XSet is the personal website of Rob Dudley, a 29 year old software and web developer who lives in the Channel Islands...
// February 26th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
Well i made it to durham. Justâ?¦ I managed to get my self stuck in coventsy by virtue of my only having 50 pounds in my wallet. It would seem that fifty pounds is four pounds less than you need to get the train less distance than i flew for 40 pounds. More later. Right now itâ??s miller time!?!
// February 22nd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
I’ve just phoned Apple to inquire politely where the f–k my laptop is and have been informed that it is in Luxembourg … and may arrive sometime next week if I’m very good.
The question in my mind is this – why is it that Amazon can get me a £5.00 CD in under 48 hours but I have to wait more than a week for delivery (i.e. not including build time) of a £1,700.00 laptop? Suffice to say I will be sending Apple a less than chuffed email and recommending that they change their delivery service provider.
// February 22nd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
I go on holiday in 2 days and not only will I do so without a laptop (this is not a geeky requirement by the way, I had some serious work to do when zooming between places on trains) but I’m also going to do it without a cash card … because it got eaten on Friday and banks being the speedy SOB’s that they are, it will take at least 1 week to get me a new one…
Plus I’m down to the last cheque in my cheque book and the automated system that normally sends me 2 about three minutes after I got my last book hasn’t bothered to send me anything time. Not that it matters because without a Cheque Guarantee card (which is also the cash card which got eaten) then a cheque book is worthless…
So to summarize, I’m going on holiday with no means of getting hold of cash outside of actually visiting a branch and making a withdrawal. This in turn will lead to me carrying a lot of cash around with me something which I haven’t done since my wallet was lifted in Southampton 4 years ago taking my entire spending money with it.
Of course I could use my Credit Card bu the earliest I can get funds on that is 3 days because I have to run a BACS transfer due to my NOT HAVING A DEBIT CARD!!!!!!!
Fuck fucking fuck bastards FUCKKKK!!!
// February 21st, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
Blogless friend James sent me this one. It’s a little disturbing but gets quite cool when you reach level 5
(needs Flash)
// February 18th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
Attention all UK peeps… you know Ainsley Harriot right?
Run him through google images search and see if you can spot the odd one out.
// February 18th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
(Snaffled from LeeAnn)
// February 17th, 2005 // No Comments » // Tech
Iâ??ve set-up the blog and itâ??s own email address but now I need some help. It will take a while for the site to get up to speed and you can all help it on its way by sticking the following email address somewhere on your blog.
or if you want the HTML:
Please donâ??t encode it or obfusticate it in any way … I want this address harvested by as many spammy bots as possible.
Also, feel free to drop it in any spammy sign up boxes or use it as a dump email for morally questionable sites.
Iâ??ll post links to the Spam Blog itself once the site is beginning to get populated.
Cheers
Rob
// February 17th, 2005 // No Comments » // Tech
Ok, I’m off the toilet now and yes I washed my hands.
The observant amongst you will have noticed that I now have large squares in my comments with the words No Gravatar against them… this means you don’t have a Gravatar.
and you really should.
To find out more and to sign up (for free!) go to the Globally Recognised Avatar site.
So far I have one (I’m the polecat) and Markiss has one (he’s the guy who looks like Markiss) and I’d like to see some more of those boxes filled so get cracking.
// February 17th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
Immature it may be but this is the first and only post to this site written and published whilst sat on the toilet! Multi-tasking has a lot to answer for.
// February 17th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal
We’ve all had a giggle at the weird and wonderful searches that bring visotrs to our sites. Hell, I was the king of naked traffic wardens for a while last year.
But it takes a certain kind of twisted genius to take this information, horde it, ferment it and regurgitate it in the form of a many chaptered story…
