Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

This is wierd. I’m a total neurotic. Why can’t I really care about what is happening? It’s like, we go down tommorow and I live there from Sunday. So why am I totally just “meh” about moving out? This makes no sense! BTW pictures on their way tommorow.

I haven’t really noticed it coming though, it’s like tommorow which is wierd as in only a few days I will be partying it up on freshers week and yet it still seems ages away.

Ok, I really am making a lot of posts in a row but I blog when I have inspiration lol. Anyway so the episode where Bart falls in love with Laura in The Simpsons. Bart gives his address as 1094 Evergreen Terrace. But we all know the family live at 742 Evergreen Terrace.

I also noticed when Moe was running back he banged his leg on a wishing well. The same one that Timmy O’Tool fell down? :P.

I hate music ads that say “this album of the year.” Because, let’s face it, it probably isn’t is it? I also wanted to come and point out that I was not talking about Kelly Clarkson’s new album even though according to the advert “everybody is talking about” it.

I now hate it though because, in order to point that out, I have had to start talking about it.

Now the Huddersfield University advert I have just seen – there is an advert. Any uni that has Patrick Stewart has got to be good. Picard rules!

I was just trying to find my Dylan Moran quotes, medium length story short, I couldn’t find it. Reason was, the quotes were actually in the Blair Space Quotes DB (this was after checking Buffy Talk also).

So anyway, I’m going to post them here so next time I go looking for them they will actually be here:

Dylan: “We all know if female genitalia could talk, it would sound exactly like Enya.”

Dylan: “I’m not a fighter, I’m a bleeder. The best I could hope for would be to drown someone in my own blood.”

So things are falling into blocky shaped holes. I was probably in denial I wanted anything other than the second series of The O.C. but checking on it, it doesn’t come out until September 26th. So even it if arrives on that date it is still a week later than I thought.

There is actually an alternative – the non-promotional price as £45 (like £11 more) is available now but that’s like 30% more. I spent an extra £20 to get the Buffy boxset a few weeks earlier and I’m not doing that again! Ok, maybe I will, my will power sucks and I need some way to get through the first week ;).

That said I still have my new networking geat that I ordered arrive tommorow. It better arrive tommorow or eBuyer will get the frowning of a lifetime!

Well if phpBB 3 was taking a long time before I think it’s going to take significantly longer now. Paul, aka, psoTFX who was co-manager of phpBB has left the project and I don’t blame him the amount of abuse that has been thrown at the project at recent times.

Still, it’s a shame he had to leave as phpBB 3 could draw in some real attention once it’s released. vBulletin really does rock but the next version of phpBB won’t be far behind.

Just watching the new series of Jack Dee Live at the Apollo. Lee Mac was the guest presenter tonight but the thing is, Jack Dee is so good that the guest presenters are never as good by comparison.

Anyway, I finally got round to ordering some new network stuff to uni. Well ok, it started out that I needed to buy a new surgemaster multi-socket dealie (which I went for the 2 metre one instead of the 1 metre one, crazy I know 😉 but ended up getting two network cables (I needed a decent one to give my laptop some room and another for connecting my new computer up, extending my router range etc).

I also got some network couplings (things to connect two network cables together, pretty useful and at £0.56 or something you can’t go wrong, I ordered 3) even with all that stuff, the shipping still made up like 30% of my total order cost. I should really start shopping else where but what you going to do.

So I’ve been trying to cancel my domain name with 1&1 (I reged it last year with the free .info domains) and they want me to fax them some kind of contract through. Which would be great if I had a fax machine. But I don’t as some of us are living in the 21st century. PayPal asked me to fax them a while ago too. Move on people, we don’t have fax machines anymore!

They are so slack though. I emailed them days ago and it takes them until now to get back to me. Can you imagine if you got a notice from GoDaddy saying, “oh we’re closed for the weekend.” Further more they tell me I need to do something totally different to what the website FAQs said. Why 1and1 has been such a successful company I will never know.

Actually I will, £50 a month for 10GB of bandwidth or thereabouts as their servers used it be. I pay around £25 for my VPS and I get 150GB of bandwidth and that isn’t particuarly cheap. No wonder they are rolling in it if they charge that much and have so few support staff to pay.

Why do Horizon come up with some crazy title sequence each series? The good old black with burning letters thing is classic, they need to stop messing with it. I’ve just started watching the new series, “Naming The Dead” as I think I was watching Dispatches or at least something on Channel 4 when it was on.

Went to Argos today to stock up on crap for uni. Really random items – bedding, lamps (well ok lamp), plastic container things so I can microwave everything, bags, etc. I also just went to random peoples houses and asked them for stuff ;). Ok my gran’s, she’s great.

She said she had this can opener for me, I was thinking it would just have this simple thing for me. It’s huge and has like four different blades on it, some of them look like the kind of size teeth you get on those industrial crushers at the tip :D. This is a week or so after a nail clipper, mini-blade and scissors. For someone so sweet she sure has a lot of blades ;).

Ok, seriously though where is all this crap going to go? I have to store it in my room for a week which is full enough and my new room will probably fit into my current room several times over. Who needs floor space though? After all I first wanted to get a double bed into the room.

My real worry is internet access as apparently I need to go onto the campus to get my network password. I REALLY don’t want to have to log on each time I want to use the internet as that is shit, if I do, I will look for a way to get round it. I am hoping it’s like my cable internet, just register my machine and I’m sorted.

Although even if I don’t I still have to go onto the campus so I should be able to do everything I need from home Sunday morning and at the latest by online in the halls by Monday night. Otherwise I may be coming home sooner than I thought :P.