I’m grabbing my email at the mo, as I tend to do and I have an email from a friend that I just don’t get the general gist of. So I asked her to explain it. It was only after I wrote the line back asking for this that it struck me as funny and I laughed a lot. So I’m going to share it with you for your benfit.
“My head hurts and I’m on drugs, can you explain this to me?”
Wil Wheaton is also a funny guy. This made me laugh.
I in fact feel worse this morning. Isn’t that just great 🙁
And there will be an actual real life conversation about this in the morning (provided these damn drugs work) but regarding this entry of mine. The stuff I was talking about there was minor, there were two things aside from the conversation mentioned that happened today which had me thinking about it. Very simple stuff actually a friend asked me what the name of a Moby song was over IM and I said “Westside”, I realised a little bit later that I was wrong and it was actually “Southside”, I went to drop her an email to let her now but noticed in her blog, she had a line going:
And by the way, it’s Southside, not Westside. 😉
so there was no need to tell her. A while later I was talking to another friend and on her blog she mentioned that she rented out a movie with some friends last night and she had a good time. I asked her what the movie was (somewhat made a joke out of it as she talked about and around it without mentioning what it was) and instead of replying in the im, she posted to her blog and told me to refresh.
Is that a conversation? Maybe I don’t honestly know. How different is it from a conversation over im, or in a chat room?
I do think you missed out the most important new form of communication tho Dave; IM. That is however a topic for a further entry or indeed a chat.
Ok on the work front I see that a disclaimer has been posted on Iain’s site and then copied by Dave. I was talking to Iain about it earlier and I’m partially to blame for his posting of that. I posted this entry last night and I think I should go into some reason for that. Basically and being completely honestly here, I’m not hugely worried about getting in trouble for what I write here, I have thought about it but I like to think I have enough common sense to avoid anything major. It’s a personal thing for me, I tend to be a fairly private person and I know this is a complete oxymoron but I would rather keep this web site fairly quiet. I have no problem at all with strangers reading it, I really don’t give a fuck about them (unless they are young, female, cute, single, living in London and like what they read), its just I don’t want the people who I see and work with on a daily basis to be able to go off and read this. It’s a little close ya know?
My family don’t know about this but saying that we have never been really close, most of my friends don’t know about this and of the ones that do know a couple found it by accident or indeed by googling. And that is saying absolutely nothing about them at all, if anything it’s saying something about me. Looking back I have actually told two people about the existence of this cold turkey and I was dating one of them at the time but even them she was no the first to be told. That all might change, recently I’ve become happier with this entire blog and I can certainly see that in my writing, especially over the past week its less of an effort to actually write about something. I have a huge amount of respect for people who can talk completely openly about anything, and I know I’ve had a conversation with at least one person reading this about that. Remember a car trip in Dulles recently? We were all surprised by that, I know it was not just me. [Fuck…I’ve just noticed that right there I started talking at someone through my blog.]. But to get back to what I was saying when I asked Iain to remove the link because I didn’t want people from work to find their way to this, the emphasis in that sentence is on the word people, not the word work.
Is this making sense to anyone? I certainly hope so. Conversations to follow in the morning if my head stops hurting.
But for the record <g> , actualyl fuck the record its damn late and I’m not going to google for a phrase that will cover it all. This is a personal site and I have enough sense to not cross any lines. Goodnight world, I’m in need of sleep.
I am going to assume that was all made up. Why on earth would you go on a comedy show and tell the entire audience and the entire viewing audience that your pet dog accidently had sex with your wife while she was passed out with her head in the toilet.
I mean for fuck sake.
I was talking to one of my friends on AIM a couple of days ago. She had just started her own blog after reading a couple. One of the things that we talked about was whether blogs would eventually remove the need to talk. Neither of us really thought it would as there is always space to expand or more to talk about. But it got me thinking and I know I have done this but I’ve noticed quite a few people doing it recently. People talking to each other in blogs, answering questions, asking questions or indeed just making comments directed at people. It’s quite a strange thing really and something worth bearing in mind. More on this as I think of it.
So in less than 10 hours playing time I’ve beaten Luigi’s Mansion on my GameCube. This is alongside Rouge Leader, the flagship title for the GameCube and it’s replay-ability is not great at all. I’m somewhat unimpressed with this. Although I do like the when you’ve done, you can play it again but it will be harder isn’t the standard stuff, instead of just that your now playing in a mirror image of the mansion which is a nice touch considering.
In the technology world, the blog has become the standard news medium: and especially at this conference. Throughout the four days, perhaps 50 of the attendees “blogged” the proceedings. Sometimes live: with blog entries being added in the middle of lectures, using laptops and the hotel’s wireless network. With digital cameras allowing pictures to be seen within seconds, chat rooms allowing commentaries to be typed to interested parties worldwide, and a knowledgeable audience keen to disseminate the information, old school newspaper reporters were scooped so hard that most gave up and retired to the bar.
The loop was so quick, that by the end of many lectures, questions from around the world were being emailed to the bloggers, who relayed them to the stage, and in turn blogged the answers. The readership were not passively listening to a pundit describe the situation, they were reaching into the event itself through their representative.
The Guardian:Time to blog on
So now that the dust has settled, there are rumours about the leveling process flying around the place. Of course nothing can be backed up because everything is confidential, but I am not happy with what I have heard. In fact I am very unhappy about it. I heard some stuff yesterday that made me want to go and talk to my boss first thing this morning. Chatting to a couple of people now has rammed that home even further.
Hypothetical here, you hear a rumour, you ask the person in question and they confirm it. You get on well enough with them that they don’t have a problem telling you. Your not happy with what your told at all and you want to talk to your boss and indeed your boss’s boss about it. But you can’t know what you know because it is all confidential and you should not have been told. Kinda a problem there…
Google Keyboard Shortcuts: http://labs1.google.com/keys/
Google Voice Search: http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html
Google Glossary: http://labs1.google.com/glossary/
Google Sets http://labs1.google.com/sets/
Google’s technology playground: http://labs.google.com/
Interesting stuff, I like the keyboard search, but I don’t really see the point of a voice search.
Well, there are many naturally but something recently is strange. I moved to London just over two years ago and for the first year I was here I was never ill. Not once. I didn’t take any sick days, there was absolutely no need. I don’t know if this is rare or not but it was certainly new to me and hey it was good.
Recently, well recently as in the past 6 months or so despite nothing that I can tell having changed it’s been different. I’ve taken a few days off here and there (with the exception of that one bad week its all been single days) where I’m just not feeling well. Usually a headache a feeling of tiredness and of course the fun of throwing up.
Is this suppose to be making up for all the time off illness? Is their a certain amount that I must be unwell to fulfil certain criteria? I just don’t get it.
Now I know at least one person who is just to read this and remind me of comments she made about stress a few days ago, and I’m not sure I buy that as a reason for anything. Sure there is stress going on, there is always stress going on. But it’s good stress (general work stuff) as oppose to stress that was happening during that first year (unhappiness and bad work stuff).
One option that I will buy is it could just be as a result of tiredness and that I need some time off and a break out of this damn country.
Yeah I guess I should really look into that. Just get the couple of cons over the next few weeks out of the way and then time is a lot more clear for escapism.