I just noticed I never posted in December 2004 so this is a post to even things up a bit. It's really 2nd February 2005. And while I'm here... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! I'm 32. Well, actually I'm 32 1/6 because I'm from the future.
Just in case you happen to be reading this in the past, the Lotto numbers for Saturday 29th January are 3,8,27,38,44,46. You don't need the bonus ball. And only one person won so you could get yourself a nice payout.
Right I'm off before I create a paradox that destroys existence.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Why Firefox?
So, oor Fluffy wanted to know why should she bother waiting hours to download it on dial-up?
I suppose the main reason I use it is security and privacy. Ebil Hax0rz always go for M$ stuff. Spyware does too. Example. That new firewall on Windows Service Pack 2 must be like a red rag to a bull. Spyware and virus writers will have a field day attacking it, same as they have with Internet Explorer and Windows. As soon as Thunderbird is working okay, I'm dumping Outlook.
The other reason is Tabs. It's a teeny tiny difference but once you use them you will wonder how you got along without it. I use IE at work and I'm always trying to open webpages in new tabs.
Of course, the only REAL reason I started using it is because it represents sticking two fingers up at Microsoft.
There, hope your happy! Now I sound like even more of a geek and corporate whore although some would say thats not possible...
I suppose the main reason I use it is security and privacy. Ebil Hax0rz always go for M$ stuff. Spyware does too. Example. That new firewall on Windows Service Pack 2 must be like a red rag to a bull. Spyware and virus writers will have a field day attacking it, same as they have with Internet Explorer and Windows. As soon as Thunderbird is working okay, I'm dumping Outlook.
The other reason is Tabs. It's a teeny tiny difference but once you use them you will wonder how you got along without it. I use IE at work and I'm always trying to open webpages in new tabs.
Of course, the only REAL reason I started using it is because it represents sticking two fingers up at Microsoft.
There, hope your happy! Now I sound like even more of a geek and corporate whore although some would say thats not possible...
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Get Firefox!
Why are you still here? I said Get Firefox!
I will be honest... I'm a bit pissed off! I've just upgraded to v1.0 from v0.92 and it installed with all my bookmarks and options in exactly the same state as before and no restart. Now I'm going to be bored for the hours that I was expecting to be farting around making it work properly. Sheesh!
And another thing! Now that I'm REALLY impressed with it, I've gone and put a button on my side bar and been forced to do a post about it because it's so good. Thanks Firefox, now I look like a corporate whore sucked in by hype even though it a really good bit of software.
And remember kids, at the end of the day, it's only a fricken browser! No need to get worked up. You still needed M$ Internet Explorer to download it, didn't you!
I will be honest... I'm a bit pissed off! I've just upgraded to v1.0 from v0.92 and it installed with all my bookmarks and options in exactly the same state as before and no restart. Now I'm going to be bored for the hours that I was expecting to be farting around making it work properly. Sheesh!
And another thing! Now that I'm REALLY impressed with it, I've gone and put a button on my side bar and been forced to do a post about it because it's so good. Thanks Firefox, now I look like a corporate whore sucked in by hype even though it a really good bit of software.
And remember kids, at the end of the day, it's only a fricken browser! No need to get worked up. You still needed M$ Internet Explorer to download it, didn't you!
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Bye Peelie
The legend John Peel has died. He was perhaps the best radio DJ ever and a thoroughly nice bloke. I am devasted and I will miss him.
"That was Push The Jacket Hard from Radiator Loving Leopard's new EP, available now on Hermitage records, played at the wrong speed. Reminds me of a song from the Inverted Wheelbarrow Label out of Prague, I forget which track but it was on either the Spunk Filled Lampost or Rampant Sloth Album."
He requested Teenage Kicks by The Undertones to be played at his funeral. This is true.
Bye Peelie. RIP.
"That was Push The Jacket Hard from Radiator Loving Leopard's new EP, available now on Hermitage records, played at the wrong speed. Reminds me of a song from the Inverted Wheelbarrow Label out of Prague, I forget which track but it was on either the Spunk Filled Lampost or Rampant Sloth Album."
He requested Teenage Kicks by The Undertones to be played at his funeral. This is true.
Bye Peelie. RIP.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
You learn to live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees
I wanna watch you bleed
It gets worse here everyday
You learn to live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees
I wanna watch you bleed
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Happy Wednesday
DO NOT ATTEND THIS CONCERT, STOP LISTENING TO BAD MUSIC, TURN OFF YOUR RADIO AND TELEVISION!!! One soapbox, one megaphone, one hardhat and this is what you get. Highly amusing. Right, I'm off to listen to some Metallica.
Zoom! This messes with my head and it really is fab! Zoom in... zoom out... zoom in...
OPINIONS PLEASE: Are links that automatically open in new windows a bad thing?
NEWS JUST IN: I just settled down to eat a couple of lovely lamb chops. It was about 3 minutes before I realised I had two forks. How we laughed!
Zoom! This messes with my head and it really is fab! Zoom in... zoom out... zoom in...
OPINIONS PLEASE: Are links that automatically open in new windows a bad thing?
NEWS JUST IN: I just settled down to eat a couple of lovely lamb chops. It was about 3 minutes before I realised I had two forks. How we laughed!
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Uncle Maffydoo!
I'm an uncle! My little sister Amy had a baby boy called Ben. Didn't ask dimensions of aforementioned bundle of joy although I think I should have done considering how many times I've been asked. Don't see why it's so important because I reckon it'll sting a bit however heavy he is... Now I'll have an excuse to play with Lego again in a few years!
Good work Amy and Deacon ;)
EDIT: Crikey... look what they made! And here too! Wow! I am speechless! (Sorry Amy... I HAD to publish those piccys.)
Good work Amy and Deacon ;)
EDIT: Crikey... look what they made! And here too! Wow! I am speechless! (Sorry Amy... I HAD to publish those piccys.)
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
A Moment of Clarity
Forgive me but this may sound a bit convoluted but this is what's happening in my head at the moment...
Smoking's great but I don't smoke... I did for about fifteen years but I stopped on the third of February this year and it's safe to say it made me really miserable for a while. It's like there is a part of you missing, a really important part that calms you down, makes you happy and makes you look really cool.
I started because a lot of my friends and family smoked and I couldn't go against the flow and at fifteen you feel like you're going to live forever. I confess, I still feel like I'm going to live forever but I reached thirty and realised that I'd spent half my life inhaling carcinogenic substances and that's not good. So I stopped. I've managed one hundred days but that was because of a girl and I started up as soon as we split up so that one doesn't count. I've managed sixty days but I started a new job and turned into a stress monkey so that doesn't count either.
This time around, I used nicotine replacement patches and they really worked well. I couldn't say if they actually physically replaced the addiction but I reckon they worked great as a placebo if anything.
It's now been months since my last smoke and I realised that I can't remember when I had my last craving. I didn't have one at the Reading Festival... too drunk... I'm pretty sure the last one was at the start of August. I have realised that it no longer feels like there is something missing from my life as far as smoking is concerned. This realisation caused an what alcoholics refer to a 'a moment of clarity.' I think I have become so obsessed with not exposing myself to cigarettes and other smokers that I've retreated far into my cave. Have you noticed how infrequently this blog is updated? That's because there's been nothing to really say. I haven't been interacting with other human beings properly.
Last time I "gave up giving up", I started smoking. Today, 239 days since my last smoke, I can safely say that I "gave up giving up" but this time I don't need a fag. I no longer have this excuse so I'm going to have to do stuff again. Perhaps there's something more deep rooted than smoking to blame on my recent hermit like tendencies (I'm not your average run-of-the-mill human by a long, long way) but it's convenient to blame it on the smokes.
Smoking's great but I don't smoke... I did for about fifteen years but I stopped on the third of February this year and it's safe to say it made me really miserable for a while. It's like there is a part of you missing, a really important part that calms you down, makes you happy and makes you look really cool.
I started because a lot of my friends and family smoked and I couldn't go against the flow and at fifteen you feel like you're going to live forever. I confess, I still feel like I'm going to live forever but I reached thirty and realised that I'd spent half my life inhaling carcinogenic substances and that's not good. So I stopped. I've managed one hundred days but that was because of a girl and I started up as soon as we split up so that one doesn't count. I've managed sixty days but I started a new job and turned into a stress monkey so that doesn't count either.
This time around, I used nicotine replacement patches and they really worked well. I couldn't say if they actually physically replaced the addiction but I reckon they worked great as a placebo if anything.
It's now been months since my last smoke and I realised that I can't remember when I had my last craving. I didn't have one at the Reading Festival... too drunk... I'm pretty sure the last one was at the start of August. I have realised that it no longer feels like there is something missing from my life as far as smoking is concerned. This realisation caused an what alcoholics refer to a 'a moment of clarity.' I think I have become so obsessed with not exposing myself to cigarettes and other smokers that I've retreated far into my cave. Have you noticed how infrequently this blog is updated? That's because there's been nothing to really say. I haven't been interacting with other human beings properly.
Last time I "gave up giving up", I started smoking. Today, 239 days since my last smoke, I can safely say that I "gave up giving up" but this time I don't need a fag. I no longer have this excuse so I'm going to have to do stuff again. Perhaps there's something more deep rooted than smoking to blame on my recent hermit like tendencies (I'm not your average run-of-the-mill human by a long, long way) but it's convenient to blame it on the smokes.
Let's Go!
Go here and play a dHTML version of Lemmings. It's very useful for a sly break at work and Lemming Armageddon Megadeath still makes me smile.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
LEGO!!!
Finally! The intermaweb makes itself useful. It's a huge shame it's about twenty years too late for me...
Lego is the best toy in the history of creation. It's better than Playstation. It's better than Transformers. Heck, it's even better than my old ZX Spectrum! I found this website that has nearly all of the instruction books from nearly all of the Lego sets, EVER! I never new the offical names for my favorite toys. Now I do. Woohoo! My favorite set was always 928, the "Galaxy Explorer"
The nostalgia oozing from every single pore in my body right now is, quite frankly, distrubing. Please excuse me while I shamelessly wallow.
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Recent Search Terms
People found my blog using these search terms...
- raikonnen wedding (oh the charisma!!!)
- susanna hoffs earnings (i’d like to see her earnings…. woof!)
- "Brigit Holmquist" picture (i think this is Uma's gran...)
- Metallica Ride the lightning image large (ROCK!)
- "hurricane matthew" (yep… I’m full of wind)
- Destructionism (?)
- disney pictionary (??)
- tibetan buddhist wavs (om!)
- leia bikini desktop images (woof!)
- "Dave Clark Five"+"right click (who?)
- maffydoo (at least SOMEONE found what they were looking for)
- Neurotically Yours Videos (?)
- "Hurricane Matthew" (still full of wind)
- Pulp Fiction Jackrabbit Dancing Animated GIF (hehe)
- timothy leary nena (WTF?)
- hazel irvine boobs (who’s she?)
- The Applicators Puke on you (i’m sure they do…)
- HM Department of Vague Paranoia's Preparing for Emergencies (tis funny)
- the darkness, mosh, moshing, reading (see you down the front!!)
- stupid people video
- catsuit in the 1970 (rawr!)
- cindy crawford sixteen
- tibetan monk wavs (OM!)
- 'texas' & 'charlene spiteri' (schwing!)
- "flying planet" sci fi
- the matrix flash version stickman
- last action hero "I have just shot someone, I did it on purpose." (bloody funny quote)
- stickman kung foo
- free heavy fuckers bic (wtf?)
- anna nicole smith is a fucking cunt sum 41
- spandex "black and white stripes" (Metaaaaaaaaaal!)
Monday, September 13, 2004
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