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17:48 13/11/2006

Idéfix gets a more storage

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Idéfix's hard-drive had been showing some signs

of tiredness for the last few days, so I installed a brand new 40 gig drive. It was the first time I open up a laptop so I was a little nervous. It took me a good hour to find my way to the drive and replace it properly. it then took me 3 good hours to reinstall and update a famous proprietary operating system on a 6 gigabyte partition. Anyway the most important thing today is that I have now enough space for a dual boot so I installed arch. The first I will have to overcome will be the wifi drivers. My Asus WL107g has a rt2500 chipset so it should be possible, if the kernel module from the community repository compiles against the stock kernel 2.6.16.6 shipped with the install CD.
20:47 06/07/2006

Meet Charlie

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17:01 10/06/2006

England 1 - Paraguay 0

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You know I don't really like football. And I really didn't plan on watching the first england game of the World Cup finals. But it must have been the atmosphere of the city centre an hour before the match :


When we got back home and I switched on the TV, Marie was already with one of my comics, roasting in the garden. A few minutes later I joined her and brought the TV, the laptop and a beer with me. The result:


I thought the game was crap. but the setting was just perfect.

16:06 31/05/2006

Bed in da house

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The two men arived

with the bed to mount. ... pictures soon !
And they're dead nice by the way !
I can't actually get the distance required to get a nice picture.
maybe later ....
15:14 31/05/2006

Crappy connection

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After being offline all night,

I have had a crappy connection all day now ....



I am this close to calling my isp support.
22:32 14/04/2006

Pictures Of the house

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I have uploaded some pictures of the house.

You can find then here. I took the opportunity of the very nice and sunny weather we had today to take a few pictures of the house.
For a quich recall, we've been in this house for the las tcouple of months only and that's our first house. We still don't have any bed, table, chair and wardrobe but it's all to arrive in a big van at the end of the month.
The house is a small 3 bedroom located 15 minutes walk from Manchester city centre. It has a 2 bathrooms and a small back garden as well as a one-car garage. As I said the house is essentially empty for now but some photos are still worth having a look.
14:54 16/03/2006

In Da House

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We finally have our house ! We moved in last week end and it has been an exhaustive move. Both of us are absolutely knackered since last week end. I guess the fact that we sleep on an airbed doesn't help too.
The house is top although it's a little bit empty at the moment. We got the fridge and washing machine last tuesday and they should be delivered by Sunday. Until then, our food is kept just outside the french windows of our [empty] living room and we occasionnaly pop in to the old house to wash our clothes. oh yeah, we still rent the other house but that's a story too long for my lunch break...
Some pictures of the house are definitely to be uploaded soon.

t o m

22:56 07/02/2006

getting ready for oflinity

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I am gonna be offline at home in about 2 weeks. the reasons are fairly obvious:
(1) We are buying this house and as we don't really know how long the whole process will take, I prefer cutting it now so we don't lose two much money on this. Oh yeah because in case you don't know sollicitors are just bloody expensive and we need to put aside as much as possible.
(2)My current ISP sucks.You might know who it is from previous post but i am not mentionning them anymore. I pay for a unlimited service that has a limit.

Last day online will be 19th of this month, normally.
I should still be able to blog a bit from work though.

23:25 22/01/2006

house ... episode 1

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We are buying a house. And it's not like it's easy to buy a house in England. It's very expensive first and that puts you off quite a bit. Then it's a lot of paper, phone calls, hassle, headaches and stress. Why ? I can't see any other reason than the first problem: the price!
We visited the house for the third time this week end and it's great. The best news is that the wall between the kitchen and the living room is not supporting, so that means it will come down quite early I think. The bad news: there is a radiator on each side of the wall. That means involving a plumber if my dad can't deal with that.
But that's later. I will get in touch with the sollicitors tomorrow and see how it will go.

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