Technical odds and ends

[therealpm]

This might be worth investigating for one of the smaller and potentially more mobile server arrays, especially as the installation of the improved lenses will considerably up the demands on CPU time for image processing.

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[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

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Peter? Where are you? It's cold and I left my keys in the car. Let me in. Your ridiculously oversized calculator has bitten my hand in the letterbox twice.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

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*snigger*

Not at home, dear boy.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

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Be at home. Frances is having a tizzwas about me 'letting' Libby draw on the walls. Can't go back.

I'm getting weird looks

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

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I'll be there in a little while. Question Time is on.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

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And I'm on your doorstep freezing. I think your tin dog of a mechanical companion has routed the vents to blow on me. Death by hypothermia and a nicely preserved cerebellum.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

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You really ought to try being more friendly, ingratiate yourself, dear boy. Pretend it's a constituent.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

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If you're watching This Week, I swear I'll...

I pressed the buzzer and it started the sound of an alarm. You don't have an alarm. Any passerby is going to have the impression, I George Osborne, Chancellor to the Exchequer, am breaking into your house. Call it off! Constituents don't do this.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*alarm ceases*
*front door opens*

...'This Week' doesn't run during parliamentary recess, George. Now get inside. Whatever will the neighbours think?

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

Apologies for interrupting your important date with the Speaker. I couldn't exactly check into a hotel

I have tea. For you.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*sips tea*

Apology accepted. Am I to be graced with your presence for the entire day, or will you return to the family business and spend the afternoon replacing the wallpaper?

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

Frances has been on at me to redecorate, but crayon houses, stick figures and bouncy castles apparently wasn't what she had in mind.
But I do have a job to do

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

That particular job can wait. I'm sure you have other Labourites better things with which to occupy your time.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

But it is a job which gives me such satisfaction. I'm sure you'd have much the same sense had the roles been reversed...

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*peers over glasses*

Just remember that what goes around does have a tendency to come around.

*mutters*
...and I thought Tories prided themselves on being able to take the long view.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

*grumble*

Don't you have things to do? Bankers to corrupt further? Graduates to have suck up to you?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*gives George a very old fashioned look*

Nothing that can't be accomplished via Blackberry.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

You're not quite running the country today Peter...

But do carry on. I should probably head to B&Q to pick out some wallpaper. If She will trust me with it *shudder*

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Not publicly, no.

*sets down cup of tea*

B&Q? Are you feeling quite alright, dear boy?

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

Frances is under the impression it'll be good PR. Presuming people in there have the whereabouts to pay any attention to politics at all. Do not think this is under choice. Do not think I am likely to use anything bought there. There are companies that do these things for you, and she's going on a writer's retreat next weekend. I'm certain there must be someone discrete.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I am certain that no journalist friend of your wife will visit on an anonymous tipoff of your duplicity and write something suitably scathing about Tory hypocrisy when we're 'all it in toegther'.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

That's what intercoms are for. You wouldn't want my reputation to be damaged for the sake of the appearance of the living room, would you now?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

You seemed to bounce back admirably from the last scandal, I'm sure you'd find some way to survive another.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

I had hoped you of all people - don't set me up for any more. Or pretend to not value aesthetically pleasing living spaces *glances pointedly about room*

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with decor.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

Your cynicism is continuous and wounding Peter... Whilst your house is - A little dark for my taste, and reminds me of my grandfather's study... Bluntly, it wasn't decorated by B&Q's value range. And neither will my home.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Pastels would hardly be suitable for the abode of 'The Prince of Darkness'.

[ch4ncellor.livejournal.com]

There are intermediates between those two extremes
So say the liberals. I've spent far too much time with Alexander