Let me start by saying I'm not the first of the lads to sign up for Bluewave broadband so I'm hoping that the other fella will chip in here at some point as well, but this is my point of view on it.
We had the Bluewave Ultraband (40Mb) home broadband installed very recently having previously been on a Wi-Manx VDSL (40Mb) connection, technically speaking we still have access to both but only for a little while. The Bluewave installation was as quick and easy as you like, the engineer was here for about an hour and with a crystal clear view of the antenna everything went very smoothly. I know people have asked about the router you get, we got a TP-Link 840N (Link Here) but more on that later. One thing that could have been pointed out was the default username and password for the router but perhaps they assume people won't be interested? It only took a few seconds to find it on the bottom of the router and I quickly altered the SSID, username, password and WLAN security key.
With everything secure I could test the wireless signal around the house, performance was...ok. Not a very technical review I know. Put it this was it was better than a typical Netgear ADSL router, better than my old TP-Link ADSL router, not as good as my Billion and not near the standard of the FritzBox. I'm fussy about wireless, it's why most of the big stuff in the house is wired now. Was it good enough? Just about in our 3 bed semi, I wouldn't want to rely on it if I was in a big town house, certainly not without a repeater. So I did the easiest thing which was to replace it with the Fritzbox (quick note - even though Bluewave say you can't use their service with an ADSL/VDSL router most modern routers have the ability to set one of the LAN ports as a WAN port, on the Fritzbox this takes about a minute to do - handy if you are thinking of moving from Wi-Manx VDSL). With the Fritzbox in place I could get a full signal throughout the whole house/garden.
Next came the issue of speed and this is where things got a bit complicated. Initial tests at 3-5pm were not great. Ping on Bluewave - average around 45ms, average on Wi-Manx VDSL around 18-20ms. Download on Bluewave - average around 15Mb/s (lowest 7Mb/s), average on Wi-Manx VDSL around 37Mb/s (lowest 37Mb/s). Upload on Bluewave - average around 3.5Mb, average on Wi-Manx VDSL around 2Mb/s. I should say that I was not expecting Bluewave to be as fast as the wired VDSL service and I was happy to lose some of the download for a faster upload and the considerable cost savings. But I wasn't expecting such a massive drop in performance so that led me to try again at a quiet time of the day. I thought this shouldn't have much effect seeing as how Bluewave advertise the capacity of their network and not being left wanting for more speed, even at peak times! So I tried it again at 7am, here's the results:-
Bluewave Ping Average - 33ms
Bluewave Download Average - 25Mb/s (lowest 21Mb/s)
Bluewave Upload Average - 4.5Mb/s
Wi-Manx Ping Average - 18ms
Wi-Manx Download Average - 37Mb/s (lowest 37Mb/s)
Wi-Manx Upload Average - 2Mb/s
That is within the accpetable limit for what I set myself for Bluewave, like I said I wasn't expecting it to be as fast as the Wi-Manx VDSL service. This leaves me with a problem, at first glance there appears to be significant contention with the Bluewave service (as of right now 9am'ish it's really up and down all over the place, 1 second it is OK - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3383171274 the next it is poor - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3383173201 ...then this at 9:10 - http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3383190744 ). To be honest I'm not sure if it's 100% contention or something more atmospheric but either way it's very much up and down a lot and it does coincide with the busiest times of the day. I'm hoping the other lad with it can chip in on that?
Just to prove that all these SpeedTest results were meaningful I also tried a load test on the connection thanks to some iPlayer HD content, 1080p Youtube videos, a HD stream of the United game last night and a couple of Steam downloads. The speed really is as variable as what is being made out in the Speedtests and several times it had a fit and stopped various streams altogether. Looking at the throughput on the Fritzbox it was showing a steady load of around 18Mb/s + the variable rates for the downloads and this was too much for the connection to maintain at 7-9pm. This leaves the question of will I stick with it?
If I was a big online games player then the answer is no. The difference in the ping plus the fluctuations in bandwidth would be just too anoying. But I'm not a big gamer. If I was cutting edge and spending half my life looking for dodgy streams then I'd give it a miss as well. But we are just an average household with a few tablets, a couple of PC's and a Youview box. Under normal circumstances it should hold up fine, nothing like as quick (or with the spare capacity) as what we were used to as Wi-Manx but good enough considering the massive savings, appox £20 a month. So we'll be staying with Bluewave and just hoping that the variation settles down over time as the network matures, I'll do a follow up once we've got a couple of weeks of use out of it.
PS Just to add that none of the testing was done in a completely controlled environment. I did however plugin directly to the router for all Speedtests and only granted WLAN access to what was needed for testing. All automatic updates were turned off. The Fritzbox had zero throughput at all time when I wasn't testing so I made it as accurate as I could.
PPS Just at add that it's now been rock steady at 30Mb/s download for the past 20 minutes.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Friday, January 31, 2014
Some Deep And Meaningful Thoughts About The IT Industry
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Hangover - Day 3
Friday I was supposed to be meeting up with a few old work colleagues, it had been 7-8 years since I'd spoken to most of them so I approached it with my usual cool, calm and collected approach. Or I just decided to just say bollocks to it and turn the sensible filter off for one night. It would make it more fun and at least if it wasn't going well I could always use the too drunk excuse for making a sharp exit. It was a cunning plan.
Nobody wants to hear about other people's nights out in graphic detail in the same way that people groan as soon as somebody start going on about last nights dream. So in truncated version...
Guinness, some food, lots more Guinness, shots, talking absolute bollocks, everyone go home, except me, more Guinness, fall over, end up in nightclub where the average age seems to be about 13 and I'm a definite novelty value, find table, can't move, more Guinness, lights on, escorted from building.......wake up on sofa £160 down for the night.
Now on day 3 of feeling like complete and utter shit and the Guinness is still making it's slow journey from mouth to ass. It's times like this that I'm really glad I only drink 3-4 times a year.
Nobody wants to hear about other people's nights out in graphic detail in the same way that people groan as soon as somebody start going on about last nights dream. So in truncated version...
Guinness, some food, lots more Guinness, shots, talking absolute bollocks, everyone go home, except me, more Guinness, fall over, end up in nightclub where the average age seems to be about 13 and I'm a definite novelty value, find table, can't move, more Guinness, lights on, escorted from building.......wake up on sofa £160 down for the night.
Now on day 3 of feeling like complete and utter shit and the Guinness is still making it's slow journey from mouth to ass. It's times like this that I'm really glad I only drink 3-4 times a year.
Monday, October 28, 2013
2 Things
1. The internet is jam packed with mentals.
On average 2-3 times a week I get an e-mail from a random asking for help with some type of techy (usually programming) problem. I always reply with a solution or at worst point them in the right direction. I am nice people. Why then do 90% of them either not reply at all (a thank you would be nice) or even worse respond with a thousand fucking picky points about my reply? For fucks sake if you know it all already why bother asking for help in the first place? There's a whole fucking world of prick laden, know-it-all, gob shite forums out there for you to bother without sending me e-mails.
2. Eight straight days in the gym without a break is not good for you, my knees are proof.
On average 2-3 times a week I get an e-mail from a random asking for help with some type of techy (usually programming) problem. I always reply with a solution or at worst point them in the right direction. I am nice people. Why then do 90% of them either not reply at all (a thank you would be nice) or even worse respond with a thousand fucking picky points about my reply? For fucks sake if you know it all already why bother asking for help in the first place? There's a whole fucking world of prick laden, know-it-all, gob shite forums out there for you to bother without sending me e-mails.
2. Eight straight days in the gym without a break is not good for you, my knees are proof.
Monday, October 07, 2013
Mad Skillz
All those crazy IT skillz and yet their website looks like a 10 year old knocked it up, more excellence from the IOM.
ps I bet £1 that some sort of government contract changes hands sooner rather than later, don't know why, just a gut feeling.
ps I bet £1 that some sort of government contract changes hands sooner rather than later, don't know why, just a gut feeling.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Aliens Colonial Marines Review
I went against all the reviews and bought this when it was on offer through Steam, glad I did.
It is a proper Marmite game. If you are of the CoD generation then you'll be concerning yourself with the average graphics, limited weapons, non regenerating health (oh no, perish the thought) and dark visuals. You will hate it.
If on the other hand you remember the earliest days of the FPS genre and/or you happen to think that Aliens is one of the best films ever made then you will forget all that other crap, you'll be far too excited at getting to walk around Hadley's Hope and defend the command centre. At being able to be killed in a couple of seconds. Of finding out what happened between Aliens and Alien 3.
There have been plenty of games over the years where people would argue that the graphics weren't important, this game in my opinion is one where a few gameplay issues are equally not important. If you've got your Alien blu-ray boxed set in pride of place and you've even bought the AvP films then I would strongly suggest you fuck the reviews and pick up a copy of this on the cheap.
It is a proper Marmite game. If you are of the CoD generation then you'll be concerning yourself with the average graphics, limited weapons, non regenerating health (oh no, perish the thought) and dark visuals. You will hate it.
If on the other hand you remember the earliest days of the FPS genre and/or you happen to think that Aliens is one of the best films ever made then you will forget all that other crap, you'll be far too excited at getting to walk around Hadley's Hope and defend the command centre. At being able to be killed in a couple of seconds. Of finding out what happened between Aliens and Alien 3.
There have been plenty of games over the years where people would argue that the graphics weren't important, this game in my opinion is one where a few gameplay issues are equally not important. If you've got your Alien blu-ray boxed set in pride of place and you've even bought the AvP films then I would strongly suggest you fuck the reviews and pick up a copy of this on the cheap.
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Never A Dull Day
A lot of my time in the past 6 months has been spent wondering whether or not I should go back to the world of normal employment and working for the man. To be honest my health has been crap for a couple of years and I'm not sure how much of it is down to the stress of being a 1 man show...quite a lot if it I guess. Then there's the money side of things, we're not poor but the biggest issue with working for yourself is the whole not knowing how much money you'll have from 1 month to the next, in some ways it inspires saving, in other ways it would be really nice to be able to blow some of that cash on completely pointless shit. It can never happen, even in the good times I always had an unwritten rule that I would never spend more than a fraction of what I made in a month. These days the fraction has got bigger but the principal is still there, never spend more than you earn, if that ever happens I'd have to seriously think about getting a job, 2 months of that and the choice is taken away from me, I get a job.
So July was a bit of a fucker then. For the first time in nearly 7 years it looked like I was stuffed. There are bad months and then there are "holly mother fucking shit how the fuck can so much stuff go wrong at the same time" types of month. This type of thing in 2009-10 would have been been met with a meh shit happens reaction. That type of month in 2013 is serious stress. For 30 days I was convinced it was going to be my first ever negative month. For the last 7 days my head has been churning weighing up the pro's and con's of going back into an office
Pro's
Regular Pay Cheque
Paid Holidays
Regular Hours
More Sociable
Con's
No More Fuck It I'm Going Out On The Boat Days
Travel
Interfering With My Gym Schedule
Having To Deal With Dickheads (Optional when working for yourself)
The Politics
No More Wearing Shorts To Work
The more I think about the con's the more I can see where I might be going wrong with this whole running a business thing! Anyhoo, July, it was shit. I was shitting it. For the last couple of weeks I've worked my ass off trying to get some things in place to save August. Then yesterday I'm reminded why I started working for myself in the first place, because once upon a time I was actually quite good at things and when you're good enough at those sort of things (cryptic enough for you?) there's usually good money to be made. The biggest problem is motivation and nothing motivates like desperation. I tested something on the back of a brain fart a week ago, yesterday it made enough to cover July and most of Augusts out-goings. I can now sit back on my lazy unmotivated ass and plan the next fishing trip. Result.
Perhaps I missed the biggest con of working in a normal office job, the never ending fucking dullness of it. I once read a book called The Little Book Of Stress and it had something like get real get stressed on the cover, maybe they had a point?
So July was a bit of a fucker then. For the first time in nearly 7 years it looked like I was stuffed. There are bad months and then there are "holly mother fucking shit how the fuck can so much stuff go wrong at the same time" types of month. This type of thing in 2009-10 would have been been met with a meh shit happens reaction. That type of month in 2013 is serious stress. For 30 days I was convinced it was going to be my first ever negative month. For the last 7 days my head has been churning weighing up the pro's and con's of going back into an office
Pro's
Regular Pay Cheque
Paid Holidays
Regular Hours
More Sociable
Con's
No More Fuck It I'm Going Out On The Boat Days
Travel
Interfering With My Gym Schedule
Having To Deal With Dickheads (Optional when working for yourself)
The Politics
No More Wearing Shorts To Work
The more I think about the con's the more I can see where I might be going wrong with this whole running a business thing! Anyhoo, July, it was shit. I was shitting it. For the last couple of weeks I've worked my ass off trying to get some things in place to save August. Then yesterday I'm reminded why I started working for myself in the first place, because once upon a time I was actually quite good at things and when you're good enough at those sort of things (cryptic enough for you?) there's usually good money to be made. The biggest problem is motivation and nothing motivates like desperation. I tested something on the back of a brain fart a week ago, yesterday it made enough to cover July and most of Augusts out-goings. I can now sit back on my lazy unmotivated ass and plan the next fishing trip. Result.
Perhaps I missed the biggest con of working in a normal office job, the never ending fucking dullness of it. I once read a book called The Little Book Of Stress and it had something like get real get stressed on the cover, maybe they had a point?
Monday, June 10, 2013
The TT That Was
Our TT summed up in pictures:-
There was the racing as well, but with the best week of boat weather we've had in 7 years it was much easier to get the hell out of there and put the radio on.
There was the racing as well, but with the best week of boat weather we've had in 7 years it was much easier to get the hell out of there and put the radio on.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
TT 2013 Is Nearly Here
My favorite time of year on the island, when the place has some life about it and normal island life is forgotten about for 2 weeks. Unfortunately it's also the time of year when the island's roads are turned into the motoring equivalent of a mental asylum.
With this in mind I had a brain wave yesterday to strap a 3D camera to the car and do a lap of the TT course before it gets too chaotic. The plan was to upload it to YouTube because there are plenty of TT nerds out there who appreciate this sort of thing. It was supposed to be a nice leisurely drive taking in all the scenery of the worlds most famous road racing circuit, leisurely it certainly was but as for scenic...not so much. Not unless you count looking at the backs of HGV's. Overall it took nearly an hour and a half to do the 37 and a bit miles, that's an average speed of somewhere around 25 mph! Read it and weep speed freaks! That is the reality of driving on the Isle of Man, even on what should have been a nice quiet Wednesday afternoon with people in work and kids in school. For all but about 10-15 minutes of that I was stuck in a queue of traffic behind one thing or another, 3 HGV's, 1 tractor, lost count of cyclists and 1 old person who wasn't going to go above 25 mph in any circumstances as if his life depended on it. All in there were about 3 safe opportunities to overtake in that 37 miles. It took so long that just as it got interesting up on the Mountain the cameras battery gave up, that'll be sods law for you!
Overall then it was a fairly shit experience. The footage was for the most part useless, I wasted petrol going nowhere quick and then there was the cunt over the Mountain. I was happily following a visiting biker who was doing 60ish (fast enough), I don't think they were sure where they were going so I was happy to give them some room. Not so the twat behind me who decided he must get past. So when I slowed down to give the bike in front time to turn right onto a side road the idiot behind decided he was going for it, totally oblivious to the bike slowly turning right across his path. Having been watching this bell-end in the mirror for a minute I could almost guess what he was going to do so I just had enough time to slam on the anchors and let him back onto the left side of the road in front of me before he hit the bike. I did get a nice nod and wave from the passenger on the bike who probably needed some new knickers, welcome to the Isle of Man mate! And the carnage hasn't even started yet.
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And so it begins...took all of 1 day:-
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/hunt-for-car-after-biker-is-hurt-1-5712605
and to keep up to date with the fun and games
Isle of Man Police Facebook Page
With this in mind I had a brain wave yesterday to strap a 3D camera to the car and do a lap of the TT course before it gets too chaotic. The plan was to upload it to YouTube because there are plenty of TT nerds out there who appreciate this sort of thing. It was supposed to be a nice leisurely drive taking in all the scenery of the worlds most famous road racing circuit, leisurely it certainly was but as for scenic...not so much. Not unless you count looking at the backs of HGV's. Overall it took nearly an hour and a half to do the 37 and a bit miles, that's an average speed of somewhere around 25 mph! Read it and weep speed freaks! That is the reality of driving on the Isle of Man, even on what should have been a nice quiet Wednesday afternoon with people in work and kids in school. For all but about 10-15 minutes of that I was stuck in a queue of traffic behind one thing or another, 3 HGV's, 1 tractor, lost count of cyclists and 1 old person who wasn't going to go above 25 mph in any circumstances as if his life depended on it. All in there were about 3 safe opportunities to overtake in that 37 miles. It took so long that just as it got interesting up on the Mountain the cameras battery gave up, that'll be sods law for you!
Overall then it was a fairly shit experience. The footage was for the most part useless, I wasted petrol going nowhere quick and then there was the cunt over the Mountain. I was happily following a visiting biker who was doing 60ish (fast enough), I don't think they were sure where they were going so I was happy to give them some room. Not so the twat behind me who decided he must get past. So when I slowed down to give the bike in front time to turn right onto a side road the idiot behind decided he was going for it, totally oblivious to the bike slowly turning right across his path. Having been watching this bell-end in the mirror for a minute I could almost guess what he was going to do so I just had enough time to slam on the anchors and let him back onto the left side of the road in front of me before he hit the bike. I did get a nice nod and wave from the passenger on the bike who probably needed some new knickers, welcome to the Isle of Man mate! And the carnage hasn't even started yet.
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And so it begins...took all of 1 day:-
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/hunt-for-car-after-biker-is-hurt-1-5712605
and to keep up to date with the fun and games
Isle of Man Police Facebook Page
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Iron Man 3
Thought it was OK, a bit long for one of these types of film and also quite surprisingly lacking in action. Iron Man seemed to spend most of the film moping around feeling sorry for himself for no apparant reason. Would I go to the cinema to watch it again? No. Will I buy the Blu-Ray? Possibly, if only to watch it in 2D because the 3D brought nothing to the party except a pain above my ears where the cheapo glasses dug into my fat head.
In other Iron Man news me giving up the gym didn't last very long, but it is on its last chance now, if I'm not cut by the end of the month I'm definitely packing it in.
In other Iron Man news me giving up the gym didn't last very long, but it is on its last chance now, if I'm not cut by the end of the month I'm definitely packing it in.
Monday, April 22, 2013
The End Of An Era
Father time has caught up with me and it's time to face facts, I'm getting old. For all my adult life I've been a member of one gym or another but on Friday I decided to finally call it a day after the worst set of results I've ever seen.
Since January I've been working my ass off, pyramid sets, ascending drop sets, an intense cardio regime, in short about 2 hours a day of serious gym time...the results of this, absolutely fuck all. Body weight the same, body fat percentage the same, lean muscle the same. Yes I can lift a little more but I'm not here to compete in worlds strongest man, the idea was trim and tone and that's what I geared towards, burning an extra 6-7000 calories a week should more than do that. In my early 20's this sort of regime would have had drastic results in 6-8 weeks, now I might as well as sat on the sofa and ate pie for all the difference it's made. So to the gym I say fuck you, it's been fun but from now on I'll save the 35 quid a month, 14 hours a week, cheers.
Since January I've been working my ass off, pyramid sets, ascending drop sets, an intense cardio regime, in short about 2 hours a day of serious gym time...the results of this, absolutely fuck all. Body weight the same, body fat percentage the same, lean muscle the same. Yes I can lift a little more but I'm not here to compete in worlds strongest man, the idea was trim and tone and that's what I geared towards, burning an extra 6-7000 calories a week should more than do that. In my early 20's this sort of regime would have had drastic results in 6-8 weeks, now I might as well as sat on the sofa and ate pie for all the difference it's made. So to the gym I say fuck you, it's been fun but from now on I'll save the 35 quid a month, 14 hours a week, cheers.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Fucking Sky
Got rid of it 5 months ago, haven't missed it one bit.
Every week they phone up asking us to "Come Back To Sky", 2-3 times a week we get an exlcusive "Come Back To Sky" offer through the post. I got fed up today and phoned them up to say stop it, they wanted my account password, I don't have an account I cancelled it? They can't change my contact preferences without having my account password, I don't have an account I explained again.
Except I do. When you take out a Sky subscription for one of their services they assign you a Sky ID and it is never deleted. If you sign up for an online account you can see that THEY can see all your details and it is impossible to have this account removed. You can never ever actually leave Sky, they will just hold on to your details as long as your account is left open, an account you can't close. Fuckers. Nice to see the Data Protection Act doing it's job heh? Somebody should really have a word with them about what information they are allowed to retain and for how long.
Every week they phone up asking us to "Come Back To Sky", 2-3 times a week we get an exlcusive "Come Back To Sky" offer through the post. I got fed up today and phoned them up to say stop it, they wanted my account password, I don't have an account I cancelled it? They can't change my contact preferences without having my account password, I don't have an account I explained again.
Except I do. When you take out a Sky subscription for one of their services they assign you a Sky ID and it is never deleted. If you sign up for an online account you can see that THEY can see all your details and it is impossible to have this account removed. You can never ever actually leave Sky, they will just hold on to your details as long as your account is left open, an account you can't close. Fuckers. Nice to see the Data Protection Act doing it's job heh? Somebody should really have a word with them about what information they are allowed to retain and for how long.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Want To Earn More And Work Less?
Nope this isn't some scammy "get rich quick" internet marketing system, it's actual real life shit. How would you like to cut down your hours by about 10%, earn considerably more and gain a whole raft of benefits you could only dream about including a final salary pension? Not only that but you also get to forget about the company you work for going bust, the pressures of working in a commercial environment, "late" salary payments because of a bad month and needing to ass kiss clients because you need the business!
As an exclusive bonus to this once in a lifetime offer I'm also throwing in the opportunity to have your breakfast during working time and extra days off for having your lunch at your desk....I like to call it the flexi-time meal bonus.
Your only obligation is to turn up, not upset anybody and if you can try and look at least a little busy that would be nice.
For further details please check out page 11 of this document. **HURRY** This opportunity will only be available for as long as the population of the Isle of Man are happy to fund the inbred old boys club currently running the show.
As an exclusive bonus to this once in a lifetime offer I'm also throwing in the opportunity to have your breakfast during working time and extra days off for having your lunch at your desk....I like to call it the flexi-time meal bonus.
Your only obligation is to turn up, not upset anybody and if you can try and look at least a little busy that would be nice.
For further details please check out page 11 of this document. **HURRY** This opportunity will only be available for as long as the population of the Isle of Man are happy to fund the inbred old boys club currently running the show.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
(Un)Interesting Observation
I've signed up again with e-bay, it'll only be a matter of time before the account is hacked and all sorts of hassle goes down but in the meantime I needed a few electronics bits that I could only find on there. One expensive (£120) comes from the USA with paid ($20) postage. Once cheap (£11) comes from China with free postage. Both packages are about the same size and posted on the same day.
Bit surprised then to find out that the Chinese parcel gets here a whole 5 days before the American one. What does this tell us? Not a lot, except perhaps not to be so dubious of ordering stuff from China, which opens up a whole new world of purchasing obscure crap.
Bit surprised then to find out that the Chinese parcel gets here a whole 5 days before the American one. What does this tell us? Not a lot, except perhaps not to be so dubious of ordering stuff from China, which opens up a whole new world of purchasing obscure crap.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Far Cry 3 Review
If Far Cry 2 had a very simple child that was initially fun to play with but very soon the limited simplicity became very, very boring then that would be Far Cry 3. In short they have taken everything away that made Far Cry, then Far Cry 2 challenging (and fun for more than a few hours) and left you with a-n-other CoD mongathon. I loved it for a couple of hours but now having forced myself through the whole game (the child analogy stops here) it's heading straight for the swapsie pile at Game.
I could say the same about Mass Effect 3 but I'll save that for a different but equally fucking hilarious post.
I could say the same about Mass Effect 3 but I'll save that for a different but equally fucking hilarious post.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Christmas Wrap-Up
Ho ho ho and all that shit. Here's a quick round-up of how things are going -
The lads Christmas day out was on the 8th of December this year and went very well for the rest of the lads (as far as I can gather nobody was arrested, hospitalised or divorced post event). My guts are still crap and even though I only had 4 or 5 drinks all day before calling it an early finish I have suffered, oh how I've suffered! In fact today is the first day I've not looked pregnant and managed to unload something half normal, I'm going to call him Mr Hanky. I could live without drinking the rest of the year but I used to enjoy a few at Christmas.
The people who dicked me over have now themselves been shafted to a whole new level of financial pain and misery. Shame. I may send them a Christmas card with a pound note in it to show there is no hard feelings. I don't like the world of finance so plans have been made in the New Year to take a step back to what I do enjoy.
All presents are bought, not wrapped, that's my rock and roll weekend planned. I say all, I mean all the presents I needed to get, which is everything except the wifes family and friends. The Mrs has once again decided the best policy was to wait until this week and then shop local. No point arguing because she will never learn. I'm not doing a last minute online order with extra postage to make up for it this year, I like to see it as training. Expect a similar blog post this time next year.
Other than that all systems go, a few bits of food left to get but then we're ready for action. If I don't see you beforehand have a very Merry Christmas and all things being well I'll see the lads for the new years party.
The lads Christmas day out was on the 8th of December this year and went very well for the rest of the lads (as far as I can gather nobody was arrested, hospitalised or divorced post event). My guts are still crap and even though I only had 4 or 5 drinks all day before calling it an early finish I have suffered, oh how I've suffered! In fact today is the first day I've not looked pregnant and managed to unload something half normal, I'm going to call him Mr Hanky. I could live without drinking the rest of the year but I used to enjoy a few at Christmas.
The people who dicked me over have now themselves been shafted to a whole new level of financial pain and misery. Shame. I may send them a Christmas card with a pound note in it to show there is no hard feelings. I don't like the world of finance so plans have been made in the New Year to take a step back to what I do enjoy.
All presents are bought, not wrapped, that's my rock and roll weekend planned. I say all, I mean all the presents I needed to get, which is everything except the wifes family and friends. The Mrs has once again decided the best policy was to wait until this week and then shop local. No point arguing because she will never learn. I'm not doing a last minute online order with extra postage to make up for it this year, I like to see it as training. Expect a similar blog post this time next year.
Other than that all systems go, a few bits of food left to get but then we're ready for action. If I don't see you beforehand have a very Merry Christmas and all things being well I'll see the lads for the new years party.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Do Yourself A Favour
Enjoy a bit of Christmas spirit, take a look at this lady's amazing story:-
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I fucking hate cancer, just the word is bad enough never mind the puking shit, rotting away, body eating itself reality. To meet it head on with a smile on your face is more than I think I or most could handle but the way this girl just ploughs on is pure inspiration.
Support the Facebook page then buy the track from either Amazon or iTunes
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Buy From iTunes
I fucking hate cancer, just the word is bad enough never mind the puking shit, rotting away, body eating itself reality. To meet it head on with a smile on your face is more than I think I or most could handle but the way this girl just ploughs on is pure inspiration.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Better Stick To Digging Holes
There's nothing that says "thank you for making us a really successful company from nothing, oh and rich!!!" better than 3 years into a long term deal declaring "fuck you we can't find our copy of the agreement no more money for you." Knowing fine well that anything I show them will be pulled apart because they plain and simple want to keep everything for themselves. Oh the joy.
Even worse in the world of business and finance acceptable ways of dealing with this seem to be:-
1. I'm going to tell my lawyer on you
2. Fake pleasant e-mails that have to end in Kind Regards
3. Cry
Where as according to people wiser than me these are not acceptable ways of resolving the issue:-
1. Physical violence
2. Nipping around the office for a quiet "word"
3. Destroying their business & personal reputations
Sniveling little 2 bit office waller shit bags that wouldn't know about honor if it jumped up and took a dump on their face, and the world is full of them, they are everywhere. It's no wonder Corporate Lawyers earn so much with so many people willing to dick people over. Anyhoo, it's a valuable lesson learned, it's also a very small island which makes this sort of nonsense even stupider. But what can you do? Dig holes that's what.
Even worse in the world of business and finance acceptable ways of dealing with this seem to be:-
1. I'm going to tell my lawyer on you
2. Fake pleasant e-mails that have to end in Kind Regards
3. Cry
Where as according to people wiser than me these are not acceptable ways of resolving the issue:-
1. Physical violence
2. Nipping around the office for a quiet "word"
3. Destroying their business & personal reputations
Sniveling little 2 bit office waller shit bags that wouldn't know about honor if it jumped up and took a dump on their face, and the world is full of them, they are everywhere. It's no wonder Corporate Lawyers earn so much with so many people willing to dick people over. Anyhoo, it's a valuable lesson learned, it's also a very small island which makes this sort of nonsense even stupider. But what can you do? Dig holes that's what.
Monday, October 29, 2012
New York Webcam
Live broadcast by Ustream
Worst Hurricane ever? Looks like a normal summers day on the Isle of Man.
(And I still haven't seen Godzilla)
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