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Bad English
One of my pet hates is the terrible use of English you see and hear these days.
There seem to be many people under the impression that the word "those" does not exist, and that "them" should be used in its place. For example: "them people over there". That probably annoys my dad even more than it does me.
Commonly confused (and misused) words:
- their, there, they're
- your, you're
- now, know, no
- it's, its
- whose, who's
- right, write
- then, than
- lose, loose
- accept, except
- affect, effect
Learn the differences between each one... I beg of you.
Another thing that annoys me is apostrophe abuse. This poor little punctuation mark is supposed to denote possessiveness or contractions - NOT PLURALS. The plural of logo is logos not logo's etc (the plural of lego is lego ;)). I can understand how some apostrophe use can be confusing, for example "its" is a possessive but you don't use an apostrophe there, otherwise it becomes a contraction of "it is".
Also when you contract 2 words you put the apostrophe where letters have been removed, not between the words... a good example of where people go wrong is "is'nt"... it's supposed to be "isn't".
How about the prevalent use of double negatives? "I ain't seen no one". Well have you seen anyone or not? I can't tell if you're being stupid or actually haven't seen anyone. Some rap songs these days seem to manage triple negatives! "I ain't never seen no one".
Now, before I get any comments about any possible errors I have made in this post (Bonita I'm looking at you ;)) my use of the English Language isn't perfect by any means, but the way things are going I seem to be in a minority - I respect the language and try my utmost to write things correctly. It's just a shame to see some people abusing it so badly, without even realising.
Update: I found on the alphaDictionary website a list of the commonly misspelled and mispronounced words in English. Makes for interesting reading.Posted in Rant at 14:31 |
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Hottub Party Pics
I've noticed a few people searching for #Hottub photos, so here's the URL to the Gallery:
Posted in Life at 16:32 |
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SideBlog
I've finally added my SideBlog to the sidebar, and it displays the last 5 entries. You can browse the archives via the link up top.
I've also removed my ShoutBox, since there isn't really enough space for it any more. The sidebar would just be huge with it included. I've not yet decided what I'm going to do with it.
One idea I've had is to put it on its own page, making it bigger so it fills most of the content area, there's definitely space on the nav bar since I removed the Subscription link as no one uses it and I don't really plan to use notifications much either.
Update: Tried that, it sucked. I might just get rid of the ShoutBox altogether.
Posted in Blog at 15:35 |
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New Banner
The eagle-eyed amongst you might notice a few changes up above... yes, I've changed the background image on my blog. Actually it's now 5 images, which change between the sections. A nifty bit of CSS makes that happen which is cool.
I may change the images in due course but for now, I rather like the selection I have. :)
Posted in Blog at 00:27 |
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Impressions
A girl goes into the doctor's office for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a red "H" on her chest. "How did you get that mark on your chest?" asks the doctor.
"Oh, my boyfriend went to Harvard and he's so proud of it that he never takes off his Harvard sweatshirt, even when we make love," she replies. "I guess it just leaves an impression."
A couple of days later, another girl comes in for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a blue "Y" on her chest. "How did you get that mark on your chest?" asks the doctor.
"Oh, my boyfriend went to Yale and he's so proud of it that he never takes off his Yale sweatshirt, even when we make love," she replies.
A couple of days later, another girl comes in for a checkup. As she takes off her blouse, he notices a green "M" on her chest. "Do you have a boyfriend at Michigan?" asks the doctor.
"No, but I have a girlfriend at Wisconsin. Why do you ask?"
Posted in Humour at 03:05 |
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Revenge Of The Sith
I just this minute got back from seeing a late showing at the cinema... and by god is this movie fucking amazing.
It definitely makes up for the lacklustre Episodes I and II, and wraps up the entire 6 parts into a neat little package.
Lightsaber fights aplenty, tons of action, and fantastic special effects - this is by far the best of the first three movies. I enjoyed every single second.
If you liked 4, 5 and 6 definitely go see this movie, and if you weren't impressed with 1 or 2, GO SEE THIS MOVIE.
I might just have to go watch it all again.
Posted in Movies/TV at 01:56 |
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Is This The Way To Armadillo?
No... but this is.
Download the 52MB video file that crashed the Ministry of Defence's email servers!
Posted in Humour at 17:02 |
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Is This The Way To Amarillo?
1. Start at London Heathrow Airport.
2. Get duty-frees in
3. Catch flight from London Heathrow to Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
4. Hire car at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
5. Start going toward the "Airport Exit" on "International Parkway South" - follow for 0.2 miles.
6. Bear left onto the highway toward "Terminal East Parking" - follow for 0.3 miles
7. Bear left onto "International Parkway North" toward "North Airport Exit" - follow for 2.9 miles
8. Take the "Highway 114 west" exit toward "Fort Worth" - follow for 29.2 miles
9. Then continue on "US 287 north" - follow for 91.1 miles
10. "US 287 north" becomes "Interstate-44 east" - follow for 0.7 miles
11. Take left fork onto "US-287 north" toward "Vernon" - follow for 104.0 miles
12. "US 287 north" becomes "Avenue F (US-287)" - follow for 2.8 miles
13. Continue to follow "US 287 north" - follow for 104.9 miles
14. Take left ramp onto "Interstate 40 west" toward "Dumas" - follow for 7.8 miles
15. Take "Exit 70" onto "US 60 east" toward "Dumas" - follow for 0.5 miles
16. Take the "Buchanan Street" exit toward "Dumas/Pampa" - follow for 1.7 miles
17. Turn right onto "Old Route 66 (Interstate 40)" - follow for 0.1 miles
18. Arrive at the centre of "Amarillo, Texas"
Now that's the way to fucking Amarillo.
Posted in Humour at 16:51 |
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Lost In Hollywood
It's been a long time since I posted any lyrics on my site, so here's the lyrics to Lost In Hollywood by System Of A Down from their latest album Mezmerize.
I'll wait here,
You're crazy,
Those viscious streets are filled with strays,
You should have never gone to Hollywood.
They find you,
Two time you,
Say you're the best they've ever seen,
You should have never trusted Hollywood.
I wrote you,
And told you,
You were the biggest fish out here,
You should have never gone to Hollywood.
They take you,
And make you,
They look at you in disgusting ways,
You should have never trusted Hollywood.
I was standing on the wall,
Feeling ten feet tall,
All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard.
This is my front page,
This is my new age,
All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Sunset Boulevard.
All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.
Phoney people come to play,
Look at all of them beg to stay,
Phoney people come to pray.
Look at all of them beg to stay,
Phoney people come to pray.
All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard,
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Sunset Boulevard,
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Hollywood Boulevard.
You should have never trusted Hollywood.
You should have never gone to Hollywood.
All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.
You should have never trusted Hollywood.
Posted in Lyrics at 12:38 |
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Interesting Factoid
The Euro symbol in Comic Sans MS has eyes.
Bet you didn't know that, did you?
Posted in Humour at 12:25 |
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Mezmerize Revisited
I found out today that this is actually the first part of a double album set, which explains why Mezmerize is only 37 minutes long. The 2nd part will be called Hypnotize and should be out later this year. If it's anything like Mezmerize... I simply cannot wait!
I was looking for some reviews of the album and this is probably the best one I can find. Apart from a few minor niggles it sums up pretty much the exact same feeling I got from listening to the album.
Posted in Music at 12:05 |
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Mezmerize
The latest album by System Of A Down rocks. Go. Buy it now.
I think that's all I need to say.
Oh, so you want a little more do you?
Ok... well... BYOB (Bring Your Own Bombs) is the current single and it's brilliant, and the final track on the album Lost In Hollywood is slow, melodic and downright excellent - Daron sings almost all of this, with Serj doing backup vocals.
Have you gone and bought it yet?
Posted in Music at 22:28 |
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Firefox 1.0.4
After the revelations a few days ago that a rather nasty security vulnerability existed in 1.0.3 and earlier, Mozilla Foundation have done nothing but work their little socks off to fire this update out the door. Hats off to them too!
Most languages are available now, including British English.
Updating to 1.0.4 is highly recommended to all Mozilla Firefox users.
Updated: The British version is out!
Posted in Firefox at 14:34 |
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Because I'm Worth It
An anonymous poster to the Craigslist website has this to say about people like me: Why Geeks And Nerds Are Worth It
In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.
I'd have to agree with most of the points she makes, except #10 or #11 - I'm not into DnD or conventions, so you're ok there.
Posted in Life at 14:15 |
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#hottub Stats
I've been logging #hottub on DALnet for a couple of months now, and I decided to run off a couple of stat pages yesterday. I own a licence for mIRCStats and I might as well use it! I'll try to keep the pages updated too.
So if you're interested check out the stats pages.
Posted in Computers at 22:29 |
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Advice To Single People
Find out what makes you happy. Learn to live with yourself alone and not be miserable. Use this valuable time that you are alone to improve on other areas of your life. Enjoy it and embrace it and recall the times when you were in your marriage or relationship that you thought about what you would do if only you had the time. You have the time right now. Take advantage of it. Use it wisely, use it to grow. Use it to find happiness within yourself. And when the time comes when your ready to share with someone this wonderful new life that you have created for yourself. Find someone who is happy with their self too. Then the two of you can be happy together. Don't make anyone else be responsible for your happiness. It's too important to make it someone else's responsibility. Love yourself and you will be loved.
Learn from wookit and be happy with being single.
/me gibs wookit lots of pink sparkly fings.
Posted in Life at 14:35 |
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Serious Firefox Vulnerability Leaked
To understand why the example works, one must understand the basics of how Firefox works. Everything you see in firefox is essentially a webpage being rendered by a compiler. This is what the gui is made of, and this is why firefox is so easy to customize. However, it also allows for some security bugs. If one could get one of the chrome pages to request a javascript:[script] url, that individual would be given complete access to the system because chrome urls are given full rights in firefox.
The Mozilla Team and Greyhat Security wanted to keep this one under wraps till a fix was available, but as usual the best laid plans etc.
Now the world knows, and how long before unsuspecting people get caught out?
Thankfully, Mozilla have made some changes to their Addons website so that the official site can no longer be involved, but if you add another site (such as extensionmirror) to your whitelist you can be hacked.
Secunia has this to report.
Firefox 1.0.4 will be on its way soon, but before that comes out, if you remove all entries from your whitelist apart from addons.mozilla.org then you should be safe - or you can disable "Allow websites to install software".
Posted in Firefox at 15:08 |
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I'mma Dumbass
I realised at the weekend that I had 2 TypeKey accounts, which is rather stupid. I was using one that I had signed up for after I found my desired username was already in use... discovering 2 days ago that it was in fact in use by ME!
Sheesh, my memory really is terrible.
Updated: I decided to swap back and use the one I'd always used for commenting instead. It's easier that way. I'll just change the password on the other account to something I won't easily type in (i.e. not the same thing as my normal account). This should save me any trouble I'm having with the Movable Type packages assigned to the account.
*sigh*
Posted in Blog at 10:14 |
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Flushing The Country
(...down the toilet)
Well there we go, Our Glorious Leader Tony Blair has won the election and is set to run our country (into the ground) for the next 4 years.
At least his majority has been cut down to size with the Tories and LibDems both taking seats from Labour, so some issues might be harder to pass - such as ID cards.
*sigh*
Posted in Politics at 09:54 |
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Personality Disorder
| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | Low |
| Schizoid: | Low |
| Schizotypal: | High |
| Antisocial: | Low |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | High |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | High |
| Dependent: | Moderate |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | High |
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information -- |
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Posted in Life at 22:09 |
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Prison vs Work
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this should make things a little bit clearer.
| PRISON | WORK |
| 1. You spend the majority of your time in a 10x10 cell | 1. You spend the majority of your time in an 8x8 cubicle |
| 2. You get three meals a day fully paid for | 2. You get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it |
| 3. You get time off for good behavior | 3. You get more work for good behavior |
| 4. The guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you | 4. You must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself |
| 5. You can watch TV and play games | 5. You could get fired for watching TV and playing games |
| 6. You get your own toilet | 6. You have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat |
| 7. They allow your family and friends to visit | 7. You aren't even supposed to speak to your family |
| 8. All expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required | 8. You get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners, and welfare |
| 9. You spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out | 9. You spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars |
| 10. You must deal with sadistic wardens | 10. They are called managers |
| THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE! | |
Posted in Humour at 00:51 |
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Unwanted Christmas Gifts
<SPQR> On that note
<SPQR> I'm sick of Christmas gift shopping.
<SPQR> You know, you think for months about what to get someone
<SPQR> And what do they do?
<SPQR> They return it.
<SPQR> Or, at the very least, they're like "Ohhhh, uhhh, yeah, I uhhhh...Love it!"
<SPQR> So this year, I'm buying everyone a handgun.
<SPQR> That way, they can go to the store
<SPQR> And get *anything* they want.
<SPQR> ;-P
Barry is a very funny guy, originally posted by Lewis.
Posted in Humour at 17:36 |
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