Broadband in Northern Ireland...

All though not breaking news it has yet to be stated on my blog, Northern Ireland has become the first region throughout Europe to achieve 100% broadband coverage. Ha ha ha, that's one in the eye for people who think we are backward in standard of living or technology!

P.S. - Monday's do really suck.

TODAY'S LINKS :: Game Console Controller Family Tree :: Dungeons and Dragons 8bit gaming :: Jesus - The Madchester Musical :: Tips for improving your handwriting :: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMERS

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones" Richard Bandler

Sicky, Bad, No Wheel...

Ok so it's the weekend, lets try and have a good one and a safe one! I must draw your attention to this Blog, it called Cyber-Satan. I read it everyday when I have my morning coffee and enjoy it immensely. It's a thought provoking, intelligent and well written blog, something I can only aspire to be, all I post is drivel. Maybe you should check it out too. Anyway masquerading as a post today as I have been ill this week (Dimples took good care of me) and can't be bothered updating here, this is a reply I wrote for the entry entitled - False Consciousness?

Hmmm. My you are hard on yourself, do you ever get to smile and how does all this affect your children's upbringing? I think it's great how you feel, think and analyse. Makes me wonder how you ended up in that position, experiences, how you where brought up or is your brain just wired differently?

I do my best to be nice to people, work hard and help out who I can along the way but I try to have fun too. I don't care about amassing material wealth and hope to have the opportunity to raise some kids in a stable bohemian household. I don't however run the marathon for some cancer charity, I don't do research in to a cure for AIDS or even volunteer at Oxfam but does that, by your own self critical analysis, make me a bad person?

We all have external pressures, like nothing ever experienced before in time and this is the problem, we have it easier than ever before, ergo are spoilt. My folks had nothing while growing up (11 kids on my mum's side sharing 2 bedrooms) in the 30's and 40's, neither did anyone else but they had the happiest childhood and would not change that for anything.

I deal with customers every day, all day in work, they are all top level management, MD's and business owners and a bunch of nastier people you could not find and most people would aspire to have their wealth and lifestyle, what does that say about OUR society?

Unfortunately we cant flap our little butterfly wings and on the other side of the world a weather front of change happens bringing about world peace, I just think we got to play the game...

TODAY'S LINKS :: Bizarrely sexual comic book covers :: MoBlog - My life in photo's :: Sharpe Edge Sign :: How Operating Systems Work

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd" Louis Aragon

Blue Monday...

Are you tired, fed up or down today, I know I am but that, as always, is due to lack of sleep on my part and nothing to do with the fact that today is apparently the most depressing day of the year, well, according to one Psychologist, Dr Cliff Arnall. He has weighed up the influence of a number of January-specific phenomena and touts this as the bluest day of the year. Apparently his next feeeeet is to tell us the happiest day of the year, the smelliest and the chewiest! Possibly...

TODAY'S LINKS :: The Emergence of Advertising in America :: Join me in saying F YOU to my taste buds... :: Virtual Drum Set

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Oh, they have Internet on computers now."

Go, go, go...

OK folks, just a quick one today! I am so looking forward to getting drunk tonight, listening to some Podcasts (surprisingly I have not done that before) while playing poker and then when I am suitably drunk starting to watch my Spiderman DVD's! I will be posting pictures over the weekend on my MoBlog if you care to check it out as, I am staying up in the big smoke (Belfast *sigh*) tomorrow evening with Dimples! I must say tho, what a F'in C Pete Burns was last in Big Bro getting tore in to Traci Bingham like that, she is a lovely lady, did not deserve that and if I was there I would not have been able to hold my tongue, unlike everyone else seemed too, twats! Hope you all have a great weekend and enjoy the Friday link-fest below!

FRIDAY'S LINK-FEST :: All I Ever Learned, I Learned from Anime :: My Photo Blog :: Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery :: F*CK Valentines Day :: Torrent Search Engine :: OLD ONE - Dancing Fat Lad :: Mushroom Life - huh?! :: Drug War Clock :: How to write a paper in college/university :: THE OFFICIAL GOD FAQ

REMEMBER KID'S :: "I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!"

Animation...

I am really liking animation at the minute, well I have always liked it really but just at the mo I am finding it more entertaining than previously. I am sure it comes from the fact that boundaries can be pushed so much further and you find that sex, violence or language that could never be produced for the big or small screen without relegating it to the dark recesses of the underworld can be recreated in an edgy, entertaining and escapistic (is that a word Dimples?) way! For me the best animation relies on the writing tho and not the prettiness of the drawings or indeed, how graphic they are. Imagine how four 8 year old boys calling one an others mothers "crack whores" would go down in the real world, well clearly it wouldn't and would never be made in to a movie but in cartoon form South Park is one of the best things on TV currently!

Anyway the point is that I have been buying Spiderman classics and some new stuff but I want something a little more adult, this leads me to Manga and other Japanese animation! I have some stuff already but it's so had to find good movies that are not all about the sex and violence and indeed has some substance. Well... After reading this review that I spied on Slashdot I think I am going to get Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Complete 1st GIG Box Set (7 Discs)! If anyone can recommend anything else I am open to suggestions because with little knowledge it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff!

Now that you are all bored, remember that it's most of the way through the working week, now skip off in to the interwebnet distance with a smile on your face, after you have check out the links I slave over every god dam day for you guys, naturally!

TODAY'S LINKS :: MoBlog - My life in photo's - UPDATED :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: Billiard World :: Starbucks Drinks Simplified :: Bitch - Book Reviews

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Marge I swear, I never thought that you would find out."

Monday's Suck...

There we have it, Monday again and the first thing I read as I log on is "Britain could soon become plagued by blackouts and rocketing fuel bills, according to one of the country's biggest unions."! Now that's just super but I think you will find I have been telling people for 6 months and may even have mentioned it here previously, that, oil is running out and unless something drastic is done we, as a developed country, are screwed! Sorry folks but its true, we rely on that black gold for most things, from fuel to plastic and once it's gone, it's gone! It is set to happen in OUR life time too, maybe even in as little as ten years! The world will be thrown in to chaos, 3rd world countries that have the survival skills will lead the way as we rummage around in our gardens looking for our next insect meal, don't say I did not warn you!

On a lighter note, I so can't wait for the I.T. Crowd. It starts on 3rd Feb at 9.30pm on Channel 4 but you can watch it first on channel4.com from Jan 27, if you so desire! The blurb goes " The high-rise towers of Renham Industries are full of go-getters, success stories, and winners... apart from in the basement. While their beautiful colleagues work upstairs in fantastic surroundings, the I.T. department - Jen, Roy and Moss - lurk below ground, scorned by their co-workers as geeky losers." Brill!

The weekend was an enjoyable affair for me, Poker on Friday evening was great a real tension filled game, tho I only managed 3rd! Thanks Kayeso and everyone else who was playing and I suppose congrats to 2 Beers Boyd for winning! Saturday evening was spent in the pub with Dimples and on Sunday the shops called as money was burning a whole in my pocket, not that I got anything (during the week I bought some Spiderman 70's animation classics), Dimples benefited and I forced a pair of knee high whore boot upon her, lol! That evening we enjoyed watching the Lakeside World Darts championship, a nail biting final with the 21 year old Dutch star Jelle Klaasen coming from no where as a 1/100 shot to take the title, great TV! Shame his girl friend bottled popping the question if he won.

That's your lot for today, now move on, nothing to see here!

*edit* Oh but I was on Play.com so picked up some sale DVD's for late night drunkin viewing:

• Spiderman - The New Animated Series (2 Discs)
• Vampire Wars (Anime)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Movie Collection Box Set (Death And Rebirth / End Of Evangelion
• Spiderman - The Venom Saga
• Spider-Man Vs Doc Ock

TODAY'S QUESTION :: What would your exit music from Big Brother be or your entrance music in Darts? After thinking about this for a bit it has to be... P.I.M.P by 50 Cent for me!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Balderdash and Piffle :: MoBlog - My life in photo's :: Ron Jeremy blog :: Welcome to the Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada :: Film noir :: Grand Illusions

REMEMBER KID'S :: "I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun!"

Lucky Friday...

So it's Friday, happydays but also the 13th, boo hiss. Now I don't buy in to all that superstitious rubbish but because I am (think) participating in a Poker game tonight it maybe has more meaning to me today. Anyway whatever transpires, if I loose I will be blaming the date!

Sort of a poker overload this evening because after the game I am returning home to watch the new South Park that I will have recorded from the Paramount Channel and playing Online Poker at www.partypoker.com and hoping to find a few chumps there. I play under the name 'gadcouk' if you wanna look me up. Think I will enter a tournament tonight, smoke lots of Marlboro Reds and plenty of VRB (Vodka & Red Bull)!

I was searching for images and came across Montage-a-Google. It's very interesting in that it makes an image wall of anything you search on, so here is the image wall for GAD123. Does this represent me at all? It's weird:

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for dropping by!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Montage-a-google :: No Limit Single Table Tournament Strategy :: Why is Marijuana Illegal? :: 80's Lyrics Quiz: People are What? :: The technology behind Google's great results :: What are the odds of dying?

REMEMBER KID'S :: "I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."

Lost For Words...

So did everyone watch Lost last night? Any good? I seen it ages ago as it was shown, along with other well known American import shows like Desperate Housewives on RTE long before C4 or E4. I am currently waiting for season 2 of Lost to start, which I assume will be soon but I will give you all a heads up as soon as I know. Remember if you have Sky you all can view RTE or if, of course... you live in Ireland!

So what's the score with New Years Resolutions, anyone make any? Stick to them? I never do and true to form did not this year, just don't see the point! If I am going to change something, I will, I don't need an excuse to do it. I suppose stopping smoking will be the biggie this year.

You can do this too if you want, it's boring but content non the less. Here are my favourite 10 objects, in a ranked order, sort of:

1.PC *sighs*
2.42" Plasma TV
3.DVD Recorder
4.Vodka Measure for VRB
5.New Remote Control
6.Cordless Headphones
7.k750i Mobile
8.Fish tank
9.Bed
10.Zippo Lighter

I could go on and on because like every man, I find it possible to love inanimate items, lol! I found this very funny irc quotes page, you got to check it out! Here are some geeky examples:

do you think the word emo would be accepted in scrabble
Of course not. Emos are never accepted anywhere.

i ditch girls for video games all the time
<@monk-work> toggling between your porn window and your gaming window does not qualify as "ditching girls for video games"

I really think I'm a moron.
I just now realised that Neo spelled backwards is one

[TA]-1 Ozzy0: any CSS clans in here?
Hambocho: you must really be into web programming if you're after a CSS clan.
Lord Traith: I'm after an RSS clan.

TODAY'S LINKS :: Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774-2004 :: Sex Tutor - How to do it right! :: Evolution - what YOU need to know :: Magenn power :: Internet Movie Lovers Database

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Now, Marge, don't discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel."

Big Brother, Mostly...

So Celebrity Big Brother in the UK is starting to bed in, settle down and the facades are fading. It's a very interesting show which I have followed since day one, especially when BB stays well away and the 'contestants' are left to chat, entertain and generally, not get on. I love people watching I do, see what I done there? The most interesting thing for me in this years show is the whole Pete Burns thing, the way he looks, his complete lack of competence in doing anything for himself and his witty one liners, "You can take a whore to culture but you can't make her think" - Brilliant!

The scary thing now is that he could face a jail sentence upon leaving the house for wearing a gorilla skin coat, an endangered species (did I really have to point that out?!)! I understand it's wrong to wear it in the moral, earth destroying and cruelty sense but as he pointed out himself, it's been made now ergo, why not enjoy it?!

I know, I know, what about George Galloway but he has just not lived up to my expectations, maybe the image is more than the man... Also aint it cool that so many people smoke and have no regard what so ever for the non smokers!

This is a photo of my new Panasonic DMRES10 DVD Recorder, for the price I got it at, it's amazing!

WEIRD WORLD THOUGHT FOR TODAY :: How on earth did Singer James Blunt (Blunty as I call him) lead this year's Brit Awards shortlist with five nominations, how??! Anyone?

TODAY'S LINKS :: What do you think of the new site images created by Pandairo? :: MoBlog - My life in photo's :: Run your mouse over the people at the Bus Stop :: MUST SEE CLOCK :: Donnie Darko :: Coffee Geek :: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies!

REMEMBER KID'S :: "Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden."

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!

I know it's been a while and you have probably gone through all the feelings of denial, regret, hatred but now your overwhelming emotion should be, neigh WILL be joy, bliss and happiness! For my friends, I am back and as before I have nothing of any interest to say and the equilibrium has returned bringing balance to the interwebnet!

Xmas was a fairly normal affair, family, GF, drink, food, drink, sleep, TV, poker, drink, GF, you get the idea, like a merry go round of gluttony and greed. Very enjoyable too I may add! Tho what was different this year was that for the first time ever in my adult life I stayed in on New Years Eve, wonders will, clearly, never cease!

Now it's the second week in January, Monday dragged and the rest of the week is, I assume, going to as well and all I can say is (not that there is anything wrong with that) thank god I am not on one of those Detox, diets, keep fit things because I am sure at this stage on a Tue, suicide would seem like a plausible option!

Time is a bit of a premium for me at the mo but topics that I should try and cover this week are, Big Brother, all the new TV shows, my DVD recorder and new DVD's, Links to some great sites, online poker, Posting photos on My MoBlog again, Tony Blair's 'respect' plans (nah not really) and whatever other crap I and you care to mention!

To wrap up for today, good luck to anyone who made some New Year resolutions (not that I did), may 2006 be good to you all and don't forget to spread the word!

TODAY'S LINKS :: All new T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: MoBlog - My life in photo's :: Super Mario Pac Game :: Top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP :: The Farmers Donkey :: The History of Dance

REMEMBER KID'S :: "First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!"