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A speedy two hour drive from the Lake district to Stranraer got us home on the earlier boat which meant we got to lounge around home for several hours.

I fly off to London tomorrow for a training course in Advanced IP. Hope I don’t feel quite so tired – I feel almost “lagged” from the holiday.

Other stuff?
Well…I’m 9 pages into Creed, Testament is finished so things are looking up in that respect. Watched Three Kings the other night – hey it wasn’t as bad as everyone said – and High Fidelity the night before which was just flippin’ fantastic. Another DVD I’m going to have to invest in

Anyway, I’m tired and I have Fight Club to watch…should I do that now or later…

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Cringely has a good article about rolling your own DSL. At some point though it needs to be connected to “the real world” or “the real internet”.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html

My interest is more along the lines of setting up an undercurrent.

Imagine I have a 2 mbit ADSL line (whoo baby…yeah). why don’t I route it onto an undercurrent network which uses “dry copper” to transmit to Kieran’s house. He piggy-backs on my DSL and it also means that if we need to share files we don’t have to resort to stupid zip disks or crappy 56K modems.

Imagine everyone in your neighbourhood had a copper wire leading to someone elses. You could daisy-chain huge networks together and deny BT the several thousand they would demand for the piddle-all service.

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Watched Kalifornia last night – still a good film. I guess that Pitt must be a good actor as he seems to be taking on all sorts of roles. He was good in this one and was also good in Snatch.

The weather here was bright yesterday and we drove up to Grasmere and down again to Kendal (home of Mint Cake) via Ambleside and Windermere. I’m meant to meeting Wangy later on this evening – she’s at a wedding in Gretna Green and that’s only 50 miles up the road.

Got email! Woohoo. I’m connected, I’m online, I’m with the outside world! I’m not lost!

Lesley feels really dehydrated. She just told me. She also wants me to explain to the landlords about the toll-free dialup thing cos we’re sort of bypassing their handy BT payphone thing. Hyuk Hyuk….

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We’ve been here for just over 24 hours. Ambleside in the Lake District. Feels like half the lakes are above our heads.

It’s wet. Really wet. Misty. Rainy. Spitting. Drizzly.
Just watched Planet of the Apes. Pretty good.

PLANET OF THE APES SPOILER — PLANET OF THE APES SPOILER
Course I can’t figure out why Wahlberg-Hunky-Hero didn’t stay with Stella-Sexy-Bikini-Girl and the Bonham-Carter-Ape-Thing. I mean the possibilities were endless – he was a smart guy – couldn’t he figure out that if the ship, Pericles and himself could arrive in such disparate times and physical locations that there was *NO* chance of him getting back to Earth in some recognisable way. There were some rather good bits even from a Desmond Morris point of view – the bit where Stella-Sexy-Bikini-Babe storms off when Wahlberg-Hunky-Hero sits up talking to Bonham-Carter-Ape-Thing – obviously craving the attention. Primitives eh?

So what was he thinking? As Xander said in a recent episode – “wild monkey love or smoochy Sarah McLachlan love” – heh heh.

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Dee’s starting a new job Monday week. Up to AO. Soon he’ll be top of the World Ma! Top o’ the world!

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