He’s gone a bit Gordon
Posted on July 23, 2008
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I’ve been enjoying the F-word a lot recently, in fact i’ve also enjoyed Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares too. It’s probably old age.
Something I find amusing is that everytime our man Gordon starts a dish he says “it’s very simple” then proceeds to make a simple dish, but then, all of a sudden, it becomes more and more complicated till we have a final, amazing looking dish that our man Gordon has created. But you’re lost, you got the bit with the fish, and the spices, then it all went beans (meaning wrong, rather that literal beans).
I had a thought though. Similar to my dear lad Richard Hale and his phrase “Come on Tim” for anyone who has no chance of winning. I suggest that when someone starts off, then completely loses you in a conversation you could say “You had me, but you went a bit Gordon there”. Have a go, see if it fits.
New “bury your wife” kit
Posted on July 16, 2008
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Today, this is making me chuckle.
I was reading one of my favourite sites Uncrate and it had this. The reason why it’s making me chuckle is, I have never seen anything so obviously geared for killing and burying someone. A shovel, knife, hatchet, torch (for the night time burial) and to top it, the multi tool with pliers (to make sure he or she won’t be identified by their teeth). All it’s missing is the matches.
Lovely! Now I don’t know whether to categorise this as “life stuff” or to have to make another category.
Thoughts for the pub or the bus stop
Posted on June 26, 2008
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I spend a lot of time bored; standing at the bus stop, waiting for erm… olives at a delicatessen. Anyway, I tend to start pondering things in the world which people might never think about/want to think about/think it’s too boring to think about.
Today I am in a pensive mood, a good mood, but pensive. So I decided to share my fairly boring, but could be made interesting in a pub, thoughts.
- Does the world have less, more, or the same water as it had in the beginning? (in any form, including ice).
- If we have hydrogen cars, will it mean it will rain more if everyone has a hyrdrogen car?
- Can you pull your tongue? And if so, how? (as in pulling a muscle, the toungue is meant to be a muscle)
So, there it is, something to bring up in the pub. Scintillating!
Sweat shops
Posted on June 23, 2008
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I was recently reading an article about Sweat shops. In fact it seems to have been something of a topic for a while, with programmes showing on different levels. I did watch one very interesting programme last week where they sent 4 young whipper snappers to Mumbai, India to see the conditions. Something that I found very interesting though, was the attitudes. At first these kids were saying “this is disgusting, it’s horrible”, then they spoke to the workers who were saying “if we didn’t do this, we’d starve”. By the end of the programme, the youngsters had 2 views on the subject.
Now, I’m not a sweat shop advocate, far from it, I think the conditions are appauling. But maybe we should think this through in a less black and white way, yes, they work all hours God sends (as some of the workers said, it is (some of the time) their choice, the more they work, the more they get). Taking the work over to LA (as American Apparel are doing) is lovely, or simply not buying clothes made in India, it stops sweat shops, then the workers without jobs in India claim income benefit? No, they potentially starve (along with the families they are supporting), or, go to another sweat shop to work.
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Get your terms right
Posted on June 20, 2008
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Sorry for all the ranting which I do on my blog. I think as I approach 30. I turn from “man” to “grumpy old man” which I seem to be embracing well, roll on 30!
Anyway, today’s topic is about using the wrong term for something. E.g. saying Java instead of JavaScript. These are different terms. Saying this to someone who understands, it is similar to saying “it’s sunny outside” when in fact it’s just cloudy and day time.
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Check your business ideas with people
Posted on June 19, 2008
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Sometimes I get the feeling I am the only one who realises a failed company before it’s set up. In fact, I’m sure everyone else does before the company realises itself.
Take for example the Gizmondo, the handheld gaming device. It had no chance. It was competing against Nintendo’s stronghold in the handheld gaming market, also the PSP and the mobile gaming market. But still, they thought “I know, we’ll set up another handheld devied, with GPS, and a mobile built in”. Lovely idea, but it cost a small fortune. Knock in the fact that they had no deals with the big games developers (or any good ones for that matter). Add to that, the hugely expensive shops on Regent Street etc, and , BAM! 1 year later, it’s nowhere.
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The security brick wall
Posted on April 10, 2008
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Today I got into work, now sometimes I have to leave my PC on, mainly as I am in the middle of something, and switching it off would my path of work to be interrupted as I get in. Anyway, this morning I realised, my PC had restarted itself. I rolled my eyes, and immediately started thinking “bloody Microsoft”, which is very easy to think, they just had their weekly update schedule pass (every week on a Tuesday) and my PC needed restarting.
I got to thinking though. It isn’t Microsoft’s fault. I blame the people who don’t EVER restart their PCs. Some (not all) updates need a restart as they update something important at the kernel. These can be security features that mean the PC isn’t secure until a restart happens.
Now, Microsoft has had some flack over the years about security, so they decide “I know, let’s restart the user’s PC”, not entirely a good idea as some people want to delay for a bit, but some people just keep delaying it ad infinitum. The best part is, these users end up being the victim of some hack, become a zombie or are compromised in some way and will immediately blame Microsoft anyway. It’s all about the education. In fact, some of these people will even be surfing the web without an anti-virus or firewall! A huge risk, as a columnist once said “…on par with group needle-sharing after having unprotected sex in a Third World orgy”. Ok, he was talking about opening email attachments with a .exe extension, but it’s the same thing. The majority of spam now comes from compromised computers.
So, until people start thinking about their system security, unfortunately we’ll be having our PCs restarting for a while. The only alternative, is to force a restart straight away like Apple do. I kind of like their way of doing it.
Al Kent’s million dollar orchestra
Posted on March 17, 2008
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For so long now I have been listening to disco. It was the first form of music to be made with clubs in mind, DJs would play it and it brought people together.
There have been a few groups set up to sound similar to 60s funk and soul (Sharon Jones & the Dap kings and The New Mastersounds, to name a couple), but none for the 70s as yet.
Anyway, something that lacks from a lot of music nowadays is the money spent. In disco, there would be whole orchestras created for any kind of music to make a rich sounding type of music. Disco was big for this, but there are few people who use a whole orchestra any more.
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Happy Lupercalia
Posted on February 14, 2008
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Ahhh, Valentine’s day. i’m not even going to lie to you, good reader, I hate it. I could go on some ranting mission about the commercial aspect and various card making companies to sell cards for this lull in the year. But no, the reason I hate it is ‘cos it hates me. Or it did. As a single young scamp a few years ago, it would inevitably end up with EVERYONE going out, me ending up drinking on my own (and getting pleasantly drunk) thinking “here’s to another lousy year”.
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Pimp MyTravel
Posted on January 15, 2008
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Ok, I’ll try not to post too many Youtube videos, but this tickes me every time. I think it’s the calm press conference that turns into a free for all that does it:
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