First off, please read this link before reading the rest of the post;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/24/charles-arthur-blogging-twitter

The above link, in case you didn’t click on said link, was an interesting piece I read on the Guardian’s web site recently, about the fact that blogging from the normal people was dying on it’s flabby arse simply because thinking up stuff to write about to an audience of about 2 or 3 people who are more than likely your parents is hard and the wonderful thing about the likes of Twitter, is that you can write stuff quickly and not to think as much about writing as you only have a small space to fill.

You know what? He has a very good point.

And in fact I am beginning to wonder about something more fundermental: When are we all going to get bored with Facebook, Twitter and all the other soical things about the interweb?

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It’s been a trying week for many people out there, with the dirty politicians in Broken Britain trying to smooth over the gaping hole that is their credibility, more jobs on the way to the scrapheap of cost-cutting, North Korea and Iran showing us all how humans clearly should behave, and now more than ever it’s literally every day we are seeing how cruel life can be, it’s become important now that any event gleans a funny side from it, no matter what it is.

And that’s before we even start on the jokes about Michael Jackson, and to carry on the general theme of this, here’s a hugely inappropriate picture designed to annoy people to write hate mail in to Ooh Sometimes:

What? No-one writes to me any more except to tell how to get women into bed….Wait, that’s a good thing, but anyway back to the post.

For the past few days, a great sorrow and bizarre joy has swept people who would rather not worry about anything else, with heavily cut and pasted tribute footage rushed onto the networks and the family questioning everything about the 50-year old’s demise. There have been people dancing in the streets, people were upset…at spending money and not getting it back for his O2 concerts…err…

The radio stations all started blasting out every single song he ever did, and all shops were compelled to my increasing misery down Oxford Circus to the point, I wanted someone to make my ears bleed, just so the red liquid flowing out would block out any more of it.

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And once again, we have to show the world’s best TV test card to illistrate the fact that during the past week or so, I’ve been away from computers in general actually, even the ever updated Twitter feed has been absent from my profound natter.

The thing with working on computers all week and most of my time on the damned things, even I tire of staring at the endless screens with things broken and look for something else to stare at, which lead to the long weekend back in North Wales with family and friends, while also staring at Megan Fox slow motion running through parts of the second Transformers movie. In essense I was being the Lord of Leisure offline.

Not a bad choice, I think you’ll agree. But the film was….well…you’ll just have to wait.

So moving forward we’re going to keep our eyes on the prize over the weekend as we come back with some new material, and possibly some more audio ranting out of context about things.

It couldn’t be going on too long with all this nonscense about things with lights, bits of script coding, and looking like a reject from the 70′s without placing some pictures from my time in Madrid. Yes, inbetween sweating in an office and sweating in a very posh hotel, there were a couple of oppotunites to look around briefly, so here for your dining and dancing pleasure:

Photos, only without the old folk’s voice telling about each picture in soul-destroying detail.

This view was taken from the top of a garden bar on the roof of some pub with the sun slowly drawing in on the second day. The view from the roof of the hotel at night was fantastic and you could see all around, and it was a good place to sniper people working in the government building next door.

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Yes, look at it: The ultimate in PC hardware in a presentable…err….mess one day last week:

Yes it may look like the setting from Mad Max without the huge budget or Mel Gibson, but think of what dwells within.

3TB of storage, Quad Core Processor…..almost make you weep with the sheer number of dodgy xxx-rated filth you could hold, even in HD….and now that is mine, all mine etc (can’t be bothered with the evil laugh) and the bright side is, that at last GTA 4 for the PC remains playable at an average of 37 frames a second as opposed to 20 before.

But there are times where the game still slows to 21 frames on occasion. Dear me, they really could have done a better job with the conversion over to PC couldn’t they? Almost makes me want to review the game in my old self-destructive manner…. In fact that sounds like a plan! Quickly, to the thing that controls the thing on the telly!

There has been some hiccups to be fair, like playing with BIOS settings to make the thing go faster only for the PC for fail to work at all. Ah the forgotten joys of playing with computers….Yeah, you’re right, there are better things to do.

Sorry for the downtime today, this was due to stoage issues at the webhosts end, which, as you can now see is all good. Cheers all and I’ll now commence more of the inane prattle you’ve all come to expect from the Lord of Leisure!

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Well seeing as I had already wasted 5 minutes doing the thing and I can’t think of better things off the top of my head to say, please enjoy my ramblings which are geeky and silly and I say naughty words in this too, so if you don’t know what they are, ask your mummy and daddy. Right, where’s my bottle….

I suppose with all the comments and updates I had been making with Twitter, something was bound to set things off.

In fact one particular comment has taken a life of it’s own….You see in a stupid and geeky moment, I ordered a new Intel Quad Core Processor and two 1TB drives, basically to replace what drives I have already but apprently in the sphere of the internet, that amount of storage means only one thing.

The following is all the updates from the Facebook profile I keep after the purchase was made known.

Nigel Parsons at 14:04 on 09 June
Demand some overtime! (or ask really really nicely)

Alistair Clare at 14:06 on 09 June
nerd!

Russ Hollinshead at 14:06 09 June via Facebook Mobile
Nerd!

Russ Hollinshead at 14:07 09 June via Facebook Mobile
Wow. Uncanny.

Maybe we do have a point.

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I mean, it has been yet another week without so much as a “How’s your father?” or “Stop putting that in my ear” comment and with the excitement barely contained after the taste of Spain or something else equally repeating on you a few hours afterwards, you might be wondering if I had gotten distracted again by shiny things or better yet, discovered how to make gold out of bin bags.

Well my friends, I had spent most of last week, seemingly to the lament of quite a few people judging by the Facebook and Twitter responses I received, in Madrid, working away beavering on yet more Office 2007 goodness.

Not content with mastering it the first time round and writing about it for all my sins, here was a fresh challenge to adopt what I had done before, but for those without Admin Rights, and still containing all the bits from before, with the added requirement of making sure no-one could have a play while all of it goes on.

Because the Computer Weekly thing ended some time ago, and some might be wondering how this epic tale will unfold, allow me to add some ray of sunshine onto this new area and the way it’s been engineered:

Calls to VBscript from KIX mainly as I’m scared a fair bit of VBscript (it seems to take far more to do the same damned thing as one line of KIX but there we are) and registering the AutoitX.dll (available from this site: Autoitscript.com) on machines which then allow you to use this code (as an example, think the syntax is good…err…)

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