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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Looking through my bookmarks, I came across this. I’m not sure when I bookmarked it, but I was bored so decided to give it a go.

What it got right:

  • You’re not very religious
  • You’re a night person
  • You feel drained by meeting lots of new people.
  • You communicate best one-on-one.
  • You probably like to take things as they come.
  • I bet you find it easy to empathize with other people.
  • Seems like you don’t mind indulging in some junk food now and then.
  • You study/work better with music playing in the background.
  • When it comes to politics, you’re liberal.
  • You’re a guy
  • You are more comfortable with clear and concrete information.
  • You’re the kind of person who thinks first and acts later.
  • You often employ logic in your decision-making.

What it got wrong:

  • You’re fifty or older. :huh:
  • You are right-handed.
  • Your desk is pretty clean right now.
  • You’re the kind of person who thinks first and acts later. (Yes, I know this is under both)
  • You often employ logic in your decision-making. (As above, it depends on the situation)

What did I learn from this? Absolutely nothing. :P

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Day 3

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I now also feel sick. :hmm:

Why is giving up smoking such a good idea in the first place? Sure, maybe it takes a few years off your life (smoking that is, not giving up ;) ) but in the end, isn’t it just hastening the inevitable?

Knowing my luck, in a month’s time I’ll probably end up getting hit by a bus. :P

If you are deciding to quit smoking, take my advice: Don’t tell anybody. It will make it so much easier, especially if you don’t manage it the first time. Maybe the moral support helps some people, but as far as I’m concerned all it does is make you feel guilty, like you are letting them down if you fail.

And if you are smoking (or doing anything, for that matter) to relieve stress, you’re going to, at some point, turn back to it if you don’t address the cause of the stress.

I should probably go and do something now other than go back to bed, but now I’m afraid of being hit by a bus. :unsure:

:P

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Day 2

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I feel terrible. :(

Everything aches. My head aches, my arms ache, my back aches and my stomach aches.

Every time I cough it brings up phlegm.

It’s 23 degrees outside, and I’m cold. :huh:

I think I’m going back to bed. :rolleyes:

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Day 0

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

As of 7PM tonight, I have (hopefully) had my last cigarette. Just in time to become an alcoholic. :P As there isn’t much of today left, it has been officially deemed day 0. Expect random flair ups and bad moods all round.

Some might argue that there isn’t really going to be much change at all.

Bastards. :P

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I’d do anything

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

I still don’t know what to say to you, or whether it’s a good idea to get back in touch at all.

We hadn’t spoken for a month when I said goodbye, so why didn’t I feel like this then? :unsure: If I’d have known how much I would be missing you, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. But now that I have, is there really anything I can say to take it all back?

It would be so much easier if you were to make the first move, but why would you? It was me who said goodbye.

Which gets me back to my original (unposted :rolleyes:) thought: There are times when I wish I didn’t think so much, and times when I wish I thought things through more.

Some combination of that would be just perfect. At the right times of course.

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Warner to push ‘Music DVDs’

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Wall Street Journal article

Are they trying to encourage consumers to break the law?

My budget for anything is rather limited. Most of my music is downloaded through eMusic or AllofMP3. I have no problem with paying £5 per month for a subscription to eMusic, even if I only download one album a month the cost of the subscription is less than what it would cost to purchase that album in a physical form. If the album isn’t available on eMusic, I’ll download it from AllofMP3. I do occasionally purchase CDs, from artists whose music has either been recommended from a friend, or I’ve downloaded from AllofMP3.

As a Linux user, I already have to break the DRM every time I play a DVD. While I am not sure if this is against the law in the UK, it is certainly a violation of the DMCA. Now they want to add the same copy protection to music? I listen to most of my music on my PC or an MP3 player which means I would have to rip the tracks, breaking the law in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal article there will be pre ripped tracks on the DVD, but these will be ‘essentially identical’ to those downloadable from iTunes, which probably includes the DRM. There is no iTunes for Linux, and I’m not willing to switch back to Windows or get a Mac, so again I’ll end up breaking the law should I have to convert these into a usable format. Whatever I do, I’m going to end up breaking the law, so why not just download the music illegally
anyway?

This makes me wonder, is the music industry trying to move to a new business model of suing it’s customers?

Of course, this new format will also have to be more expensive than current CDs.

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I suck…

Friday, August 4th, 2006

… at golf. ^_^

So why am I happy about that? Because I had a great time sucking. (That’s the first and last time you will hear me say that. :P)

Even if it was only for a couple of hours it was great to spend some time with Dean away from everything else, just hitting balls with a club.

Considering that I had lived the majority of my life with my stepdad, there isn’t one time that I can remember when we did anything like that. Maybe if he had tried that once in a while, and got a sense of humour (as well as losing that vicious temper) I wouldn’t have ended up hating him. <_<

I think my mum has finally found the right man for me. :rolleyes: :P ^_^

And yes, I’m in a strange mood today. ;)

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Like a broken record…

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I know I promised at the end of last year that I would quit smoking by the time my sister was born. (Ironically you started again shortly before she was born, but I won’t hold that against you. ;) )

I then set a date at the beginning of the year. And then again after I finished school. And a final time after my exams were over. But this time, I’m serious. :D

It’s not like I even have an incentive anymore, and I’m probably quitting in the worst way possible, (cold turkey, but trying to ‘break’ an addiction by taking the very thing that you crave never really made any sense to me) but this time I’m going to persevere. Bad idea? Probably. But then again, I’m not exactly a stranger to them.

As a final point, why am I addressing this to you? :huh: It’s not likely that you’re ever going to read this. And just who are you anyway? :think:

Ah well… nobody ever accused me of being sane. :P

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