Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Yup, no doubt about it... I've been well and truly played.I dunno who I'm more disgusted by... myself for letting it happen, or those involved for being so fucking callous.
Oh well. I can't say I wasn't warned. (Yes, you are always right)
Labels: annoyed
Steve 8:45 AM [+] (0) comments
I'm finding myself hugely annoyed.
Seems some people have absolutely no idea what could be considered inapropriate behaviour in certain circumstances.
Not impressed.
Labels: annoyed
Steve 12:21 AM [+] (0) comments
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Some people are very strange.So you're sat in an irc chatroom, everyone's typing away chatting, and someone says "my handphone number (number deleted to protect the stupid), please send me sms !!"
Why in god's name, when you can converse in realtime on a perfectly good keyboard would anyone wanna send sms messages on a piddly little phone pad instead, no doubt incurring text messaging charges into the bargain?
Strange, I tell you.
Labels: chatrooms
Steve 5:08 AM [+] (0) comments
Friday, June 25, 2004
There's only one thing to say about the football result yesterday.... shoot the referee... he's a moron. That was stupidity bordering on criminal.Anyway, enough of that.
I've been trawling through various peer to peer systems for 80s music, and dug up some real gems. Thing is... finding the tunes isn't hard, but remembering them is proving really tough.
I mean, everyone remembers the big hits by the likes of Dexys Midnight Runners, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears etc, and the one hit wonders like Paul Hardcastle, but it's the obscure stuff I'm after.
Like... who remembers Shiny Shiny by Haysi Fantayzee?
Labels: music
Steve 6:16 PM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Hehehe.Remember the badger badger badger site?
Check out the England football badgers.
Steve 1:04 AM [+] (0) comments
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Time to think of something to blog about.*Thinks*
*Thinks really hard*
*Brain explodes*
Nice weather we're having.
Okay look, my life's really boring and nothing interesting ever happens... and I'm too lazy to make something up. Whadya want? Excitement?
Bah.
I sat around for several hours, watched the football (good result) and then wasted the rest of the evening playing Gran Turismo.
Chicken vindaloo for dinner was nice.
See? I told you it was boring.
Bet you wish you never bothered to come and read this now.
Steve 4:19 AM [+] (0) comments
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Not a whole lot happening at the moment.The highlight of the past couple of days was watching the fight on Big Brother. It fell somewhere between entertaining and disturbing. It just makes me mad when so called 'alpha males' think it's acceptable to throw their weight around aggresively and make threats of violence to get their way.
It's always the same, "I can, so I will."
Reminds me of world politics in many ways.
Steve 3:32 PM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Ahhh... well that was a better result in the football.England won 3-0 against Switzerland. Though I wouldn't say our team played especially well, it's a relief to see a respectable result after the debacle against France.
Pleasantly, it also means there's less demented ranting in the #england chatroom.
Steve 7:38 PM [+] (0) comments
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
So yesterday after my weekly trip to the bank I picked up the Planet Of The Apes dvd boxset. All 5 movies, plus a doccumentary.It's been a long time since I've seen any of these, and the first time I've ever seen the last one and I have to say, despite their age, they kick arse. The effects and makeup may not be up to the standard of the recent Tim Burton remake, but for sheer punch and drama, they knock spots off it. Also, lets face it, Planet Of The Apes without Roddy McDowell just isn't Planet Of The Apes.
Now I wonder if I can find the tv series on dvd somewhere....
Labels: movies
Steve 5:01 PM [+] (0) comments
Sunday, June 13, 2004
Yeash. A whole day of sport on tv, but... damnit.24 hour Le Mans, our team with Johnny Herbert comes second.
Canadian F1 Grand Prix, our man Jensen Button drops from 2nd on the grid to finish 4th.
England vs France Euro 2004, we drop from a 1-0 lead to a 2-1 loss in the last 2 minutes.
The Le Mans and F1 I can live with, but the football result... I'm shoked and disgusted... and I don't even like football.
In other news, Stupid, my cat, has had me fairly worried this week. He came home in the evening a couple of days ago looking 'not right'. On close inspection I could see his lower jaw was all swollen and appeared to have been bleeding, though I couldn't see an actual wound. He seemed a little out of sorts, though was eating okay, so I decided to just keep an eye on him till morning.
Being the stupid cat he is though, he totally insisted I let him out again... and being the kind of cat who always stays in when he's not feeling well, I decided he was probably okay.
So next afternoon he returns home a real mess. He was bleeding from his mouth and deffinitely not a happy moggy, though he was still able to eat. Once he'd stuffed his face, he just plonked himself down on my rucksack and looked miserable. This worried me, coz thats just not his style, so I decided an emergancy trip to the vet was definitely in order.
Stupid however had other ideas. Would he let me put him in his cat carrier basket? Would he heck. The aggresive little toerag completely tore me to shreds as I tried to put him in it, and then went and hid under the bed where I couldn't reach him.
With nothing I could do about it, I just let him rest under the bed and kept an eye on him.
2 days later you'd never know there'd been anything wrong with him.
He's entirely back to his usual self, all the swelling's gone down, no blood, and curiously, even when he yawns and I get a really good look in his mouth, I can't see any sign of a wound... so I really don't know what had happened to him. I dunno if he'd been kicked, hit by a car, mauled by a dog or another cat... or what.
Still, relieved as I am, it does worry me knowing he fights me so hard when I need to take him to a vet. I think I need to keep a tin of tuna in the flat at all times, in case I need to bribe him in future.
Labels: cats
Steve 9:51 PM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, June 10, 2004
I should blog, but I don't really feel like it right now, so y'know... move along in an orderly manner, or something.Steve 10:25 PM [+] (0) comments
Sunday, June 06, 2004
I've updated the chat applet pointing to the #England Undernet irc chatroom.The old applet was pretty unstable and didn't always seem to work, while this new one seems rock solid, not to mention much prettier.
If you're curious, check it out HERE
When you enter the channel, type "/nick your-nickname" whatever you'd like your nickname to be. Include the / but not the "
This seems to need Internet Explorer... though it may work with other browsers. I tried it with Mozilla and identD didn't appear to be working, so undernet refused to allow it to connect.
Labels: chatrooms
Steve 8:57 PM [+] (0) comments
Finally finished wasthing The World At War dvd box set. 26 hours of actual doccumentary originally shown on tv, and then 3 more disks of extra material. To be honest though, much of that material was just stuff from the main series re-edited and used in a different context... so I felt a bit ripped off by that.
Still... it's a very impressive box set, which is just as well considering what it cost (dont ask) and took the best part of a week to get through.
I can't get enough of this kind of thing just lately, so probably gonna trawl through the video stores looking for similar stuff.
Steve 2:09 PM [+] (0) comments
Friday, June 04, 2004
Talk about having my principles tested.I've been approached by an advertising company offering me *very* substancial ammounts of money to include what probably ammounts to adware popups and downloads on my website. I say 'probably' because they aren't entirely specific... but when a popup includes active-x, you know it's likely to be devious... could even be spyware, I don't know.
So why is this a test of my principles?
Well... no-one really likes popups, though they are a very effective form of advertising, but hidden executables included with downloads and active-x scripts that tinker with your OS and snoop through your browsing history for whatever purpose the advertising agency sees fit... I tend to consider those fairly immoral, even though they are legal. They're one of the most hated things on the net after virus's and hackers.
Shouldn't even be worth considering really. But for *$1000 a day*?
It really is making me question myself. That's an awful lot of money... more in one day than I make in a week.
Can I be bought? I don't think so... but the idea of turning down that kind of money for the sake of my principles is rather distressing.
Steve 4:53 AM [+] (0) comments
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Do you ever wake up with a piece of music going round and round in your head? Maybe it was the last tune you heard before going to bed, or one of those really annoying catchy pieces of throwaway pop off the radio.So today I woke up with the German national anthem on the brain.
How very disturbing.
Steve 3:23 AM [+] (0) comments
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
UK residents of a certain age will remember a WW2 tv doccumentary called The World At War.Produced in 1974, this series is still widely considered the definitive account of the war, so guess who just picked up the box set? Every episode plus a lot of extra material on 10 disks... this is gonna take a while to watch.
Steve 1:11 AM [+] (0) comments
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Ahhhh... finally caught up with sleep.Crashed around 4pm yesterday afternoon and woke around 1am this morning.
I needed that so badly.
Just got back from a walk down the garage for cigs. It's pissing it down out there so I'm a bit on the soggy side, but there's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night with no cigs.
Listening to Super Slut Radio on Winamp again. It went awol for a while, but now it's back I have something to listen to while I'm locked out of my LaunchCast station. I exceeded my monthly bandwidth allocation (again).
Labels: sleep
Steve 3:49 AM [+] (0) comments
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