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Busy

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Believe it or not but I’ve generally been quite busy with one thing and another. The bizzare thing is that I can’t actually remember what I’ve been up to. Tonight is the final year of the MySpace Gig Challenge, which we will mark by collecting my final 3 bands in York tonight. Tomorrow I shall be leaving on my 3rd holiday of the year, a fortnight in Canada I’m very excited.

Anyway I don’t have much to say, just thought that I’d say hello. Hopefully when I get back from holiday I will have some stories to tell.

Guess whos back?

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Yes that’s right I’m back. Although I should point out that I’ve not been away, there seems to be some confusion, last time I posted I said “in the upcoming year I will probably be posting less”, and so I am. I never said that I would never blog again.

As it happens I’ve setup an alternative blog where I can post with anonymity, somewhere where I can bitch about people without them reading. Its like therapy, but cheaper. I must be quite sane though because since setting it up I’ve had nothing to say.

So what exactly have I done? The answer is not much really, I’ve watched lots of TV (season 5 of 24, 3 seasons of Deadwood, 2 seasons of Battlestar Galactica, and 3 seasons of Nip/Tuck), I grew a beard, I shaved it off, I started learning Objective C so I can program cool Mac Apps, I went to work, I went on holiday to Bulgaria. I’m sure I did other things but I can’t remember.

Oh yes and this years New Years resolution – be nice.

Goodbye

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Apparently the upcoming year is going to see a great increase in the number of blogs published. Well I’ve had one for years, and quite frankly don’t ever manage to express what I mean. I’m too worried about who might be reading and what they might think. When in fact probably no one is reading. So in the upcoming year I will probably be posting less.

It all seems a bit futile writing an online diary when it doesn’t quite hold the same anonymity of a real diary. At least with a real diary you can hide it somewhere and hopefully no one will find it. With this, everyone who knows me knows who I am which kind of limits what can be said.

As years go, its been pretty crap, it started off ok but rapidly returned to the usual dullness of the previous years, so hopefully next year will be better. If you want to know how its going, then talk to me because I won’t be writing about it here.

Goodbye and Merry Christmas.

Setting the record straight

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Firstly because I messed up my joke last night, here it is again in all its glory:

A Sydney construction site

An Italian, an Irishman and a Chinese fellow are hired at a Sydney construction site. The foreman points to a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian guy, “You’re in charge of sweeping.” To the Irishman he says “You’re in charge of shovelling.” To the Chinese guy, “You’re in charge of supplies.” He then says, “Now, I have to leave for a little while. I expect you guys to make a dent in that there pile.” So the foreman goes away for a couple hours, but when he returns the pile of sand is untouched. He says to the Italian: “Why didn’t you sweep any of it?” The Italian replies in a heavy accent, “I no gotta broom, an’ you tella me dat de Chinese’a guy supposa bringa da supplies, but he disappear and I no finda him.” Then the foreman turns to the Irishman and asks why he didn’t shovel. The Irishman replies in his heavy brogue, “Aye, that ye did, but I couldn’t get meself a shovel. Ye left the Chinese fella in charge of supplies, but I couldn’t fin’ him.” The foreman is really angry now, and storms off looking for the Chinese guy. He can’t find him anywhere and is getting angrier by the minute. Just then, the Chinese guy springs out from behind the pile of sand and yells… “Supplies!!”

Finally on the subject of cheese pasties/pies it seemed to be a big surprise to everyone that they weren’t made from 100% cheese. It was almost as thought they’d never tasted one before. Yes if you didn’t know then a major component in a Greggs cheese and onion pasty is potato!

Bugger

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I’ve not posted anything for a while, the reason for that – I’ve been busy.

I just feel the need to post now because I’m a fool. I’ve spent about 3 days in total trying to work out why my menus weren’t working in a new WordPress theme that I’m writing. The problem as in most cases is user error. When trying to check if a pages parent ID matched a specific ID, I used an equals sign (=) instead of a double equals sign (==) the result meant that I was assigning each page with a parent ID of 4 resulting in every page having the menu which should have only appeared on pages with a parent ID of 4. I’m not impressed, I had to go through the code a line at a time removing each line in turn until I found the affected code.

At least with this issue sorted I can now crack on with writing all the menus so that hopefully the new site can go live soon.

Scotland Version 2.0

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So I’ve just returned from Scotland (again), this time for Ben Hood’s 30th Robin Hood themed Edinburgh weekend. It started at Newcastle train station at about 13.30 on Friday where we met for the train, there were seven of us travelling from the Toon and a further two coming up from Wakefield, they were on a different train to us so we all met up in the pub at Edinburgh train station. The next task was to get to the hotel which was quite a way out of the city centre. We were very specific that we wanted to go to the Travel Lodge but it still resulted in the taxi driver taking us to the Travel Inn. Eventually we made it there, checked in grabbed some food and headed back out into town.

The problem with Edinburgh seemed to be that they didn’t really like big groups of male only groups, there was 13 of us in total and we got turned away from quite a few places, and when we did get into places one of us would get thrown out for no reason. Friday night was a bit rubbish really. I topped it off with a tikka kebab from Hunza kebab and escorted Wes back to the hotel, he was wasted.

Saturday was a big day we started drinking at about 2pm, the bizzare thing was that we were dressed in fancy dress, some of us Robin Hood, some just generic merry men and others frier tucks. It was very funny and we had more success getting into bars. We actually got in everywhere we tried and managed not to get thrown out of anywhere, it was a major success.

I can’t remember at exactly what time we decided to give up drinking, but it happened at around midnight so 5 of us went for an Indian, it was quite nice. But never before have I had a pershwari nann with honey on before. After the Indian we were gonna have another beer, but failed miserably so decided to get a taxi back to the hotel. At first we spent around 30 mins walking round trying to flag one down, this failed so in the end had to stand for around 40 mins at a rank waiting in the rain. It was a great end to the night!

And so to today, there’s not much to say really. We checked out, went to the pub and then got the train back. The strange thing was the cab journey from the hotel, Keith was feeling a bit rough. Usually when a taxi driver here’s this you’d expect the usual comments about not throwing up. But not this driver, he actually took us on the most bizzare route ever just so he could race over speed humps just to make him feel worse. Luckily there was no vomiting in the cab, although it did happen about 10 seconds after been dropped off at the station.

Anyway that’s about as much as is printable, so I’m off to bed now so that I can get up for a nice day of doing nothing.

Goodnight.

The weekend

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Have just got back from a weekend in Edinburgh for Simon’s birthday, it was good. To be honest I really can’t be bothered to write about it though, I’m sure others will so will post links when they do. Things to come from the weekend include:

  1. Don’t buy food from a little chef
  2. Pie is good
  3. Wine is good
  4. Its cold in Scotland
  5. Rugby is rubbish
  6. You can’t buy a beer at Murrayfield

Here are some photos of the Edinburgh trip and the fantastic Muse gig from Sunday night:
Simons Birthday
Muse

Just a few more days till I go to see the Killers, then back to Edinburgh for another birthday celebration.

How boyish or girlish are you?

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You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle – a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don’t actively fight them.
You’re just you. You don’t try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?