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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
3:55 pm	Once every 6 months. Well, I must get better at this. I promise to post more. Lets see: I've been playing with Facebook. Normally I wouldn't play with such and AOL'er tool, but, I must admit I've had fun with it, and made contact with old friends. Someone awhile ago said that MySpace was for the new AOL'ers, fortunatly, Facebook doesn't seem that bad... yet... I've had meetings at work. More on this in a couple of days. Stay tuned for a big announcement in the next couple of days Holidays: I'm planning a leave soon to sunny Norway, and the even sunnier women who hail from that land - poke me for details ;-) Dance: Sorry gals, it's just not really my thang, so I'm giving it up. Sports: Hello Football! 5 a side is in this year.. :-), Aikido? Rocks! Badminton? Yes Please The greatest question is, am I happy, the answer, well, yes, in a way... (more in a few days time. You've waited 6 months, you can wait another couple of days!) This is BornAgainBiker, signing off. Current Mood: Hopefull (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
11:52 am	Another Diary entry Bugger. Capt. Darling had it right. And the insane tragedy, is that it only takes a little to make everything right. With everyone. A little effort here, and there, and all is well in the world. But it isn't happening. Try to have a better Christmas than I'm going to have this year. I sincerely hope that what Chrystelle wrote it my Christmas card is true. Current Mood: depressed (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
10:56 pm	RIP The only thing dying here is me. (Wow. Dramatic Stuff) I'm a nice guy (TM). I know this, because I've been told it again. Well enough is enough. It is time for the nice guy to go. No I don't mean to become an asshole. Just a new man. Damned If I know how I'm going to do it. I just need to be forward with myself. It starts here. And I need to quit my job. I'm scared. A good kind of scared. Current Mood: Downhearted, Livened god knows (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 16th, 2006
11:29 pm	Bits and Bobs Ok, i'm a cad. I haven't written in far too long. In that time, I've become infatuated, lost that infatuation, found it again, nearly made career changes, a never gotten close to serious injury. I'm bored. So I'm going to fuck everything up. That'll be fun. Lately I've been playing with Windows Vista. On a brand-spanking new intel duo-core iMac. (17", 1 Gig ram). This has been almost the most exciting thing that has happened to me. (Actually that is a lie. My life isn't that bad yet.) I'm hopefully going to edit this post, and put in some photos I took of Vista on a Mac. Suffice it to say that Vista is the bastard child of OSX and Windows. Gone are the letters "Start" from the start button, and replaced with just the Windows Icon. Like Mac OS (and to be fair, GNOME and KDE). On the right of the screen there is the "taskbar" with "gadgets". Which is not entirely unlike, I dunno, Dashboard, with, Widgets. Then there's the new copy file dialogs. Which look suspiciously like the ones used for OS 9. Yes, its prettier than XP. Very much so. It's beautiful. But, it's still like a giant skin for XP. And are the new features really worth it. Honestly? No. Will is sell? Like hotcakes. Yes, I've become a bit of an Apple fan boy. Yes, I know you have to buy it. It isn't open source. But it has the feel of great engineering. (Which, is on the outside, but underneath, I am not in a place to comment. Heaven knows I'm no coder. Now might be a good time to remind people of the parable of the house built on sand, and the house built on rocks...) That said, you should see the new Mac Pro. Its gorgeous. Really so. I want one. And a cinema display to go with it. I also fucked my old computer. (not like that, you sick, sick people). No. one day, it stopped working. I plugged stuff in, unplugged other stuff, and in the middle I heard a capacitor go pop. I lost my rag, and hit the whole shebang with a fucking great hammer. Fuck yoga, instant karma balance! (Sorry to all you yoga people out there). So what else. Oh yes. I'm a playwright. Its difficult to see, I know, but, in April or May time, I submitted a 60 second play, for "Gone in 60 Secs 06', the world's only 'International Interactive Theatre Festival'". My play was entitled "Making the first date", and was performed in Harrogate Theatre. Anyone who wants to read my play can find it here. If you want you can even let me know what you think of it. Dom and Gillian got engaged. Alex and Rebecca got married. Congratulations to all of them, and best wishes for the future. In all fairness Tisme was most right in saying "May your love be modern enough to survive the times, and old fashioned enough to last forever". Beautiful sentiments, for a beautiful time in life. On that front I haven't been doing to well myself. Its not that I haven't found women. I have. It's not that they haven't found me; they have. It's simply been inconvenient at the time, and neither of us have enough invested (or wish to make and arse out of our selves) for it to come to any fruition. If we are to be successful in life, we must be more willing to make arses out of our selves. (Which is core to my new plan). I've been to the Charlbury festival. It was fantastic. I saw a great band, and brought their CD (Aberfeldy - Do whatever turns you on) I saw some other good bands as well, including Carpe Diem something or other, and Texas, who were ace as a headline act. I also saw Northwood play, at the Luminaire in London. They were good. (a slightly biased review. Well, jah-boo-sucks to you. Well, that'll do for now. There's a lot I've done and not mentioned (but, er, none the other way round. Everything you read tonight/day/morrow/whatever happened. My livejournal recorded in front of a live studio audience. "Oh, what a piece of work man is. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form and motion, how express and admirable. In action, how like and angel. In apprehension, how like a God." Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Monday, July 11th, 2005
6:53 pm	Magical Trevor Everyone loves Magical Trevor, 'cos the tricks that he does are ever so clever, Look at him now, disappearing the cow, Where is the cow, hidden right now? Taking a bow, it's Magical Trevor, Everybody's seen that the trick is clever, Look at him there, with his leathery, leathery whip, It's made of magic, and with a little flick, Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back, Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back, Back back, back from his magical journey. What did he see, in the magical dimension? Saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, Oh, beans lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, yeah yeah... This song has been haunting my mind now, after a co worker introduced me to it. As has a matter of further careers to Trinity. The problem now is that I have put down roots. I have friends, and what's more I've become a Yuppie. When the hell did THAT happen? And What can I do? I need an adventure. Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Monday, June 20th, 2005
7:39 pm	Rest In Peace At around 7 o'clock this morning, my Grandmother died. She was 98. She died in her bed at a hospital in Weymouth, in her sleep. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
8:34 pm	First post. For a bit. I should do this more Ho-hum. Its been a while since I did this. We've now been moved into our new place for about 4 months now. We have desks and beds and sofas and everything you need in a modern place. I've been working on a number of jobs around the school - including distrobuting a version of firefox, which should give everybody the functionalilty that they need, without giving them too much power over the systems that they use. I've used a version of Portable Firefox, as a base. I set the browser options to the requirements of our network, and then applied a userChome which hides all the ways to change options :-) (no fiddling!). Many other things have happened. I am no longer a serving member of the TA. I've been dancing for just under a year. I have shoes (they cost enough!). I've applied for a place on the RCB (but not heard anything back as of yet). And the end of term is rapidly approaching. I'm left with the decision between going and staying. The biggest question on my mind is what to do with my life. Stick with IT, move to the army, or do something else. The other question, to those in the know, is Jess or Marie :-) Current Mood: bah (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
3:05 pm	A job Well, I have been offered a job as Infirmation and Communcations Technician, at Trinity Catholic High School. I was reading Peanuts, and was reminded of a certain strip, and I was reminded that "You can never go home again" apparently from a Joni James song. I'm not sure how this applies here, but I'm sure it does. Any answers on a postcard. Current Mood: thoughtful (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 18th, 2004
4:25 pm	Career Change. Easier than a lane change, but harder than a sex change. Well, I think the title says all. As there some important-to-keep secret thingies here - I'm going private! Current Mood: indescribable (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004
2:17 am	Weymouth Well, I picked up my comfort box from the TA centre. In it were blankets, and books, and memories. I'm still jobless. I still want to be part of the TA. I'm not thinking of leaving. What do you when you really don't know what do do? Be damned if I know. Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 15th, 2004
11:15 am	Art? Well, Ross has gone to see his Grandma leaving me here, in London all alone, so what shall I do? Go to the Tate Modern, obviously! Dictionary.com has many definitions of Art, but of course none of them are perfect. How does one define such a open topic as art. As I wandered round the Tate Modern, I found several works that I found artful, and several I did not, and some, which I couldn't decide if they were artful or not. Quelle Suprise. But, of all of those objects of art, I didn't disire any of them. Less recently I have been seen wandering in and out of art shops round the the country looking at prints, and my tastes tend towards photographs, and prints. Does this say something about me? I really don't know. Oh, and I went to see the Bourne Supremacy. It was good. Current Mood: artistic (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
12:59 am	Random, now with added HTML! Well, another random post. Just to let people know whats goin' on in my mind (assuming I still have one) Last weekend we had what can only be discribed as a "lovely" weekend, with a picnic lunch beside a lake in Epping Forest. After lunrch we played frisbree for a couple of hours before returning home, and heading into Soho for dinner at the Soho Pizzeira and the onto Yate's in Leicester Square for evening drinking :-) Currently I am far far away, from my broken boxen - odin is in a state of disrepair. I think this might have something to do with accidentally dropping it, back in Henely Road - its never been quite the same since. The problem is definatly to do with the VGA system - as sometime the computer fails to POST and whines alarmingly (as VGA errors are given to do), and sometimes it works fine. I am fairly convinced that it is a loose connection somewhere within the VGA/AGP bits and bobs (ooh - a very techinical term) which can be fixed with an expensive upgrade (to say - oohh an Atherlon 64, compatible motherboard, and a nice new NVidia Geforce card, and while i'm at it, a new network card, sound card, oh, yes, and a nice Lian Li aluminium case I've been promising myself :-) Upgrade time!!!) Oh and we managed to get our bikes working and went for a ride in Epping Forest. They even survived a downhill section that nearly resulted in much pain. However my bike is missing parts of the front brake assembly and one of screws holding the gear shifter in place, which makes changing gear on the front cog remarkably more fun. Since these parts are not easily fixed I'm considering another expensive upgrade to remedy these faults. Spending money is fun :-) However holding back these "upgrades" is the lack of jobbage. Ah well, nothings perfect... Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
7:06 pm	Just a post. This is just a post to let everyone know I am alive and well. I have been contenplating my options for a career, post-operationally (woo - exciting!). Oh and for the second time I've been taking dancing lessons. However, unlike 6th form dancing - these are good ;-) Despite previous entries, I still don't really see the forces as a career - maybe a good thing and then maybe not - had I experienced things from a different side of the wall, and from a different role, perhaps I would see things in a different light - which leads me onto - what do I do now. Having for most of my univeristy career trying to propel myself into the armed forces - and cutting short - how can I gain a spark of interest in jobs, that, before have held little interest to me? Wow wasn't that deep and meaningful? Perhaps I should become a careers consultant... Current Mood: bah (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
11:57 pm	Big LJ post Well big LJ post didn't happen. Boo Hoo. I only have negative things to say /*actually, this is a lie, there were many positive things to say as well, but my judgement is clouded*/, about the whole experience, and It is not something I care to repeat really. I shall say no more. I have a marrige to go to soon, and I managed to send my card into melt-down for a suit - (mind you the suits for more than just the wedding, and did come with much other nice stuff...) Currently I hunt for jobs in the IT biz. I'm not having much luck, but I haven't really being trying hard, giving people earfuls on why i'm the greatest gift to god since USB was written into Linux, etc. etc. Depending on how desperate I get depends on what jobs I take. Seriously living in Weymouth has got rather dull, and I seek EXCITEMENT :-) GIMME A JOB YOU BASTARDS! END COMMUNIQUE! <--Private Joke(s) By'Bye Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 2nd, 2004
3:05 pm	I'm Back! Well, I'm all back and in one piece. I got a lot of unpacking to do, and a lot of people to see, so if your one of those lucky people then Yay to you. I still haven't given much thought to a big big LJ entry - but there will be one so stay tuned! HO-YAH Master Chief! (Sorry about that - I just haven't done it for a few days now) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 12th, 2004
12:32 pm	Big post Well I decided not to post while I was in theatre. And this is just a quick message to all my fans out there, who, are waiting my return. Well I'm gonna be posting a number of articles about my tour. Most should be linked to photos :-) (Comment on this)
Monday, December 8th, 2003
2:49 pm	24 Season 3 Well, 24 Season 3 hs arrived, and since I've had my day off today, I've watched it. Its very good, with a lot changed from Season 2. It's only the fourth episode and I'm rather hooked on it already. Not a lot else happens in our world - not that I can write about (mainly because it would bore you all!) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
11:05 am	Books Well, I'm half way though the Illumintas! trilogy, and someone's borrowed my copy of Lord of the Rings, so i'm looking for books to read - I'll have to buy them though Amazon - The question is what can people recomend? Currently I have The Cuckoo's Egg - Tracking a spy though a maze of computer espionage on order though amazon. So, suggestions? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003
9:35 am	Basha Palace Well we made it to Basha Palace. Its a complete contrast to the rest of Basha. We've taken over the guard duties around the camp from the Tyne Tees Regiment. The weather is hot during the day and cold during the night. There is not a lot more to say about this place, at least, not breaking Operational Security in one way or another. I have my leave at the start of january, and we have been told that the end of tour should be mid april, so hopefully there should only be 4 and a half months of work left to do. I hope I can survive it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 24th, 2003
7:17 pm	Germany Well we've done Germany. We've done all kinds of military type stuff to prepare ourselves for service out in Iraq, and now it's done. We go to a training camp in Iraq to get alclimatised, and then, downtown Basra Shit. In the infamous words I wrote an entry in my diary today. It simply reads "bugger" Current Mood: gloomy (2 Comments |Comment on this)