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Last Updated: 7/9/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Sign: Leo

City: Peterborough
State: East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 11/7/2007

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Saturday, October 17, 2009 

Category: Life
Coping with a child with a disability is never going to be an easy ride, and the attitude of other people can have a massive influence on your day! So after today's visit to the store at Dereham, it's a big "Thank-you" to:

* Wendy (who helped me find the clothes I was searching for);
* the un-named young woman who came to make sure the self-service checkout was working ok; and
* the (also un-named) woman who was working on the desk by the front door.

By contributing a smile, and a helping hand, these people all made the day go smoothly for me, and they've ensured that I'll be using their store again in the future :-)

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Sunday, October 11, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Sometimes memories just leap out on you when you aren't expecting them to

Not so long ago I saw the profile picture of a myspace-friend of one of my myspace-friends - and straight away I knew that he was a creep, and I warned my friend to keep this creep away from her young daughter.

Why? 'Cos I was 110% SURE that he was the sort of creep you don't let near young girls! I was sure I knew him from somewhere. However I'm also 110% sure that I never met him in this life.

(my friend jumped to defend him,  which didn't do matters much good)

At other times "memories" have popped into my mind unexpectedly, and just such a thing happened today.

Rather disconcerting, this latest "memory" ...

I had a conversation with a professional hypnotist once, who had tried past-life regression on people, and he was convinced that whatever happened under hypnosis, it was certainly not anything spiritual. He said that 40% of his subjects truely adopted a "new identity" while hypnotised, while the other 60% just babble about historical things details of which could have come from anywhere

Well there's nothing conclusive either way. I know what I believe, especially when memories which seem to belong to someone else surface in my head

I was hoping to hear from the friend I mentioned at the top of the page, I'm involved in some work just now and I thought that they would be willing to help ... oh well, never mind, carry on anyway
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 

Category: Life
Hi World!

Get messages and friend requests from strange people sometimes ... you learn to spot them at 30 paces. "Hi, I like your profile, I am well educated Russian Girl, seeking man to make family with" - BLOCK USER! "Hi, I'm a Swedish Nurse currently working for the Red Cross in the Gambia. Not looking for a relationship, just fancy a chat. Would you Western-Union me some money to get me through until payday?" BLOCK USER! "I'm 15 years old but love older men, feeling horny, msg me" BLOCK USER! Actually, hold on. Save that last one's profile picture and send it to all my mates on an email headed **JAILBAIT ALERT!** THEN click BLOCK USER.

So what else is happening today?

There's no food in the house and I don't get paid until tomorrow. Bummer. Have to get on and do some housework or something, about time I washed some plates, take the rubbish out, design a few websites and finish last night's bottle of wine :-) that should see most of the day gone.

And have to get on with writing my stories. My vampire novel got kinda stuck, although I'm still sure that I'm gonna shake up the whole vampire genre as much as Anne Rice did. My Zombie story is kinda stuck also, I'm bringing something new in, (at least I THINK it's new for a zombie story), but not sure how far I can take the idea and keep it even vaguely plausible.

Looking at the world .. France says we should let all the illegal immigrants into the country to sponge off of our welfare state. Why the Hell should we? They are ILLEGAL immigrants. The Sun newspaper (long-time labour tabloid) has finally declared that it's withdrawing it's support for labour. (about time too!).

And most concerningly, a young girl died after being given the anti-cervical cancer jab.

Health authorities say that until it's PROVED that the jab caused her death, the thing to do is to keep giving the jab to children. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! Until it is proved that the jab DIDN'T cause her death, the thing to do is to STOP GIVING IT. Maybe it was a 1 in 1,000,000 chance happening. OK, so carry on and give 1,000,000 more jabs - what are you going to tell the parents of the next child that dies?

Time to put the kettle on, make some coffee, and crack on with the day. Be back online later folks
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZ230r03-g

I freakin' LOVE this track!!

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Friday, September 18, 2009 
Right, the decorators have taken a lunch break, I've got a chance to sit here with a can of red thunder (like red bull, except cheaper), and get online

What's this? Someone I don't recognize trying to ping me on Yahoo IM ... ?

So what's going on in the world just now? I just found out that Marilyn Chambers is dead :-( that's sad news, I thought she was a fantastic actress regardless of whether or not she appeared in porn. Anyone who wants to see her ACTING should get a hold of a copy of a 1977 Canadian film called RABID

Oops - decorators are back - be back online soon
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Yep, I got only about 2 1/2 hours sleep last night (getting ready for the decorators to come back and carry on post housefire renovation today) so I'm about to switch the laptop off and get some serious sleeping done.

I've been waiting for an email or something from someone today but it hasn't arrived yet. Oh well, wait & see ...

The (slightly insane) decorators are in a guest house about 5 minutes away just now, they were making plans on what to have for breakfast tomorrow, hope they don't eat too much, we still got a whole heap of work to do before tomorrow evening when they go again, and of course I have my young son for the weekend.

Which reminds me, Elton John in the Ukraine has been told that he can't adopt a child. Firstly, he's gay, and the Ukranians don't go for that sort of thing. Secondly, he's too damn old. Currently 62 I believe.

So do the maths, when the child gets to be 18 years old, Elton will be 80!! Sounds to me like a GOOD law which prevents people from adopting based on age. And if the Ukranians don't like gays - their country, their laws. No point moaning in the west that it's "anti-gay", the Ukranians are entitled to live under their own laws whatever we may think.

Time for sleep.

Goodnight everyone!
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 

Category: Friends
OK: this should be interesting - I've unblocked someone from my blocked list ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 

Category: Life
I've been watching an old recording of Houston's 150th birthday party - "Rendezvous Houston" with Jean Michel Jarre - looks like it was a real once-in-a-lifetime event.

(Jarre then decided he was taking the show elsewhere - he tried performing in London in the region of the old docks, and he wasn't well received)

There's not a lot in this world that makes me cry, but thinking about the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, (which occurred shortly before the Houston celebrations) comes close. The crew of Challenger shouldn't have died, the engineers didn't want the shuttle to take off. However, management overruled them, and said the shuttle was safe to fly. I was working night shift, but I'd set my alarm clock,and like half of the world I sat watching the live broadcast of that tragic day.

Lessons for the whole world to be learned there - about management decisions.

An example which didn't cost anyone's life, several years ago there was a DOS virus called "Form". It used to move around by jumping from the boot sector of a floppy disk to the boot sector of a hard drive, and vice verca. And it was quite successful, seeing that a lot of virus protection would only load up AFTER the system had booted, so the virus would already be activated, by virtue of the fact that it was sitting on the boot sector of the drive.

HOWEVER, other operating systems came along. (No, Win 3.1 was NOT an operating system!) Windoze 95, Windoze NT, and OS/2 ARE operating systems, and they set the boot sector of the hard drive out rather differently from good old DOS.

What this meant to "Form" was this:

* Form would try to transfer to the hard drive, assuming in it's naive virus-like way that it was trying to infect a DOS PC

* Landing in a foreign Hard drive such as an OS/2 drive loaded with IBM's BOOT MANAGER, Form would try to infect, but this would simply scramble the non-DOS boot sector, and render the machine un-bootable.

Um. At this point, the problem is still pretty simple to fix. If you know what "Form" is doing, you can undo the damage.

NOT so simple. Back in the 1990's a large mail order company suffered an outbreak of "Form" trashing their OS/2 workstations. Clearly, a POLICY was needed.

Not having input from any engineers, Management adopted a policy that IBM's BOOT MANAGER SOFTWARE WAS UNRELIABLE.

What the Hell? BOOT MANAGER is one of the most stable and reliable pieces of bootup management software ever. BUT, rather than admit than members of management had introduced viruses into the system, blame IBM.

How do I know this story is true? Because I was one of the engineers fixing infected workstations!

Well, a good night's sleep, a coffee, and the smell of fresh paint percolating through the house, the day is looking like it won't be too bad. Now that redecoration work after the fire is well underway, I can concentrate on other things, such as the fact that Jan still owes me around £2K ... and has stopped paying the installments. Interestingly when my house caught fire she vanished ... hmm, I wonder why?
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Sunday, August 02, 2009 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Life
Recently someone rounded on me because she "knows" that I secretly blame her for something - yeah, right, she "knows" that I blame her for something. That's news to me! But I'm not going to sit back and be accused without responding. And that (apparently) means that I'm acting unreasonably ("like a child" were the exact words used)

This is someone I count[ed] as a friend, someone I trusted, someone I tried to help when I could ...

It's a bad time for everyone just now, we all have our problems, (I've just had my son survive a housefire!) I don't need someone adding to my stress by accusing me of things I haven't said. As the saying goes, "with friends like that ..."
Currently listening:
Volkerball [Special Edition CD + 2DVD in CD Digipak]
By Rammstein
Release date: 2006-11-20
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 


http://www.lottery.co.uk/checker/

National Lottery Checker - Tickets Check - Lottery.co.uk

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Hey, you have to try once in a while don't you? I guarantee this, if you don't spend any money on the lottery, then you DEFINITELY won't win! LOL! Then again you could spend £thousands and STILL not win ...

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