because I think it ...

Money Falls From The Sky

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Those that read this blog regularly will know that once upon a time I used to run a writing website called ThoughtCafe, and that it closed down at the end of...

A Chess History

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I just put an introductory message on the Orkut (www.orkut.com) Chess community - I thought it might be interesting for those that read this blog too, so her...