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So...?

You want me to add you as a friend?

Comment here!

Please let me know how I know you or you'll get ignored.

I tend to only add back people I know...

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( To save me having to ask for them again and again, add contact details, as you see fit, here and amend them as they change please! )

Tags: poll, your addresses

( Things I Like )

( If you want to know exactly what to get me... )

Tags: to buy, wishlist

I have done a bit of cull. Some LJ's are barely loved at all, others are people I no longer see much of and others have been removed because I use Facebook for those I don't know that well.

If you think I have removed you by accident, please comment.

Tags: lj, public

Super Sewer Serpents

That is all...

(Just a random thought that crossed my mind)

Tags: public, random, snake

(Doesn't affect me with a Permanent account)

http://community.livejournal.com/paidmembers/23135.html

As many of you may already know, LiveJournal experienced about an hour of downtime on Thursday, August 6th due to a DDoS which affected LiveJournal and several other web service providers. In the days following that event some users may have noticed some site slowness or experienced connection problems as we worked on blocking "bad" traffic and making sure that all of you could access the site. We want to apologize for any inconvenience or frustration this caused.

Although the circumstances were out of our control, we greatly appreciate the patience and support you've shown us over the past week or two as we worked to mitigate the effects of this attack. For those of you who support us by owning a Paid Account, we'd like to express our appreciation by extending your Paid Time for a few days. Anyone who was an active Paid member as of any time Thursday, August 6, 2009 is eligible for a 3 day extension of Paid time. You can claim this extension anytime from now until 12:01 GMT on September 10th.

The extension isn't automatic so that people who weren't affected can have the option to choose whether or not they want an extension. You can choose to claim your extension by going to this page: http://www.livejournal.com/pay/claim.bml

Tags: lj, public

Have two spare if anyone would like one?

Tags: dreamwidth, public

Bought from this post but are too big for me, even though I wear 6/39 boots!

Cost £10 so would like that back. £5 P+P (can post out tomorrow or Friday) or might be able to meetup in East/Central London tomorrow or Friday morning.

Tags: public, selling

In case you missed it last night:

Blurb me!

Tags: public, random

(Reminded by moomin_puffin)

Sum me up in a sentence. A blurb of me or my LJ, if you will...

EDIT:

To make it more fun, I'll blurb you back!

Tags: public, random

For those of you not on Facebook, here's are a few photos from the weekend. Writeup to follow as will more photos.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=103806&id=609815263&l=28a24ffaf4

Tags: ireland, photos, public

It's merciless all this week in London, with temperatures well over 30 Celsius. And beware: a bicycle saddle can apparently reach 60 if left in the sun. Which is clearly twice as hot as 30.

So here's your Top Ten Tips on coping with the heat while cycling round the capital:

• When buying ice-lolly to eat while cycling along, choose safe, reflective flavour such as strawberry or lemon

• Stay cool emotionally by not shouting at car drivers whose air-conditioners will drown you out – concentrate on the open-tops

• Warmed-up fizzy drinks will spray a sticky mess everywhere if opened before they've settled – useful against pedestrians who cross on red

• Develop a taste for neat whisky to avoid transporting ice

• Car drivers stuck in jams get even more bad-tempered, so take games, quizzes etc to cheer them up

• Stick to medical guidelines of at least eight glasses of alcohol per day, and no more than three units of water

• Sunburn can be bad enough to warrant a day off work, so plan carefully

• Avoid showing embarrassing underarm wet patches by not giving hand signals

• Clear the queue for the shower on arrival at work by wearing sombrero, coughing

• Wait three days till it gets cold and windy again

From the RealCycling Blog

Tags: bike, funny, public
Feeling: amused

I've never been a big fan but there's probably no-one in the world who doesn't know the name or a song.

I have high objections to the masses of tasteless jokes that started circulating very quickly though.

Whatever people think he was, there's no denying he *was* a son, brother, father and friend and I think these types of jokes are harmful to those left behind. You wouldn't like it if someone started to be tactless at your father/brother's funeral, would you?

Tell them and pass them on, if you want, but please do not include me.

"I hope he finds a peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this world."

Tags: public, r.i.p

Dear fellow cyclists,

do you wear a helmet?

It's not a legal requirement in this country and there's evidence for and against them. If it's windy, it's useful for keeping my hair out of my face (as it's long enough to drive me crazy) and I don't have a hat.

If I'm doing a journey on busy roads, I do. Mainly as I promised my mother I would!

What are your thoughts?

(Cross-posted in ukcycling)

Tags: bike, public

- Get Java to work on Seamonkey
- Change theme so that tabs aren't almost the same colour when active/inactive
- Find a workaround for my DiNovo keyboard/mouse buttons
- Figure out why FF is half-opening again
- See if can get F5 to refresh in Seamonkey
- Lookup why system default for mouse is failing (says 6 lines, moves 3. Moves 3 no matter what number is set)
- Check web to see if VLC can be minimised to system tray, set to auto-open in dosd
- Install Filezilla, Handbrake (not updated for Kubuntu 9.04) and my printer drivers (unavailable) manually
- Find out if can save Pidgin status' for use if do clean install/XP

Today I have installed Seamonkey 1.1.17 twice. I have it down to a tee now. I also know to open as root to install my add-ons such as Ad-Block, UK dictionary. I also know to chmod the dictionary prefs as it's read-only for root.

I also discovered the reason why SM and NoScript weren't getting along; the new version of NS does not play well with SM. So used previous version.

Tried to install CS Lite to try but new SM version doesn't like that either. I went through six profile folders today!

Tags: kubuntu, public, to do

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/refunds/industrialaction/default.aspx

"RMT Strike – Application for Goodwill Payment

If you hold a 7 Day or longer period Travelcard on Oyster purchased from a Transport for London outlet, and your normal tube journey of 10th and 11th of June was severely disrupted you can apply for a goodwill payment voucher which can be used for future travel. You do not need to wait until your current ticket has expired before submitting your claim.

If your ticket was valid for less than 7 days, or you are a pay as you go customer you are not eligible for a payment as sufficient notice of industrial action was given. "

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At least once a year, if not more, we get planes flying over our houses. Today we were on the flight path for the Queen's Birthday flyover.

Consisting of:

BBMF Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane

9 Typhoons

VC10 with two Tornado GR4s

Awacs with two Tornado F3s

Red Arrows

(info from Military Airshows site)

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I have two. Anyone want one?

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Mark and I recently got back into Lost after stopping watching S3 due to Sky not advertising when they were showing it and a slow start.

This evening the award for best quote goes to:

"We're not going to Guam, are we?"

Tags: public, quotes, tv

Thanks to bloomoo for telling me about this article.

( Article... )

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Poll #1397993 Keeping in Touch
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

Which do you use to keep in touch with people, etc?

Other?

Which is your favourite?

Ticky boxes make the world a better place?

With people getting all excited about Dreamwidth (not that I know why or what), this poll crept into my mind. Fill and discuss why whichever is your favourite...or else!

Livejournal isn't an answer for the first question due to the fact it's a given if answering this poll. :)

Tags: poll, public

Aha! (Excuse the image size, can't be bothered to resize the strip...)

Tags: comics, funny, public

"Oh look!" said the politicians, "A good way to take the heat off us because of the current financial crisis and Budget!"

Tags: b3ta, funny, public

What to get me for Christmas.

Chronicle and Echo article

Tags: northampton, public

Read this article at your peril!

( Added for future reference )

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Here's a poke to see if people can return my books as I'm running out of reading material!

posthumanangel: Time Ships
silent_andy: Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin
bloomoo: Strata and The Dark Side of The Sun (Not too worried about these as Mark's is spitting distance away and I know where they are)

If anyone else has any, let me know!

Missing:

Coalalesent by Stephen Baxter

Tags: books, public

Courtesy of mr_eleganza

Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale

( Article )

Crossposted on battlestar_blog

Tags: bsg, funny, public

For those of you who liked the TwoLumps strip I posted, here are some awesome icons made by tokudama. :)

Tags: comics, public

Quote from episode one of the BBC's "Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's":

Why do I have six screens [monitors]? Because I don't have room for eight.

*sigh*

Geek humour never fails to amuse.

*giggle*

GNU's not Unix

*giggle*

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10.You have vivid waking dreams of Tricia Helfer… No wait, that’s perfectly normal.

9. Having so many Starbucks around town finally begins to make sense.

8. You’ve started taunting all the pussies who still carry phasers at conventions.

7. You’ve taken the time to tear the corners off all the sheets of paper in your printer.

6. On the way home from work, you pull over to scout for the proper star configurations.

5. Upon purchasing a new appliance, you immediately call the manufacturer to make sure the appliance’s inhibitor chip is in place.

4. There are signs of machine gun strafing across the kitchen nook where your toaster used to be kept… the sneaky bastard.

3. Whenever your significant other begins talking in her sleep, you immediately begin asking her for directions.

2. You can’t get a good night’s sleep anymore because you need to change location every thirty-three minutes.

1. Anytime someone turns on a stereo in the next room, you begin wigging out because “There’s music IN THE FRAKING WALLS!”

…and finally, you know that you’re really, truly had too much when…
In a desperate ploy to extend the BattleStar Galactica experience, you’re stubbornly hold fast to your theory that ties other franchises into the BSG storyline, claiming, for instance, that the only way they could possibly shoot a sequel to Donnie Darko is if Donnie were Roslin’s Cylon-hybrid love child.


( Read more... )

Tags: bsg, public

Following on from the Sprout Poll...

Poll #1367627 Marmite
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

Marmite. Evil or Delicious?

You Know You Love Them...

Tags: poll, public

Anyone else read the E-Metro?

Especially useful if you don't get a paper or want to walk to a tube station for one. Also better than more paper.

Tags: interesting websites, public

Anyone else read TwoLumps?

Cats and Combichrist

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One for Lars but amusing anyway...

Tags: funny, geek, public

( Cut for large size... )

Found this gem which Googling and it really works after watching the last episode.

Been a while since I made Mark laugh like that. Enjoy!

Tags: bsg, comics, funny, public

Because I was bored (nicked from tooth_fairy)

Go to your profile
Click on the first friend in your list of friends
Click on the first (not already clicked) mutual friend (usually in bold)
Make a list until you have no more friends in common and see how far it takes you
Use the subject "Friends in common" then how many there are

( List of 30... )

Tags: meme, public

For those of you who don't read Slashdot:



(Taken from here)

Tags: geek, kubuntu, public, windows

( Last Night around 10pm )

( This Afternoon around 1pm )

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It appears there are a few very rare 20p pieces in circulation that were issued in 2008 without the date. The Royal Mint rectified the mistake early on, but a few of these dateless 20p pieces did make it into circulation and are legal tender.

These coins are apparently very valuable to collectors - and there are a couple on eBay that are reaching silly prices; this one has reached £96 at time of writing!

I have a couple of the new shield design ones and will now be keeping my eye out! £96 wouldn't go amiss right now...

Tags: money, public

"Remember the good old 3.5-inch floppy disk? Now remember how annoying it was when you had to install a program that spanned 4 or 5 disks? Well, imagine what life would be like if you had to install today’s bloatware on your computer using floppies. That’s exactly what the designers at Antrepo Design Industry envisioned in their new series series of art prints."

Result (Approximate)

46 disk for iTunes 8.02

358 disk for Adobe Photoshop CS4

1760 disk for the Sims 3

12 disk for Firefox 3, 36 disk for Firefox Add-ons


Taken from Technabob artivcle

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I want to have a proper go and learn some.

I've been recommended linuxcommand.org. Any other suggestions?

Tags: geek, kubuntu, public

After years of not eating chocolate, I have been tempted back towards the fold by the Chocolate Orange bought for me at Christmas.

It's the first I've had in years as Gran usually gets Matchmakers but couldn't in years.

It's now all gone and must resist the urge to go to shops to buy more!

Tags: food, public

Recommend a MP3 player to use. iTunes is only for Windows and would love to use it's playlists but...

I would us the rating in Adept but the View options are shot.

PS. Ubuntu Tux just for stevek

Tags: kubuntu, public, software

It seems asking bloomoo is a little useless as he hasn't used KDE since KDE3. :)

So here's a list of stuff I need to sort out:

- commands list for terminal (as not so geeky to have learnt them)

- getting Adept to work. Currently the "View" list is not showing or accessible

- perhaps removing AVG (not showing on Adept so guess I need to go through terminal) and swapping for Clam

- enabling my extra mouse buttons (found a way via terminal/xorg.conf). I find it hard to live without my back, forward and double click buttons. Also horizontal scroll.
(EDIT: Hmm, back/forward buttons are working with Firefox)

- enabling my extra keyboard buttons. Having to cope without F5/refresh right now

- looking for hosts file so I can copy across the one from Windows

- wondering why mouse only scrolls three lines even when set at 12 or even 6 (page down/up seems fine though)

- wondering how to change the selected items colour in browsers

- a range of Seamonkey problems and it is my preferred browser:
- looking for the training.dat and filters.dat (located in profile folder) so I can copy across my saved ones
- figuring out why NoScript and Adblock aren't working though seems to be in Firefox (can't just add the same way I did in XP)

Tags: geek, kubuntu, public

To get all us obsessives, I mean, *fans* drooling in anticipation...

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Clearing out my makeup and toiletries cupboard so here are some bits and bobs for sale. I've moved onto natural stuff this year so these are mainly the leftover bits:

( Natural shampoos... )

( Makeup... )

I accept cheque or paypal. Prices quoted are negotiable.

Postage is stated unless you are meeting up with me soon and can then give me cash if you want. Happy to combine postage costs if you ask.

Tags: public, selling

Couldn't sleep. Was bored so browsed 4oD and found this gem. Have been enjoying the first two episodes like the science geek I am.

Tags: public, tv

So it's almost that time of year again so pop to my poll and let me know if you want a Christmas card/e-card and address details!

Tags: poll, public, your addresses

Following on from last night discussion with bloomoo:

Poll #1303254 Sprouts
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

Do you like sprouts?

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