We drove three hours to have lunch with these people, then four hours through the rain and fog to get home. It was worth every minute.
29/12/11
It was fake Christmas time today, on account of our being in France for the real one.
The date may have been wrong but the food was oh so right baby.
27/12/11
Back from the Pyrenees today, the seven hours in the car fly by these days. Home tomorrow. With a bit of luck we'll actually make it.
26/12/11
It's the last day in the Pyrenees. It's always sad to leave them behind, but I've had my fill.
23/12/11
Our dinner guests made a nativity figure out of a Ferrero Rocher wrapper. They were really spoiling us, even though they are only ambassadors of shite.
21/12/11
Adjusting the sattelite dish for the ever changing mountain conditions. This is pretty much what we do for most of the day on holiday. Everyone needs TV, right?
20/12/11
The tree is up. It's three feet tall, so I'm not sure it quite warrants the four sets of lights we've stuck on it.
15/12/11
If you aren't playing Minecraft then you should be. It's amazing what people are capable of.
14/12/11
I thought it was snowing today but it was just ash.
With the boiler in its state of woedom (that's woe not whoa) it's become normal to see snow in the bathroom, though.
13/12/11
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10/12/11
When you make a toy monkey, don't put its eyes too close together or you wind up with this.
09/12/11
Will modern architecture ever come up with a nice place to be for long periods of time? So far it's been more misses than hits.
07/12/11
Whoever is going round using money from the UAE as legal tender had better stop it. I tried to buy a mince pie with this and couldn't. I don't like being denied a festive treat.
03/12/11
Some advice: the Manchester Christmas markets are best avoided on Saturdays. When you're in the crowd it feels like you're being digested.
02/12/11
Oh how festive. The kind folks at graze.com sent me this, and whilst it's nice I don't think it quite beats their amazing flapjack.
01/12/11
The people I'm living with at the moment inexplicably don't want to secure their wifi at all. They said 'it might break the computer'. I can't talk them out of it, and as a result the whole neighbourhood connects all the time. Usually it's OK and there's only one or two guys on, but in the evenings they are ripping themselves off, since the connection gets so slow it can barely be used.
I like to video chat with various people on Google, but mainly in the evenings, which barely works because of this. Along comes a solution. WifiKill.
It's a great little app (for Android phones with root access only I'm afraid) that through some magic and jiggery pokery takes over the router and lets you freeze people out who are connected, on a one-to-one basis. For example, I see my network card listed, I know that's me. I see 'Sony' and I know that's the PS3.
However, no one in the house has anything made by Apple, RIM (Blackberry) or Samsung, so we know they are all freeloaders. Off the network they go. This evening, 15 different devices were connected (not including my phone), one was my desktop, the other my landlord's laptop. The rest? You can imagine.
This has the potential to be used for evil too, in a coffee shop for example, but so far I've only felt the need to use it here at home. What's funny is you can tell one guy on an Intel wireless card is downloading a lot, since as soon as you block him it's like opening the bandwidth floodgates and watching all the pretty YouTubes flood in.
There you have it folks, don't tell anyone I told you about this. You'll need to download the apk from the link above and enable third party apps on your device. If you're actually considering getting this and have rooted your phone, then I probably didn't need to tell you that.
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