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Archive for June 2004

mate

Wednesday 30 June 2004

Oh dear. Becky from Big Brother's website, where you can listen to all her unreleased tracks.

If you really really really have nothing better to do.

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home

Wednesday 30 June 2004

Tube strike. Of course there are buses, but when you live in Pétaouschnok-Les-Oies Zone Three and work is in Central London you quite willingly burn on a CD-rom the website you are currently building and take it home with you to work on.

Well, it's barely 10AM and I've already accomplished quite a few tasks. True, [...]

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dash

Wednesday 30 June 2004

Ladeez and gents, update your bookmarks. Da Diva is back. With a hyphen
www.troubled-diva.com
Hope the dirt on the host from hell is duly dished.

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ball

Tuesday 22 June 2004

Little time, working hard and playing harder, hence recycled topical self-deprecatory footie jokes:

Q: Why aren't the England football team allowed to own a dog?
A: Because they can't hold on to a lead.

Q: What's the difference between the England team and a tea-bag?
A: The tea-bag stays in the cup longer.

Oxo were going to bring out a [...]

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size

Wednesday 16 June 2004

Woke up this morning to a new and improved Yahoo! mail service: 100MB free storage, 10MB max size for messages.

Smells like GMail to me - I'm OK with it, as long as tiny creepy Yahoobots don't start snooping around my messages to target their ads to me.

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mayo

Monday 14 June 2004

You win some, you lose some, and London wants more Ken.

I am now waiting to see how long it will take before the electoral promise of later tube trains on Friday and Saturday night is kept. If at all.

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weds

Monday 14 June 2004

Desperately seeking British citizen to hastily arrange connubials in order to be able to stay in the country once the showbiz brigade succeeds in its intent to pull the UK out of the EU.

Have already asked Dr B. but he's not the marrying kind.

Apply in comment box below.

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hues

Saturday 12 June 2004

Hex Challenge: how well do you know your web-safe colours?

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poll

Friday 11 June 2004

I cast my votes last night (Mayor of London, members of the London Assembly and members of the European Parlament) and I am particularly proud of the achievement. I "bathed in the virtuous glow of the Active Participant In The Democratic Process".

I am also rather impressed with the absence of police guarding the polling station [...]

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keys

Thursday 10 June 2004

I was supposed to join some friends at the monthly Eurovision do at Retro bar tonight, but I'm seeing a friend instead.

She's a German friend I was introduced to by my Icelandic boyfriend, and that I ended up sharing a place with in Paris when my flatmate moved back to Spain and after I sublet [...]

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sand

Wednesday 9 June 2004

Dr B. is leaving tomorrow morning at dawn for a short stretch with friends in the sun.

I could not them because of my new job (which at the time of booking I was hoping to get - well thought I suppose).

He made sure I was OK with him going on his own - asked repeatedly, [...]

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step

Tuesday 8 June 2004

I'm your Venus
[hands on hips, swing four times]

I'm your fire
[legs apart, hands zig-zagging in front of each other, moving upwards]

And your desire
[right-hand index finger pointing forward, turn around, two steps, turn again]

You would think that I should have removed it from my memory to make room for more recent and important events but no, almost [...]

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idol

Sunday 6 June 2004

My life is now complete. On Friday night I spent a couple of hours in the same VIP enclosure as one of the men in my January 2003 personal top four of hunkiness, no less.

I then went home and buggered my knee again practicing some sex acrobatics that I'm clearly getting too old for - [...]

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back

Friday 4 June 2004

Facts I learnt during my first day at school my new job yesterday:

windows in my office do not open. In fact, they are bullet- and blast-proof. It is supposed to make me feel safe but if they are there in the first place it can't be a good sign;
I work in a team of three: [...]

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swim

Thursday 3 June 2004

Today's 7am wank is brought to you by aussieBum (one hundred per cent safe for office viewing - if you manage to keep your hands on your desk).

[via la vita istruzioni per l'uso]

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earn

Wednesday 2 June 2004

Thought of the day: always say hallo to your friends.

Even if you are not entirely sure you can call them friends because you only meet through your flatmate, and you think they might not appreciate it if you barged into their office when you happen to be nearby, but your boyfriend insists you go and [...]

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