Today our czech trading partner visited us again. He normally brings a big box of foam rolls (meringue in filo dough) for us to eat. At first we always laugh about him and his foam rolls because they are so ubersweet and unhealthy, but in the end we always find ourselves gorging them down. Especiall

Only took 4 years... :)

A few days ago I finally sorted out the major slowdowns on ESR. It was down to some innocent looking queries hogging the database, slowing everything else down. Since then I've been going through the php and rewriting anything that looks like it might be a database hog. The site seems to be sup

I recently saw I Don't Know Jack, a documentary about the actor Jack Nance. It consists of interviews with friends and family. They talk about his acting "career" and his personal issues. One of those issues is alcoholism. [img1=left] Alcohol depicts some kind of threat to me. I we

ok, so I'm in dublin, and want to play some games here, seeing as im finally at a place with decent ping/servers anybody know of a good internet cafe near city centre where I can play some Q3/CPM/ET/Dota?

..means to stay up the night, or 24 hours or whatever. it is quite the pain actually, been up since yesterday - wrote that 10-page exam tonight that was due today at 14:00, delivered it and then helped my mate carry some 1337 stereo for his little home-cinema project (just keep spendin' the

im puttin on the nerd glasses and playin a few hands of magic the gathering toodayyy. although i stayed up late last night, so i am feeling particularly vindictive and have little patience for anyone doing anything remotely stupid this morning. i stayed up too late volunteering at my choice of non

I will start my new series of SLOTD's (stier links of the day) with The Power 5 (not work safe). I really can't say something about this, but expect extensive commentary on tomorrow's SLOTD.

My thoughts about CPL ITALY you can disagree but i agree with this Good points -Good pizza -Nice people in ITALY -Alcohol was quite cheap -Prize money is good -Centre was nice, nice restaurants and like old buildings and stuff there was also like a bridge of 2500 years old -I had a good h

GRR. those guys are disgraceful to the beautiful city of seattle's competitive gaming scene. i will be telling everyone i know in the journalism community not to ever use them for anything. i dont know if my reach extends very far (probably not :)) but if this TWL interview had turned out

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I just saw this on Digg.com. Michael Richards apologizes on BBC after his appearance on Letterman for his on-stage tirade and gets spit in the face several times live on TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjnm8fzRExc&am...mp;search= you have to admit it's funny

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Well i've been friends with Paul for a long time, and although we've locked horns on several occasions over various topics i always thought about his points and respected his opinions. The reason for this short little entry is to ask. What, The, Hell. So we've heard recently from

.. and yes I do know that urinating on a monitor is potentially hazardous but what I'm really asking about is whether I will be able to hook my Wii to my monitor ... I don't have a TV but my Sony 24'' CRT (FDW-900 or something like that) has RGB connectors at the back. I&#