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NAME THIS BEAR!!!

// March 30th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

A bear with no name

This bear has no name

and that�s sad

Please please please name this bear for both my and my lil sis� sake!

I’ve been a silly bunny

// March 30th, 2005 // No Comments » // Tech

I migrated this site into the new web host control panel on Sunday.

It didn�t go well. Suffice to say the site was down for a few hours whilst I sorted everything out. I finally got it working and everything is back to normal (well almost – the templates seem to have dropped back a version and I don�t know why but I�m sure I�ll sort it out at some point)

But here�s the really silly … I forgot to set up my email address again!!! I know. Can you believe it?

If you have sent me email in the past 2 days then please resend as it has vanished into the blackhole of the internet!!!

Sorry about this.

rob

It’s the bloomin book meme

// March 29th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Thanks to Jeremy for this little wonder!

My biggest problem is not finding answers but rather finding people to pass it on to who haven�t already done it�

So here we go

You�re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

(for those who haven�t read F451 and have amazingly managed to avoid this Meme this means which book would you like to see burn)

Easy ones first this time? Anything by Mills and Boon. I don�t care which one (ideally all of them in a special edition boxed set but that would weight about 900 tons and probably isn�t too practical). I�m all for erotic fiction but I have never in my life seen such a blatant example of quantity over quality. WAKE UP PEOPLE THEY SUCK ASS!!!

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Yup� if the book has a central female character who�s feminine and smart and described well then my imagination will normally take over and fill in the gaps to make her almost perfect. My last one would have been Antoinette Bax in Redemption Ark

The last book you bought is:

Century Rain – yes I know it�s by the same author but I happened to find out I�d missed two of his books (don�t ask how) and bought them both at the same time. This one was last on the till receipt

The last book you read:

A POS thriller called Aphrodite (no I�m not linking it … it�s bad for you) by Russell Andrews. Dad asked me what I thought of it when I was about a quarter of the way through and I told him it was crap. He then asked why I was reading it and I answered �To see if it gets any better� … it didn�t

What are you currently reading?

Embaressingly enough I�m between books at the moment.

Five books you would take to a deserted island.

Alice in Wonderland – it puts everything in perspective

The Boy Scout Handbook (waterproof edition)

Nymphomation by Jeff Noon – I just love what that guy can do with the english language

Everyman

The Pig of Happiness – Edward Monkton

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

Dunno yet I�ll keep you posted though

The Interview Game

// March 29th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

The first meme of the evening comes courtesy of Jim over at SnoozeButton Dreams.

The idea is that one gets interviewed and then has to interview the first 5 commenters to the original answers� or something.

The Rules

1. Leave me a comment saying �interview me�. The first five commenters will be the participants.

2. I will respond by asking you five questions.

3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. (Write your own questions or borrow some.)

Mine are in the beyond� get commenting!

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It’s a meme evening

// March 29th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

I have a couple to get through … things I should have done an age and a half ago but in the true spirit of procrastination haven�t gotten round to until now.

Incidentally my lateness in completing said tasks has nothing to do with a recently arrived copy of this and even less to do with this.

It has nothing to do with these things at all … honest

An easter message

// March 24th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Last night we were talking about the boggling number of kids these days who don�t understand what Easter is really about …

Well I have a message for them in the extended entry�

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’saquizthing … HIC!

// March 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Bourbon
Congratulations! You�re 127 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (100), and liquor (86).

Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you�re going straight for the

bottle and a shot glass! It�ll take more than a few shots of Wild

Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know

how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 50% on proof

You scored higher than 87% on beer index

You scored higher than 96% on wine index

You scored higher than 93% on liquor index

Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid

(Snaffled from Ilyka)

How to survive in an agency

// March 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

So not all of us are lucky enough to work in an agency (myself included) but most of the points are still valid.

Have your Cake and Eat it

A couple of time wasters for a Tuesday afternoon

// March 22nd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Ok, both of these need flash and they are both screwed up in a big way� the first is:

Nanaca Crash

You hit a guy with a bike and set him rolling. Hit others for boosts or slow downs and click in the air to get a boost or something … utterly screwed!

and the other (less violent but still funny) is called Babycal throw … the instructions are clear enough