The AtomWay.co.uk opinion column.

Review who: Planet of the dead.

2009-04-17T21:08:00.003Z

Let me start by admitting that I've not done one of these in quite a while, from looking back at the logs it appears to have been July 2007 since the last proper one was done, the following one was a series round up in 2008.

Episode: Planet of the dead Rating: 9/10
After so long without a good episode I was glad to see this program back on the air. After last year, I'd lost intrest in it a bit, but somehow this episode just drew me in. Admittedly I was Cardiff bay sightspotting, but that was enough for me. I also have a habbit of trying to spot the flaws in the plot/scenery, not that I'm very good at it. As in; Why did the bus go over a bridge and then through a tunnel?
In the episode the faults that I could see were: theres no such thing as the international gallery, only the childrens international gallery, which is on the north side of the thames; There is no route 200 to victoria; if the international gallery was on the north side of the thames, why did the bus go over a bridge, or through a tunnel at all? if it was on the south of the thames why did it cross the river twice; no london tunnels are that posh, as Clarkson puts it, British tunnels look like public conviences.
Otherwise I thought the episode went very well, in that it didn't set up a magical deus ex machina, or anykind of world in appocolipse event. But by far the best character in the episode has to be Lee Evans' Malcom character, naming a unit of something(I wasn't really paying that much attention) Malcom after himself, or Bearnard.

So much so, that I am actually looking forward to the next episode titled: The Water of Mars.

The latest review - Train companies

2009-03-28T17:56:00.003Z

In typical fashion of lateness, I'm going to review the train companies of Britain. Yes whilst everyone else is joining Twitter, I'm going to return to the good old British blog.

My review of Wrexham & Shropshire, Vs. everyone else.

Now I'll admit that Wrexham & Shropshire (WSMR for short) doesn't exactly have a high service frequency, or fast Journey times, compared to Virgin that is - every hour from Chester. The frequency of trains is not on a per hour basis that other operators have, but a per day basis, that is they run three from Wrexham a day, four from Shrewsbury. But fortunately on a weekday, the trains go at good times, ie earlyish in the morning, and come back late at night. Which for me is a big plus, as I don't like spending the night in London.

On a weekend is a different matter, I would quite like Journey times that allow me to go shopping down south on a Saturday, without the need to spend two days in a hotel(hotels don't let you stay one night on a Saturday night in London), that costs so bloody much to stay over.

Next their Journey times are about four hours, which is comparable to driving, from the nearby Chester it's just over two hours. Which is Okay seeing as the trains are far more comfortable than those of Virgin, I like my legroom, which Virgin think people don't need. Also Virgin offer mobile/laptop charging points, which WSMR should be offering soon. Onboard there's room to walk about without brushing past people all the time, which is nice when you want a wonder up and down the train to have a look out of a different window.

There is also a full old school style cafe thing onboard the train instead of just a trolly or crappy little shop, which means that your not limited to hot drinks or microwaved things, so you can get a full cooked meal, or just chips if you wanted(not that I had chips, although I imagine they can do them). Also they have toilet doors with just a lock on them. Now I know there not disabled compatible, but there's something more comforting about a door with a lock on them, rather than a choice of three buttons you have to hope has locked the toilet door.

Lastly all the seats I saw had a big table joined to them - that is four chairs round a table - instead of the cramped airline drop-down table style, so that means if you like to spread yourself out, with a book, something to write, even drawing pictures, you can, as there's a table at every seat.

Recently I've also travelled with Arriva, Mersey rail, and Virgin, all of which are worse that WSMR, for the following reasons, Arriva have old trains that seem to go at 4 mph everywhere, and have the worlds dirtiest, ugly toilets. Mersey rail don't run to enough places, or at a high enough frequency, and have no toilets. And finally virgin trains randomly breakdown whenever you get on them, there hugely expensive, and take two hours longer to get to CREWE than you expect because they stop at Milton Keynes for almost a hour in the dark.

Then they tell you you've missed the last train to Wrexham unless you wait for an hour at CREWE and Shrewsbury in the cold and dark, so instead you want to got to Chester so need to change at Warrington and get the bus. Not that I'm bitter, and will never travel by Virgin and the supposedly tilting trains again, of course they tilt, they make you look like your drunk because of it!

STOP PRESS - BREAKING NEWS - STOP PRESS

Just this week Wrexham and Shropshire have announced that they are axing peak train tickets, and only ever charging for off peak tickets on their services.

Buy it, Buy it, Buy it

2008-12-15T18:22:00.002Z

It's for a good cause, the NSPCC. Although many of you out there think I'm heartless, and hate kids, that's not true. I just hate those who end up where I'm going(supermarket etc.)

So Geraldine (Peter Kay) has released a new single, Once upon a Christmas song, and I really want it to get to number one, not just because it's for the good of kids, but so to make Simon Cowell without a Christmas number one.

Actually I'll now admit two things, One I've just bought the CD from HMV, and two, I don't think there's much chance of it getting to number one, but lets try it.

So go out and buy it.

Buy it

Buy it.

Hypnotoad says BUY IT!

The real effect of the pre budget

2008-11-25T19:08:00.002Z

Let me start by pointing out I am blatantly no financial advisor, expert, or anything remotely knowledgeable in this particular field. These are simply a set of figures that I have come up with on the back of a laptop. I am only going to focus on the reduction in VAT, which is complex enough on its own.

Lets start with how VAT is a part of prices; say a item costs to make, including labour, material costs, the lot, is one pound, With VAT at 17.5% for anyone to buy it, it would now cost £1.17.5 now nothing ever costs half a pence so it now would cost £1.18, hey lets all make a little profit.

That means that the cost of anything is always 117.5% of which 100% goes to the supplier, 17.5% goes to the government.

Now lets see how the reduction will help consumers; Now if I want to buy a chocolate bar that costs 69p this would now cost 68p Now not a big saving. You'd have to buy 100 of them to notice enough to get more. And what business will cut the price, what with all the headaches of changing prices and new ways of figuring out how much you own the government.

Maybe a bigger example would help, say you purchase a DVD which currently costs around £20, of which a little under three pound is tax, so with the reduction in VAT would now cost £19.57 Still not really worth it is it? Who is going to notice an extra 43 pence in their pocket? I know I wouldn't. By coincidence, if there was no increase to fuel duty, It'd cost me £1.02 less to fill my car up with diesel, any guesses how much it currently costs to fill my car up?

What about a huge example? If I were to buy a new car that costs £10,000, Alone with no VAT costs £8511 with the new rate of VAT this would cost £9787 a saving of £213. Quite rubbish really. Now these aren't enough to make any difference to me whatsoever.

What if these savings don't get passed on? I'm quite a pessimist, as a result I think businesses will not pass on the savings, lets look at some examples of small, medium, and large shops. A small daily takings could be about £1,000, could save them £21, not much really, but this is where it starts to get interesting. A medium shop could take £25,000 saving just under £532. Now the large shop, the Tesco, asda, etc that take a million a day could save a whopping £21,276.

Bearing in mind these are DAILY figures, a small shop could employ someone for an extra three to four hours a day, the Medium store could take on 23 extra staff four four hours each. The huge store could take on an extra 928 staff for four hours a day.

Now each of these extra jobs would in turn have their money spent in various stores, shops etc. Now if there are just 100 of the huge stores across the country, that is potentially 93,000 new jobs that could be created, in just a single day! which surely is bucking the trend of the recession.

All in all, this move alone could, if used correctly by those with the larger stores, they could immediately turn this recession into the largest boom the country has ever seen. Lets just hope those with the money don't get too greedy.

The rolling TV entertainment machine is back!!

2008-11-19T22:02:00.003Z

Well it's that time of year again, whereby there is far too much TV available to watch, than can be watched, that and all the good DVDs are out just in time for Christmas. So lets have a quick sneak peek at what I like to watch of an evening, In the form of a list. I like lists.

Top gear
X Factor
TV Burp
You've been framed
Charlie Brooker's screenwipe
Lead balloon (I only just found out)
Stephen Fry in america
Heroes
PMQs
Question time
Star wars movies
The gadget show
The Colbert report

I'm sure the list will go on.

The X formula

2008-11-06T22:10:00.002Z

Well once again that time of year is upon us, that's right it's time for the x factor finals, i.e. the live shows. Only in recent years, the formula for each show has become exposed. Perhaps if I explain it to you ...

Each show starts off with a dramatic clip of 2 seconds of last weeks show, inter-cut with each contestants in their own words, "last week was the hardest week so far, only i hope Simon will be nice to me this week". Of course there has to be one contestant that has a bad throat, or some other miniscule scale disaster. "OMG OMG OMG, I didn't notice the bottom step of the stairs and slightly bruised my ankle I hope I can sing this week". I'm like "What the fuck, you could be in a wheelchair and you could still sing".

After the initial clip has been shown we then have to have a advert break, it's like 120 seconds since the titles were on but protect us Dermot has to let us go for a wee.

After that we go into the songs, which have to be preceded by a clip of the singer complaining about how much more difficult this theme is compared to the last theme. Then we have to see them doing something that isn't related to singing whatsoever, like going paint-balling, jumping out of a plane or seeing some shit celeb who wants their product to sell. Again an overly dramatic visual sequence turning most people in their homes watching into epileptics.

Now depending on who the judge is they give a different look, if it's Louis, then he's happy, clapping, otherwise he's all grumpy with his arms folded, if it's Cheryl then she'll sit there with her teeth sticking out so far they almost knock people off the stage, she's also squinting, almost to the point that she looks like she's doing a china-man impression, when the camera is on her, she'll squint even more, so much that she looks retarded.

After the songs finished each judge will give some crazy comment such as:

"That was so bad you killed me, but it continued being so bad, I had to rise from the dead just to tell you how shit it was"

"That was so awesome, if you shat whilst singing that you'd sell the most copies of a record ever in the whole universe, in fact it was so good that I cum in my pants, then licked it off, as it was soooo good."

Or at least somewhere in between. Of course if it was bad then the audience would think it was the best song ever. Seriously, I could fart to a tune, and the whole audience would cum in their pants, at the same freaking time!!

Of course that has to be repeated several times until they've all sang. Every other song has to be interrupted by an advert though.

After all acts have sung then they open the phone lines, which rape you for your money. Of course nobody can remember the first guy singing, so we have to see a 7 second clip of each act.

After all that we go to the results show where there's always only just 0.5 votes in it, then in no particular order we go through those that haven't lost. Nothing in the world follows x factor in this fashion, I mean could you imagine Gordon Brown reading out a list of countries that we don't want to invade, "In no particular order" it'd be like:

"In no particular order, France ..... Egypt ..... America ..... Germany ..... India .... remember this is in no particular order .... Canada etc."

Well frigg faces, we want to know the order because we paid to vote in your stupid program, so you at least owe us the right to know how well our favourite has come.

After all but two are safe we have the sing off. Again more out of tune singing whist the audience cums. Then the judges decide. But even if their act is shit, they still put them through. Why? if their going out you don't need to explain to them. Of course if the judge is neutral then they have to say, in their own words, following a groan, which sounds quite errotic:

"Ohh this is the hardest job in the whole world, never mind those who eat shit for a living so that they have somewhere to shit, this is hard"

Of course it's not, it's just a case of picking one of two names, it's easier than tossing a coin.

After all that the loosing contestant starts crying, why? it's not like they lost anything, they just didn't win. Do I cry every time I don't win the lottery? No I don't, even though I've lost several pounds.

Now take that repeat the formula for 12 weeks up until Christmas, and you have 10 million viewers in the bag every week.

James bored strikes again.

2008-11-01T13:02:00.002Z

Oh yes, it's been two years or so since the last bond film, that means that Sony pictures plc has to knock out another pile of tripe just to prevent the British economy from falling out the crapper.

Again uncle ugly (Daniel Craig) is back, with no gadgets, apart from his stupidly unrealistic phone. That managed to do everything in the film, except automatically arrest the baddies. Not that it would of course, because the entire cast apart from bond and m were baddies at some point. If I didn't know better then I would say the plot had been written on toilet paper about 6 minutes before filming was due to commence.

The whole film had been shot in a combination of headache filters from a short distance and wobbly-vision. That is when you could see a shot, as the whole thing had edits / cuts every 1.5 seconds, so you can't see the plot being played out on screen at any point because it takes 1 second for your eyes to focus on the screen after every shot. Which wouldn't be too bad if it was between camera angles that swapped over and over again, but no, the same angle wasn't used twice in the entire film. At one point I even closed my eyes, so I could concentrate on the dialogue, but couldn't as Craig only ever whispers his lines.

Before casino royal, they announced that there'd be no gadgets, and no Q, that's a mistake as it's the gadgets that make the film. Which they almost lived up to, except a phone that has features that would make sci-fi writers think "WHAAAAAAT????" because it had:

Ability to photograph entire face, even when the subject is looking away from you.

Mapping features FROM INSIDE A CAR!!

Ability to send and receive pictures whilst on the phone.

Gave a visual trace when someone calls.

Of course that is nothing compared to the stupid MI6 video wall, touch table and follow the phone-call, which doesn't interact with other people unless you want them to.

The major plot hole just stumped me right the way through, as how did bond find out about the apartment where the briefcase was, and then, how did the woman know to let the man with a briefcase into her car, who then was going to kill her?

My major grips though were why a BRITISH secret agent never stepped foot in Britain for the whole film. That and the whole FORD, FORD, FORD thing. hmm, bond driving a astin, owned by FORD, a land rover owned by FORD, the new FORD KA, a FORD big black fucker.

Seriously I recomend NOT watching this heap of shite: 2/10 just for keeping me inside.

The credit crunch.

2008-10-13T23:29:00.001Z

This Blog has been moved to the Website AtomWay.co.uk, as it contains content that may well be objectionable, but hilariously funny. There are also some other new features on there this week.

Time to lauch

2008-10-07T21:25:00.004Z

In the last 7 days, literally some work has been done on the website, and now it is ready to go live. As I know you lot of Internet users are keen to find out any mistakes, then I'm pleased to announce that there are quite a few mistakes, and I will eventually get round to fixing them. But in the mean time it's a website, and it's online at AtomWay.co.uk. Visit it, point out the mistakes.

The few mistakes that I know of are:

Download directory not working yet.

Still some references to Steaming Fish in there,

Some images not working(please tell me which ones)

No updates from Steaming Fish era.

If you do spot any misstakes then either reply to this blog post, or email me, adam @ atomway.co.uk(obviously remove the spaces)

Good things come in three's

2008-09-30T12:25:00.003Z

Well, since the last post, I've had a spot of good luck. I won a fiver profit on the euromillions, I've passed my driving theory test, and I've finally bought a new website/webspace, to replace the old Steaming fish. As a result, this blog may well have to change, because at the moment, it is now sitting there in the middle of old site and new site. Now the new site isn't quite ready to go fully live, as a result any visitors will just see a holding page, whilst all the pages are imported, re-themed, and maybe a bit of re-wording. Nearly all the old content will be included, but will the addition of a few new features for me to play with, that means that, there will be some more potential features. At the moment these are undecided, but at the very least, I'm hoping to create some new RSS feeds, which you may have noticed didn't work too well on the old site, more dynamic(ie. changes every day) pages and messages. As well as a few other bits and bobs that may well take my fancy. The new site will take a higher place in my humour creative role, as a result, there should be a whole new story section, with plans to make some more Mr. Adamson episodes, which had to stop abruptly before seeing as I lost the next few scripts, and they've never been found.

Of course all I've said above is just a string of sentences, that doesn't mean anything until I actually get round to publishing all this material. More importantly, when I get round to actually posting the link, when I'm satisfied with the material enough, for the world to gaze it's doubtful, evil eyes on.

So watch this space, I'm hoping that the initial site will launch soon, perhaps within the next few days.

New ideas

2008-09-25T12:40:00.002Z

Seems that on the old website/blog/internet front I've completely run out of ideas. Mostly on content, what with the old website not getting updated for 14 months, the new website isn't suitable for what I want, and I can't find a good, cheap host to make a new website.

I honestly don't know how long the old site will stay online, in fact it may well be gone by the time you read this. The problem came when moving from BT to TalkTalk.

Now TalkTalk offer webspace, but it's not quite what i need to just transfer the content. Alert visitors out there may notice that there are certain server end workings that worked on BT, even if they were not documented TalkTalk don't offer them features at all, so that leaves me with the need to buy a new website.

I've got my eye on a particular .co.uk domain, (I won't say which one, as someone will then go and buy it) but the last time i tried a re-name it didn't go down too well, there were a few comments about the name steaming fish, but i've stuck with it for three years, and now the brand(as such) isn't going anywhere.

So I then have to just buy a basic .co.uk hosting package, and start afresh, or I'm looking for a host that has enough to get me by. Perhaps then I may update more often.

Olympics, 1 week on.

2008-08-15T21:24:00.001Z

Britain is embarrassing. Seriously. A week ago we were promised the greatest number of gold Olympics medals that Britain has ever had. Now this has been proved to be complete bollocks. We have three. THREE!!! considering that we are the next ones to host the games in 2012, and we've spent the most money we ever have on these games, in particular the athlete's training. What a waste of taxpayers money!!

Then the BBC are all bigging the team up, but they've done shit all. This wouldn't be so bad if there had only been a dozen medals awarded yet, but we are tenth in the league.

Series 4 Doctor who

2008-06-28T20:18:00.002Z

These aren't spoilers, but I think I've solved Russell T Davis plot for next week's episode of doctor who. But then again check back later to find out how wrong I was.

The Doctor either doesn't permanently regenerate, if at all. The hand inside the TARDIS, you know from the Christmas invasion. I think if the doctor does regenerate then when he comes in contact with the hand, then this will force him to de-genereate. After all it does list him(DT) in the radio times next week not someone else playing the doctor.
Sarah Jane wont die. Mickey will rescue her. After all he's in the next episode too(RT) and she helped him travel with the doctor.
Gwen and Ianto(off of torchwood if you don't watch it) won't die, Jack will save them just in time.
I'm not sure which of Rose/Martha/Donna will die, by sacrificing themselves. I'm quite sure that one of them will die I dont know why I just think someone will.
There's going to be some sort of big battle(obviously as it's a finale).
Somehow I also think that the other timelords will come into it somehow, again, why I don't know, I just think they will. Perhaps their hidden on the shadow proclomation.
The TARDIS will meet with some sort of unfortunate accident.

After all that I'm not sure how all this will be done but somehow I think it will.

Prices going up, Or are they?

2008-06-04T22:10:00.003Z

Well it seems as a shock that although the price of oil, and thus petrol, diesel and electric, amongst others, are going up. That the price of rail travel is going down. Recently I got a Metrolink City zone single ticket. Which cost me 70p(return £1.20). Now I'm quite sure that 12 months ago, the price for which was 90p(return £1.50). Now although this may not be correct, it still is a small decrease in price, I've also noticed the price of several goods go down by small amounts in recent times, such as the price of cream eggs, these were 40p ish, now they are only 20p.

To me that suggests we're not actually heading for a recession, as prices are going down, instead of up. This is deflation, which means if this trend is continued across the economy, we're heading for times better that Tony Blair's premiership.

The final point I'd like to make is that I've noticed that train fairs have gone down considerably, 6/7 months ago a single ticket from Manchester to Chester cost me over 16 pounds. Now the price is just over 13 pounds for a return ticket. Again this is suggesting that we're dealing with deflation, this is a good thing. Of course the general public will see their car petrol/diesel and Aircraft fuel prices go up, so will blame the government, and will vote Gordon out, but if Gordon continues to make these changes, that affect me for the better, then I will be voting Labour in the next election

How to win(my vote in) the next election

2008-05-24T18:58:00.005Z

I feel sorry for Gordon Brown, so here is my advice on how to win the next election.

The labour party is supposed to represent the working class, which I am, sort of and these are the things that the people want.

Lower fuel bills: When the price of a barrel of oil goes up, the petrol stations should not be allowed put up their bills for at least 7 days, so that consumers can stock buy petrol for 7 days before being hit by the new price.

This could also be tied in with a reduction in fuel duty, as I predict oil will hit $200 a barrel by the end of the year(that's at least £2 a litre, or £10 a gallon(if I've got my maths correct)).

Cut MP's expenses: Why should you lot get my money for a kitchen, we have to earn the money. It can then be better used as tissue paper for the homeless.

Cut NHS spending: I don't know about this, but apparently, a lot of money is wasted in the NHS, mostly to do with middle management being paid to manage. NHS is not a business, it's a hospital, the NHS should employ: Doctors, Surgeons, Nurses, Cleaners, and anyone else, closely linked with curing people, AND ONLY THESE PEOPLE!!!

Investment in infrastructure: New motorways, bypasses, and high speed railway lines need building. This is to speed up goods travelling, and thus lower costs.

Scrap Bio-fuels: They've not brought down fuel prices, so scrap them, so we can have more crops for food, that's what they were designed for.

Stop Immigration: Not one I've thought of, but there's a lot of working class(read labour's target audience) that see immigrants as stealing their jobs.

Increase Duty on Cigs: This one is personal, the smoking ban isn't working, by making cigs/fags etc. £20 for 20, people might just stop smoking inside.

Decrease Duty on booze: Booze is already too expensive, drop the price.

If Gordon Brown does these things, other than fannying about, then he will get my vote come the next general election, otherwise the official monster raving loony party(aka Tories) will.

Riot: before and after

2008-05-15T17:13:00.004Z

Yesterday was quite an experience. In case you didn't know, Glasgow rangers were playing in the UEFA cup final, against [insert Russian team's name here]. Then again, if you didn't know that, you obviously weren't in Manchester, or Glasgow. For everyone's recollection, I've got two photos, one before and one after.

The first one was during the warm up for the match. It was

strangely a pleasurable experience, the fans were all cheering, and mostly happy. Although that's what happens when everyone is so drunk they can't remember the name of the team that they're playing. The only bad sides were that it was almost impossible to move. It took me 20 minutes to get from the bank to HMV, they are but 200 yards from each other. That and the fact that (seemingly) everyone had an air horn. This didn't help the trams, as their TRAIN horns(the louder one of two), were just drowned out. This resulted in the trams having to be given a metrolink staff escort. Luckily I managed to avoid the crowds on the way in, because as an honoury manc, I know the back ways in to the city centre.

The second image is from the next day, about 26 hours later. Manchester is now a shit-hole, There's litter everywhere, a strong stench of beer, and the pavements are filthy. This is probably due to the "beer river" that I saw yesterday. The centre is also littered with the news media pissing themselves with joy of such a story, which really isn't helping the smell.

Well done ITV, you've done something right

2008-04-22T09:51:00.002Z

Well, here's a post I never thought was possible. ITV have severely improved their image and quality of programming in that they have brought back spitting image.

Well not quite. They've introduced headcases, which basically is spitting image, but with CGI instead of puppets. If you've not seen it yet then WHY NOT??!!11. It's by far the best program on television. What else could you watch and see Piers Morgan being crushed underneath: an anvil, a piano, a house, himself, and a porta-loo? Or see fun and frivolity with Gordon Brown? Or (my favourite) Mohammed Al Fayed's world of conspiracy theories, featuring a white fiat uno sinking the titanic, or killing off the dinosaurs.

Then ITV pulled out another brilliant trick from under its sleeve, in that now you can watch ITV on demand on browsers other than Internet Explorer!!

You know when you misread something ...

2008-03-30T11:01:00.002Z

Earlier today I went browsing to Digital spy and saw this article. I thought it said "Charlie Brooker for full time return". Then I realised that it was talking about the most depressing program on television, Eastenders. I would seriously love the BBC to give King Charlie a regular once a week or so slot at criticising many programs like he does.

That brings me to another point, when did it become acceptable for women to have men's names? Charlie to me has always been a guys name, and as a result miss Brooks should be striped of her first name and be given something less misleading. But then again she doesn't look like the most feminine of people, perhaps something like pat, we know it's a both man's and a woman's name, so we take care when thinking about anyone called pat. Has there ever been a hot Pat? It's just one of those names where it sounds like someone who takes no pride in their appearance.

This name swapping thing is quite serious though. I never knew until recently that Drew Barrymore was actually a woman. I associate Drew with the likes of Drew Carrey(deffo a bloke). Likewise Reese Withersoon. I thought it was a bloke. Are there really no more names left for these women then to use men's names?

Well that's all the cross namers offended, Who next?

Puppies

2008-02-18T00:00:00.003Z

After a overwhelming response, I've uploaded the first comic. Please leave any comments about the comic or the style in this blog posting. You do not need to register to view your comments, but it can help me track down my target audience if you let me know how you found this site.

With any luck, I'll be able to create a new one once a week, but that depends on if it is popular enough.

A new idea

2008-02-14T17:03:00.004Z

I've recently had a new idea for a irregular feature. Its a comic and I call it "Stick man and Bosom woman". I know that I'm not very good at drawing, but it'll help me practice and with any luck get better. I hope, at least after my last attempt. But then again, like most of my ideas they never come to being anything big.

Free Range, becoming more popular.

After my last post about this subject. Free range has become a fair bit more popular. From my sources the number of people asking for either free range chicken, or eggs has increased by quite a large amount. This seems to have been spurred on by channel 4's food fight season, comprising of Hugh's chicken run, and Jamie's fowl dinners. I naturally thought the only people that would watch it would be those that are already aware to the conditions of battery chickens/hens. But it seems the power of TV is still existent(compared to the Internet that is) and there have been quite a few more people interested in free range. Now I quite admire those that can afford it, but for someone who has a regular wage of £0 a week, I can only get the cheapest of the cheap.

Which therein reminds me of when I was in the supermarket the other day. The old woman in front of me had bought (amongst many other things) one packet of free range lamb(can you have none free range lamb), but she'd also bought Sainsbury's basics chicken. Talk about ironic. It's almost as good as those hippies, who go shopping with their own carria bags, as it's better for the environment, you know, less plastic and all that. They then proceed to pay on the old plastic.

A drunken rant.

2008-01-31T20:14:00.001Z

To be honest this isn't so much of a rant, more of a brainstorm of people that we hate and love.

In the picture you will see the whiteboards of people we hate(at the bottom) and those we don't hate.

Please note that the hate board is larger than the like board.

You'll also note that those we like are usually either fictional characters, or comedians.

The list of hated ranges from ex-teachers, to world leaders, and even features whole groups of people.

I'd like to add "those who show displays of affection in public" Why? Because when I'm on the bus to or from the city, the last thing I want to see in the seat in front of me is a couple kissing, or hugging, or whispering sweet nothings into each others ear.

There is a time and place for that sort of thing, and if you cant keep your hands off your girl when in public then that is doomed to be a short relationship, or at least a crap sex life. It makes me feel physically sick and quite depressed when I see a couple like that. So please stop doing it in public.

Whoops I got a bit side-tracked there; I should point out that it wasn't just me that wrote that list, although I did contribute to it. Most notably in the form of ASDA, and TESCO. Purely because the twat at the till refused to accept a fiver "because it has a rip in it" Where did I get that fiver from? Virgin megastores(AKA Zavvi) which is now also on my list of places not to shop, leaving, not many places to shop.

fuck off recycling

2008-01-20T15:10:00.000Z

This has really irritated me today. Whilst browsing social networking site facebook, I came accross a group that is trying to stop overpackaging something which I don't belive is happening. Not on as large a scale as they believe that it is. They claim that over packageing is wrapping packets of bananas, apples, cucumbers etc. in plastic. It's not. It's called being hygienic. Something that most facebook-ers(being mostly students) don't understand. They even claim that organic is supposed to be a ethical way of purchasing. That's not organic.

Organic is when a producer of food(be it fruit, bread, meat etc.) decides I'm not making as much money as I would like to retire on, and charge sometimes twice (or it can be more) the price, for the same mass produced stuff. It's not ethical purchasing, it's not free range, it's not free from artificial flavourings/fertilisers/medications etc. it's just got a different label, and is a different price.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. When(or more likely if) I buy fruit and veg I would like to buy ones that hasn't been handled by every grubby shopper that's come in and said "Ooh I'd like an apple, not that one. This one." With their germs, bacteria, and their smells all over your apple. It's like going into a coffee shop and having a load of cups of tea on the counter and having to stick your finger into each one(in any particular order) until you put it into one you like the texture off.

So if my purchasing habits happen to be bad for the environment, I don't care, so long as it's good for my stomach. I'll continue to purchase shrink wrapped goods.

What these namby pamby guardian reading students(THAT HAVE NEVER HAD A JOB) don't understand, is the waste that goes on behind the scenes in supermarkets. When a delivery comes in they come on roll cages, or pallets, that are covered in lots of plastic shrink wrap, so that they don't fall off every time the truck stops, goes round a roundabout or any of the other "environmental features" that these people demand. They do this because you would then complain if all your free range and organic eggs and stuff was broken or bruised. Then every product is also stuffed into a box of plastic package of others of the same type, so that the 2 litre pop bottles are not mixed in with all the bread, squishing it.

Finally there's the packaging that your product is wrapped or packaged in. This is rather small fry considering they packaging it's been in before it gets to you.

So stop fucking moaning that your apples are packaged in plastic 0.00001 MM bigger than the apples are.

The real reasons Blu Ray will win.

2008-01-07T02:40:00.000Z

In the past week there have been various news items about damages to the HD DVD format, this mostly comes in the form of warner brothers dropping the format and going with Blu Ray exclusively. I will try to explain why Blu Ray will inevitably be the format that will survive.

Blu Ray is available on the PS3. This brings the idea of the child's games console and the families HD media viewer. This means that there is an easier way of getting HD into the homes of the poor.
Blu Ray is the superior format. I know in the past this has not caused the format to be successful(Re: VHS Vs. Betamax). But a lot of programs were not, and are not produced in HD, particularly in the UK. This is useful in TV series HD discs, as Blu Ray holds more, that means less discs to store a series on, which is easier for the end user, as there's less swapping of discs halfway through a series.
HD DVD is confusing. Lets be fair, the general public is thick. There are undoubtedly people out there that will buy HD DVD and try to put them in a DVD player, thinking it's a DVD, but now in HD. That is not realising it requires a different player. Thus taking the HD DVD back, and just getting the DVD instead. Imagine if DVD was called D VHS.
More space in stores dedicated to Blu Ray, than HD DVD. In many smaller UK media stores(HMV etc.) there tends to be only the one stand dedicated to HD DVD and two for Blu Ray.

I'm sure there are other reasons for either format, but those may be better for another time, or some other (more informed) websites.

Global warming eh?

2008-01-07T02:28:00.000Z

So it seems that this last summer, and this exceptionally cold and snowy winter, that global warming is over with. After 2006 being far too hot, and the direct effect of global warming, allegedly, this year seems to have been so much cooler. As such I've come to the conclusion that global warming is just a myth. Well maybe not a myth, just over hyped.

That and the fact that earlier I was watching a program about the sun before, and they reckon that the sun goes in a cycle that lasts 11 years. If that is the case then the believed statistics about global warming must be exaggerated.

All year without a bath.

2007-12-31T22:48:00.000Z

Why is it that at this time of the year(and Fridays/Saturdays too for that matter) that everyone is sat at home, with nothing to do or watch, that TV companies insist on showing nothing but crap?

On Christmas week(that magical week between Christmas day and new years day) there is nothing in the whole country that makes sense. Another case in point is supermarkets. The shops are only closed one or two days, but people go mad shopping, as if nowhere is open for a month. Now for me, and my family at that, are at a disadvantage, as our weekly big shop day has been on a Monday (Christmas eve, and new years eve) and as the supermarkets aren't open tomorrow, everyone else has been already, so we are left with the shit.

Its the same with church. We go every week(more or less minus illness/oversleeping etc.) but Christmas seems to bring out the none practising folks, who although they haven't been to mass for a full 365(or 366 if a leap year), seem to know what time mass is, and manage to get there early. Thereby getting the good seats.

Oh merry Christmas folks, and have a happy new year. Bah-humbug. At least it's another 11 months until the marketing twats start again. However, there is one good thing about this time of year, everyone else wants to spend time with their family, which means I get plenty of work, Yay hay!!

For once, I agree with the environMentalists

2007-11-22T11:32:00.001Z

That's a title that I'd never thought that I'd have. So agreeing with the environMentalists then? Why? More plans to expand Heathrow that is.

It seems that even though all political parties are against climate change, and all want us to use bikes and public transport more. But they seem to turn a blind eye to aircraft, even though they produce more carbon dioxide(and who knows what else!) than cars and trains, they insist on building more airports, and expanding the existing ones.

So, on one hand you have the government charging the customer flight tax, but on the other hand are willing to let them expand the airports.

Who says that this government isn't interested in overcharging the public?

Tubbsy's back ... Again.

2007-11-16T19:18:00.000Z

It's that time of year again, that's right the BBC are wasting our money on another charity thing. Not only that but tubbsy the bear is on TV too! That's right the fat greedy paddy is on my television, and paid from a slice of my licence fee.

Then to top it all off the frigging thing has graffiti all over my screen!! That damn phone number is in the top left of the screen. There is also a stupid ticker-tape on the bottom of the screen.

Now I understand having it on the bottom of ad-supported TV, it's a extra form of revenue for a channel, that during programming doesn't make any money. However we're talking about BBC one, one of the few channels that get their money no matter what.

Then they have the nerve, the shear cheek, to ask for "donations" I'm sorry, but I've already made my compulsory donation, in the form of the one hundred odd pounds a year. They say that as if they wont show the various clips, I've already paid for the clips, and I will watch them, I won't donate, and I wont feel guilty about it. After all, it's my money I paid for it.

If they really want to raise money, why not petition that footballers, celebs, and others in the public eye, that are rich, to all give a weeks wages. Not that they ever would, rich twits.

Shooting oneself in the foot.

2007-11-15T17:59:00.000Z

Recently I've noticed that YouTube has got a bit too big for it's little boots. I'm talking about removal of videos. Now I can entirely understand if it's a video that is only supposed to be for select individuals, such as in company meetings. Or if it's copyright, and is available commercially(such as on DVD). But I've noticed the admins there have started to take video game clips, and film trailers down. Why? Who is loosing money from this? Surely it'll only benefit the people that make such products, as it's essentially free promotion. Now I can understand when people put up whole episodes of programs you can buy on DVD. But videos designed to promote a product.

In that case why would it be right to be able to see a film trailer in the cinema(effectively subsidising the film), but not be able to look it up on the Internet.

I'm sure that before long YouTube will only have clips of people sitting in front of their webcam, recording a vlog, Just like Google Videos.

I Still don't see why YouTube doesn't have a download to iPod/PSP etc. button like Google videos. Why would I want someone's vlog on my iPod?

Also this week I have: Updated my Facebook for the first time since the end of August.

Been home to see the dog, who's not very well.

And thought I've seen someone famous coming out of TESCO metro in Manchester.

Who said all news was bad news?

2007-11-02T20:58:00.000Z

Well, turns out that planned blog entries of mine never go ahead, instead just going with the flow can sometimes be better for you.

I this afternoon was drawn to the attention by my spies in the business. Okay I lied, I was told about a phone call my mother received. Turns out, Emily off of the X-Factor, has been aXed.

The video featured shows that ugly talentless bint Emily in her true light. The "lucky to be alive" one, was found to have beaten another youngster(at least to me she looks like a youngster). Now she's gone.

And in other good news it seems that Richard and Judy are going!! Horaaay. Those boring, dull, old, uninspiring, irritating, dirty old couple, are finally leaving the British airwaves once and for all. Fuck knows how they managed to get on telly in the first place.

I mentioned before about having a planned blog didn't happen, but the gist was:
Those new Corsa ads are the most irritating things on telly. Not only is having a bike rack on a car the most hypocritical thing even. Granted it was argued to me that some people like to go on holiday, and take their bikes with them, but surely instead of enjoying your holiday on a bike, would you not enjoy your holiday more, by going in a car bigger than a city commuters car(as basically that's all little cars should be used for). I'm now imagining someone trying to pull a caravan, and a bike in a corsa, which reminds me of this video.
I've digressed again, The second point is that stupid puppet thing trying to drive the car, constantly saying "come on". Firstly I didn't think that puppets were allowed to drive, well in countries that it's dangerous to drive(ahem, Russia, India etc.) then maybe. The fact that thing keeps saying "come on" irritates the shit out of me, it's like having a enema every time that advert is on. Maybe the fact that the driver is a puppet, but its bloody difficult to ride a bike up a hill you know, so stop saying come on. Perhaps the driver could "come on" a bit once the docking procedure was complete and all the passengers are on board, by putting his foot down a little.

I've lost the plot.

2007-10-15T17:42:00.000Z

Oh dear what a klutz I am. I've managed to loose the plot. That is the plots of the next series of Mr. Adamson, and a couple of chapters of BCW too. It seems that during the summer, at some point between arriving back at my summer house, and leaving for my Uni house, I've managed to loose a notepad containing the scripts for a good few chapters. From best memory they were just the jokes for the chapters, and the basic outline, however I cannot see any way to continue the hard work that I had done. If I rewrote them, I'd feel that they were never as good as the originals.

Smokers starting to get a rough time.

2007-09-29T12:51:00.000Z

Earlier this year (April 2nd in Wales, and 1st July in England), the law was changed to ban people smoking in publicly enclosed spaces, as well as places of work. This means all shops, pubs, taxi's vans, busses and even gazebos ban people from smoking in them. Which is a good thing, because there's nothing worse than coming out of the pub late at night, or early in the morning, and smelling of smoke. Now some people now complain about smelling of alcohol or BO instead now, but I'd rather my clothes smell of that than smell of smoke.
Just this last week the government announced that its actually illegal to smoke whilst driving. Again another victory, seeing as using your phone whilst driving is also illegal but no more dangerous than smoking. Of course using a phone you can hold it between your head and shoulder and not need your hand, but whilst smoking you do need to use your hands.
Further more as of Monday it will be illegal to buy tobacco if you are under 18(previously under 16). Or to supply a person under the age of 18. Good, another victory. Now I see that the aim of the change is to prevent those under 18 smoking early in life. But it wont work, as if you are currently 16 or 17 and addicted to smoking, then your stuffed. Of course all they will do to get round that is get their mum or dad to buy it for them.

Now I personally think that all these changes are good. For me at least, as I don't smoke, nor do I plan to, so the less carbon emissions produced by these scum bags the less the rest of us have to cut down on things we love(like our cars).

Back at university

2007-09-26T16:20:00.000Z

I've been back in university over a week now, but i've been busy with work, life and other such stuff. Most things are the same, except the fact that Manchester city council seem to have made traffic problems worse.
For some reason the council thinks that adding extra traffic light crossings is a good idea. They claimed that it would improve traffic flow, let me tell you it doesn't. It's made traffic worse for everyone except those in cars heading into the city. If you try to keep your carbon footprint down by going by bus(or can't afford a car, and really don't want to risk your life on a bicycle) then you are stuffed. Busses going in now all go through some stupid bus gate thing to slow them all down, even if no one wants to get off at that stop. Then to prove that you've been shafted the bus companies have been price fixing and are have increased the price for the second time this year to five quid. And everyone seems to insist on taking fucking ages. What's so difficult about buying a bus pass before you get on the bus??
The simplest thing to do would be to have the weekly passes sold at the bigger bus stops, but buying from the conductor, at a price of four pound fifty. This would mean that many people would see it as a bargain, you'd cut the queue getting on the bus, and I'd be less annoyed by the time i get into uni.
Of course a proper approach would be to rip all the puffin crossings, and put back the pelican crossings. Look them up on Wikipedia if you don't know the difference. Puffin crossings spend too much time on red, and go from car phase to pedestrian phase far too quickly, causing tailbacks. It's exactly the same problem as in Rusholme. Then when you want to cross, they randomly deactivate. Allegedly because a pedestrian moves out of the way.
Anyway, that's enough for now, before the thought of which causes me to sue the council.

I hate to see people being mugged

2007-09-05T19:08:00.000Z

Okay, not strictly a mugging, but it is just as good as. When I went to Argos yesterday(or maybe monday). Somebody, while i was there, purchased a iPod nano, only it was one of the old ones, Today, there are new ones out. It was common knowlage on the internet that there'd be new ones out today, only the dozy customer in the shop didn't do their research, so what a fool do they feel.
It wouldn't be so bad if they had a discount, but alas they didn't.

Oh good, it's almost finished.

2007-08-31T14:06:00.000Z

Whilst looking for content for blogging about today, I stumbled along the best news I possible could. Big Brother 8 is almost over!! Fantastic news, but then again is it? Because no-one has been watching this last series, the only people actually watching it have been the production team.
So that leaves channel 4 with a dilemma, what to show next year? Well I have a suggestion, some good TV. Channel 4 in the past have produced many a half decent documentary, The most controversial one being "the great global warming swindle"(which was on google videos but I cannot find it at the moment). When many people saw it they declared that it was like taking a dump in a swimming pool. Well, not really, but there was a lot of reaction to it, and it seemed like Bob Geldof was going to sue channel 4 for misleading the public.
What I don't understand is that the clue is in the title of the program. I would think that if you didn't believe in global warming you'd watch the program, and if you have been scare-mongered into thinking this fluctuating weather patterns is actually the end of humanity as we know it, then you'd steer well clear of the program.
In actual fact those that care about global warming are the ones that have nothing to do with the problem. Because how many Chelsea tractor drivers care about the environment, and if they do, what do they drive such awful cars?

Anyway, I've digressed. Alternatively channel 4 could commission "Late night Paul". Which (although still in the planning stages) would see Teatime king, Sir Paul O'Grady host a uncensored version of his successful show, only with things you can't get away with on daytime TV.

In other news, I've made a few changes to the list on the right, with a few links getting retired, and a few new ones added. There's also a new search engine, which allows you to search for past posts.

X-factor 2007 Review

2007-08-20T13:15:00.000Z

Hello loyal readers, sorry for the lack of post recently, only i decided to have a short break. Before I return to normal service, here's another post, that is until i finish my holiday.

X-Factor 2007 started on Saturday night, with much cheering from those that love reality TV, and those of us that love watching other people make an arse of themselves on national TV. As usual it's the same style as usual at this stage, many hopefuls turn up to an audition, sing in front of some judges, and are told they can't sing, or there the best thing since sliced bread. Only the format has been getting a bit stale, so instead of Louis, Simon, and Sharron, Louis was dumped, and in his place was Dannii Minogue, and some American twat, who knows nothing about singing, as he's a dancer. They might as well just got a hobo off the street and got him to judge. Luckily the yankie doodle was yanked, and Louis was re-instated. So everything was as last year, but with Danni Minogue as well.
No, that's where it all goes wrong. Instead of having Kate Thorton host the program, Irish shit face, Dermot O'Leary was hosting instead. No, a change is good some might say. But it all felt a bit too xtra factor-ish (with Ben Shepard). Yes I realise that means that I admit to watching the Xtra factor, but this years Xtra factor is much improved, as Fearne Cotton is hosting instead. Now I know she's not the best presenter that ever lived, but she's far better to look at than Dermot O'Leary.
So this weeks episode featured highlights from London(I'll get onto that later), Manchester, and somewhere else. All squeezed into a 60 minute program(less without the adverts). Now this was supposedly a week each. I'm guessing that more than a handful of people actually went to each audition, as there looked to be quite a few people from the wide shots. So why aren't they all shown at the same time? No doubt we'll be going back to London later in the series, which was filmed at the same time as the shots from this episode. Or are they implying that actually only 20 people turned up to each audition, and they had to keep going back to the same places to make the numbers up.
Of course I forgot to mention that ITV/Simon Cowell/X-factor is in cahoots with Arsenal. Could they not have chosen a nice generic place to hold the auditions, the editing managed to make it look as if Manchester was held in a generic location.
The auditions we're not much better either, each time a person gets through, its because they have a sob story, Oh I broke my leg and learnt to sing, Singing is all I've ever wanted to do, Oh I have confidence issues. This is the X-factor not begging. So unless you can sing, the fuck off, come back, and then fuck off again.

Anyway, The overall feel of this episode was very poor, it felt like it belonged on a digital channel it was that bad.
I give it a 3/10

Whats the point?

2007-08-04T13:51:00.001Z

Well it seems that last night there was an outbreak of foot and mouth disease here in the UK at the moment. Which means that holiday makers will not be able to take their own food abroad, 90% of animals will need to be killed and not eaten, and everyone will need to wash their feet in disenfectant every time they even think about a farm.
Well thats what happened last time. But why? why should we be taking all these precautions. Wikipedia says that the disease does not affect humans, so why not eat the meat? It's another government policy of OTT behaviour.

Thanks to China the price of many goods in UK supermarkets has gone up, causing inflation. So what do we do to stem this problem, make meat and milk even more rare, so as to push up prices even furthur. Which means that the basic rate of intrest will go up, so as to cut inflation. Or something like that.
Then I hear that theres now a 10Km no-fly zone round the farm. I'd presume that meant helecopters and airplanes. Not birds and other animals. So refresh my memory. How many diseases live in metal. Hmm, I'm not sure, is it, None?

Who is Ricky?

2007-07-26T18:32:00.000Z

What the bull? Three years ago when I set up my wireless network there was no-one else near my house with a wireless network, now it seems that everyone else has one, from here I see; Two unsecured networks named NETGEAR, secured Netgear, ricky and my network. It seems that they all are working together to knock my network from working. That is this ricky chap (or lass) has set their wifi channel to one, like mine and is degrading my signal. Perhaps thats why my new MacBook seems to refuse to connect to the internet.
Well thats a lie, it is connected to the internet. BUT it seems that for airport to work with Belkin routers I have to first boot into XP(via Boot Camp). Then OS X will connect to the net, but don't go into sleep, or shut down, otherwise you need to boot into XP again.
Now I've searched and searched, but for some reason, no-one has that problem, and Apple support are worse than useless, their advice is "is the router switched on?" and "have you got the correct password?" both are yes, as I could connect three minutes ago before I went into sleep!!

I bet that Ricky is the one with the big dog that wakes me up barking, every time I have a hangover. Wanker.

It works!!

2007-07-24T20:36:00.000Z

Finally after much todo about getting my wireless working, I finally got it to work

Happy birthday to; ME!

2007-07-20T23:00:00.000Z

Well after a week and a fair bit of not being bothered to Blog, My latest post is about my favourite person in the whole wide world. Yes me.

I was going to do a few Blogs this week, one about a day trip to Liverpool, one to the hairdressers, one about fixing windows on my brothers laptop, and finally one about yesterday's(Friday) day trip to Llandudno. But I thought what the balls. And decided to post this instead.

Maybe not such a good idea.

2007-07-10T23:47:00.000Z

Well, I was tempted to write a open letter to Al-Qaeda, but I thought maybe the professionals should do that. Seeing that British/Muslim relations are at a all time low.
So instead here's a moan about MySpace. No, in fact if I did that, then 10 million emo kids would slit their wrists, and I don't want that on my conscience. Or maybe I do?

In the end I think the best idea, is to moan about the price of things in the UK. Most notably gadgets, things like the ever popular Playstation, cannot be bought alone. Oh no, you have to buy several million games that no-one else wants too. Pushing the price above a hundred pounds or so. Then there's the fact that it always costs more to buy anything in this country. There was even a petition on the UK downing street website about the cost of Windows Vista. We can't possibly win in this country, we want a cheap operating system, but aren't allowed to buy XP, but Vista costs almost twice as much as it does in America.
Then if we want to buy a gadget, or CD, or DVDVD, we have to wait longer for the UK release. I've no idea why. The product is exactly the same as it is in Japan and America, but we have to wait another month. This prompts people to buy in bulk overseas, pay the VAT and whatnot here, and then sell them on.

But then Sony decide to punish those people, why? They're only trying to get a product to a market, in which it doesn't exist. In a world where it takes less than a day to get round, why do products not launch on the same day worldwide? It just promotes piracy, not prevents it.

Then again, I could just be bitter that taxes are higher here than in America. But that's for another conversation.

Scotland: I love you

2007-07-08T22:28:00.000Z

Well, yesterday had both T in the park, and Live earth. Except the whole live earth being like the new name for MSN's global view software. T in the park however, has a name that isn't a cheap imitation for on-line products. Now bearing in mind that I was working yesterday(the only dry day since April), I didn't get to go to any, so had to base my judgement on the acts, and the TV coverage.

In the past I've been critical of events like Glastonbury, purely because I never saw the point. But yesterday I saw some coverage of T in the park, mostly the Klaxons set, and wow, I was blown away, Along with the many other bands playing there over the course of the weekend, I'm quite surprised that such a remote looking place could afford so many good acts. It really did seem more impressive than the footage of Glastonbury. Plus it was presented by the wonderful Lauren Lavern, and the irritating Zane Lowe.

However on the contrast, was Live Earth, Spread across the 6 continents, it promised to bring awareness to Global warming. Plus being the biggest worldwide event since Live 8 two years ago, It had a lot to live up to. But truthfully most of the acts seemed as if they were for older people(Madonna, Genesis etc.). Not that I'm criticising those acts, it does seem a little hypocritical, seeing as these acts would be the ones responsible for a large proportions of the problem, With their jet-set lives. That and the fact that none of the UK acts at least appealed to me, so is that implying that only old people aren't aware? No of course their aware, their the bastards that complain any time we have the most minuscule amount of sunshine. And I know, they like to moan at me.
Plus being hosted by the severely overpaid Jonathan Ross, didn't help.

In reality, I'm quite insulted that some of the best acts couldn't organise to put live earth on a day where it doesn't clash with another big event.
In retrospect, if I could go back in time by a day, I'd go to T in the park, not Live Earth.

World tour: Coming back?

2007-07-06T01:00:00.000Z

Okay, in the strictest sense, the world tour is over, but one final re stop in Manchester was necessary. And it's a good job I did, as my roof had leaked. Badly. Several pints of water had flown into a well placed bucket.
Also today we put up a blind, changed some bulbs to energy saving ones. As we need to save money this year, as there is less going in. Balls to the environment, we need some global warming this summer.

I'm hoping to return to the world tour, soon. As I've quite enjoyed seeing the world. Maybe London again in a few weeks.
Sadly I don't think that Alton towers will be a possibility this year, as we've not booked or ought.

World tour: OVER.

2007-07-02T18:12:00.000Z

Good news, bad news, and life news. The good news, that I've now reached 200 posts, which officially classes me in the semi decent Blog section.
The bad news, The world tour is over. Thanks to terrorists, the world tour cannot feasibly continue, After the attack in Glasgow, which was an intended destination, along with Birmingham, and possibly some other places. Of course I don't know what to do at any of those locations, but I tend to just go with the flow.
A return trip to London was also planned, but still I'm not the sort of person to put up with queues, especially those to be pestered by the police. Which reminds me, why do old people need to go to the bank for a day out, and why do banks insist on having only 1 member of staff on during the lunch hour. Yes, I know you want a lunch break, but can't it be around the rest of the world's breaks?
And in neutral news, My laptop quest is over, I'm after a cheap MacBook, Or at least some way of earning a lot of money soon.

Review two: Last of the time lords.

2007-07-01T22:11:00.000Z

Review of the series finale of Doctor who

Episode: Last of the Time Lords Rating: 6/10
After the fantastic news that the episode would last 51 minutes, instead of 43, I was looking forward to this episode. The shaky start, of not fixing the cliff-hanger, instead jumping a year in advance was cheating. Then the silliness of having the master dancing, well that could be forgiven.
Afterwards though, the episode picked up. However the revelation that the toclafane were from the end of the universe was a good twist, although, it was obvious. I was looking forward to the master making the doctor de-generate into other incarnations of the doctor, but alas, it never happened.
And the whole Captain Jack thing makes everything seem that bit more explained. Killing off the master, not a good idea.

All in all, a rather good episode, but still left a lot to the imagination.

Act three: The project

2007-06-29T15:33:00.000Z

Well yesterday I got the letter telling me some good news, very good news in fact. The news that I'd passed my second year exams, and now I've been accepted to do the third year, which contains doing a project. I noticed this afternoon, whilst walking the dog, that university is very much like a game of sonic the hedgehog. In that the first two acts/years are very much similar, and the third act/year is much shorter, but much harder.
Perhaps its just co-incidence, or maybe I've discovered how the ideas for many computer games have been created.
Also in the past 24 or so hours, my laptop has completely screwed itself over. That is, the battery no longer holds a charge, and just dies every time the power cable moves, So I'm hoping to save up enough money to get a new apple laptop.
And I've been playing "how much can public transport cost?" I managed to get a trip to Glasgow down to £2, which it'd cost £30 or more in fuel for a car. Then I managed a total trip of £183 Inverness to Penzance via Manchester Victoria, quite a fun game I found it.
Anyway, Doctor who review soon. Even though no stores sell doctor who magazine, I've travelled over 350 miles and still can't find one.

New Prime minister.

2007-06-27T22:37:00.000Z

Well today, the 27th June 2007. Tony Blair finally resigned as prime minister, and in his place is Gordon Brown. Being the man behind the money, Gordon certainly has the experience, however, he does seem a little, well un-charismatic.
Hopefully he'll be a leader of great change, and great times, I certainly feel that he won't stoop as low as Cameron will to get the votes. That is in the form of "Web-cam-eron". I do hope that his policies in the coming two years will speak for themselves, but then he has inherited a country in such a bad condition, that to get it to almost normal will take some genius work.

Although personally I think that all politicians should be made to do several years of normal work, such as being nurses, before being allowed to run a country. But that's just my view.

How to: Save electric on your computer.

2007-06-26T20:25:00.001Z

Well, you liked the last lot of ideas, so here's some more environment helping.
To save some electric, it's possible to get your monitor to switch off and save some energy.

Go to start
Control panel
(Performance and maintenance) Power options
Set turn off monitor to After 2 minutes
Also while your there get the hard drives to switch off after 10 or 15 minutes.
Click okay, then X
Return to normal usage.

With the above simple steps, it's possible to save a fair bit of energy. Switching to hibernate mode instead of leaving your machine on helps a lot too.

Time to ban cycle lanes.

2007-06-25T17:43:00.000Z

I don't care what those environmentalists say, cycle lanes, along with air conditioning cause the most global warming, or climate impact, than any other thing.
Today I was reading that 40% of American electricity is used by something that is turned off. Now I don't know how that is possible, as that goes against the definition of turned off. That is, off, as in not on. The deal is, off = no electricity, on = electricity. Perhaps the article isn't very clear, and actually means devices in standby instead.
That is personally a pet peeve of mine, for example TV's and connected devices. It takes a few seconds to turn on the telly, or sky box, so why leave it on? Then I remember that there was a motion to ban standby buttons on TV's and computers, that will only cause more people to leave them fully on. Thus using MORE electric.

I foresee a number of ways to cheaply solve this problem.

Have computer monitors switch to standby-off automatically after say 5 minutes. It's not difficult, I'm sure it can be deployed via GPEdit for a domain. Okay it doesn't save lots of electricity, but if that was done as standard in windows installs, then around the world a fair bit can be saved.
Ban cycle lanes, they cause motorist frustration, they can weave in and out of cars if theres traffic anyway, so what's the point? Other than to have another part of the road surface heating up. I for one would at least like to see cycle lanes converted to bus lanes, or maybe multi-person vehicle lanes.
Cheap solar panels. Have the governments of the world (particularly g8 countries) demand that all new houses have to have solar panels fitted to them. Then once demand for this has increased, and increased production, slowly make it a requirement for all houses to have it.
Drain power. Particularly in Britain, we have a good amount of rain. And on nearly, if not all houses there is a drain-pipe from the roof, so harness the energy this is using, by getting it to pass through a generator.
Solar panels on new cars. We've seen hybrid cars using electric for city travel and petrol/diesel for long journeys, so why not stick a solar panel on the roof, and make that battery life last that bit longer, by getting it to charge while standing in a traffic jam.
Watermill power, the same approach was used a hundred years or so ago to drive a shaft for making stuff, why can't the same approach be used today, only generating electric? And with the amount of rivers, brooks and what not across the country why would it not be possible?

Obviously these last four are just far fetched schemes, but with government intervention, it should be possible to eventually reach our carbon targets.

Review two: Sound of drums.

2007-06-25T16:02:00.000Z

My review of Doctor who episodes.

Episode: Sound of drums. Rating: 6/10.
Right, this one was a real hard one. In short, The doctor races back to modern day, finds out the master is now the prime minister. The master introduces new toclafanes, the master can see the doctor, there is a explosion, a car chase(in a Vauxhall Corsa lol.), running, then they end up almost invisible, they jump to a aeroplane like thing, small speech, paradox machine, toclafane invade the earth, wipe out 10% of the population, doctor is aged 100 years, Martha ends up back on earth.
Blimey, that's as much in one episode as there was in the earlier two parter. I'm not sure whether it's absolute genius, or awful.
The whole human race knowing about the aliens again, is pure idiocy, and just gets on my nerves. I wish RTD would stop them, as it ends up having the cast try to laugh off the alien invasions, which has appeared in about seven episodes.
I'm hoping that the next part will be well written, and not some sonic screwdriver fixes all thing.
But it was nice to have the master back, who is a good enemy for the doctor, I really hope he is not killed off next week.

Review two: Utopia.

2007-06-16T19:51:00.000Z

Comments on the 11th Episode of Doctor Who.

Episode: Utopia Rating: 10/10.
Wow, what a episode, I don't want to spoil it for you, but hey what the hell. The Doctor and Martha, end up in Cardiff in order to recharge the TARDIS, but Captain Jack tags along, causing the TARDIS to escape to the year 100 trillion, or something similar. Basically the end of the universe. He bumps into a chap called the Professor, but all is not what it seems, turns out that he's actually the Master. You know, the chap from the classic series, that the BBC said would not return. Well he's back, and ends up stealing the Doctor's TARDIS.
In between, The Doctor and Jack have a little heart to heart, and Jack still can't die, and so is exposed to some real dangerous radiation. All in all, an episode, that I didn't think would be this good, I was just very pleased with it.

Next week: The second part of the three parter, and it's on at 7:15 again.

Dear Uncle Fish.

2007-06-13T21:49:00.000Z

(Possibly)The worlds only agony uncle, that takes things less than seriously.

Dear Uncle fish,
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to cope, and have thoughts of not bothering any more. Is there any hope for me or am I worthless these days.
From Mr. X.

Uncle Fish says; Dear Mr. X, if that is your real name, I seriously doubt that it is. I would be surprised if your even a Mr. Anyway, I digress. Pull yourself together, I mean seriously, The apprentice, New tricks, and Hustle might all be finished, but surely there'll be something good on soon. Even if Paul O'Grady is almost finished too. You ask if there's any hope, not with that kind of attitude, so go ahead, chuck yourself under that truck you also mentioned, as your just fecking me off.

Uncle Fish continues again soon.

Meeting Kim and Aggie.

2007-06-12T19:38:00.000Z

This bit of the Blog is meant to be sang, but through the medium of text ....

Yesterday, We went to Ikea, just for some kitchen ideas.
Mum didn't feel well, she thought she might have to pull over, into the hard shoulder.
There were services, which was lucky, otherwise we'd be quite fucky-ed.
It all happened yesterday, for which I got no pay.

Okay, that's that silliness gone. Now back to normal. This morning, I met Kim and Aggie, okay there names weren't that, but they did clean.

Also later today required a trip-o to the supermarket, and will soon require a new battery for this laptop, as it definitely is on the way out now.

Coming next time, maybe, agony uncle fish, sorting out all of life's problems.

Review two: Blink.

2007-06-09T21:46:00.000Z

Comments on this weeks episode of doctor who.

Episode: Blink. Rating: 10/10.
After a few weeks of non-entities worth of episodes, the series reaches a good episode, although the doctor wasn't in the episode much, it really was a spine chilling episode. Those angels were creepy to say the least. The chap that wrote it made me feel like a small child watching the older episodes of doctor who, not since the girl in the fireplace, had there been a moment in doctor who that actually made me jump.
Even without the doctor the episode still managed to roll on, unlike love and monsters, which was pure trash.

Enough of my joy now, next week the episode is on at 7:15PM.

Leave me in peace ...

2007-06-08T22:32:00.000Z

As you may or may not know, Facebook recently added a new feature, applications. Which basically makes it more like mySpace, in that people's profiles are no longer similar. Now everyone has a different application, and customizes their profile, leading to a lot of inconsistency between people. It also has the undesirable side effect of many people wanting you to add the applications that they have. Like X me, or top friends. These applications might be good if you've got a bazillion friends, but not me, I've got like 20 something friends, but that's because I'm a unpopular chap. Something to with being opinionated.

Anyway, The world's gone mad, but more about that when my medication kicks in.

Review: Doctor who

2007-06-02T20:52:00.000Z

I wasn't going to watch, but I'm contractually obliged. Comments please.

Episode: The Family of blood Rating: 5/10
This weeks episode was a continuation of the last one. Which by my standards, was much better, but still quite crap. I did struggle to keep watching, but then again, I rarely watch it properly any more. There were still shed loads of stupid moments, flash-forwards and what not. There was no scene involving a baby, as seen in last weeks trailer, which must have been some sort of red herring. Again the plot was stupid and daft, but then again this whole episode has been.

Next week, the episode is on at 7:10 again. It looks to be a bit better than this weeks, so here's to hoping.

Oh no, it rains!

2007-06-01T14:55:00.000Z

Well the month of April is now officially over. Well, May has been full of April showers, so perhaps we're exactly a month off with the calenders. Yesterday saw the biggest downpour of rain since, well Christmas. The rain and hailstones were so heavy that parts of my roof started to Drop down. Stupidly though I'd put some washing Out, so I had to get it in, while it was thundering and lightning.

In other news some little faggot keeps trying to get me to sign up to shite websites, such as bebo, and netlog. I say he's a faggot, because that's his screen name, well gaylord 207, or something like that(it really did have the word "Gay" in his screen name). I've only one message to you:

FECK OFF YOU LITTLE GAY FAGGOT, I DON'T KNOW YOU, SO STOP MSNing ME AND GET SOME REAL FRIENDS YOU LITTLE PUFF.

There, I feel better now. It's not that I've got anything against them people, well I have, but you can't say that these days, it's just that I don't know him, and he keeps fecking me off. In fact, I'm sure that the first time he started to try chatting to me, he asked me for photos, which was so worrying that I immediately blocked him.

Sorry for in inane rambling post this week folks, only I found out the other day that a friend is dropping out, which for some reason, has made me angry, that or delirious from the smell of turps, or angry that I have to work on Sunday and the coming Friday, while everyone else will no doubly partying. That and the fact I've still one more exam to go on Tuesday.

Wanted: 45 minutes of my life back: Review Two.

2007-05-26T22:31:00.000Z

Tell me what you think.

Episode: Human Nature. Rating: 0/10.

Worst episode ever!

Well, this is a turn up for the books, What a load of old shit. This week's episode of Doctor Who, wasn't actually on, instead, a program with the same name was on, but The Doctor wasn't there. This has to have been the worst episode since love and monsters, which by comparison, was pure brilliance.
For some stupid reason, the action had been taken away, replaced by too much dialogue. The only scene that was remotely entertaining was the piano one. And that was not good. I know the BBC like to do period dramas, but it doesn't work in Doctor Who, bits of war clips and other stuff so dull, I can't believe it. The only point that felt within 1,000 miles of a Who, was the last 20 seconds of the episode. If I wanted to watch shit about how hard life was back in 1913, I'd watch it on my own accord.
Most of the episode was so bad I felt myself wondering into the kitchen, just to check on my chicken.
From the looks of the trailer, next weeks looks as if it'll be just as bad. So much so I WON'T BE WATCHING!!
Now, I resent having to pay a TV licence for this crap, it's like the bad parts of Torchwood mixed in with lillies, or whatever that other program was.

I recommend not watching next week, but should you wish to defy my advice, it's on at 7:10 again next week.

Two down, three to go.

2007-05-25T18:30:00.000Z

Yes folks, it's still exam time, hence the lack of updates recently. There have already been two exams done, one on Monday, the other yesterday (Thursday). With two more this coming week(Tuesday, and Wednesday). The final one a week later.
But still the revision isn't going too well, that and all the exams are in the mornings. I'm not exactly a morning person, then again, I'm not much of a afternoons person either. Does that make me not much of a person in general?
Sorry, I'm twittering. I've now gotten into the habit of cleaning(something I should do anyway), watching far too much telly, and going for walks in the park. All to get out of doing revision. In fact this afternoon, I walked all the way to Didsbury, I've no idea why either.
I've also got to sort my student loan stuff out too, but I've not done that either.

Actually, just getting that link to Google maps made me discover that motorway junction numbers are also on too. But not yet on the express ways. All be it, the implementation is a bit buggy. I've noticed that all of Google's new features are no longer in Beta, is it that there all completed now? or that it's not trendy to have things labelled beta any more?
Speaking of out of beta, phpBB3 is no longer in Beta, its finally reached RC1.
And other RC news, both Opera and Firefox have updated today, which was a nice surprise.

Suppose that means I'll have to go home soon to update everything.

Review two: 42.

2007-05-21T18:47:00.000Z

A real push this week for your comments on the episode.

Episode: 42 Rating: 9/10
Oh yes, after a weeks break the Doctor was back, and with style. A space ship on a collision course with a star, with monsters on board. While trying to get the engine started the baddie is on the hunt and Martha ends up in a escape pod, on a even more direct course with the star. It's the best thing that could happen to her. Unfortunately that scene was drawn out and I had to go get a sausage roll. The tapping on the glass was irritating too. Burn bitch burn.
Anyway, with a ode to the hitch-hikers guide, and a inverse of 24(in real time you see, that was a good one), this episode was one big roller-coaster of fun.
Yes the door thing was tedious, but hey Doctor who is the definition of silly.

Next week Doctor who is on at 7:10, just so that the people's quiz can be on again.

Hmm, The revision isn't going well.

2007-05-14T13:03:00.000Z

Yes, its that time of year again when we have to do exams yet again. I don't think I've had a summer away from exams for 5 years now. By that logic, I should be quite good at it. Quite the opposite in fact. Seems I can't quite knuckle down to do some work. I've done some, just nowhere near what I should be doing. Instead my time seems to be wasted looking at facebook(although nothing ever changes on it), reading the news(and subsequently shouting at it), or watching telly.
I tried not putting the computer on, that's not worked, as I ended putting a patio table and chairs together, then I ended up changing a wheel on my dad's car.
Also, I've been trying to train my laptop battery to last longer, well it lasts a good time, it's just that windows thinks the charging and discharging time is only about 5 minutes, so if I leave it on 0% remaining, it'll continue for a little while longer(it's done a extra hour like that before now).
It seems also that my computer has suddenly regained the ability to not lock up, several weeks ago it was regularly just stopping(no warnings or anything), and the processor fan would kick in. Well now, I threatened to re-format the drive and re-install windows XP and like magic it now works.
So I've been watching the news, like it's going out of fashion or something, not that I've ever cared about fashion, as I'd always be a trend too late. Anyway, the news about that missing girl, now I know this sounds heartless, but so what? The kid is missing, you'll not find her for at least a year, by which point you'll have driven the whole fucking planet bonkers. I know, I've been driven mad already. The whole story seems to be weird, there are rewards in this country(UK), but the kid was in PORTUGAL FFS!! There has been no change in the the past 12 days or whatever it is, WHY IS IT STILL IN THE NEWS!! It's not as if there's nothing else happening in the world, and the most pressing issue of all, WHY DID YOU LEAVE YOUR KIDS UNATTENDED IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
There I had to say it, I have no sympathy for the parents, its there own fault. If you got drunk and fell down the stairs and broke your knee, you would be the one to blame, as you should have thought about your health before you got drunk, the case is no different.

Right, now I'm going to go into hiding for a month, while the stupid mobs come looking for me, so I'll be back with next weeks doctor who review on or around Saturday. Hopefully I won't get distracted again.

Review two: The Lazarus experiment.

2007-05-07T15:44:00.000Z

Review two is my reviews of each episode of series three of doctor who. For reviews of the second series then see Review Who. Feel free to leave your comments on both the episode and my reviews, you don't need a Blogger account of any sort. Just click the x replies, type your message in, choose Other or Anonymous, and then type in the word verification.

Episode: The Lazarus experiment Rating: 4/10
Script writer Mark Gatiss played the lead role of the baddie in this episode. Which actually worked quite well. Although somewhat predictable that the machine reverses the ageing process, and that he wasn't dead after the doctor gets stuck in the machine. The Climax was a bit silly too, a church organ producing hypersonic sound waves, oh please! There was also no need to have Martha's sister there too. If the beast thing was supposed to be able to run faster, then why wasn't it able to catch up with Martha?
Oh and the whole, "You play loud." "Sorry?!" was just silly too, those jokes wore thin years ago. Although I do hope that Mark Gatiss will be writing more episodes too, as he's one of my favourite writers.

Next week Doctor who isn't on, instead overpaid(and one being overweight too) monkeys Graham Norton and Terry Wogan HAVE to be shown in that dancing program and the euro-trash singing program. Just goes to show where the BBC have their trust in entertaining viewers.

I'm going to kill you!!

2007-05-02T23:40:00.000Z

That's it you've taken the biscuit, eaten it, shat it out and then forced fed it to your children. In other words, my computer is fecked. Badly. It's got something wrong where it just locks up, seemingly at random, although it's not random, as it's doing it whenever I'm planning on doing something, like playing a game, or loading the gimp up. Now I've tried uninstalling AVG and installing norton, but now its even slower than before, and I try unloading MSN sometimes, but that doesn't always work, so I'm stuffed.
So the time has finally come, to re-install windows only, it then decides that the cd drive doesn't exist. That then resulted in a two hour, take the laptop apart and figure out what's wrong, but like any man, I lost a screw, and now the modem wont work, good really, as I have wifi instead these days.
Well today is the election day, so I will be voting, but knowing the way I vote, isn't what everyone else wants, so it'll be a waste of my time. So long as the green party don't get to the council, otherwise Manchester will end up with congestion charging, and no refuse collections. But then again the tories round here have slim chance, I don't know why, the labour party will put up a million speed cameras and speed bumps, and the lib-dems will sit there complaining that had labour got into power there would be less police.
Sometimes I think we the people could run the country better than politicians, well at least small areas anyway.

Review two: Evolution of the Daleks.

2007-04-30T19:28:00.000Z

For reviews of the second series then see Review Who. Once the series run is finished, then the overall review will be placed on the website. Feel free to leave your comments on both the episode and my reviews, you don't need a Blogger account of any sort. Just click the x replies, type your message in, choose Other or Anonymous, and then type in the word verification.

Episode: Evolution of the Daleks Rating: 8/10
A good ending to the first two parter. Feeling very retro doctor who this week, which is a good. The ending may well explain some of the unanswered questions from the first series. Although I am disappointed that they killed Dalek Sec, as that character had potential. There was potential to write so much more into it, but sometimes it's best not to plan too far ahead.

Anyway, next week Doctor Who returns to it's usual timeslot of 7PM. Which with any luck will stay there.

Computer says no.

2007-04-26T14:54:00.000Z

Well, I tried, and tried and tried. But I just can't get second life to work. The Sims 2 is not a good performer either, even after my memory upgrade. It seems that the only applications it can run well are old games or office applications, and even they run slowly. So I think it's time for a new computer, so I'm now on the look out for a real cheap new computer, or a small laptop, that will fit on your lap, without breaking your legs.
This machine has been in use for almost five years, and by now the battery has gone to last only five minutes(it is a li-ion), the plastic round the screen is broken, the hard drive whirs a lot more compared to new machines, iTunes is a right drag, and it takes ages to start up. But, it still plays solitaire!

Perhaps I could convert it to a small web server? I suppose the hard disc could be replaced by a quieter one to make it almost silent, as the fan only runs when its under a large load. I suppose a laptop has a lower power consumption too. Although it would be cool if I could convert it to a environmentally friendly web server, using solar panels, a big battery, and some power converters. I already have the battery at home, and a broken panel, although it may just be the leads that are broken.

That is obviously just a pipe dream. I really just want a new small laptop. One of new Macbooks would be cool, although even with student discount are too far out of my price range. Second hand it may have to be then.

Finally, it seems that Hugh Grant is in trouble with the police. I couldn't want it to happen to anyone else. Other than Snoop Dogg. Although, he has been banned from the UK and now Australia, which I thought to be odd, as I've always seen Australia as quite a easy going country. This is another step towards my Make ... Rapping History campaign.

What do you think you're talking about?

2007-04-24T17:57:00.000Z

Well, it seems that I am responsible for the recent news that 80 percent of Blogs contain offensive content. Well maybe not me personally, but I help contribute to it.
Today I'm feeling rubbish, I'm on the verge of a cold, or man flu. I don't know how though, as it's been glorious here the past month. No doubtfully the environmentalists will be moaning that there will be a water shortage this year. Then they'll blame it on cars and global warming.
I for one am in favour of global warming, if it'll bring nice springs like we've had here this year.
Today I had enough with Sainsbury's too, After falling out with TESCO, and being fed up with ASDA too, I had to defect back to TESCO, just to get some cereal. Sainsbury's hasn't had any since well before Easter, it's as if they've stopped selling it, but the labels are still on the shelf. How hard can it be to stock everything? Anyway, I hate all supermarkets, there's always a queue, then they don't sell the thing your after, or worse still they stop selling the thing you want to buy. Bring back cheap corner shops I say, I'd quite happily go to my local shops, if they were competitively priced.

Also, it seems that no wonder our country is in debt, Gordon Brown can't count. Well, it's just that he's not too good at the old maths. That and the fact that he's got a glass eye, what else has he got wrong with him? Is this the man we want running our country as the next prime minister? No, we want someone who is slightly more competent, not that I'm suggesting that the other popular party are any good, well better than me? or are they? I mean, how hard can it be?

Review two: Daleks in Manhattan.

2007-04-21T21:20:00.000Z

Episode: Daleks in Manhattan Rating: 8/10
Yes once again the Daleks have made a return, and like always they scare kids to behind the sofa. Which is a good thing, as it makes the roads safer and me happier, the more kids are hiding behind the sofa, the less that are playing in the roads and less screaming when I'm in the garden.
Sorry, I've digressed. The Daleks always give a good story, and the idea that they caused the empire state building to be built is quite a big thing for the Daleks. The episode actually felt like it cost more this week, what with having bigger real sets, unlike last week, which was entirely green screen apart from the odd set.
It was also quite nice to have some shots of somewhere other than Cardiff or London. Which, from my recollection was the first since "Dalek" to be set on earth, outside of Britain, even that one didn't show any exterior scenes.
I also quite enjoyed this weeks episode, as it doesn't involve changing history, like many of the modern day stories. That shows a writer's skill, creating a plot, but making it complex to have a explanation so it fits in these days.

Once again, Doctor who is seemingly moving timeslots, To make way for Graham Norton, AGAIN. Next week the show will be on at 6:45, so that "Any dream will do" can be shown at 7:30. This is the BBC's flagship show, and they insist on moving it round, Why? they keep other shite on at the same time *Cough* Casualty *Cough* but move their best shows(this and Top gear) up and down the schedules more times than a hookers skirt.

Okay, that wasn't the exact truth.

2007-04-21T16:22:00.000Z

Yes, it was a lie, the bit about staying in Uni for the week. I thought late on Thursday that I couldn't be bothered to stay there on my own again, the last time I did absolutely nothing, and then the buggers next door decided to play a game of "how hard can we slam a door". Then the fact that I don't like the idea of sitting on my own drinking. I'm not a alcoholic, so I don't need to drink. Okay I like a drink, but only sociably, not that I'm a particularly sociable person.

So I decided to come back home, to the mad house. A few reasons really, the one I've mentioned, but also because I've forgotten a few things last weekend(disco light, bluetooth dongle, and various other things I've forgotten). That and the fact that there was a update to the computer that I meant to do, but completely forgot. Then there was also the new comic that I never scanned in and what not. I've also had to import some new albums into iTunes. Which, as iTunes is a awful piece of software will only update when I'm on the correct network. This is a long story, but hey, I've got free time.
It goes like this, my hard disc in my laptop is smaller than the one in the desktop, but the desktop is far slower(you try using XP on a 8 year old computer!). So I've rip the songs in windows media player on the laptop, then store them on the hard disc of the desktop. So when I go to sync the iPod it then complains that it cannot find 300 files, obviously this is because iTunes will not connect to the hard disc that is 60 miles away.
I also found out today that iTunes will in fact convert videos from my phone to iPod compatible! thats right 3gp to m4v, for absolutely nothing. I was at one point that I'd have to pay for it, but no, iTunes actually does it for free!

Finally, news today that British airways have cut both Richard Branson, and the tail of a Virgin plane from the on-board edit of Casino Royale. Apparently they are allowed to edit on grounds of taste and suitability. Now I admit, Branson looks like Noel Edmonds, but neither are bad men, or have bad reputations. Although Branson is a bit eccentric(compared to me at least), He's not done anything wrong. To me it seems that British airways are just bitter that they didn't get a plug in the film, and are in some psychotic way thinking that customers will automatically only go on a virgin plane. I don't know why people would do such a thing just by seeing Branson's face, or the tail of a plane, but that's companies for you.

A lazy day.

2007-04-19T12:30:00.000Z

Well after three days back in uni I've decided to have another lazy day. Purely because I can. I was going to go into town and get some new shoes, but decided not to bother, I can't even be bothered to go to HMV.
Well, that was before, until I decided I might go to the Trafford centre on Saturday, but then I decided that might not be such a good idea. Seeing as Man Utd are playing. Every time they play, it brings that area of town to a standstill. At least Man City aren't playing. I probably wouldn't mind if I was actually going, but the tickets to any premiership team are as rare as rocking horse poo. Well, that and the fact that I'm not a big fan of football, I understand it(unlike the cricket, or scoring in Rugby), I just don't like the arguments that it causes.
Yes once again it seems that everybody is leaving to go back home again this weekend, except me. As always everyone else is buggering off. Why? You only came from the place 6 days before hand. So it seems that I'll have to find something to entertain me over the weekend.
Yesterday I got a email saying that my third year project choices had been taken by someone else, How? I'm quite sure that there were some still left when I signed up to the ones that I chose. That now means that I have to choose one again, that will no doubt be stupidly hard, with someone I don't like, on something I don't understand.
I've also been trawling the Internets for somewhere to live next year, but from what I've seen all the houses are too expensive, in a rough area, or far too far away. So I think I'm going to have to have a look at private halls next year, which are not cheap, but at least they look like their in a nice area, and well decorated.

Finally, there is one news item that caught my attention this week, not for the sheer stupidity, or anything funny. But the Virginia shootings, it's difficult to see why anyone would do such a thing, but all I hope, is that some good comes out of this, and that is that there are tougher gun controls in America. I know a lot of people are very proud of their guns, but what good do they have? Other than to kill people, they have no purpose, perhaps it's time that all Americans don't have the right to bear arms, but to have a licence which has to be renewed every year, subject to mental, and other tests, so they are not used for the wrong reason.

Review two: Gridlock.

2007-04-15T16:51:00.000Z

Like before: For reviews of the second series then see Review Who. Once the series run is finished, then the overall review will be placed on the website. Please feel free to leave your comments on both the episode and my reviews, you don't need a Blogger account of any sort. Just click the x replies, type your message in, choose Other or Anonymous, and then type in the word verification.

Episode: Gridlock Rating: 5/10
Although this was a cheap episode(in terms of the size of the shots), it still managed to hold out quite well. Russell T. Davies managed to write a episode once again set in the year 5 billion, and to re use some of the same characters as before. All be it quite good. Although the episode just felt like a cross between Back to the future, One foot in the Grave, and some other craziness added in, it went quite well. The fact that Fr. Dougall was in the episode made it even more surreal, but still I quite enjoyed it. Once again we had to fill the BBC's quota of making sure it's not just the Welsh that appear in every episode. There were a few minor irritations, like how can it rain in the sub city, and why is there a door to get access to the Motorway? Surely there should be no pedestrian access. I did feel quite spoiled by the fact that next week showed what the weeks villain will be, I really wish they wouldn't.

Next week it's being moved around again, just so the BBC can fill it's graham norton quota

I had what I like; lasagne.

2007-04-11T20:54:00.000Z

Today we went for a meal out, and took the dog with us. After a short trip on the by-pass with the roof down we decided not to go to the alyn, but instead to go to the squire yorke. This was for only one reason, the love sick puppy, sorry little wanker of a brother, Danny. He's not seen his girlfriend for ooh must be 5 days. He rings and texts her every day, but still insists on seeing her.
Last night we went to the pub, not "The Pub" but the nags again, which I enjoyed, even if it was a bit quiet in the pub. Luckily everyone else was at home watching the football. As it was the end of lent, it was Andy's first time drinking since 1st March(St. David's day).
Also I've now got my exam timetable for the summer. Seems that I'm finished on the 5th June, but all my exams are in the morning, bugger.

So, I've been forced over.

2007-04-09T21:26:00.000Z

Well it seems Google have shifted me over to the new Blogger. I'm not happy to be honest, the old one worked, but they seem to want me to move over regardless. It's more new user friendly, but I'm a Computer Scientist, I think I know how to program in HTML and CSS, besides once it's set up, what needs changing? It's like the Mac adverts, "It just works, out of the box". Sorry, but my PC works fine, once it's set up, and I only need to do that once. What's the skill in using something that just works, You don't learn anything. Which is precisely why I love Linux, because it never "just works", it has a certain degree of a learning curve, meaning you are pushing yourself every day.

Today I've also found out that there are no real computer shops any more, everything to do with buying a computer requires you to have a credit card, which I d0n't have. All I wanted was a USB 2 PCMCIA thing-y, but I have to own a credit card in order to purchase one. I also need a credit card to purchase a guaranteed ram upgrade, as both PC World and Maplins will not guarantee that it will work. I know it's a old Laptop and would better suit being replaced by a newer model, but I think there's still some life left in the old thing.

So that's it for now, back to being pestered by people on MSN, Grrr.

Shouldn't they cancel out?

2007-04-07T23:24:00.000Z

Urrgh! I feel awful, not only have I got a cold / flu but I've also got heat lumps. This suggests to me that something is wrong. In the sense that it shouldn't be possible to be too cold and too hot at the same time should it?
Either that or there not heat lumps, but instead actually bite marks, although they are going down now. But they still itch like buggery. And colds make my nose feel like it's microscopic. Thus all that stuff is coming out of a hole far too small, sometimes I feel like chopping it off.

Anyway today is Easter Sunday, so, the world should be a peaceful place, but it never is. Unfortunately someone in far off lands will do something stupid and get into the news. Couldn't we just have one, "No news" day? A day where nothing goes wrong around the world. If the world was to come to an end, I couldn't even go to the shops today to get a last pint of milk for a cup of Tea(A very British thing to do!). As no proper shops are allowed to open today.

Oh well I suppose by Tuesday we'll all be wanting a day off again.

Review two: The Shakespeare Code

2007-04-07T21:13:00.000Z

Episode: The Shakespeare Code Rating: 7/10
The Shakespeare Code was this years answer to Tooth and claw, or The Unquiet Dead. It was a dark episode, with light dashes of humour and cultural references. Although I'm always a fan of foreign planets and not earth bound adventures, especially those set in London or Cardiff. But this time they managed to pull it off quite well I must say. Although I did have one gripe, that is that Shakespeare had three accents, Normal, Manc and Scottish. Now I'm not a great historian, but I thought he was from Stratford upon Avon. Although not as dark as I'd like it to be, it was still a mighty fine adventure.

In Scheduling news Doctor who is on at 7:40 next week, so hopefully it will be dark by the time the episode is coming to a close.

Bloody dentist.

2007-04-05T19:00:00.000Z

Grr, Why is the one thing we have to have a check-up once every six months the thing that we can tell easily if there's a problem? If there's something wrong with my teeth, then I know, as it'll hurt. Whereas there are diseases, illnesses and whatnot that have very few symptoms that may go completely undetected, as we don't have a general health MOT. Seriously what's the worst that can happen from not going to the dentist? That your teeth are crooked, dirty, or missing. Whereas you can die if diseases go unnoticed. More to the point you can't just go to the doctors, you have to think you have something wrong, and most of the time it's only things like colds and flu that people go with.

Then dentists insist on cleaning your teeth. Why? I can do that myself, I'm paying your wages (through national insurance), just so you can clean the teeth of every fucker who walks through the door. Then they have the nerve to count your teeth, if there was a problem then I'd say this tooth is missing or whatnot. They treat you as if you're stupid, I know how many teeth I've got. There's also the fact that they talk to you while their hands are in your mouth, I'm like, how can I answer you, with those things in my mouth. After they've finished, they say, wash your mouth out with water, and put this crappy little water thing on, no joke, the nozzle is about 1 inch above the drain, so I'm like do I stick my head under it, or am I supposed to take a swig of that blue stuff, that looks like toilet cleaner.
How am I supposed to know what that blue stuff is? Is it mouthwash? If it is, then why not say, have a swig of mouthwash, instead of water.

Plus I think they could do with putting posters on the ceiling, but that's just me.
And don't get me started on the medical history form, treating me like I'm a criminal, why should it bother you if I've ever farted on a air plane(okay that's not one of the questions, but it might as well be).

So as you can see, I'm not too fond of going to the dentist, but then again who is? Especially with the oddest chap in the world as a dentist.

Review two: Smith and Jones.

2007-03-31T21:34:00.000Z

Hello, due to a oversight on the behalf of BT, who broke the submit script, My review for series three of Doctor Who will instead be on here. For reviews of the second series then see Review Who. Once the series run is finished, then the overall review will be placed on the website. Please feel free to leave your comments on both the episode and my reviews, you don't need a Blogger account of any sort. Just click the x replies, type your message in, choose Other or Anonymous, and then type in the word verification.

Episode: Smith and Jones Rating: 9/10
After a poor Christmas episode, which I wasn't very pleased with. This episode surprised me really, I was expecting the same tat, but re-introducing the doctor to a new audience seemed to work. I personally thought that Martha was far better than I anticipated. From the looks of it she can't act, at least in front of CGI. But that seems to have changed for a slightly better plot. For the first time in this run of Doctor Who(post 2005) the baddie wasn't that obvious, at least the one I first thought was a baddie, wasn't really that bad. Okay the ending didn't really make much sense, as surely he gave her the tie in the beginning of the episode, not took it away? Unless it's cause I missed the first 30 seconds, or wasn't paying attention.
In Confidential, it has become apparent to me, that David Tennant cannot say Dalek, in his doctors voice. To me, both his natural accent and doctor's accent pronounce the word Dalek in the same way.

Rule two: Dogs love their bones.

2007-03-30T19:42:00.000Z

It seems that when my dog has a bone in his mouth, he loves it more than me. Even stroking him is out of the question. This is because he growls and will attempt to bite. I'm not sure if he will actually bite or not, but it looks quite scary when he lunges for you.

The stock takers are in work tomorrow, this means that today everything has to be put out, and price checked, and seeing as the gun isn't working, that meant that I had to go in today. Being a long time since I've worked, I now feel really washed out. But fear not, as tonight we are going for a drink, that should relax me a bit.
The new Mr. Bean film is out today, and over the holidays, I plan to go and see that. I know I'm 19 and its a children's film, but it looks real good fun, plus I grew up watching it on a Saturday night, so it should bring back some memories.

Rule one: Don't lick your dog.

2007-03-29T19:51:00.000Z

Well that's what I learnt today. Never lick your dog, purely because they taste horrid. How they can lick us without feeling sick I don't know.

I've now got three Mr. Adamson comic scenes drawn, scanned and coloured in. That's right the pilot, episode two and three are now ready to go on-line, but not yet. You see the plan is to have more dynamic content. There's the Psychic message every day between now and the 14th March, ish. Then there's the new Mr. Adamson story at the start of every month, I still need type the next two episodes up yet. Then every week I'd like to have the all new comic up and on-line, But like most plans I make, they most likely wont work. If you've not seen it the first edition of the pilot is on-line, but will need re-mastering first.

Elsewhere today; well, nothing really I suppose.

Blogger, I hate you, Disabled people, I hate you.

2007-03-28T19:51:00.000Z

Well it seems that Windows, trying to accommodate those with disabilities really fucked me off. Sticky keys are the devils work, and never work when you need them to. Plus Windows thinks that when you say "No, I don't want sticky keys" it actually means, I'm too retarded to click okay, so will put it on anyway. Then it hides the option to turn it off. It then seems to think that when you lock the screen(pressing two keys at once should knock it off too) you still want it on. I'VE HONESTLY NEVER SEEN THE POINT IN STICKY KEYS!!

Then you have Windows fail at resuming from standby and you need to pull the plug. You think, "Oh auto-save in Blogger will save me", but no, it just causes the browser to try to lock up, and nothing to happen.
It might as well be called "False hope" as it works in no browsers, and just fecks you off.

Is there nothing on my computer that works for me? and not try to help everyone else but not me.

Happy Easter everyone.

Nobody likes me, there all out without me, at home.

2007-03-17T16:14:00.000Z

Well it seems that I've got the whole house to myself this weekend. After last weekend with a full house, including Joe. Everybody's fecked off. Well maybe I might just go mad and drink the 12 remaining cans of cider tonight. Truth is, if anyone needs a holiday, then it's me, I've been so stressed recently, it's unbelievable. Everything seems to be getting to me. Well, this isn't the place to moan about myself, instead back to normal service.

Comic relief - I didn't see this last night, I'm not sorry if I sound heartless but I don't care about it. It's all about raising money for the poor in Africa and what not. But we still have problems in this country. If we can't fix our own problems then why the hell are we trying to fix someone else's problems. I've in fact stopped listening to radio 1 over the past week, because there doing some crappy karaoke tour, with good singers. The best part of karaoke is the bad ones, who've had one too many and think they sound like Freddy Mercury, and are in fact murdering the song, or are dancing to someone else singing badly.

The new Wembley - Seems it's finally finished, almost 12 months after they said that it'd be finished in time for the FA cup final 2006, which it wasn't. Why did they need to rebuild it in the first place? and why did they not build it as a Olympic venue, instead it can only cope with football and rugby. So now 9.3 billion will be spent from tax payers money(and lottery money too) to go on a few venues that wont get that much use after 2012. How about building something that the majority of the country could get some use of? like better roads, better public transport, or to be really controversial replace the house of Lords, and most MP's and pointless Unions.

Our student union - Seems that when you elect someone they go power mad, this week they've recently banned the sale of Coca-cola on campus. Because they use too much Indian water, or something. Well, that's just shit, why stop people drinking what they like most? Are they now going to replace it with fair trade? I for one hope not. Why should it be unfair on me to buy what I want? This is a capitalist country, we exploit others when they think there getting a good deal. More fool them for not demanding more, if the entire population of undeveloped countries demanded more money, or they'd strike, then we'd have to pay them more, otherwise we'd not get what we wanted.

Finally, I leave you with thoughts of, Drunks thinking emergency exits on buses are real big windows, and wonder why there is a gap in the bus. That walking alone through the city centre at 11 at night is not the best idea I've ever had. Buses that have a maximum capacity of 88 contain over 110 people. And that today(going by the day, not the date) is the 1 year anniversary of the first SF Blog, the date is tomorrow.

(Un)Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody!

(p)Sychic Fish is coming!

2007-03-15T17:09:00.000Z

Well after months of thinking I'm psychic, I've decided to take those messages that I'm getting and convert them into horoscopes. As of the 25th I will be publishing a message, for someone. I don't know who they are, but I hope they read the site when it comes true for them.
Well really, It's because I'm getting fed up with mystic Meg, and her happy horoscopes. So I'm ripping her off, with my own version. It'll be on the main site, with more details to come soon.

Also, I've decided to move my desk to the window, seeing as it's much brighter over there. Help the energy flow or something. Or maybe I'm just a nosy neighbour. Yes from the picture, my desk is a mess, but that's tidy for me. Trouble is, it's more prone to crashing there, well that's my excuse for winding people up. Also, it's right under a drippy roof. Oh well, we'll be moving soon. So long as Virgin media don't ring again

"Do you want cable TV?"
"NO I'VE GOT FREEVIEW!"

Shove your car, and you're banned!

2007-03-14T19:06:00.000Z

Right, that's enough, All cars are banned from going near my house. At least while my computer is on. Every time a dodgy car goes past, my computer crashes, at least it crashes if I'm working on something fun. And unfortunately some programs(the gimp and notepad) don't do auto backups.
It seems that the radiation is altering the values within my memory cells.
But it's not only my computer that seems to be having this problem, it's anything electrical of mine, it's happened to my mp3 player before, but luckily the iPod can be easily reset.

Oh and another thing, that woman is banned from coming near me, it's only a matter of time before I get a restraining order on you. Bitch. Call me common will you. Then other people look like you, but I have to try hard to tell them to get lost.

It's a good job I've got a leash on my mouth, otherwise I could get myself into serious trouble.

Mystic Meg, please stop getting my hopes up.

2007-03-10T22:46:00.000Z

Please Mystic Meg, or whoever writes the stars in the column in the sun. Stop getting my hopes up. You've caused me no end of unnecessary spending on the lottery, I'm now a almost re-formed former addict. I've not played in a good two months, after going and spending £16 a week on thunderball, and euromillions. I just ask you not to say "You gain rich luck from lottery tickets" any more, as it tempts me. This isn't very good for me, you wouldn't put on "You will drink lots of alcohol" in case there are any alcoholics reading would you? No, so don't tempt me with lottery winnings, as it NEVER happens, bar those two lots of £15 and £5 I won. Then she's always going on about finding love, Thats not happened either. So stop getting my hopes up. Saying "A friend will introduce you to a new partner" or "Love has a sexy accent"(Yeah me) just makes me read into things too much. Me being partially physic I can ignore this stuff, but some people can't.

Actually I was planning on creating a new feature on the website, the no-frills star signs. But then I saw a episode of a kids program(Black hole high I think), where it all went wrong one day. I wouldn't want to be held responsible for anything that went wrong in the life of someone I know or respect.

Aside from all that gubbins, I launched the new season of Mr. Adamson last weekend. If you've never read it before, I'd like to encourage you to read it. It's about my imaginary alter ego, but in a fantasy world, where I can fly, people are nicer, and I can be a lot ruder. Okay, in reality it's just a bit of silly daft fun, Give it a read, something should make you chuckle.

In the past week I've been creating spoof photos of Fr. Wiggy, as we call him, in various silly situations, including making his wig even bigger! being offensive, and playing the two thousand pound organ game. I can't put the photos on-line, for possible legal reasons, as I didn't take the photos(got them from facebook), and didn't get his permission to put them on-line.

Also this weekend, friend of the site, Joe, has been to stay over at the official residence of the "Dragons of Manchester"(Originally it was dragons in Manchester, but the acronym was DIM, not a wise choice). It's been good to see him, as it's been a while since we've had a guest over, and gone for a curry and been drinking.

Finally as promised, the first of I'm sure many photos of my dog. since I last posted he's tried to escape by jumping through a fence on a astro-turf pitch. And (apparently) tried to eat a cat. Yes, he and other animals don't get on too well, hell knows what he'll do to Buggs the rabbit.
If anyone has any tips then please let me know how to make him more friendly with other animals.

My new little brother.

2007-03-04T00:11:00.000Z

Well, it's been a week since my new little brother arrived he arrived. So I figured I'd share the happy news with you all, having only known him for just over a day now. His name is Arthur, he is about 6 years old, and has a little white beard.

What?

Asks confused SF opinion column visitor.
I hear some of you ask. Well, let me explain. He is a dog, literally. I suppose that explains it to some of my less "in the know" visitors. My family have been toying with the idea for quite a few years now, only after what has happened they decided that getting a dog would be the best for everyone, as it acts as a general friend to all. It's also a environmentally friendly dog. Well I call it that as it's a re-housed dog, essentially a recycled dog, that the original owners could not cope with any more.
This was felt to be the best option, as (in my opinion at least) everyone/everything deserves a second chance at life, well most people anyway. That and as the dog has been housed before we felt that it should already be house trained. This was indeed true, so long as you take him for walkies last thing at night, and in the morning. He is actually good exercise, as he takes you for a walk, not the other way round.
So I hope that my new little brother settles in just fine, and that he remains happy with his new caring family.

Photos are coming soon, so visit again.

I'm still here.

2007-02-28T13:55:00.000Z

No I've not left this place, but was instead short of ideas to go on about. So instead I've decided for today to go on about my past week. I've been planning on making a short trail for the upcoming Mr. Adamson, That's recorded now so will be up over the next few weeks. Strangely while mixing it down, I found a phone call mixed with the Darth Vader theme tune, I was going to put that on the website but think I shouldn't as I would get lynched.
This week, I've not really done much stuff to be honest, other than going to mass everyday, and not going shopping, which I need to do today.
Weekend, went to the cinema, to see hot Fuzz, funny film, will be a review of it as soon as I can be bothered.
Well that's pretty much all I've done, I'm now going to go back to playing solitaire, and write more silly adventures involving a super hero, and a pie fight. Don't ask why it's just fun.

Only in Britain

2007-02-22T21:04:00.000Z

Here in the UK we have some of the worlds worst drivers, I mean that's Richard Brunstrum's excuse for all the arrive alive vans anyway.
I'm digressing.
The point is that we, or at least the Scots from the looks of it, are incredibly bad drivers. That's right hot on the heals of the bollards in Manchester, and that woman that parked her car on top of another car. It's ... The wedged truck. Now I can understand crashing into a moving thing, maybe a stationary item, but lifting a however many ton truck, and wedging it into a overhead gantry, that takes some skill, or stupidity, I'm not exactly sure.
On a completely related note, if you believe the BBC news, the Scots can't handle their drink, Or maybe their are more people needing to resort to drink to put up with the cold. Then again it can't be as cold as it is in Wales. Or is that wet, I can't remember.
Finally, I should watch out, as a Blogger has been jailed for insulting someone. Yes I do realise that they have different rules over there, and we supposedly have free speech over here. That brings me to another point, if we have free speech then why do BT and the like charge to use the phone?
Which also brings me to another news item, it seems that Apple and Cisco have agreed to use the iPhone name. Even if the device is overly expensive for what it is. Speaking of overly expensive, NEVER go to Kro Bar on Oxford road in Manchester, as they charged £4.80 for two pints of coke, for that much I could have got the best part of 8 litres in the supermarket.

Right, I'm going to stop this linked topic thing, as I'll be here all night if I continue.

Things I've learnt today.

2007-02-17T23:27:00.000Z

Yes, it's a sad state of affairs that you learn more about the world on your day off than when you're in Uni.
I am now going to share some of this with you.
A TV guide is an essential tool when planning a day out, particularly look out for the football, as it can change traffic patterns heading to and from the stadium.
Dreams make no sense, even if they can be quite cool.
Yes the Metrolink is over capacity, at peak times. It also breaks down, and as a result the emergency handle can come in very useful for escaping.
Everybody else always wants money from the cash machine too.
Going shopping really does require leaving early, so you get a full day and having fun on the air hockey.
Yes it is possible to have an iPod talk to you, well at least putting it on shuffle can make it give you messages.
Star Signs can be very accurate(especially the bit about accents), even if in reality it is a load of old rubbish.
Friends of friends become very lost, even on journeys they make every day, and guess what, this friend of a friend is a woman!! No word of a lie, I could probably find my way around a city I've never been to before, even if it is two years to the day that I got lost in the Arndale centre.
Finally I have become physic, not entirely, but sometimes it can be odd some of the things that happen, and I expect it. There's plenty of signals out there, you just need to filter out the noise.

Now I'm off to get these songs to stop talking directly too me. All before my someone finds out, and reads far too much into it, or maybe she wont.

Don't worry if this makes no sense, my head will be sorted in the morning!

Baa humbug!

2007-02-15T13:55:00.000Z

Again for the 19th year in a row I've not received a single Valentines card, not that I was expecting one anyway. Yesterday just made me sick, just like when love, actually made me sick, although not literally this time. Why is it that I'm always ill on the special days of the year? Is it possible to be allergic to commercialism? Cos this year, it seems that is the case for me. After getting very ill during Christmas, and now valentines day. So yeah, Man flu is one of the worst things to have, it truly has that feeling of oh I'm almost better, then it comes back again.
In better news I have finally found the name of the song in the Mars advert, it's Blue Monday, by New order. I'm still finding somewhere that I can get it from though.
I think I should also share some with you some of the people that live in our house, or at least did. Miss Katie Hunter(read K Hunter, it's a rude word), Ivonna something(can't remember), and today, a Pizza Lover(Like chunky lover 53 @ aol . com, aka Homer Simpson's email address, somebody knows me too well). Amongst many others.

Please people, understand something before you hate it.

2007-02-13T19:36:00.000Z

Well it seems that the British public are dead against having to pay-per-mile. So far over 1 million people have protested against it. In the impression that they will end up paying more to use their car. That may well be true, but some people will benefit from said scheme. For example, the congestion charge in London has made some people think twice about driving into the nations capital. Okay the idea isn't loved, but it works, sort of.
My understanding is that the whole car tax will be dropped in favour of charging people depending on how much they drive. I may well be wrong but that's how I see the plans.
Personally I am in favour of the plans, for the most of my life I've lived in a small/medium sized town. Under the plans it would be cheaper to drive there than in say, Manchester or any other large city. As it is there is already a form of pay as you drive in place, in the form of fuel tax.
Truthfully those that are just "going for a drive", or drive huge numbers of miles in a year, eg. living in Glasgow, working in London and commuting on a daily basis(Okay a extreme example but my point stands), or truck drivers are the ones that will loose out. But realistically they use the roads more, so shouldn't they pay more?
Take the example of phone bills, you pay for how much you use, the less you use it, the less you pay, that's fair isn't it? But people don't quite understand it like that.
I ask you all, would you be in favour of dropping car tax at however much a year, and a increase in fuel tax instead? I personally would find that fair, you don't use your car, you don't pay tax. You drive a lot, you pay a lot.
This would encourage those in cities and the like to use public transport more, which is how we all got about before everyone had a car.

Once again my own inteligence is my downfall.

2007-02-10T15:06:00.000Z

Yes I take back what I said the other day about the country getting more pathetic. The weather really is awful. I made a comment that the country only expects nice weather, but that kind of stands still.
Otherwise in my life, I had to work again today. But I didn't know until I was almost there, and as a result had made a mistake, I thought I'd save myself some time, but in the end caused myself some shame, luckily no-one found out.
And before anyone asks I'm not telling you as I was really embarrassed.
Otherwise, I'm tempted to cut my brother away from access to the computer, as he'd moved my iTunes library. I thought he'd deleted all my files, but he'd just moved them to his directory. We also got stuck in the snow, but dad managed to get us out.
Anyway, actually come to think about it, I say "anyway" far too much, but I'm digressing from the topic. So as you can see, I've uploaded a photo of my driveway, but it's not too clear.
This weekend I'm planning to upload some more Mr. Adamson mini adventures, there all typed up and in the correct form. I'd like to also get some main stories typed up, but they take far longer, and it slowly gets on my nerves.

Britain gets more pathetic by the day

2007-02-08T11:17:00.000Z

Yes London centred Britain seem to think that everyone has snow today. Well not us, national reports say do not travel unless it's absolutely necessary. Well to me it looks like a normal spring day. Normal as can be. In fact the last few days the weather has been glorious, fantastic even. But London gets a few flakes of snow and all the health and safety people say it would be suicide to go outside for even less than a second.
Yes I am being sarcastic, but do you know why? Because London (and the south) in particular is awful at coping with its environment. Too much heat in the summer, all air con goes on, then they have power cuts. Dry spring, hosepipe bans over the whole year. Autumn leaves fall off the trees, the underground stops because their the wrong type of leaves. Now this, why is it this great nations capital can't cope, with anything. That is because they all drive round in their 4x4s and aren't able to cope with change.
You've had hundreds of years to learn the weather patterns and so should be able to understand it's not always a nice mild 18 degrees, with moderate cloud cover.
Take north America, that has some of the most varying weather in the world, Hot in the southern states, with cold winters, Hurricanes on the east coast, Earthquakes on the west, And Incredibly cold winters in Canada.
Now I understand why Scotland want it's independence from the UK, because we can't cope. You never hear the Scottish complaining it's too cold, too hot, not enough rain, too much rain etc. No they just get on with their lives, because they expect months other than May. Perhaps that's what they should be teaching kids in schools these days, how to cope with change. Yes we may not like the cold, or the hot, or the rain, but we have to put up with it.

Giving blood, and the Irish

2007-02-06T17:53:00.000Z

No not giving blood to the Irish, what do they need blood for, the tight fisted nasty buggers.
Somehow it seems that giving blood is the new hip cool thing among computer scientists. Well that's the impression that I got today when I found out, by overhearing all the cool kids talking about giving blood, all showing off their cool keyrings. Whatever next hey?

Next on today's agenda, the paddies, sorry I can't call them that if I'm politically correct, but since when have I been correct? But the little feckers seemed to love being Irish and showing off about the six nations, blaming Johnny Wilkinson for their win, well something along those lines anyway. Well I'm sorry nobody forced you over here, while in England, you support a British nation, such as England Scotland or last but by no means least, Wales!!
So Irish people, you like Ireland, go back there then!!

Waste of my time.

2007-02-03T17:12:00.001Z

Well today I started off with good intentions to get myself a bean bag for my room. Something nice and cosy to relax and chill on, not that I've been doing much of that recently. So I went for a walk to Woolworths, seeing as the allegedly sold them there. The idea was, bus to Sainsburys, walk along the Manchester cycleway to Chorlton-cum-hardy. No, first I got a little lost getting to the footpath. Seeing as Google earth doesn't have the shops and apartments built yet. Then the walk is nice, but once we get to the damned village(seems like a good story idea) the weather turns for the worst, and starts to be real cloudy, it'd been sunny everywhere else.

Then the town is the most confusing little place ever, it's a cross between the real world and the external scenes from open all hours(where I play the role of dirty shop keeper Arkwright, for more than one reason), and the Welsh village of Mold. After getting a little mixed up with my north and south, I eventually find the Woolworths, even though it's on the opposite side of the road to what I was expecting.
Guess what? No bean bags, so I've walked all that way for nothing. Great. So after wondering round for an Argos, but no luck. So it's time to go back, but it doesn't become sunny, until over half way back.

So now I sit here typing this, teaching everybody a lesson. But I can't figure out what the hell it is. Maybe it's exercise isn't all its cracked up to be. Or maybe its actually to telephone ahead and make sure that they have in stock what you want.
Never mind I'll go to Argos in town in a few days, but bugger, my timetable seems to be evil, except for Thursdays, which I have off.

Oh I do not believe it!

2007-02-02T20:00:00.000Z

Well yes I would choose to do a news blog, on a slow news day.
The main headline tonight is: Global warming exists, Well duh, the eco freaks have been going on about it for years. Not that these scientists actually proved anything, I still don't believe in it. I saw mock of the week the other day, and it suddenly made me think that the earth is not "warming" at all, but instead it's cooling, at least for us Brits anyway. Seriously only Britain's weather can be that bad that due to global warming, it's going to get COLDER! I still fail to understand that if it's getting WARMER, Britain can get COLDER. To me that's like putting a cold pizza in a oven, turning the oven on, and the pizza coming out frozen.

Apparently some parts of Europe will become too hot to live in the future, well at least they will benefit from this warming, they'll have some booming tourism. But how can that happen though, apparently taking the worst estimate of increasing by 6 degrees, applying it to the summer temperature of (say) Madrid, which gets up to 35 degrees, add on the 6, makes 41 degrees. Now I'm sure that it's possible to evolve - sorry I can't say that in case there's any religious people reading -adapt to those temperatures, I mean they've got the best part of 93 years, so it's not going to happen overnight, so I fail to see the problem.

I personally am in favour of the none existent world issue that is global warming. Cos it makes sense, follow me with this. Global warming makes the planet hotter, thus there's no cold winter, is it not coincidence that "fossil" fuels are running out? I think not, I think it's part of God's plan, so we no longer have to pay to heat our houses.
The other thing that got me, is that we (in developed countries such as western Europe and the USA) will soon have to pay into a special fund, which gets spent on the likes of Brazil or India.
WHY??
They seem to get all our jobs, especially the Indians, all our call centres are over there damn it!! and they can't understand a word of what our problem is!!

So please let me know what you think of this myth, as I'm sure I'm not the only sceptical one out there, and I certainly don't want to pay more for our countries success.

Score!

2007-01-30T22:31:00.000Z

Today I give you news that Manchester has won the UK Super-casino. It seems that everywhere you look Manchester seems to be the best city in the country.
Well how else do you explain having a super-casino, and the BBC move to Salford? I'd say that finally the country is moving from a London centred place, and now balancing out to have a northern end of the country too.
Who knows, maybe the plan is to change the capital to Manchester instead of London. After all we're planning to have the congestion charge too. All we need is the Metrolink to be extended, and we finally would have a decent public transport system.

I like spring TV

2007-01-27T18:59:00.000Z

Well the winter TV season is almost over, I know there are some gems in the TV schedules at the moment, but a lot of the time it can be difficult to find something good to watch most of the time.

I feel we must show our respects to the latest season of the Paul O'Grady show(Channel 4), as it has been brilliant, just what you need at five o'clock after a hard days doing nothing in uni. I think it'll be back sometime May, but please don't quote me on that. I just can't bear to watch that mind numbingly boring Richard and Snoozey, sorry, Richard and Judy. Paul O'Grady might be more proof that TV is dumbing down, but it's good fun. I also miss road wars, which seems to have disappeared from the Sky Three line up for some reason. Also Torchwood(BBC Three) is also gone, but not forgotten.

Now for the good parts, Top Gear(BBC Two) is back this Sunday night, which with any luck will be just as good as the past series, particularly the "Toybota"(amphibious land and water vehicle), the convertible people carrier, and last but not least the caravan holiday.
Also another series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe(BBC Four), is due soon. So I'm hoping that it will be just as good as previous episodes, in particular the one with the talking toilet. It is also rumoured that the show will be moving to BBC Two, but that I don't know.
Also due around Easter(I believe, if going by last years timing) is the third series of Doctor Who(BBC One). Now I was very critical of last years series, but with any luck this year will be much better. Although I'm not holding up my hopes, if the runaway bride is anything to go by.
Also new program Primeval(ITV 1), is due around the start of February, which I have a sneaky suspicion will be very good, and will win ITV 1 some ratings.

Now I've not yet seen street wars, but I've heard that it is quite good too. With any luck I'll be watching that too.
So that was my year in anticipation, check back over the coming months to find out exactly how good I found said programs. Also if there's something you feel I've missed out, leave a comment, and I'll add it to the list.

Urm yeah, me bad.

2007-01-26T20:12:00.000Z

Sorry about the last post, I'd been drinking a fair bit before I decided to wreck havoc on my computer, perhaps I should place a more complex password on the computer. Just so that I'm not able to get on whilst drunk.
I think the original train of thought was that I want to finally learn to drive, but unfortunately it came out a little too cryptic for even me to understand why the computer was on this morning. I promise it won't happen again folks, as I really suffered this morning. Although I'm sure that was food poisoning, but no-one else in our house was sick, so maybe it was a result of binge drinking.

Otherwise it's a whole weekend of nothing to do, as my course has not yet full started, but at least the exams are over. Everyone else has gone home this weekend too(traitors!!), so it's a lot of singing loudly, and talking to myself. Not a good thing for the neighbours to hear. I also plan to go to Chorlton-cum-Hardy this weekend, as I think I need to get a comfortable chair for my room.

Bitten

2007-01-25T21:46:00.000Z

I think I've finally been bitten by the bug. I thought this day would never come, I've always wanted to be ready for this, but my mind has just said no.
I really do feel ready to do this, but I desperately need to save up the money for such a task, plus the other odd bits of maintainance that will be necessarily.
Yes I think it's about time I joined the scores or other people that have done it. Millions around the world will be the ones that I share myself with. I feel that this year will be a good year, and that I will join that none-exclusive club and finally learn, by teaching myself the basics. Who knows, within a few years I will be the envy of all other people.

I know what I wan't for my birthday.

2007-01-23T16:25:00.000Z

I've today seen the coolest invention in the world, it's the Japanese Land Walker. Man I really want one of those when I win the lottery and buy Richard Bransons island. That'd be so cool to have two of them and fight each other. It's something out of the future, and it even works!
Okay it's a bit shaky, but perfect it, add some suspension, and pimp it up. You've got some real hot shit!
I now promise that I will never be nasty to the Japanese again(today), Or else I won't be allowed to have one, and then they'll come to my house and shoot me with it.

Did I dream it?

2007-01-22T18:19:00.000Z

Well I must really be going funny in the head as no-one else seems to have written about it on the whole of the Internet. I'm sure I remember Paul O'Grady (From the new Paul O'Grady show) burp during the organ game. It went something along the lines of ...

Hello Abbey from York*, You ready to play the two thousand pound organ game love?
BELCH!
Oh where did that come from? You don't get that on Richard and Judy.

*The Name and location were picked entirely at random. Apologies to anyone from the same town with the same name, that haven't been burped to by Paul O'Grady.

I've search YouTube, and the Internets, but with no luck of finding such a clip. Shame really as I'm sure it happened and that I didn't dream it. As my dreams tend to be very weird, and feature(but not limited to) ; Cartoons, Motorways, Speaking in a thick northern accent**, Lying on a sofa and drinking milk but then going out to get a pint while the milk refills(This is my favourite dream), being chased, Wikipedia, and the Internet.

I honestly don't know what caused some of these dreams come from, can't they be a revelation as to a persons inner feelings and thoughts. Good job I've altered some of the descriptions then.

**I mean thick as in very strong, not thick as in stupid.