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A long, long day

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Well, it's 4:34am and I'm just about to go to bed :( Ken and I got back from work quite late (as has been the norm recently, though the still-secret site is very nearly ready to launch now) to find our apartment block's fire alarm on. Strangely, no-one seemed to have evacuated the building or be ...

Internet at last!

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This is the first time I've been able to get online outside of work since moving down to London almost a month ago. It's taken quite a while to get a phone line and then ADSL connected in our flat, but they (Nildram) finally confirmed that we'd have a connection on Friday. These things sometimes get ...

Settling in

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IMG_2061 It's been a while since my last post. The flat did indeed go ahead and I'm into my second week working in London for a still top-secret company :) I've added a few pictures of the flat (and the view from it) to flickr, so check 'em out.

Got a flat sorted (just about)

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It could of course still go wrong in some cruel twist of fate, but Ken and I have pretty much got a flat sorted now. I went down to London on Tuesday night to spend the rest of the week flat-hunting and found one the next day that was pretty great. We've now got a holding ...

Sound in Vista at last!

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After installing the Windows Vista RC1 back in mid-September, I finally have sound working. Creative's beta drivers for Vista haven't been great from what I've read, but they've finally released drivers for Vista RC1 specifically and (after some jiggery) they do now work. If anyone else is having trouble with these latest drivers, this may help: ...