I’m stood in my kitchen minding my own business making a cup of tea, I look up out of my window and see water pouring down, so I go to investigate and find that said water is pouring out from the overflow in my bathroom.
Water all over the floor as the toilet cistern had got jammed while it was re-filling, absolutely wonderful I thought, I wont repeat what I said, they are not words anyone’s mother would want to listen to.
Thankfully it was clean water.
OOPS!!!
I went offline for what was going to be half an hour to play Mario on my Game-Cube, that was at 8:30pm it is now midnight and I have just got off the cube, no wonder I have a mouth like the bottom of a bird cage and square eyes to match.
I know why I spent so long on there, its because I haven’t been on the cube for a long time, and I am not exaggerating that either, the last time I played on my Game-Cube my ex-wife was still my wife so we are talking like January time.
The advantage to not playing a game for such a long time is that you sort of forget where some of the things are that you have to collect etc. and so it makes things a little bit more of a challenge, not quite as much as it is when the game is new, but more than if you have played the game daily for the past three months. Trouble is now I have played on it for a while I have caught the bug again and will probably spend a load more of my spare time sat playing Mario, though tonight was not technically free time, I had some work I wanted to catch up on, but never mind I can do that tomorrow afternoon while the kids watch Madagascar on sky movies 
Oh and I need to find the remote for my VCR so I can adjust the clock, it’s an hour fast at the moment thanks to daylight savings time and I can’t for the life of me find the remote control, though I don’t really watch VCR’s much anyway so I will probably find the remote and then go and lose it again. Maybe I should just leave it as it is it will be one less clock to adjust when they go forward next year
I live in a fairly decent average sized home near the centre of town, I have a fairly good selection of stores, supermarkets and takeaway food outlets near to me, I am on the main route into town so very easy for travelling, my house has some fairly modern and convenient additions and adaptations inside it and I am within around 10 – 15 minutes walk from the marina which can be a nice place to go in the summer plus there is a river and riverside park about 3 minutes walk from here.
That all sounds fairly nice, and when you add to that the fact that my house is mine and mine only it sounds a little bit better, even more so when you consider the fact that I am only 25 (26 in 26 days time).
Despite all of those advantages if you will of living where I do, there is one thing about this area that really annoys me, the fact that I live 2 minutes from the football stadium, and it is not the stadium noise or anything like that which is an annoyance it is the PIG IGNORANT football fans who, when walking to or from the match have no regard for anyone else but themselves and refuse to move their asses out of the way to make a little space for people walking on the pavement in the opposite direction regardless of the fact that some of them have parked their cars right in my street causing no end of congestion.
But today I managed to get a little satisfaction from these complete idiots, today there was a traffic warden in my street placing parking tickets on the windows of every single one of these football fans cars, I very much enjoyed watching him slap the £60.00 ignorance bills on these peoples cars, made my day! oh and for those fans that caught the bus into town for todays game, well all I can say is I hope you missed the bus home that you wanted.
I am starting to enjoy this blogging business, it gives me a place to air my frustration with the world 
The title of this post is directed at who ever is responsible for emailing the owner of a website I did not know existed and threatening to infringe the copyright of their work, not much of a big deal huh, well no not really but it is when who ever sent that email to the site owner did so supposedly from one of my email addresses leaving me to have to explain to the site owner that I had no intention of ripping his site content and passing it off as my own.
OK no real harm done, but that is not the point, mind thinking about it I guess some small minded people have nothing better to do with their time.
Now, moving on……Why do they call a pocket pc a “pocket” pc, because looking at it, though granted they are small but they are not exactly pocket sized, well most of them arent anyway. I have had that question gnawing away all day, probably because I spent most of the afternoon fiddling about with my own ppc, which is somewhat different from what I was going to do – spend some time messing about on the ibook.
Also I am getting so fed up with the woman that own’s the local newsagents, however I don’t have much choice but go in there, as the other local shop is a filling station and one their prices are well over the top, and two they only sell the local newspaper, and I read two of the nationals, so I have to go into the old cow’s shop and get my national press, anyhow the reason I hate her guts more and more each time I see her: Well not for the same reason as most people round here, it is more to do with the fact that I have a health problem, and she finds it exremely amusing to laugh about it with her staff, I started to think it a little strange a few weeks ago when the laughter started every time I walked in the shop, but thought nothing of it, then after a while I started to cotton on, and finally overheard a conversation between a couple of the staff about me while I was in the shop, and now I must admit my opinion of them lowers every time I see them, I also dont spend as much money there as I used to, meaning I get ALL my “newsagent” stuff thrown in with my grocery shopping online which in turn means I have gone from spending about £30.00 a week in the newsagent to around £4.00 ok only a loss of around £27.00 but for a small retailer I hope that is enough to knock the profit margin, even if it is by something as small as one or two percent.
If the scheduling people on channel 5 happen to find this post at any time what have you done with my program??
I’m talking about the Gadget Show, not my own show of course. It used to be repeated on a Saturday morning, but today no gadget show 
checked the listings magazine and it’s not even been moved to tomorrow morning, which is what I thought they had done.
So why don’t I just watch the original broadcast at 7:15 on a Monday night, well that is because my ex ALWAYS phones to talk to the kids and I can either never hear the damned show because my eldest is sat yacking on to her mother, or I have my ex on the phone yacking on to me, I think now I have read this post back to myself I am going to tell my ex to call on a Tuesday
A short while ago I subscribed to 3 IT magazines, all of which are on a “trial” service, where I pay something like £1.00 for 2 or 3 issues delivered to my door each month, and providing I cancel it before the so called trial period is up all I pay is the tiny sum already taken, something I will make sure of should I decide to cancel them as I will delete the direct debit on my bank account, with the subscription however comes a free gift from each magazine, something I didn’t know about when I signed up so imagine my surprise when a toolkit arrives at my house yesterday afternoon, totally free of charge and mine to keep even if I cancel the subscription! But that is not all, again this morning I get another 2 packages one of which is a tech book and the other a PC toolkit, both coincidentally I wanted to get anyway, I just had not got around to actually going and buying them.
Again both of these gifts are mine to keep even if I cancel the subscription, and the best bit is I haven’t been charged anything for the trial part of the subscription yet, so effectively I could now go to my internet banking, cancel the direct debits and keep the stuff and we are not talking cheap stuff here either, the book is worth £24.95, the std. toolkit would cost about £10.00 from a DIY store and the PC toolkit varies in price depending on where you go but is marked up anything from £15.00 – £26.99 so looking at it I have got near on £50.00 worth of gear for subscribing to three magazines, all of which will arrive at my door and be charged at less than the cover price.
My thoughts on this: Much welcomed gifts, useful gifts, BARGAINS, but note to magazine publishers: perhaps someone should re-think the way these things are sent out because I am sure there are people out there that would rip them off by signing up for the mags, getting the free stuff and then cancelling before they pay anything.
I forgot to come back yesterday and update on the career benefits on offer from the UK Mobile operators, well after checking them all out in detail here it is:
They all offer pretty much the same stuff, the only difference being Orange who throw a “party” for the staff every so often.
Yeah Great that is really going to convince me to send a CV to them over anyone else, when I look at jobs I don’t want a staff party as part of my benefit package, I want things like health insurance, paid holiday time, the option for flexible working hours and pension plans (amongst other things). To sum it up, my CV will be going off to T-Mobile as nothing about any of the other networks managed to sway me to apply to them, they all give you a free mobile phone apart from vodafone who only give you a discount option, which I think is pretty poor for a company of their size, they all pay a fairly reasonable salary, they all have vacancies in my selected field and they all offer exactly the same amount of annual paid holiday.
So here goes me to upload my CV to T-Mobile Careers, wish me luck
Lunchtime today I decided I would check out the jobs at T-Mobile and after a few minutes on their careers website I found 3 jobs that allow you to work from home, guess where a copy of my CV went, they offer some pretty good employee benefits too, though I haven’t yet checked out the other networks to see what they offer, come to think of it I had not even thought of working for a mobile operator until I saw something about T-Mobile in the career section of the times yesterday.
I’m going to go check ‘em out, I’ll let you know later what I find
Is it just me, my laptop, my DSL or something else or is Flickr on a hell of a go-slow lately??
This is 2 nights running I have been on there and found it to be about as fast as a snail with lead boots on.
I wouldn’t mind so much but I actually find myself enjoying looking at everyones photos on there, I can spend hours browsing through them all, I had a weekend here on my own a short while ago, and don’t laugh but I actually spent most of the Sunday just browsing Flickr, what I mean by that is I literally did nothing else all day apart from get up to get drinks and other essential supplies lol, but seriously I was on there all damned day I must be addicted, maybe I should go the local FA meeting.
KW
I found this http://www.car-parazzi.com/ c/o Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ There is some pretty cool and imaginative stuff over there, just a shame I didn’t know about this kind of thing when I was 17 as my interest in cars is not as great now as it was then!
