I haven’t got the hang of the London summer weather yet. Because it’s always tropic-ass warm I just whack the T-shirt on with scant regard for rain forecasts. And get surprised when I’m pishing wet and my specs a blurry aqua mosaic.
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Major decision of the day: after looking at notebooks for ages, I’m buying a Dell XPS M1710. I decided I might actually die before the Alienware M9750 (dual core CPU, dual SLI cards) arrives in the UK. The other SLI setups (e.g. Alienware M9700) are pish and CPU-bottlenecked – you need the top end CPUs.
Tough choice between the Dell and the Rock Xtreme CTX Pro, which had a keypad, better disk options etc. Apart from build quality and quietness, the real clinchers were
- If you phone up Dell you can get a Blu-ray drive in there, w00t.
- If you Google enough, you can dig up shady Dell coupons – I got 10% off. Had to bluff it though, “Where did I get my coupon? *thinks* Uh, I can’t remember, was it Sky? Sorry mate, do I get my 10% off then?”. The guy checked with his manager then actually went, “You’ve just got your blu-ray drive for free, congratulations”.
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Got a bitchin’ hairchop at TaylorTaylor from a wee spanish dude. Taking a wander around Spitalfields is an experience in itself. Lots of near-Nathan Barley style going on. It’s great, but there are trade-offs in choosing where to be in the big city.
My necka the woods is pretty, modern and quiet, but at the same time crawling with tourists and kind of sterile; lacking in style. Good for a first effort, and close to work, but not where I’d want to be for much longer. When you go somewhere cooler though, the flats get more decrepit, the streets noisier, the tube harder to get to *bitch* *moan*
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