Misc archive

Safari for Windows exploited already. Stick to Firefox if you know what’s good for you.

Three times over the last month (that’s four weeks, not since the 1st of June) I’ve received envelopes from my bank absolutely stuffed with various adverts for loans, a variety of different accounts, online banking, etc. This is all printed on very shiny/glossy paper, which I believe (but could be wrong about) is not recyclable… read full entry »

Now this one really tickled my funny bone.. Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator.(source) I feel sorry for the poor sod who was sat at home waiting for their new toy. Oh, and Karl said something about adding a… read full entry »

If you’ve been on the moon for the past month you won’t have heard about the little girl — Madeleine McCann — who was kidnapped from a Portuguese holiday resort. Unfortunately, it’s all I’ve heard about, and while I’ve refrained from passing comment so far I can’t bear to listen to the media making martyrs… read full entry »

I have to admit that I’m a bit of a sucker for a creative advert. I swear I’m more likely to buy a product if I see an advert that tickles my funny bone than I am if I see an informative or factual one (which is why PPP posts are nothing but shit to… read full entry »

Who wants to come and play with my new Wiiiiiiii? YES :D I finally got one. I was playing on my GameCube (notice a Nintendo theme?) last night and casually told Karl to have a quick look on will-consoles.co.uk to see if it had spotted any in stock (not including the bundles, which I didn’t… read full entry »

How insane is the government? Perhaps you shouldn’t answer that, we’ve not got all year. However, we should be questioning the sanity of Professor Lord Richard Layard, a government adviser, who believes “the central purpose of schools should be to teach “the secrets of happiness”” (source). What bollocks. Schools are not a place to learn… read full entry »

So, as the doctor prescribed I’ve been taking a brisk walk every day. Except, I have a confession… I’ve discovered that I am that bloody unfit that I am struggling to keep it brisk for over 5 minutes, let alone 15. I can only try and guess at how the hell I used to do… read full entry »

My 18-monthly depo checkup/3-monthly jab was this morning. I was particularly looking forward to this after the doctor had to Google the procedure and the nurse left my arse exposed to the world last time. Fortunately this doctor — although obviously new — was more clued up than the last guy. He started asking me… read full entry »

I’ve had such a stupidly shitty day. I can’t rant about it because of, ooh, just the small matter of privacy that I discussed in my previous post. Is that classed as irony? Safe to say that I managed to humiliate myself more than once by not asking the right questions and not paying enough… read full entry »