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Sunday Roast (Pork Loin)

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Very unaventefull day today, ended up decidign not to go out anywhere, instead a good dose of HALO 2 was all I got :)

Decided to make a nice Pork Loin Roast with potatoes .. came out delicious.

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XBOX

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

I finally recived my new XBOX

It has a Xecuter 3 chip and a 200GB HD and lots of LEDS :)

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Simpsons Cooler

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

Today I found this Comic Book store downtown called “Forbitten Planet” .. real cool plane.

One of the things they had that I could not turn down was a Simpsons “Duff beer” water Cooler .. so I had to buy it ;) ..

Very nice, it cools the water real nice and looks great on my desk :D

New Movies and Book for the week

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Stepped out this morning, looking for a new book (finished all Dan Brown’s books), at a downtown second hand bookstore I got “Timeline” by Michael Chrichton for 2.50� :)

Having read and enjoyed many of Chrichton’s books, I am sure this one will be good as well.

I also manage to snag 3 DVD’s for 10� (for all 3) .. good deal

it was “Thirteen Days”, “007 – The world is not enough” and “Summer of Sam”

I been wanting to watch “Thirteen Days” for a long time now :)

Renaming Images to EXIF date

Monday, November 8th, 2004

In order to rename Images from xxxxx.gif to actualdate.gif on Linux (As long as the image have a EXIF info of course)

jhead -n%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S *.jpg

This will rename files matched by *.jpg in the format YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM_SS

(jhead is required to be installed)

I use this format so Coppermine Gallery (http://coppermine.sourceforge.net) can then change the Image description to it’s actuall date using the filename.

Mermaid Quay

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

Today I went down to Cardiff Bay, to an area called “Mermaid Quay” (seems Quay is pronounced Key)

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New Chair

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Today I woke up to a surprise, the chair I bought yesterday, arrived at 9:00AM .. WOW .. talk about Fast !!

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Dan Brown’s Books

Monday, November 1st, 2004

Recently I bought the book “The Da Vinci Code” in Portugal (Azores) ..

I just read it last week .. and man was it GOOD .. Dan Brown’s writing is very easy to read, and it’s plots remind me of Crichton, well researched and interesting fiction with a twist of truth ;)

So yesterday while in Swansea, I noticed a 3 for 2 sale on his books, so I had to grab the remaining 3 from his collection

- Deception Point
- Digital Fortress
- Angels and Demons

I started reading the last one, it features the same character (Robert Langdon)as “The Da Vinci Code”.. I have read 120+ pages since last night already, and within another 2 nights of reading I shall be done, so far it’s as great as “Da Vinci” ..

Good reading :)

Dan Drown’s website -> http://www.danbrown.com