Midweek Madness

Well it's wednesday and I've read all of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.. No I'm not going into what happens, other people will do that for me, I'm going to make you READ the book if you want to..
I'm mad not because of what happens in the book although it is good, has a nice twist or 3 in it..
I'm mad because I've realised what a nightmare wiring job I've just given myself to do.. Now it started off simple enough, take a few wires from a unit's output relay wire it's common pin to +5 volts so that when a certain condition is met the relay activates and the other connection I have off that relay is connected to common and connect a LED + reistor to 0v so that the relay activates the LED switchs on.. Now repeat that for say 14 units, that is 28 wires.. No that's not much really until you realise each is about 10m long. I'm not finished I though why not set it so that if a unit is okay the LED glows green and if not it glows red.. okay 1 more wire, now I need to be able to commnunicate back to that unit via a Push button input it has, 1 more wire, it has audio abilities so there is 3 more wires (but they can be common to each unit) only the unit who's button is pressed will work ;)... so that's 3 wires +
3-5 x 14 => 45 - 73 wires coming back now that's a NIGHTMARE... HELP!! before I crack up...
This needs done and dusted.. Also I have to build to button console as well, interface it with a few more things and the whole thing will work as it should..
ACK - what wire is this.. blue/green what unit is it again.. Unit 7 no unit 3 no unit 14 ah yeah it is or is it!!!

It's Good

Hmm it's Good so far, quite a few twists in it already. Not going to say anything just yet.. Read the book is all I'm going to say...

It's Almost Time....

It's almost time, it's almost here less than 2 hours to go till it goes on sale in the UK. I've got mine reserved. I'll pick it up tomorrow at some point.
Now hopefully your not wondering what I'm talking about if you are you must have been living under a rock somewhere for the past 2 years. I am of course talking about the Latest Harry Potter Novel.. A few lucky lucky people even get to meet JK Rowling as she reads from the latest book at midnight in Edinburgh Castle. It will be fun. I can't wait I only have to do one thing once I get it, keep it hidden from my cousin who is up with her husband and dog for a week. It's my oldest sister and brother-in-laws Silver Wedding Anniversary party tommorrow Oh boy this is gonna be fun. I don't think I'll stay for long, partys ain't my thing and I'll be tired catching up on sleep from the past week Unless I catch up on most of it tonight and get up about midday, I don't think I'll get away with that somehow.

A week ago Today

Hmm This is a seprate Post because it needs to be..
It's a week since the Bombings in London, it seems longer
Suicide Bombers indeed, from what I've read and heard on the news the kids that blew themselves up were like you and I, well up to a point. They were hard working, were deep in the muslin faith but someone whispered in their ear a posionious tale that lead to this momement. I'd love to quote what the Driver of the bus that Blew up said but I can't remember exactly but it summed up what Britain stands for, what makes you who you are.. Last Thursday was a slap in the face, Not something you do to britain or a british city because we slap back only harder..
There was a 2 minute silence around the world at 12 Noon BST, observed most poinently in places where the bombers have hit, Bali, Madrid, New York..
Im proud to be Scottish, proud to be British, I don't judge you on your colour, your creed, your faith.. If you piss me off, it is something you've said or done not anything else.
God is watching, he's keeping score, he knows where everyone's going when they die
Allah is beside him, looking down and frowning, wondering what twisted muderous person is perverting his teachings, his teachings of peace.
To quote a film for a second:
"It is not about Anger, it is about Peace"
"It is not about knowing your enemy, it is about knowing yourself"
there is a third line that escapes me but you get the drift. Be a peace with yourself be at peace with those around you.. If you know yourself, you know your enemy too strange but true..
Shalom

Thursday (I think)

Hmm I think it's thursday, right now Im not sure as my brain has STOPPED working.. well so would yours if you'd been up since 5:30 in the am and it's now late..
In the past 100hrs or so, 50 of which have been a little too warm, I've worked 48 of them, gotten about 15hrs sleep I'd say since like sunday night. So you can imagine what im like.. Half dead but at least I'm cool again, the heat has gone for now.
I'm going to get some zzz's I may post tomorrow I don't know.
Actually I will.... I have to Saturday is Important

I'm Meltin'

I am too, sheesh it's been hot over here the past couple of days but thankfully the weather is apprently set to break and cool down by the end of the week.. Now imaging 20+ C (68+ F) outside no wind as such, me inside a room that is like 6ft by 12ft (approx probably a bit bigger attempting gauge sizes from drawings I have.. windows open, blinds closed and oh yeah 26 14" CRT monitor + 4 PC's + 44 Pieces of CCTV equipment to gather and record images all in that one space
1 floor fan blowing air about (well warm air).. and Me working 12hrs due to colleage being off on paternety leave for a week! I am able to escape for a while but no where is really any cooler room not really designed to allow air flow through it unfortunatly.

Its a Girl

That Headline got ya didn't it, thought I'd been keeping something quiet for 9 months eh no such luck! Me as a dad, heaven forbid - no I have no life as it is.

Well folks I just heard from my colleague at work we do a split shift so that there is a time when we are both in so one of us can do something like do alarm services and the like..
Well I've been waiting for this for a couple of weeks now.. His lovely wife had a beautiful baby girl called kayla (I'm sure she is, not seen a photo yet) this morning at 9:30am GMT and she weighs in at 7 pounds 8oz [3.4 kg]. Looks like I'll be working 12hr shift for at least the next week or possibly 2 to give him some time with his lovely baby daughter, not looking forward to the hours but then again it will be fun and it might just be worth it when I get paid for it.
More news when I get it..

Hmm Saturday

Hmm what a nice day it's been, okay maybe not superb but then again I wouldn't be posting this right now if it was superb cos I'd still be at T in The Park, rocking away to who ever was on stage.. Hmm mind you never been to concert / gig / outdoor event type thing in my whole life so I don't really know what I'm missing just what I see on TV...
It's been Nice and sunny all day, bit too warm for me and my poor pc's
Got a nice book today on PHP, MySQL and Apache - looks really good, been meaning to find a book on all 3 really, thought I'd end up with 3 books, nope got it in 1..

I can't believe only 1 person left a comment on my last post... Even a comment to say what a load of Bull it was or something, I take critique on the chin you know.

Okay Back to doing what I was doing which is Chatting on Yahoo chat (yahoo.com) in Computers Lobby:1 why Yahoo.com and not Yahoo.co.uk, I suggest you go to yahoo.co.uk and see why it is erm well just too weird..

London Calling.......

I know what I said yesterday but somethings just have to be said..
No doubt many of you will have heard about the bombings in London, Many places have good live coverage of what is happening but I'd just like to make a small point
London my heart goes out to those who have been killed or injuried, their family and friends as well.
I want to make a small point, this is my own opnion but it counts.

• This was Not Religously Motavated


• This was Not Race Related Attack


• This was a Cowardly Dispicable Act

A few points to be noted about London

• In 1940-41 The Luftwaffe bombed London, tried and failed


• The IRA has tried to several times and Failed


• Building have been blown up but again Failure

Failed, Failure to do what.. To Kill the british spirit that one thing that binds all of us, no matter our montery status, our colour / creed or religion. Young men, woman, father, mother, sons, daughter have fought for this country in various parts of the world to make sure the British Spirit never dies, to make sure that the people we are fighting for and against know what we stand for.. Okay people have been killed, injuried but we will recover it will take time, but we will do this..

Heres how to beat the Terrorist
Go around to your neighbours, check they are ok
It doesn't matter if they are white and you aren't or vice versa.
If they are muslin and you are Christian.
Religion doesn't matter, colour doesn't matter
Go around make sure they are okay..
Do something you wouldn't do, go to church, a mosque, temple or other religious site better yet go to one that isn't of your religion, find out about the custom first, go listen, understand.
That is how to beat Terrorists, show a UNITED FRONT not a divided one..
UNITED in grief, UNITED in understanding..
Brother, Sister hear my words, hear my call, do not hate those who are different from you, know that they are different, understand them, many cultures, one race - this country is a diverse mix, Hate has no place in your heart - hate only those truly deserving of it.. Those who attempt to put fear in your heart through the use of the BOMB..
Do NOT Give in to it.. Fear cannot hold you if you don't let it hold you sway..

New Pic / Last Post

Hmm like the new profile pic? yes / no..
Oh and right now there is nothing going on in my life at all whatsoever that is important enough to even remotely blog / write down anywhere..

Someone to keep in your prayers

Please could you keep Moogie's Father-in-Law in your prayers, he's suffered a heart attack and is in hospital, more news as moogie posts it.. Full Posting is at Moogie's World right now..

Personality Disorders

Hmm well I saw this on Moogie's Blog and was intreged enough to take the "test" if you can call it that. I think i've Answered it honestly although some of the questions could have done with a 3rd option IMHO
The results As they Are

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Moderate
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Moderate
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	Moderate
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Low
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

Redid this with with more thought - hmm Result Even more scary

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	High
Schizotypal:	Very High
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Moderate
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	High
Dependent:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

Don't Blame me for this...

Yeah don't blame me, i got bullied into this, well that's my story moogie and I'm sticking to it...
Read this one, it has a twist...
The 25 Word Challange
Either that or the whole things is twisted..

It's the weekend

Hmm well yesterday was a nice sunny day so I guess summer isn't quite over yet..
Hmm not actually done anything today well apart from send a letter by air mail.. I really should write to more people it's fun, just realised that. E-mail doesn't quite allow you the eliquincy that handwriting does, it can't really convey a feeling, emotion like a letter can, sure you can use different colors and bold or italic text but it's not the same as a letter. It comes close but not that close besides there is nothing better than coming downstairs of a morning, picking up the mail that's just arrived and seeing a letter from a friend.. Okay so it takes longer than an e-mail to get there, it's slower than calling them but then again overseas / long distance calls ain't cheap.. Hmm I think that's enough from me on this subject, as Moogie would say I'm going to hand it over to you for your thoughts on the matter.

I guess that summer done with..

Well that's it this part of the world has had summer, no seriously we've had our allocated number of really sunny days for this year already a whole 5.. I'm just kidding but well it's now back to rain, warm rain and it know it want's to thunder the air is that way, getting heavy, waiting for a break... then it's flash followed by the crack of the lightning as it accelerates the poor air molecules out the way..

Hmm Well it's still warm in my attic even with the skylight open. darn I need Air Con in here.. oh wait im in the UK what would I need Air for when I'd only use it for like a month in the year total. I guess I'll just stick to my desk fan in order to cool off, or I'll just have to keep my retro styled mini fridge fully stocked..

A Glorious Weekend

Well wow, what a lovely weekend it's been, nice an sunny, a bit too hot of my liking but I did get out in it a little bit today.
Went up to sister's so I could get help washing car cos I don't like doing it but it needed done, ended up doing mine as her's as well and getting little or no help (should have known). Was meant to be going meeting up with some on Sat but that didn't turn out at all (Never mind it's only me, unimportant me). Anyway back to today, lovely day, too hot to do much but washed car anyway.. Then nephew decided he wanted to play with his water guns... hmm with his friends who'd come over, sister though she'd got it timed perfectly so that the 2 that were there would be gone before his next friend got dropped off, well it almost happened that way, she was looking for 5 minutes peace didn't happen. I ended up getting soaked not before I got nephew and his friend (who had his own water pistol) wet... nephew cheated though kept running in and out of house to stop us getting him... but we got him.
Was fun, it was only water but what fun and it gave sister peace (sort of for a little while) Just shows you what can be done with a little bit of water don't it..

How do you really feel?

Hmm well you can blame Moogie for this... you might wanna head over to her blog in order to understand what I'm jabbering on about.. but hey anyways let's begin.
1. Who are you? My name is Gordon or Gopher.

2. Are we friends?Hmm I'm sure we are. I remember stuff for you..

3. When and how did we meet?Hmm Now that's going back, meet IRL never, wandered across each other somewhere in Free-DC land and well got hooked on your blog..

4. Do you have a crush on me? If no….why the hell not? Not a crush as such but you are cute, hmm darn gosh is it warm in here?

5. Do you read my blog regularily?Yeah. I do even when you've not posted for a few days I still check just in case you have.

6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.Moogie, well you told me to call ya that otherwise Moogie J would come over and pummel me..

7. Describe me in one word. Magnificient.

8. What was your first impression?Your a lady who gets what she wants, when she wants it but is a little bit soft when required. You don't take no crap of nobody..

9. Do you still think that way about me now?Yes, but there is more to you than that.

10. What reminds you of me?Chocolate cake, you can never get enough just like I probably could never get enough of you chatting away to me..

11. If you could give me anything what would it be?Hmm your kids, they'd survive somehow well you need a break from them now and then.. I'd promise not to sell them...

12. How well do you know me? Mostly through e-mail and your blog but I real letter now and then might just work too..

13. When's the last time you saw me? I've not met you yet, but I'm attempting to work on it. Now where did one put one's passport application

14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't? I don't think so...

15. Do you feel like your back in high school now? Yes. Crazy is it not.

16. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you? You bet ya I am.

A fine weekend

Well this weekend has been superb, well almost weather was nice yesterday and ok today, cloudy but still warm, Average Temp round here is about 21C (70F)
Played football with nephew yesterday down the park after it cooled down a little it was hotter earlier in the day and I had other things to do like get me a fan to cool me and my poor computer down... Yeah it was actually hotter in my attic than outside, it has this weird ability to trap what you don't want it to trap, like cold air in winter and hot air in summer...
Mind you I realised I couldn't spend any more one after I'd bought the fan, hmm needed pay day to come around soon but that won't be till end of the month.. I got enough in my account to cover what I need but not much more, guess I've went a bit nuts with the spending... Oh well I'm off to bed, to see if I can get some sleep before I have to get up for work tomorrow morning at 8:15.

My Grandmother

Hmm well sharon got me thinking about my grandparents..
I never got to know either of my grandfathers which is a pity as my mother's father sounded a really nice gentleman to know and well my other grandfather I'm kinda glad I didn't hmm if my dad is anything to go by, but thats a whole other can of worms. I only really knew my mum's mum, my nana as I called her. Was great every weekend we go and stay there, watch "CHiPs" and things like that, it was the early 80's, eat gammon flavour crisps hmm darn you can't get them and smoky bacon just aint the same.. Anyway I'll never forget the day we found her dead, I think we'd went down to see if she needed anything from the shops or something I was only 5/6 at the time.. there she was laying on the floor between the kitchen and the living room, toast was burning, she can't have been long dead as the toast wasn't that burnt (or at least I think it was).. Then it was all a blur.. Me and my sister got shunted out the way while the family took care of it, I don't even know where she's buried. It seems I wasn't to get to know because I was too young.. I hurts a little. My other gran died not that long ago, I didn't really know her at all yet I was expected to go. I was working that day, in the same company I work for just now, my sister worked there and was going, I didn't I couldn't I don't know what it is about my father family that just makes me steer clear of them.. Only one I give a stuff about is an uncle who is mentally retarded, a little slow on the uptake of things but he's alright the others I dont give a toss for.. Sorry Nana i haven't been to see you, one day I will, one day.. I'll find the courage in my heart to find you..
Darn that was hard to write..

A Film / Turned Down Again..

I gotta say I was looking forward earlier on to seeing Batman Begins with my good friend but she sent me a cryptic text saying "I cannot go" turns out she had to work late, so why didn't she put that in... I replied saying Ok, No problem, I'm gonna see a film, see you monday... replies with "I'm still at work" but I think what they hey, I was planning on going out so I'm darn well tooting going out and I did and I had said that to my friend earlier in the day that I was gonna see a film with or without her... Hmm should have seen it coming..

So I went and Saw "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" good film, not really for kids, some good stunts in it and oh yeah more than a few bullets... Hmm i enjoyed it dispite the fact I needed to "go" most of the film, I held on... darn knew it was a bad idea to drink Pepsi Max before the film but I had time to kill so I killed it by drinking finished it, got my popcorn and a 2nd drink incase I needed it... ate most of my popcorn before 15 minutes of the film was done, mind you had been sat there listening to music / trailers / additional trailers / the movie for about an hr..
Also let's just say it's good a few momements of absolute comedy..

Re: Moogie - MIA

Wow, she's not MIA anymore, moogie is alive and well and blogging, her strange style of blog once more..

Moogie - MIA

Folks its happened, something I thought might never happen....
Moogie appears to have gone MIA - unless I missed something, or got missed off the mailing list telling people what she was gonna be upto...
So Anyone know, anyone spotted her at a 7-11, Walmart or other such locale?
Or maybe.... The kids have had it with mom and decided they are gonna run the show and have hypnotised OWW into doing their bidding... must check out his blog to see if anything's happening.

Doh! or should that be Double Doh!

Do you hate it when you click on the "Save as Draft" button instead of publish post button on a post and then forget and go back the next day and not notice the post is missing and post then realise it's missing and go to start typing it again and notice a "draft" post which is Identical to the one that is "missing". Well I didn't quite re-type the post I checked before I did that..
If anyone is really good with MS Access 2000 databse stuff, HELP!, I've dug myself a hole and can't get out, I try something and it refuses to work I think I'm gonna have to start from scratch and redo the whole database, all the tables, forms & the query I've done so far as it's just too plain I want to be able to change the "style" but I can't seem to be able to do anything but change the color, oh well... Insanity here I come, oh and I need it done by erm yesterday..

Ophs

Well I leave my computers on 24 / 7 so it can number crunch for whatever distributed computing project takes my fancy. That's right I said computers, I got 4 of 'em and the one I do all my blogging on and that has all the programs I regularly use otherwise known as the Beast cos it's the best one, well it was a little hot last week but I notice the Processor temprature of it was a bit on the High side, it was 57C (134F) this was with the side of the case off and a fan blowing air in from that side but nothing helped, I even stopped the project it was running and ran a program I have called CPU Idle Extreme which is puts it under full load but turns bits of the processor off in doing so and cools the CPU down by making it produce less heat.. Anyway I got a new case for it and though while I transfer it to a new case with a front mount for a fan and a prefitted rear fan I'll check the Heatsink on the processor and see how much thermal transfer compound there is on there between the processor and it, well there wasn't much and I couldn't reuse the old stuff as I couldn't scrap it in to a useable pile.. I went okay, I'll clean it off and go find the tube of thermal paste I have, it's around here somewhere. Of course I couldn't find it (don't say it typical man can't find nothing) this was at 6:30 lastnight and I know you can't turn a processor of the speed I have on without a heatsink on it and without something to translate the heat from processor to heatsink. So I was stuck without my main computer for about 18hrs will I wait for the computer shop to open earlier on today.. Well I got it back up and running and so far it's doing better - it's 5C cooler at least and that is with the case full buttoned up and it running at full pelt once more - ya...
Rule 1 of building / refurbishing a PC - make sure you have all the tools you'll need in order to do the task at hand..
Building all you need is a small flat bladed screwdriver to undo the screws to open the case, and to put the screws in to hold the motherboard on the back plate, to hold the video card,sound card, tv capture card, etc in the appropriate slot inside the pc and to screw the case closed again once you've connected up the power supply and clipped in the heatsink on to the processor after it's fitted, to fit the hard drives / cd / dvd drives, cd / dvd writer. I could do anyone a step by step on how to build a pc if anyone wants to do it, well I think I pretty well could since all 4 of the machines I have here are hand built + I've oversaw a mate build his 1st pc..
Have fun and rememeber if your pc says it's getting hot check the fans..
I recommend getting Motherboard Monitor 5 < click the link to go to the website at livewiredev.com..
You need a little knowledge of what motherboard you have in the machine. A program that will tell you the manufacturer and the manfacturers number of your motherboard is a program called CPU-Z, Click Here it will tell you what processor you have as well as a few more peices of info, useful to have if you want to add more memory to it and need to know what type you have in it and what speed it is..you just look up the manufacturer then click the "+" beside that one and look for the number it gives you or as close as you can find, most motherboards are listed, it even has most dell / e-machine / hp ones included :)

Darn well blogger

Well folks I did attempt to change the template for my blog, got a nice shiny silver background for the top with an edge to it.

I attempted to introduce this to blogger and well it didn't like at all did weird things, darn freaking thing... *beats blogger round head several time*.. The result was I had to the orignal template layout and start again, thank god for backups (well just about).. I've decided I'll leave the sidebar on the right as well otherwise my site breaks in IE :|.. Just looked at it again and its still broken but it now in a weird place { swears some more } One day I will will win blogger, you will see.. maybe I need to go to the darkside? or maybe I'm already on the darkside and need to return to the light!

Gee It's warm this week

Hmm well I guess summer is finally here, it's warm.. Well warmer than normal right now I'm sitting at my PC sweating, with the skylight open, trying to cool down my attic space, my sanctuary.. Right now it's about 12C outside (not hot for some but this is 12:30am) and it's gonna be more of the same.. maybe even hotter.. lol
Gonna be cooler tommorrow night though thank god..

A Blogger A to Z Additional

Hmm well I've though about it some more and was thinking that maybe the Chapter Titles could have the A to Z theme running through them instead of the chapter subject being the A to Z theme object.. Sounds like a much easier idea to me
Well Guys what da ya think?

A Blogger A to Z

Well Thanks to "Fiesty Productions" we've had a few Blog Stories now,
We've had a Blog Novella, a Blog Noir and a Blog Western.
Now I'm gonna suggest something totally outlandish and off the planet kinda.
Before I begin let me introduce someone:
Step Forward, Ms Kinsey Milhone, PI, lives in the Southern Calafornia Town of Santa Teresa, she's been shot at, run down, killed people in self defence. Found people that are dead, alive having faked death, money, but most of all uncovered the truth..
You can blame the PI for the idea, or rather you can blame her Alter Ego, Step forward Sue Grafton Author Extraordinare.
Heres the pitch:
A 26 part blog Story.. Why 26 part, 1 part for each letter in the English Dictionary, just like the Alphabet Series Sue Grafton is writing..
Now what is the setting of this story well thinking somewhere in the USA, what each chapter is about well that is up to the writers of each chapter.. but the main subject has to link back to the previous one and be able to link forward to the next. You could easily set up one thing in a chapter and use it as cover in another, a bit like providing an Alias to cover up a Bungled robbery you get the idea yet..
Thoughs much appreached..
This is only a real open idea at the moment but who knows..

Re: I'm Mad I tell ya...

Well let me fill you in on how it went on saturday...
Went to local flower shop to pick up a generic bunch of flowers, well I needed a gift that wouldn't be misinterpreted.. Well that and I needed to go shopping for some more DVD's and the shop I use is nearby the flower shop on the high street.. Mind you typical ATM for my bank was "down" :| I think that and the other main branch near me are down every other weekend due to the fact they either a) run out of cash b) are needing major refrubishment and a kick ass hardware / software upgrade... but enough of that...
I got the DVD's first thankfully I could pay for them on my card..
I got Ocean's Tweleve, Lemony Snicket's - A Series of Misadventures and National Tresure. I then got the flowers and drove to see my ex-girlfriend and Jen - you and everyone I told about this though the same thing I'm NUTS..
But well it was a nice enough day, rain and sunshine, must be a Scottish Summer...
I got there, parked up, It wasn't raining at that point, it was nice.
I knocked on the door, wasn't sure it was the right house as car wasn't the one I expected but everything else was the same, heard the dog, I though right house..
My ex answered and I went Happy birthday Caroline, her mouth dropped and she made a sound something like "Oh" then said thanks.. I was invited in and give her mother a shook as well :D We chatted for a while, catching up on what we were all doing now.
All in all a fun few hours. I had to laugh a few times on the journey back it was that fun.. The look on Caroline's Face said it all :D

A helping hand for bloging

Okay I know many of you out there are driven to distraction at the fact that your latest incarnation of your blog looks great in X but not in Y...
here is what I do.
go to the template tab and copy the entire template, blogger spefics and all and then paste it into my favourite text editor which is UltraEdit it's a good all round editor but it's not freeware, it has syntax highlighting, i.e all the HTML Tags get highlighted, it also offers auto indent, which is great if your doing stuff and want the whole thing to follow on below it so it's all neat and tidy
Example:

  <DIV ID="content">
   <DIV ID="header">
    <DIV>
     <H1><ItemPage><A HREF="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
     <$BlogTitle$>
     <ItemPage></A></ItemPage></H1>
    </DIV>
   </DIV>
  <!-- Begin #sidebar -->
   <DIV ID="sidebar">
    <P ID="description"><$BlogDescription$></P>
   <!-- Begin #profile-container -->
    <$BlogMemberProfile$>
   <!-- End #profile -->
    <MainOrArchivePage>
    <H2 CLASS="sidebar-title">Blogger Links</H2>
     <UL>
      <LI><A HREF="http://perspectacles.blogspot.com/">The Adventures of
      <LI><A HREF="http://www.moogiesworld.com/">Moogies World</A>
      <LI><A HREF="http://www.daxmontana.net/">The Dax Files</A></LI>
      <LI><A HREF="http://feistyrepartee.mu.nu/">Fiesty  Repartee</A>
      <LI><A HREF="http://GopherTheAngelic.deardiary.net/">My Old Dear
     </UL>
     <BR>

This is a section of the template for this side.. see how it's all laid out?
you get what I'm on about now?
Also it lets you see how it looks in a browser window. I have both IE 6, Netscape and Firefox installed on here so I can do local previews of pages.
the Url for UltraEdit is UltraEdit.com
you won't actually see any of the "content" just some strange things like $BlogDescription$ etc as they only work on blogger itself.
Now once you have it "playing" how you want, save it as an html file that way you can go back and change that one rather than the one online - you may wish to save the images you use somewhere, but I think most templates link images back to blogger anyway.
Now all you need to do is the reverse of what you did earlier and copy the whole template back into the "Template" on blogger and do a preview to make sure it's done right.. if so Save and your done if not.. you have a local copy you can play around with some more...
Hope all that helps.. if not e-mail me :P

A Western Blog - Chapter 7 is up...

Well what can I say about this Tale of revenge, double dealing with more twist in it that a couple of corkscrews..
The Grand Finale and oh boy was it worth the waiting for...
If you haven't read the story so far, where ya been? Hiding under a rock for the past 7 weeks or worse had no access to the internet (goes lightheaded at the meer thought)
well here are the other chapters in order...
Chapter 1 from within "The Dax Files"
Chapter 2 from Moogie, setting the scene some more.
Chapter 3 from the Nitwit, the attack with a twist.
Chapter 4 from Kelley, The aftermath.
Chapter 5 from Eric, a twist or 2 in the tale perhaps?
Chapter 6 from Pammy, the payoff perhaps?

I'm Mad I tell ya...

Ok call me totally INSANE if you will..
Today is my ex-girlfriend's birthday, now we are still "friends" or I think we are we rarely talk but then again we don't have much to talk about. Anyway I have a card all written out and I'm gonna pick a bunch of flower tommorrow and take 'em over, that's gonna be fun. I'll keep you all posted (I can tell by the comments / lack of them that this hasn't quite been listed as a good blog or something like that - lol call me paranoid if ya like)..
Hmm reminds me where can I get a referal / hit count tool from?

A nice bank holiday / Work.

Well it was a nice day off I had yersterday even although I did have plans with a friend to go see Star Wars 3, but that fell through. Got car derusted and spray painted over the weekend, ignoring the rain on saturday :|, finished off yesterday. So car now all nice and shiny again...
Well work today was a drag but it had it's moments, like getting paid MORE money :D ya... Me Happy bunny again, got Cash ££££ for 5 minutes again... Oh well time to sign off, finish up on my PC and head to bed..

Re: We Completly 0w3nd th3m...

Hmm I can see 1 confused commenter... hmm well how can I clarify this..
my Clan 7.62SQ play a game called Joint Operations which has 2 versions, one is an add-on to the other basically.. Now given that. If you say your "0wn1ng" someone it means your killing them repeatedly in whatever game your playing, but giving them a sporting chance to fight back.. so when I say "We Completly 0wn3nd" them we did just that kept killing them, kept them out of the scoring zone aka the "Hot zone" as there are various map type you can play on the game and the one we were playing is called "Team King of the Hill" where the "hot zone" is the hill and you score points for being in the zone and for killing the enemy who are attacking the zone or who are in the zone defending and a whole lot of other things too, like reviving people if your a medic.. Plus things like killing them with a headshot and double kill (a rarity - 2 people with 1 single bullet).. I hope that clears this up...
If not please feel free to go to the 762sq link on my sidebar..

We Completly 0w3nd th3m...

Well as some of you may know I'm a member of 7.62SQ Clan. I decided after much deliberation to rejoin after I left, Call me INSANE but well it had to be done. Played for a few games in a match last night and did not bad.. We had another match tonight and well what can I say we totally 0w3nd them, that is to say we beat them hands down..
Now what is so special about this as we normally win every map we play? Was that the other squad was ex-7.62SQ members that had erm left cos the didn't like Team Leader Freak's way of doing things, ya see he'd been busy and left them in temporary charge of things and well the power went to their heads, when he came back they weren't happy said that he wasn't doing enough for the squad as in getting match play and such so they left and formed a new squad called TAF - Tactical Assult Farce sorry Force... well they came on our server a while back and talked shit about "owing" us when in fact they joined when 1 side was winning and basically did no real work. So we went into thier Server with spoof names and took the piss, they banned basically all of us and wouldn't accept a friendly match, so we got another squad to challange them and borrowed their server for the evening and went in with thier tag on, and different names I went from being Gopher 7.62SQ to F.A.R. Jesus , well I was a medic and we all know "Jesus Saves" :D. Well we won 3-1 and in the map we lost we won over all on kills it was only because they managed to get to the "hot zone" and keep it they they won, it was a narrow victory a matter of 10 seconds zone time... but after we won the 4th map, Freak said "You've Just Been Owned by 7.62SQ" and then we all went and said who we were, lets just say SB (TAF leader) then said we was "cheater" but we 0wned them TOTALLY... It was funny to say the least....

hmm Darn what a chapter....

Hmm gosh darn it, Pammy has managed to out do all the others with her chapter this just gets better and better, I look forward to next weeks installment...
A Blogger Western Latest installment

All I have to say is "ouch"& "squeek"...

A little more about me...

Hmm well I was thinking and my blogger profile doesn't begin to really tell you anything much about me.. It's a little too analytical, impersonal and right now I can't be bothered to mess around with it and change it so it reflects me more...
Just flicked through my music collection and realised I have everything from
Punk Rock to Modern Jazz To Dance, Hip Hop to Folk to Classical to Country to pretty much anywhere and back again.
From Greenday, Daft Punk & Linkin Park to Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone, Norah Jones, Katie Melua. From the Chemical Brothers, Faithless Outkast, The Streets, Eminem, Ian Van Dah & DJ Tim Westwood to Local Folk Artist Bruce Davies. From Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven to Faith Hill, Toby Keith and Little Billy Gilman.
From Queen, Athlete, Kaiser Chiefs, Lost Prophets, Keane & Ash to the Foo Fighters, Damien Rice. From Delta Goodrem to Dido to name a few of the artists I have on CD..
Right now I'm listening to the new Faithless Album - Forever Faithless it's good, nice and relaxing like most of the stuff I have, I have the songs in there that are for sad times, good times, bad times and I think I have music for ever mood...

What color are you?

I snagged this test from Sharon, The Domesitic Engineers site...

you are paleturquoise #AFEEEE

Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is low - You stay out of stressful situations and advise others to do the same. You may not be the go-to person when something really needs done, but you know never to blow things out of proportion. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Letter From America

Hmm well I got up today, had a showere, went downstairs to discover the post had actually arrived before I'd even got up. Where I stay this is a sort of regular occurence well it's sometimes here by 8:30, but today it surpassed itself it was up before my parents got up at 7:30...
And there was two letters for me.. One I was expecting which was a DVD of a Precussion Extravagnsa by a member of the Salvation Army called Johnathan Whitmore and my best mate stu was doing all the video work to record the event... which for what I've seen of it, it was a good night.. Stu had the unenviable task of splicing all the video footage together from the various cameras at the event and getting it to syncronize in with the Audio - a definate plus.. the finished product is polished to say the least..
The other was expected just not quite yet.. it was from Sharon and I didn't expect it that soon as well International mail can take a while... I then spent the rest of the day at work with "The Proclaimers - Letter From America" chorus and bits of the song going around in my head.. Thank you sharon for brightening my day :)

Don't you just hate....

Don't ya just hate when you talk yourself into something. Hmm I've made that mistake a few times you would think I'd have learned by now. Nope, talked myself into helping someone set up a database to consolidate several excel workbooks into one file, now I need to be able to query this database with all the data and I think I had better include a "delete" recovery option so as to be able to recover data that has been accidently changed or somehow enable "user" levels. Oh the joys of Access Databases, which I now need to learn how to set up and manage properly. The Set-up looks easy enough but it's the switchboard, the layout of the data to be displayed etc that will be the fun parts of this but I think I'll get by need to practice a little, I'm sure I'll get it... If you hear a funny noise one day it's okay it'll be my beating by brains out with a wooden spoon..

An intresting dilemma

Hmm well that was an intresting week, if not a little on the boring side, I know I just basically said an oxymoron in a kinda way but what the heck.
Now it's one of my sisters silver wedding anniversery this year, on 16th of July, this is gonna prove interesting because we'll have my cousin, her husband, their complete mental english springer spaniel and my aunt staying, now this means it's going to be intresting, it also means I get turfed out my room as it has a nice double bed in it, and by the looks of things I'm gonna be sleeping in the attic beside all my PC's which isn't that bad but my colleague at work's wife is due to give birth on the 17th of July but it could swing a few days either side and obviously he'll want time off for that.. I also worked out that the week leading up to the 16th I'm working 7am to 4pm and the week after it 10am til 7pm, now I can see me not getting much sleep as it is but I may have to work 7am til 7pm if my colleague needs time off... ARGH - it will be wake, work, home, eat, and not much sleep... Oh boy gonna be rough can see me going to work asleep, driving with my eyes shut - oh dear...

Close to the heart...

I heard in the news about the singer Kylie Minogue having been diagnoised with breast cancer and thought hmm there are many things in live that can appear and don't respect any kind of barriers of race, creed, color, sex one of these is cancer. Delta Goodram had non hogkins lymphoma - but she's cured now and back to singing.. I wish Kylie all best and pray she recovers quickly - I know she has the love of her family around her..
Now lets get to the meat of this post why is this post close to my heart, why am I waffling attempting to fill the space up with almost meaningless words, well hmm as I said Cancer has no respect for age, race, color,creed, sex.. I has visited my family, my mother had cervical cancer, now okay this was a few years now, she's fine now, got given the all clear after the course of treatments she recieved and only need to go back for check ups now and then, she is a fair age.. 70 this year. I came along late in life, but back to my mum.. I did think for a while what if!? what if I lose her, I knew deep in my heart I wouldn't, not to this as she was a fighter and had her faith in god, the doctors who cared for her and the surgeon who operated on her to remove the cancer, she said once that god's hand had guided the surgeon to remove it as she'd prayed for help.. I knew then she'd be safe, I gave her help around the house as she recovered but that dropped away. But she's better now, healed, proof that there is life after cancer. Proof there is a god, an angel watching over us, the ones who have lead selfless lifes, do selfless acts.. those who are mothers, who care..
Mind you there is another thing that is tearing her apart now, but I'm working on sorting that out head on... If you want some info on it read here and maybe read a few of the next entries as well, it might not make any sense but trust me it hurts..... but I'm gonna fix it now...
I have an idea, take the bull by the horns, the only one who is gonna lose out if it all goes wrong is me.. but i matter little, if I can get my sister the boneheaded one and my mum talking again.. if I lose what will I lose, I'll never see my nephew again ever.. but it's a price I'm willing to pay, He'll miss me I know it's not fair on him, he's 7 and I don't wanna do it but I must... Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna have to go dry my eyes..
Est Sularus oth Mithas - My Honor is My Life (Old Solmanian - Dragonlance)

Mates...

Hmm well had a really good fecking day yesterday... My good friend & his girlfriend were meant to come over and visit me... I even got a bottle of Tia Lusso in (It's like Bailey's Irish Cream but with Tia Maria instead of Brandy - quite nice on the rocks)
But they didn't turn up, no phone call, no message, not even a simple text message to say sorry mate can't make it over and I still don't got a reply to the text message I sent him wondering where he was from last night...
To say I'm a tad fecking bloody annoyed would be a minor UNDERSTATEMENT...
But never mind I had something to fill my time in with, chating away to a good friend about how her and her boyfriend are doing.. Hmm can I say happy yeah I can say that word.. Now here I am sitting typing this and printing of Silver Wedding Invites 10 at a time (no more my printer gets kinda warm and the inkjets start to clog up and it stops printing in one of the colors which isn't good at all..
Oh I might just mess around with the template some more... darken the colors slightly..

Template Changes

Well I played around some more with the template and I got it looking just like I want hmm mind you I think I may increase the width of the whole thing as it looks small on my 1024 x 768 screen *grins* I'll play around some more with it, I'll find a background to suit me soon... Hmm might use the one from my website - hmm but which 1 I have a few which you can set to your own liking (well works in IE / NS / Other browsers flaky support )
NB: It's not actually changed size in any way shape or form all though it does look like it...

A Review

Okay Dax ya got me - true indeed, don't worry that's just me being "Random", see my title does make sense...
Well actually i don't know why I wrote that, I blame Moogie, it's all her fault to start off with, well actually it's a friend of hers who doesn't have a blog but is in the same team that is Free-dc.org (note to self add link to sidebar for that..) well actually friend and an old tutor of mine who kinda persuded me to do the whole Distrubted Computer approach when SETI was new so blame the nameless one (you know who you are).. Then Moogie pointed me to her blog, then one day she said read this blog it's very touching and thus sharon got added as a friend and they both worked on me and persuded me to move (hmm mind you an old friend made a note that she did suggest blogger to begin with lol)...
Hmm Well I was at dear diary for a while since someone persuded me thus...
Dax your added to the sidebar for your comment :P - feel free to link back to me if you wish...
Onward and upward

A Western Blog

Hmm Wow is all I have to say for the Chapters 1 to 4 (See Side bar for links to them), I found myself today writing out the opening for chapter 5 in my head, not something I normally do but darn it somehow my brain is working on stuff that it normally don't do.. I normally work on problems I have for work / home / blog / elsewhere. I'm not that a creative writer well I can write and write if i find a topic that interests me. Quite the puzzle am I as Yoda would say.
I'm not going to utter another word about what I have in my head for chapter 5.
Good Luck to Eric - you gotta hard act to follow
Dax :) - Great Start;
Moogie - it's all your fault I got a blog in the 1st place (Well actually you and sharon but you've wrote a chapter:P);
NitWit - Superb follow on
Kelley - Wow is all I can say didn't know where it was going to go after NitWit finished almost everyone off..
I really should like erm read more peoples blog that just Sharon and Moggie's (thus only a limited Amount of Other Blogs listed on my sidebar)
but erm I don't wanna pry into anyones space that I don't know that well...

An interesting day.

Well it was a lovely sunny day to day, cold but nice and sunny, but most of all quiet, got a few things done at work... One day soon I'll actually have a proper complete list of all the stock we actually own and whats needing fixed and whats needing thrown away...
Hmm Time to chill out to some random cd, correction mp3'd cd :D gotta love being able to make a legal backup of a cd onto hdd / another cd ;)

A quiet Tuesday

Hmm today at work...................
That's right nothing happened, day went kinda slow but thankfully gave me time to think and plan, well since no-one else was in office but me and my friend we were able to just chinwag at times, hope there is something on at cinema this friday so I can finally go to cinema with friend (darn it Nth time lucky) said I'd pay for everything since it's her birthday etc... She don't know about the flowers and hopefully she never will, might just have to erm arrange to have them with me on friday - hmm a possibility *one that saves me fuel - only a little but well maybe I might just surprise her*

Hmm Well that's me caught up with the past Week (that's right from 1st March till now all written today) It's now 11pm and I'm gonna get some sleep (since I have to be up in 6 1/2 hrs)

My Nephew and Me...

Well I had fun last night, sister and her boyfriend went out last night for his and another friends birthday so I was looking after my nephew all last night, picked him up from football practice which is on the site of my old high school - well the high school is still there I've not been into the new building they put up yet, I still remember the old one... so got him home, had fun building models with megablock bricks (similar to lego but erm not lego) and watch jetix on Sky - well he likes watching Power Rangers and Robot Wars (which I like watching too) he is 7 (although him reaching next birthday might be a challange - Im sure a lot out there know what I'm on about).
Well let him watch Robot Wars, ran a bath for him, then hmm the darling some how managed to con me into let him stay up till 9:30 by which time it was getting dark so the blinds and everything were shut and he turned off the sky / TV / dvd with surrond sound - which I had to turn back on later... and then I had to read him a story with a voice that was starting to sound like kermit the frog was in there - it was a little croaky.. that took us to 10pm when I told him to sleep! which he did was a fun night, sat up waiting for them to come home which they did around 1am hmm randomly surfing sky channels - 800+ channels and All I could find was a James Bond Film that was on a channel I can get at home (I don't got sky at home - kinda expensive).. then I watched some Family Guy, some really far out South Park episode and then randomly surfed around... got home around 2 and went to bed hmm woke up about erm 11am, got up then though hmm no and went back to sleep for 5 minutes (2 hrs more like) lol... Lazy Saturday

The Service....

Well this took a little longer to post as well erm I kinda took the night off doing much but printing A4 Invites for one of my sisters "Silver Wedding Anniversary"
Hmm don't ya just love it when you set your computer to do a repeat copy run of something and it decides to stop using black to print out even when it's not out of black, it did that on me got 10 out of 20 done and it stopped using black I was watching a dvd at the same time in another room - Multitasking or what lol and generally not really doing much as I was to put it mildly "In SHOOK"..
It's a Annual Car Service, car was in good condtion I hear you ask, YEah it was in good condition a little bit of rust starting to appear (but that's not done at a service)
NO I get a call at work after they had picked it up and started the service..
Service Company > SV
SV: This is ......, .... speaking, Sir the lower armature bushes on the front of the car need to be replaced as they are badly split, and the wheels realigned that will be £167.
ME: I go how badly are they split..
SV: Well they engineer has marked it in red sir, its needing done urgently.
ME: Okay go ahead
SV: Also sir they engineer recommends that you change the brake fluid out as well.. that will be another £22..
ME: I go Okay do that as well...
End of Conversation...
Brain starts adding up... 167 + 22 + 100 (what I though I'd be paying for service)
£ 289 - EEP!!!!
They phone back saying that's your car ready sir we just to have some form of payment before we can get the car back to you... that will be £330
ME:Will ..... do
SV: yeah
ME: (procededs to give card details over phone) and Baulk at the price
They then phone me back saying they need me to come in and swipe my card as it's one of the new ones that requires fraud prevention authetication (It's one of them new [to the UK] Chip & PIN cards) and until payment is recieved the car ain't going nowhere..
I attempt to phone parents to get dad to collece me - They don't answer (and later claim to have been in at the time - but outside - Expletive)
So to say My bank account is a light is an understatment that's practically all my spending for this month GONE already and my mum only just put my wages check in the bank on tuesday and it's spent - £860 for a month and most of that spent on the car, well I still got another 200 to shell out between insuring in and paying back the loan I got out to pay for it...

Hmm Time for a Service

Hmm well it's that time of the year... The Annual Car Service is due, well this is 1st service of my car since I bought it back in October (See Previous Entries Once I get around to porting them over from the XML file I have of them it's slow job copy and pasting)...
Well My car has sticker on the drivers door which has a date / milage that the service is due on it, well It was due on the 23rd but that day was fully booked, so I said okay the saturady after would do but got a call on thursday from the nice dealership place I bought from saying that one of the people that did the services had a funeral to attend on the Saturday and with it being a holiday weekend cover was not possible so I said yeah so they are picking up my car from my place of work tommorrow and bring it back all nice and serviced (with no bits needing replaced - I hope) before I finish up - how nice of them... Oh the joys of motoring.. I could technically do this myself but erm I have neither the time or the inclination nor tools to do all the required service checks and as it's a new enough car I'll let them do it for me...

What Browser do you Use?

Hmm I was thinking it is really important now as to what browser you use as some websites still "favour" one particular browser or another browser...
I personally use Firefox, IE 6 (Upgraded from 5), Netscape 7.x, Opera 6..
Why all these different browsers well I want to know what my home site looks like in the various browsers, seeing how it looks in each after i've done small changes to the html/javascript/css code.. Sometimes it work sometimes it don't..
FYI - Opera is the most pain in the ass to get "non simple" stuff to work in..
Personally since Firefox came out I've used it pretty much exclusivly to browse sites, however I've come across one or 2 that differ from how they look in IE / NS and one that didn't work until I installed one or 2 Extensions to FireFox ;) (IMHO Firefox Rocks)..

How easy is it to get firefox: Get it here: http://www.getfirefox.com/
The extensions (checkable via Tools > extension) I have "installed" are:

• Adblock - Does what it says blocks page ads, you need to play around with this as it doesn't come with any rule book, you create the rules as you surf, you can choose to block or not.


• Chatzilla - A nice IRC chat client has it's uses


• Download Manager Tweak - Tweak to the download manager that lets you show what's been downloaded in a sepertate tab / windows - most useful


• Foxy Tunes - Lets you have Firefox and your favourite music player open, with the player minimized out of sight, this gives you control over it (supports a large varity of players


• PDF Download - Only just found this one, useful if you want to save a pdf document rather than view it in your browser..


• BlogThis - Also just got this and not tried it, but it apperent it link stuff back to your blog..


• MediaPlayerConnectivity - autodectects (or you can manually set what it does) where quicktime / real player / media player / you favourite mp3 player is installed and then (once you've select its behaviour) automatically plays / smart play (which I use) /gives you a choice of what link to play / etc..


• Play Launch - Gets past a "bug" of Launch.com which requires you to use IE or Netscape 7 and you neeed to have the latest media player installed as well - not with this plugin ya don't - just need to set it up for your connection speed and how you want it to launch itself and away you go on launch.com

Firefox is nice, can be skinned (unlike IE) - i.e. you can change the look of it just like you can with Netscape and Opera (what is it with MS and not being able to change the look of stuff)
It supports the standard plugins - if you don't got them it tells you and offers you links to get 'em which is sweet - integrated updates which is useful:) - also stable it's been used in Linux for ages - well the Mozilla Browser it's based on has anyway :) - instead of having 10 windows you can have 10 tabs - a definate Plus

Okay I think that about says it all for firefox... I can't recommend it enough, someone one day recommended it to me and I eventually got it to see what all the fuss was about and haven't looked back since - only on a few sites do I still use IE but only because they are in my IE favourites (which you can import into firefox if you wish)

Addendum: Erm I didn't include Safari as I don't have a mac and it appears to be a mac OS only browser...

An Invitation...

Now since this blog is still "relativly" new (even if it does have stuff that goes back to 2003 - from old DD) I've decided to allow my readers (how ever many there maybe to leave a question in comments...
Looks at Moogie and Sharon, I'm blaming you 2 for me doing this as I can't think of anything to write and though what the hey.. if this all goes wrong you 2 are to blame...

Monday, Monday....

Well hmm now lets see what can I say about today but ARGH!!!! Hmm I need to persude the boss that we need shelves for a load of stuff mainly alarm boxes as they are sitting literally all over the place there is like about 200 of them all on the floor of the lab area which is now my workarea / storage + I'm trying to clear a space to put stuff 2 19" rack mount cabinets in.. It's big enough but there is one corner that is full of stuff that I can't move... It just looks a mess... I just not long had it tidy but because I've got cables everywhere (see early entries in my DD) which i am in the process of transfering from the beginning (it seems the sensible way) - copy and pasting it from an exported xml file. Unless of course someone can think of a way I can erm do it quicker, I'll be doing it that way (so expect some randomly added entries over the next few days / weeks)

The Dawn of a new Era...?

Okay.. It's time to expand outwith my Dear Diary, Slowly over the next few days / weeks I'll be "importing" most if not all from my DD site (gotta love cut & paste). I will probably loose the comments unless I can get them across as well (wish me luck)...
I know this is one of default templates and I'll be looking for some help from people to help me play around with the set up of my blog..

Title: TBA

I can't actually think of a title that remotely makes any sense but then again often when I do put one in, it doesnt' always make sense..
What a interesting few days I've had at work, I actually did some work that is, not that I didn't do work before you realise just this is different..
Finally getting around to moving the Call Centre or as I like to refer to it the Central Monitoring Station around, now you can imaging how much cabling is required to monitor 20+ sites on their own monitor, each site has reciever and recording units it goes like Rx > Recorder > Monitor..
So Coax needed from Rx to recorder > monitor and erm we have some in 1 proper 19" Rack, some recorders in another smaller Rack + Recievers and other DVR's stacked up - not very nice... + it's a NIGHTMARE cabling wise...
Well Enter Solution 1 of 1: Move Monitors to other side of room where more sockets have been provided, move all the Rx / Recorders out of the room and rearrange them in the existing cabinet + 1 other 19" rack cabinet (both of which are full - or will be once addition units come on line..
Sound simple enough, okay just need to cut 28 lengths of coax - why 28 well each keypad we use supports 14 Recivers don't ask why they just do... so 2 keypads = 28 , now you can't just leave that laying around nope it's all in trunking on and through the wall.. Also we are adding a spot monitor so we can see what site the keypad is looking at rather than having to turn and find the correct one...
It's all in hand well almost the "spot monitor" requires a bit of hardware that erm although simple in principle, I can't find it anywhere (or maybe I'm being silly and not typing the correct magic words into google)
I just want the bloody thing to go from Site A to Site B by pressing buttons on the existing keypad no fancy stuff no need to record it, or do this that or the next thing to it (all of which adds to overall £££ :|)
Onwards to tomorrow where I can finish off the cabling, only started it on monday but I am getting a hand (just about)...

It's a Funny Old World ain't it...

Knoppix

Well finally got it working after a while, swapped the dvd drive for the cd-rw that burned the cd - i have a feeling that somehow either the CD wasn't closed properly or it was burned too fast (weird burned @ x20- most odd) never mind it works. Now all i need to do is learn where everything is in knoppix and how to start / stop / show processes. Need to update / install java so I can run d2ol and also somehow patch it into the windows drives current d2ol cache so that it picks up where the windows one left off and such like...

What an Interesting Week

Well things is moving along at work...
Actually got some contructive stuff done this week...
My Work Area is almost sorted, just got a few things to resolve like where to find a Dual Monitor PCI Video Card... as the PC don't got no AGP slot it's old but I have to use it lol...
I'm not going to attempt to install linux on a machine for a while I've had erm a "interesting" time of it, Simple install failed - 1st Downloaded CD fails - error in the ISO, redownload a newer version checked the ISO - passed md5 check, and then I hit problems with my Video card... darn it need to find away of getting the drivers in...
I think Im gonna dig out my Rad 7000 and install that and replace the drive that annoyed me because it won't play nice when I attempted to boot Knoppix (which is Debian Linux based but has smart autodetect)

Snow..

I'm not joking ya...
Just as I was leaving work what starts to fall but Snow, nice sunny day as well cold but I didn't think it was that cold, but it must have been.
Hmm also me isn't feeling 100%, darn cold that someone gave me..

Temporary "Something"

I have no earthly idea where my head was on Saturday / Sunday apart from UP ones own ass... Maybe as someone wrote I need to lighten up, maybe I don't know, I truely don't...
I'm like a caged tiger who's cage bars have been removed yet who doesn't leave the "cage"... It's like I don't know I'm missing some part of me or maybe its there but...... I say I'm strong but days like that I'm not, I just want the world to go away just for a while I just want to hide away I think... Is this wrong?
Am I going nuts / mad / insane / ......
Or is this perfectly normal..
I don't know who am I or do I and just don't realise it..

I feel on days like that about as stable as Urinium-235

A Small note to vistors (Edited)

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This diary is full of some pretty personal stuff so could users please remember to not kinda spread most of this shit around... If I find that this is happening and I start getting shit from people about it I'll make my Diary Private and Private it will stay...

3 Apr 2005 - I'm Sorry but the requested.....
Dear Reader, I'm sorry but erm I've decided to give up on DD period..
I might at some point in the future reserect this DD or maybe I'll move it else where but I'm going to slowly remove entries from this diary month by month maybe doing 2 monthes a day I don't know until it's all gone...
Thank you for reading... Oh and erm In a few days I'll be turning off anon commenting so if your not a registered on DD and you wanna post a comment (sensible ones only - any nasty one's get Vapourised and if it's repeated I'll turn off Commenting period)

Last of the big spenders

Well it's true,
All I bought to day was the latest Kinsey Milhone Dectective Novel and a new pair of shoes, the shoes were a must however as the last pair, well lets just say the left shoe talked to person behind as I walked along... not bad for £20 I think they lasted year at least... not bad ehh.
Well like I said I got a book too, wasn't actually looking for that particular book didn't know it was out, it must have been out a while as it was in paper back not hardback... speaking of that I also pre-ordered the Next Harry Potter Novel :P I know but heck I read sometimes...

What a week again..

Well this week has been interesting to say the least at work..
I'm still doing the bloody "Stock check" it's not that there is a lot to do it's just so mind numbingly repetatatative that erm I sometimes end up literally feeling like I'm going around in circles and getting nothing achieved.
Of course this has to be done around my "normal" job which is monitor the companies alarms in other places + monitor the barrier on site which means I have to move between rooms with boxes so I can count / check / re-check / give the smeg up checking it for the nth time and note it down... I'm *Thud*......
Sorry fell asleep there need caffine... I've got numbers and stock items going around in my head forwards, backwards and sideways too..
Argh! Thankfully I got paid this week so I have some money for erm well 5 minutes..

It's now Offical - I'm Back

Well BT called me this morning on the landline (I had this redirected to my mobile while it was being fixed lovely move free transfer of calls :) ) I was asleep as I'd had a hard week at work and it's a saturday no need to get up early, they then called me on my mobile to say it had been fixed and I got a lovely person who spoke with an indian accent and who had problems understanding my scottish accent (I can remove the accent if I'm awake enough but at this point I wasn't) so it's offical I'm back online - god I have no life but the online one...
I've not been idle I've been watching DVD's I've not gotten around to watching, redid my flash menu for the site so I can more easily change it and make the whole text thing darker too :) oh and the whole thing as an Editable flash file is 1/2 the size it was before I changed stuff - I started from scratch copying across the static text bits of the thing and I redid all the buttons / menu effects as well this is what saved the space I did them all idvidually instead of as a set so I didn't have 60 "tweens" that all did the same thing but were classed as different because they were linked to other things.. and I got them all label too so it wasn't like it was tween 1,2,52,65 etc they all have proper names so I can do fixes quicker too :)

I'm Back

Hmm I lost my net connection on Saturday and this is the first time I've been able to connect to post (okay this is really saturday but I did get it back Thursday)
So my week so far has been interesting..
Nothing of note happened on Friday..
Saturday My Aunt arrived to stay for a week or so.. We went use the phone but alas there was "nothing" there, no dial tone nothing, so we endured a week with no phone / me with no net as the net and phone share the same cable..
It's not offically working as in BT my phone provider hasn't said the fault is fixed..
Work this week was interesting to say the least, I'm in the middle of a stock check as I'm getting a "sideways" promotion out into a new role of stores / tech support / etc... the etc is quite a bit I'm sure I'll be able to rise to the challange *zzzzzzz* sorry did I fall asleep hmm probably cos I'm tired from rising to the challange it's more work :(...
Oh well It will take me a few days to catch up on everything I've missed I'm sure..

St. Paddy's Day.

Well St. Patricks day it might be and there maybe a load of irish men & wimen getting drunk on guiness or those who are irish for the day doing that...
I'm not one of them, got the stock sheet looking as I want it (Word 97 sucks - I gotta use it cos that's all that is on the machine I got ready access to)
Now just to start the thing... hmm Lab area where the stuff is looks like disorganised choas, me has to do something about it, move and count time...
I did do some of it today get more done tomorrow as long as it's erm done for the end of the month and all tallys I'll be fine...
Today is also one of sisters birthdays - lucky for her she's in spain or somewhere NICE...

Stock Check

Well today is not the day it's gonna get done, still busy finishing off something i started on monday + other things and what did the boss ask me
"you get the manual for that router, no let me guess you were too busy doing something / too tired" - I went nope got it check your e-mail... Hmm I don't think he believed me lol oh well I did do it though , downloaded from my apache server, then e-mailed to him via internal e-mail:)

Rich People

Hmm how do you convice someone who appears to have more money than sense that they are WRONG...
Well I have done just that today..
Hmm now take 1 standard router not specially programmed to allow specific ports in to you LAN and then take another similar router that is configured to allow those ports + appears to be a hell of a lot easier to set up but for some reason it don't let us send info back to our HQ from that site lol..
See client has a problem when he's sunnin' himself somewhere in Spain, he wants to able to check up on what's happening at his house via the net, which he can do all the kit is in place and works - proven, works on his widescreen wireless blah blah laptop, proven... Works on a god darn dial-up connection in spain, don't work when he hooks in to his nice BB connection - reason his firewall / router is blocking
But no i can't be, we get him on to our site and prove this is the case, simple he shuts up and don't wanna talk about it no more.. GOD these days are far and few but good - now all Muggings here has to do is erm find the manual for the Router (I have the model & maker) and read it..
Manual found on website, grabbed via DOS based FTP lol gotta love the old ways of doing stuff... posted on to my "webspace" on the other pc so I can retrieve it at work tomorrow just incase boss asks.. (I know he will)

Mondays :-S

*yawn* I think it's gonna be one of those weeks.. At least the flowers went down well with my friend :)
Don't ask me why I just got that feeling... I really should get that stock checksheet made up shouldn't I
Well been busy compiling an electronic version of some paperwork so I can do some charts and stuff on it + I wanna be able to say yeah it's upto date and complete when I close it all out at the end of the month...
Also it gives me the chance to show off again - gotta love VBA / Formlamatic equations in Excel..

Happy / Sad / Why Do I bother getting up somedays

Hmm well give friend her birthday card + some flowers, drove all the way there and back, it's not that far but it takes about 45 minutes each way, visited sister on way back, was still happy enough.... Came home and well :(
Hmm lets see, how can I put this.. Dinner looked, well pass me the bin cos that's where it's going, it was something that was stew, not something I like at all, mother knows this and wondered why I didn't want it... Geesus, I got a look like I don't know what, felt great until that point now I just feel shit.
My Clan noticed this when I went to play couldn't kill for shit, just kept dying and dying and dying and I said I didn't really care...
Oh to be me. No you guys don't wanna be me.. I think I'll just go find a not very nice rock to hide under. I would have said pretty but it would probably be lifted and moved cos it's pretty....

Blown off Again...

Hmm I've been blown off again, been told by someone simply "I can't" can't what, can't go to the cinema (maybe parents have arrange to go out friday night as it's her birthday sunday don't know yet, I will find out though :( - I'm Disappointed)
Oh well thank god I didn't say anything to anyone about this...

Monday, Monday...

God I hate mondays..
Well we got to put in all the Site Patrols done since the friday night into a system we use (since erm we don't trust anyone else to do it) so it's who ever has the early start that puts it all in and this week it's muggins here... :(
Hmm mind you I have another birthday at the end of the week.. I have a cunning plan if I can pull it off.. Hmm Flowers on her birthday (friend will probably kill me for the gesture but what are friends for)... Oh this is same friend I confessed to that I love her, even if it is just as a friend... Darn it I'm getting Bloody well sentimental in my old age well maybe just Mental... *thoughs please*

Well had a clan match tonight, which we lost, Not before I'd lost the plot to begin with - I asked if I was playing in the 1st game or not, no-one answer yes or no so I went Fine and bounce myself out of team speak, out of the game program I was using too, Bounce onto msn, got told by clan leader - your in next game, I replied whatever.. Was too pissed off at this point.
Got into the game and erm well tactics seem to have went out window.. We bitched about this and that in TeamSpeak (TS) or the typed it in to the game as you can do that with this game - Team / Crew / Squad / Local /Global chat is all possible in this killfest of a game and that's what it was my stats well erm Sucked, sucked more than normal put it this way, It didn't help that we were in a Joint Ops: Typhoo Rising rather than the normal Joint Ops: Escalation (and Expansion to JO:TR) - good game on a LAN / On-line but not really for single player...
So limited weapons / stuff basically missing half the weapons since they only appear in the JO:E pack etc..
Oh well we got bitched at by Clan Leader in our forum for it, serves us all right he ain't blaming anyone he even tells himself off as it were oh boy zzzztime gotta be up at 5:30am :(

Mother's Day

Hmm well got up, Since it's mother's day I'm cooking. I sometimes cook on a saturday and normally make a stirfry but since we had something different yesterday, we're having it today..
Argh what a disaster :( erm I don't know what it was, maybe it was the turkey was starting to go off a little, maybe it was the black bean sauce (too much / too little) maybe it was what else I added, which is roughly what I normally add but it just didn't taste right - oh well Pizza Time later on eh..
Pizza hmm a House Special - Onion, Chicken, Ham, Peppers, Salami, Pepperoni, sweetcorn, basically also a bit of everything.. I was gonna get mum a small pizza with just ham & pineapple but no, She only wanted a slice of what I was gonna have so thus I got a Medium Pizza, 10" if you must have exact sizes lol, went shopping for stuff I need for work, like milk as it's up a 5:30 and I prefer to have most of that stuff bought so I goes in my backpack which goes with me to work rather than a plastic bag which will end up sitting on the front seat of car rather than in backpack behind driver's seat.. Oh well I've made it this far..

Nephew's Birthday Cont...

Hmm well I had a few things to do today 2 of which I managed to do..
1 was to post a dvd to a friend which is done, will get it back at some point he's only borrowing it, another was to get my dear mother some flowers for mother's day since for some reason it's the 1st Sunday in March rather than like the 3 or 4 which it is normally, see mother's day and mum's birthday tend to be within a week of each other. Got the flowers, went to get some shopping done for myself, all I went in for was to get a packet of crisps ( Sea Salt & Fresh Cracked Black Pepper - Very Nice they are too), see if I could see Diet Coke with Lime and to get some tea, I got all 3 but erm ended up with a few more things and spent £ 13 overall..
My phone goes, it's my dear sister her machine (an old one of mine) is acting up, can I come fix.. of course... I get there and walk in to a mad house (Moogie - like your house is normally, kids everywhere), my nephew has a few friends over someone forgot to mention this on the phone of course... Well thankfully cup of tea is on hand, so go fix machine. There wasn't much wrong just a game wouldn't play - needed a minor kickin', Hmm but other problem is mouse is starting to go and the burner (it's an old x4 Writer , x2 Re-Write) don't wanna play any more or rather the software I gave her don't wanna play no more, me thinks it's the hardware giving up.. oh well new writer time - they ain't that much to buy new...
Give Nephew £ 5 towards something for himself (erm it's simpler) He's saving up to buy another car for his Skeletrix set - an it's not a cheap one, he's got expensive taste you know.. I left, went home and arrived just in time for dinner - hows that for timing eh..)
Give mum her flowers (2 pink roses and a dozen mixed carnations, the roses were closed).. She loved them.. Wished my dad a happy birthday finally, he thanked me for my present..
*Since this date the roses have opened up and look lovely - Gosh*

Dad's Birthday

Yup another day another birthday, never saw him this morning to wish him a happy birthday, got home, he's not there he's in bed already (it's only like 8pm - he's over did it helping someone out)... So this gives me time to get to shop and erm get him a present... Hmm 20 minutes later (well I gotta wait for my pizza to cook) I return with a present a nice bottle of whisky which I know he'll enjoy in a box that I can write "Happy Birthday" on :).. He'll get it when he gets up tomorrow...
Hmm the end of a tiring week for some reason..

Nephew's Birthday

Well today is my nephew's birthday, so how the little "angel" has made it to his 7th birthday.. No party this year, last year was well okay but "grandparents" can be a PITA.. Don't ask... I saw him after work..
I got "Hello Uncle Gordon, where's my present" said in the sweetest way... no card for him either, no cash on me felt *shit*... Give him hugs and stuff has piece of his birthday cake which he kindly offered me (after a little prompting from my sister) Gee it only seems yesterday that I was holding him in my arms and he was falling asleep in them.. Darn it I'm gonna cry.... Oh well I got a stay of execution because I know he got a lap counter from his dad for his birthday it fits on to the current skeletrix track he got for his christmas, he also has a "computer" of sorts, it has it's own mouse and everything - looks good + a few more games that he can play on his mum's pc... He's really good a maths and stuff :)

Money, Money, Money...

Ah have cash in bank account again... Erm don't ask how much my wages were or how much I had left before they went in, lets just say a lot and not much left...
March is not a good month for me, 6 Birthdays this month
4 Family, 2 Friends argh this is gonna be expensive.. EEP! no cards bought and I'm on the late shift... Hmm Need to dodge this somehow as 2 birthdays are this week..

Hmm that was nice

Hmm what a nice long sleep i had, must have needed it... well getting up at around 12:30pm isn't something i do often oh wait I do most weekends lol...
Well what do you expect, bed nice & warm, me nice and warm, room warm enough, etc...
Got up, watched "Man on Fire" good film darn good, could have redone the ending (won't say what it is so as not to spoil it) - Hmm it what you get when you hire an ex-CIA / FBI / you name it Spec Ops Kill machine to be a bodyguard...
Played a few more games with my clanmates, we all decided to have fun and changed our names so we'd still get the exp. points but no-one would realise we were all a squad.. That was fun then, we decided to do a load of Co-op maps, that was even more fun... boosted my stats on our own server no end...
Anyone need a Medic?
Well I'm gonna get going as it's erm "Early" sunday morning... Not gonna say how early..

Babysitting

Well I was supposed to be doing this tonight but something came up so I didn't :( oh well... So I went to play a match with my clan only for match to be erm canceled due to opposition not turning up due to there website going a bit pearshaped..
Oh well had fun anyway - Now to get some sleep as it's actually 1am Sat.

Delayed Entry from yesterday

Well part of this entry should have been put in yesterday but was too tired to post an entry. Well what do you expect having to go out to car at 5:45am start it up and start to clear snow of it, make sure everything is clear of snow, lights are clean etc.. keeping hands warm, turning heater on in car as well to help defrost the windows. The slow drive to work, so you don't wheel spin and end up in a ditch or into oncoming traffic.. Made it into work for a nice 12hr shift my colleague picked the right day to be off, boss phones in, he won't be in. So it was just me, the Boss's son and Company Tech manager, myself and the company secretary, in all day.. and I had nothing to do but watch snow in various places where we got cameras.. So i helped figure a new alarm system we got, works nice the highlight of the day, went home after 12hrs again slowly as it was clearish but was starting to freeze up, thankfully this morning was just about the same so cautious I was.. got to work 9hrs of bordem - not really much doing :( thank god i was able to leave at 4pm... Managed to get home lot faster as snow had been melting most of the day.. It however snowed on my colleagues down south - well serves them right for annoying me yesterday - I wished it on 'em worked too...
*yawns* Me going to sleep now... I'll post again when I feel like it

Snow

Well i woke up this morning to snow... not that I hadn't been expecting it but annoying none the less. had to clear car off this was after warming it all up.. drive very carefully into work and there is more snow predicted tomorrow :( nuts me got a 12hr shift tomorrow...

A prayer

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Shalom..

Result?

Well in a word, NO...
But I'm still happy we are still friends, which is the cool part
She doesn't have the same feelings for me as I do for her which is way cool, she didn't know how to tell me i kinda had to erm prompt her a little well kinda put it this way it was a interesting conversation.. Was fun almost wanted to go around the desk and kiss her just the once a nice friendly kiss on the check just to say my friend kinda thing, she loved the rose so, even although she did say I didn't need to do that - oh well old romantic me eh...
I happy, not sad...

I'm Optomistic

Hmm well when I finally got to the office this afternoon - started work on site somewhere attempting to fix something that beat 4 people.. darn it.. I think I may have the solution but it's not one that make sense..
Anyways, seen X appologied profusly for acting like as she put it "a 5 yr old" well I kinda did, just hoping the card (told her how I feel I hope) and the single red rose (which was in way on an appology) work and that she finally knows how I feel about her, just hope it's not too late... I'm optomistic which can possibly only mean one thing, it's about to got a bit pete tong *see earlier entry for what this means* and then go downhill from there.

All ****ed up..?

Hmm that's how I feel, all screwed up totally, i don't know what the heck I'm doing anymore... Emotions all over the place.
Am I meant to love again? Am I meant never to love again? I don't know..
I just know this right now I need a shoulder to cry on i think, trouble is
I always remember a quote about if they are worth it they won't make you cry or something I don't know brain doesn't want to work either now...
Now all I have to do is grovel on monday... the joys.

A day at the movies

Hmm well I got to see Ocean's 12 - good film, not going to say much more that that, it's good as good as the first, you have to figure out who is playing who... it's good, oh did I say it's really, really good :P..

Mission Failed?

I give up, I don't know maybe just maybe this god's way of telling me - don't bother attempting to find happiness - maybe it is..
No Film seen tonight, friend ill so she's visiting said friend fair enough.
Wonder why i got pissy with her - well the fact I'm was tired at the time didn't help...
Oh i give bloody well up. Okay god happy now..
*digs nice big hole and falls in to it*

God Damn it Ctnd

Hmm well now here is a newsflash...
How did someone get X's number, well apparently X send him a Text message
how did someone get mine, I think i sent him a ringtone from my phone.
Also how did he know it was from me: said X told him...
Inquired with X: no text sent & didn't tell him that it was me so don't know
gonna get him now thought.. War hath been declared...

God Damn it

swears*
Darn it mission impossible now I think
why, well erm I'll post exactly what I got sent (minus any names)
---- Begin Text Message ----
Thanks for the text. I hear your upset because X dose not fancy you as she would love me to service her all night long and not the 2 mins you would last........
----- End Text Message -----
I'm fecking mad
Reason: Well Twat boy here sent X a txt message about what she's like when she's had a few drinks. 1) How the **** did he get her number I'm the only 1 in the company apart from her that has it and neither of us have given it out
2) I replied earlier on her phone saying: Thats rich coming from the male equivalent of a slapper (which is what he is can't keep it still).. He's young and thinks he's gods gift and how did he figure it was me that sent it - nothing else was sent / said on phone about this...
I'll get him for this, now I don't know if I can say what I need to say and know she knows I mean it and ain't just saying it cos of this...
BASTARD!

One of those days, typical me ....

Well not a bad day, a really good day, felt GREAT once I woke up and that..
I was maybe a little too happy, i swear I was glowing, Almost got busted, I think I better tell someone soon or they is gonna figure me out and me is then BUSTED..
Well Mission is on, going to see Ocean's Tweleve on friday, a meal before hand with a friend of hers, who is also coming to see the film, so should be a good night all round just hope I don't bottle it, if I do I think I'll just give up..
I mean think about it 2 no goes, 1 denist and 1 crap films on, now I may just have a chance 3rd time lucky - mind you it's the friday before valentines day :-S oh dear could be good, could be bad oh well Tally Ho!!!

Decisions, Decisions...

Well I decided to leave the clan i joined last week, couldn't actually see the point of it, I wasn't getting any better, I was getting shoot to pieces making the clan look real BAD...
so I left, let them know I'd quit on the Forum for which they've deleted my ID by the looks of things, oh well time to log off, going to watch a dvd or something.

Saturdays

Hmm Argh I HATE working saturdays I remember how BORING they were...
12 hours of complete bordom well not quite I did find things to do, keeping an eye on all the sites, moving the cameras, making note of where the mobile patrol was keeping things up today in various places, photocopying stuff , drinking tea I needed it just a bit...
It was a fun enough day got it over and done with.
I then get home, put something on to eat, attempt to eat it and fail - darn I hate it when I feel hungry yet don't feel like eating what I've cooked dispite the fact it was lovely BBQ pork ribs :) I had half of them - not bad really...
Then I though I just have a few drinks while I catch up on stuff and play with my new clan members in Joint Operations - it's a great game mainly an online game but you can play it over a Lan - it's a must to have more than just you otherwise you tend to die a lot and I mean a LOT..
http://www.762sq.com/ < my Clan website :) they are good - also while not gaming I have my computer crunch numbers for my other clan / team as it were
http://www.free-dc.org/ < my Distributed Computing (DC) team :) I do the D2oL project - look up the forums and you'll see what I mean..

Fridays...

*yawn* *yawn*
I had an early start today after finishing late last night not a good combo...
Oh well let see what today brings..
What did it bring:
I did manage to get down to the site I was on, on wednesday and I ended up swapping back the router i had swapped out on wednesday so we could get connected to the remote site again. I need to find the manual and print out parts of it here at home so I can study it, looks simple but then again when is anything "simple"
I then went to the bosses house because he said he was having a problem with his broadband connection..
Thank god I updated a page on my site so it has links to adaware, spybot SnD and a geek website forum How to guide on removing spyware etc.
I got spybot & adaware, attempted to get rid of a "popup type" stopper - the uninstall had to be downloaded from it's website (not a good start) + bosses doesn't rememeber installing it.. I got adaware installed and updated, ran it, attempted to run spybot SnD at the same time to protect the system it Crashed out - a good indicator I was gonna hit problems
I did Adaware found 370 Critical level objects - I stopped it at this cleaned them up and the restarted it as it was getting late and I needed to get back to the office to pick up my car and go home.. I e-mailed the boss a step by step guide on how to get firefox browser - how to install the adblock for it and how to import the filter txt file i had sent. Also said any problems call me, he was last seen heading into cyberspace with a baseball bat to go swipe at things..

What a waste of a day...

I woke up this morning and though no I don't really wanna go into work today...
*yawn*... Well i thought I was going to be going and finishing off what I'd started yesterday as I hadn't had enough time to complete what I needed to do, routers are not simple things... I know the manual for the router I'm using exists and it's looks a good one but I wasn't going to print out all 148 pages of it - adobe pdf's are good when you got adobe installed on the machine, the machine doesn't have internet access so no way of getting it on. I then found it on the laptop I'd been using to access the router on the place I was at yesterday.. darn it oh well that's how I know how many pages it is..
Well I didn't get anywhere today as I really feel for my boss on days like this,
one of the drivers we have managed to put the one of our vans into a lamppost (real cleaver) he's fine but van has huge dent in it, we did have 3 vans at HQ now we have one, I think I said why the other wasn't there (see previous posts) now we are down to the one, darn it.
Best thing of it was the van this particular bunch of drivers drive had been swapped over and was up here to get fixed and it never got swapped back and the van they dented was in fact one for up here so the alarm fitter would always have a van kitted out how he needed it..
Back to square one.. hmm yawn and to top it off I'm working early tomorrow and working on saturday too (all day!)

Brain = Frazzled...

Ever have one of those days where you just wanna take a large wooden type object and beat a piece of equipment with it several times... That was today
who ever said routers are easy to configure was lying.. do you think I could get something to work from behind the router firewall - no... darn it fecking thing :|
changed router and instantly got what I had been looking for... only thing is didn't reconfigure it to allow me into the network from the outside - and I think i got to figure out if I can multi-ip the thing i think i can but can't find the freaking manual for it... oh well time to read and read and read google pages.....

Personality Quiz

After reading a friends blog, I saw that they'd done a 20 question personality quiz though hmm interesting might as well go do it - which I did when i found the link

Results:
Wackiness: 52/100
Rationality: 56/100
Constructiveness: 76/100
Leadership: 50/100

You are a SRCF--Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer.

You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can't go on without you--or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say "no." While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

Of the 85140 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.7 % are this type.

Nice Eh
Link Here: http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better+Personality&page=1

Hmm maybe we are getting somewhere

Woo hoo I'm out the loop now, I've leaving it between my parents and my sister, letter has been sent from sister to parents.. mother ain't happy but TS it's in her hands now. I'm Out of this - I is glad..

But as usual mother don't like - cos she won't get her way like I said before TS..