On the way in to work this morning I noticed two posters (no way near each, just happened to walk past them), the first one was for the London Dungeon, with a catch phrase of "Make yourself uncomfortable".. The other was for the Hellfire Club. It got me thinking that perhaps the Hellfire Club should make it's catch phrase be "The Other London Dungeon".
I didn't say it was an interesting thought!
On a completely different note, blogger is being annoying at the moment, did a couple of posts to my other blog over the weekend and it's cracking it at me, when I tell it to publish it just sits there "Publishing: 0% complete", yep as I've been typing up this one, it's still 0%. Argh!!!
B
Monday, April 24, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Happy Easter 2006!
Just a quick message to everyone, hope you're all having a wonderful easter and that the easter bunny brings you delicious chocolate eggs that are the special non-fattening variety... :-)
Or we could just go with the theory that one of my old house mates was a fan of
B
Or we could just go with the theory that one of my old house mates was a fan of
"Calories don't count if everyone else is eating it"
B
Friday, April 14, 2006
Giving up on Nokia
Been a while since I've posted (lots of stuff happening in life & work at the moment), but today's post is partially a rant and a statement that I am no longer a fan of the Nokia mobiles :-(
I've had a Nokia for the last 10 years of my life, I've been exceedingly happy with them, they've been solid reliable and I've been able to leave them on for days/weeks/months on end.. But no longer. My latest Nokia (bought just under a year ago) the Nokia 6230 was initially quite good, until that was (about 3 months into owning it) it stopped ringing, yep you read that right, it would not ring, it would vibrate, but not ring (I could also no longer use the 'loudspeaker').. No worries, still under waranty I took it back to get repaired..
Repair process
Now the repair process is quite easy to understand, they simply do a hard reboot, very similar to reinstalling an OS on a computer, one of the side effects is that I lose all my settings/phone numbers/games/photos/music (couldn't listen to it anyway)/etc... Now this is ok, for a once of repair of a glitch, problem was over the last year (including that first 'uck up) my phone stopped ringing about 17 times (not counting or anything). The fix was always the same, and would last for anything from 2 months to (in one extreme case) 4 hours.
As you can imagine, not happy... With either the quality of the mobile phone or the quality of service, if I'm having such consistent problems I should be given a replacement phone, the next model that actually works would be nice..
As such, I'm no longer a Nokia customer, I am now a proud Sony Ericsson owner... And if anyone asks me what mobile they should use, I shall no longer be recommending Nokia phones (well at least not anything made after 2000). And that is the end of my rant.
B
I've had a Nokia for the last 10 years of my life, I've been exceedingly happy with them, they've been solid reliable and I've been able to leave them on for days/weeks/months on end.. But no longer. My latest Nokia (bought just under a year ago) the Nokia 6230 was initially quite good, until that was (about 3 months into owning it) it stopped ringing, yep you read that right, it would not ring, it would vibrate, but not ring (I could also no longer use the 'loudspeaker').. No worries, still under waranty I took it back to get repaired..
Repair process
Now the repair process is quite easy to understand, they simply do a hard reboot, very similar to reinstalling an OS on a computer, one of the side effects is that I lose all my settings/phone numbers/games/photos/music (couldn't listen to it anyway)/etc... Now this is ok, for a once of repair of a glitch, problem was over the last year (including that first 'uck up) my phone stopped ringing about 17 times (not counting or anything). The fix was always the same, and would last for anything from 2 months to (in one extreme case) 4 hours.
As you can imagine, not happy... With either the quality of the mobile phone or the quality of service, if I'm having such consistent problems I should be given a replacement phone, the next model that actually works would be nice..
As such, I'm no longer a Nokia customer, I am now a proud Sony Ericsson owner... And if anyone asks me what mobile they should use, I shall no longer be recommending Nokia phones (well at least not anything made after 2000). And that is the end of my rant.
B
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Life
Missed out on yesterdays daily saying :-( (my bad), it's funny how life gets in the way of plans... :-)
On a different note, looks like my house will no longer be in mine in a months time... Feels kind of odd (but also good)...
B
On a different note, looks like my house will no longer be in mine in a months time... Feels kind of odd (but also good)...
B
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Next weeks sayings
Ok, I've got 3 more sayings to track down for next week... And I'm opening up the board for suggestions.
Some have already suggested Strewth! and Oh, yeah!, but given that I've already done a few Aussie ones, I'd like to go with something else, any ideas?
B
Some have already suggested Strewth! and Oh, yeah!, but given that I've already done a few Aussie ones, I'd like to go with something else, any ideas?
B
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Finding origins
I've not been intending to do a post about this, but what the hell... For a few weeks now I've been running a blog where each day (Monday - Friday) I try and track down the origins of sayings/words/slang/phrases... It's actually been fairly fun, but today's one!!!
Argh!!
Bloody hard to track down, it took me nigh on 4-5 hours of following obscure lexical and etymological links and tantalizing references before I got (what I think is) the complete story... Satisfying to do though :-D
If you're at all interested the blog is: Daily Saying and today's post of Grouse has so far been the hardest one to track down.
B
Argh!!
Bloody hard to track down, it took me nigh on 4-5 hours of following obscure lexical and etymological links and tantalizing references before I got (what I think is) the complete story... Satisfying to do though :-D
If you're at all interested the blog is: Daily Saying and today's post of Grouse has so far been the hardest one to track down.
B
Is Atheism a religion?
Listening to Off The Wall, and during a discussion on religious vilification (the danish cartoon issue). Emmanuel Goldstein raised an interesting point:
To claim something you can't possibly know (ie: what happens after death, be that harps vs pitchforks or that nothing happens) denotes faith in that belief. Interesting viewpoint...
B
"To say with certainty there is no god. You have to have some kind of faith system in play there..."
To claim something you can't possibly know (ie: what happens after death, be that harps vs pitchforks or that nothing happens) denotes faith in that belief. Interesting viewpoint...
B
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Multiple blogs
One of the problems of having 2 blogs is that occasionally I write a post for one, and mistakenly post it to the wrong one... I just did that for the last post (MSND event - yes it was meant to go on this blog, I sent it to the wrong one first).
Argh!
Argh!
MSDN Event
Just a random geek post to say I've just spent the day at a MS tech conference, over what's new in VB.net, gotta say I like what I see. I especially like the idea of the my namespace and the way they've implemented the code snippets (oh and the refactoring helpers, very nice).
Plus it was nice to not be in at work :-)
Plus it was nice to not be in at work :-)
Friday, March 24, 2006
Give Peas a chance
Spotted this on the Odd Spot (from The Age)
There was an article in the Metro the other day about the same woman (but I missed it), still funny though ;-)
B
Englishwoman Louise Arnold is having therapy to overcome a fear of peas. The Cheltenham woman flees restaurants if she spots peas in meals and gets anxious in supermarkets. She gets little sympathy, however, from friends, who bought her a T-shirt saying: "Give peas a chance".
There was an article in the Metro the other day about the same woman (but I missed it), still funny though ;-)
B
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
New house mate
Yay! After meeting various nutters, nice & quite, weird & quirky people, we've finally:
Now we can have our evenings/Sundays back to do... umm.. watching TV?
B
- Agreed on a person to offer the room to
- And they've accepted!
Now we can have our evenings/Sundays back to do... umm.. watching TV?
B
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Birte's birthday
It's been a good weekend over here in sunny (but cold) England, and today was the lovely Birte's birthday... She wanted to go and see an Elvis impersonator on Saturday night, which was a surprising amount of fun (aside from him not being that good a singer, and not really looking that much like elvis [what with him being black and not as good hair]).
There was a really nice stroke to my ego that night though, as I was standing there (with Celine, Maya & Claire) I got a tap on my arm from behind me, turning around there was a girl sitting down pointing towards the other side of the table. On which there was another girl with a camera, I had time to hear
before being blinded by the flash, I hope I didn't look too much like a stunned mullet.
I said my thanks and that "I hope my fiancee agrees with you" (to cover all bases), and turned back to my friends. :-D
It's nice getting compliments, it's nice to give them too. The person receiving them may not respond in the way you hope, but they're unlikely to respond in the way you fear.
And that's enough good feeling/rambling from me.
Happy birthday Birte!
There was a really nice stroke to my ego that night though, as I was standing there (with Celine, Maya & Claire) I got a tap on my arm from behind me, turning around there was a girl sitting down pointing towards the other side of the table. On which there was another girl with a camera, I had time to hear
"She thinks you're cute and wants a photo"
before being blinded by the flash, I hope I didn't look too much like a stunned mullet.
I said my thanks and that "I hope my fiancee agrees with you" (to cover all bases), and turned back to my friends. :-D
It's nice getting compliments, it's nice to give them too. The person receiving them may not respond in the way you hope, but they're unlikely to respond in the way you fear.
And that's enough good feeling/rambling from me.
Happy birthday Birte!
Friday, March 17, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Living in London is cool
Ok, this'll be a very random post (considering the last one)... But living in London is sometimes really cool.
This one is for Dan, Rob, Loud & Mark (everyone else can ignore as they see fit).
I was helping Matt move in yesterday (Saturday) which was all fine and good, but on my way home I realised I was driving through the centre of London, over London Bridge while listening to Capital FM.
cool
B
This one is for Dan, Rob, Loud & Mark (everyone else can ignore as they see fit).
I was helping Matt move in yesterday (Saturday) which was all fine and good, but on my way home I realised I was driving through the centre of London, over London Bridge while listening to Capital FM.
cool
B
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Weird night
Just got home from a nice night out in London, at a place called The Spitz (which is near where I work and also on the edge of Spitalfields Markets [hence the name])..
Anyways, the Spitz is a bit of an alternative music venue and myself & Ryan (housemate) were out having a good time listening to some funky blues, when right at the tail end of the night this girl comes up to me and says
Like the title says, weird night... I have no idea what her problem was, did she think I was foreign and was making some kind of racist comment? Did she think I was British and because I was at the club with a guy, that I was gay? Did she think I looked at her weirdly and so wanted to get back at me?
Intellectually I know it's not my problem and it's her issue... But I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me, though the thing that annoys me the most about it is that I was having a really nice night, tapping my feet along to the music, chatted to some random strangers about Belgium beer. And now my night's had a dampner put on it because of some random nutter, which is going to colour my memory of the venue and the music...
Argh!!!
Oh well, I'm going to read/do something so that I can fall asleep thinking about something else entirely. Night people.
B
Anyways, the Spitz is a bit of an alternative music venue and myself & Ryan (housemate) were out having a good time listening to some funky blues, when right at the tail end of the night this girl comes up to me and says
"I'm British born and bred.. and you disgust me."
Like the title says, weird night... I have no idea what her problem was, did she think I was foreign and was making some kind of racist comment? Did she think I was British and because I was at the club with a guy, that I was gay? Did she think I looked at her weirdly and so wanted to get back at me?
Intellectually I know it's not my problem and it's her issue... But I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me, though the thing that annoys me the most about it is that I was having a really nice night, tapping my feet along to the music, chatted to some random strangers about Belgium beer. And now my night's had a dampner put on it because of some random nutter, which is going to colour my memory of the venue and the music...
Argh!!!
Oh well, I'm going to read/do something so that I can fall asleep thinking about something else entirely. Night people.
B
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Usability
Just saw this quote on Joel on Software, made me laugh...
See: Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft) for more info
"Bad usability in the design of aircraft controls can result in what is cheerfully referred to as CFIT: Controlled Flight Into Terrain"
See: Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft) for more info
Saturday, March 04, 2006
A reality show I can get into
I've been complaining recently about the amount of reality shows on the tv... But now there's a reality show I think I could get into: American Inventor aparently it's like 'American Idol' except for geeks.
Instead of saying a straight out No! For this reality show I think I could raise it up to it has potential..
B
spotted on gadgetopia
Instead of saying a straight out No! For this reality show I think I could raise it up to it has potential..
B
spotted on gadgetopia
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Formatting a blog
Just a random post because I've been playing with the blog template on this site so that I could add the above text.
If you're reading this from an aggregator or don't know what I'm talking about, I've added a small header so that visitors are reminded about our fundraising efforts for CRY (speaking of, we're off on a 3 hour walk this Sunday as part of our 'training')
Anyways, just been reading through the template that you get with blogger and realising that it's not that straight-forward to do.. you'd think that google who can do some really funky cool stuff on their main sites would make some funky tools or at least have well formatted html code that's easy to follow... But no, it's not, it's annoying, I'm not happy jan.. (sorry that's a reference for all the Aussies)
That's it, going now... sleep calls
B
If you're reading this from an aggregator or don't know what I'm talking about, I've added a small header so that visitors are reminded about our fundraising efforts for CRY (speaking of, we're off on a 3 hour walk this Sunday as part of our 'training')
Anyways, just been reading through the template that you get with blogger and realising that it's not that straight-forward to do.. you'd think that google who can do some really funky cool stuff on their main sites would make some funky tools or at least have well formatted html code that's easy to follow... But no, it's not, it's annoying, I'm not happy jan.. (sorry that's a reference for all the Aussies)
That's it, going now... sleep calls
B
Friday, February 24, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Alcohol
shiet start to the day today, but it reminded me of a quote (don't ask):
Alcohol is not the answer.
Alcohol is the question.
Yes is the answer!
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