Category: Ego-centric

Posts that are more about me than anything else.

America, religion, marriage for all and why those who disagree are not American

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Ego-centric, Random Stuff

The next time anyone mentions anything to do with America and refusing to accept gay marriage, straight marriage or any marriage between two people – particularly those people in government jobs, please just point them to the first amendment page on Wikipedia and quote: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free … Read More “America, religion, marriage for all and why those who disagree are not American” »

Heterogeneous Parallel Programming – Completed and Certified!

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Ego-centric, Programming

I just got my certificate through from Coursera for completing the Heterogeneous Parallel Programming by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Coursera and I’m very happy! It was a fun (and free) course that covered primarily CUDA programming but towards the end went on to OpenCL. Fun course to do and really helped me rethink parallel … Read More “Heterogeneous Parallel Programming – Completed and Certified!” »

Help us with our first house!

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Ego-centric

Years ago I met my partner in Leeds, I was an office guy, he was a soldier in the US army serving over here. This was back in the time when we weren’t allowed to let them know we were a couple as the American army had the DADT (don’t ask, don’t tell) rule in … Read More “Help us with our first house!” »

Ah…but can it play Crysis?

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Ego-centric, Gaming

Yes, yes it can! And by that I mean my new Geforce GTX 260, new OTT MSI motherboard and new 42″ Viera Plasma TV can. I maxed out all the settings, put it on my TV and hit “Play” and it worked a charm, if not a little disorientating when the screen shakes and blurs. … Read More “Ah…but can it play Crysis?” »

Feeling Better and Net Neutrality

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Ego-centric, News

It’s been 5 days since I became ill and two days since I found out it was H1N1 and after taking tamiflu for the 3rd day now, I am feeling a lot better, it really clears up the symptoms very well; actually it just hides the symptoms like most over-the-counter cold/flu remedies but it’s stronger! … Read More “Feeling Better and Net Neutrality” »

Home Remedies for the Common Cold

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Ego-centric, Random Stuff

I hate colds, they make you feel lethargic and depressed and make you want to stay in bed for 12 hours at a time even though you spend more time tossing and turning and getting up to blow your nose than you do actually sleeping. I’ve got a cold at the moment, I blame Dan … Read More “Home Remedies for the Common Cold” »

Derren Brown – How to Control the Nation

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Ego-centric, Random Stuff

I watched Derren Brown – How to Control the Nation last night as I wanted to see how his subliminal video (or as he calls it, PWA) would really work and while I know subliminal messaging can be easily ignored if you expect it, I wanted this one to work (it’s always more fun when … Read More “Derren Brown – How to Control the Nation” »

Today’s musings

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Ego-centric, Programming

Today’s work was a standard day, well except for the morning, actually no, that was a standard morning too, things didn’t work too well, they needed fixing, during which there were random jokes at Ben’s expense due to his pure love of graphs. With some help from Remo (my team manager) though, we did manage … Read More “Today’s musings” »

It goes without saying…

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Ego-centric, Random Stuff

…but never go to the gym without some kind of energy source. A piece of advice I keep meaning to pay attention to but it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I do.” I got home from work, had a drink of juice, quickly ate a Snickers then straight off to the … Read More “It goes without saying…” »

New underwear!

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Ego-centric

No I don’t have a fetish for underwear, I just like to be comfortable and you don’t get much more comfortable than Aussiebum’s! We ordered some new underwear last week and after getting home from work today, it had arrived, fresh for Australia in the post. My favorites have to be the Saturate range, very … Read More “New underwear!” »