And the rumours start

Barely is old Wacko Jackos body cold and the rumours start about foul play and stuff. They have all surfaced from the woodwork, he's not really dead, he was murdured and on it goes.

The gutter press with their usual speculation will no doubt make the most of it with stories today that he was bald, covered in puncture marks and full of pills.

We'll either way he's not here so onto the next subject....

I still don't see a Farah Fawcett tribute or any 32 page pull out specials in the press complete with wall poster etc.

Jacko

Well Jacko has gone to meet his maker, and we're stuck with 24 hour tribute shows.
I find it quite amusing that even though he's been accused of kiddie crimes our daughters school had a special bloody assembly for him.
That's just mint that is "now kids, we're having a special assembly in honor of an alleged kiddie fiddler" - Good call.

Poor old Farrah Fawcett gets one night on the news then it's over shadowed by all this.

The good news is that it's not put my chickens off laying. Just had some nice bagels with bacon and fresh eggs. Now that's the way to spend a morning, not listening to the 40th renditioning of Billy Jean.

Feacebook - Nah I'd rather put my face in a bucket of acid

With Yahoo 360 closing I sought long and hard where to start a new blog - despite my blog containing no information of value other than the odd Ubuntu tip (Install "Storage Device Manager" for easy mounting of pen drives, usb devices etc that might be in strange format patterns i.e Amiga etc, Use "ISO Master" to create and edit ISO image files) I rejected the urge to step aboard Feacebook or Twatter.

(What's quite funny is I actually meant to type the proper names but both got mis-spelt when I typing them, that's a sign from somewhere - most likely "you have your hands on the keyboard wrong", but quite an amusing finger slip).

Now before the 15,000 posts come back saying how brilliant they are and everyone has 5 million friends, OK then how many do you REALLY know ?
You might have Ying Li in China as a friend but have you met him ? do you actually know him ?
The answer is generally now.

With the new Xbox 360 update allowing you onto these sites I almost contemplated removing the Xbox from the house via a large catapult. I can't think of anything less inspiring than during a COD on line match (and no I don't speak to the other players unless I know them) that someone sends me a vampie or poke or whatever they send.

Imagine your just stalking the enemey and up pops a live message box "Boris has updated his status 'Gone for a shit'" - great stuff.

As I commented the other day I wonder how many people are on these sites with "friends" that are technically enemies due to political, religeous or ethical reasons.
Now that would be a good update "Boris has updated his status 'We are at war" "

So with the fact that I have no interest in being "friends" of 99.999999999% of the human race I don't know and that no one cares when I take a shit or blow my nose I'm happy to sit in a quiet corner of cyber space and vent my ramblings on the world through blogger.

Then again Google wave will be another trial - I might set my mobile up so it can send messages every 15 seconds - "I've just drank a cup of tea", "I've just fed the chickens", "I've just ate the chickens", "I've just closed a door" - ahh cyber junk, you can't beat it.

Status update - "I've just written something"

Boarding soon

I booked my flight on a budget airline to Germany for business, you know it's going to be a hard flight when you print your boarding pass and has several boxes saying "please tick here if you have flying experience, catering skills, mechanical/electrical break fix abilities, search and rescue qualifications".
I'm brushing up on Flight sim - now then Frankfurt Airport, that's right at Gatwick and ......

Then again it's probably better than the budget train ticket I had, I noticed each ticket had a number on it, when mine came up the loudspeakers announced it was my turn shoveling coal on the footplate.

Ahh the old one's are the best ones.

Pratting around

Todays phrase for the Geeks amongst us is "Pratting around"
This gem was invoked on us today by Paul in my team, it describes the general fiddling and messing about that computer geeks get up to not necessarily with any purpose in mind.

So when your next tweaking your wireless network mini PCI card settings, upgrading a BIOS for no reason, installing hardware sensor monitors because your interested in how fast the cpu fan is really going then your officially Pratting around.

Hopefully my team will still answer the phone "Tech support" rather than "Pratting support" !

Ahh jeez it's all blank

I moved my blog here 'cos they closing Yahoo 360 so I thought, new blog, new slate.

Hmm nice and clean here, no doubt I can put some rambling rubbish on here....

The good news is Xbox Live is off line for 24 hours, I can just imagine several thousand 49 year old Virgins sitting in their basements (Sorry ... COMMAND BUNKERS) weeping into their hands as they try to grasp 24 hours of cold turkey reality.

Their Moms trying to console them "It's OK Colin, I'm sure your little friends will be on line soon and you can run around playing your happy shooting games soon" - sure enough "Sniper XXX Elite Killer 194752" will be back on line armed with his Xbox Elite, Rapid fire controller, a bucket of Maltesers and several bottles of Coke.

Let the games begin...