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  • richard
    lol @ yesternight. Yes, there's another one! Couldn't sleep last night, woke this morning at 5:30, guess I'll do some work.
  • MrCorey
    So, yesternight, I too, got a bit tipsy...just before I got rip roaring drunk as a skunk out of ...
 

Jun 27
2008

Posted by richard

Why is ‘yesterday’ such a widely used word, but we don’t have ‘yesterweek’, ‘yestermonth’, ‘yesteryear’, ‘yesterdecade’ etc? Makes sense right?

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  • John W. Whitworth
    You're absolutely right, we need to iron out the wrinkles in these gigantic projects before we build more than 1 ...
 

Jun 26
2008

Posted by richard

The latest news in from yesterday is that the very progressive and ambitious project to build 5000 new “eco homes” in Manby has been scrapped. Can’t say I’m very surprised actually. Manby isn’t exactly the centre of things, and the transportation network is poor in that area.

Not only that, but as someone pointed out in my previous post, there aren’t the jobs to support that many people. Not just that but what about other services like electricity, water, sewage? This area might not be able to handle that without significant infrastructure investment.

Then again, I have to ask the question, why not build smaller projects that are eco-villages? 50-100 houses built around small wind turbines or eco-sewage plants etc? They aren’t beyond our capability or knowledge, and since we’re supposedly embracing eco- technology anyway, this would be a good point to start from to discover any issues we might have overlooked before scaling up.

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  • richard
    I got 'im. They're just trying to get traffic from us.
  • MacBros
    Gaaa! They got you too! What's with them Trackback sites?? The scrapers are at it again I see. I have a ...
 

Jun 25
2008

Posted by richard

Hay fever really sucks. I mean, it really gets you down when you get it bad. Sadly, I get it bad.

Eyes get all itchy, snot dribbles from the nose at a rate that might dehydrate me, throat is all sore. What can I say, I hate ‘hay’.

What’s odd though is this – diseases get resistant to antibiotics right? Our bodies get used to drugs, hence the development of new ones. Why then, do our bodies not get used to hay fever? Surely year after year, if we get it over and over again, our bodies should have antibodies for this, or whatever medical thing is appropriate?

Bloody hay fever…

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  • richard
    So it's definately worth it? I tried getting to the site last night but it was constantly busy, so I thought ...
  • MrCorey
    Since Ubuntu Hardy Heron shipped with FF3, I've been using it daily since Beta 4. Its got a lot ...
 

Jun 17
2008

Posted by richard

… and I can’t open the website (one of them at least: mozilla.org) to get it, I get this: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

I’m sure they are being simply overwhelmed – FireFox is of course one of the best coded browsers available, and is rapidly eating into the IE share of the browser market. I hope that version 3 is as good or better than version 2 has been.

I’ll keep on trying to get it tonight though, add to the record number of downloads that MSNBC is reporting this will achieve.

Update: (18th June) Ok so I finally downloaded FireFox 3. First impressions as pretty much as Corey mentioned – the menu bar thing is a bit annoying and a tad slow. Also, it seems to have (strangely) altered the order in which they appeared from FF2.

Nice layout although little changed. The folders that I have on my main toolbar at the top don’t seem to respond as fast as they did in FF2.

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  • richard
    Hmm that's probably more likely (the tom-cat). Good news though, there are some new leaves growing on it, so I believe ...
  • MacBros
    Either that or a Tom-Cat pissed in the pot? :p Bad Breath? I just thought the temperature would explain it. Usually ...
 

Jun 16
2008

Posted by richard

I am not a gardener. Far from it.

I have this tree inside, it’s an indoor plant I’m sure of it. But like I said I’m no expert. The parents came by a weekend or two back and over tea and conversation my mum suggested I put the tree outside for some light and re-pot it.

Well I put it outside and it seemed ok. I haven’t had the chance to re-pot it mind you.

I brought it back in the other day because it was raining heavily, or threatening to at least. The next day I noticed it – all the leaves on the floor. My tree was dying! I hadn’t even done anything to it!

That’s the last time I listen to mum about plants, even given how green-thumbed she is…

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  • richard
    Yeah I thought you'd appreciate it :)
  • MacBros
    OMG!! ROFLAO!!! Good one Rich!
 

Jun 12
2008

Posted by richard

This is a rude joke, so you have been warned.

A farmer walks into the bedroom with a sheep under his arm. He says, ‘This is the pig that I have to f*** when you’re not in the mood’

His wife looks at him and says, ‘To correct you, that’s not a pig’

The farmer says, ‘To correct you, I was talking to the sheep’

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  • MacBros
    It's hard to discipline yourself from piddling your time away doing meaningless things when you should be doing something constructive ...
 

Jun 11
2008

Posted by richard

At work my working week was cut down by one day, by agreement with the boss. This was ostensibly because we’re tightening belts at work, but really because I want to have an extra day off to work on my own work.

So now, Thursdays are now my Fridays. That Thursday feeling, you know? I know I don’t have to get up at ridiculous o’clock (at least forcibly – if I didn’t put the alarm on I will probably still wake at the same time) and there is some sublime feeling in that.

On the other hand, I have an opportunity to get caught up on my own work, get something done and accomplished as well as possibly find some time for my own stuff that I’ve been meaning to do (re-vamp the News Print theme, tweak a few things on my own two The English Guy sites etc).

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Jun 9
2008

Posted by richard

The British public have spoken, or at least responded to a poll. We like polls. We seem to think that polls mean everything and when they go down and stay down that that’s it.

Sadly for us, British politicians tend to ignore polls. Well, Gordon does. Oh, I mean, Prime Minister, for a moment there I almost forgot he was the PM since he does f*** all for us.

His numbers are dropping, have been dropping for some time, and appear to be continuing that way. I’ve taken my few brief minutes of relaxation from work to talk about how pathetic him and his numbers are. Yay!

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  • richard
    Yeah it almost seems like they're being rewarded for committing vile atrocious acts. Doesn't seem right. Human rights have gone too ...
  • MacBros
    It's pretty much the same here also. Murders are pampered and are given rights while law abiding citizens starve from low ...
 

Jun 2
2008

Posted by richard

Just for those of you who haven’t seen this travesty of justice. I say that, but it’s beyond a travesty since the man in question is -IN- prison and this is what he receives, from the Daily Mail:

Three meals a day, chosen by <prisoner&rt; from an extensive menu, are delivered to the 12ft x 10ft room (cell) where the pressures of serving a life sentence are alleviated by his personal freeview TV, a Sony CD player, stereo, and Nintendo gagmes console.

The person in question? Ian Huntley, who murdered two girls – Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman.

Worse perhaps, even an insult to the general public whose taxes are paying the many thousands of pounds per year to house this monster, is this:

The killer of Holly and Jessica has tried three times to kill himself and the authorities are keen to avoid another attempt.

Avoid? Avoid another attempt? Good God, I think that 99% of the public would hand him the rope and razor… what on earth are we treating animals like this for? Let them sit in a cold concrete cell until they top themselves.

I think we should bring back hanging. Public hanging. Whoever said execution is no deterrent to such crimes is wrong. Executions aren’t just a deterrent, they’re also for the general public to see that animals like that are taken care of, properly, and not wasting our time and money.

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Jun 2
2008

Posted by richard

Do you occasionally think that you are the only one that thinks a certain way? Are you the odd one out every so often? Do you talk to yourself (then again, maybe that’s the only intelligent conversation you get)? Then you might want to consider this:

You loony!

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