Archive for January, 2005



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Hack your stuff

It is strange how these days companies make their products with “fewer” features. You have to hack them to make them more useful.
In the old days Sony would have jumped at the chance to add more features to a Walkman, more features used to mean more sales and higher prices. And we […]

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January 28th, 2005. 

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Project Angel Light

Remember the man who built a suit that could withstand a grizzly bear attack? You remember, that crazy guy called Troy - he built a suit to protect him in a fight with a grizzly bear so he could face the bear that almost killed him years before. There was a documentry about […]

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January 20th, 2005. 

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Snow fun

Yesterday I went up to Cypress mountain with Martyn, I was dressed for the occaision in the finest unisex snowboarding attire provided by Martyn’s live in lover Liz. I have only been snowboarding once before so it was Bunny Slope time for me - thankfully Martyn was keen to teach and did a very fine job too. Pretty soon I was going down the hill with a fairly good level of control - but enevatibly I would fall, and put my hand out to “break” my fall.

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January 15th, 2005. 

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Hiatus

For some reason or another I forgot to pay some domain hosting fee so plasticpattern.org is dead for the time being. This meant that I could not access this site to update it, but now I have migrated it back to ultramonkey.co.uk - yeehaw!

So - for the past month or so I have been working at Futureshop/BestBuy, celebrating Christmas, New Year, and also finishing work at Futureshop/BestBuy. My car has broken down once leaving me semi stranded at an I5 rest stop - it needed a new battery, total cost of this problem ~$200.

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January 12th, 2005. 

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