Tray Bien

I learned some things today: I learned that the Windows System Tray is not actually called the "System Tray", but is in fact called the "Taskbar Notification Area". This is despite what the documentation coming from other parts of Microsoft would have you believe. I also learned that if you read the word ‘tray’ too many times in the space of a few minutes it stops sounding like a real word ("’Tartlets’. ‘Tartlets’. The word has lost all meaning.")

For the benefit of Jamie, who has apparently decided to learn French, I should tell you that this post’s title ‘Tray Bien’ is a pun on the French phrase ‘trés bien’ meaning ‘very good’. This also doesn’t sound like a real word. So now hopefully you’ve learned something too.

The Graduate

I graduated again yesterday. This seems to be becoming a habit of mine. I’m now Rory Parle BSc HDip. I took the opportunity to go out with some of my classmates from last year and get to know some of them. Better late than never I suppose.

New Family Guy

Yes, I realise that I’m in danger of making this blog nothing but a sub-par Family Guy news source, but in this instance I figured it was a good idea to correct an error I made when I reported on the Guy last month.

Back then I reported, based on the TV.com listings, that there was only going to be one more episode aired this year. In fact it seems that their listings were incomplete, and that there are quite a few episodes left to air. The show returned from a break last Sunday and Fox will continue to show new episodes weekly for at least three more weeks.

This week’s episode is called "Brian Goes Back to College (and Stewie Goes With Him for Obvious Comedy Reasons)".

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Other bloggers, do you ever feel like you’re just wasting your time composing something and then throwing it into a hole? In all of the time I’ve been blogging (coming up to three years soon), my posting frequency has dropped many times while my participation in other online fora (newsgroups, Slashdot, even commenting on other people’s blogs) hasn’t really faltered. I think that’s because it’s a lot easier to respond to someone else than to start something yourself. Anyone agree?