Missing BBC Mashed... and Dentists...

The Hack Day 2008 sounded really fun this year, with freeview boxes to hack up with a DVB-T signal radiating around, unlocked BBC content archives to play with and all other kinds of stuff from robotics to presentations on various interesting subjects.
Definitely trying to go next year!

So... anyone ever try to get dental work done in this country? What a ridiculous state of affairs. After being kept up all night by my tooth, I went to the dentist... paid about 50 quid so the lady could poke around and put my head in an x-ray machine, then said... sorry, no appointments until December. DECEMBER?! What use is that?!
So next week, to another dentist... and most likely another 50 quid... but will book the followup appointment before I even enter the building, using carrier pigeon and fire. That'll learn 'em. Bastards.

So off to bed I go, to get ready for a meeting tomorrow at 5:30PM... It's a bit unfair to ask the other end to get up at 8AM just so I can leave at 5 I suppose. I do get to use fun telepresence which still hasn't lost it's novelty. Then to the pub, where I can't drink, because of antibiotics.
I could do with a weekend off the booze anyway really... may very well use the time to rebuild studio PC thing - (read as 'get furious with massive PC and it's confusing partitions and RAID, probably play rockband or GTA4 and eat capital spare ribs. And play with IOU which I finally got an image for today.)

Matt out.