Well I know I have never been particularly strong, but I was worse than useless during our works move on Friday!
I think I am the first link in the evolutionary chain to getting rid of muscles in arms!
God, I HATE Microsoft!
Many products on my PC download important updates that require the PC to be restarted. Fair enough, sometimes registry files are changed and the updates won’t take effect until you re-boot. I accept that!
However, most products I use tell me that an update has been installed that requires the PC to be rebooted before the update will take effect, then I am given the option to reboot now or let me reboot when I am ready.
Not Microsoft – no, they tell you an update has been installed and your PC needs rebooting – you do get the option to reboot later but that just suppresses the message for five minutes then if you don’t suppress the message, your PC get’s automatically rebooted.
It may come as a great surprise to Mr Gates, but I am actually quite competent with a computer and I am capable of making my own decisions as to when I want to reboot my PC. What happens if this message were to appear when I was leaving my PC defragging – I wouldn’t be sitting at my PC so wouldn’t suppress the message and the reboot would happen and would no doubt cock up my defrag.
I HATE MICROSOFT.
My rent your driveway out website has had some success, but the design is a bit tired and boring – and the navigation of the member area was a bit over-complicated. However, James liked the design!
As I am currently in design mode, I decided to redesign the site and rethink the colour scheme. I have also re-written the code to update it to my new standards, so check it out at my free long stay parking website!
It’s become a bit boring now – John Sergeant on Strictly Come Dancing.
I liked John at the beginning – he was a character and he was fun, but he hasn’t improved as far as I can see. He looks the same in every dance he does and I am bored now.
The people voting because they think he is being bullied by the judges are ruining the competition. And unfortunately, John Sergeant himself is not helping the situation. If he came out and said thanks for the support but next week I want you to judge me on my dance and compare it properly with the other guys, then maybe the sympathy votes would subside.
I am sure that Fiona Phillips (or Kate Garraway) asked for people to stop voting for her as she was so bad in comparison to everyone else. Now John’s not that bad, but I think it has got to that point where he really needs to go and let those that are improving carry on the fight. God forbid he gets to the final like Chris Parker did – it will make a mockery of the show.
Why do the BBC insist on showing the repeats of anything decent at varyingly late times?
I miss Heroes every Wednesday as I am out – the repeat is shown on a Sunday night no earlier than 23:45, but it varies every week – and is sometimes as late as 1:30am. Fine if you are part of the non-working community, but if I stayed up to watch it, I would be ruined as far as sleep goes for the entire following week.
Yes, I could record it, but why bother showing the repeats at all in that case? Yes, I could (and inevitably will) watch it on i-player but the quality is shit.
By all means put it on at 1:30am but do it on a day when the majority of the country do not have to get up early. After all, the BBC have no problems in showing repeats of documentaries and biographies at human times – Dragon’s Den is always repeated 2 hours EARLIER than it’s original transmission time, and I would suspect, to a similar audience size. Give me a break BBC – you have precious little programming that I would consider unmissable so DON’T make me miss this.
I consider I am a fairly sensible person, so hearing the media constantly going on about this case tends to rile me.
Yes – it is tragic and the mother deserves to go to prison, but do we really need to start playing the blame game? Surely the better thing to do is to learn lessons from it. Either way, it will remain a fact of life that these things happen and some will fall through the net. After all, the boy’s natural father didn’t know anything was wrong, so is it any wonder that social services weren’t sure.
The article above states that social services took legal advice about taking him into care a week before his death – no doubt they were told they faced a law suit unless they gathered more evidence. Yes it is terrible that money is a factor when discussing life and death, but the fact remains that without money, more kids would be left in dangerous situations so paying a load of cash in a lawsuit is not going to help anyone.
I say instead of trying to place the blame on one person, the flaws in the whole chain should be identified and procedures put in place to make sure they never happen again. I am sure there are no two abuse cases that are the same so every case will have to be treated on it’s own merits and unfortunately, things do go wrong.
Sports personality of the year is a complete farce – the majority of excellent sport stars don’t have a personality – and that is why they achieve so much in their chosen sport.
The proper title should be sports achievement of the year – after all, that is what people vote on.
Unfortunately, I am fairly confident who will win it this year – and he doesn’t deserve it.
When news programmes decide to do a special week of programmes about climate change from the arctic circle and other such remote places, do they not see the irony in their actions?
They are taking at least two unnecessary aeroplane trips to do a series of reports that can be done equally well from the less polluting VT suite in their own building using existing video footage. Someone obviously just fancies getting away for a bit.
They will sit there lecturing me on how my occasional plane trip to France to see my family is going to wipe out the entire polar bear and yet time and time again they will take half a dozen film crew to the most sensitive areas of the world for these ‘eco specials’ – and lets face it, them being there is pointless.
Stop lecturing me and start leading by example instead – I am an intelligent person so showing me some old footage of the north pole together with your ‘new’ eco-news will have more effect on me than your hypocritical trips to the arctic.
BBC Report on Drogba vs Burnley Supporters
I am in two minds on this one. Everyone is slating Drogba but no-one is really saying anything about the Burnley supporters who are just as guilty.
I agree that footballers are overpaid and because of their new status in the world they should be setting an example to their young fans.
However, how many of us have reacted instinctively when attacked by others then regretted our actions – I think this is all it was.
If Drogba gets banned for this, and too be honest, I don’t think he should (although I believe a warning then lifetime ban for a second offence is a better approach), then Burnley should be punished to the full length of the law for failing to keep their supporters under control.
My last point is well done to Burnley – I didn’t see the game but saw the pen shoot out and as a neutral, thought it was quite exciting! Good luck in the next round!
I couldn’t quite believe my eyes when reading that the X-Factor was being discussed in parliament. I’m sure that the Twat Cowell would think it’s wonderful, but it beggars belief that MP’s would consider giving any debating time over to this drivel at any time, let alone now, when our economy is in crisis.
This is further proof that the government and MP’s care more about their image than whether they actually sort anything out.