I’m gonna be glad to see the back of 2003, been a weird year for sure. It’s felt like a long hard battle with a lot more lost than I gained, especially over recent months. But I get the feeling Y2K v0.4 is gonna rock, mainly with my move, albeit temporary, to Atlanta, GA., I know it may end up causing more problems than it’s worth, but I think the actual experience will do me good.
I need to get away from this place. The West of Scotland can be a very depressing place at the best of times and what I saw on my way home from work yesterday summed it all up. A group of youths (probably no more than 16 years old) came on the bus and set about making a commotion and basically disturbing the relative peace the other passenger had before they came on. So of this group of about 10, only 3 paid to get on, so the driver and ticket inspector done their job and threw as many as they could off the bus, and of course the rest of the group didn’t like this so as well as verbally abusing the driver and inspector, they tried to take a swing at them… Yes, one of them tried to punch the driver while he was driving a bus… So the rest of them were thrown off at the next stop, but not before one the group put his foot through the front window, and I do mean right through!
I’ve always said some people deserve to die and some people need to die… I’ve never seen such stupidity in all my life, but taking the bus home means I have to deal with differing levels of it night in and night out and I’ve had enough. Ever since the Walker-Arnold’s said “hey, you can come stay with us, stay for as long as you want, you could even do some work for us” I’ve been counting down the days…
26 to go now…
Things can now get back to normal, or something resembling normal…
So without further adieu I return this place back to its normal state, though if you really liked the Christmas theme you can now choose it from the change the styles section, but I’ll question your sanity if you do…
Also, with the cookie-fied themes being back I’ve noticed an error popping up on the moblog concerning the header on line 14, but if you choose a theme it disappears… So I guess it doesn’t like the default theme, but has it always been like that? Can anyone tell me?
Well, another Monday in work, but with the New Year festivities upon us it means another 3 day week… You’ll need to go all the way back to the week of November 24th to 28th to find the last full working week I completed… I’m now too used to 3 or 4 day working weeks. Why can’t all weeks be like that?
Other than that, nothing else is new… Still going to Georgia in 3 and a bit weeks as planned, despite a few people questioning my decision but it’s my decision to make and at this moment in time I’m still going. So there!
Not a lot… But I did get this…
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How was your Christmas? Good I hope…
Well this is it, final major date out the way till my move to Atlanta in 4 weeks time (4 weeks tomorrow if you want to get technical).
Seriously though, Merry Christmas to you and yours, y’all (gotta keep practising).
So I’ve given you a nice little “Christmasy” feel to this place…
Yeah, it sucks but what can you do?
I’ll keep it up over the weekend, or until I get sick of it and change it all back.
So I just got paid, 2 days before Christmas…
And I got £372.39 Tax BACK!
BACK!!!
Sweeeeeeeet!
Shawn Carter
C/O Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
USA
Dear Jay-Z,
I’m a fan of your music, not some weird aloof music fanatic who thinks he knows what’s right and wrong… But I found something oddly disturbing and downright wrong about your recent appearance on the newish Missy Elliott CD, don’t get me wrong, it’s a great CD but one line in your guest appearance shocked me to my very core…
Evisujeans cover the rectum
I kick game just like David Beckham
Anybody in my way I wet them
I’ma be this way until the cops come catch em
Jigga Man, how could you? Have you no shame? Name dropping David Beckham like that, although I’ll give you minor props for rhyming his name with rectum… But Jay-Hova, that’s the biggest sell out I’ve ever heard in all my years listening to music (and I’ve heard some shitty pop in my days, let me tell you). What ever possessed you to do it? I’ll go as far as saying 95% of your listening audience doesn’t even know who David Beckham is and now I fear they might look into it. “Who is this David Beckham guy Jay-Z is giving shout out’s to?” and the prophecy of this, for lack of a better word, muppet taking over the world moves ever closer to reality, much to my chagrin and much to the joy of the sleazy gutter press tabloids who sell issues off his back and could make or break his career depending on their mood that particular day.
Now I don’t believe in nothng no more…
So please find enclosed a copy of your “last ever CD“. It may not work properly as I zapped it in my microwave for 10 seconds as I was in dire need of a coaster for my coffee and I had no AOL CD’s at hand.
Hugs,
Greg the Disgruntled Fan
It’s the little things that make me smile… And I’m a simple man at heart.
It seems so fitting today…
Today’s Fun Fact: In the two times I’ve shown my iTunes Playlist, Shannon Campbell’s “Dreaming Of Violets (Redux)” has been there… Funny that.
If you read this Shannon, sorry for linking to your song, but I really love it..
Disgraced athlete Ben Johnson hopes to race in a multi-million pound re-run of the Olympic Games 100m final of 1988. The Canadian, who finished first in Seoul before being disqualified for failing a drugs test, called on the seven other finalists to compete. But Linford Christie has turned down the offer and eventual gold medal winner Carl Lewis has yet to sign up.
“It was the best 100m ever and the fans got a thrill. I think they would like to see it one more time,” said Johnson.
The race was won by Johnson in a time of 9.79, just one hundredth of a second outside the current world record set by Tim Montgomery in 2002.
Give it up Ben, you got busted big time and even if this race goes ahead, it means nothing 16 years later…
I recieved a request (of sorts) from my friend Tiffany to make her up a mix CD, I made her one about 6 months ago and she liked it, so knowing this I knew I’d have to go a looooong way to top it…
And to quote Rob Gordon from High Fidelity:
“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.”
With this in mind, my mix CD has become a 3 CD compilation and I’m not even finished… I’m not going to ruin the surprise of what’s on it just yet, maybe when I’m finished.
For the last few weeks I’ve been using the Mozilla Firebird 0.7 Browser as opposed to Internet Explorer and I’m loving it…
It has a few features I really like, for example the tabbed browsing and if you click the mouse wheel over a link it opens in a new tab. The overall speed is a lot quicker too and the look is easily customized to suit my particular needs… I’ve even begun to use it at work too.
I’ve even opted to use the Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 E-Mail Client but not as much, as it’s easy to import from Outlook but you can’t import back should you wish to… Maybe that will appear in later versions. The one good thing is it has reclaimed all the dates on my e-mails, because after my hard drive died in April I was able to recover most of my data but Outlook doesn’t read the dates prior to the middle of May, so older e-mails are all over the place and are listed in no particular order… This is why I’d like to be able to re-import them back into Outlook now this issue has been resolved.
Cant have everything I suppose, but if you’re looking for a nice alternate browser I suggest you give it a look. You may be surprised like me and start using it as your primary browser.
A quick follow up to Wednesday’s post about the Child’s Play charity drive courtesy of The Seattle Times.
See, there is some good in the world afterall…
So the news today came out about the so called Freedom Tower that’s going to be built on the old site of the World Trade Center, or Ground Zero as it’s more commonly know post 9/11… And after everything that’s happened, they want to build a bigger target.
But what bothers me most of all is this whole “Freedom” tag thats coming along with it, always riding the Patriotism ticket. Freedom from what exactly?
But the increase in “fake” patriotism post 9/11 hasn’t helped matters… If you didn’t have a flag on your car after 9/11, or have a patriotic shirt, people labeled you as a terrorist sympathiser. And don’t even think about questioning the government as you’ll be branded unpatriotic and unamerican, and you should just leave if you don’t agree with the current administration…
American patriotism is crammed down people’s throats, not just Americans but the whole world too. Taking the example of the French, America now gets pissed at other countries for not supporting the American viewpoint. To put it bluntly, the backlash against the French was simply because they acted “unamerican”.
patriotism
\Pa”tri*ot*ism\, n. [Cf. F. patriotisme.] Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one’s country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one’s country. –Berkley.
When did patriotism go from “I love my country, and I’ll do what I can to make it an awesome place to live” to “my country is the fucking best, how dare you question authority?”
And the saddest part is I’m going there in little over a month…
This was pointed out to me and it’s kinda cool… Penny Arcade is one of those online comic sites that I frequent from time to time, along with Sluggy Freelance and Little Gamers to name a few. Well, Penny Arcade started a charity drive a month or so ago by posting an Amazon wish list with a whole heap of stuff that would be donated to the Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center…
Well, with that and PayPal they raised $27,406.18!!!!
That’s TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX DOLLERS AND EIGHTEEN CENTS!!!! Plus a whole load of toy and video games systems.
Who says video games are bad for you?
I recently got the new Foo Fighters DVD as, some of you may know, I’m a bit of a fan… And having seen them live a few times in 2002 this would be a nice chance to relive those memories…
AND HOW!
An Easter Egg on the DVD is a few songs from the Dublin gig I was at in July of 2002 (one that probably cost me my then job, but meh!) and it’s not too bad, 6 or so songs, all pretty good… So imagine my squeals of delight when this handsome man appears on screen during “My Hero”
Woah dude… That’s me! Sweet!