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sleep;
wake_up( -cause => $Relative::mum );
get_up;
wash( method => $Locations::home>bathroom->shower );
dress( $clothes->find_work_clothes );
go( target => $Locations::home>kitchen, -method => $Transportation::feet );
eat( $Meal::breakfast );
wash( -method => $Object::toothbrush, -part => $BodyParts::teeth );
pack( $Object::pannier );
go( -target => $Locations::work, -method => $Transportation::bicycle_with_comfy_new_saddle );
$Transportation::bicycle_with_comfy_new_saddle->lock;
go( target => $Locations::work>office, -method => $Transportation::feet );
work while(not $Time::lunchtime);
go( target => $Locations::work>sandwich_van, -method => $Transportation::feet );
buy( $Sandwiches::baguette->with_filling(”Stilton and Bacon”) );
go( target => $Locations::work>office, -method => $Transportation::feet );
eat( $Meal::lunch );
work while(not $Time::hometime);
go( target => $Locations::milton>roads{winship}, -method => $Transportation::bicycle_with_comfy_new_saddle );
break( $Object::Bicycle::comfy_new_saddle );
telephone( $Relative::dad, ask_for_help );

Who said I’m not obsessed with Perl? And no, I’m not continuing this any more, I have better things to do than to attempt to describe dinner in Perl syntax.

And no, I don’t have a set of modules that will let you compile this.

Various ‘people’ have been leaving spammy, bizarre or simply insulting comments on some of the older entries around here in recent weeks. I didn’t bother saying anything until someone compared me to Comic Book Guy. So this is for the record:

I am not Comic Book Guy.

For one thing, he must weigh about five times as much. If he existed — which he doesn’t. The commenter goes on to say I have too much time on my hands and should get a life. This all begs the question of where this person was educated — did they not have geeks there?

If not, it must be a forlorn and dismal place.

And speaking of comments, nobody else has been commenting recently. Perhaps I should write about more interesting things?

Spent the weekend at a hotel and country club at Barnsdale, overlooking Rutland Water. Very pretty, but the beds were uncomfortable and the catering staff were horribly overworked leading to poor service. I’d far rather have eaten at Wagamama. Nice swimming pool though.

The reason for all this activity was of course a family one, leading to many people gathering together whom I haven’t seen for quite some time. The end result was quite exhausting. We did go to Geoff Hamilton’s gardens at Barnsdale this morning though; those are well worth a visit if you’re in the area.

And it’s not far from Nottingham either.

I’m off for the weekend to Barnsdale Country Club (doesn’t that sound posh) to celebrate Nanna’s 80th birthday with various family members from various places. Should be good, but I’ll be without Internet access so don’t be surprised if you don’t see me around.

If it’s really important, I’ll have my mobile along, although I don’t guarentee it’ll be switched on all the time. If it’s not important, send me an e-mail and I’ll deal with it when I get back.

I ran the UT2003 benchmarking utility at 1024×768.

It said:
Flyby: 144.29528
Botmatch: 54.914856

Then I ran it at 1280×960 (for some reason the utility doesn’t support 1280×1024, my LCD’s native resolution, although the game itself does)

It said:
Flyby: 139.063522
Botmatch: 54.696194

And how, I hear you ask, did I achieve this?

Easy! Take one GeForce3 Ti200 card, throw it away, and replace with one shiny new ATi Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB of memory.

And remember to turn the detail levels up to full - with accompanying ‘Holy shit!’ exclamation by the announcer. It doesn’t slow it down a bit.

Maybe I should try turning on anti-aliasing. But at that res, you don’t need it!