Friday 28 September 2007

Apple - evil swine!

Apparently - 49% of techies fall asleep on the Job. Excuse me for saying so but what a loada shite!! Unless you're some dude in a server room on his jack all day with nish to do...it ain't gonna happen! Most offices are "open plan" these days anyway so where on earth we'd find the time to nap is beyond me!

Meanwhile - It looks like I won't be getting an iPhone afterall. I was checking out this article on the BBC news web site and it seems Apple have released an update that will disable relevant communication features on the phone if it has been unlocked! Selfish set of bastards!! My opinion? This gives Microsoft a chance to shine with something equally as good and that works on ALL networks...they'll earn brownie points for that one.

Finally...while I'm getting into this whole "blogging thing" and while I'm a very big fan of Google (they make nice stuff!) - I want a propod!!! It's a flash blog basically....looks well nice and was developed by the 1st inductees to the FWA hall of fame - Fantasy Interactive. I'm on the list for Beta testing and Think Swedish (what I think the propod will look like) looks well sweet...so I want!! I want!!

Thursday 27 September 2007

Oh it's nice to be wanted

Day was pretty alright - usual kinda thing...wake up, work, go home...cool thing is - got a phone call from an pretty cool design co. Looks like Timmy Boy scored himself an interview. Woo Ha!

Oooh - in other geeky news, been checking out Quake Wars - it looks the BIZ! Not go the demo yet but like the sad little geek I am...I'll find everything I can to bitch about something so obviously superb in programming and graphical display while simultaneously whining about how I should have spent the extra 40 bones for that nVidia graphics card! :(

Oooh - and checkout Halo 3 - Looks BOSS, although it looks like some fool in the packaging dept. dropped a knacker!

Sunday 23 September 2007

Fat blind dates and the Zulu army

Right - so was in Birmingham this weekend for my best mates birthday. Was a ton of fun! Anyways - as you may find the title of this particular entry a little weird here's the explanation...

We have a visitor, he's a friend of my best mate and is an absolute monster of a man! - a geezer by the name of "Big Ste". The dudes arms are like the size of my torso and he looks like he only leaves the gym for bits of fresh air or to eat the daily farm of cows he must be eating to maintain that size! The kinda geezer you'd prefer as a mate rather than an enemy lets put it that way. But after I get speaking to him - he's a sound geezer. Anyways - being as I'm a supporter of Birmingham City - and Ste is a member of the Zulu army - he gave me a signed book of "Zulus". Been bugging my mate to sort it for ages. Anyways - the note written in the front of the book reads:

"Tim,
ain't it funny how all birds sound fit on the phone.

All the best
Big Ste
Zulu Army"

So - now onto the reason for the seemingly cryptic note. About 18 months ago I was on a dating site and ended up meeting a chic who turned out to be not so truthful about her size. The picture of her on the web site was pretty alright although it was only a face shot (I should have figured it from that - but her profile said THIN! What was I to do?)

Anyways - we arrange to meet in town and as I'm walking through - I see this chic that kinda looks like her and has a nice bod to boot. I say hello and she proceeds to tells me to "Fuck off!" - I realise it's not her. I carry on walking and a few moments later I receive a phone call from the chic I'm meant to be meeting. She tells me "I think I've just walked passed you" so I turn around thinking to myself "it must have been the hot chic that just told me to do one"and proceed to ask where about she it. She tells me "behind the phone box" which is in my line of site by now so I put the phone down. Out she comes and my word!! There is a saying a friend of mine uses which popped into my head at that very moment. "Sounds fit on the phone, add 10 stone!" and my oh my was that equation accurate. "THIN MY ARSE" I thought...no kidding she must have been about 20 stone drip dry and everything inside me is saying "RUN!! RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!! IT'S NOT LIKE SHE CAN CHASE YOU NOW IS IT???". Anyways - after a little more thought I decided that wouldn't be the right thing to do so I end up telling her the score without being mean about it and saw the funny side of it pretty much right away (this kinda shit happens to me ALL THE TIME!!).

But either way - I'm well chuffed with my book and I can finally finish it now (my mate's had the thing for damn near 18 months) - and with the success of the military type operation - was a good weekend all round!

Friday 21 September 2007

UFC Baby!

UFC 76 is on this weekend! If you live in the UK - Bravo, 9pm Sunday. Got to say, the main motivation for watching this one (I'd watch it anyway) is to see Lyoto Machida in action. Saw him for the 1st time a few months back and this dude is HARDCORE!! He some how manages to barely get hit while looking graceful at the same time...almost like a choreographed movie. However, considering the dudes dad is some Shotokan Karate master type dude and he's been learning this stuff since he was 3 - it's to be expected. Anyways - be interesting to see how he does in the light heavy weight division.

Oh yeah...and Chuck Liddell is kickin off with the Dean o Mean...Keith Jardine.

Thursday 20 September 2007

It could be me but I doubt it

Yeah ok - so I've ran out of protein shake this morning and ended up missing my ritual liquid brekky before work - so by the time I get to work I'm STARVING but have little time to even eat any food. Then a certain someone in the Co. who happens to be quite high up (as in REALLY high up) decides to take things a little too far and grab me by the collar like I'm some kid. Now this is not the 1st time this has happened and being as this dudes like the major cheese...I don't say shit. But I then sit there at my desk for the next few hours MAJORLY PISSED about the entire situation and then next thing you know I'm getting quizzed about some coding I've done and why it was done a certain way - which if asked at any other time I wouldn't have minded but because I've already got the arsehole that kinda makes me wanna kick a cat! AND THEN - Being as I ain't eaten and I'm damn near starving...I decide to go get a black coffee (I figured 2 birds - 1 stone...supress the appetite, calm me nerves)...and after bringing it back to my desk and taking quite literally 2 sips - i knock the cup with my elbow and a damn near full cup of black coffee spills all over the desk, paper work the lot! By this time I ain't really suprised so I'm just sat there looking at it while the rest of the team sits there in silence. Finally - one of them pulls out some tissue for me (bless his cotton socks) and I clean the shit up. But oh no...it's not TOTALLY CLEAN - therefore as I'm coding away I go to lift my arm and it WREAKS of coffee and is kinda sticking to the desk. All of this before mid-day. By the end of the day I was pretty alright I guess...a bit moody from being hungry n stuff and then on the way home remember that I totally forgot to buy some more protein!

So all in all...I had the distinct impression that people were going out of their way to piss me off. I doubt that's the case but it certainly felt that way.

Other than that...day was great...nothing to complain about.

Anyways - that is/was my 1st blog entry...gonna do my best to ensure this does not turn out like my last blog which was a forum for me to bitch and moan about the things I hate in the world...but hey!! I'm only human ;)