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Due to a severe brain injury, I've done some proper writing of new stuff, and also created an interface to my journal.

Check them out using the links on the left-side there. Also, this means that updating my Livejournal constitutes updating my website, sort of, killing a multitude of birds with only a couple of stones and a fairly thick book from the For Dummies series. Speaking of which,

Latest journal entry

This displays only my most recent ramble. For the entire montgomery, check out My Journal and also the aggregation of Friends' Journals

November 1, 2009, 12:03 am: So that was Rocktober

Good lord. Just finished a 250-hour effort to finish my summer project and get it shipped to my employers in the States before they got angry enough to dispatch hitmen. Whilst successful (and to the tune of £6500 :D), this meant spending roughly 14 hours a day at the lab (though some of that was supervising and so on). As a result, since achieving my freedom this last Thursday, I'm suffering a sort of free time decompression sickness. By this I mean having become completely unfamiliar with the idea of free time you have to do something with, rather than which is reserved for some pre-existing engagement, like going to the pub, drinking, or just plain imbibing. On the plus side, * Whilst 70-80% of my waking hours were spent working, my solitary long weekend off was spent marching once more on Edinburgh, where mountain biking gave a good excuse to descend on strigidae and mchr3k (though on the downside I picked the one weekend when thebiomechanoid was up in Cambridge to be in a non-Cambridge location) * Greg obligingly purchased Brütal Legend whilst I was in busy-land. Yae, and I have looked upon it, and it doth rock.