a) My spam filter is a BAD BAD thing and has now caused me hassle after causing others hassle for some time. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

b) My computer crashed badly about an hour ago. It took me over 30 minutes to get it running again and it’s still shaky.

c) Starting to learn the basics of Red Hat 7 and it’s mail system. I’ll be looking after our box in a few weeks so the basics would be good. Hope to get a chance to play at some stage too.

Gah, somewhat drunk right now. Watching West Wing and not blogging.
Sleep after then followed by more sleep and quite possibly a hangover. In the morning there shall be laughing at some silly person who after 5 pints had 3 tequilas and 6 whiskeys. I gave up after the four pints.

In typical V fashion we are holding a poll as to whether the troll trolling us at the moment is a troll. The only option to vote for is yes.

Unlike many other forums trolls are often welcomed and toyed with for days. This usually leads to great amusement for all concerned…expcet the poor troll.

Backup and support is always a good thing and sometimes it would be really nice. I want to be in Paris. Dave is off there for a few days on Wednesday and having been thinking about it since reading up on my week way back then, I really want to go back.

Gollum’s speech at the MTV movie awards is just fucking awesome. Check it out here.

I love 1994

9 years ago today I was on a ferry to France on a school exchange. I was very seasick, a lot of people were. It was not a good crossing. I did go and watch Philadelphia in the cinema and made a great effort not to actually throw up. But I enjoyed the movie and survived.

9 years ago tomorrow, I was in Paris for the first time and I was up the Eiffel Tower. We had lunch in McDonalds and I bought my family some souvenirs. Over the next 10 days I would attend school there, visit the Science Museum which I loved and manged to get back to only once since then and generally see some sights. I remember loving the banks of the Seine and all that area. Looking back it was a lovely place to go walking in and I want to go back and just wander around. I really should get around to actually doing some French lessons and get back to speaking standard.

As you may have gathered I actually looked through some of my old diaries when I found them as I was cleaning this afternoon. It was going really well, I got a hell of alot done. But as soon as I started to move the furniture it all went to hell. I have now given up for the day and will have a bash again tomorrow. It’s not all that bad…I just need to restock a couple of shelves and stack some other shit away. I think I have a bit more space as hoped, certainly there is enough for another two shelves which was the point of the exercise. I’m just hoping my flatmate does not come home tonight so I don’t have to clear the landing. It’s almost like an obstacle course.

I hate banks, more precisely I hate English banks. Tidying away all my statements and letters and all that stuff today really rams it home. Not only do they not want to know you until you have lived at a fixed address for three years (which I now have) they charge massive rates for high service. I forgot about a cheque I wrote last month and didn’t leave enough in my chequeing account. Luckily enough I have a guarantee card so they honoured the cheque, but of course they charged me £25 for card misuse. I don’t believe for a single second that is the actual cost of the admin. fee, I suspect that does not even enter the pence range. At the start of the year when a transfer I made to another account didn’t actually go through for well over a month do I get to charge them a fee? Hell no, I don’t even get a reason why. Bastards.

Listening to The Bends right now. I picked up NME Originals: Radiohead yesterday and it’s pretty much 15 years worth of interviews and reviews under one spine. Working my way through it had me really really wanting to listen to this again, so I am.

Oh I watched Superman last night and really really enjoyed it. It’s been a hell of a long time since I saw it and I had forgotten how good it actually is. I shall have to pick up Superman II sometime soon. I would be watching V this evening and a few moments later I am in fact watching the original mini-series. Thoroughly great show. I didn’t know that creator Kenneth Johnson also had a hand in creating Alien Nation and according to the IMDB V: The Second Generation is in production. That could be very cool!

I’ve been doing some cleaning this evening. I want to rearrange some furniture in my room to see if I can get a little more space so before that I wanted to clean and actually sort some stuff. So far I’m doing well. I’ve got a full black sack to throw out of stuff I had sorted away to keep previously so that’s good.

In the process I found some old photos. They are from a night out on the town in Toronto from probably 3 years ago next week. That was a really good night and the last time I saw and indeed spoke to some of the people in the photos was that very night. Some good memories from that time.

Gah, so it now turns out that something I spent about 4 weeks worrying about was NEVER a problem in the first fucking place. Fuck.

– The internet as it is 5 years ago would have changed a lot of things for me I think.
– It’s interesting how some people change and how other people don’t change.
– Blogger seems top be down so I guess I’ll be saving in notepad for a while.
– There isn’t even anything on in the cinema I want to go and see this weekend. I’m half thinking about going to see The Secretary but it’s not on in a cinema within walking distance and right now I don’t feel like travelling. Might change my mind later.
– Forums are typically weekend quiet, no work to slack off of takes a lot of people away.
– Looks like a bit of sunshine around but not all that much.
– Rereading Bone at the mo, it’s all good fun.
– Do you trust your friends? Are they worthy of that trust? Are you sure?
– oooooohhh I could do a new layout but of course I have no wysiwyg tools installed since I re did the pc and I hate working in tables in plain html. I really should sort this machine out. I have over 20mb of email to download.
– Some news sites really suck. Services which just take content from others are shit and even worse if they don’t credit them.
– Actually there will have to be going out today. I suddenly fancy a hotdog and milkshake. So perhaps a trip to the book shop to pick up the sequel to Revelation Space followed by some food would be good.
– I’m really not in a reading mood today tho and actually I haven’t been in a good while. I’m tending to only read these days while I’m commuting to and from work. Not good.
– Damn, that last sentence had me stopping and thinking. It’s still a little strange even after 3 years to think that I actually have a proper job and a desk and phone and a place to commute to and from. Strange huh?
– I will get back into writing soonish rather than just going with lots of points, but it’s easier these days. I did write an entry last night but I wasn’t happy with it in anyway so it got pulled. It was really badly written and you know that’s bad given the shite that goes up here on a daily basis
– ah ah ah, you fell into my arms
– Just lost a game of chess on Yahoo quite badly. 3 moves in a row containing 3 stupid mistakes in a row. Fuck.