is laughing at how sometimes the English language can really really let you mess up
broke the internet…. but in fixing it made it so much better…
I really don’t understand the point behind speed cameras. You see, they put them at junctions and accident blackspots etc. So these are places where they had lots of accidents in the past before they put a camera up. Then, in their infinite wisdom they put up a speed camera. Now most people don’t really want to get caught for speeding (or anything for that mater) and as we all tend to let our speed creep as we have other things to worry about we all almost always focus intently on our speed as we come up to cameras. So now we have a dangerous place with everyone focusing on their speed and specifically their speedometers. Now burying your head in the dash strikes me as a very good way to well, err, bury your head in the dash. Now the most odd part is the government admit, it really doesn’t make much money from the things. It’s like those thing that tell you your speed. As soon as they flash up “SLOW DOWN” people do… BY JABBING THE BREAKS!
Now I will admit, I have been caught speeding in the past by a camera. I can’t complain I was caught, I was going over the limit and I cant make too much excuses for it, however I can say one thing. I was caught because I was too busy focusing on traffic. Had I noticed the camera then that concentration would have no doubt shifted to the camera.
clearly can’t trust Demelza with his facebook account!
has been hacked muhahaha
is doing his best to download “the internet”
Got to love this comic:
I have just realised I have waaaaaay too many clothes. How can this be even remotely possible? For starters, I’m male so clearly I don’t need many, secondly, it’s not like I have some form of exciting dress sense or any grasp of style. I have a wardrobe in my parents house and my room in Brighton. The one in Horsham contains 38 hanging items, plus another 30ish T-shirts, 5 pairs of shorts, 7 or 8 trousers. The one in Brighton to be fair is pretty empty, but still, how has this all crept up on me?
I guess this is what happens when you have a work wardrobe and a non-work/uni wardrobe. They have very clear distinction and yet both have and will continue to take up vast amounts of my time. I will always change after work into anything else and I will never start wearing a shirt at the weekend (if I start wearing shirts to church on a Sunday morning you have my permission to shoot me).
So, the family file storage server died a month ago or so.
This is a machine that I built for my family which lives in the loft as an always on file server and backup device. It’s main purpose is to provide spill off room for the media centre (as that chews through scary disk space). It’s a simple old machine with a CD drive, a small disk for the OS plus two large drives for the data in a RAID 1 setup. It runs FreeNAS as it’s OS.
So about a month ago my dad told me the machine wasn’t appearing on the network anymore, so I just told him to turn it off. Today I finally got round to working out what was up. At first I thought the primary disk had failed given the BIOS said that. Who would have though, an error message that made sense and was right… nah, don’t be silly. So I tried to put a Knoppix CD to check the data was still there. CD tray would not open. I then check the BIOS again, the CD drive wasn’t there. So, unplug the CD drive and the machine boots as per normal.
So, the lesson for today, a CD/DVD drive can actually break in such a way that even while being marked at the slave device on the channel and with other set as master, can still knock out the whole channel so the BIOS things primary disk fail.
Annoying but solved.
is doing really really cool web design…. well, web design anyway
wonders how Anna has got so bored she feels the need to Facebook stalk me…
wish people gave him less computer fixing jobs to do. Just because I *can* do it doesn’t mean I *want* to
Well that was a lot of work!
OK, so they have changed the Facebook interface. I for one welcome it, its very nice and removes a lot of the clutter for me. However, one of the changes I don’t like is the removal of the friends statuses on the right. I used this as a quick way to see what my friends are upto and how their feeling etc.
So, Vista sidebar for the win. I downloaded an RSS feed reader sidebar gadget (this one in fact) and had a look. It is a nice gadget, lots of features. One thing that did bug me was it wanted to scroll all the time. This is a bit annoying, so, coding skills for the win, I took that feature out and while I was there added a pretty Facebook logo to each status to replace the RSS one that was there.
I love it when you can just change the applications to suit your own needs!
can’t think of a status that would be approved by Anna, apparently it has to be clean and not contain words like sex or drugs or something.
is only as old as the woman he feels… 21 it is then…