Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
July	Aug	Sept
Oct	Nov	Dec

Jan

 

If you have nothing to do today then have a go on this game. Be careful though, you wouldn't want your boss catching you playing it, lol.

http://i.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/6489/a-maze-ing_new_cursor3.swf

Good friends of mine are doing this and it looks like fun so here's my 101 things to do in 1001 days.

A lot of people seem to be doing so I thought I would have a go

So I'm going to be an uncle. I came to Manchester mainly to catch up with friends and family but I really wanted to make a special effort to see my sister. She has 4 weeks to go before she drops her first sprog. I was hoping that he may come a little early for his uncle ant while he was in Manchester. For the first time ever I felt her tummy. I felt my nephews foot and then about 30 minutes later he turned round and I could feel his spine.

Babies are a wired but wonderful thing. I can't wait to be an uncle, I going to spoil him rotten.

Anyway, while I was in Manchester I got to see an old friend, Mike. We were going to go to the Ritz but bands were playing so we had one in the SU bar and then a couple more in the Sol. It was nice to see him.

crackin pub

Went for a couple of tests today (Feb. 1st), when I say tests I mean a computer test not a personal check up or anything.

Anyway, went to Aldgate to a big Stock-market company. The building was all glass and very posh. I went to reception, signed in and took the lift to the third floor. A nice lady took my coat and I waited for the recruitment manager.

So list lady came along and took me to a cold office and told me the first test would take me 15 minutes. It was a mix of both Maths and English. There were questions like what’s the next number in this pattern 12, 21, 29, 36…. And then strange questions like if Jane has 50p after buying 10 postcards and twice as many stamps what amount of money did she have to start with??

I completed the test and then the nice lady came in again and gave me a second test. This was the IT test. Now some of the questions were nice and easy, you know like what is the loop back address in dos commands. I know this because it’s what I do but I guess not everyone would know it, but then there some questions like who was the inventor of the modern internet and what was the original name of the internet when the military first created it. I completed all the answers but I don’t think I have got the job. Oh well it was good practice.

Feb

 

When out today (Feb. 5th). First I met up with a friend and his Mrs. Its strange he has the same name as me, that’s how we got talking. He’s an actor, he’s been a loads of films like lock stock and he does loads of bit part like being one of the extras in buzcocks (look-a-likely number 1). Then went to Camden to get a present for someone and met a couple of lads for a game of pool.

the internet is sh*t

what are your comments on the site?? I think his view is one to listen too but in order for him to bad mouth the internet he had to write a web page. I find that a little strange or is that just me??

I'm bored in case you haven’t noticed. I found a site which made me laugh, have a look if you get a min. I thought I would put one of the poems on here but have a look at the site.

http://www.shite.org/

Oh, let me die like Elvis -
Sitting on the bog,

A burger in my left hand
And another in my gob,
A Tennessee fine bourbon
Or a bottle of champagne,
A cocktail of narcotics
Coursing through my swollen veins.

I wish to die like Elvis,
Oh, it would be such a treat,
My bum cheeks resting firmly

On that Graceland's toilet seat,
My penis dangling in the bowl
Unhindered by erection,
My great fat hairy arsehole
Looking back on its reflection.

Well last night ([Feb. 7th) I was taken out to a comedy gig. We took the tube to Angel and visited a nice little bar, it was a bit trendy but it wasn’t the bar we went to see it was the comedians.  

So we grab a drink, went upstairs and sat down. 15 minutes later the first guy comes on. Not bad, a bit in your face, a loud but good. He made a joke about how Sainsbury’s will pick up an item for you if you forgot it and you’re already at the till. He said something about grabbing a basket, going straight to the till and giving them a list, then once they brought everything saying he forgot his cash and would ask the till person to go to his house. I’m not very good at remembering jokes but it was funny when we were there.

Anyway, the second guy came on, he was dry, sarcastic and kept on itching his ribs but again he was good. He was talking a lot about quitting smoking so a far few people could relate. I think he was called Joe Wilkinson, I would recommend seeing him if you get the chance.

The third was ex-alcoholic with clinical depression. He said telling joke in a bar wouldn’t normally be a good thing for someone like him but the irony helped him. Laughter is the best cure as they say.

Then a comic magician comes on. Not to my liking to be honest. If I want to see a magician who can do the rope trick I would go to a kids party.

We had a break and then the main attraction was on. Russell Brand, you know that fella from E4’s big mouth.

Now Russ, as I call him, was good. He started off telling us about his crack addiction and how he slept in a park in Essex. When he was high as a kite he thought he was the hardest man in the world and tried kicking off with some yobs. Then he went off on one about yobs, I think if he had the chance he would have carried on with that all night. Anyway, he was just if not more funny than when he was on E4.  

I could sit here and write about the jokes he made but as I said before I’m not very good at remembering them. Just take my word for it he was good.

The show was over and after two pints I needed the little boy’s room. I walked outside and there was Russ stood right outside the door. So me being me said “Hello Russ, good show”. Thanks he replied. I shook his hand and said made a joke about me being Northern and the Artic Monkeys, (something he referred to in his show). Then I asked him if I could have a picture and he said yeah but the camera on my phone was acting up. Anyway, I got him to say hello to my friends and then I asked him what he had done with little Paul Scoles. He is still living in custard, with snakes for legs, an owl and rice-crispy’s taped to his head

So I will definitely see him again and make the same joke about the Artic Monkeys if I get to talk to him. I’m sure he will remember that silly Northerner with long hair. If you get the change, go see him.

 

Bombay mix and a bottle of Heineken. Sounds like the name of an indie song to me, lol. Well its not, well not as far as I know. If it is please can you upload and post it to me. Back to the point, lol. Bombay mix and a bottle of Heineken is the end to my lazy Sunday.

As we were both in the pub last night me and the Mrs have done nothing today. We got up and dragged the duvet and pillows to the sofa, I didn’t get dressed until about 1600 and the only reason I did was to go and get a takeaway.

London is known for have loads of different cultures in and around its surrounding. You can get almost any type of food you want but a good curry house is hard to found. On this lazy Sunday we both wanted a curry with popadoms for tea. So I got dressed and went hunter gathering. Hurray. I found a curry house. It was closed. Boo. I guess fish and chips with curry sauce will have to do.

Back to flat with our delightful treats. Sit down and watch more crappy American comedies on ABC1.

What a lazy day, I love days like this. I cant remember the last time I did it, can you?? No, well I think its about time.

Lazy Sunday should become a national holiday, everyone should do it, oh wait no not everyone. If everyone did it then who would open the curry houses?? It sounded good in my head. Oh well must be the beer talking.
 

 

So I've been out today. A Saturday day out of the house was nice.

I took the Mrs out to the zoo today, she has never been before and she loved it. We seen the tigers, lions, monkeys, lizards, penguins and birds. Loads of stuff to talk about, don't want to bore you with it all but it was a good day. We were there for over 4 1/2 hours without noticing it.

Have to say though, London Zoo does like to rip you off when it comes to food and drink. We had a cup of coffee and a scone each and it came to over £8. A bottle, not a pint, a bottle of beer cost £3.10. £3.10 I hear you, "how dare they". I know, cheeky bug*ers.

Anyway, that not the point, the point it is I had a lovely day, so did the mrs, she is knackered and gone to bed, I'm sleepy but thought I would share my wonderful day with you all.

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend, let me know what you are getting up too.

This evening (Feb. 18th) me and the Mrs went to Camden for a night out. We met up with a friend of mine, Amy. I've only known her a couple of weeks but we chat on MSN a fair bit. Amy is in her mid to late 20's, is a Goth and is basically just a nice person. We met each other in a pub a couple of weeks ago through friends of friends. We were the only two people with different accents and we got chatting. She’s Welsh.

Anyway, back to the point. Me and the Mrs went out together; we had a drink before we went out and had a few more in the pub. The pub itself (the Devonshire) isn’t normally the kind of place that the Mrs would like but she came out for me. (That's one of the many reason I love her but I'm not going to go all mushy and make you all feel sick.) To me it reminded me of a bikers pub back home (the bike and hound), I felt at home. :)

fun and games for when your bored

http://www.shitsite.co.uk/index.php

Just had a call from Shaun again (xfm) I've got to pick my tickets up a couple of weeks before the gig. I have a special reference to get them, him and I had a nice chat on the phone. How nice that I can talk to the stars as if they were my friend, lol.

Just a quick update. I love XFM. I have just won a competition on the Shaun Keaveny show, how cool. I played the paper round true or false game, the high score is 14 but I only got 9. It started off so good as well, nevermind. The point is I have two free tickets to Feeder, lucky me.

So I’m off to Manchester today (Jan. 28th). I’m getting the Megabus and it’s a barging. Okay it’s a 4 ½ and one stop at the services (Corley) but it’s only cost £10.50 return. You can’t complain at that.

Feb. 25th

I now have a new nephew, Joshua Lee Patrick Boon, 6.3 pound. Born 1830 or so.

I'm a proud and happy Uncle

Here's an Email that I got and thought I would post.

*) Post 7 things that piss you off (in no particular order)

1 people who lie just to get what they want... don't get me started on this.
2 flat beer
3 late tubes / buses / trains .. transport in general
4 people take the abuse the kindness of others
5 junk mail
6 rude people
7 mess in general


Post 7 things that make you happy

1 the mrs
2 seeing the family
3 seeing very good friends
4 a good night out
5 a good night in
6 Bombay mix and a can of beer / lager
7 MINI's & Drums (I know that 2 but what the hell)

 

Email me and let me know your

Mar. 31st - When out with the people from work for a drink.

One fellow has left, another is going to leave, you can see what I'm thinking.

Anyway, my mate who left was a good fellow but a couple of the girls who came out where a pain the backside. They sat right next to me on a big leather sofa and didn’t even say hello or anything. I lost my temper and just walked off.

I don’t think I will be going back on Monday.

You may have heard of the North / South divide. Some things you hear are true, some things you hear are false.

Today I walked out of the flat and there was a African lady with a toddler and a baby in a buggy. One of the wheels had came off her buggy and she was trying to keep the toddler close to her while trying to sort out the buggy. People were just walking right passed her. Now I maybe able to understand it if there was no one around or if she looked like she was coping with it easily, you know "it happens all the time" kind of thing, but she looked like she was struggerling and she wasn’t coping at all.

I walked right up to her looked her in the eye and could easily see she needed help. I put the wheel back on her buggy, she thanked me, twice and I walked off.

True:

Northerners are more friendly.
You can't get gravy in a chippy.

False:

You cant get curry sauce in London.
Cost of food, travel and pints are more expensive.

Mar

Apr

Two guys are pushing their shopping trolley's around a store when they
collide.

The first guy says to the second guy, "Sorry about that. I'm looking for
my wife, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going".


The second guy says, "That's OK. It's a coincidence. I'm looking for my
wife, too. I can't find her and I'm getting a little desperate".


The first guy says, "Well, maybe we can help each other. What does your
wife look like"?


The second guy says, "Well, she is 27 yrs old, tall, with blonde hair,
blue eyes, big breasts and is wearing short shorts and a tank top. What
does your wife look like"?


The first guy says, "Doesn't matter --- let's look for yours."

been working like a dog so not been able to come online, the last thing I wanted to do when I come home was get on the computer.

Anyway, just finished a contract job and I'm glad to be out of there. The company was a big world wide bank that you would all of heard of but it wasn't the place for me. The finance world is a very different world than most. Although there are of 4,000 people that work in the company your lucky if you get to know one or two people. Everyone keeps themselves to themselves, the company has an us and them policy and no one every pats you on the back for a job well done.

So I've finished that contract. I've just been for an interview for a music company. Its a live and funky looking place, they have contracts with loads of music labels around the world and they want me to look after there computers. I should hear something back first thing in the morning, I would love to work there. **fingers crossed**

I was sat the tube the other day all suited and booted with my long black coat on looking smart if I do say so myself. A elderly Jamaican man got the tube, he was suited and booted too. He sat opposite me and he looked at me as if I was going to steal his newspaper.

Anyway, he sat there, he looked after his suitcase, paper and book and kept looking over at me every now and again keeping an eye on me.

About 5 or 6 stops later he stood up ready to get off the tube and took his suitcase with him, he forgot his book, so me being the kind of person I am picked up his book jumped of the tube and gave the man his book. He thanked me and I managed to jump back on the tube before it set off again.

Now I know in this day and age you have to look out for dodgy looking people but where do you draw the line. Who can or who do you actually trust??

So who use's Microsoft Windows?? Who use's Microsoft Office?? Who actually pays for it??

All good questions but have you wondered if there is an alterative??

Here is a quick guide to your free operating system (OS) plus software.

For starters you will need an OS. I use SuSE 9.1. You can download this for free from http://www.linuxiso.org/. There are other but that’s what I use. Now you have your OS you may need a Office Suite, you know stuff like Word and Excel. I use Open Office 2.0.2. It has everything you need, a word processor, a database & presentation app and so on. Anyway, there are other suites EasyOffice or StarOffice but I just like Open Office. Bonus for me, no bl**dy dog asking me do I want help writing a letter.

Anyway, now you have a PC with an OS and an Office Suite and your set. For most people who use a PC this would be perfect. Well you may want a different Internet Browsers, there are so many to pick from but one of the most popular at the minute is FireFox. There are others like Opera and Mozilla (all-in-one internet suite), there is even one that comes with SuSE. Anyway, you got a fully functional PC up and running and its cost you nothing, well software wise anyway.

So you want more and now you have taste of free stuff you want more. Greedy you. Go on then, more free stuff. Why not try free download sites like Tucows. They have a tab just for Linux Downloads. There is also the Free Software Directory again, more free stuff.

Well this is the end of my first little public page. I hope from writing this I have got at least one person interested in Linux.

 

If your in London and you want a free day out try

London Freebies

 

Cant really put in to words what a night Friday was but it was in basic terms I loved it.

For those of you that don't know my Mrs took me out to see the Kaiser Chiefs (Partly because she wanted to perv but hey what's a bloke to do). Anyway, got there hours before the doors opened just so we could get to the front and we did. As the Mrs went straight to the stage I went straight to the bar to collect my free pint of Carling (I know I wont normally drink that fizzy water crap but it was free). So we were at the front for both support acts, one of which was Captain. For those of you that seen them on the telly you may have seen a 1 second shot of me on the box, yes that right folks, I was on the telly. Hairy little Bow on your Big telly screens, as the E4 voice over man would say. I love his voice but that's whole other issue.

We enjoyed the first 6 or 7 tracks at the front but, as normal there is always some f**ker who wants to spoil it for everyone. I know there's going to be pushing and bouncing around, that I don't mind. What I do mind is people banging in to you because they want to, kicking you just behind the knee and pulling on your hair. So I'd had enough I couldn't last any longer, my arms were dead because I always protect the Mrs so she doesn't get trampled on, you know put her in between my arms on hold on the bars for dear life, anyway, I just couldn't do it any longer. We moved back a bit.

The music was fantastic, the Mrs enjoyed every minute and it was an all around a good night for all.

Basically I'm the kind of person that likes to get something for nothing thou many people think it isn't possible in this day and age. Well I beg to differ. In my first public note I was explaining to the world how you can get a free OS and software. Its all Linux and the reason it free is because the founder as far as I understand doesn't want everyone tied down to one piece of software (Microsoft).

So the founder of Linux has now sponsored another little project, Ajax.

Ajax has a number of different project going at the minute but the one that you can access now is AjexWrite. The idea behind this project is that instead of you downloading software and then having it installed locally on your hard drive you now access it all from the internet. As they say "It's free — no signup, no registration, nothing to install."

Take a look, it will take 5 minutes out of your day and think, even if you have an Office Suite on your PC the next time you are at the library or internet cafe this could be very handy.

A very good friend of mine has pointed me to a news article about the Logitech Quickcam, have a look you will love it.

For those of you that read my public entry's you will know I am a fan of open source software, in other words free stuff. I personally use FireFox as my internet browser and I came across this, Explorer Destroyer. For those of you that really want rid of IE have a look at the site.

Deal or no deal??

 

 

This is my little NME boat that I made from a NME flyer for the KOKO club. The Mrs thought it would be funny to drop it in my drink of water to see if it would float. It did for a while.

 

 

 

 

 
Speaking of the KOKO club we were there last night. It was a free night out as the Mrs won some tickets. Got to see some bloke from busted, not really my thing but got to see Primal Scream. How cool. I got to see Primal Scream for nothing. I'm a lucky man.

They did about 9 or 10 songs, some old and the new one, Country Girl. The crowd loved it. Oh yeah, typical me as well, stood in a club in Camden Town and I hear another Northern accent. Turned round to my right, and there was another Manc. So let on as us friendly Manc's do, ended up chatting to him for most of the night. That’s just me thou, I can go anyway and talk to anyone really.

http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/

Have a look at this site, its kept me entertained for a good 10 minutes.

 

So I thought I would keep a little blog with odd bits of what I have a been up to and so on.

Going to be updating, changing and moving this page around so hopefully it will look better than this in time.

Yesterday (Feb. 5th) I seen Johnny Vegas in Brent Cross shopping centre. I wanted to go say hello but he was doing his shopping with his mrs and the baby so I left them to it.

Here are a couple of god sites for more free software

http://mirror.softwarefor.org/  - Software for Starving Students (SSS)
http://theopencd.org/ - similar to the one above

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm - Free utilities with a good explanation of what they do. Beware thou, not all of them are free.
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/index.html - Loads of free software from the USA

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php - Now you have seen what I have wrote about Linux in the past but there are many different versions that you can use. This site gives you a little quiz and then shows you which it thinks is best for you.

and last but not least http://www.oldversion.com/. Just in case you have an older PC and need that one piece of software you just can't live without.