… for lazy people anyway a recent article from the bbc news website anounces that with gene therapy (blocking dopamine in the brain) lazy monkeys can be turned into workaholics.
Not that I want to become a workaholic or anything but being able to take something to break ‘the procrastination barrier’ would certainly be a blessing in some cases.

Interestingly the article hints that being ‘normal’ means procrastination, i.e. all that time in uni (Den, Andy ;)) when projects just didn’t get started ’till the last possible moment is actually fairly standard behaviour.

I feel vindicated 😛

I was browsing Shacknews (should really add that to the links list), when I saw a link to the setting up of QuakeCon 2004, I had a quick look see…
Damn they use a lot of computers, networking equipment, etc for that !!!
The geek in me was looking at the pictures and I couldn’t help but think how much fun it must be to set up something like that, there’s evern a picture of about 20 people sat round a table just crimping network leads….

fantastic fun…

I was reading an article about successful blogs and blogging which I felt resonated with me.
D. Keith (I always read that as Dr Keith for some reason) points out that a good blog has regular posts, interesting information and sometimes humourous content. This is pretty much exactly the same criteria (critrion?) that links in my ‘Worthy blogs’ section must pass.
Unfortunately the realisation has stuck that my very own blog, this here now, would not pass my own criteria for being a worthy blog :O. I would like to think that this is because I am just getting started and feeling my way around my for my own writing style and trying to improve that style.

Can you improve something you haven’t found?

anyway, as they say in AA meetings* the first step is to admit that you have a problem…
Here it is then, I have a problem knowing what to blog about and being sure to make it interesting and/or amusing.

I will be working at this problem along with several others (mostly programming based) over the next few weeks and months.
Bear with me during this period, and as the once popular songs states

Things can only get better… 😉

*I’ve never actually been to an AA meeting

Randomly surfing other peoples blogs (as you do) I came across an amusing tale, I have no idea if its true or not, I don’t care its pretty damn funny either way 🙂

Just trying to get feedster to work:
Random feedster link

… And my broadband should be activated by the 20th August 🙂

Damn thats two weeks away!
Nevermind I’m sure I’ll manage.
I decided in the end to go with vispa as an ASDL provider as they were number one in the top 10 list according to ispreview.co.uk. Now in my book you can’t go far wrong with that, and reading the customer comments on that page gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Just have to wait and see, hopefully it’ll be worth it as its a £58 activation fee!!!

I do get a static IP though, and backup dial-up, and other good things too 🙂

I am of course going for the 512kbps service 😀

Well the lack of internet at home was nicely explained by the appearence on my door-step of my next door neighbour (no he hadn’t come to have ‘words’).
It turns out that he needed to use the phone, as the phone box at the end of the road was broken (damn vandals), so obviously no phone connection in his house. With some more explination creeping out it transpired that he is now the soul inhabitant of the house next door as the other housemates (next door is a shared house also) have now moved out, presumable taking their unsecured wireless router with them to Wimbledon. Multimap tells me that this is 23 miles away… I don’t care how good your WiFi antenna is, you’re not gonna get that signal!

So it looks like I’ll have to get my own connection (Pete :P), which is fair enough. I’m happy to pay for it now that I’ve cleared the debt from moving and can actually afford it.
In that respect you could say that their move was well timed, any earlier and I would have been left slightly gutted.

Anyway all those that know me can expect my e-mailage and IM’ing to be low or non-existant until my connection gets activated.

For all the geeky type people:

You are Palm OS. Punctual, straightforward and very useful.  Your mother wants you to do more with your life like your cousin Wince, but you're happy with who you are.
Which OS are You?

I must explain that my lack of blogging over the weekend was caused by a busy saturday and a lack of internet connectivity on sunday. Hopefully this will be back to normal but its never a sure thing when you’re ‘borrowing’ your connection from your unsuspecting neighbour 😉

Ok so I’m blatantly stealing this idea from ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’, the BBC radio 4 light entertainment show. Still I thought it was pretty funny.

Censorship of songs on the radio is generally done with *beep*ing out the offending language, this makes the song of course suitible for audiences before the watershed. However if you apply the same *beep*s to a completely innocent song, the effect can be rather amusing (for the adults of course)

Observe example A, The snowman (we’re *beep*ing on the air):

We’re *beep*ing in the air
We’re *beep*ing in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I’m holding very tight
I’m *beep*ing in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can *beep* so high above with you

yeah well its probably better if you hear it but hopefully you get the idea, why not try it yourself with a home-made beeping machine made from a washing up bottle and some foil.