Paul Nicholls » awesome http://www.r9paul.org Stuff Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:39:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Duck Charity Barcrawl http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/duck-charity-barcrawl/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/duck-charity-barcrawl/#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:15:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=85 Photos of us completing the challenges for the Duck Disaster 2007!

1. A Photo with Petra/Patrick/PortersI think we scared him

2. DSU Phonebox Cram

 

3. Conga Line on Kingsgate Bridge

4. Palace Green: Human Pyramid

5. Palace Green: Topless Run

Very, very cold

6. Macarena with Girls from Hatfield

They weren't really getting in the swing of things

7. Signatures of 5 College Bar Staff

8. Human Pyramid on 4 Bridges


9. Kiss Bar Staff

10. Hugging a Local

11. Trade Something for a Paper Clip

Perfect for the morning after...

 

12. Impersonate the Statue in Market Square

13. A Love Scene in Love Shack

14. Best Photo with a Duck...

One Lucky Ducky

]]> http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/duck-charity-barcrawl/feed/ 0 Ways to Destroy a Laptop #2 http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/ways-to-destroy-a-laptop-2/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/ways-to-destroy-a-laptop-2/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:51:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=76 Obviously when disposing of old hardware in an environment where staff frequently handle sensitive and confidential information it is critical that proper measures are taken to ensure no data could be recovered from computers, laptops, etc.

Naturally when it became clear that over the next few months we will need to "Securely Dispose" of a dozen or so old laptops (all already suffering various ailments that essentially render them worthless and barely usable) I decided that the destruction of this hardware needs to be done properly, and clearly documented along the way - a la blog.

We've actually already done #1 too, but the photos are on the other camera - which is at work. Whoops.

Disposal #2
Date of Disposal: 09/07/2007
Goods Disposed Of: RM Laptop
Method of Disposal: Puncture Wounds
Tools Used: Electric Drill, Hole Saw, Soldering Iron
Wielder of Destruction: Mr Nicholls

Outcome: Surprisingly the laptop started to boot despite the holes, no display - and the motherboard beeps in "motherboard error" beep code pattern - but it kinda worked...

]]> http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/ways-to-destroy-a-laptop-2/feed/ 0 This Is Life http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/this-is-life/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/this-is-life/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 03:52:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=74 Driving home (perhaps a tad faster than the 40mph limit) from a brilliant night at Subs, 5 in the morning, windows down, wind in my hair, watching the sun come up, "Sweet Child of Mine" blaring from the stereo, absolutely shattered from less than 6 hours sleep in 48 hours and way too much dancing. That is life. Love It.

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Please make it happen! Someone would come with me.... right...?

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Hot Panini Vending Machine! Totally awesome. Southampton really is the cutting-edge.

]]> http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2007/best-vending-machine-award/feed/ 3 Distribution! http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/distribution/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/distribution/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:10:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=54 I got this today...

Hi, my name is .... and I'm PC Today’s collaborator.

PC Today is one of the best selling computer magazine in Spain and is published every two weeks. We have planned some special contents for our readers, and we’re planning to include a special CD with the best freeware and shareware programs available. This is a very special occasion for us, as we do not use to include software with our magazine. We rely solely on our editorial contents to sell the magazine and that makes this CD and its contents a unique giveaway.

We plan to include this CD in PC Today's N.157, which will be on sale on the end of October. This CD will be enclosed with every PC Today’s N. 157 issue at no additional cost and the planned circulation is 65.000 issues. In that number we'll also include some editorial pages explaining how to use some of the selected programs.

Since yours is one of the chosen applications, we'd like to get your permission so we can include iTunes2MSN in this CD.

I really really need to start making my software multilingual!
64,000 CDs with my software on? Wow, Really!? Wow! :-)

]]> http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/distribution/feed/ 2 One Week To Go! http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/one-week-to-go/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/one-week-to-go/#comments Sat, 20 May 2006 23:30:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=37 Then no more lessons! Ever!
Hell Yeah.

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Weeks of preperation (and lack thereof) came to climax on Friday March 3rd for the Rainham Mark Battle Of The Bands 2006.

After numerous disasters during the day (amps dying, mixer dying, emergency trips to maplins etc) we botched the sound system together in a way that it vageuly worked, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best.

OK so the sound wasn't perfect, (everything was routed through a lesser amp, with the main one seemingley dead) but it was still a superb evening.

The Long Weekend were amazing, even if they did trash our nice stage layout ;-) And with numerous bands from the medway Towns playing the quality of music from some of the groups was overwhelming. Of course I should mention The Space Peacocks who won the evening, as judged by our panel of experts including KMFM; but also The Scopes, Old No. Eight, Something Like Serenity... and how can I forget The Unknown, bless their little cotton socks. (As well as many other fantastic groups... I won't mention them all.)

All in all a brilliant evening, and over a hundred pounds was rasied for charity. The soundtrack and DVD will be released shortly, we've just got to sort out copyright issues with The Long Weekend, since they went and got themselves signed!

Cited from my journal at last.fm.

]]> http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2006/battle-of-the-bands-2006/feed/ 0 Apple crisps don't not taste as bad as they look http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2005/apple-crisps-dont-not-taste-as-bad-as-they-look/ http://www.r9paul.org/blog/2005/apple-crisps-dont-not-taste-as-bad-as-they-look/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:33:00 +0000 r9paul http://new.r9paul.org/?p=23 Scratch what I said last time about interview season, one interview and I'm done! Machester offered me a place after interview, I returned home only to find an offer from Durham had arrived in the post.

Now, the tough bit, which do I want to go to? Beautiful, open, quiet, peaceful Durham; or crowded, smelly, red-brick Manchester?

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