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Neeeeeeeeed Sleep!!
Last night I sent Pam a text asking her to text me back when she gets off work... which she did. So I called her and we talked for a good while, as she wandered around Walmart. After about half an hour or so, she needed to take a trip to the bathroom so we hung up, and she was going to text me when she was done.
Unfortunately, I dropped off to sleep while waiting. :( Sorry babe!!
I woke up this morning and grabbed my clock to see what time it was... 7:23am! Crap I was late... and because I'd fallen asleep instead of going to bed properly I hadn't turned my alarm on! D'oh!
At least I wasn't too late getting into work, only 10 minutes after 9. Amazing really considering how many slow-pokes there were on the road.
PS: 50 days babe!!
Posted in Life at 14:03 |
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Holidays
I feel like an idiot. I just checked my remaining holiday entitlement and I had 56 hours left, which is just over 7 days. Why the hell didn't I sort myself out and get a trip to Chicago organised? Ugh. I am a complete dumbass... that's 7 days I could've had off work totally wasted. After Thursday, they've gone forever.
I have just booked a week's holiday in November though, but that comes out of my 2005 entitlement. I'll probably not have enough holiday in 2005 knowing my luck... oh why didn't I think about taking a week off in August. God I am so stupid sometimes.
I am really looking forward to November though. I have missed Pam like crazy... obviously I'm missing her so much rational thought has gone out the window, or I'd have thought about using up my remaining holiday instead of losing it.
Bah... enough bitching... let's look on the bright side.
I am going to Chicago in November! I will be staying with Pam!! Plus I'll be there for Thanksgiving too... never been to Illinois before, or been part of the Thanksgiving festivities... it'll be weird celebrating an American holiday, I am English after all. It's a bit like me trying to celebrate Independence Day! :)
I guess I can give thanks for arriving safely, being with Pam, and spending time with her family. Something I am really looking forward to.
I miss you Pam!!
Time to start another countdown I think.
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How Geeks Make Love...
... or something to that effect.
unzip; strip;touch; grep; grep; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep (Core dumped) general protection fault... core dumped
Posted in Humour at 15:59 |
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How Cool Is This?
Check out the banner and date! Don't they look cool? I was browsing a few sites today and came across an article on A List Apart which was all about dynamic images. With a bit of JavaScript and PHP my site now generates the banner and date images on the fly using whatever font I throw at it... in this case my personal favourite "augie" which I've been using on some of my sites for a couple years now.
What's great about this script is that if you turn off images, the text is still displayed, if you turn off JavaScript, the text is still displayed... and it follows your CSS rules too!
The complete article on Dynamic Text Replacement can be found over on ALA's site.
Posted in Blog at 16:07 |
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I Wanna Grow Old With You
I watched The Wedding Singer again last night, and at the end Adam Sandler sings this song to Drew Barrymore. It's very sweet :)
I wanna make you smile,
Whenever you're sad.
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad.
All I wanna do,
Is grow old with you
I'll get you medicine,
When your tummy aches.
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks.
It could be so nice,
Growin' old with you
I'll miss you, kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold.
Need you, feed you.
I'll even let you hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink
Oh I could be the man,
Who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you.
Posted in Lyrics at 10:49 |
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120 Reasons You Should Date Me
Time for something amusing, I nicked this from a forum somewhere on the web:
1) I'm single.
2) It's more fun than eating glass.
3) I'll keep you company.
4) You have nothing better to do.
5) You get back rubs.
6) I have never broken into a bear's home and eaten all his porridge.
7) I have no communicable diseases.
8) You might actually enjoy it.
9) I only torture guys when they ask me to.
10) I can, at the touch of a few buttons, have a pizza delivered in less than 30 minutes.
11) Cats seem to like me.
12) I would never smoke or drink while pregnant.
13) I'm really a nice person once you get to know me.
14) Would you want to be known throughout history as "the one who let me get away"?
15) I am not an alien from another dimension bent on world domination.
16) I seldom pick a fight with inanimate objects.
17) I believe that every person has the potential to become great.
18) I won't bore you by talking about my stamp collection.
19) Unlike Vincent van Gogh, I would never cut off my ear for anybody.
20) I always remember to use pixie dust when attempting to jump out of a window and fly.
21) I feel that a relationship can exist without sex if it needs to.
22) I speak 6 languages, English, text, typo, BASIC, and HTML.
23) You'll forever wonder what you're missing if you don't date me.
24) I take a bath at least once a day.
25) I'm housebroken.
26) Marilyn Monroe is dead and J. Lo is married; who's left?
27) I don't turn into a werewolf during a full moon.
28) I have never committed a violent crime.
29) My teddy bear wants to meet you.
30) To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. (Ecc. 3:1 KJV) Therefore, you will eventually go out with me. *smile*
31) You haven't had a sufficient dose of strangeness in your life.
32) I believe the rabbit should be given some Trix.
33) I do my own laundry.
34) The voices in my head told me you would like me.
35) I do not drink and drive.
36) It will be a life-enriching experience.
37) There is a refreshing absence of monsters under my bed lately.
38) You've probably heard every line in the book... So, what's one more?
39) There's no compelling reason why you shouldn't.
40) I'm smarter than the average bear.
41) Just do it!
42) I am anxious to find someone to share my hopes, dreams, and wishes with.
43) I'm getting fewer and fewer "ice-cream headaches".
44) It's more fun than doing your income taxes.
45) I understand the difference between their, there, and they're.
46) I am clean.
47) Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
48) I'll supply the chocolate chip cookies.
49) I have no plans to give the Pope a wedgie.
50) I am faster than an unfired bullet.
51) I can leap tall housecats in a single bound.
52) You know in your heart that it's the right thing to do.
53) I have never caused a traffic accident because I was fixing my makeup.
54) We are of opposite genders in the same species.
55) I can have it my way at Burger King.
56) I use my seat belt.
57) I'm no worse than most other girls, and maybe better than some.
58) It would make me smile.
59) It might make you smile too.
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Spread Firefox Campaign
Taken from the SpreadFirefox website: "In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign--with 6 days still to go! This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release. But it's not time to relax our efforts. How soon can we break through 2 million? We'll have more information on a new campaign on Monday."
Fantastic news. Come on people... keep spreading the word!
I've even bought a Firefox t-shirt to show my support for this excellent web browser. Looking forward to its arrival. :D
Posted in Computers at 11:08 |
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XP Reinstallation Woes
After a week or two of fighting with my computer as Explorer constantly locks up as I right click on something or hit Delete, I finally got fed up with it and decided a format/reinstall was the next course of action.
I dislike having to start over from scratch, as much as the next man (or woman!), but it does have its good points. Your system runs 10x faster as there's no corruption in the registry, there's no bloat from all the crap software you'd installed, and everything is installed from scratch instead new versions on top of each other etc.
So, late Friday evening, after I'd backed up my Profile folder and Program Files (just in case!), I stuck in my XP SP2 CD and started the fresh install. Saturday morning I carried on with the reinstallation of all my drivers and some of my software. I installed my NVIDIA nForce drivers to get my on-board network card working, then checked the NVIDIA website and discovered there were newer drivers! Typical! Why on each I didn't check before I formatted that I don't know.
Posted in Computers at 10:53 |
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I Love The Web
The web is a fantastic medium. You have a problem, you find a forum and ask for help; and if you're lucky you get an answer.
I have been using XML feeds from Moreover.com for a while now to display news headlines on one of my sites (used to be 2, but one is now offline for good). Recently Moreover decided they wanted to stick adverts right at the top of the feed, which weren't very useful to people outside of the USA - LowerMyBills.com and New York Times Subscriptions are useless over here!
I wanted these adverts removed if possible, and also to limit the number of items output from the XML. I had the limit working, but could not work out how to reject the first item. So I asked on the bit-tech forums hoping for someone who could help to reply.
I got a reply, in fact I got quite a few. Hwulex was the biggest help, and I owe him quite a few pints someday.
Thanks to Hwu, I've now got the news headlines displayed without adverts and limited to whatever number I wish. :D
The thread on bit-tech can be found here, which includes all the source code we have been working with.
I love the web.
Posted in Computers at 11:40 |
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Car Audio - Yes... AGAIN!!
Weeeee!! They've done a good job :) At least I think it's a good job, looks very neat to me :)
Strangely my rear speakers weren't plugged in, so I put the plugs back in again.
With the new front speakers and tweeters and subwoofer in the boot... OMG! My music sounds so much better! I am so happy with it all, so far ;)
Posted in Life at 23:26 |
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Car Audio Revisited
Just rang Car Sounds to find out if my car's finished and it is... so I paid with my card... I'm now getting very impatient because I'm stuck at work and I want to just get home and test my new sub out!
I really hope they've done a good job, neat and tidy, wires nicely hidden etc!
I also hope I can play my music the way I want to, instead of having to fiddle with the balance to push more sound out of the left side because the right speaker was bust.
Wanna go home!!!
Posted in Life at 16:40 |
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Car Audio
My car's in the shop getting fitted with all the car audio equipment I've bought over the past year or so... finally! I'm hoping everything gets installed ok, and the guys doing it don't screw up the inside of my car while running all the cables from the front to the back etc.
As a bonus, I get to drive my mum's car home tonight - a Peugeot 307CC - my dad had to ring up the insurance company and get my name added, they first refused since I'm only 24 and the car is quite powerful and expensive, so my dad said to them "fine, in that case cancel the cover and we'll sign up with Churchill instead", they went away and came back a little while later saying "erm... we'll add his name for £55".
Fifty five quid? Is that all? Just goes to show how desperate to keep your business some companies are! A damn good deal IMO!
Posted in Life at 14:13 |
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR
We're getting closer to a full release of my favourite web browser - Firefox. I don't know why people still insist on using Internet Explorer, when it's full of holes, terrible web standards support (CSS/PNG etc) and basically just broken.
Unfortunately for those (including me) that embrace the web standards of CSS1, CSS2 and XHTML there are still sites which only work in IE, probably because they were only designed to work in it, instead of sticking to a proper standard... and there's also Windows Update and Office Update which use ActiveX controls and will never work in anything but IE, but apart from those few sites, the majority works brilliantly (and faster!) in Firefox.
The time to switch is now!
Download the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release then spread the word!
I have made an entry with links to all the Extensions I have installed in Firefox to make my life so much easier. This is kept as up to date as possible.
Posted in Firefox at 12:23 |
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Stolen From Bash.org
<verin> and on the fourth day, there was pr0n, and God said, "let this be a blessing onto you, since Eve is out shopping"
<@Chin^> My sister caught me jacking off the other week and calls me a pervert
<@Chin^> just the other day i walked into my room and caught my sister masturbating
<@Chin^> So she calls me a pervert again?!?
<@Chin^> there is no justice in the world...
<Bazz> Every day you give me food, and yet I dont eat. I always stand on four legs. What am I?
<Costilled> Calista Flockhart
<AdmiralPJ> I can predict things before they happen
<AdmiralPJ> yes i know
<ari> That's precognition, not telepathy
<ari> Ah, damnit...
<ari> Good one
<Teratogen> 1) cubic zirconium ring, 2) marriage will take place at the Justice of the Peace (janitor can be witness)
<Teratogen> 3) reception at McDonald's, 4) honeymoon at my apartment
<Teratogen> if she doesn't like that, screw her.
Finque: i always tell a girl when i cum
Finque: one time i didn't
Finque: let's just say she bites
Finque: she had specifically told me she wasn't going to take it in her mouth
Finque: i was like "yeah right bitch"
Finque: so i cum, she chokes, swallows, smile at me
Finque: and bites
tom: wtf
Finque: so i said sorry and that i'd make it up through cunnilingus
Finque: i got her good and horney
Finque: and bit her clit like it was a hot dog
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My Phone
I have a mobile phone, like most people these days, on the T-Mobile UK network. They have a feature called Mobile Email which allows you to receive email via text messages and also send them too... nothing new I'm sure ;)
Anyway... it wasn't working on my phone although it is supposed to be turned on by default, so I rang up Customer Support, as I wanted to let Pam email my phone directly instead of my normal email so I would know she'd sent me something immediately instead of having to find a PC with internet access.
I got Customer Support to enable Mobile Email for my number... and BAM I start getting spam about viagra/cialis/regalis etc appearing at least twice a day, sometimes more.
This really pisses me off. I don't want this shit on my mobile, as I have to pay for the fucking incoming text! I am going to call T-Mobile again and demand some filtering... I just hope they listen to me, or as soon as my contract expires (next March) I'm moving network.
Posted in Rant at 14:16 |
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PlanetQuack
Finished updating my planetquack.net website, finally. As well as zquack.net!
It was about time I removed some of the useless crap from my sites, lack of motivation is a terrible thing!
Posted in Computers at 14:13 |
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New Name!
Yes... I've changed the name of my blog (again). Thanks to Charlotte from #hottub on DALnet, who changed the old phrase from Hackers "Hack The Planet" to the one you see above :)
Cheers!
Posted in Blog at 22:24 |
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Magic Touch?
A few people at work have commented on my apparent "magic touch" when it comes to computer equipment. When people are having problems, sometimes all it needs is me to walk into the room and whatever was going wrong will suddenly go away. I don't know if this is a blessing or not... because it makes it so damn hard to solve any sort of problem if it's not visible at the time!
I went out to a client's this afternoon. His laptop had died completely, he told me. So I get there expecting to find a dead laptop, but once I'd simply plugged in the AC adapter and hit the power button... I saw the XP logo appear. The client was stunned. He'd tried everything to try get it working again... and all I did was walk in and turn it on.
He'd even gone out and spent £800 on a brand new laptop... very nice one it is too. He was due, the old one was at least 5 years old and bits were falling off it like crazy. It was held together with Sellotape!!
I was glad his old one started working though, made it a lot easier to set up his new one, as I could run the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and get everything copied over :)
Only problem I had was with rights once I'd joined his new laptop to the domain - he didn't have administrator rights over the laptop but he did over the entire network. Silly XP! Easy to solve though... log in as Administrator to the domain, and add his user account to the Local Computer administrators group.
Sorted!
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British Hospitality
An American tourist in London decides to skip his tour group and explore the city on his own.
He wanders around, seeing the sights, and occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture, chat with the lads, and have a pint or two of the local brew.
After a while, he finds himself in a very high class neighbourhood ... big, stately residences... no pubs, no stores, no restaurants, and worst of all... NO PUBLIC TOILETS.
He really, really has to go, after all those pints. He finds a narrow side street, with high walls surrounding the adjacent buildings and decides to use the wall to solve his problem.
Posted in Humour at 10:38 |
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Disorder In Court
These are from a book called 'Disorder in the Court'. They are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters - who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July fifteenth.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?
Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when
he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
Posted in Humour at 10:27 |
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One Liners
Via email. :)
* I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'
* When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
* Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
* I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
* I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't get on with my real ladder.
* I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
* A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
* I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said - 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way.
* My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.
* Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
* I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, Six should be enough."
* If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
* I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
* You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.
* Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
* I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
* Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
* I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted in Humour at 10:16 |
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Anagrams
DORMITORY:
DIRTY ROOM
PRESBYTERIAN:
BEST IN PRAYER
DESPERATION:
A ROPE ENDS IT
GEORGE BUSH:
HE BUGS GORE
THE MORSE CODE:
HERE COME DOTS
SLOT MACHINES:
CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY:
IS NO AMITY
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
WOMAN HITLER
SNOOZE ALARMS:
ALAS! NO MORE Z'S
A DECIMAL POINT:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES:
THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
TWELVE PLUS ONE
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS
A bit old I know :)
Posted in Humour at 10:06 |
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Chechen Brutality
Gotta love those Chechens!
Lewis has posted this entry over on the Atheism Blog, he says it a lot better than I ever could.
Posted in Rant at 09:12 |
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Bastards!
Why must people be so careless and inconsiderate when it comes to other people's property? :(
Some *censored* has scraped down the side of my car while it was parked in the PC World car park last Saturday. They've damaged the paintwork on the metal and plastic on the driver's side door. :(
I got my car cleaned today, inside and out, and can now see the damage fully. It is rather nasty. :(
I hate people hitting my fucking car. Why can't they look where they are going. I wish I'd caught the *censored* who did it, before I got home not realising anything had happened. :(
*sigh*
Posted in Rant at 15:28 |
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Movable Type 3.11
Another upgrade! This one is a bug fix to sort out the mess Six Apart made with the 3.1 release ;)
So far so good!
Posted in Movable Type at 23:57 |
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Computers Suck - Part 2
After leaving the server to boot last night, I find it's ready to log in this morning. So now I can start installing all the drivers for the motherboard and printer... this takes a lot longer than I hoped because Windows is taking so damn long to get to the login box.
Anyway, I get everything installed... after repairing you've gotta reapply any service packs, patches or hotfixes so I did that too.
I discover that I can't log into Terminal Services from my PC, but after a bit of googling, I discover that this is caused by the NVIDIA service so after disabling that, I can log in fine. Stupid thing.
So here we are, all running great. My server has had a fantastic upgrade and won't need any more hardware for a long time yet - probably. LOL!
Here's a readout of the current hardware specification:
[OS] Windows Small Business Server 2003 Domain Controller (5.2 - 3790)
[CPU] 1-Intel Pentium 4, 2399MHz, 1024KB (0% Load)
[Memory] Usage: 566/1024MB (55.27%)
[Video Card] NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
[Res] 1280x960 16bit
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Computers Suck (Some Of The Time)
I bought a new CPU off eBay a few days ago for £71, and then ordered 512MB of RAM from Crucial which cost £50. This was all for my server as it seriously needed beefing up. It had a 1.7Ghz Celeron and 640MB RAM, now it runs a 2.4Ghz Prescott P4 with 1MB of L2 cache (compared to the Celeron which has only 128KB) and 1GB of RAM.
The server had an MSI 845E Max motherboard, which has a Socket 478. I had assumed that the Prescott would slot right in, but nooooo! They might share the same size socket, but they are totally different.
So, after an hour or two of fiddling around with different hardware combinations, I check out the web, and discover that there is NO way I could use that 845 board. Right, off I go to PC World to try to get my hands on a cheap Prescott supporting board. Of course this is PC World... so that's near impossible.
I end up getting another MSI board, the 865PE Neo2-PFS (Platinum Edition). I also pick up a new 300W PSU as I knew I'd need one. Ended up spending a shade over £100.
Once I got home I crawled up into the loft and pulled down the Chieftec Dragon case I'd once used as my own PC case till I got my Lian Li. I decided to use the Dragon as it's a lot bigger than the shitty case the server was currently using, there would also be room to screw down all 3 of my hard drives and also have a fan blowing cool air over my most important 2.
Eventually I get everything installed into the new case, and fire it up. All the hardware works, but Windows doesn't. After a bit more research on the web, I find some instructions on the Microsoft Knowledge Base on how to move a hard drive to a new motherboard - just what I needed. What you gotta do is boot off the 2003 CD and run a repair, so that it can re-discover all the hardware from scratch.
I leave the PC booting up as it is taking fricking ages and go to bed.
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Silly Things People Say
Michael Burke on watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked:
"They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts."
Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open:
"Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself."
Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports:
"Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets."
Jack Burnicle was talking about Colin Edwards' tyre choice on World Superbike racing:
"Colin had a hard on in practice earlier, and I bet he wished he had a hard on now."
Chris Tarrant discussing the first Millionaire winner Judith Keppel on This Morning:
"She was practising fastest finger first by herself in bed last night."
'Winning Post's' Stewart Machin commentating on jockey Tony McCoy's formidable lead:
"Tony has a quick look between his legs and likes what he sees."
Ross King discussing relays with champion runner Phil Redmond:
"Well Phil, tell us about your amazing third leg."
Cricketer Neil Fairbrother hit a single during a Durham v Lancashire match, inspiring Bobby Simpson to observe:
"With his lovely soft hands he just tossed it off."
Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said:
"There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this."
James Allen interviewing Ralf Schumacher at a Grand Prix, asked:
"What does it feel like being rammed up the backside by Barrichello?"
Steve Ryder covering the US Masters:
"Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69."
The new stand at Doncaster race course took Brough Scott's breath away...
"My word," he said. "Look at that magnificent erection."
Willie Carson was telling Claire Balding how jockeys prepare for a big race when he said:
"They usually have four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions."
Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on Time Team Live said:
"You'd eat beaver if you could get it."
A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked,
"So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?"
Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!
US PGA Commentator -
"One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them ... Oh my god!!!!! What have I just said?!!!!"
Metro Radio -
"Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 -
"Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew."
Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator -
"This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother."
New Zealand Rugby Commentator -
"Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him."
Posted in Humour at 22:12 |
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RIAA
I just read a fantastic article over on The Inquirer about how the RIAA is losing its battles against Peer-2-Peer file sharing, and how it started its own downfall with Napster.
Posted in Humour at 13:38 |
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Yikes
Wow, 3 posts today, and I've moaned in all 3 of them. Sheesh!
I'm not usually this grumpy, honest!
Posted in Rant at 17:12 |
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Mice Piss Me Off
Not the furry little rodents, they're quite cute really. No, I'm talking about computer mice.
I'm left handed.
I hold the mouse in my left hand.
Although I don't swap the left/right buttons like I suppose I should. I have always used it this way, because the world is right handed, I would pick up the mouse and move it to the left so I could use it. If I'd tried to use the mouse with my right hand all those years ago and gotten used to it, I probably wouldn't be writing this entry now.
But I didn't. I'm left handed and I prefer my left hand to my right.
Logitech have just announced a new mouse, which uses laser technology instead of an LED with a optical detector. Great news isn't it? Even more sensitivity than before... no more silly red lights shining out of the sides of the mouse... sounds good, yes?
Well, no... at least not for me - yet. It's a right handed mouse.
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ImageMagick/GD2.x
<grumble>
Why can't Fasthosts upgrade their damn version of GD to one that can create GIFs? Or at least install ImageMagick which kicks GD's pansy ass all over the shop. I really wish they'd read the support forums they so kindly set up for their users, and do some of the things people constantly seem to be asking for - without palming us off with some pathetic excuse, or not even bothering to give us any feedback as to why they can't do so-and-so. And if they do decide to implement something we've asked for, why does it take well over a year to do so?
I want to use Coppermine for all my image storing needs, instead of the script I wrote which causes no end of grief because it uploads files I can't then delete or overwrite. I wonder if it has anything to do with the CHMOD I am using... I'll have to do a test using another CHMOD value before finally giving up. Right now I've got no way to upload GIFs because the installed version GD won't support them thanks to that damn Unisys patent.
</grumble>
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Movable Type 3.1
Well, they finally released MT 3.1 yesterday... so I upgraded. Probably not the wisest move considering how soon after it was released I had a go. I've already come across one bug, which only seems to affect those using BerkeleyDB as their back-end (which of course I am).
Following a post I found in the MT support forums I got around that one, thankfully.
So here we are, running MT 3.1. Doesn't look much different does it. Was hardly worth the upgrade in the end.
Posted in Movable Type at 13:12 |
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