Getting Trashed on VRB, With Some Help From Tiscali...

I forgot to post yesterday, not that I had anything to say but there you go! An update with Tiscali, which you are all eager to here I'm sure, goes like this:

Called tech help on Wednesday, went through all the usual, check line filters, system and un then reinstall. I completed this and it's still happening! So I got a little program that checks connection and reconnects if it's dropped. Now this seemed to work, tho the connection kept dropping, it was straight back on, not a prevention but short term solution. I then today inspected my usage and noticed something weird:

11/01/2007 09:58:0311/01/2007 10:13:07 - 0:15:04 11/01/2007 10:28:1011/01/2007 10:43:14 - 0:15:04 11/01/2007 12:59:5811/01/2007 13:15:03 - 0:15:05 11/01/2007 22:48:0611/01/2007 23:18:13 - 0:30:07 11/01/2007 23:37:1212/01/200700:07:22 - 0:30:10 12/01/2007 08:26:4512/01/2007 08:56:54 - 0:30:09

The times connected seemed to be nearly the same. So I called tech help again, not long spent holding, explained what I had done and discovered. Apparently - not giving an explanation - some settings needed changing. He did this and I will now check it when I get home. I still think it's a little suspicious but lets see how it goes!

IT'S ONLY BLOODY FRIDAY and I am looking forward to getting trashed! I played poker on Wednesday at Kayeso's, managed to win with a combination of a new style, a couple of gambles, the fact it was a short handed game, a little luck but overall good play. I think it's the first time I have won his home game, so that's always good! It was a late night and I have been tired this week, cleaned last night therefore all is in place for me to go home to bed for a few hours, then getting KFC, watching CBB, then bring on the VRB! Saturday I am taking Dimples out for dinner, then hopefully I can get to go dancing, lol! Everything is getting back in to the same old routine after the last few months - working- and I love it!

Have a brill weekend folks, catch you on the other side!

P.S. - Leo on CBB has really turned in to a TWAT!

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Dropping ISP's...

Today I need some help. I need recommendations for a new ISP (Internet Service provider). I am currently using Tiscali and have been for 12 months now. I use Peer 2 Peer software, downloading about 120 gigs per month. I am one of those undesirable people that ruin it for everyone, I know, I know but I pay for a service and just like making the most of it. Now because of that it did not take them long to catch up with me and apply their fair use policy, my account is still unmetered but through traffic shaping I can just about get enough bandwidth to surf between 6pm and 11pm, which I accept! The problem is that they now drop my connection every hour, so when I am not around to monitor it I can't reconnect!

This pisses me off, I assume there is little I can do but I will be calling them to question what is going on and then probably looking for another provider if it can't be resolved! This happened before with BT (hence why I left them) and their solution was to charge me £100+ a month, which is ridicules.

Ideally I want to pay £30 per month for unmetered or monitored, 2meg broadband. I don't think my line can support 8meg but this would be advantageous, as would fee connection, modem and no long term contract. Has anyone in cyberspace got a good ISP that they think I should check out? Cheers!

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Snakes on a Train...

Why does life have to be so dam complicated, I try everything to make it, smooth, no peaks, no troughs, it's all I want! I hate all the drama people have to inject to feel like they are living, causing untold stress, illness, not to mention the knock on effect to others around. If anyone has the answer to this riddle, please, please get in touch!

How was your weekend folks? I had a really quite one, Neil popped round on Friday for drinks and we played a little cash poker online. Saturday was a bit of a wash out as Dimples was ill but we watched Snakes on a Plane! Now I don't have much to say about the film, except, it is snakes on a plane, that's it! It's full of plot holes, is not particularly bad, comical, intense or even interesting, all the things I had hoped it would be but there you go.

It is however responsible for the dream I had last night, which I can only assume will be the sequel "Snakes on a Train". Yip that was my dream, I was the lead (Samuel Jackson's character), I tried spraying water at them and that did not work so got them to back off with the help of smoke, joss sticks from some hippy or other! Don't remember much else, except I did save everyone!

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Amusing Facials...

TFIF! How good does that sound? Last night was a late one for me, off to my sisters to get my hair cut - it was such a mess - and sort out their PC. I did not get in to about 12, watched some CBB and finally sleep. Anyway I was not in the best mood this morning until I hear this:

Clare (a work colleague) was talking about Xmas, I enquired politely what presents she received, innocently she replied "The best present I got was from my boyfriend, he gave me 6 facials!". Well I nearly doubled over laughing, she had no idea why, which is sweet. Anyway another girl Laurel later chipped in that she would love a facial for her birthday, apparently they are £50 and great for you skin! Maybe it's just me that finds it amusing, in a school boy way but if anyone wants to pay me £50 for a facial please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Have a great, drunkin weekend folks!

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CellabraaaaaT Big Brother...

OK so day 2 of posting then and today we are going cover Big Brother, the celebrity edition or CBB for short, don't you just love acronyms! Now, I actually don't have much to say at this stage, we are all thinking the same things; the lead singer of that band no one has heard of is a twat (sick, I mean SICK on LIVE TV in front of the nation, serious school boy error, he is soooo rock and roll), the fat bloke will die on live TV, Face, Leo and Jo are neck and neck to win, etc. Tho I must say (Dimples will kill me for this) the Bollywood chick - Shilpa - is hot and Miss GB, what a bloody disappointment, I was convinced she was really pretty but no, dam airbrushing "we are just gonna make your chin a little touch smaller darling"!

So there we have it, not the best line up in the world but I think it should provide some interesting relationships and friction. I will be watching and I assume you will be too. While I am on the subject of TV and airbrushing, check out Ugly Betty, it's a lovely little show, with no thought required!

That's me for today, have a good one folks!

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Resolutions and that Bollocks...

OK, OK so it's been a long time since I posted anything I doubt anyone reads any more but hey lets try and change that! First off I must wish everyone a Happy New Year, I trust you all had a good Xmas and are ecstatic at being back at work! For me it was not so good, I have been ill with the flu, worked most of Xmas and sat in on my own on New Years Eve! Great start to the new year but hey, in the words of d:ream 'Things Can Only Get Better'!

So what to start the new year with? Well I have NO resolutions, because I am perfect, of course and Dimples would agree. I did have one last year, which was to make 100k hits here and by all accounts I did quite well, as you can see:

December 2006 13319
TOTAL FOR 2006 = 138619 YaY!

So while we are on the stat trip, here are some others for 2006:

I am in profit of about £300 playing poker
I lost and gained 0 weight
I drank enough to fill a small ship
I made 0 trips abroad
I have download over 1 terabyte of video on the net
I have uploaded 1.2 terabytes of video on the net
The longest day at work was over 17 hours

OK so that got boring very quickly! Anyway you are all going to have to wait to tomorrow for the next exciting post, turaa peeps!

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I got a Wii and a new PC...

I am still up to my eyes at work and don't have time for my new stuff, Dimples got me a Wii for Xmas, tho after playing all weekend I have Wii arm, like Sonic thumb, from back in the day!!!

By the way stats for last month on www.gad123.co.uk to follow, so my target of 100k for the year has been smashed:

January 2006 - 4985
February 2006 - 5398
March 2006 - 11100
April 2006 - 12965
May 2006 - 14486
June 2006 - 14283
July 2006 - 11116
August 2006 - 11598
September 2006 - 12188
October 2006 - 15561
November 2006 - 11620

TOTAL - 125,300

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Poker, PC and Pap...

I know it's been a while, work, work, work!! Anyway, sitting in my car this morning, would not start at all, getting late for work, delivery man arrives, PC delivered, day looking up, car starts, happy days!!

Last night was the Wolseys Series Of Poker tourney, the following is stolen from Kayeso's Bebo page:

WSOP XIV

Sunday 3rd December 2006 will see the final chapter of the 2006 edition of the Wolseys Series Of Poker. Defending champion Graham Davis has been in good form in tournament play recently and finished 3rd in a big tournament already this week. Two recent winners, Glenn 'Back To Back' Shields, and Leo 'Recently Married' McGregor have already indicated they may not be able to play, so who will step up to the plate and deliver on the big stage?

Odds:

Graham 'The Rock' Davis 14-1 fav (Me - GAD123)
Paul 'The Bridesmaid' McManus 15-1
Kevin 'Cowboys' McManus 18-1
Billy 'Victor Meldrew' Kayes 18-1
Magic 'Magic' Paul 20-1
Dean 'Dead Money Fish Boy Playing Ace Rag Offsuit' Reid 100-1

Others 25-1 bar

I got the worse cards of my life and finished in the middle somewhere, ah well can't win em all!

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Working Through The Running Order...

Sup! Peeps? You would think after such a long absence that I would have something witty and at least base level interesting to say, but... Alas... Nope! I will give you a short up date then get back to the grind that is work. I must say tho that Bravenet have updated the GUI *shakes fist* --- We have been putting together our annual directory, this is always a stressful and busy time but because of unavoidable incidences everything has been delayed and we have had to cram what normally took 3 months in to 3 weeks! All being well and all factors being equal it will go to print today. We have some promotions to go and of course this directory to get to members but it's a down hill run to Xmas. Well I say downhill but there will still be the overtime and 6 day weeks, tho it does seem a breeze when you know that yesterday I worked 17 hours straight with only a bite to eat at 10.00pm! Such is life tho, when you have 100,000 people who have paid for and are expecting products you have no option but to succeed, they don't care about unforeseen circumstances! Roll on Xmas when I get a few (hopefully a week) days off to sleep!

My social life has not really suffered, much to the detriment of my health I suspect (he,he,he), staying up on a Friday night to 4am playing online poker, Dimples and I still parting on Saturday Nights, out for dinner, Clubs, Pubs, even went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show (very funny) in the Opera House in Belfast. She has it hard at this time of the year too, with the school play and that, so we are finding it had to get quality time together, NOW she has the god dam FLU! *sigh* I have also been missing the Wednesday night home poker game at Kayeso's too, which sucks and my normal routines are out the window!

This weekend I am having a relatively quite one, out on Fri for a bit then going out for a family dinner on Saturday for my Mom's 70th birthday, which is just mad, how can my mom be an old women??!

That, my friends, is your lot for today but I hope to post later in the week when some sort of normality returns. Stay Tuned but for now here are the final specs of my new PC that should arrive later in the week:

1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Retail 2x 2.40 4Mb 1066 MHz LGA775 BX80557660 1 x Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 Socket 775 CORE 2 DUO READY! 1 x Gigabyte 3D Aurora Alu-Black ATB-B Window Side Panel 2 x 1GB PC6400 Elixir DDR2 800 SDRAM M2Y1G64TU8HB0B-25C 2 x 320GB Maxtor D/Max +10 SATA2 [16MB] 6V320F0 1 x Samsung 18x DVDRW LightScribe Black DVD-RW / Dual Layer / DVD-RAM 1 x LG GSA-4167BAL 16x DVDRW/RAM Black 1 x Albatron GeForce 7950GX2 1GB PCI-E 256bit DDR3 DUAL DVI, TV-OUT 7950GX2 1 x Hiper 580W Modular PSU BLACK atx 2.2 12 SILENT 14db 92mm FANS SLI READY 1 x Creative S/B Audigy SE 7.1 OEM 1 x Nero Burning ROM Version 7 OEM Full Version Essentials 1 x Microsoft XP Pro OEM + FREE* Vista Upgrade 1 x Mitsumi Floppy + Card Reader 1 x AVerMedia PCI Digital/Analogue TV Tuner Hybrid+FM - support MCE

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What I Have Not Said...

I have nothing to say, it's work, work and work, how boring! Well that's not strictly true, I have a new book to read, am getting new PC soon (hoping for delivery tomorrow), bought lots of modding bits and pieces for it too, have started buying Xmas presents, have got a fairly busy weekend to look forward to (Dimples is in London all weekend *sigh*), have a cough and sore throat, Have bitten my lips to shreds, Lost starts on RTE on Tuesday, I could go on but I just can't be bothered. Sorry folks but I aint got the time to think!

Anyway here are the specs of the PC I finally ordered:

AMD Skt AM2 Motherboard ALIVENF4G-DVI
System Case: Coolermaster Wavemaster Black Case
Power Supply: 600W Thermaltake PSU (16dB)
Motherboard: Asrock ALIVENF4G-DVI (Skt AM2)
Processor: AMD 64-Bit Dual Core X2 4600+ (Skt AM2)
System Memory: 2Gb Corsair DDR2 667 Dual Channel Memory (2x 1Gb)
Hard Drive One: 250Gb Serial ATA300 7200RPM
Hard Drive Two: 250Gb Serial ATA300 7200RPM
Removable Storage Devices: FDD and Digital Card Reader
CD Device One: DVD Drive (16x)
CD Device Two: DVDRW Drive (16x +/- Dual Layer)
Video Card: GeForce 7600GT 256Mb DDR +DVI/TV
Audio and PCI Devices: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy SE 7.1
PCI Devices: Digital Freeview TV Card with Remote
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP/2- OEM
Utilities Software: PowerDVD & Nero DVD Burning/Viewing Software OEM
System Warranty: Ad-Vantage 5 Years Return to Base Warranty

Have a spooky weekend one and all!

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