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31.10.2004 Emergency!

Hmmm… had a pretty eventful Saturday morning (unusual considering I normally sleep right through Saturday morning!). I was walking down the high street when and elderly guy flew off the kerb a few meters down the street and landed face down. It looked like a bit of an ouchie, so since no one else had bothered to go and help him I ran down the street to give the guy a hand.

Now before I continue with this story, let me clarify something. I was near the top end of the high street by Toy world, the guy had fallen over about halfway down the street near the flower shop and there were about 15 people between me and him (a distance of at least 50 meters, plus plenty more on the other side) and not one single one of them even stopped for a second.

So… I legged it, I was with him in a couple of seconds by which point a local shop keeper had come to his door and another guy arrived just a few seconds after me. 3 people made the effort, of all the people that could have helped there were 3 of us that bothered to help another human being. Anyway the guy had done a major face splat and cut his nose up outside and in and was bleeding pretty heavily (as well as smashing his glasses on impact). Not having anything to stem the bleeding and knowing they had a full medical kit on hand, I helped the guy to his feet and took him over to my girlfriends caf? to administer first aid. Turns out, as luck would have it, that's where he was headed anyway and his wife was there.

The old guy was pretty shaken up so while Steph's mum (the manager of the Saltrock Caf?) got her rubber gloves on and started patching him up, I dashed inside and tried not to look like a panic stricken kid. “Sweet Tea!” I demanded. Steph looked at me funny. “Tsk” she tutted “that guy's a regular and only drinks coffee”. With the wind blown out of my sails a bit I relented and said; “fine then… give me some coffee to calm him down with”.

So… dosed up with caffeine and patched up by Nurse Warburton, the guy calmed down a bit and was very thankful for my assistance.

What bothered me more then anything else was that later on when talking it over with the girlfriend she told me that it's a pretty common occurance and people are always having falls on the high street due to the cobbles. I'm still shocked by the number of people that didn't help… in fact, I'm disgusted that these people didn't do their bit. People shouldn't have to stop and think about offering themselves up to help in an emergency of any kind, I didn't even think… I was in full sprint before the guy had hit the floor. (Thank god I'd been exercising this week, otherwise I might have passed out before reaching him!)

To those people that stopped, turned and looked then kept going you should be ashamed of yourselves. One day it might be you that's in need of help and you'd be the first to moan about how selfish people are nowadays if no one bothered to help you.

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29.10.2004 Kaboom!

I don't know why, but I've just registered the domain bomb.org.uk I haven't got the faintest idea what I'm going to do with it, but it's a kewl domain name none the less.

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29.10.2004 Me… Strong like Bull.

The gym seems to be working. Not only am I starting to feel a bit fitter after just 3 sessions, but I'm also starting to get vainer. I blame this on my personal trainer since he insists that I do weights in front of the big mirror in the part of the gym affectionately referred to as “the pit” The pit is where the muscle men hang out doing their free weights and what not, these guys are lifting weights that weigh more than I do! I thought I'd feel really intimidated but them but they're all really friendly and always up for offering advice.

I'm only doing light weights, but that's because I made it clear I don't want to end up as one of those protein shake drinking pumped up pretty boys. Most of my work out is centred around cardio stuff, but the weights are in there just to help me tone up a few parts of my currently weedy body.

I still can't get over the fact that I'm signed up to a gym! ME! Computer geek extrordinaire… doing exercise! It's a wholly freaky experience, but I have to say I'm loving every minute of it.

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27.10.2004 So Unfair!

Bloody Typical! The day after I come back from London and my visit to the Mac World Expo guess what's happening? Apple are opening their first ever UK Apple Store. Why then? Why open the day after I come back? Of all the selfish things to do! Still… at least I'll be able to walk past and perhaps look through the window.

Speaking of Apple, what is so bloody special about U2 that makes them suitable to have a co-branded iPod released with them? U2 don't do anything musically that a million other artists haven't done before and since. Here's some ideas for alternate iPod co-branding:

An Elton John iPod that comes in Pink!

A Jamiroquai iPod that comes with a big fluffy hat!

A Green - Greenday iPod!

A Britney Spears iPod. This would have to be a fake iPod done just for fun, because people wouldn't buy an iPod with such poor output qualities and lack of depth.

A Madonna iPod that would change colour every time you played a different track.

A Michael Jackson iPod - changes colour like the Madonna iPod (except only has the choices of black and white) but would be aimed at children by including free lollipops and rides at MJ's fair ground.

A Beatles iPod - Would be crap and out of date but it would have a massive battery that would allow it to keep going even after most of the components had died.

I could keep doing this all night, but I'd better stop before this gets too sick.

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27.10.2004 Something New

Here's an idea for all you kids to try at home. It's kind of a backward meme. Place a post on your website where rather than answering questions, you pose a question to your loyal readers. They then answer the question and go and post a different question on their blogs for their readers and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. This will hopefully allow us all to find out more about our readership and what they're like. So, guys here's my question to you:

My first kiss was a disaster that put me off women for a good couple of years. I'd been rail roaded into it by a couple of girls who were quite a bit older than me. I was well embarrassed and aged 10. Tell me about your first kiss…

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26.10.2004 Lets Get Physical

You wouldn't believe it if I told you but it's true. This weekend just gone I joined a gym. It's something me and the missus have been considering for a long time, but I decided if I didn't start soon I was going to follow the family trend and turn into a big fat potato. The gym is a really weired place, there are thin people trying to get thinner, fat people trying to get thin and thin people trying to bulk up and fat people trying to turn their fat to muscle.

Then theres me. I'm just trying to get fit. I don't want to be muscly and I'm already as skinny as I care to get, I just want to tone up my flabby butt and belly then I'll be happy.

The one thing that freaks me out about the gym is the whole public nakedness thing going on in the locker-rooms. Blokes just strolling around in the buff with their bits hanging out. It's something I'm not used to. It's something I'm VERY not used to. I think it's because I was never into sports as a kid and I used to always do my best to avoid the showers. (I can't remember the number of times I “forgot” my sports kit!).

First time around it totally freaked me, but after a bit of thinking it something occured to me. I'm not the only one naked. Everyone's naked. We're all equally vunerable and as long as everyone keeps eyes front then everyone's happy. Right? Well… maybe it's still strange for me, but each time I go to the gym I'm getting more confident.

So I guess it's just a matter of time before I'm dancing around the locker-room naked as the day I was born and singing YMCA. Hmmm… perhaps I won't go that far.

;o)

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25.10.2004 Finally… A Meme That Means Something!

Why does it not suprise me that I'd end up as a .cgi file? I probably would have ended up as .php but that wasn't available in the options. Still… it could have been worse, I could have been a .vbs! (geek joke - visual basic sucks).

Which File Extension are You?

While you've got nothing better to do but mess about with meme's why don't you go and read this story about a kid that got suspended for using PHP

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23.10.2004 Cat Caught Masturbating!

I seriously could NOT believe my eyes when I saw this… seriously, it's a cat having a wank! I'm… speechless. Check it out for yourselves.

Click here to see it in action!

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23.10.2004 Another Reason That I Hate IE!

Yup… Over the past couple of weeks I've been doing everything possible to try and rid myself of a peice of shit malware program going by the name of bargain buddy. I've been browsing forums, using anti spyware software and loads more to try and get rid of it and each and everytime it pops back up a few days later. The blasted thing just won't go away! (kinda like the “cat came back” if anyone remembers that!). Today I'm doing the only thing that I know for sure will get rid of it, Formatting my hard drive and completly reinstalling windows. ]

Thank god I still have the laptop, otherwise I'd be without internet access for the next couple of hours!

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20.10.2004 IEholics Anonymous

Hi, My name's Andy and I'm a recovering InternetExplororholic. But I've been free of the burden of Microsoft now for close to a month. Yup… I haven't opened IE expept for when absolutly neccessary for nearly 30 days. In fact, the only time I've used it is to check that sites are cross browser compatible (afterall, you can't stop supporting a browser used by the majority of people on the planet can you?).

The only problem is, I've been using FireFox as a subsitute rather than going cold turkey and I think I'm even more addicted to that than I was to IE! It has so many lovely features! Tabbed browsing (a brilliant invention that you don't realise you need until you try it!), Extensions (FireFTP, Ad Blocking, Developer Toolbar, Easy BBCode and so many many more!), Themes and much better security than IE!

I've heard the guys at MS are worried about the impact and rightfully so, Firefox is a godsend it's cheaper (to upgrade IE in the future you'll have to buy a whole new version of windows!). Firefox is on the streets and the kids are getting hooked, Microsoft are going to have to pull some serious magic out of their hats if they're going to stop their browser share dissapearing!

Download FireFox today and be free of the MS curse forever!

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