Apr 27 2006

I’ve been watching your fingers Straddle the neck of your guitar Since you said they’d buckle Like the legs of a new born foal

Published by Fence under Ramblings

Story bud? Or should that be buds? Who knows. Should one[1] write to one person or to many? Sorta[2] like the you or ye issue I suppose. I’ll solve it and say y’all. So, to recap these first few nonsensical lines, any news y’all?

I’ve been in really good form these past few days. Not that I have wild mood swings, or that I’ve been in a bad mood before that. I don’t really do ups and downs, to paraphrase Lisa Simpson, I know neither highs nor lows ;)

And if I’m honest I should be in a bad mood cause the saga of the laptop has gotten worse. Now Pavlov won’t even recognise audio cds, which was a frackin issue seeing as I’d just bought a new album and wanted to mp3 it all and listen on my way to work this morning. Instead, I had to bring it back into work and try three different computers here. One wouldn’t read the cd, one wouldn’t read the mp3 player and the third was just fine[3] So I’ve just finished transferring songs over and will get to listen at lunch, or maybe on my way home this evening.

But the hassle. The hassle

Not enough to dent my good mood though. Even the sight of three billion coffee cups and numerous scattered newspapers all over the library this morning didn’t make me want to issue a red alert and crack down on eating and drinking in the library. Nope, I just laughed along with Gift Grub and binned it all.

Which reminds me, Gift Grub you were a lazy bastard today weren’t you? First of all to still be going on about the rugby match. Who on earth would still be smiling everytime they see the buses with the Munster lads on the side[4] But then to use the internet as the source on your inspiration[5] Tut tut tut. Cause first of all they told the nation about google’s bias, which I was first alerted to via In Fact, Ah, go to google and search for Leinster Supporters Club: Now read that first line. hee

And then there was the fact that Jay did the Choose Leinster thingy thats been doing the email rounds.

Ah well, it was still funny. Jay has to be one of their best characters, and him constantly telling yer man from The Thrills[6] to Shuddup, jus’ shuddup was great.

Hmm, I’ve gone off-topic, not that I was ever really on a topic in the first place, but I wasn’t actually intended to bore you all with yet more rugby ;) there’ll be plenty of time for that come May 20th.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.usAs well as the soundtrack to Merry Christmas I also got my first vol. of [tag]Bill Willingham[/tag]Fables which quite[7] a few[8] people[9] have been saying is really great. I didn’t get a chance to read much as I was error checking registrys and enabling and disabling, uninstalling and reinstalling drives[10] and oher such things in a futile attempt to get Pavlov back in working order. But what little I read seems really great. Course the second vol has been delayed in Amazon-land for some reason. So I won’t rush the first one.

And thank the gods[11] for Firefox’s tab saver extension. Cause the pc just crashed, and I’d've had to come up with all this all over again if I’d been using IE.

Linknotes:
  1. going from Dublin slang to ‘posh voice’ in the space of such a few short words ↩
  2. and back to improper English ↩
  3. Goldilocks how are ye ↩
  4. not me that’s for sure… oh, alright yes me ↩
  5. thats what us bloggers are supposed to do ↩
  6. no, not the real Thrills, but the Gift Thrills ↩
  7. like Carl ↩
  8. Heather ↩
  9. Andi ↩
  10. nope, no idea what I was doing, but it didn’t make anything worse, so its all good ↩
  11. and if I’m a character in Tristan + Isolde I’ll switch between thanking gods and god, depending on scene ↩

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Apr 04 2006

“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”

Published by Fence under Irishify, Ramblings

The census is coming, and people are up in arms[1] about Question 14, which asks about “cultural and ethnic backgrounds” and whether a person is White Irish, Black Irish, Asian, Traveller etc etc. Well, not really etc, because there are only a few options, but there is the catch-all other. So what I want to know is, do the Central Statistics Office really think that the Others have come all the way from an island that looks suspiciously like Hawai’i just to fill in the census?

But anyways, the campaign to not answer Question 14 is sweeping across the blogverse[2] But that’s not what I mean to blog about, what I meant to blog about was the hassle that commenting is becoming.

At first you could just leave a comment anywhere you went. Then you had to make sure you had an email address. Then some blogspot accounts want you to be a blogger member. Now that isn’t enough, you have to have a blogger account and fill in those verification details. And with msn.spaces you have to have a passport identity thing.

Bloody spammers. Ruining the world so they are. I have a blogger account, and visit plenty of blogspot blogs, so I’ve gotten used to that. But having to sign up for other accounts, which I’ll then have to remember passwords for? Nah, I’ve had enough of random accounts all over the shop.

Hassle = me not commenting

Linknotes:
  1. well, moaning and bitching ↩
  2. I’ve decided I prefer this term to blogosphere, I may even shorten it to b’verse, although then there may be confusion over the Buffy-verse. ↩

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