{"id":354,"date":"2003-12-01T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:17:15","slug":"01-12-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/01-12-03\/","title":{"rendered":"01-12-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Oops, long time no post. So what&#8217;s been happening for the past couple of months? Well in summary&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to Lucy&#8217;s 18th Birthday which was great, live bands and Guinness. We also played pass the parcel (!). Photos to follow.<\/li>\n<li>Worked at the Royal Albert Hall again as a sound engineer, this time for two days. Long old slog. Left Peterborough on the Friday afternoon, stopped off at a church in London on the way to help with a recording. Got to the hotel at 11pm after a pizza in Pizza Hut, in central London, on Halloween night. Got up at 6am the following morning, went to the Albert Hall. Recorded two brass bands and a 2000 person choir. The multitrack hard disk recorder (which runs on BeOS) crashed for the first time, ever in the middle of the recording! Didn&#8217;t leave the hall until 1am the following morning after loading up the lorry. Also photos to follow.<\/li>\n<li>Went to see Matrix Revolutions at the Broadway in Peterborough. Amazing. I will say no more.<\/li>\n<li>Had a dinner with the Round Table who are organising the Beer Festival for this coming summer. Had an argument over the date, it clashes with GCSE and A-level exams! They&#8217;re going to have to find three new sound engineers I think. Lovely evening other than that though, free Guinness \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>With Mr C. (trivia king) on our team, we won the pub quiz in dyke, twice. More free Guinness.<\/li>\n<li>Saw Sigh, Lou, Paul et. al in Smiths, no Kaz though \ud83d\ude41 Lou and Paul have dropped out of Uni! Both working at the leisure centre.<\/li>\n<li>Been litter picking in the park a fair few times with some great girls from school. Gained some press attention which was nice &#8211; doing our bit to keep out town tidy. Me, in paper, in wellies \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Played with NetOp and the open source VNC at school. Mr C gets carried away with being able to control desktops remotely :S But have some interesting ideas for spreading Linux around a bit more.<\/li>\n<li>Played with Damn Small Linux, a 48Mb Live! CD derived from Knoppix, amazing!<\/li>\n<li>Installed Debian (Potato) on my 486 laptop with 8Mb RAM and 160Mb HDD (which according to the documentation isn&#8217;t possible). It&#8217;s now connected to the internet! Only took me six hours&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Spoke to J and Kaz on the phone! Yey!<\/li>\n<li>Got quoted nearly \u00a390 for 16Mb of RAM for the laptop!! That&#8217;s including \u00a315 for postage for something twice the size of a postage stamp&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tralk (tralk.hippygeek.co.uk) has now been running for 115 days, rock solid. Just waiting for a power cut!<\/li>\n<li>Bought a Siemens SL45i on ebay. Bit disappointed with condition, but brilliant phone.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed my Nokia 5210. Had to order a screwdriver especially (t6) and buy a new microphone on ebay.<\/li>\n<li>Got dad&#8217;s credit card bill which I had to pay&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Spent the past three nights drinking in town. Smiths are charging \u00a32.60 for a pint of Guinness now! I&#8217;m going to have to change my drinking habits.<\/li>\n<li>Spent a lot of time worrying about things I haven&#8217;t done for school, and trying to prove, by contradiction, that root three is an irrational number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it I think \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, long time no post. So what&#8217;s been happening for the past couple of months? Well in summary&#8230; Went to Lucy&#8217;s 18th Birthday which was great, live bands and Guinness. We also played pass the parcel (!). Photos to follow. Worked at the Royal Albert Hall again as a sound engineer, this time for two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/01-12-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">01-12-03<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}