My month in numbers.
2 Pages of great pics I have found (1, 2).
1 Cool little flash thingy I was sent.
12 The amount of hours sleep I seem to have had last week due to insomnia.
30 Spam emails telling me why it is critical I invest in these companies.

1 Very cool geeza.
20 The amount of sand, in tonnage that my daughter seems to want to eat when we let her play in her sandpit.

46 The amount of times I have tried to write a blog post this week and failed due to outside influences.
8 The total amount in pounds of coffee I seem to be drinking every day.
9 The total number of "Dead like me" episodes I have managed to watch in a week.
18 The quantity of broken bones the f****** who hit my car while parking and then drove off, is going to have if I ever find them.
20 The time in seconds it took me to buy our new Tomtom when Vic said she thought it was a good idea to get one.
25 The amount of times I had to watch the end of this vid to see if it was a fake.

Now using the following formula A=1 or 27, B=2 or 28 etc. Use the above figures to work out my future. 300 soil samples to who ever gets it first.
- posted by J @ 21:16

 
BRAIN MELTTTINGGGGG
Ok Ladies and gents I have a confession and it is not pretty but it has to be said...

"I HATE SUDOKO"

There you go I have said it, it's out there. Right now a lot of you will be jumping up and down in your seats and saying things like,
"why? It's so easy" or
"It's great for your mind" and things of that nature.

I DON'T CARE.

This game Bugs the hell out of me, It's not the fact that I cant do them or the fact that they seem to be everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! It's is the simple fact that I don't get it.
People seem to have become addicts, they wake up in the morning, shaking wreaks, because they need there morning fix of sudoko. Morning noon and night I see people huddled in corners or on busses clutching there paper and a pencil furiously scribbling away trying to make there brain go into places that it does not want to go.

I have however grown very adept at spotting the "Sudoko stare", That glazed and rather perplexed look of an individual gripped in the iron grasp of a puzzle as it slowly leeches there life away. It does appear however that I am not the only one there are others like me who do not share the love of sudoko. In fact there are groups against it, I feel much relieved that I am not just a lone voice in the wilderness.

I will part with some tips for dealing with the sudoko menace in your area.

1. If you want to fit in with your Sudoko addicted workmates/friends simply fill in the spaces so that each small box has the numbers 1-9 in it don't worry about where you put them as no one is actually going to bother checking it.

2. If you are fed up with sitting in a room full of glazed dribblers at home or at work find all the papers with Sudoko puzzles in your vicinity (papers, magazines etc.) and using a black pen write two or three numbers in random spaces on the puzzle as it will render it useless.

3. Have a bet with any of the sudokoers around you that you can do any puzzle they would care to find and if you do it they will quit playing for a month, Then use this program and win the bet.

Happy gaming.
- posted by J @ 22:30

 
Photos
For those of you who dont have access to the summer party photos on flickr they are now posted on my site Here under 2006. Enjoy!
- posted by J @ 22:10

 
Video fun
Hi all, I felt a little cheer was needed about the sphere so I have trawled around and found a little vid for each of you:

For Rob: At least the tax man is not this bad.
For Lemur: Cute and fluffy.
For Edmund: This is why you want a landy.
For Cliff at thisisthis: Microsoft have always been bad.
For Dafyd: A little musical interlude.
For Markiss: You have to beat these guys on your travels.

Enjoy all.
- posted by J @ 22:41

 

meme

Here's a little one for you.

1. Your favourite swear word?
Bugger
2. Your most disliked swear word?
C**t
3. Your best loved saying?
I intend to leave this life the same way I enterd it, kicking and screaming.
4. Your most disliked saying?
There's only one cert in life, death and taxes.
5. What would be your preferd weapon in a duel, swords or pistols?
Pistols.
6. Defend or attack?
Defend.
7. Head or heart?
Heart.
8. Your favourite stand up comic?
Dave allen.
9. Your most disliked stand up?
Lee evans.
10. Your favourite song where only th origonal will do?
Son of a preacher man.
- posted by J @ 20:18

 
Links, links, links.
Just a quick one today, the links page is progressing well but there are a few areas that could do with some more. I have added some extra areas.

Mobile apps: This is for useful sites, apps, games and forums relating to any pda or smartphone.

Mac: I know, a little bit of an odity for me to advocate anything mac but I have a few friends who have them so any sites for games, apps, programs etc.

Present sites: Quirky ideas for presents.

Also don't forget any of the other links you may have lodged in your fav's list. Cheers.
- posted by J @ 20:27

 

Words you never want to see.

"Corrupt master file table, chkdsk aborted"

Ahhhhhh! it seems that the oddness that has been going on with my comp for the last couple of weeks has been caused by my secondary drive starting to die and it had now decided to fail.

So I went through my mental check list...
What was on the drive.....
Some program zips, some documents.

Not to bad. . . .
14GB of music... arse.
About 8GB of it not backed up...shit.
35GB of video I was editing.....ARSE.

So after four hours searching the net I finaly found a solution that didn't involve me formating the drive. The ultimate boot cd, unfortunatly after running several of the diagnostic programs and repair programs and finding nothing wrong or nothing that could be repaired I returned to the internet for a solution.
I then came across a guy talking about a piece of recovery software (cant remember the name) that was very good but a little pricey, great I thought but let's see how pricey.
｣1459.00 what the fuck!
errr I think that's a little excessive, I did find mention of another piece of software though that would do the same job (Restorer2000) It did however cost me ｣25 to buy.
Having said that it did do the job and found all the files which I started recovering, I then realised that I was trying to recover about 40GB of data to my main drive that had only 12GB of space on it so I had to franticly transfer files from my main drive to vickys in an attempt to free up some space. It did all go well though and I managed to recover all the data I had lost......phew!

Now if any of you buggers tell me how I could have done it for free I will scream.....if you do however have any links to those sorts of programs or technical instructions that my help others let me know and I will add them to my links page.
- posted by J @ 20:27

 
sTory soup.
Don't you just love those good old, down to earth Tory boys and there link with the common man. Spotted this in the paper yesterday.

"Tories to penalize pollutors with tax
Shadow chancellor George Osbourne has pledged that ordinary Britons would pay less tax under a Tory government - but those who damage the environment would pay more. 'I believe we should move some of the burden of taxation away from income and capital, and towards taxes on environmentally damaging behavior.' he said. 'I want to move to more effective and fair taxes on pollution."

Now in itself I see this as a great idea! Tax those with gas guzzling cars etc. But like most Tory policy there is always a catch, it is this part that gets me,
"I believe we should move some of the burden of taxation away from income and capital.."
So once again the richest of the population still wont actually be penalized, because what they will be paying out in there pollution tax will be a pittance compared with what they would be paying out on there income and capital tax bills if we had a decent sliding scale of taxation, and the poor schmo on minimum wage will still be paying there tax bill (which they can only just afford) and having to pay a new pollution tax as well.

personally I want to see a fair and effective sliding scale taxation on income and capital before people start adding new taxes. I'm not saying that we should all rush out and become socialists I think that if you have worked hard and made a mint then you are entitled to enjoy it, but I do believe that there needs to be a shift in the scale of taxation, lower income taxes are far to high while higher income taxes are a joke. If you earn £100,000 a year then a couple grand tax bill is squat but if you earn £14,000 a year then £300 a month is a big kick in the teeth.
- posted by J @ 16:44

 
Sell, sell, sell.
I hope none of you have an AOL account you want to cancel. For the full conversation check it out here.
- posted by J @ 22:25

 
Weekend madness
This weekend was just one of those weekends.
Friday Kevin a sue arrived, as they had come for a visit and to go to the organic food festival. Helen (an old friend of vics who she hasn't seen for 8yrs) dropped in with her 2 kids for a flying visit and Sarah G popped in.

Saturday was the day of vics first customer's in her new business venture so she shot off to that in the morning and the afternoon was spent (because it was raining and we decided not to go up to the kite festival) doing not a lot except for a trip to B&Q to buy Conduit and a new cistern for the toilet as ours is total knackerd.

Sunday morning was spent wandering around the Food festival looking at all the nice things to eat, and then Kevin and I spent the afternoon looking for my mains stopcock so we could install a new toilet cistern, only to find it after 2hrs searching and discover that it doesn't work and I have to get a new one installed. While this was going on Sue set to in our garden and gave it a damn good thrashing.

So now I'm back to work again having a rest.

Yeah right!
- posted by J @ 22:20