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December 30, 2003
January 13, 2004
Hamster Car
I came across this image a while ago and only just decided to look at the file again! How cute!
March 15, 2004
Spain to leave Iraq
Well if it was al-Qaeda they have gotten to Spain. Firstly I do not think we should have invaded Iraq but that is now an old point, it happened our leaders may be war criminals but not much we can actually do I guess. However saying this we should now stay and help rebuild the country we helped to destroy. I do hope Spain do not succumb to terrorism. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3512144.stm Again a thought should go to the families of those who lost people in the terrorist attacks of last week - makes me think. What if that happened to New Street Station? I would be devastated. But life goes on as can be seen by the good turnout for the Spanish elections. |
Go home USA!
March 28, 2004
Mc Mars!
Well the below picture now explains the Mars resistance group see: [blog page]!
I bet ya if McDonalds could they would as there seems to be one everywhere you go - mildly annoying since they sell crap food (especially since I am a vegetarian).
Bronx Bunny Show
| This is something that I have only seen a few times, it has some foul language and crude content but I found it funny! So if you get chance to have a watch of this I would say you should. The shows main characters are Pimp-suited Bronx Bunny and foul-mouthed Teddy Tourettes. The show is a twisted public access-style adult education show. Quite funny, on one of the episodes I watched the phrase of the show was "skank-ho". Click on the image below to see more pictures of this show.
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March 29, 2004
Are the big boys scared!
| I was looking at a friends site and came across a link to a "competitive guide" about Open Office produced by Microsoft. It is basically a comparison between Microsoft Office and Open Office.
See: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/opensource/discguides/OpenOffice.pdf I find it quite amusing that the worlds leading software company are that scared of open source that they have gone to this level, basically just slagging off open office. Personally I still use Word, but only out of habit. I do have open office installed and use it as often as I remember. There are many features I hate in Word and one of the main problems I find is its inability to deal with very large documents and its annoying little options that you have to turn off. On this document Microsoft keep commenting on how Open Office is not compatible with various features of Microsoft Office and so that is a bad thing. Is it? Surely if you only use Open Office then it would not matter? Even so I know where I am heading with my publishing needs and that is to LaTeX! |
March 30, 2004
Vampire for the 21st century!
Yes I have been procrastinating again! What did I come up with well I found a cool website which allows you to create your own avatar - might be useful for anyone looking to create one for free not using the pay ones available out there (such as the MSN one - even though you could easily just copy and paste the screen, but I did not say that!) Here is what I came up with - what do you reckon a vampire for the 21st Century?
He even comes with his own microphone, best be bluetooth (well maybe redtooth later if he is lucky - bad joke I know) to get the best use though! To do you own avatar using this system see: http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf only problem it uses Flash. However this is one of the times when I think flash is useful. There are not many times when I do though!
March 31, 2004
Statue to get bigger breasts
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I thought this was hilarious (see below) and had to post it but alas the metro website does not maintain any sort of link structure it seems! This can also be found at: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/29/poland.mermaid.remodel.reut/ I was unable to find a picture of the mermaid in question but it does seem to be featured on the towns crest!
See: http://www.ustka.pl/ustka.html From metro.co.uk website: Statue to get bigger breasts A STATUE OF the mermaid which is the patron of a Polish town is to get bigger breasts in a bid to boost tourism. We are now considering altering the mermaid slightly by making her breasts bigger The drastic plastic surgery comes after councillors decided that the mermaid's breasts were too small and her hips too wide. The mermaid's looks became a hot topic during talks in the city hall on a promotion campaign for Ustka, a small port on the Baltic coast, in which the town's mermaid shield was supposed to play a key role. 'There was a discussion about the coat of arms and one female councillor said jokingly that the mermaid's breasts were too small and that she was a bit fat,' a spokesman said. The joke became a serious idea when local and national media got wind of the debate, giving sleepy Ustka plenty of coverage. 'We are now considering altering the mermaid slightly by making her breasts bigger and making her leaner, the spokesman said. 'She will become more attractive and Ustka will gain publicity.' |
April 5, 2004
An April fool is still getting the fools!
| OK is it just me being a scientist but does the prospect of buying an infinite power supply off some website immediately doubtful that does not exist? Well I guess this has not been the case for everyone!
It seems that people are very interested in this, strange eh! Well I would probably give it a look but would be very doubtful from the title never mind the description! Good April fool, a shame people are still trying to buy this $200 piece of kit - idiots! I found out about this in an article by wired.com (always full of interesting stuff) see: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62794,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 See this for the product: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml On that note from thinkgeek.com's product range, I found a t-shirt I want:
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More funny hoaxes!
| OK it maybe past April 1st but guess I can now comment without people getting me! :-) OK here is a funny one from Liverpool FC: "Liverpool today made a record-breaking swoop to sign up three of the most exciting youngsters in world football."
See: http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N144422040401-1405.htm Also: Google Copernicus Center is hiring Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007.
Hehe me thinks not! See: http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html for the very interesting section of their site dedicated to this! :-) Good one guys! Also I think their GMAIL is a good idea April fools but it might not be! - At first I thought it was but now after reading this article by reuters maybe it is serious, interesting!
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April 6, 2004
Chemical 'bomb plot' in UK foiled
| OK it could just me being a complete an utter nutter but I sometimes get the feeling that all of this talk about terrorist activities seems to be more to motivate the population than to inform us. It's just the way it comes across sometimes, as if even the smallest thing that relates to terrorism is headline news. Yes it is important we know but the continue barrage of stuff seems to me like it might be just trying to put over that we are at risk continually and so shouldn't mind some of our rights being infringed on. Either way if that is the case or it isn't I do agree that Britain (and most of the EU) is a target for terrorist activities but well we always have and probably always will it is not new news - it is just a different group. I do have a lot of respect for the police officers who are working on this and I have to commend them on a well done job, I just wish the media frenzy was less. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3603961.stm for the latest terrorist plan foiled. |
April 7, 2004
A boy and his bird!
| No I am not talking about young love. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/2929261.stm and you will be able to see the story of how the jackdaw has been following this young boy around! I have to thank Alex for telling me about this hilarious story. |
April 9, 2004
TV all day in hospital!
Well before you couldnt get a TV in hospital now you can't even turn them off! See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3607531.stm
Bush, Iraq and Vietnam
| As you may have guessed by reading any of my posts I am not a support of the current USA Government and do not like George W Bush's policies. I think the thing that I find the most defining about his character is that he avoided serving in the Vietnam war and he keeps this quite - he may have landed a fighter plane (forcing the whole US Battle group of ships to move around so he could land it!) on an Aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln I believe see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2994345.stm) to signify what he thought was the end of the war in Iraq - how badly was he wrong!
On the aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln I believe), courtesy BBC website I do think this line signifies the whole George W Bush
Vietnam story is this: "Mr Bush avoided being drafted to serve in
Vietnam. " which is the last line of the BBC's diplomatic correspondent
Barnaby Mason article titled "Is Iraq another Vietnam?" see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3608473.stm
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An erie picture of New York
Ok it can take a lot to make me go wow! I am not the sort of person who easily gets moved by events, I can take them in my stroll quite easily.
One of the events in my life that has moved me is the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States of America. No matter what you believe, if you think it was terrorists (I know the majority of people do), if you think it was a conspiracy of the USA government of any kind - be it that they did it themselves or there is / was an insider, all that matters was it was a disaster.
This event moved me. It moved everyone. I did not know anyone in involved or have any ties to New York but the absolute devastation I have never seen before in my life and hope never to again.
The reason I post is I was looking on the BBC website about the attacks and saw what I can only describe as (you may find shocking) but beautiful picture:
I can't describe this - there is just something intrinsically beautiful about this picture, I am not sure if it is the way the dust catches the light but it is beautiful. To find that such devastation can lead to beauty is reassuring in my opinion - life is beautiful and nothing is in vain. Life goes on no matter what - so does beauty. So bring it on - what ever any terrorists etc throw at us the beauty of the world will not be taken away.
April 10, 2004
Shaun of the Dead!
| What a film! I want to see it again!!!! Absolutely fantastic - British humour at its very very best! And that is all I am going to say about that apart from "Dire Straights? - Chuck it!"
Take a look at the films website, some fun stuff on there including a game! http://uip.co.uk/romzom/ |
April 12, 2004
Maid Marian anyone?
OK if anyone remembers the TV show Maid Marian and her merry men it is time to remind you of laughter and fun - if you don't then what were you doing with your childhood something constructive and not watching the TV ;-)
Anyways my mate Matt sent me this rather cool link earlier: http://robinofkensington.homestead.com/ and for all you who remember this then take a look and if you do not then well you better take a look and find out what you missed!
April 13, 2004
Looking into the 11th September 2001 Terrorist Attacks
| Ok lots have been said and are being said about what was known etc. What I think is of little or no significance and to be honest I can not tell you if Bush knew or not or if the Americans did it or not. Over some of my next few posts I will try and give useful comments on certain websites that well give evidence one way all the other. As everyone knows there are lots of conspiracy nuts out there but well these people should not always be totally discredited maybe one of them has it right. Ok I will start with a link that my girlfriend Alex sent me yesterday: http://www.infowars.com/
After looking at this website I realised that I had been there before but wasn't sure why probably was referred there when I was reading something. This site does have some interesting information and the author does quite heavily try to back up his points by quoting other information however I find this tactic hard to follow and means what he is saying is less meaningful. I would not call some of this more far fetching items trust worthy but they are interesting and I would give him a look. I did actually find one of his more recent articles "Condoleezza Rice is a Lying Schill for Her Terrorist Masters " very interesting and would suggest it is worth a read - again I am not saying he is correct come to your own conclusions. One thing I will say in relation to this topic is how scary does she (Condoleezza Rice) look on the picture of the page:
Now wouldn't you say you agreed to anything she said? Ok I was also told to take a look at David Icke's site: http://www.davidicke.com/ , ok again an interesting website but I would take this with well about a kilogram of salt - the guy seems like he may have taken too much acid in the 60s! He does have some interesting and funny stuff on his pages though, such as an article in which weapons of mass destruction are declared to have been found by Donald Rumsfeld and they turn out to be pea shooters, see: http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2003/waronpeas.html I will now try and dig out some of the stuff I have on
the attacks in more detail over the next few days but for now I will stop
and think about Tony Blair Publishing a dossier titled War and Peas (see
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Taking the seriousness away from the investigation
| Some people may find any piss taking in relation to the subject of the September 11th 2001 Terrorist attacks on the USA slightly distasteful. Well yes I would agree but only in extreme cases a slight bit of humour and satire is always acceptable in my opinion. So here we go. It has emerged that FBI have been at fault and they have been heavily criticised over there actions before the terrorist attacks took place on September 11th 2001, I find this a little unfair but well I will not go into that at the moment (if you want to know more about this see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3622523.stm). One thing that has crossed my mind is that all the women involved in the recent discussions look so damn scary! Firstly there is Condoleezza Rice (did I spell that correct!):
As I said the other day, you wouldn't argue with her would you. I can just imagine it, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and her all sat in a room and she is proposing an outrageous scheme. I can see the other two looking at each other gone quick agree with her and then lets get out of here before she hurts us. Now I know I would not blame them for agreeing with her! Then there is, Janet Reno:
Now again I have to say run, run far away! The former attorney general well quite frankly scares me, but I guess there are those out there who like her: http://www.janetrenoishot.com/ - quite frankly a disturbing website! |
April 22, 2004
North Korean Rail Disaster
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After reading http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3649655.stm I am shocked and saddened to hear that 3,000 people may have died in this disaster. The true extent of this will never be realised if the North Korean government get their way which is again truly shocking. Just think about it - the same amount of people died when the Twin Towers collapsed after terrorist attacks on Sept. 11th 2001 and that had grief spread all over the world. I know it is hard for actual reports to come out of N. Korea due to the secretive nature of the country but even the small information that has come out is not top of the headlines - appalling. |
April 24, 2004
Building Collapse!
A building in Selly Oak suffered fatal damage today when its roof collapsed. The building in question is a games arcade: FUNSPOT, well not so much games but full of fruit machines. The damage has been that bad that it has caused the closure of the Bristol Road, a very important and busy route into Birmingham City centre, for most of the afternoon. It also means that more traffic is now going up my road - argh!! Luckily no one appears to have been hurt. The picture below was taken a few hours afterwards when the demolition crew had moved in: 
April 26, 2004
Blair is slammed by British Diplomats!
| See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3660529.stm Now it is about time someone stood up to Tony Blair and tell him that enough is enough of kissing George Bush's ass on the middle east. It is time that the UN not the USA take the lead in world events. For once the USA should listen to the rest of the world and it appears at the moment Tony Blair has the ear of George Bush. So Tony my message to you is, SHOUT DOWN IT! If you even need to dress up as a WASP and well you might get your message through (2DTV - a British comedy).
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April 27, 2004
Iraqi Collation Provisional Authority
| I came across the webpage concerning the provisional authority in Iraq today (in English: http://www.cpa-iraq.org/index.html). Now this is a strange website, for many reason - mainly since it appears to be a USA governmental site more than just a coalition page, for example at the bottom of the page it has links to FirstGov and the USA FreedomCorps etc. Some of the stories on the site just seem to be total proganda - well spin, it is quite amusing. Another interesting thing I found on the coalition page when you click on the in Arabic page (http://www.cpa-iraq.org/arabic/index.html) it still had the title Coalition Provisional Authority stamped on the top in English!! Now then who would need that? Or is it an attempt so that Americans who click on that don't get all scared that they are reading the evil arabic or something!! I have to say I love arabic writing, it is so flowed and beautiful - a shame I had a real problem with it after the very basic stuff. Here is the offending banner, just look at the beautiful arabic though:
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April 29, 2004
Scavenging and revising
| Today started off with me getting up and doing some Astrophysics of the Sun and that is how it ended! Then there is the middle bit, I got some work done - not enough but some. I also went into Uni so I could go scavenging around the now empty Nuffield building in which we are now allowed to go in and help ourselves!! I came out with quite a few lever arch files, some random books (including one in Russian) and some cables! Great fun. It is a shame though that all of this stuff is just going to be thrown away - I guess quite a lot of the useful stuff will be claimed though. I was also helping my friend Sarah with some html work she needs to do on Quantum Error Correction (boring theory stuff ;-) ) and as we were searching for images to use we came across this:
Now this is quite funny, I wonder if anyone has tried to contac the guy who owns the site to buy any of the objects, such other ones include: Duracell Ultra 6 Joule Time Transducucion Capacitor (TTC), Dimensional Warp Generator, 120 kilowatt portable fusion generator:
20 kilowatt portable fusion generator or my computer fan, well it looks identical to the later! The site this stuff came from is: http://www.davesplanet.net/ , a good but strange site! |
Time is running out
Well it has stopped for the Old Joe, the Clock tower central to the University of Birmingham Campus. I don't know why it has stopped but I would guess that it is just a mechanical failure. I know a few years ago that some research was done with it but I do doubt that this would be of any research purpose, it is just weird to see it not on.Here is a picture I took last summer of the clock tower:
I noticed that the clock wasn't changing on my way to Astrosoc to go observing, however since it was cloudy I was not expecting a huge turnout - in fact got 3 people (including myself) along so not a busy night. In the end we ended up going for a drink in Joes which was fun. Now time to get back to the revision - great!
April 30, 2004
Outrageous actions
| Well yet again I am appalled by what people can actually do to each other in the quest for what some sick people seem fun. This time, well I bet many times before as well, it is the United States of America's soldiers. I just don't know what they think they are doing! And who in their right mind would do this and then take a picture of themselves doing it! At least show some level of intelligence, but I guess they are American soldiers so I think their level of intellect can not be too high. If you haven't seen the images, here is one (probably the least disturbing):
For more info and some more of these outrageous images see: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/10521577 |
More on those shocking images
| If you want to see the video footage from the BBC see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40101000/rm/_40101165_prisoners13_adams_vi.ram Tony Blair has also announced condemnation of the acts (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3672599.stm), good now tell the Americans how they should act - i.e. the Geneva convention. I hope these soldiers now get put in prison themselves - it is no longer an excuse to follow orders. |
May 1, 2004
Turn of the sick British Soldier
| Well I thought our armed services were amongst the most humane in the world, guess it turns out that they may not be as good as I expected. Luckily it seems that it was only a one individual in this case and well in the armed forces you expect the occasional psychopath, even so I hope that all the criminal charges that can be brought on him are - of course the person may not be guilty as the pictures that the Mirror have published are not at the best angle which if is the case then the paper should produce a formal apology. I guess we will find out soon once the military investigation is completed. I do find this rather convenient that this emerged just after American troops were found to be doing worse acts. I do not know if it is my cynical side here but it does seem odd on how these pictures were immediately released, I would go as far to even speculate that the USA had something to do with the quick release of this images to soften the blow on how their soldiers are acting. This may be a little extremely but well propaganda and spin is a world we live in so to be cautious and maybe a little far fetched can help. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3675723.stm for more and the article from the Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=14199634&method=full&siteid=50143 |
Food time!
I was thinking I have never mentioned on my blog food, well apart from maybe the occasional I am going to eat pizza comment. As you may have guessed from the pictures I have posted I do like my food, I am not ashamed to say I do eat too much, doesn't help when your girlfriend is a great cook - in fact it makes it much worse! Being a vegetarian as I am you would have thought that I would find it easy to keep my weight down, well think again! There is such a huge diversity in vegetarian cooking and you have to remember that all the fatty things such as cakes and pizza do not have meat in (well some cakes use gelatine and of course no ham on my pizza!) so well nothing in that sense has changed. Here is one of my favourite breads (more like a cake!): http://elektron.krioma.net/cookery/tsoureki.txt a recipe by Alex. You may think that I am only mentioning it because I have done something wrong - well you would be wrong I really like this bread and would recommend that everyone give it a try. I personally haven't had to make it myself but it seems quite an easy bread to make. Also coming up soon is the national vegetarian week, 24th - 30th May - so give it a try eat something without meat in, I promise it won't kill you ;-)
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May 3, 2004
Is the Mirror lying?
We live in a world of spin and propaganda, we are never going to get away from that, that is just the way society is. I do not like it, I am sure you do not like it. All you can do is just well sit back and take things with a pinch of salt and maybe a little paranoia - no not to the level of putting a metal sheet on your head as this will not stop them from penetrating into your brain (what you need for that is to turn your room into one huge Faraday cage!). I can deal with spin, always putting the best on things, but well when it comes to falsifying stuff is outrageous. Well it appears from what the military have been suggesting that the Mirror, a dirty tabloid exploiter, has produced fake pictures. Ok they could be unwilling arguing that they are real but actually aren't, but I wouldn't put it past them to know. I have to say from the moment I heard about this and then even seeing the pictures I thought there was something dodgy about it. The pictures seem to perfect and what great timing. It is also not the way British soldiers act - we are the good guys. Ok there might be the occasional psycho but well it is just not the British way. See this BBC Online article about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3680327.stm and here is the Mirror's rebuttal to claims. |
May 4, 2004
T-Shirt logo
I was just thinking about my t-shirt logo (one of my favourite t-shirts) whilst having a wash. I wonder what people in other countries would make of it:
In England I would probably expect a few reactions the mostly likely being he is wearing one of those greek letter T-shirts or a bit more involved would be well he is wearing a Pi - he must be a bit of a geek. Both normal responses for this county.
I wonder what it would be like in Greece for example, I bet I would be considered to be more than just a bit odd. How would you react to someone wearing a big P on their chest here, I know I would think that the person was a little strange at first. I wonder if this occurs in other countries at all. Well there is me being strange over! Time for bed so I can get up bright an early to do some physics which involves lots of beautiful Greek letters.
May 10, 2004
Caca time
Alex decided to dye her hair tonight using a product that is called "Caca marron" (chestnut poo). It is quite a vile mixture and as its names suggests it does look a little disguising - not me putting it in my hair though so I don't mind! It is a henna-based dye so as Alex says it is actually good for her hair - what ever you do don't get her started on this as she could rant on about this for ages. Why do I post this, because it has was quite humour watching her sit with this concoction on her head:
I bet I will not be popular for posting that! |
May 14, 2004
Mirror pictures are fake
Well the Mirror have been put in their place, they are liars. I thought they we're and guess what they are. It just from the first image I saw seemed wrong, something was not right. Unfortunately due the these lies the damage has been done, the anti-british backlash has already occurred and unless this news sweeps across Arab televisions stations there is no way this image of British troops will be removed. Yet again our troops have been vindicated in being the "nice guys" - well in comparison to the sick American troops they are. For more see: http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/14/iraq.abuse.uk/index.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm. Well at least the Editor of the Mirror has been fired (maybe he should be out of a cannon): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm but I love the fact that they haven't even got it on the front page of their website, great. I just hope they do a big apology on the front page of their paper. Idiots. |
May 15, 2004
A nice wine - strange name
I really like this wine:
But just look at the name, Badgers Creek, I don't know why but it sounds funny. It is a reasonable name just a little strange and I could also go as far as a little off putting. Well what really matters is the taste and I have to say I really enjoyed this Australian red, it was not too heavy and had sufficient fruitiness to keep me happy. For £3 I will not complain either.
Different Generations of Mouses
First I use the word Mouses and not mice since it is a new word and so does not require the old convention. Yesterday I tidied up my cupboard and in there was basically a bunch of crap computer parts, lots that I will never use again and some which don't even work. So I got rid of the crap and kept the good stuff or have put it in to use for the Linux box that me and Matt are intending to use to control Astrosoc's Grubb Telescope. I also found some old mouses, and thought I would post a picture and do a quick comparison.
Comparison of these: Same basic design not much has changed the idea of buttons on the top. The way the motion is detected however has changed significantly from the annoying balls, which need constant cleaning, to the slick optical version (which uses doppler shift to be very accurate). Also a thing that has been developed is the wheel button, I don't know where I would be without one, when I use a mouse without one I just can not cope! (apart from on my laptop when I just use the scroll keys without thinking). Now that is really the only major changes in these designs, well it must be a good design then as it seems to do the job well. Many other contenders have come along such as track balls but they have all lost, thank god for that cause some of the designs are dire. Oh and there are also some funny mouses out there, including this Hamburger one I came across at some point, I didn't buy it but I found it - quite funny - how can you use this!
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May 17, 2004
Alex's Liam Gallagher impression
I was going through some photos that I took at Christmas and came across this one:
HEHE! Well I do think she is doing a good impression of the blokey in the background!! This is payback for her posting a picture of me laughing. |
May 22, 2004
Why??
Can anyone answer me this question, why would anyone do this (see below) to their otherwise good looking car?
Ok I can understand making your car look good or go faster but this just looks stupid, the guy who did this must be an idiot with no sense of taste. A wing on a car like that, you must be joking. I have seen one too many cars with this on, all I can say is people please think before you do that! |
May 27, 2004
Alex's hat
Umm, this girl gets up to some strange things. She made a bag out of used carrier bags and now she is making a hat. OK nothing wrong with that but she is using a product called stiffy to stifen the hat. Now I can come up with hundreds of jokes about this, but the best one I think was left for me to see with her hat this morning:
If you can't see it says "Wet Stiffy Warning" :-) |
June 21, 2004
Dog Toy or Marital Aid?
Alex, my loving girlfriend, posted this http://www.dogtoyormaritalaid.com/ on her website http://elektron.krioma.net/ yesterday. Now this is weird. Unlike her I got 3 wrong, I can't believe she got them all right. It is funny and oddly disturbing. I even managed to get 10 out of 14 on the hard one better than her as she only got 9! Haha I beat her. |
July 14, 2004
man files
You may or may not know if you type man followed by a command (e.g. man ls) at a Unix command line you get the manual for that command. This afternoon I speculated if there where woman files, but I guess all the would say would be "forget about it love, I am a computer leave me alone"! Well if I have offended half of the people out there I am sorry, I just thought that comment seemed funny in a completely sexist / egotistical way - have I paid back for my crime yet ;-) Anyway's I blame Matt for that comment since he brought up the whole topic of man files. |
July 19, 2004
Remember the Mr Men?
A friend of mine sent me an email with some funny Mr Men cartoons, well piss takes, in it. I have to say it takes me back and I think I could think of a few, but I will leave that alone don't want to groose anyone out. Here is my favourite from what he sent:
July 20, 2004
BT block child porn
I think it is a good idea to act about Child pornography as it is sick and disturbing but I am twisted by my beliefs of freedom of speech. No I don't mean freedom of speech to show child porn, I mean more along the lines of ISP's installing software that blocks websites. I personally don't think blocking is a good idea, yes it works - but only in the short term. These people can always setup again with a different site. What is needed is action against them directly, i.e. by tracing the source and getting the people behind it. I don't like the idea of blocking websites, especially since the same technology could be used to block other sites, for example anti government sites, or say pro Al-Qaeda. You may say that yes they should be blocked but surely we live in a democratic society and people are allowed there opinions. Heck we have a political party that is basically a racist organistaion (they claim not to be, but I am allowed my personal view) in the BNP so surely we should allow freedom of speech to everyone. Oh back to the child porn, well done BT you are actually doing something - maybe you should do some actual development of your company as well! Also take a look at this picture:
This picture is from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3786527.stm. This is the article about BT introducing their blocking software. Anyone see something wrong with the picture? Yes the fact that the person is plugging something in the serial port, gosh, that must have been taken 10 years ago when serial ports might (not sure if they were - maybe for the modem) have been used for internet communications. |
August 5, 2004
August Hail!
That's it, I am giving up with this countries weather. It is bloody hot and is hailing! How does that happen, surely it has to be cold for hail to stay as hail near the ground!
Damn weather. We are also in the middle of a thunderstorm, a bolt hit down the street and whole house just shook!! Scary. I'm supposed to go see I, Robot in a bit, hope the weather improves. Oh and to make it worse my bloody (sorry I mean wonderful) girlfriend is lapping up the sun in Greece! :-( |
August 6, 2004
A transsexual wins Big Brother - well done
At first I couldn't stand Big Brother this year and was not going to watch it. Last year I did not since I found it unbelievably boring. This year was different what I saw at the start was interesting and I got into it. Damn is what I thought at first. To be honest I do think it is a bit of a silly program, but so is Neighbours and Eastenders - we all get into certain shows. This year I got into this. I think one of the main reasons is that I am "on holiday" from Uni (well I am doing lots of other stuff but technically on holiday). All I can say is well done to Nadia, a transsexual, who has a huge amount of character for what she did. She should be commended. I have to say I didn't like her laugh and her who cigarette craving was very annoying but overall she should be applauded. Well done. Lot of guts. I would say it takes balls to do what she did, but that would be wrong. I guess it doesn't take balls to do what she did - just being a nice person is enough. I do hope that the previous comment didn't come across badly I meant it in a nice manner! |
August 9, 2004
Starship Troopers 2 and Blockbuster's Online Service
I have to say I know why Starship Troopers 2 did not make it to the cinemas in the UK - because it was crap. No other word better describes it. One good thing though, it has allowed me to test out Blockbuster's online service (see: http://www.blockbuster.co.uk) and I am impressed. The idea behind Blockbusters new service is you get movies through the post and then you send them back via the post. You pay I think £14 or so a month and get infinite films, with you being allowed 3 I think at home. I am using there free months trial - thought I had nothing to lose. I am quite impressed at the moment. I will see how impressed I am if I get any of the movies that are high up on my list soon. Oh you provide them with a list of films you want and they send out the ones highest in your list they have. Not a bad idea, just wonder if you ever get your top films. |
August 11, 2004
Women Sign
I was deleting some of my old files today and came across the picture below, made be laugh (in a complete male chauvinistic pig way of course - sorry):-P
August 12, 2004
Bristol Road Blockages, Bus burnt out
This afternoon as we went for Lunch we noticed lots of fire engine sirens. I didn't think anymore of it to be honest, until we walked down to Tesco to get some food. The police had the Bristol Road (one of Birmingham's busiest) blocked off and ahead of us we could see what appeared to be a burnt out bus. Yes it was a burnt out Bus! As I walked past it the smell was awful. It appears to me that the engine must have caught fire - not the first time I have heard this happening recently. Since I had my new camera phone on me I thought this would be the ideal chance to use it, here are the pictures I took:
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August 14, 2004
Chinese dipping sauce
water |
A philosophy lecture
I can't remember where this came from, I have had it on my computer for ages, made me chuckle:
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August 15, 2004
Burnt out?
The other day I took pictures of a burnt out bus on the Bristol Road (see: http://www.krioma.net/blog/archives/2004_08_12.html).
Yesterday as I was going into town I noticed that the actual advert says "Burnt Out?", how ironic!! I was originally tempted to write on the picture Burnt in front of the out but didn't get around to it, now I am on the hunt for a West Midlands Transport Bus with that advert on the side! |