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[Apr. 26th, 2006|10:43 pm] |
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Þótt ég talaði tungum manna og engla, en hefði ekki kærleika, væri ég hljómandi málmur eða hvellandi bjalla. Og þótt ég hefði spádómsgáfu, en hefði ekki kærleika, ég væri ekki neitt. Kærleikur trúir öllu. Kærleikur vonar allt. Kærleikur umber allt, og fellur aldrei úr gildi |
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| I've now received this about a DOZEN times. |
[Mar. 26th, 2006|12:07 am] |
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hey everyone, i dont normally send this sort of stuff out but had a look on
the internet and its actually true . On the 1st of november , we will have
to pay for the use of our MSN and email accounts unless we send this message
to at least 18 contacts on your contact list. It's no joke if you don't
believe me then go to the site (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm ) and see for
yourself.
Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts , your msn
dude will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward cos people won't
take notice of it
Good GOD. People. If you're going to spam your contacts with this crap then at least READ THE PAGE THAT IT LINKS TO! So, let's look at the date for starters.
Sunday, 25 February, 2001, 11:00 GMT
That's 2001, kids. Five whole years ago. 1,825 days. 43,800 hours. 2,628,000 minutes. Getting the picture? Good. Now, let's scroll down the page and read some more.
Microsoft stresses that the site's core facilities including Hotmail will remain free.
Which strangely does not mean "Oh my God, Hotmail is going to start charging you without telling you and you're only going to find out via a badly-laid-out e-mail that your friends are going to spam you with, and you won't even get a blue icon like the e-mail says you will." Common mistake I guess. |
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| EZSFV v1.1.2 |
[Mar. 17th, 2006|10:44 pm] |
It is with pleasure I announce the release of EZSFV v1.1.2, an easy-to-use SFV checker for Windows. The changelog before v1.1.2 isn't specific, since I wasn't taking notes. But below is a summary of the functions up to this point:
- Table view of all SFV file contents, along with expected checksums, actual checksums, and the file's status.
- Detection of missing files.
- Detection of zero-length files.
- Detection of invalid checksums.
- Overlooking of SFV lines with less than 10 characters (i.e. eight hex checksum characters, space separator and >0 filename length).
- Overlooking of semi-colon comment lines.
- Additional numeric display of SFV results, split into OK, Failed and Missing.
- Progress bar and text-based status indicator.
- High-speed CRC32 fingerprinting.
The plans for the next version are currently as follows:- File association and program file drag-drop linking, including option for a silent run with only end confirmation.
- Exporting of text reports.
You can download the current version of EZSFV from the link below:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RWCZWB7I |
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| 00001010 X 0x0A (pour Julie) |
[Mar. 15th, 2006|08:50 pm] |
<Sabdo> on one of those speech-to-text programs my friend ripped ass onto the mic.
<Sabdo> and it typed out "France"
<Sabdo> we were like, wtf? --- < Wombles> i rang up a taxi friday... drunk.. and in in a pirate accent.. i said "Yarr ahoy me maitie! i need me a row boat to take me back to me ship which is docked at <insert address>"
< Wombles> i cant believe one came. ( More, more, MORE! ) |
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| Oh BABY! |
[Mar. 9th, 2006|04:01 pm] |
Giggidy-giggidy-giggidy!
Journal entry actually talking about stuff coming soon, honest. No, really. |
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| When I get where I'm going... |
[Feb. 12th, 2006|10:51 pm] |
When I get where I'm going
On the far side of the sky
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly
I'm gonna land beside a lion
And run my fingers through his mane
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
And I'll leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
Yeah when I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here
I'm gonna walk with my grand daddy
And he'll match me step for step
And I'll tell him how I missed him
Every minute since he left
And then I'll hug his neck...
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
And I'll leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
Yeah when I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here
So much pain and so much darkness
In this world we stumble through
All these questions I can't answer
So much work to do
But when I get where I'm going
And I see my maker's face
I'll stand forever in the light
Of His amazing grace
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
Hallelujah
I will love and have no fear
When I get where I'm going
Yeah when I get where I'm going... |
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| NASA Day of Remembrance |
[Jan. 26th, 2006|09:34 pm] |
"The astronauts who lost their lives serve as an inspiration for us all. None of them would have wanted to give his or her life in vain. None would have wanted us to stop striving for the stars. If anything, we must continue to preserve their dreams."
"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them... as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye, and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God."
  
Sic itur ad astra. Thus you shall go to the stars. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 16th, 2006|09:30 pm] |
| [ | listening to |
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Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
Never molested though in the wrong
Well farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by
When death has come and taken our loved ones
It leaves our home so lonely and drear
And then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year
Well farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by
When we see Jesus comin' in glory
When he comes down from his home in the sky
Then we shall meet him in that bright mansion
We'll understand it all by and by
Well farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brothers live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by
Yeah we'll understand it all by and by |
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| Oh I love annoying chavs |
[Dec. 20th, 2005|03:23 pm] |
Okay, this person randomly adds me to MSN. I was already tired and not in the mood for messing around.
them: hi
them: HUS THIS
me: you added me, you tell me who you are
them: WHERE U FROM, NEWCASTLE? [the ? was an animated one with 'i asked you a question, mother fucker']
me: noyfb
me: now, who are you?
me: and is it really necessary to consistently type in capitals?
them: FUCK U ASS LICKER
me: well ok, goodbye. wait.. no, good luck. i think with that attitude and mental capacity you'll need it
Quite bizarre. |
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| Bloody hell. |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|11:34 pm] |
Massive explosions have ripped through a British fuel depot north of London, spewing out huge fireballs and thick black smoke in what officials say could be the biggest fire in peacetime Europe.
Police reported that 43 people were hurt in what appeared to be an accident at the Buncefield depot near the town of Hemel Hempstead, about 40 kilometres northwest of London just, after 6 am (0600 GMT) on Sunday.
Witnesses described a series of massive explosions shooting flames hundreds of metres into the air followed by a huge plume of billowing smoke.
-SBS News
There are reports of the explosion being heard as far away as Holland.
Videos (paste into Windows Media Player's File -> Open URL):
mms://wm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68002e708/bb/09012da68002e933_16x9_bb.wmv
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68002e708/bb/09012da68002e936_16x9_bb.asx
Image from Meteosat courtesy Eumetsat:
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|04:33 pm] |
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Okay, so whoever accessed my site through the at.tf portal recently would've noticed it redirected to a muslim extremist page. Portland was hacked, it seems. Original page is at http://atomicphreak.p6.org.uk if you want to see. Problem is sorted; AlpenNIC has been updated. |
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| Oh. My. Gawd. |
[Nov. 29th, 2005|10:43 pm] |
| [ | feeling |
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Okay, the past two days have been the weirdest in a long time. People with the 'eww' tendency, you may wish to reconsider reading this.
So I've been feeling sick and I got booked in for a Barium meal, blah blah blah. So yesterday comes around. I have to take the preparation mixture for the appointment the next day. I get home from school, and find the sachet they sent me in the post. I think at this point you should be shown the rather funny warnings it came with:
If you currently have an inclination as to what this stuff does, you're most probably correct. Anyway, so I got home from school yesterday and mixed this stuff together. It didn't just get hot, it bubbled and fizzed too, which is not something you wanna see and hear when you're about to drink it. But I did drink it, cos I is 'ard. Nothing happened. Until 11pm. The rest is up to you. (Yes I know you just found that either hilarious or disgusting, but that's why I'm here, to humour or disgust. :-P)
So anyway, having not been able to eat since lunch time yesterday, I woke up starving. Good way to temporarily stop you feeling hungry is a bit of water, then I remember I can't drink on the morning of the appointment. Bleh. So anyway, I end up at the hospital at just after 9am. Seeing I was expecting (choice of word explained later) x-rays, I was assuming I'd be able to wear my normal clothes, since x-rays aren't particularly picky about travelling through navy-blue t-shirts. Instead I had to change into a hospital gown. A nice blue-white stripey thing with a lettered gown underneath. Funkay.
Then I have to take the Barium mixture. Now I, for some reason, pictured a little plastic cup like you have cough medicine in. I was wrong. Instead, I got one of these, FULL of one of the most disgusting suspensions ever known to man.
(for reference, it's about 15cm tall)
So after almost puking with each mouthful, I have to sit there for 20 minutes to let it stick to my insides. Then I got called into the scan room, and there's a machine that was part-MRI machine, part-X-ray machine. Hence the loose term earlier, because I don't actually know what I was scanned WITH. The machine had a full-length vertical runner, and a two-thirds-length circular runner around the bed so it could be moved by computer, etc. The emitter itself was plastic (not metal like x-ray machines) and circular with approximately 30cm diameter. There were no x-ray plates either, the images were on-screen. The detail is included there in case someone knows what the heck I was actually scanned with and would like to tell me.
EDIT: Rob told me it was a fluoroscope, so that's that sorted. Ta Rob :-D
So, three images on my back to check the location of the mixture, then on my front. Strangest thing is that I was poked with a wooden spoon. Because out of all the scientific implements they could lay their hands on, a wooden spoon is the most efficient for separating your insides out. At one point he said he was going to have to press quite firmly, and he wasn't joking. He pressed so hard on one side that the other side of my body involuntarily lifted up. At the same time he caught a nerve near my hip. Ouch.
So after all that, he tells me he can't see anything immediately wrong, but will take a closer look and get the results back to my doctor's within 7 to 10 days. So I'm free to go home, and more importantly, free to eat. First thing I went for when I got home? Chocolate of course. Wooo!
Signing off. Or something. |
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| Pictures speak louder than words... okay, some need words of explanation. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|08:48 pm] |
Look what came in the post today, pt. 3:
Look what came in the post today, pt. 4:
Yes, I did randomly get 50 teabags, 50 instant coffee packs, 25 flyers and 25 posters (not pictured) in the post.
Hooray for (really) old printer working on Windows XP!
Look what I found rummaging about in the tech boxes (yes, we literally have boxes of lots of old equipment):
2.1GB hard drive, still working perfectly. It actually now has Windows XP on it for diagnostics. I guess that's Western Digital reliability for ya :-P |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 12th, 2005|12:48 am] |
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Wow. Later With Jools Holland finished about 10 minutes ago. Sigur Rós were absolutely amazing. They did Hoppípolla and Með Blóðnasir one after the other, and it was very beautiful. I taped it (hopefully - I set it up, at least) on the HD recorder, so I should be able to make a decent MP3 of it. The other artists were good, too. Cheryl Crow did a great solo piano version of one of her songs, and with the Beeb having all their orchestral-type music experience, they made it sound even better. Santana were pretty good, too. Should really look into their stuff. All for now! |
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