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Oh yes! It has been months. It was May / June when the great server fell leaving many sites including Audio Senate without their databases. For months (literally 6 months) I tried to get them restored. Long story short it didn’t happen. But I did manage to get hold of the Audio Senate and the lyrics ones manually.

So after a few hours last night and a few more this morning I finally managed to fix the main Audio Senate one. There is still more database restoring to do but this is a great step forward. Because I can sit back and tazer people if they fail to return.

Of course how Audio Senate will go remains a mystery. Chances are it is going to take a lot of work to get it going again although it already has 255 members so being the biggest forum on the Worfolk Online network (Buffy Talk is catching up though) it is good for making up numbers.

Speaking of stats and numbers, this changes the top 10 forums list. It pushes Gamer Forge off the list meaning that the bottom of the top 10 has over 10 members. Buffy Talk is now second and Fallen Nation is third. I need to publish a report about this.

Ok, even I didn’t know where I was going with this title. But there is an important point here. Ya see, even the most shallow low brow humour cartoons these days seem to have a deeper layer. I mean in Family Guy series 3 alone there are references to American Beauty and the Breakfast Club – how many kids are going to have seen those?

Another example is from the Simpsons, where Homer goes to buy illegal fireworks and tries to act cool (in the episode where he is staying that Ned Flander’s beach house). That quote is actually a reference.

"Let me have one of those porno magazines… large box of condoms… a bottle of Old Harper… a couple of those panty shields… and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two."

The quote is a reference to American Graffiti which was releaded in 1973 (again how many kids are going to have seen that) directed by George Lucas – it was really his breakthrough movie, winning him his first Golden Globe. Anyway to compare quotes, the one from Toad in American Graffiti:

"ok yeah, let me have err, a Three Musketer’s and a ball point pen, one of those combs there, bottle of Old Harper, a couple of flashlight batteries and beef jerky."

The day has arrived – I finally found a practical use for Google’s Desktop Search. After having it installed for like a month and using it a total of half a dozen times to which it never returned any useful results I have finally used it and been sucessfully. Maybe it is not such a waste of space after all.

Don’t get me wrong though, a month and one sucessfully usage is far from great especially considering I have to have an application running in the background and sitting in my system tray. But at least it is a step forward.

The problem actually began last night when I saved a text document, in what I thought was Desktop. Well I can only presume that’s what I thought, I don’t really remember. Anyway when I came to find the text document this morning it wasn’t there.

I was about to start trawling through all my locations when I remembered Google Desktop. So I opened the page up and ran a search for some text I knew was in the document. And the text document came up sitting in the root of my hard drive. Cool :).

Well I don’t actually live in peace show and to be honest I don’t even know what REM were refering to when the sang about what a bad day they had, had. But the end result or to be more precise the point is that my day as been far from the greatest day ever. Which sucks because I love Saturday.

This morning I was excited – a day of filming ahead of me. Due to certain cancellations though this never occured. So I decided to head off into town in which I blew almost £20 on DVDs. So, so far I have wasted a day and lots of money.

The latter part of the afternoon I spent in an argument with myself about the theory behind appologises. It was quite interesting but never the less I don’t like arguging with myself as half of me is always the loser (although of cause it is always the half of me playing devils advocate as my opinion is never wrong).

Then this evening I spend some quality time a party. I put in an appearance as it was an 18th though I really don’t like parties. I could write a whole other post on this. You see, the idea as far as I can make out is to talk to your friends. And then to make it a real party you play load music so nobody can here what each other is saying. As you can guess I am the type of person who can be found outside where actual conversation is able to take place.

Also the route home was filled with chava’s. Out of intrest, I saw a DVD or book or something in HMV named "chav!" which annoys me. Being a chava is not something to celebrate, they are not a welcome part of our society! That is another post that I could fill with content.

Still things are getting better or so I hope. I am cooking waffles and the Joe Schmo Show is about to start. Is it coming to DVD, it is a great show, I highly recommend that you check it out.

Hmm well it is going on a month since anyone last posted on Nerd Federation. So much for rawpulse’s weekly post. Anyway I thought I should post something, I need to learn to post things before I have a total essay to post on the site. What with all the other blogs I have set up to compliment my other sites my blogging time for Nerd Federation has been restricted a little.

I have loads of video to edit together for Nerd Federation although it doesn’t look like that is going to happen any time soon or even ever. Still I have bigger things on my mind. Like my doom for instance as I have my driving test tommorow. I am remaining upbeat and positive although I expect to fail, more people fail first time than pass. Plus I will come up with some fake excuses too. Oh well, see you when I next check in.

The clock of doom continues to count down with now less than 15 hours. But anyway I am sure I will get plenty more random comments in before the end of this post. Ya know, as my hand reached out from my bed this morning to put on some music while I got up I realised how messed up my playlist is. It currently goes from Britney to Nirvana. Still, it stabilises at the end with Smashing Pumpkins.

One other thing recently occurred to me. I mean it is something I always knew but it was only put into context a day or two ago – hit and runs are wrong if you hurt somebody. It is an obvious point but I never really thought about it until recently when I realised that if you do run somebody over you shouldn’t just drive off. You should either help them or finish the job.

Speaking of driving, I have a lesson this afternoon. I have this one and two more before my test so considering I have failed all three of my mock tests it is not looking so good. I started to have my doubts already everyone else seems to think go for it. Confidence has never been my strong point although I don’t think nerves will be my undoing considering there is hard evidence in the form of 5 failure points that it may be my driving at fault.

What else is there to talk about? I have a good old to-do list which I mentioned in my video blog post yesterday although I did get round to adding a third item to it – the third item was to make this Nerd Fed post though so that is pretty much done. As for other preparation for tomorrow, I was planning to find out where all my baby photos were so I could burn them although I am not sure where they are.

My random projects on the net are going well, however. Particle Soft, the new company from myself and Ceon is going strongly; we now have 2 products out on the web – Particle Blogger and Particle Whois, both of which are now listed on Hot Scripts and if Particle Whois is accepted onto ScriptSearch.com they will both be on that too. And one day Particle Board 2.0 will come out! 😉

One thing on writing this has occurred to me though – despite the fact that Particle Soft’s most popular product, myself and Ceon both use pLog (ie this) to blog. I mean we do have a good reason – Particle Blogger launched a few days ago and we started blogging back in July so we do have an excuse. Although no matter what the reason is, it might still be a little discouraging lol.

Well now I finally got around to a vide blog post. Although before we get into that:

Random Quote
Chris: 1930? Forget it. You’d be too late to save Lincoln and too early to save Kennedy
JD: lol
Chris: you could save McKinly
It’s not a time machine Moe 😀

Anyway onto the video:

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Well after that last ramble I best keep this one short. I thought it was about time that Nerd Federation got a shortcut icon (favourites icon) as blogs are after all for the most part crazy experiments of web technology so anyway I draw a nice simple design up. It’s not great but it will do a for a start I think. It’s not added into the code so your browers need to pick it up automatically. Not too much of a problem for us Mozilla users :D.

In other news I am currently watching The Cell as I mentioned in my previous posts. I thought it was some wierd drama at first but now I have started to watch it, it has some cool sci-fi elements and also the backstory to all the sci-fi stuff is kind of like a Without a Trace style thing which is pretty cool. Nobody really knows what is going on but that makes it more entertaining ;).

Well now, I have so much to talk about I could fill a video blog. Well if I could be bothered, which I apparently can’t. Anyway as I am waiting for The Cell to start on Channel 4 I shall fill the time with a blog post on Nerd Federation before I begin to forget all the things I wanted to talk about although to be honest, that has probably already happened.

So let’s start with the changes over at Google. Well there are two basically. Three if you count the fact that the Google CodeJam has recently finished. But I am not going to. So first things first and this involves a later point I wanted to talk about. Google has launched Froogle UK which is like a shopping search thing which now is available on the UK. There appears to be an absense of Play.com in the listings but I presume it is because they are getting started and such.

The second Google thing is that Google recently had their official launch of Google Desktop. It basically indexes your web history, emails, AIM chat logs and certain files and allows you to search through them via Google Search. It adds an extra tab on the Google homepage (bah, yet they claim they can’t fit the dmoz tab on there) which allows you to easily switch to it. The other way to do it is to click on the icon in your system tray.

I wasn’t going to install it when I first heard about it as I didn’t really think I would have any use for it although I was talking to Nick earlier tonight and he was giving it some high recommendations so I decided to give it a go. It seems to work fine and all and indexed 20-30 thousand items although I don’t really want something else sitting in my system tray so if it doesn’t prove itself useful I will probably uninstall it eventually.

Anyway moving on to other crazy topics, today I ventured into the outside world and headed to the cinema to see Resident Evil Apocalypse. I actually thought it was an awesome movie although I think the fight between (spoilers!) Alice and the Nemesis creature (how did it take Alice so long to realise it was mat 😉 degraded it a bit. The one thing I did think was excellent though was the way the cover up worked.

Basically I liked that because usually in these times of films, there are loads of examples though the only one that comes to mind is Antitrust, the evidence gets out, the corporation is busted and the big CEO guy in charge is arrested and everyone has a happy ending. But would that really happen in the real world or would the corporation get away with it? That’s why I loved the ending to the film. Although of course it is crying out for a sequel. BTW the film seems to have bombed, it was only released 8 days ago here and the total people in the cinema was 16! That said it was the 11:45 am showing and the whole cinema was pretty much tumble weed at that time.

Onto what I think is the final matter to cover in this post – I still had a gift certificate from a while back for Borders which I never used. So I headed in there and on the top floor I found a 2 DVD’s for £10 offer which I decided to take up. I had a choice of Johnny English, Titanic and White Men Can’t Jump. I was about to choose when I came accross one film hidden at the bottom of the shelf – the orginal Blair Witch Project! Awesome find considering it was such a cool film with so many extras. In the end I went for that and Titanic just to add to my emo collection :D.

I’m going to keep this post short and sweet. So much using the camcorder so much I have done quite a bit of written stuff recently. Then again I don’t want to go into media overload so written is cool. Anyway last Wednesday saw the third and final presidential debate so as has been the tradition – well what we did for episode 9, myself and Ceon did a running commentary over it for Maze Radio.

Check it out! Lol anyway I was thinking of switching Maze Radio over to the Linux server so I could set up such things as automatic updates and RSS feeds. That said I could equally do that with the Windows server. Meh, anyway check out the new show.