Ying Tong Iddle I Po

Just been watching Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Mmmm Jackie Clune…

In other news I almost lost it today over Christmas. Sodding Winter festivals.

As everyone else has done it:

1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?

Celebrated my 24th birthday.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

No, maybe.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Yes.

5. What countries did you visit?

The Netherlands.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?

A fellowship at some Cambridge college.

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

None particularly that I can recall.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Getting somewhere nice to live.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not gaining God-like fame.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Aside from hangovers or colds, not really.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My iPod.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

I’d guess.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Less-than-optimal housemates.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Rent; food; toys.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Writing papers.

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?

Songs don’t really remind me of things TTTF.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder? No.
ii. thinner or fatter? Yes.
iii. richer or poorer? Yes.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Waking up and being given a million quid.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Being sick.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

With *bouncebounce*

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?

Not any more than I already am :-)

23. How many one-night stands?

365.

24. What was your favorite TV programme?

QI!

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

No, aside from Vernon Kay who I hate even more.

26. What was the best book you read?

Hard to say. Probably one of the many O’Reilly books I have.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

The mute button on Jennie’s speakers?

28. What did you want and get?

A good time.

29. What did you want and not get?

A million quid.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Hard to say. The Incredibles was quite good.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I can’t remember actually. ISTR I was doing something less than fun.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

A sudden windfall of several thousand pounds?

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?

Erm. I don’t really understand the question.

34. What kept you sane?

Not getting hung up over trivia.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Kelly Osbourne.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Probably EU vs. Microsoft, SCOwars or Software Patents. How boring.

37. Who did you miss?

No-one really.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

All the Thursday-night people at the Carlton.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:

Forms don’t fill themselves out.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?

To all stupid rich people out there wondering what to do with the 2-grand burning a hole in their pocket; don’t send it to starving Africans, orphans or people who have a reason to deserve it. Instead…

Please send me money to buy a brand new exciting PowerBook for myself at Christmas.

Update: Thanks to everyone who donated. So far I’ve just about managed to make more money than PayPal has taken off as fees. I might go mad and crazy and spend the money on a copy of the Beano or something :).

Time to hang up my geek credentials :(. I now own the same number of O’Reilly books on C# as on vi and Perl combined…

Update: *sigh* why are none of my friends true mathmos who automatically ignore trivial cases at the origin? :)

From :

Go to google.com. Search for your name (forename and surname). Go to the first page that appears and post the fourth, sixth and eighth and tenth words, not including titles.

Post the words, and this text in your own livejournal

For me:

PhD, in, Signal, Group

Which, astonishingly, describes me pretty well. Another possible meme is searching for your name in quotes and posting a link to the first result that doesn’t relate to you (and the number of pages into the search if you want).

Despite finding some interesting links about me I didn’t know about previously [1], [2], [3], the first result that doesn’t apply to me is on page 6 of the results. The cached page highlights where my name magically appears.

Update: Just had one of those ‘oh-my-god-there-is-too-much-info-on-me-on-the-net’ moments when I realised that the stuff only stops being mostly about me when I reach page 19.