Posts by Justabloke 39 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Sep 2008
while this is undoubtly the best news of the day so far... please don't shout/wish for Blunkett to return... He is the architect behind the ID database not wacky and for those of you struggling to think of anyone worse I have two words...
Harriet Harman.
hah! not so smiley now are you?
Still wacky going is good... trying to defend her majority is good because it'll hammer home just home much people despise her. Let's hope she falls into the obscurity she deserves.
how difficult is it to write a new style Dr Who Script??
here's the recipe...
30 mins - general gurning and "scene setting"
10 mins - "How wacky am I ?!?!?!"
2 mins - grimacing with sonic screwdriver
4 mins - running around shouting (monsters optional)
1 min - extra grimacing with sonic screwdriver (shouting optional)
1 min - I've got it!
2 mins - hugging kising ( same sex/different sex on alternate weeks)
Adjust time to length of required show.
Simples!
not far from where I live is a road the revels in the name of "Adams Bottom" even more amusing is that this road is also home to one of the local parks... imagine the hilarity that ensues.
On slow news weeks, the local papers are always full of indignant "Adams Bottom" dwellers (see? hours of fun!) decrying the rest of the town for taking the piss
I stopped using any of these pirates a long time ago having concluded that the (these days quite small) added expense was more than compensated by an allocated seat, being treated as a human being rather than cattle... getting a drink... a bite to eat Oh and not having to then stump up for a 2 hour coach journey to my actual destination, on a coach company usually owned by the same airline.
Budget Airlines stopped being good value for money a long time ago.
sadly, the beeb's offline videos are the only ones that won't stream to the media player hooked up to my telly downstairs :( all other DRM'd media plays perfectly.
I've never seen the point in watching TV on my desktop PC upstairs when I could be crashed on the sofa in front of the idiot box :)
@AC 08:27 I see no mention of anyone's religion so I would suggest your post says more about you than Bob Crowe
I too find myself on the same side of the room as Bob Crowe.... it's not a happy place...
if I had to clock in and out of work and that was to be done via finger print scanner, I'd probably object to it as well.
... the easier it will be for crims to slip through the cracks... only normal everyday, law abiding folk will be troubled by this draconian semi dictatorship...
A pox on them all!
As for Blunket, he really should be the first against the wall... perhaps at the same time as Wacky J
...its one of the "official" EU languages.
EU missives and documents are always produced in both English and French.
French has long been considered the "language of Diplomacy" (No I don't get it either but hey ho) which is why your current passport has French on it.
Anywho.... re welsh on an ID card, they can stick what they like on it as far as I'm concerned cos I ain't having one of the pesky ice scrapers....
A couple of years ago, I had a mild heart attack and was rushed to hospital "blues and twos stylee"... I had one thing in my pocket that without I'd have been screwed...
My mobile.
No wallet... no cash money... no means to access cash money because I had no cards.
I live alone and had no plans to see anyone for a few days.
without my mobile no one would have known where I was... without my mobile my cats would have starved...
I switched my mobile to silent and sent a couple of text messages. sorted.
don't really see how this could be a problem for any of the other patients in my wards.... most of whom were shouting over the noise of a TV.
don't they make you come over all warm and cuddly?
This isn't all that new TBH... they've been trying to get the of a road called "Adams Bottom" changed for years in my town... I'm pleased to say its a change that has been firmly resisted by the local populace... well except for one or two idiots that actually live in "Adams Bottom"
fnar fnar .... he he he
the company I work for have solved this problem by employing me... my background is in DEV but I have experience of Tech OPs from a couple of the places I worked at previously and so here I sit with a foot in each camp.
I give the dev team an understanding of how the tech ops stuff work and I give the tech ops team an understanding of how the dev environment works.
I handle deploymenst and the more technical aspects of application support, leaving the tech ops people to look after the day to day ops stuff.
so far its all working very well.
Perhaps its the way forward?
... the need for carriers and what useful chaps they. In times past it hs to be said, simply rocking up off the coast with a carrier group was enough to avoid hostilities.. of course that probably wouldn't be the case now.
I'm also inclined to agree with points about buying off the shelf kit but freely admit if my job were on the line as a result I'd probably feel different.
Fine them? why should the good people of leeds have to cover the cost of their incompetance via increased council tax bills...
just sack the person who lost the stick... sack the head of IT and then sack a randomly selected member of any other team.
Instantly. No ifs. no Buts. Just clear your desk and leave.
See how quickly this kind of stuff stops then.
... a sensible decision from the European court... and a predictable retort from Smith as the mouth peice of the gov. They really don't give a stuff about our rights at all.
If only I believed that getting rid of this lot and replacing them with the other lot would make one jot of difference :(
... about Vista have to have a bunch of comments telling us how carp Vista is ? Ok we get it... some of you have a problem with Vista... fine. now please give it a rest it became tedious months ago...
For the record, I don't work for MS BUT my Vista 64bit has proved to be solid and reliable.
I use my vista based machine for all of the following tasks...
Dev stuff (my day job)...
I play games both off and online...
I do my officey type stuff...
I do my internety type stuff...
Its all done with more than adequate performance and as previously noted with rock solid reliability; the only problem I have is with dodgy ATI HD drivers, can't really blame MS for that.
So will someone PLEASE explain to me EXACTLY what problem I'm supposed to be having... or just Shut The F*** Up the lot of you because I've heard this bollocks every time MS have released an OS and its getting pretty boring now.
Thank you.
yes... :-(
my full fat version stopped working in an automatic way.. no updates, no scans no nothing... it all worked manually but not automatically. My support request remains unanswered some 6 weeks down the line... I decided to uninstall and reinstall the application... copied my licence key using their "Copy licence Key" utility only to find that when I tried to use said key the utility hadn't copied it all (it missed the last few characters) and so I was unable to reinstall the app because it wouldn't accept my key was valid.... ho ho ho.... they managed to respond to that support request in under a week so thats an improvement....
... one of these to replace my excellent Viewty... a phone that I've had no trouble with whatsoever (well I did break the screen) some of the limtations are bit bizzarre... like only 300 texts messages can be stored at anyone time. But I'd have to say that the firmware is currently on revision G which rather gives the lie to the "being rushed out and forgotton" comment.
The renoir is a good loking phone and the demo model I played with the other day was excellent.
He says...
"However, another great plot is building up again, which we are monitoring ... the threat is building — the complex plots are building."
It's hard to see how this can be considered a threat then really, after all if they're monitring it, then it stands to reason that they can prevent it in good time to avoid any attrocities.
So any way you slice this it doesn't do his cause any favours at all.
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