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Want to look like a ninja, then check out houseofninja for a really simple way to look like a deadly assassin. It basically involves putting on a t-shirt inside out, though the results do seem to look quite good...well at least a couple of the examples do. I might even put one of my own examples online. ;)

Well I've just returned from my lovely vacation in China last weekend and had an amazing time. I initially flew into Shanghai and spent a few days relaxing before visiting Hangzhou, Guilin, Yangshuo, Ningbo and Putuo Shan. Guilin must have been the nicest place, with just an unbelievable scenery and nice people. Have just managed to complete putting my photos online, so without further ado I introduce pictures of China part II. Enjoy

Got this from an old friend....it's a video of a couple of Chinese kids miming to a song by the Backstreet Boys. It's very funny worth checking out.

Happened to be strolling through town on a Saturday afternoon and noticed these fellas hanging outside the WHSmith shop in the Guildhall promoting the Revenge of the Sith DVD. Thought it would be a good opportunity to grab a few photos, shame Darth didn't shout "Noooooooooooooo!". Enjoy

One of my close friends from Uni had her few seconds of fame today as she managed to appear on the BBC Spotlight news programme today. She basically talked for a few seconds about the launderette in the area where she lives. I'm sure she's going to be coming into work tomorrow with a smile on her face, maybe if I'm lucky I might even get an autograph from Judit. Hehehehe Unfortunately the story was about a murder that took place at the Silverspin launderette on Blackboy Road in Exeter.

Well I had to say goodbye to ickle Dylan this morning as I had to head to work for an extremely busy day. Dylan and company had to head home in the afternoon after a rather exciting weekend playing around with remote controls, mice and beer bottles. My day at work consisted of lots of interesting activities such as doing a videoconferencing QA Test with the guys up in Edinburgh and providing a training session for a few academics from the English department. It went a lot better than I thought it would, especially as the lecture theatre I had booked seemed to be occupied by another group. It was quite lucky that Newman A was free in the afternoon.

Well it's Saturday night and I feel quite tired for some reason. I spent the best part of the morning cleaning the house ready for my bro and his family to come down to Exeter for the weekend. I also managed in between cleaning to have a nice chat with my girlfriend today, think we must have been on the phone for around an hour or so. I didn't realise when I phoned her yesterday that she had to pay for receiving the call. Still it was a pretty enjoyable conversation and I'm sure we've got quite a lot to talk about in the future. I picked Ugy, Dylan + Astrid up from the train station at around 2pm or so and brought them home. I gave Dylan his slightly late birthday present, which he wasn't too interested in playing with at the time as he had discovered the TV remote controls. Though the bear did seem to grow on him later in the day. I then had to head back into town to meet Seumus to have a chat at Costa.

Here's a pretty cool game to waste lots of time, it's a simple game involving try to get vehicles from one end of the screen to the other negotiating traffic lights which you can change from red to green. Enjoy

Do you have problems sleeping? Well I know someone who can talk about sailing for hours and hours, which seems to be just the ticket if you're having problems sleeping. Failing that you could always do worse than check out his rather interesting website .

Hurrah it's another fabulous Monday and also the start of another exciting week at work. The morning consisted of watching some video stream being sent from Plymouth just to check out everything was ok. Fortunately there wasn't any problems, so I could get on with the rest of my tasks. I was surprised how much I managed to get done this morning, must be a new world record for me. Lunchtime came very quickly today and after waiting god knows how long for K to get her act together we finally made it to the Ram. It's been closed for 2 weeks so it was nice to pop in and be greeted by the friendly staff. I decided to go for the healthy option as per usual and had a baked potato and salad, whilst the big jelly decided to go for a slightly less than healthy option of cheesy chips and mayo. As the weather was so nice we sat outside to talk about your typical nonsense like we always do, though I admittedly got distracted a few times and couldn't really engage in conversation for

Just thought I'd plug my own personal website by mentioning that I've added some photos of my home town Exeter . Sadly there's not much on the Exeter page so far, but I hope to add a few more over the next few weeks. I've got a few nice ones of Exeter Cathedral and one of a parade a good few months back (one to keep Seumus happy). http://www.people.exeter.ac.uk/nkjdatta/photos/uk/exeter/

Stumbled across an interesting application from NASA called World Wind which lets you view the world from all their satellite imagery they've acquired. It's incredibly powerful as it lets you zoom in and look at everything in 3D.

Didn't really have a proper lunch today as I spent a fair amount of my time talking to my ex gf, which actually went better than I thought it would. We've not been getting on particularly well for the last week and a bit I guess for various reasons I won't discuss. I hope things improve from now onwards, as it's not been fun this last week. Decided to go over to the University supermarket which still surprises me by being recently renamed KeyStore to grab a coffee and sit on the benches outside. I joined a table with some foreign students learning English and a few minutes later Kellie pops up and joins me after sending me a few abusive text messages. She always sends me abusive messages when she has to walk more than a 100 metres or so, especially if it's up hill. Todays abuse was something along the lines of muppet ! Kellie went into the supermarket to get her usual giant sized baguette and latte. A few minutes later the rest of the Compass team joined us to fea

Got a text message from Judit today to meet up for coffee this afternoon at the Boston Tea Party. I must have got into town at around 3pm or so and decided to waste a bit of time wandering round the city centre. I was getting a bit bored as most of the shops were closing at around 4pm and decided to wander towards the cathedral as you do and who was there but none other than Dawn French . I overheard some people mention it was some special service for some cancer thingy, perhaps a cancer charity organisation. I must eavesdrop better next time to find out what's going on. This is the best photo I managed to take at the time as Dawn had a habit of looking in a different direction whenever I got close or someone getting in the way when I was taking a snap. Still I'm quite happy with the shots I managed to take and for those interested I'll put some better quality ones up on my website . I then headed off to meet Judit and John at the BTP for a cup of coffee.

Popped into the city centre yesterday to get some birthday cards for my brother and sister, though unfortunately couldn't find anything which I liked. So it looks like I will have to return again to the centre to try again, though at least I've got plenty of time. Bumped into several people who I haven't seen for a while, first person that I saw walking down the High Street from MVC was Caroline. I just about recognised her in her new gothic look. So we had a fairly long chat on the seats outside of Boots about life in general, work and of course the love life. I got interrupted about half way through the conversation when Squirt phoned, and after repeated calls and messages I went towards WHSmith to meet him and his bro. We popped down to the Impy for a quick afternoon drink and after much discussion about whether we should eat something, we decided not to. All three of us returned to the city centre and went out seperate ways. I was still starving so I thought I'd m

Well what can one say about a fairly uneventful day at work, mainly consisting of updating some videoconferencing webpages, sorting out a few techie things in XFI, giving some IT advice and taking some photographs of a lecture theatre. I guess the most interesting thing from today must have been removing a couple of CDs from a CD player that fell out of the drive tray for someone from the ELC . It's not as if the CDs were especially good, unless you like Whitesnake and Foreigner. Still a job well done by Gary and myself. Popped down to the Impy at lunchtime as the Ram is closed for two weeks with fellow chavs Gary and Kellie for a spot of lunch and a drink. We were too lazy to walk down to the Imp, so we went down in the Kevmobile with twin exhausts at faster than light speeds. Quite amazing for a car that has two baby seats in the back. Once at the Imp it was straight to the bar for a half of Guinness , bottle of Cobra and some Abbot Ale . We admired the magnificent views for al

Just been looking through my bookmarks as you do on a boring Sunday night and I stumbled across a scratch mix of the Imperial March, it's a bit on the short side but still pretty well done. Local copy of the clip (3.8MB WMV) Lots of other nice scratch videos at DJ Keltech scratch vids . There's also a pretty well done version of Knight Rider on his page with some geezer doing some beatbox.

I've just signed upto to blogger so when I can think of something interesting to write I'll chuck it up, hopefully in the next few days.