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• Viernes el 24 de abril de 2009—Córdoba’s Mezquita reinforces my disdain for high-church Christianity.
• Wednesday 11^th February 2009—The fake police conspiracy.
• Monday 9^th February 2009—I have a hurty knee.
• Sunday 11^th January 2009—This evening, my computer caught fire.
• Friday 9^th January 2009—A trucker gives me the horn.
• Wednesday 24^th December 2008—Walkin’ in a Woolies wasteland.
• Saturday 25^th October 2008—Dishwasher.
• Tuesday 7^th October 2008—My new hobby: sheepishly listing my hobbies.
• Wednesday 10^th September 2008—Enegori-kun, monkey in a suit par excellence.
• Tuesday 9^th September 2008—The day the fair came to Oxford.
• 2008年7月27日（水）—I just lived through an earthquake!!
• Saturday 28^th June 2008—Fighting fowl and singing sweetly.
• Sunday 15^th June 2008—Bollocks. I left my book on the train.
• Thursday 12^th June 2008—Surprises at RAL.
• Sunday 1^st June 2008—Flicking Student Loans Company.
• Saturday 10^th May 2008—The name’s Bond: licensed to kill a franchise.
• Saturday 19^th April 2008—The burgled Barbour debacle.
• Sunday 13^th April 2008—Trainspotting.
• Friday 14^th March 2008—‘Hab you got…fiber?’
• Tuesday 19^th February 2008—One area where the USA doesn’t lead the free world: democracy.
• Monday 11^th February 2008—Take that lefties!!!
• Friday 8^th February 2008—All this talk of Sharia law has almost turned me Muslim.
• Tuesday 29^th January 2008—That’ll be £131.50, please.
• Thursday 24^th January 2008—All this time the answer to my question lay in the bike shed.
• Tuesday 8^th January 2008—Jumping for joy because it’s a leap year.
• Wednesday 2^nd January 2008—Huge breast sadness.
• Tuesday 1^st January 2008—An afternoon out in the ‘country’.
• Monday 31^st December 2007—New year’s eve in London.
• Tuesday 25^th December 2007—A Christmas telephone call.
• Sunday 23^rd December 2007—Coming home for Christmas.
• Friday 21^st December 2007—Possible rumbling of Christmas presents.
• Tuesday 18^th December 2007—A guide to charts for executives.
• Monday 17^th December 2007—Carol games.
• Saturday 8^th December 2007—Global warming: global action.
• Monday 26^th November 2007—Cheese sauce: I roux the day I tried to make that.
• Monday 19^th November 2007—Light disappointment.
• Sunday 18^th November 2007—A day at ARGUS in ISIS at RAL.
• Friday 16^th November 2007—Americans on the train and a little bit of chemistry.
• Sunday 4^th November 2007—A talk and a book about Antarctica by Pat and Rosemarie Keough.
• Thursday 25^th October 2007—Googling the tutor.
• Wednesday 24^th October 2007—The M40 and white supremacy.
• Friday 12^th October 2007—A day at EMU in ISIS at RAL.
• Thursday 20^th September 2007—Can you kill two birds with only one stone?
• Saturday 8^th September 2007—The random lights and death of a princess.
• Thursday 6^th September 2007—Owww.
• Friday 3^rd August 2007—Dentistry, chavs and zoological epistemology.
• Thursday 2^nd August 2007—I’ve fallen in love with a copyrighted font.
• Domenica 8 luglio 2007—The hole they call Venezia.
• Sabato 7 luglio 2007—Alps–Italy: a shock to the system.
• Freitag, den 6. Juli 2007—A walk up some mountains deep in the Alps.
• Donnerstag, den 5. Juli 2007—A walk around Achensee deep the in Alps.
• Montag, den 2. Juli 2007—Too much Mozart in Salzburg.
• Samstag, den 30. Juni—Wien, Venezia, and why we should all just try being nice to each-other for a change.
• Freitag, den 29. Juni 2007—Dinner in Köln…but not the dinner we expect.
• Thursday 28^th June 2007—The first five days of Statto’s approaching-historical trip around Europe. More coming soon!
• Tuesday 26^th June 2007—Total desolation.
• Monday 25^th June 2007—The air of exodus is palpable as we walk through the thinning tents, people trudging uphill, the only ones not heading for the exits being—us!!
• Sunday 24^th June 2007—I have developed (or perhaps caught) the recyclers’ instinct.
• Saturday 23^rd June 2007—I’ve lived a life fairly sheltered from drugs in little rural Newport. So Glastonbury came as something of a surprise.
• Friday 22^nd June 2007—I realise that it’s something of a Glastonbury cliché to talk about the mud, but I think it would be remiss of me not to mention it.
• Thursday 21^st June 2007—After the briefest of sojourns at the family home, today was the day I departed for Glastonbury.
• Friday 27^th April 2007—Photography, mime and Jesus.
• Thursday 19^th April 2007—Correlation does not always imply causation, as any even slightly good statistician knows.
• Sunday 15^th April 2007—I am nursing a burgeoning addiction to “feta snacks”.
• Friday 6^th April 2007—Today was Good Friday.
• Tuesday 20^th March 2007—I hope I really confused a man in a sandwich shop today.
• Thursday 15^th February 2007—A friend of mine had his bike stolen last night.
• Wednesday 14^th February 2007—A nanotube anecdote.
• Thursday 8^th February 2007—Snow!!!!!!!!!!
• Saturday 3^rd February 2007—Today is Groundhog Day, which means it's time once again for meteorologists everywhere to defer to American rodents for medium-term forecasting of the weather stateside.
• Friday 2^nd February 2007—Today is Groundhog Day, which means it’s time once again for meteorologists everywhere to defer to American rodents for medium-term forecasting of the weather stateside.
• Wednesday 31^st January 2007—So, it’s the early hours of the morning and I’m walking in a nonchalant way across the Meadows Quad.
• Tuesday 30^th January 2007—I spent a decent part of this evening staring at the back of someone’s head. I’m not even quite sure whose.
• Friday 26^th January 2007—Today was crazy.
• Thursday 25^th January 2007—I watched Hannibal this evening.
• Sunday 21^st January 2007—My brain did an odd thing this morning.
• Wednesday 29^th November 2006—So: e-mail autoresponders.
• Tuesday 31^st October 2006—I trod in some dog poo on the way back from lectures today. Dog poo is smelly and sticky so it was quite a depressing experience from that point of view, but walking home smelling slightly of poo wasn’t the worst part of the experience.
• Monday 30^th October 2006—There was a man who kept coming onto the Meadow (outside my window, living as I do in the front of the Meadows Building) at eight every morning and using what my intimate knowledge of the sounds of horticultural machinery (one of the many perks of living on a nursery) tells me is a strimmer.
• Wednesday 25^th October 2006—I know I don’t keep my room in the best state ever. This tendency has been ingrained in me since childhood, when, as a toddler, I assumed that “bomshittit” (pronounced “boms-hittit”, IPA bɒmzhɪtɪt) was a real word meaning an especially squalid place because my mum would so frequently come into my room and say “This place looks like a bomb’s hit it.”
• Monday 23^rd October 2006—A shop assistant trying too hard.
• Sunday 22^nd October 2006—Today is the first day since (at least) July 14th that I’ve not worn shorts out of choice. I have been forced on three prior occasions.
• Thursday 19^th October 2006—This evening I went to see journalist George Monbiot launching his new book Heat: How to stop the planet burning.
• Wednesday 18^th October 2006—This evening I was treated to a cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal and nervous system exam. Most of it could be done lying down, which was good, because I am very tired after a night of listening to extractor fans.
• Tuesday 17^th October 2006—You’ve got to be careful in my bathroom.
• Monday 16^th October 2006—The only thing worse than going into a shop to buy camp, expensive conditioner is going into a shop to buy camp, expensive conditioner and discovering it’s on three for two and thus feeling duty-bound to make a bulk purchase for maximum cost efficiency.
• Sunday 15^th October 2006—There’s only one thing worse than people who are impolite, and that’s those who are wish to impose their impeccable manners upon you.
• Thursday 12^th October 2006—Living in student accommodation is a music-enjoying person’s nightmare.
• Wednesday 11^th October 2006—It is a popular superstition that it is unlucky to put up an umbrella whilst inside.
• Tuesday 10^th October 2006—Another company was ticked off the possible career list this evening.
• Monday 9^th October 2006—There is something special about the battle of wits between the consumer and the incompetent member of technical support staff.
• Sunday 8^th October 2006—In the last 48 hours, I have watched 18 episodes of series 2 of 24.
• Saturday 26^th August 2006—I’ve been feeling inexplicably cheerful for the last few days. It’s getting quite annoying.
• Wednesday 9^th August 2006—Let no-one underestimate the power of conditioning to overcome the rational human mind.
• Sunday 30^th October 2005—Factually-inaccurate fame as one of Oxford’s student papers attempts to recount Statto’s run-in with the DSA.
• Wednesday 19^th October 2005—The clash horns with Statto–JTA Publishing.

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