even more shocking…
From BBC’s 10 O’Clock News…
“As many as 30,000 people are thought to have died in the earthquake, including one man from Southampton in the UK”
So the 29,999 people don’t matter? They don’t have names? This has shocked me.
hintofsarcasm
am i still ill?Archive for December, 2003
shocking
those who dont want to see it, don’t click the “Read the rest” button..but I think this has to be one of these most shocking pictures I’ve seen this year.
From the Iran earthquake. Such a tragedy. If the government were asking for volunteers to go over there and help, I’d be the first in the queue.
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10 fold
I have noticed an almost 10 fold increase in traffic to my site over the past few days…
Crazy! People actually want to read my stuff 
129 visitors yesterday, wowee!
mistletoe and wine
It’s christmas time again 
You can tell that because of the lack of updates for the last few days, I’ve been so damn busy.
Monday 22nd was supposed to be spent shopping, but I wussed out and ended up at the pub all day, this left me just one day (Tuesday 23rd) to do 95% of my christmas shopping.
Damn did I have hell, I don’t think I’ve been so stressed in my entire life.
The shops were busy, people were annoying, staff at some shops were terrible. (Yes, I’m talking about you, Mrs Virgin Megastore shelf stacker who decides to try to throw customers down stairs!)
I managed to get it done though!
Worked christmas eve 
Then spent christmas day with my parents and family
The Only Fools and Horses xmas special this year was great, but I will not believe them however many times they say it is going to be the last ever episode, as it’s just not true. How can you have 3 last ever episodes?
The Office, last ever episodes on BBC1 were excellent.
Truly a genius show that cannot ever be replicated and I miss it already But on the bright side, I had the second series on DVD from my parents for christmas woo.
And a fridge too!
Yes, a mini fridge for my bedroom, I shall never have to drink warm Vodka or Jack Daniels again. Genius.
I thank Laura for my christmas presents, some absolutely amazing stuff, she really does have taste And I’m a little dismayed that her present, which I ordered 2 weeks before christmas still hasn’t come, even though the company was quick enough to take the money out of the bank. Bastards.
digital
Had ntl: digital TV installed this morning, my dad has been bitching at me for 3 months now because we cancelled Sky digital in order to get this.
But it’s well worth it, working for ntl does have it’s perks.
Every digital tv channel, fastest (1mb) broadband, and a single telephone line, all for £27.97 ($49.29 USD) per month.
open me up & fix me
I feel no better than this morning, my legs are a little better, but now ache a lot.
I haven’t been able to hold down any food that I’ve eaten and I’m still really dizzy.
I’ve been on the settee in front of the TV all day as the monitor from the computer makes me really light headed and even more dizzy.
My head kills. Every loud noise makes my brain throb against the lining of my skull, I hate this.
This isn’t a hangover. This is the aftermath of a drugging incident, I know it.
It has to be. I can normally hold down 12 drinks before I start going loopy, but 8?
I ate a lot that day too.
Never leave drinks unattended, I did it a lot, that’s where the problem lies.
sick.
I decided to call in sick to work today, I wouldn’t have made it through the day.
I woke up, got out of bed and I could hardly stand up, my legs were like jelly, shaking. My head was absolutely killing me and I was seeing everything in funny colours.
My throat is so dry, nothing will make it moist.
I feel like shit.
I’ve spoken to the NHS Direct helpline and they have advised that I go for a bloodtest at the hospital today which is what I’m going to do.
8 drinks would not do this to me, something was added somewhere.
I can’t go back to bed, if I lie down my brain feels like it will pop out of the top of my head, it really hurts. Hurts less to sit up, but still is really bad.
spiked?
I’ve come to the conclusion that my drink was most definately spiked last night, or so I would assume.
Counting all my drinks now, I only had 8. 8 double whiskey and coke (for me) is absolutely nothing, or at least, hardly anything.
It definately wouldn’t have got me into that state.
Hell, I had 10 double vodka & redbull last monday night and, although drunk, I remember everything.
I did leave my drinks hanging around a lot with strange people that although I work with, I don’t know.
I feel like shit, not so much in a health sense, but it’s just really upset me. And the fact that my nice jeans are ruined too, a big hole in them. I really liked those
xmas party
well last night was my first ntl christmas party.
The organisation was excellent, in a nice club, good music, free booze!
The night was absolutely ruined though as usual by me being a total fool.
I drank 8 double whiskey and coke, so was absolutely wasted. But something is funny, and Liam reports this as well, 8 double whiskey would usually get me royally fucked, but I’d still be mostly concious.
Whereas, last night after those the night is more than hazy, I simply don’t remember anything except for 2 or 3 points where I am to for a few seconds and then went again.
Somehow, I ended up in an area of Newport called Pill.
This is the Newport badlands, a really rough area.
It’s about a 20 minute walk from the club where the party was, and I don’t remember how I got there.
I remember being wasted in the club, and slightly remember leaving the club, I don’t know what time though, although I was told it was sometime between 11 and 1.
I don’t remember if I left alone or with anyone, but I’m pretty sure it was on my own, as I’m sure I’d remember with who or at least remember talking to them.
Well, the first time I came to I was impaled on a fence into a park, with one of the spikes going straight through my jeans and I was hanging upside down. I came to to lift myself off it and then I went again, I don’t remember anything then until I was walking around Pill trying to find my way out and back into town.
Seeing as I’ve never been to Pill in my life before, and I was absolutely wrecked, this was proving a pretty hard task, also given that somewhere along the way I had lost a shoe.
I really don’t know where it went, but it’s gone. I now only have one shoe.
Walking around with one shoe on, with the ground freezing, and wet too I think, wasn’t very pleasureable.
I think it may have gone when I was impaled on the fence, but I can’t be sure, and I honestly wouldn’t be able to find that park again to find it.
I do a lot of drinking, but I can honestly say that was the most drunk I’ve ever been in my entire life, I don’t want to be like it again.
When I did eventually find town (yes, I did!) I then had to find a way of getting home, also just to make things harder, my phone was gone. I didn’t have it.
I only had notes in my pocket too which made using a payphone rather hard.
I eventually realised that I could reverse charge call my parents to pick me up, which I did. Stood around for about 20 minutes and they came to get me.
When I did get into the car, I noticed that the time was 3:45. I’d been walking around for between 4 or 5 hours.
I was so embarassed, but so happy that it was over.
Thinking about it now, more things are coming back to me…
I do remember thinking that I was in Cardiff, on the road which is across the river from the Millennium Stadium, but that just confused me. I was in a dream world. Not funny.
I really didn’t have a good night, and have vowed not to drink now until new years eve.
Easily one of the worst nights of my life. Honestly.
I feel so stupid because anything could have happened to me, I’m very lucky.
Update: Did I also forget to mention that all my cards (debit card, ID etc.) were gone from my wallet, NTL security pass was gone too. Although I don’t recall being mugged, and the cards werent used either. I also had all money on me that I took out (didn’t spend a penny).
Oh yea, and I woke up at 10:45 when I was supposed to be in work at 10.
Walked in 2 hours late this morning, although my team manager was really good about it, gladly.
Bluejacking
I’ve been sporadically trying out a new type of geek tool recently, called Bluejacking.
Basically, with my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson T610) it has a type of communication technology called Bluetooth built in.
With this, you can pair up with other devices that have it and send them information. You don’t have to be directly in line, just about 15meters away from the other device.
This can be fun when in busy places, you search for other devices that have it, and send them creepy messages.
Ie. Last night I was at the Mall at Cribs Causeway, just outside of Bristol.
Now in the run-up to christmas, this place was absolutely packed, full of people that had bluetooth running on their phones.
Every one that I found was sent a message that read;
“Having fun shopping? pblog.com”
Standing there, watching these people receive these messages, looking around them, getting a little creeped out is kinda funny :p
Well I had fun anyways…so if you’re visiting the site because you received one of these messages, then now you know..and you can start doing it to other people.
Visit http://www.bluejackq.com for more information on bluejacking.
