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I first got on the net over 15 (2009) years ago and have had my own site for at least 7 (2009) of those years (a place where I could dump the misery of my everyday life!), you can see my fist efforts @ www.freewebs.com/gad123 and my current blog @ www.gad123.co.uk . I am a kind person, smart, (I know that is subjective) and witty, the dry, sarcastic type! I am told that I am easy to talk to and am very laid back. I enjoy playing poker, listening to any music, watching movies & American TV shows, love going to the pub, dancing on a Saturday night and am a bit of a nerd as I own a Wii, PS3 and built my own PC! I am a creature of routine, love the night time when all the exciting things happen, am a bit of an insomniac and love getting trashed at the weekends! If you want, you can catch me on MSN @ graham@gad123.co.uk! Take care and enjoy you browse around this GAD123 Page!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Where Have I Been; Answer...

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Nowhere is the short answer! I will try to keep this post as concise as possible. Firstly I am unemployed, well, made redundant. The parent company I worked for collapsed and that took our local company with it. We tried all we could to save it, including making an attempt to take it over but a suitable deal could not be settled upon. Basically the MD has went awol, we could not make contact with him and therefore had no way to put together 2008 products we have had no option but to let it go! It's all very sad, depressing really, as 9 years of my life was spent there, with some amazing people, happy years and I fear I will not find something so suitable again.

Looking at the big picture I know this sort of thing happens every day and I am lucky that my responsibilities (financially) are minimal! I have not signed on, am trying to claim some sort of statutory redundancy and am currently living on my savings. Not an ideal situation, money is tight and I am trying to save money where I can. The best thing I have found is half price cigs bought on an auction site, you can't go wrong with £2.50 a packet, lol!

The future is obviously cloudy. I really don't know what I want to do. My position was Office Manager and sticking with Administration would be grand, Sales is another area I could go in to or even IT. Tho computers are my hobby and it would take all the fun out of it for me, clearly I would have to get some qualifications too. Next week I will start sorting all that out, so I will keep you posted.

With all this going on I just let life wash over me a little, it took a fair bit out of me and I just did not have to motivation to post, chat online, e mail people, etc. I have now had some time to get used to it and plan to get back to normality. My social life has been good, with formal dinners, pubs, clubs, poker (won local pub tourney twice in a row but lost last night), parties, etc! Costly business all this drinkin tho! I am still single and looking but do you know what, there isn't much talent in the pub and I fear my judgment is way off when I have had a skin full. One night stands are not my thing and I suppose trying to find something more in the dark recesses of the pub is madness but there you go!

Anyway I think I am done here for today. Fun posts will be resumed in future...

TODAY'S LINKS :: Build your own yurt :: Cartoons attacking Creationism :: The Importance of Social Media Marketing: Why You Should Learn and Master it :: 64 Interview answers you need to know :: FOUND ON CRAIG'S LIST - what an awesome answer... :: How To Make a Speaker

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

I Knew Kimi Would Do It...

Kimi Wins F1 2007

I knew he would do it from day one!

Friday, September 28, 2007

Smoking D-Day for Wireless Blogging...

Apart from being only bloody Friday today is in fact D-Day, why? Well I can't say but let me assure you that it is, keep that in your minds as you read because there will be questions when this subject is brought up again!

Microsoft have released a lovely back lit, brushed aluminium, Wireless Entertainment Desktop keyboard and mouse, I want it, please god but it's £150 notes *sigh*

So 'finally' us drivers could be prosecuted for smoking at the wheel, according to a warning in the latest version of the Highway Code. Fair enough I say but what about banning all the other things that can be distracting. Kids in cars, radios, things hanging from the rear view mirror, what about a ban on hot chicks walking down the road in little more than a belt! Arrrggghhh. Ban everything and keep us all in the little boxes the government want us in! In all honesty, lighting up at the wheel may not be the most sensible thing but please let us use our own judgement!

I am going to keep it all above board today and not lower the tone one bit by mentioning Billie Piper in ITV 2's Belle de Jour - The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl *cue the heavy breathing*

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

I Have Sort Of Fallen Off The Radar...

I really am having one of those 'times' at the mo. Can't believe how much of a bloody moan I have become but there we go! I had a particularly heavy weekend, drinkin both Friday and Saturday. Managed to get barred from Marine Court / Nelson's Bar. I don't like it there and have no reason to go but friends like it so it neither here nor there to me. It was stupid, for whatever reason (must have been having a bad night) one of the bouncers 'Craig' decided that he did not like me and would not let me in wearing trainers (though lots of other guys where in their wearing them), I questioned it in a reasonable way and he told me not to come back, that was Friday. On Saturday I did try to go in but he just pushed me out and said I was barred, I laughed, what can you do?! It's the first time I have EVER been thrown out of a pub or barred! *sigh* I did however end up in Betty Blacks because of it and discovered the best smoking room in Bangor, so there are positives to everything!

I am having another cull and also launching a new Blog. MySpace and MSN need thinned out (think Bebo and Facebook are ok) as I can't give enough attention to those that matter or I actually care about! If you are dropped I hope you have a great day and everything you want comes your way! I have set up a new Blog (I am going back to basics), imported all my old stuff, got a so so layout together, just need to work on formatting and the like, so it will come active on www.gad123.co.uk probably next week, not that anyone cares but it's part of the lifestyle changes!

I watched Death Proof, and Die Hard 4.0 and really enjoyed both of them, tho Death Proof takes somewhat of an acquired taste! Also seen Hostel 2 which was rubbish! Have now seen Heroes Season 2 Esp. 1, in every bead of sweat, glorious HD, sweet! I am hooked all over again! Also have the new High Stakes Poker Season 4 to check out and a heap of other stuff!

My sister went in to hospital for an operation, it's straight forward enough so I hope all goes well for her!

Having a quite enough weekend this week but am staying up all night to watch the Formula 1 qualifying and race, come on Kimi!

Right I am out of here, I will return everyone's e mails soon, I have not forgotten about anyone!

TODAY'S LINKS :: High Stakes Poker :: Heroes :: Grind House - Death Proof :: Fuji F1 Race Circuit :: Nelson's Bar - Marine Court Hotel :: Die Hard 4.0

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Friday, September 21, 2007

I Should Have Thought This Through...

YaY, it's Friday and I am hitting the Pub tonight AND tomorrow! Mmmmmm, drink! Anyway, week has been ok and reasonably busy! The following is an incoherent, rambling mess of stuff I have been doing and thinking this week!

I am participating in the Crysis Beta. It's a brill game, tho not compatible with DX10 in the Beta, yet it looks wonderful, so by the time it's released it's going to be up there too for game of the year. I have to still update the Bios on my PC but I am scared... Finally the Gov are looking at broadband speeds and the like, I want *NEED* a faster connection!

I've been listening a lot to Amy Winehouse, 'Tears Dry On Their Own' is a fantastic tune. Also 50 and Mr West have been at it, tho I hate to say it, the hooks and flow of kanYe take 50 Cent down!

Question Time is back on the BBC so that is cool. New Heroes Season 2 starts next week, happy days. There are so many new shows and old favs starting soon that I don't think I will be able to keep up!

I drink FAR to much coffee, it's like 8+ cups a day at the mo. It's lovely tho, teamed up with a cigarette, mmmmmmm!

I am growing my hair, well I say growing it but the last few times I got it cut I opted for a trim and now it's a bloody mess, I don't know what to do. Should I keep going or get it whacked off?

Well I think that's me done. I hope you all have a great weekend, I am off to the pub with my poker winnings, drinks all round!

FRIDAY'S LINK-O-RAMMA :: Amy Winehouse 'Tears Dry On Their Own' Lyrics :: Intelligence Test, Part 1 :: Just Chill Out! :: Clean Your Monitor :: Roller Coaster Tycoon Slaughter :: Shakespeare Insult Kit

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Kimi Wins As Do I...

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Kimi won at Spa, how fantastic! That must be one super track to drive. I really enjoyed the race, watching Alonso stick it to Hamilton was brill! Other than the race I popped out to Brian's on Friday night and then spent most of the weekend playing BioShock. An amazing game that owes a lot to Half-Life but you just gotta check it out! On Sat I did look after my nieces, so that was a nice way to break it up. Sunday I watched the whole King of the Hill season 11 and season 6 of Family guy! Monday was a nothing day but....

I won Poker last night, YaY! I played fast and loose, well relatively speaking compared to my normal tight play and I will be reverting back to type next week! I made some good bluffs (playing percentages), some bad ones but towards the end I finally started hitting cards, playing hands that I normally would not touch, checking anytime I hit and waiting for the bet against me to get the all in. I also won the 50/50's and when the luck goes your way, playing the rush is wee bickies! Can I do the double and win next week, that is the question!

I was looking at stat's today and found that I am in the top 100 (91) out of nearly 30 million sites for keywords 'games torrent'! How cool is that? Look:

Web Results 91 - 100 of about 29,700,000 for games torrent. (0.25 seconds) :: GAD123 - Enhances your life if Used Correctly... Board Games Torrent Hacker, Tv, movies, games, music, apps, anime, more (T,L). Torrent Mafia, Tv, movies, games, music, apps, anime, more (T,L) ... www.freewebs.com/gad123/ - 64k - Cached - Similar pages

Anyway I will post again tomorrow, have a good day y'all!

TODAY'S LINKS :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts! :: Reading Test - Weird! :: God Made... :: Lipstick In School :: Percentages! :: Arrest for wireless piggybacking

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Friday, September 14, 2007

I am bioSHOCKED at the f1 Appeal Decision...

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OK, just a quick one to end the nerdyness (is that a word??!)! I installed BioShock (shiver me timbers) after updating my graphics drivers but without exiting any of the guff I have still running in Vista and guess what... It ran like a dream, everything maxed out and my little PC was cold as ice. How happy am I?! I had heard so much stuff about that game being tough to run and thought it was a good test but clearly not for my set up, lol! Anyway the game is fantastic, possibly game of the year but lets wait for UT first! Can't wait to get stuck in to playing it tonight, it's been a while that a game has excited me so much, I am a very casual gamer! I like it so much because it's different and the graphics are amazing. It gives a taster of what is to come from DX10. I would say that it looks easily better than what I have seen on the PS3 - a dedicated games machine - it's already falling behind, I know my rig cost like 10 times as much but it goes to show that nothing beats a PC. PC gaming is back folks!!

Just wanna touch on the F1 Spygate, I can't se how the big fine and docking all the constructor points from McLaren is a good thing. In fact, it would not surprise me if they just up sticks and left F1! I know that everyone sees Hamilton as the best thing that ever happened to F1 (I DON'T) or indeed motor racing and want him to take the crown this year but if that was Shu they would have taken HIS points. I think that they could have made the final few races so exciting by just simply taking 15 points off each driver and let them fight it out! It's not over and I am sure McLaren will appeal but come on, Hamilton has years let in the sport at the top level, dump the bias already!!

For the 2nd time this week I say "Have a good one folks"!

FRIDAYS LINKAGE :: Portable applications that run from a USB device :: Thinking of You Quotations :: Daft Punk › Around The World Lyrics - lol :: Oh Dear! :: Depressed Teddy! :: Movie TV Sites

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

It's Gone So Nerdy Around Here...

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OK so I installed my Zalman CNPS9700 LED Fan and heatsink. Bit of a mare really as had to take out the whole motherboard, alter the back plate because of the heatsink on the back of motherboard, bolt it all together and reinstall everything. After checking that, I popped in the new graphics card, installed the drivers (still need to up date them tho) and finally put in a new intake fan in place of 3 drive bays at the front. Was it worth it... YES! The CPU now runs 20 degrees cooler, the PSU is way cooler, graphics are a little sharper and I think I have a performance boost as I can run, games, video, e mail, etc. all at once on Vista without my PC throwing it's toys out of the pram because of the high temperatures! Smiles all round then, I even put some new window decals on!

Next I will work on updating all my software, including the dreaded BIOS, clear out Vista, remove all the system processes that are not needed and finally a little over clocking। All this just so I can run Unreal Tournament 3 maxed out for hours on end where it comes out in November, I think I have lost the plot, lol! I find it fun tho, maybe I could set myself up fixing peoples day to day PC problems... Would you hire me, my rates would be very competitive and the service would be friendly and efficient, maybe even 24 hours! Anyway my system now looks like this:

Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Business DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2400 MHz CPU 4 X 1GB PC6400 Elixir DDR2 800 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) DX10 Superclocked Monitor 1 Samsung SyncMaster 19" LCD Monitor 2 Samsung 42" Plasma Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 Motherboard Zalman CNPS9700 LED Gigabyte 3D Aurora Alu-Black ATB-B Window Side Panel Disk Drive Maxtor 320 GB X 2 1 x Samsung 18x DVDRW LightScribe Black DVD-RW 1 x LG GSA-4167BAL 16x DVDRW/RAM Black Hiper 580W Modular PSU BLACK atx 2.2 12 SILENT Creative Audigy Sound Card Bose 2.1 Sound System AVerMedia PCI Digital/Analogue TV Tuner Hybrid+FM Floppy Drive and Card Reader Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard MX Revolution Mouse ATI Remote Control Microsoft Digital Assistant Fingerprint Reader Various External HDD's, Media Drive and USB Sticks Microsoft LifeCam VX3000 Web Camera

Here are some pics, if you are interested: Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3

Anyway this weekend I am just lying low so I will be on MSN on Friday night and then we have the Formula 1 race:

Belgian Grand Prix on ITV

Live qualifying Saturday 15 September 1230-1420 ITV4
Qualifying re-run Saturday 15 September 1615-1720 ITV1
Live race Sunday 16 Sept1200-1505 ITV1
Highlights Sunday 16 Sept 2245-2345 ITV1
Highlights re-run Monday 17 Sept 1800-1900 ITV4

That's probably all I will post until Tuesday, so I hope you all have a great weekend!

TODAY'S LINKS :: The Technology of Porn :: If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people :: Simple IQ Test :: Power From Water :: Snap A Party Dinner Set :: All Your Base

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

DX10, Weekend and F1 (loves it)...

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OK, OK, so I did not need to upgrade to DX10! I have a 7950 X 2, that is a monster 1 gig of graphics in two cards, bolted together in SLI but you only need one slot to put it in. It's more that enough for a PC gamer and will cut through any task, in fact it was the best card available before the 8 series (DX10) and will still out perform some of those cards. If anyone wants it (it would be a shame to let it go to waste) for themselves or to sell on e bay, bung me a few quid and it's yours! Anyway to cut a long story short, I am going to be skint soon so this was my last chance to make this purchase before the end of the year and I need it for Unreal Tournament (my fav game of all time) when it comes out in Nov!

This weekend I am off to a party on Friday night with Brian and "The Girls", I am useless with names! Obviously I love to think they all fancy me but after my drunkin rant about hating women last week (I was just being a twat, like that comes as a surprise to anyone and winding them up), I think the reality is, that, in fact they all hate me, lol!! Well something like that!

Saturday night I am hoping to hit Wolseys and catch Kayeso DJ. Tho that is very dependant on how messy Friday gets!

Sunday we have the Italian Grand Prix and I think it's going to be a very close run thing! The times are:

Live qualifying Saturday 8 September 1230-1430 ITV4
Highlights qualifying Saturday 8 September 2325-0040 ITV1
Live race Sunday 9 September 1200-1450 ITV1
Highlights Sunday 9 September 2245-2345 ITV1
Highlights re-run Monday 10 September 1800-1900 ITV4

That's it, I will probably not post to Tuesday so everyone have a great weekend!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Unreal Tournament 3 :: Lego Hawking :: Google Jokes, Sometimes... :: DJ Music Software :: Facebook opens profiles to public :: The 10 Best Ways to Win an Argument

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

What a Waste of Time...

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I had to redo my whole GAD123 MySpace layout last night. Basically everything was dropped, all the formatting gone and I don't know why! Maybe with the introduction of the new editing tool and things were reset. Anyway I put together something suitable, grey (my fav colour at the mo) and black to tie me over, tho I kinda like it so it might be there a while! My next mini project is to work on my GAD123 Blogger Page and my GAD123 Yahoo 360 Blog!

I have finally reached 100,000 visitors for www.gad123.co.uk, so that's me on target to reach the 150,000 that I wanted this year and 25,000 more that last year!

Tonight I need to update my graphics software. I hate doing it as sometimes it can be a bind. Setting up the whole dual display with the plasma can get annoying when it will not give you the correct resolution settings! I am also currently getting Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, I so can't wait as it's been years since it was last on TV!

Anyway, have a good day folks!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: The history of Branding :: Glock Pistols :: The Canonical List of Online Colour Resources for Designers

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

The Gig and Excessive Drinking...

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Tuesday seems to be my day of posting, guess what, yip, it's Tuesday today! So I suppose you all want to know how my weekend was with the Snow Patrol gig and all? No! Are you sure? I was very good, well organised (I did not see any trouble, before, during or after), Ash rocked and all though Snow Patrol did not blow me away (it was not the emotional journey I had hoped) or anything they did a great job and all the crowed where 1000% behind it for the home town Bangor boys! £3 a pint was a bit steep when you are getting 3 at a time but it went down so well I did not care! It was weird as I did not see anyone I knew (except Laura, a friends daughter who was all grown up) or was suppose to be going with and instead choose to hang with Brian and "The Girls", well that is how they will be known from now on. We headed down the town afterwards for more high jinks and it was packed! I had a great time, the crack was good, I was drunk, it was outside, easy to get to, able to smoke as much as I wanted and talking crap to strangers was most amusing! Lets not forget the Fireworks disply at the end! Hopefully it can become some sort of annual event!

I am playing poker tonight but I am so bloody tired, last week I wanted an early one and tonight I feel the same, I wish I slept better!! This week I want to clean out my PC, install the free Vista games that did not install with Vista Business, install some Media Software or alternatively purchase this; Thermaltake Media Lab VFD Panel and Remote - Black, give my room a spring clean, head to the Pub on Friday night and watch some movies that I downloaded the rest of the weekend!

Oh, I updated all my sites last week, links, profile blurb, etc! Just in case no one noticed!! Have a nice day folks.

TODAY'S LINKS :: The First GAD1123 Site :: Vista Downloads :: Snow Patrol Bangor Gig Photos :: This is the closest you can come to being a superhero :: Side-by-side diagrams of a few common espresso drinks :: Cadbury's Gorilla Advert

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

MOT, Life, Pics, Stuff, Catch-up...

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Well it's now Tuesday and I am still snowed under, sort of but I am going to make more time for everyone, I promise! I will make this catch-up as concise as possible! Got my Plasma TV bracket (£150 reduced to £60 - Bargain) and put that up last night as you can see by the pic a few posts / bulletins back and again below. I still need to sort cabling, placement of all the boxes and get my speakers on the wall but I am very happy with it and will post a better pic of it complete!

Plasmaonwallgad123

Speaking of pics, I posted a new pic on my MoBlog and will sort a few more soon. The new one is waiting outside for my MOT, which my car passed, yay! Was a complete nightmare with Renault, lots of problems and if that can't be resolved a damming post will be made here!

Reading & Leeds Festival was very good, with a lot of not so well known band performances covered. Kate Nash did a little live piece and on the strength of that I got her album, only really listened to a few tracks but Foundations is just a brill song and I sort of fancy her a little but not as much as Lily Allen, is that wrong??! While on that subject, would one of Amy Winehouses family please step in and save that girl

I watched 6 hours of the WSOP 2007 on Monday, all very interesting and a great way to spend Monday! Friday stayed up to half three in the morning watching the festival and then was up at 6am to get ready for MOT. Family BBQ in the afternoon and took my older, special needs, niece out for a mini pub crawl, which ended the day with 12 hours on the drink for me, lovely!!

This week includes, poker, cleaning out PC and a few mods, a quite Friday night playing a little online poker and then Saturday we have Snow Patrol in Ward Park, Bangor. Now the last few years I have lost my way when it comes to showing (read as feeling) my emotions but I see this gig as a shedding of some skin, emerging as something of my former self. There is a lot of meaning in them there songs, holding memories of places, people and situations. You will find me at the back (read as close to a bar) singing along, drunk and seemingly unhappy! Then I think I want a GF but I doubt anyone would have a nerd like me and at the risk of offending people (you know who you are) I really just want an easy, hassle free woman but there is not point in looking because that does not exist and finding a chick that would accept me would be impossible, probably my standards are too high as well! My 9YO niece said that I will never get married, so clearly even she can see that!

Anyway I hope to post more this week so check back soon. Finally, in the news, Sony has unveiled a TV tuner which plugs into the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and turns it into a personal video recorder like Sky+. The device allows transfer of programmes from PS3 to PSP and users in Europe will soon be able to record and playback digital TV on their console. How cool is that?! Also milk has gone up again, that's bloody 7p in like the last 6 months, what's going on? That's retorical by the way!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Real Life PIc of South Park Families :: The Creative Anniversary Calculator :: Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages :: 5 things you didn't know about English :: The $40 hidden inside a 12V battery hack :: DualMusicPlayer, designed by Yong-Seong Kim - VERY COOL

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Where Have I Been....

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So here we are and I have not posted in ages! Believe it or not I have actually been very busy. There is not much I wanna say about the last few weeks except sorry to all those I have neglected! It's so easy to do, putting off texting to tomorrow, not using MSN, picking up the phone, commenting on friends sites, e mail, aaaarrrrgggghhh! All these forms of communication and you still have to make time, unless it's just a "hello I am still alive", which I clearly am!

Anyway got completely hammered at the weekend, lunch on Friday turned in to 12+ hours on the sauce, followed by Saturday on a little mini pub crawl! I truly died on Sunday. I was fun trying to find places to smoke and I have to say there are a few nice beer gardens that popped up which I did not even know existed, why does no one promote them? Anyway that's going out sorted for me again!

Just some quickies; I watched all of Dexter last night (had to stay up so late to do so) and I must say it built to a nice climax, go check it out, go on! This weather we are having is fantastic! BB is boring me!! I got a mic for PS3!

This week is another busy one. It will be next week before everything has calmed down, so if I have not been in touch this week, expect something next week!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel - Should I read it? :: The Fake Steve Apple Blog :: Connect U :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: Pics of Bullet Impacts :: Monks... The First Bloggers??!

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Friday, August 03, 2007

A Mixed Bag of Goodness (possibly boring)...

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Last weekend I was watching the Live Earth gig for like the umpteenth time and I have to say that Dave Grohl is a god! That man just rocks and is my Hero! Check him out here!

We have the Hungarian Grand Prix on ITV this weekend, come on Kimi! Watch it here:

Live qualifying Saturday 4 August 1230-1415 ITV1
Live race Sunday 5 August 1200-1530 ITV1
Highlights Monday 6 August 0045-0145 ITV1
Highlights re-run Monday 6 August 1800-1900 ITV4

Check out My Football Club. You own the club, pick the team. 50,000 people, including me, who registered have been invited to become members. Once all the cash is in we will buy a team and all have a say in how it's run! Why don't you become part of a community that will make football history?? I am hoping that they can buy Leeds, how funny would that be!

This weekend I have some friends round to get trashed and play PS3, have not even played it much so it should be fun! The rest of the weekend I am taking it easy, chillin and catching up on all the movies and TV I have to watch, with heaps of munchies! Have a good one guys!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Dread-Pirate Cat - Funny, Funny, Funny! :: The best ad ever! :: Copying Thoughts :: 10 Causes and Cures of Unhappiness

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

TV, Playlists and The Future...

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So we are heading towards the new TV season of shows like Lost, South Park and Heroes! Also some new US series to watch out for include; Bionic Women, Reaper, The Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cavemen, Chuck and Lipstick Jungle??! Apparently they are all evadible on the net!

I don't know what this says about me but here are the songs in my current iTunes Playlist:

Either Way ~ The Twang Everlong ~ Foo Fighters Starz In Their Eyes ~ Just Jack The Logical Song ~ Supertramp Do It Again ~ The Chemical Brothers Dance Tonight ~ Paul Mccartney Battle Scars ~ The Chemical Brothers Times Like These ~ Foo Fighters Breakfast In America ~ Supertramp High and Dry ~ Lele De Los Van Van/Radiohead Give A Little Bit ~ Supertramp Gravity ~ Embrace Dreamer ~ Supertramp Set The Fire To The Third Bar ~ Snow Patrol Featuring Martha Wainwright Sirens ~ Dizzee Rascal Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors ~ Editors Famous Last Words ~ My Chemical Romance It's Raining Again ~ Supertramp Let Me Love You ~ Mario The Salmon Dance ~ The Chemical Brothers Best Of You ~ Foo Fighters Could Well Be In ~ The Streets Teenagers ~ My Chemical Romance Foundations ~ Kate Nash Real Girl ~ Mutya Buena New Shoes ~ Paolo Nutini Track 09 ~ The Go! Team Standing In The Way Of Control ~ The Gossip Either Way Remix ~ The Twang Ft. Mike Skinner & Professor Green Signal Fire ~ Snow Patrol Crazy In Love ~ Snow Patrol The Girls ~ Calvin Harris Teenagers ~ My Chemical Romance Mr Brightside ~ The Killers Saturate ~ The Chemical Brothers Umbrella ~ Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z Somewhere Else ~ Razorlight So Here We Are ~ Bloc Party Open Your Eyes ~ Snow Patrol Beautiful Liar ~ Beyonce And Shakira Love Today ~ MIKA Glamorous ~ Fergie Feat. Ludacris Learn to Fly ~ Foo Fighters Dying In Your Arms ~ Trivium Ass Like That ~ Eminem Foo Fighters ~ Everlong Acoustic White & Nerdy ~ "Weird Al" Yankovic We Are The Night ~ The Chemical Brothers Wanna Be (Ft. Lily Allen) ~ Dizzee Rascal Somewhere Else ~ Razorlight The Sweet Escape ~ Gwen Stefani Feat. Akon

Until tomorrow, have a good day folks!

TODAY'S LINKS :: The Feckin' Search Engine of Ireland :: Will You Get in to Heaven :: Lords of the Logistic :: New T-Shirt Hell Shirts :: A Real Electromagnetic Pistol! :: Why Daddy Shouldn’t Buy Baby Clothes

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Heroes Transform Our Public Transport System...

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1st off, Heroes starts tonight on BBC2, just bloody watch it, best TV show of the year! Hero rocks!!

I watched Transformers on Saturday night, not nearly as dark as I had hoped, a little cheesy maybe, funny even, that's not what I expected really but hey, the reason to check it out is for the special FX and big robots fighting. This, it does with ease, the fights could not really be improved upon and it's open for a sequel, just bring it!!

Todays rant is about the public transport system. I don't know what it's like in England but ministers are set to announce billions of pounds to remove bottlenecks and increase capacity on the railways. Cost does not seem an issue, everyone is using public transport and they need to expand to seemingly cope with demand! Here in N.I. we have new trains, great busses, plenty of routes but it's so expensive you can only use it if forced too. It's actually cheaper to drive and what use is that to the environment? If you buy a monthly ticket, and travel to the City I can see that you may save a little but come on, is this incentive enough to share a carriage with the Proletariat, I think not!

There must be a way to bring down fares and then you may tempt me. I walk past the bus stop, in the town I work every morning on my way to the corner shop for milk and a cig, and there are only kids and oldies there, paying reduced fares or free with there buss pass! I actually watched this morning 2 busses drive past with not one passenger on board!!? What's that about, is that what a full fare paying passenger is subsidising? I think it's wholly possible to look at the service, reduce rates and make it a more attractive service to use, ergo, more passengers, revenue and less car usage!

Finally I set up my PlayStation®3, hooked up seamlessly with Vista and streaming media from Media Player 11 is a doodle, even using my PSP wirelessly to view videos stored on my PC. High Def cable and games come today and tonight I will hook that up with the optical digital out to my sound system and Bob's you uncle! Played some demos I downloaded last night in SD and I can happily say I am very pleased but bring on HD and HD movies (Blu-Ray), imagine Blade Runner *cries a little*. My Gaming Tag is - GAD123 so don't forget to add me!

TODAY'S LINKS :: Awesome Skittles Commercial :: Quit Complaining About Your Job :: Free Management Library :: Charlie Brown? Manga designs woah, what the fuq! :: Cute little animals :: Top end iPhone = $3,515

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