Andy Ramblings

So, Bush is to have a colonoscopy on Saturday.

US President George W Bush will have a routine colonoscopy on Saturday, temporarily transferring power to the vice-president, the White House says.

Apparantly this isn't the first one he's had. That was done in 2002. Seems to match really, the 2002 ones was to plug Tony Blair in, and this one for 2007 is, you know, well, to make sure he gets out!

At least now some doc will be able to confirm the rumour that Bush is full of shit or not.

Yep, so what can I do about it, nothing really, just plod through the day and hope I get home safely this evening. Anyway, in the mean time, here are some fun images I found, I would put them under the banner, how things work.

 

Yep, at long last, in the whole of the UK, Wales and Scotland started earlier this year, you are not allowed to smoke in public places. This includes offices, well that's been around for a while, but it means that if you have a company car, you can't smoke in there.

For more info on what all this smoking lark is all about read on here.

So the UK is now :

Smokers, I'm not against you smoking or anything, but you know, it's not the best thing for your health, No I'm not going to tell you what it's doing to you as, well, you know it all alredy.

Mind it's been fun watching people find ways around the smoking ban. One pub landlord tried to make his pub an embassy of some tiny Caribbean island, this obviously didn't work, as nobody lived on the said island... read about this here. It's typical of the entrepreneurial spirit in the UK. Have to applaud the guy.

I was going to start this, by saying it was a bleak Thursday morning, but it wasn't, it was quite sunny, It was a day for which a number of people had been looking forward to, with trepidation, I guess, as the justice system can be a bit fickle. I went along to the magistrates court, to be with some very good friends, to offer support. Rachel North and Dan who were both victims of FJL.

To quote from Rachel.

' I would like to thank everyone who has supported me - my husband, family, friends, other bloggers, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. It has been a difficult year for me and Lowde's other victims. However, as she has said that she is going to appeal, it is not over yet, so I have no further comment to make''.

What was more interesting was what the judge said about harassing over the internet, was that this is worse than if one was to harrase you via a mobile phone, phone, silent call or via e-mail. A blog is a public place, I would say it would be akin to harrassing someone in the street, with a megaphone where everyone can hear what you are saying. But I guess that's not as bad, as people will only hear it once, but on a blog, that is searchable, some employer is doing a search on you, and finds this kind of post, what is their opinion?  Seriously, I'm glad that the judge said the harassing via the internet is far worse!

I am very happy for everyone who was affected, I do hope that they can get on with their live, business with out worrying about FJL.. She was given a mother of all ASBOs

 

Lowde, described in court as a serial harasser with previous convictions, and numerous victims, was yesterday given a restraining order,which prevents her from contacting me directly or indirectly, or writing or commenting about me in any medium. This restraining order will remain in place until it is ordered to be changed by a Judge, so it can be life-long. The separate post-conviction ASBO prevents Lowde from harassing her previous legal-aid defence team, the prosecuting lawyers, the investigating police, my father, and well over a dozen of her other victims. This will remain in place for 5 years, or until it is changed or revoked following any appeal.

 

Once we left the court, there was much rejoicing, and well, my first experience of Sushi, fab food, maybe not the raw fish, but it was great!

That's the FJL story but to rest, she is down for 6months, if she breaches the ASBO, it will be to the high court, and well, many more years in the slammer.

Warning, this is Geekdom!

I've been pondering on this for the past few weeks, how can I make my backups faster onto my NAS drive (Network Attached Storage), I've had one that runs at a normal office LAN speed of 100Mbps. This is fine if you copying files or opening files from a NAS drive, it's when you want to do a big 150GB backup, that this just takes hours! I, for one, am not a great person for waiting for things to happen, well, OK, only in computers, I like things to, you know, happen.

So, I checked the specs of my PC, and noted that it's able to go at 1000Mbps, ie 10 times faster than the current normal LAN speed. An idea forms in my wee brain, If, I can have a network that runs at 1000Mbps then doing these backups should be a hell of a lot faster. Now I needed to check what I would need, so formed my shopping list.

• 3 x cat6 cable
• 1X Gigabit hub
• 1x NAS drive

The cabling is important, OK, I got CAT6 I could have using CAT5e, but better have top notch cable, and have future speed potential of 10Gbps. Always better to have more than less in this case.

Next, the hub, yes, for your gigabit lan, you can't use your normal ADSL router as that only runs at 100Mbps not matter what you try and do, it just won't run at 1000Mbps. I got the Netgear GS605 (info on hub here and you can buy it here.) pretty cheap and well, very easy to setup, just plug it in, power it up and off you go. OK, you need to get that old cable that was connected to your PC, from the ADSL router and put that into the Netgear GS605, otherwise, you won't have access to the internet!

And finally, you need the NAS drive. There are a lot out there but a few that are good. I checked out the following:

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Well, not really, I personally believe that it's the spawn of the devil, it's the worst thing that has ever ever come out from the Microsoft office stable. There is a fine art in how to do one, the video below, shows you many how not too's. I would say about 99% of the ones that I have seen have left me pretty darn close to comatose.

I will leave you to chuckle away at the video below....

Life After Death by PowerPoint

 

 

 

Well, A loooong time ago when I was a kid, I used to really like the old Muppets, you know, Jim Henson, this tune below, is a darn earworm of a catchy tune.

?The WSPA are complaining that some zoos in China feed cow to the tigers, OK you can pay $100 and they will feed a cow to the tiger, the cow, is alive and is killed by the said tigers. Ok, tell me what's the difference between this and in the wild life? for me, the only difference is that the cow can't run as fast as a gazelle, maybe not enough room.
Either way, I don't really see what's barbaric about this? 

Rob Laidlaw of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) says he's appalled by what he's seen of the exotic animal shows, and doesn't think they teach much about the animals in their natural habitat.

"It's horrendously cruel," Laidlaw told CTV News. "You've got an animal that's being preyed upon -- it can be an ostrich or cow or a pig, or even in some cases horses -- that are put into barren enclosures with predatory animals like lions and tigers, so it's completely artificial."

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Are these folks going to complain about the leopards or Jaguars or even the beautiful cheetah from going out and getting a bit of wildebeest?

Sometimes I think these animal rights groups meddle too much.

Ok folks, some of you are/maybe having problems with adding comments to my, well, world famous, blog!

As I is a very busy techie guy, I will have to find some time to work out what could be causing this problem.

So if you get an error along the lines of /www/se/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848

Then that's the techie problem I'm having, It will take a while to fix as time isn't something I have a lot of these days.

So bear with me while I try and find what's causing the above error as at the moment I haven't a clue what's causing it!

Thanks,

Well, don't know if this a lost in translation issue, or it's a genuine offer to the Belgian male votes, don't know what the woman will say, suffice to say, this person has a hell of a neat way to get votes.

Here's the snappy of the politician in question hoping to get in to the Belgian senate, her name is Tania and she represents the NEE party

Here she is:

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 And this is what she has to say...

I am the leading NEE party senate candidate in Belgium. And due to popular demand, I will give 40,000 blowjobs to anyone who requests one on this page.

It started with our response to incredible claims that were made by other parties in Belgium, several parties promised new job opportunities in ridiculous amounts. We responded with a parody campaign for which I posed naked and promised our voters 400.000 new jobs.

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 I suppose she has something to offer, but somehow I don't think she will be able to honour all the blowjobs! So, she could get done under the trade description act. Not sure that they have that in Belgium!