Uh, Bebo sucks

A few months ago, a friend sent me an invitation to Bebo. Thrilled though I was, I didn't accept. I'm already on Facebook, and that's pointless enough for me. Bebo have now started spamming me up. By "spamming me up", I mean that they have sent me one e-mail. In some kind of odd e-mail newsletter thing. However, that's one e-mail too many for a guy like me! It is so rude that I decided not to get a bebo account, not that I was going to anyway.

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Computers: Rubbish

I'm really sick and tired of sitting around waiting far too long for the computer to do something simple. Waiting for stuff to compile... waiting for the computer to start up... waiting for the computer to shut down... Oh man. It is so annoying. Analysing it mathematically, let x=the average length of time spent waiting for the computer to do something simple, y=the number of days in your life and z=the total time wasted. We can see that z is equal to approximately 10 million hours and that computers really suck.

The most annoying thing about it is that whenever the computer freezes up and starts being lame, I get distracted by something and end up wasting time doing something pointless. For example: writing a tedious blog post.

Oh man!

Wireless Networking: Rubbish

I've just wasted half a morning trying to work out why I couldn't my laptop to connect to our wireless network. The helpful dialog box that Windows shows you froze up, saying "aquiring network address". It took this to mean that it had connected and authenticated correctly but that there was some kind of DHCP problem. Oh no. In fact, the reason for this failure was that one of the 26 digits in the WEP key was wrong. Perhaps a more helpful message to display would have been "The WEP key is wrong". Cuss.

Wireless sucks. When it works, it's great, but when it goes wrong, I generally have no idea why and I have no idea how to find out. The Windows tools don't help; by hiding all the complexity behind a shallow facade of user friendliness, they give you almost no helpful information when things go wrong. The Linux command line tools are marginally better, providing you with all the information, even if I don't understand most of it.

Anyway: it works now. Having got that out of my system, I'd better do some work.

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Tea!

I'm back in work, having been off for three weeks. I can't believe how much tea and coffee people round here drink. I am already on my third cup of coffee of the day. Oh man!f1

Opera Mini

I installed Opera Mini on my mobile the other day. It's much better than the built in Nokia browser. However, it still can't read certain websites for odd reasons that I don't understand. One such website it Blogger. Thus, I can't "blog on the bus". Oh man! I wouldn't mind so much but Blogger was one of the bookmarks that was there by default when the browser was installed. Silly thing. When I try to log on to Blogger, I get redirected around the houses a bit, before ending up at "page not found".

Curses!

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Boo to stuff and things

Five minutes have passed and I am now in a much worse mood.

Oh man! What would Mark Hammil do?

Hoo-ray for stuff and things!

I can't work out why it is but I am in a much better mood than I was in yesterday. Yesterday, I was feeling fairly miserable for much of the day but I feel really good today. I wonder why that is.

Stupid DVLA

For the past year or two, it has been possible to renew your car's tax disc online. Not for me, it hasn't. Last year, I tried but the DVLA website was running glacially slowly and basically didn't work. This year, the website works but I can't use it to renew my tax disc because it claims that I have no insurance. This is despite the fact that I renewed my insurance literally weeks ago. Stupid DVLA. This is the 21^st century. Stuff like updating my insurance info on a computer is meant to be fast and automatic.

My theory is that the DVLA, like most of the rest of the public sector in this country, is staffed by wonderful hardworking people who are unfortunate enough to be led by idiots who manage to screw it up for everyone that they lead. The idiots probably get knighthoods at the end of it as well. This is why I don't ever want to work for the public sector.

What An Exciting Morning

This morning was very exciting due to the following things:

1. Townhill Way was completely closed, forcing us to take a massive detour on the way into work. Jon wasn't pleased because it made him late for his course. Oh man!
2. I lost my id badge. Luckily someone found it and I got it back again. Phil told me that I should blog about it so here you go: Blog Me Do!

It's nearly time for lunch. I'm going to eat some kind of weird pasta thing that I bought from Tesco's. Hoo-ray!

Official: I Rule

Here is the final proof that I rule more than anyone except for Steve Collins:

#	Team	Manager	Gameweek	Total
1	ZZ's Ballon de Plomb	Steve Collins	56	1930
2	Soccer Explosion!	Chris Jenkins	49	1886
3	BerbatovMagic	Ben Thompson	41	1769
4	DogsDooDaa	Mick Lickman	39	1695
5	Wudzz Wanderers	Richard Woods	62	1693
6	Munchkins 0607	Martin Cartwright	34	1691
7	Rabid Rangers	Tom Evans	32	1680
8	MarknMatthew	Matthew Stockwell	46	1677
9	Die Warnock Die!!!	Kieran Scott	64	1658
10	Why use a round ball	Stephen Hurst	43	1636
11	PUP	Tim Evans	39	1615
12	Dark Horses	Matt Sunley	31	1609
13	Laws the Rock	jim Matthews	40	1603
14	Badger Badger Badger	Dave Draper	28	1561
15	The one eyed champs	Jon Roberts	28	1560
16	Dixie's Diamonds	Ed Johnson	20	1484
17	Music With Jeff	Jordan Humber	23	1421
18	Jedly's Chums	JEd Green	28	1357

Oh dear oh dear

In other news, Kie got his wish and Sheffield United were relegated. Neil Warnock looked really really pissed off and I'm sure that makes Kie happier than you can possibly imagine. I can't help feeling a bit sorry for them, though. West Ham can be accurately described as "jammy gets".

Oh, The Excitement!

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? I bet you're thinking: "wow, what an exciting end to the football season". Of course you are. I finished second in our fantasy football league! Here's the almost-final league table:

#	Team	Manager	Gameweek	Total
1	ZZ's Ballon de Plomb	Steve Collins	0	1874
2	Soccer Explosion!	Chris Jenkins	0	1837
3	BerbatovMagic	Ben Thompson	0	1728
4	Munchkins 0607	Martin Cartwright	0	1657
5	DogsDooDaa	Mick Lickman	0	1656
6	Rabid Rangers	Tom Evans	0	1648
7	MarknMatthew	Matthew Stockwell	0	1631
8	Wudzz Wanderers	Richard Woods	0	1631
9	Die Warnock Die!!!	Kieran Scott	0	1594
10	Why use a round ball	Stephen Hurst	0	1593
11	Dark Horses	Matt Sunley	0	1578
12	PUP	Tim Evans	0	1576
13	Laws the Rock	jim Matthews	0	1563
14	Badger Badger Badger	Dave Draper	0	1533
15	The one eyed champs	Jon Roberts	0	1532
16	Dixie's Diamonds	Ed Johnson	0	1464
17	Music With Jeff	Jordan Humber	0	1398
18	Jedly's Chums	JEd Green	0	1329

Admittedly, today's scores have yet to be added but, suffice to say, no one managed to get the hundred or more points that they would need in order to overhaul me. This means that I finished ahead of the following people:

• Tom
• Martin
• Kie
• Jon
• Jed

Man, I can't believe how much I rule. I am the (second) best!

Bo Selecta

Phew. It passed. I can breath a sign of relief.

Oh Man! The Suspense Is Killing Me!

I hope my car passes its MOT. Last year, it failed due to having a nail in one of the tyres. I wonder what I have stupidly failed to spot this year:

• Two wheels have fallen off.
• It turns out that having orange juice stains all over the back seat isn't legal.
• Colony of rare bats found under the bonnet.

Any of the above would literally "cuss" me right "off".

Good crikey, this sucks!

I have changed the language settings to "English-UK" and it's still banging on about vacations and falls and the like. Rubbish!

Scooters, Vacation, Fall

At the bottom of the window that I'm typing this into, it says "Labels for this post: eg. scooters, vacation, fall". Are they deliberately trying to use the most American-specific words in order to alienate users in the UK?

The labels for this post are: mopeds, holiday, autumn.

What A Personal Disaster!

This morning, on the way in to work, something incredibly bizarre happened. I was minding my own business driving down Allington Lane when I heard a colossal bang in the car behind me. Looking round, all I could see was the some kind of foul smelling orange fluid had been released into the back of the car. I swerved to the side of the road and jumped out of the car. It was at this point that I discovered the horrible truth: a bottle of orange juice had exploded all over the back seat. I have no idea how it happened. Indeed, I didn't even know that it was possible for a two-day old bottle of orange juice to explode like that. I am now looking forward to the task of cleaning a litre of orange juice off my back seat.

This is literally the worst thing that has happened to me all day.

Jeff Rules!

Wow! I just realised that Jeff has a link to my tedious blog on his website. That's pretty sweet. Check it out here. If you do visit then be sure to vote "pretty cool" a few times. Nice!

The Wildhearts

We went to see The Wildhearts the other night. Very good they were too, although I would say that, what with them being my favourite band and all. Here is a link to a picture in Phil's blog.

I was going to put a picture in here to see if I can but none of my pictures came out very well the other night. I was going to take a picture of my foot, about half of which has now turned black and blue, but I thought better of it.

Smashing weather we're having, isn't it!

Oh man, the pressure!

Phil just told me that he has this blog in his RSS reader ... oh man, I never expected to have an audience. I might just delete everything and hide under the table for a bit.

Hey Phil, you should write something in your blog (to which I have subscribed) too!