dpen2000 - Personal

An Unnecessary Post

2008-02-09T22:04:00.001Z

Google can be strange sometimes. The top result for "necessary" in Google is not the strangely-UNnecessary wikipedia entry on the word but "Is Sex Necessary? - Forbes.com". Perhaps a little less surprising is the fourth result "Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? The Atomic Bombing of Japan" - I was searching for "nessisary" so I could find the proper spelling out from Google so perhaps I have no right to question Google's results but the question remains: what results does one expect when the word "necessary" is typed in? How is it possible to judge the quality of the search results for a word like this?

Apple Store UK Error

2007-11-02T01:30:00.000Z

Spot the error? Hint: Look at the Included software.

Army Race Row

2007-03-11T00:52:00.000Z

If the comments here are anything to go by, I can't wait to see the next opinion poll on the Tories electability.

Pan's Labyrinth

2006-12-18T02:27:00.000Z

(Originally posted on My Myspace blog)

Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing movie by Guillermo del Toro. It is a mixture of war and fantasy/fairy tale. Really hard to describe but it is just incredible. Very moving and enchanting and this despite being a 15 (in the UK), probably justifiably, for violence. It is for me, a perfect movie. Incredibly beautiful. Anyway, I saw it twice: once yesterday and again today... both times I was supposed to be with people but did not let their absence stop me from seeing it. Oh, it's in spanish with subtitles but that shouldn't stop you from seeing it: it ranks higher than most, if not all (in my current opinion), english language films. I don't seem to have much problem with subtiled films mostly: I'm normally there because I believe from what I've heard that they will be visually beautiful and they often are. I've found in the days afterwards I'll swear I saw parts of such a film in english as the languages just merge in your head.

I've been trying to watch one film every fortnight this semester. Placed a strict no-comedy restriction on this though. I don't see the point watching a comedy at the cinema: for me, I want to see visually beautiful, meaningful films on the big screen. I guess I don't have a lot of time for comedies mostly. I must see Napoleon Dynamite though because every else has and it's just a popular culture reference (among students at least) you need to have. I want to watch the comedies by Charlie Kaufman like Being John Malkovich when I can. Anyway enough talk.

Films I saw at the cinema this semester for reference: The Magician, Volver, World Trade Center, Children of Men, The Prestige, Breaking and Entering, Casino Royale and The Page Turner (this was my first film of this weekend - of three cinema visits (FACT cinema in Liverpool made a small fortune this weekend) - it's french and I dragged my brother along).

All News is Moo(t)

2006-09-06T01:11:00.000+01:00

Last week we had a woman balancing a tray of cups on the top of hair in the background of a BBC Newsnight interview, tonight at the beginning of BBC News 24's 1 o'clock in the morning news a cow is distinctly heard mooing. Is this normal??

Update: I didn't believe it myself until I rewinded it back and listened again (thanks to Telewest's TVDrive service which is highly recommended!)

Arrrgh!

2006-07-05T01:26:00.000+01:00

Okay so I'm not doing too great with blogging... more soon... maybe.

How to lose a history professor in ten days Or The Real Reason My Essays are Anonymously Marked

2006-01-12T01:38:00.000Z

So I'm doing dual-honours history and english.
My head of history recently asked me: Is the english department any good?
I replied: Better than the history department.

Back after a long "sabbatical"

2005-11-30T01:36:00.000Z

Oh I've been thinking about blogging today and it has been such a long time since my last post so i thought i'd start up again.
My lack of posting could well be due to starting out at Keele University. I'm studying history and english here - i nearly said there but i'm on our wonderful 650-acre campus so it makes no sense. Mine is a rather boring combination of subjects in one sense - here almost any combination of subject is allowed: think astrophysics(if our cash-strapped uni doesn't finally close that department: to be fair, even Oxford works with multimillion pounds debts) and english and you'll probably find someone here doing it: my guess is a lot of people's choices are quite conservative but some aren't and many universities would not make it so easy for people to do even the simplest dual honours degrees.

Casaulty Jargon

2005-08-23T02:21:00.000+01:00

I just finished watching my video of casuality and finally remmembered to look up the meaning of tackicardic or however it is spelt. It's shocking how few entries it has on Google. Matt Armstrong at
http://www.pastemagazine.org/matt.php?entry=393 refers to it as like playing "casualty bingo" and I tend to agree: maybe these words are made up anyway ... usually we don't trust words that don't pass the google test in wikipedia, for instance. Someone needs to write a "the science behind casualty" website/article... if this stuff really exists it would be nice to know what it is.

My Initial Thoughts on Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

2005-07-16T02:13:00.000+01:00

I am currently reading Harry Potter 6(though not quite at the speed the bbc reviewer is here(possible spoiler warning) and I intend to place some thoughts on this blog as I go along. These will be short, precise, and especially in reference to secrets revealed in the novel(I have read one so far), non-specific. Thus, of course, glancing over them before reading the book will not hurt, unless you mind knowing where secrets are revealed, maybe small nesissary hints of them and some other minor details, but these are intended for fellow readers and should be, by design, cryptic. Feel free to comment on these as they come - and these will not be viewed as a spoiler-free zone by me, although please stick to chapter focus of posts.

Before I write about the book, I must note that the store I bought my book from obviously unsealed and handled books maybe as early as Thursday - disappointing. The books were presented to us at 5 to 12 in a store-labelled open-top box with nothing to stop us from picking a copy up and reading the first pages. The first copy sold was between 12 and 12:01.

Chapter 1 - I found this chapter refreshing and clever and a great-recap(I for one cannot remmember the previous novels fully). Adds an interesting new dimension to the relationship between the real world and the magic world(i know i know, it's real too).
Chapter 2 - I think the insight of this chapter will enlighten my reading of scenes involving a certain character and many other scenes from previous novels. This is a key thing I was looking for Rowling to be doing in this book.
Chapter 3 - I really liked the use of the (incomplete) news clippings. A very funny chapter especially for those who like seeing a certain family tormented(don't we all?).

If I said too much, don't read any more of my posts on the book.

A Belated(why not late?) Post

2005-07-01T01:09:00.000+01:00

I see I have not posted for half a month/a month. So much has happened. Obviously no exams had happened when i lasted posted. i had my first on the 15th and finished a week later.
now i have been in london/buckinghamshire for 5 days(monday to today) and am leaving tonight. i'll be watersporting tommorow - for one hour.
I feel euphoric --- sooo much time. so much to do. nothing that is nessisary but lots which would be fun and productive. i'm going to have to rein myself in somehow... how else do i achieve anything? At the moment, i have 6 novels i'd like to read - an Auster, 2 Atwoods. one by Ian McIwan, one by Graham Greene, one by paul auster's wife.... most of which i could easily follow by each of the authors other books... so many other great authors to read... i have 4 Guardian newspapers from this week... much unread... yet still kept.... i'd like to teach myself Visual Basic.net (i mean i know it but i don't know anything too advanced)... i'd like to code a program to play with sudoku.... i'd like to know how many possible sudokus could be created... i could list hundreds of questions i haved posed myself in the last few days... obviously i can't do all these things.... i end up doing none because i am listening to music now and browsing the web... another wonderfully good thing

[edited to remove sensitive material)

London by Blake

2005-06-05T18:13:00.000+01:00

Another one of my memorised Blake poems is below. I like the phrase "mind-forg'd manacles. I think my favourite part is about the soldiers as helpfully explained by Nicholas Marsh. It's a very radical political statement: Blake is saying how the King does not care about his soldiers blood. But more widely he is condemning the ruling elites who persecute the common people in his world around him. Any additional comments on this poem London or The Lamb(which I still remember) would be appreciated.

Wandering down the chartered streets
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow
I mark in every face I meet
Notes of Weakness, notes of woe

In every cry of every man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeps cry
The blackened Church appals
And hapless soldiers sigh
In blood down Palace walls

But most thro' the midnight streets I hear
The youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants cry
And blights with plague the marriage hearse.

Should "hell" be a swear word?

2005-06-01T19:08:00.000+01:00

Bowing to calls from the American Right(I wish I got that much attention!), I am removing the "swearing" ("Why the hell aren't...") from my blog title.
Okay so "hell" is swearing but should it really be called so? Opinion from the blogosphere requested.

The Lamb by Blake

2005-05-30T20:49:00.000+01:00

Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life and bid thee feed
By the stream and over the mead
Gave thee clothing of delight
Softest clothing woolly bright
Gave thee such a tender voice
Making all the vales rejoice
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee

Little Lamb I'll tell thee
Little Lamb I'll tell thee
He is called by thy name
For he is called a Lamb
He is meek and he is mild
He became a little child
I a child and thou a Lamb
We are called by his name
Little Lamb God Bless thee
Little Lamb God Bless thee

That was, believe it or not typed from memory, having just learnt it in my room. I need to have an indepth knowledge of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience for my Literature exam and some poems are short enough to be memorised.

Nicholas Marsh in his excellent book on Blake's poetry explains this poem as the child's innocent view of the creator which moves from observations of what is seen in the lamb and saying these characteristics must then be of God too. This is a neat way of linking the two stanzas and linking in to the the opposing poem in Experience, The Tiger, where the question asked of the tiger is who "dare frame thy fearful symmetry". This poem questions the simplistic view that God is gentle and kind by showing that an "fearful" creature was also created by him. Marsh's view, as far as I can see, fails to mention that the character described in the second stanza is probably a reference to Jesus. Jesus "became a little child" and is described as "meak and mild" and as the "Lamb [of God]". Blake probably knew John 1 wherein Jesus is refered to by the term the "word" and it is said of him "All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be." so Jesus was part of the creation process or the creator.

Additional remarks on these poems are welcome!

Poetry

A Neat HTML Snippet

2005-05-29T18:10:00.000+01:00

Just found this cool piece of code:
< meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Pixelate(Duration=2)">
< meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Pixelate(Duration=2)">
from http://xxxriotsxxx.blogspot.com/.

You can see the effect these two tiny lines of code create by clicking the link above. Should I add this to my weblog, maybe with a lower duration? Maybe not.

Tablet PCs and DVDs

2005-05-29T17:58:00.000+01:00

My dream purchase at the moment is a Tablet PC. It's out of my price league at the moment but I was wondering how these perform with DVD movies. The slate shape makes it perfect for sitting up in bed watching a DVD on it but I guess these kind of computers would die faster than my laptop does under such conditions. Has anyone had any experience with Tablet PCs and DVDs and especially in more cosy situations such as the one above?

The Football Match

2005-05-25T22:38:00.000+01:00

Don't you dare ask "which one?", there was only one match on tonight(at least for viewers in England or maybe just Liverpool). I was surprised that I found out the result from a BBC News Alert (You can download the BBC News Alerts program here.) before someone from downstairs told me: they must still be transfixed on the screen.

Yes AC Milan were beaten by Liverpool. I was earlier wishing this would not happen for the sake of all the kids who will have to sit through their dads retelling the "story"(read: lots of indignation there) of the match even twenty years later(as promised by the commentator earlier who had also "suffered"(my word, admittedly) through a retelling as a child of the last time Liverpool won this glass/drinks bottle/whatever-they-call-it-these-days). Will I take my son to a football match? Surprisingly yes(aside: perish the day) ... with a notebook in my hand tallying the number of times the ball passes the middle of the pitch line or collecting some other "useless"(in the words of true football fans) statistics. My interest in football(did i just type that?) is, if at all, purely academic.

Wikipedia links: Football - notable for it's lack of "Criticisms of" section

A Post on the Last Post

2005-05-25T22:22:00.000+01:00

That last post was obviously vastly overdue. I won't make any more promises but maybe one day I will explore why I love God and like and probably even love Paul Auster, VB.net and DVD commentaries/DVDs in general. In the meantime, some wikipedia links(harking back to my broken promise/maybe-I-will in the Wikipedia post) are in order:- God(I had to hold back from linking deep into that acticle to the section on the biblical God), Paul Auster, Visual Basic.Net and Audio Commentary.

A Mediation on The Sims 2

2005-05-25T21:51:00.000+01:00

The Sims 2 is in many ways a beautiful and intricate game. Maybe it could even be seen as an interactive work of art. While Half Life 2, among others, pushes the boundries of in-game physics and 3D graphics, it can barely be considered art; or if it is it is a ugly art in my opinion. The Sims 2, taking off from it's predecesor and far from perfect even now, tries to emulate real-life. This being so begs the question: Is it boring? Absolutely not. But this must be qualified. It really depends on how it is played. As a game, it allows the player to choose how active and animated a thing it shows. Of course so far it sounds like I am describing a movie-maker and to many players, Sims 2 is just that as this latest version can spit out AVI files at the tip of a hat. But as I was saying, it can be enthralling and exciting with Sims fighting each other or making love (in the way only sims can - it's not porno - complete with fireworks and sheets bobbing(that's the word!) up and down playfully and yet ambigiously).

I guess I do play it boringly. Generally, I'm building up a set of dynastic families that share a neighbourhood, intermarry, have pesky kids(actually Simkids are rarely pesky - at least no more than normal sims with pathfinding that does occasionally foul up - maybe because you can't take them to the supermarket yet) that later grow into teenagers and adults and have kids of their own. It's interesting to see how it shapes out. This long-play form of playing does mean shortcuts including lots of money cheating but, maybe sadly, more specifically a lack of excitement in one sense. In my very ordered (and yet not quite ordered enough) world in Sims 2, there are no affairs, divorces, crazy characters with crazy careers(like the paranormal one included in the first expansion pack TS2 University). I suppose I often miss many of the more interesting animations and elements of the game by speeding through at the highest speed (especially while my sims are in college: a rather long arduous process: very much how I view the prospect of university for myself at the moment). But when I do slow down, I probably slow down more than most. One of the most interesting things about TS2 is that you really can leave the game running without touching it and just watch. Probably the most interesting time I do this is when Sims first arrive at a new lot or house and intuitively start interacting with each other while lined up outside the new place. Another thing I sometimes do is hold down the rotate key on a house and just spin round it. Such things highlight the beauty of the game.

I mentioned earlier that the game is also intricate. By this I mean, Sims actually indent the sofas they sit on, the chess games they play are quasi-real, clocks really do show the true in-game time and have hands that move, my sim(just now) really does look like she is playing the piece I hear on the piano(the hands seem to move right: though I'm no expert) and when sims chat on the computer, the screen really does show a messenger-like window complete with new lines of text appearing.

The game-play I detailed in my second paragraph is my own unique style of playing the game. Unlike many games, TS2 does allow for many different play styles. From building charactes and houses in amazingly detailed in-game editors to very different ways of actually playing the game with the time running. This is well-encaptulated in the dualisms of death and life, success and failure. In this game, failure states are just as fun as success states: torturing sims is ultimately fun: Many players indulge their passion for the game in realisings sims fears, seeing them go mad and then, or of course in any order or way that suits their fancy, killing them(yes, they really do look like they're drowning when they drown: it's sad but quite funny: the beauty being that they are not quite yet so humanoid that is evil to do such things: they will I guess always be called Sims). So, in concluding, I invite anyone who plays Sims 2 to write similar but different blog posts about their unique play style or indeed just comment on this post.

Edit: The Obligitory Wikipedia link: The Sims 2

Wikipedia

2005-03-11T20:46:00.002Z

One of my many interests that doesn't fit in the title above is Wikipedia. I go on there almost daily... maybe i can post a link from there a day if i see anything interesting or whatever.

Today I needed to defrag my hard drive for Sims 2 Uni to be installed - well it seems sensible - so I visited Fragmentation which led me on to Data Compression from which Dictionary Coders were the most interesting to read of and Lossy was the funniest word I saw. Maybe I can do a daily wiki chain.

Wednesday

2005-03-09T19:39:00.001Z

I like the day Wednesday. It's the middle of the week obviously but that isn't the only reason.
There's also:
1. It's a day.
2. It's starts with the letter W which is rare.
3. yeah, okay I admit I am still testing Technorati

Phil Rooney, I am not gay!!!! You? Well, that's the enigma.

Questions about last post

2004-11-26T18:50:00.000Z

Just guess!!!

Get This!

2004-08-30T20:53:00.000+01:00

I am in a room with four different people on computers at the moment: Two laptops(including my foreign one: in another house), two pcs.

Why is that Drudge, of Drudge report fame, sounds like mud? Coincidence?
When will a tabloid here in Britain rename themselves to The Daily Mud? Better yet, let them all do it.

Name Scores:

2004-08-26T22:40:00.001+01:00

George - 15
Anna - 24
Elizabeth - 8
David - 28 (yay!!)
Abi - 34
Vicky - 22
Pete - 19
Laura -34
Tim - 34
Harry - 24
William - 11
Matilda - 11
Rachel - 18
Lindsey - 12
Claire - 13
Bella - 47 (woa!)
Bert - 12
Robert - 17
Helen - 15
John - 23

Ignore Today's Timestamps

2004-08-06T07:20:00.000+01:00

They are so wrong. For some reason, blogger wants me to manually type in the time I want them to show up as posted, instead of manually changing it occasionally to lie about when something was posted. Wrong way round. Also how so unblog is it to falsify a time??

- this was posted 3 minutes after displayed date

For the misinformed...

2004-08-05T19:00:00.007+01:00

Kylie's Chocolate is sooo about love (or sex, if you must), it is most certainly not about chocolate.
I say this because the reviewer at amazon.co.uk says it "makes me want to eat more of the stuff".

Flawless

2004-08-05T19:00:00.006+01:00

George Micheal's song Flawless is amazing zing zing! Strange none of the printed lyrics include the word "flawless".

If You're 17 or over...

2004-08-05T19:00:00.005+01:00

Give Blood. I think I will soon.

Alternatively or in addition, view this page at the National Blood servicefor amazing facts like this one:
"Duelling is legal in Paraguay if both parties are registered blood donors."
Quite a cool site in general... worth a browse.

My Advice to Football Fans

2004-08-05T19:00:00.004+01:00

My advice to football fans in concerning the next worldcup: Support the team you believe will win based on sound level-headed analysis, not nessisarily England.

Some would say this is unpatriotic. It is not. I believe in the happiness of my country's people and I believe people would be happier if they devote their energy of supporting into the team that wins. See I'm patriotic.

The strange paradox is this: I'm being patriotic by encouraging people to be unpatriotic. Hehe.

How to the the exact grains of sand in a specific handful?

2004-08-05T19:00:00.002+01:00

This is highly theoretical:
1. Fill a glass tank with water.
2. pour sand from hand into water.
3. wait until it is sufficiently diffused (Or is sand too heavy?)
4. Take digi-pics from hundreds of angles simultaneously
5. Reconstruct tank on computer in 3d(make a programme to do this)
6. Let computer count the uncountable

Any body else got any solutions on how to do this?

Generation Sex: The full song

2004-08-05T19:00:00.001+01:00

Generation sex respects the rights of girls
Who want to take their clothes off
As long as we can all watch that's OK

And generation sex elects the type of guys
You wouldn't leave your kids with
And shouts "off with their heads" if they get laid

Lovers watch their backs as hacks in macs
Take snaps through telephoto lenses
Chase Mercedes Benz'es through the night

A mourning nation weeps and wails
But keeps the sales of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world

Generation sex injects the sperm of worms
Into the eggs of field mice
So you can look real nice for the boys

And generation sex is me and you
And we should really all know better
It doesn't really matter what you say

by The Divine Comedy

So... apparently that means the song agrees with me and apparently they make the point better. It is quite obviously a "satirical song", as my friend says, but I'll have to read it a few more times before I fully appreciate it. Furthermore, dpen2000 humbles appolgises for the assumptions of the previous post. (They were great points, though, eh?)

Oh yeah, for those, like me, who have never heard this strange phrase(it still is) before, Google has 8,740 references to it. Where on earth were we? ;-) Here's a tiny for them: http://tinyurl.com/64cb7.

Generation Sex: Thanks but no thanks.

2004-08-05T19:00:00.000+01:00

"Generation Sex, respects, the rights of girls who wanna take their clothes off...as long as we can all watch, thats OK!"

Apparently there is a great subtly to this line but I don't know it yet. Enlighten me please! (This quote is also very sexist: generation implies both men and women in an certain age bracket: this quote assumes that GS is made up of only men.)
In the meantime, let's just take on this ridiculous "Generation Sex" concept. Firstly, sex was enjoyed by every generation and the people of the 70s were probably more obsessed than most. (A close reading of Song of Solomon, the bible's very own erotic poem, reveals even in bible times breast size was a concern as it is today. Though, thankfully, they didn't have Page 3.) Secondly, it's unfair to Christians, young priests-in-training, people in comas and many other sensible souls to suggest that we are all obsessed with sex and proud of it.

Visit Jade's website

2004-07-29T23:23:00.000+01:00

Jade is a band in Liverpool:
www.jadetheband.com
The Long awaited launch of their site(which I've seen - it rocks) is coming soon!

My first real shopping trip

2004-07-29T23:11:00.000+01:00

Maybe it's some kind of rite of passage but navigating a supermarket for the first time sure isn't easy. No, I revise that it's sheer hell(metaphorically at least). I mean where does one find custard powder? Or stuffing? I mean there are many easy things: vegetables(if you know what the particular one looks like), drinks(I mean who misses hundreds of bottles?). But past that things get a little harder. And what shopping list doesn't have a few obscure items. I'm relatively okay: I don't mind asking customer services to label my list with isles or asking a question(to multiple assistants if needed to find a precise location). Then you have the nightmare of packing bags. Even a basket full takes more than one bag and this takes time: and even if the till assistant helps you(such as at ASDA(sometimes, if you're lucky)) that still stops them from serving other customers. One man's customer service is another man's customer disservice. In the event, I survived as ASDA had a cafe where I could sit down and pack my bag properly and take the crumpled fivers back out of my unzipped trousers pockets to disposite them somewhere safe.

A few practical suggestions:
1. An Index of items needed to be created
2. Stop moving around items!
3. Online supermarket shopping would work IF the customer was contacted if some item could not be found instead of the customer getting some substandard crap alternative.

2004-07-27T15:44:00.000+01:00

Just testing.

Been to the doctors today...

2004-07-12T18:57:00.001+01:00

When I came back from the pharmacy, I had a sealed package containing no less than 7 boxes. It's like christmas. And only one of them contains pills. What for? As if I'm going to say that.

It has been alleged...

2004-07-12T18:57:00.000+01:00

that my views in this blog are "homosexual". Well, this from the guy who thinks the use of allcaps will make him better in bed. Go figure!

What he means is my views are "gay" which means he doesn't like them... but that is the point. An express purpose of this blog is to annoy those who think James Bond is cool and that support any kind of team or other person who happens to think he is good at sports : hint hint Tim.

Jack Bauer (of 24) is like James Bond WITHOUT the annoyingly overactive sex drive...

2004-07-12T16:15:00.000+01:00

... This is mainly because Jack somehow managed to place his country's interests over his own. Some form of martyrdome. Mainly because his wife died(no sympathy please: he is nothing more than a construct in our minds: if you dare say he's more, get a life!)

I think James Bond married someone in one movie and then she was killed later. But knowing Bond he probably went on some sort of revenge trip(yeah, that's what he was up to in Die Another Day, for the unlearned out there.)

But Jack and James...
They BOTH fight terrorists
The terrorists they fought were in BOTH cases riddiculous charactatures... James fought media and oil tycoons mostly, Jack seems to go after terrorists who are incredibly organised, civilised(well that word's just there for effect) and in other ways not Osama Bin Ladenish (who apparently has a sister in law. If it was some other celebrity, such an interview would seem ridiculous and petty but in this case...)
They BOTH are highly moment in history specific... James Bond appeals to Cold Warian times, Jack is most definitely post-Stalin, post-Hitler, post-Cold war and post-911 which seems to work for us now for some reason

In any case, 24 rocks!

While I am pretty amazing...

2004-07-09T07:29:00.000+01:00

... the crazy remarks people are leaving as comments are quite disturbing. Whoever you are please stop it. Please believe me: if you find this stuff entertaining, you would be quite disappointed with me in real life. Anyone who posts such remarks: Get a life!

Tennis

2004-06-30T17:40:00.000+01:00

Okay... let me clear... If Tim Henmen does not play as well as his opponent, his play is bad and he thus deserves to lose... quite regardless of the fact that he is British. Some mad lunnos seem to think that he should win regardless of how bad he plays, this is utterly objectionable and rubbish. To all such people, stop watching Wimbledom and get a life!

Woa!

2004-06-27T17:20:00.000+01:00

Woa! It's 20 past 5 already.

Euro 2004 (Twisted) Humour

2004-06-27T17:01:00.000+01:00

As everybody in the whole world knows, we lost Euro 2004. It's painful to say we as it wasn't me, it was a bunch of people who happen by some fluke of chance to have been born in the same country as me led by the husband of a failed pop star. Harsh but true.

And we all know what the international symbol for bad drivers is: Red cross on a white flag.

The england vs Portugal match was not the first time we lost against a host country's team: the only other times we played against host teams in the history of the european championships(ironic name!) was in 1980 against Italy and 1992 against Sweden. Both we lost.

So in the World Cup 2006, english people, one and all, support a good team!

Expandable Posts: Good or Bad

2004-06-27T16:30:00.001+01:00

I said bad. so they're gone. Why? So I can do short posts like this of course without annoying the shap out of people.

Hi This is a second post - for testing purposes again really

2004-06-27T16:30:00.000+01:00

This is a really long post or at least it will be when I have finished typing it. What can I say here to fill up this space? Any ideas? Thought not. Well I'll just have to keep on rambling or repeating myself.This is a really long post or at least it will be when I have finished typing it. What can I say here to fill up this space? Any ideas? Thought not. Well I'll just have to keep on rambling or repeating myself.This is a really long post or at least it will be when I have finished typing it. What can I say here to fill up this space? Any ideas? Thought not. Well I'll just have to keep on rambling or repeating myself. See I repeated myself or rather copy and pasted myself. Why do we talk about repeating ourselves? Instead of repeating what we say. That's english for you: irregular, stupid and in need of a good old smack. But who's there to give it one? Now the french, they know how to discipline their langauge.

Hi. My name is David...

2004-06-27T14:47:00.001+01:00

And this is my blog. I am currently just experimenting around with this at the moment so this post will probably eventually get deleted. But who knows?