// October 29th, 2004 // No Comments » // General
There’s a free £2 discount code at sendit.com when you access their site using this address. I used mine to buy The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition for just £17.49 before discount codes.
// October 29th, 2004 // No Comments » // General
Well, been slightly busy this week. Had a PED presentation on Tuesday, which went pretty much fine, Nick got a little nervy. The only thing wrong with it was that we ran out of time, so Evv didn’t get to do his part, we were that worried about speeding through it all and being over quickly that we over compensated. Anyway, that night we all got pretty drunk, including, for the first time ever, Evv. Spent about an hour just drinking different spirits with various mixers, I think we were all pretty much tipsy by ten and drunk by eleven, if not sooner. Sara rang me up at one point and I spoke to her, about what I dunno. We ended up walking to Ali’s at like 2330 and got a value box, man I love value boxes. We got back from the walk down there, Meggs and Mini Meggs (who by the way has joined us for the week) went to bed after an hour or so, while Nick and I sat up till 5 discussing life, our childhoods and a million other things. (more…)
// October 24th, 2004 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Yesterday I downloaded, Desklook – an Outlook plug-in which basically displays the Outlook Today screen over the top of your wallpaper, mainly as a sidebar down the left hand side of your screen. The sidebar is fully interactive – you can click on tasks, and mail etc and it’ll open up Outlook and that item. It’s pretty good, and saves me keeping Outlook running all the time. One floor is that for Desklook to know I have unread mail I have to have ran Outlook first. It’d be better if the Outlook could run as a service, or there was a service to notify things like Desklook that there is new mail, then Desklook could update it’s display, the user then clicks on “unread mail” in Desklook which then launches the Outlook inbox section. I presume that’s more of a limitation of Outlook than of Desklook though.
// October 24th, 2004 // No Comments » // General
Was woke up this morning by a call from Martin (the landlord), saying he was coming up to Stafford this morning so could he pop in, I consented and in he popped. Supposedly to sort out the freezer, subtly to question me about the rent, which I gave him. But basically all he did was wake me up, moan about the state of the house, failed to fix the freezer, used my toilet, took my money and ran. Apparently the rubber seal on the freezer will go back by its self :s, god knows why it’ll manage it now as it’s not done it for the last few weeks. I’m wasn’t his biggest fan before, after the British Gas debacle and he’s not done anything to redeem that. (more…)
// October 24th, 2004 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
This morning I thought I’d run windows update as I was aware I’d missed a few of the non-security related updates on there the last time I ran it. Ten minutes later the updates I requested were downloaded, installed and just one reboot away from being fully functional. However in the mean time I’d started some large Bit Torrent downloads, so I was in no rush to reboot. A few minutes later I get a reminder pop up to remind me to reboot to complete installation of update. I press ‘I’ll reboot later’, thinking that the updates were nothing pressing. Only thirty minutes later I get the same pop up, then again thirty minutes after that, and so on, every thirty minutes since like twelve I get the same pop up, there’s no way to disable it that I can see – if you end process it just respawns its self. It’s terribly annoying, you’d think after like 24 reminders it’d have got the idea by now. Leaving an icon in systray is fair enough, but a pop up every 30 minutes? Kind of over the top.
// October 23rd, 2004 // 5 Comments » // Uncategorized
Well this came through and I got Meggs to rip it to mp3 for me, and it’s pretty great. Course I would say that seeing as I just spent £20 on a single track but meh. This, for people who don’t know is a mix up between Public Enemy – Bring the Noise and The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army. It’s based around P.E.s acappella over the Seven Nation Army beat. It works to great effect. The second verse especially – the end of every word of Chucks rant hitting every beat perfectly. Only 500 of this 7″ was pressed so it’s pretty hard to find, but well worth your while if you do.
// October 23rd, 2004 // No Comments » // General
Nick and Meggs ended up deciding to stay the night (y), so I immediatly suggested curry night at Yates Wine Lodge, so we went to Yates, asked for a curry and they said they’d stopped serving food, despite their being menus on every table that stated they serve till nine (or ten, I can’t remember), the time currently being about 20:00 (n) Don’t intend going there again. Nick suggested The Picture House instead, which was actually pretty good, a pint, a curry, a naan and a poppodom for £3.99 (y) Had the whole lots of talking happening with no music to blank it out that exists in every Wetherspoons though, kinda like a lecture theatre before the lecturer arrives, bugs the hell out of me in a pub. Anyway we came back, played some old songs, looked at some old pics and chatted, while I text Sara. (more…)
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