After six days without a functioning computer and having to enjoy a few home comforts as I stayed at my parents’ house in order to get work done on my Dad’s PC, I finally have my own back again.
Thankfully we have lots of spare parts from all the computers and upgrades my Dad and I have gone through over the years. After trying his graphics card followed by hard drive, we deduced that the problem was with the motherboard. With a couple of spares lying around we went for my old one. This board uses a different type of CPU but one was found. Hooked it all up and now I’m back online - a little less processing power than before, but hopefully not for long.
The fund has already started for my MACbook!...
Over the last few days my new shoes have started making a squelching/farting sound when I walk. Specifically, on the heel of my right shoe. My right foot is definitely bigger than the left and this is noticeable in such perfect fitting converse. But this squelching is irritating, almost to the point of embarrassing. It actually sounds like I farted if it happens in a room full of people which, depending on the company, isn’t always a good thing.
Anyone else’s shoes fart?
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Why is it that when my bank calls me they insist that I attempt my ‘password’ at least twice. I don’t generally forget passwords, the sort that I type, but those crap ones that have to be spoken over the phone I always forget. I put it down to the fact that it will always be completely different from any of my typical passwords for the obvious reason that it will be spoken and anyone may hear it. For this reason I try to make it something I will remember, though it definitely doesn’t help that it would only be every 6 months or so that I need to use it…
They called yesterday.
“Could you give the first and last letters of your password please” said the voice.
“No, sorry, I never remember it.”
“I’m sorry I’m going to...
Girls give me spots. Fact! Over the weekend a grew two new spots on my chin. I think it happened a few weeks ago too… to a slightly lesser degree. I didn’t have a spot on my left arm either which, if its actually a a spot rather than a pink mark that fades them pressed, is spot number 5. So nothing major, but spots all the same. Worse than the spots, is my lack of judging the right moment for, just about anything. But lets not go into that.
Almost worse than all that is the simple rule; never cry infront of a girl - holy shit why did I think Garden State would be a good idea. Thankfully my rubbing my eyes was taken as me being tired. It was 3am so that was believable. Maybe Good Will Hunting isn’t such a good choice for a future similar situation, I think it’ll be...
I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s only started happening quite recently. I really wasn’t sure what it was at first. I know now that it’s spam. Though it just seems like people are making blogs and filling them with other peoples posts. No advertising penile enlargements, Viagra and general hardcore acts. Just snippets of posts with a link to the post to read the rest.
I found a list of tools for helping to combat this evil. Would anyone recommend any?
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I installed akismet last week having read around the various...
Where is my camera?
OK, I’m not actually expecting a camera at this point, I am expecting the results of the inspection of my very-obviously-broken camera. They said it could take up to fifteen days. Today is the fifteenth day and nothing.
They better have a damn good explanation. I have it all planned out. They said “yes your camera is broken, we will now give you your vouchers for its value”, then I don’t say thank you cos I don’t like them much, yet they seem to be the cheapest online camera retailer. I will then proceed to buy myself a new camera, lens and flashgun. Looks like I won’t have it for the IBAs this year. Or maybe it will arrive the morning I’m due to leave for Dublin like last year… though I’m just not so hopeful this...
This evening I got a ‘nice’ reminder from my house ‘mate’ in the form a text message:
Can I remind u that its ur turn to clean the house this week ie before sunday.
Ignoring his lack of grammar and spelling in so few as 21 words, this is not the first time I have had a ‘reminder’ from said house ‘mate’ since moving in.
We have a cleaning rota (drawn up by, again, said house ‘mate’) and yes I did forget to carry out my ‘duties’ last time, five weeks ago, though this isn’t the first time I have received a reminder of my cleaning duties by way of text message via ‘daddy of the house’.
This week, however, I was fully aware of my ‘duty’, though I felt that there could be a small amount of...
I just noticed that my last 4 entries have fit nicely into the ‘annoyances’ category. This is not supposed to be a blog of me complaining about all things small and only significant to me. No no no. For the next week I will only post happy thoughts :)
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I, like many people do not like using my mobile phone to make calls, not when I get free txts at least. In fact, let me rephrase that - I do like making calls rather than sending txts, the reason I don’t most of the time is often due to the high cost of mobile calls.
I have heard of a great invention by the name of voice-over IP. Apparently through software applications, such as Skype, can make cheap to free calls anywhere in the world.
I have heard some people referring to it as ‘VOIP’, pronouncing it phonetically, but I think that just sounds silly.
Unfortunately it also needs some hardware in the form of a microphone, or a headset, which seems to be the more popular, and more practical method. However, I have a problem with these headsets. Each one I have tried I...
Why is it that Telephone and PC/calculator keypads have to be different?
Does no one else get pissed off at keying phone numbers wrong?
[update]
It turns out no one knows - but there are theories.
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I’m really having a lot of trouble getting a WordPress theme I really like. The one I have at the minute ‘Andreas04 2.0‘ was beginning to grow on me, but I’ve just discovered that in each entry page the title (in the top title bar) says the words “Andreas04: Close to Attraction’. My unfortunate lack of coding knowledge means that I will have to find another one. I just can’t find the perfect theme.
I do have some ideas of my ‘perfect theme’ - qualities if you will.
I don’t want it to stretch the whole width of the page. Really just enough for 500px width pictures in posts.
2 columns
A header picture (I don’t know how to alter the code myself to put one in).
No crazy bright colours
Ideally, the date at the top
The...
As you may have noticed, I haven’t updated my Photo blog in quite a while. There are two main reasons for this.
Since starting to photograph gigs, bands and other local activities I just didn’t have the time to get a photograph ready to post every day.
My camera hasn’t been working for the last 3 months, therefore no new photographs.
It was, however, brought to my attention 2 days ago that one of my entries had received over 400 comments. All of this spam had been placed in my gmail spam folder. This was both a good and bad thing. Good in that Google nicely spotted all the spam correctly - bad ‘cos I didn’t know about it to delete from the blog. I changed the setting on Movable Type’s Junk Score Threshold, though it really didn’t seem to do much...