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am i still ill? Archive for December, 2005
December 8, 2005 at 16:32 · Filed under Personal
Today is the day, the day I get my broadband back.
Or so was supposed to be the case.
I called my house a few minutes ago to get my sister to check that the work had been done, but instead, I was greeted by an elderly woman.
I hung up the phone. I must have mis-dialled.
I called my house number again, dialling carefully this time.
The elderly woman again. What is she doing in my house?
It turns out that NTL have been doing work on her phone line too, she lives around the corner from me.
Seems as though when NTL pulled our cable and replaced it, they have plugged our line wires into her socket, or however it goes.
Great.
I tried calling NTL but as per usual, queues, queues, queues, so I have set my dad the task of getting through to them and trying to get them to sort out their mess.
Update:
Just called my dad at home to check my broadband, and, it’s not working.
So, in essence. NTL came to fix broadband, didn’t.
Messed up the telephone line and left.
Brilliant.
December 8, 2005 at 13:15 · Filed under Politics
Here are todays agenda points, courtesy of the Daily (hate) Mail;
Let’s take a few moments to read over these crucial headlines that adorn the front page of the todays newspaper;
1) Stamps: First class post going up to 36p.
This is a blatant lie. First class stamps will be rising from 30p to 32p, I’m sure we can trust Aunty beeb on this one
This headline is placed here solely to scare little old ladies who will read this headline on the newsstand, buy the paper and then realise that inside it actually says, the price of stamps will be rising to just 32p. Not 36p as we screamed on the front page, thank you for reading, sucker.
Infact, what it does say inside is that by 2010 the price of stamps will be 36p
2) Robbie: Libel payout over gay slur
Good on him, if someone said in the national press that I was gay I’d want to sue them for millions too.
3) Health: Wait longer for your operation
Just what is the Mail’s agenda on the NHS? Firstly they were up in arms about the fact that waiting lists for operations are getting longer and longer, now, they’re giving their readers tips on how to wait longer?
Perhaps they’re giving tips on how to wait longer so that they can fabricate more front pages about long waiting lists when in fact the situation is much better now?
More ranting about the Mail soon, I should expect..
December 8, 2005 at 10:03 · Filed under Moblog, Personal
I Decided to get into the christmas mood by dressing up my desk in the office today.
We have tinsel on the monitor and base unit, snow/ice (on the left), santa and mistletoe on my phone and crackers and a snowglobe with reindeers (on a see-saw no less!) on the right of my keyboard.
Not long to go now!
December 6, 2005 at 19:03 · Filed under Anything Else?, Moblog
December 5, 2005 at 15:03 · Filed under Moblog, Personal
I told you I overbought tickets for this Noise & Confusion gig on Saturday.
In addition to these I’ve got another two at home too!
In fact, I have 1 spare which if anybody wants to buy, it’s a standing, pitch level ticket and all I want is the face value. £38. What a bargain. Email me if you’re interested, iwantyourtix@pblog.com
December 5, 2005 at 13:13 · Filed under Technology
Google Earth has finally been updated with hi-res satellite photos of my home city, Cardiff.
After a long wait, the images no longer look like this;
but now look like this;
Upon further inspection, it seems that they have updated pretty much all of South East Wales, incl. Barry, Newport, Caerphilly etc.
The resolution of the images is totally awe inspiring, although they are a little old, I would estimate sometime in 2002.
The images are actually circa March/April/May 2001 as the new National Assembly building in Cardiff Bay is just starting to be built, work began in March 2001.
Also, Google Maps (the web version) has not been updated yet, only the standalone client, Google Earth has.
Google Earth is free, and amazing. Get it now!
If, or when you get Google Earth, use this link to get to some of my placemarks.
Cardiff Placemarks for GEarth
December 3, 2005 at 17:25 · Filed under Personal
Just a quickie today, I’ve a few events coming up now so it’s due to be an exciting few weeks.
I have no less than 4 work-related christmas parties to attend and a gig in the Millennium Stadium.
The big, whole company party is going to be one to remember, I should think.
It’s being held on the pitch at the Millennium Stadium, with the roof closed, I should hope!
Yep, this is the same Millennium Stadium that the Rugby World Cup was held in 1999, the FA Cup final contested 2001-2005, that Wales won the Grand Slam and beat England in 2005 and many more amazing events, and my company has got it all to themselves :p
If the quiz night that I went to, again colleagues only, a few weeks ago is anything to go buy, it should be pretty fun, and most will be pretty damned drunk.
There is to be Roulette, Blackjack, a bucking bronco, a three course meal, Elvis & his showgirls performing and, most importantly, a ‘competitively priced bar’!
Along with all that, naturally, comes the potential to make a complete arse out of myself in front of the people who I have to work with every day. Though, I am determined not to turn myself into ‘that guy who did [insert embarassing situation] at the Xmas party’
Also as part of my duties to the new licensing laws, I have a team christmas night out, that one is actually this week, not too long away. We’re going to Chiquito, in the old brewery quarter in Cardiff, again, another potentially embarassing night on the booze though this time, only in front of my peers. Lucky me, eh?
[mental note]
Don’t drink ANY whiskey, Don’t drink ANY whiskey
[/mental note]
It’s the whiskey that turns me into a total fool, though I love it so.
Lager/Beer is OK, but I can’t drink more than 2 pints of it, and by that time, I’m hankering to get the taste of it out of my mouth, so my natural instincts attract me to the whiskey.
The older the better.
If anybody wants to buy me a christmas present this year, now you know what to get 
December 2, 2005 at 12:19 · Filed under Personal
Argh! Crisis has hit.
NTL engineer visited the house yesterday, I filled him in on the situtation about the little arsonist bastards. He checked the cabinet at the end of the street and gave me the terrible news.
The cable has to be totally relayed.
Dammit.
Also, they cannot do it until Thursday, next week. So, no internet until at least then.
Luckily, I have access at work and at Lauras house, with my laptop so, all is not totally lost, I suppose. Will be rather annoying however.
December 2, 2005 at 09:56 · Filed under Entertainment
Morrissey has replied to the statements made by Mike Joyce on 6Music on Tuesday night and frankly, if what Moz is saying is true, I am truely disgusted and would be motivated to not buy another Smiths’ album until I’m sure that the situation had been resolved.
According to Morrissey, since 2001 all royalties for Smiths work has gone soully to Mike Joyce or payments towards legal fees incurred by Joyce’s actions. Neither he nor Johnny Marr have received a since that year for work that was soully written and composed by them. Joyce had little to no creative input throughout the life of the band, now he is receiving 100% of the royalties?
Since 1989, Mike Joyce has cost Morrissey personally, £1.515million pounds.
He will have taken from Johnny Marr a similar sum.
And this is the part that takes the biscuit;
In 2001, Morrissey claims that Mike Joyce attempted to seize, through legal action, Moz’s mothers and sisters houses.
When this fell through due to lack of evidence, he refused to pay the £150,000 that it had cost Moz in legal fees.
You can read all the gory details over at true-to-you.net, it’s grim reading and really made me angry when reading it. I now fully understand why Morrissey left this United Kingdom of Great Britain, the legal system really does stink, especially if you’re rich and somebody wants to make a quick couple of (million) quid off of you.
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