Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:34:32 GMT Lovely Linux

09:51:18 up 576 days, 5:21, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Fedora Core 3......How many windows machines would last that fecking long without a reboot eh???

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:17:04 GMT Nu Labour

"The foreign secretary warns Labour that squabbling over the abolition of the 10p tax rate risks electoral defeat."

Once again proving that all the foreign secretary cares about is his party winning the election and not about the poor poor people doing the jobs that no one else wants too!! This man (if thats what you can call a male politician, men have the minerals to stand by what they have said whatever the cost!) should be pointing out that tax those on the breadline is a foolish thing to do...Does Mr Brown want these low paid people to stop wotking and sign on because they cant afford to live any more???

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:56:13 GMT Extreme blog councillor resigns

A Medway councillor has resigned after claiming on his website that there should be compulsory sterilisation for parents on benefits. Well fucking good for him, its about time somwone that might make just a little bit of a difference spoke out about these people...

I have heard them, Lucy said to her retarded looking boyfriend, "When stella is born we'll be on £350 quid a month and the council will have to give us a 5 bedroomed house" they already have 7 kids, all of which where born on benefits.

So, yes, something needs to be done about this undercast. Sterilisation may be a bit too far but loss of benefits wont work (starving children) so what do you do about the problem?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:12:57 GMT Gmini / CMoy

He heyyyy, i did it at last. Although i have previous experience at building electronic circuts ive never embarked on converting one from a standard PCB to a stripboard. The gmini never did have the berries to drive the ER6i's and only sounded good through the ancient sony MDR-A34's (BTW, if you have a working pair of these cannes, i have some good old fashioned pound sterling i would like to swap for them, mine arent going to last forever!!!).

Anyway, the CMoy took 2 goes to get right but now its working, my god does it work!

Before the gmini didnt get any louder above 80 on th dial, now, i can barely deal with the Db level at 80 let alone higher!!!

A N Y O N E with a little electronic experience and a taste in mobile music be it through your phone or a good old fashioned walkman should embark upon building one of these gadgets, wicked bit of kit :)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:21:42 GMT Smoking (Again)

Oh such a terrible vice, like speeding, it WILL kill you and all those around you. Alas i dont go for this bullshit, yes its causes cancer but it takes decades to do so. I have yet to hear of a 30 year old that has died of smoking related cancer (lung, throat bla bla bla). Chineese women have the highest rate of lung cancer in the world and less then 10% of them smoke!!

My query is very simple: If you, and my kids and anyone else near me can catch _passive_ lung cancer just from being near me when im chuffing a lovely fat rollup, why can you NOT blame passive smoking when you fail a marijuana drug test???

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:37:44 GMT Fedora Core 8

I had a go at installing FC8 the other day and finally, they have turned it into a poor little brother of windows. Back in the day one had to know about PCI, IRQ, IDE, primary and secondary, DMA and all the other things that make a computer work to install linux. Now, its available to the masses but sadly at a cost to the old school like me. Im not particularly bother about this because i have the skills to build my own linux system from scratch. The crux of it for me was that when i had installed FC8 and rebooted it.....The dirty scumbag made me reboot again after configuring selinux (the security system)....Nads to that mate, i will build them myself from now on :)

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:46:42 GMT Sam Jackson Secret Video Diary

Well, the site is finished, Guy Rowland (the director and all round admin man) has returned to a normal non-stressed human that can once again smile. Sales of the video seem to be about the same as Radio Heads. See the Directors Blog for more info....

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:52:37 GMT More Pictures

Some more astro pictures taken last night, nothing more than a tweak of levels! These are big images!!!!

Skywatcher ST80 Canon EOS300D 1x170 Seconds ISO200 (7.5MB)...
M31

Skywatcher ST80 Canon EOS300D 1x60 Seconds ISO800 (5MB)...
Comet 17p/Holmes

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:02:34 GMT American Indians

My god i am so fucking sick to death of hearing this, was it not the white man that _discovered_ and named America? And where the Native's not already living there? So whey then does all the fucking world insist on belittling them by calling them American Indians??? They're true designation and the one they deserve is NATIVE AMERICAN... Not American Indians.

It was their land and we stole it from them raping their women and land, killing them almost to extinction. If i where a native American i would slap anyone that had the cheek to call me an American Indian...

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:46:20 GMT Stupid Electorate (at least thats the impression i get)

You must have seen the we are going digital ads on the telly by now? One i saw last night struck me so violently because it displayed the complete and utter contempt the government have for the common people

It goes like this: a man pulls up outside his house in a _going digital van_ having set his non digital video to record a show whilst he was out busying himself installing digital TV gear (i can only assume thats what he does cos he is driving a going digital van). He suddenly realizes his show has not been recorded because he doesn't have a digital video recorder!

The crux, the anger, the insult of this ad is simple. _they_ [the powers that bee] seem to think a man that drives a going digital van is so fucking stoopid that he cant even work out a video with an analogue tuner cant record digital shows

Thanks Gordy, we arent all as thick as you!!!!

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:53:06 GMT Successful Astrophotography!?!

At last, after all the toil and trouble a semi decent picture of a celestial object!

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:28:11 GMT AWR Goto

Yipeeeee....! At last, after 4 attempts (about 10 hours) at getting my goto system back up and running after my, err, holiday, its working!!!

The last few nights have been cold and clear so i took the opportunity to familiarize myself with the system again. The first night was a nightmare, couldnt polar align using the polar scope or iterative method, the finder scope was out of alignment so i gave up after about an hour. Took the whole lot indoors and sorted it all out in comfort. PTFE tape for the focuser on the finder, insulating tape to tighten up the finders front pivot (the O ring has dissapeared) and a bit of oil on the gears inside the mount

The second night, after all of my preperation, the power supply (a car battery with a charge attached to it to regulate the supply) started to freak out.

Finally, on the third night (last night) and after many fouled up attempts, i got a near perfect 2 star calibration only to have the gears start slipping!!!

Meching the gears is not too much of a problem, i done it while the scope was doing a massive slew so that i knew they where meshed properly..

I got a fair few objects in but the new observing site really only gives good views to a North Easterly direction but its better than lugging the gear into the car then out again only to suffer the problems i have mentioned.

I shall make some light screen to block out the intrusive street lighting (2 years of trying and the council wont shield the offending street lamp for love nor money (what do i pay council tax for exactly???)) and hopefully all will be well. I think i might get myself a TAL 100 R too :)

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:20:41 GMT Morrisons

"Once upon a time you could get that on any street!"

Well bugger me, really, and mr hanson / miss roslyn and other so called famous people, why might it be that we can not "get that on every street" anymore?

Dont, know, poor starlets, far to dense to work out that its THE FUCKING SUPERMARKETS that are using you to advertise their shitty replacement _market street_, thats why you cant get that on every street these days...Bunch of brainless retards...

And another thing...Is it not Ford that currently use a bunch of birds walking about the place using the tag line "Wouldn't it be a shame if birds didnt use their wings" only then to go on to try and convince us that if we dont use their motor we arent using our wings..

The sad parallel is that by using your car WE ARENT USING OUR FUCKING LEGS / WINGS are we mr ford???

Just one more while im at it...Tesco "You help to keep us going, we'll help to keep you going"... Notice that word HELP, sadly mr tesco, whoeverthefuckyoumaybe, we dont just help you to keep going, if it where not for us constantly throwing money at you YOU WOULDNT EVEN BE HERE!!! so lets have a litte respect from you please?

I HATE ADVERTS!!!

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:28:15 GMT Students...

What the hell is going on here, each and every day last week i have had an email from a student asking me for help with a perl assignment they have been given. What ever happened to learning?

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:38:09 GMT Time for a new astro front page!!!

Well, its been a while since ive done any work on this bit of my site. Mainly becasue its been a while since i've done any atro work!!!

The reason..? JAIL

Yes, I've spent 5 months in jail and another 4 months with a tag attached to my leg stopping me from going out after 1845...Only in England could you get 16 months for not stealing anything, not hurting anyone, not damaging anything and not costing anyone any money!!!

I digress... Point being, i have had a rethink of my observing process (and a driving ban :). Whats the point in lugging all that heavy gear down the creek only to be shat on by the weather. Plenty of people observe from towns so im gonna make a few changes to our bin cupboard. Details to follow (and pics too!)

Come back soooooon...

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:53:04 +0100 Probation Service

to ensure the prisoner's successful reintegration into the community!!!

Apparantly... This is the purpose of the porbation service!

Having recently been released on HDC with licence conditions forcing me to attend weekly probation 'supervisions' and a phsyco-logy course named 'think first' I would like to know if A N Y O N E can answer the simple question i have reguarding this whole ridiculous state of affairs.

How can i re-integrate into the community (get a job and all that entails) when i cant even get evening appointments with probation or this course??? Next week i have the following diary to keep the forces of evil happy!

Monday 11:30 -> 12:30 Supervision!
30 Mile journey by public transport...
Monday 13:30 -> 15:30 Think First!
Tuesday 13:30 -> 15:30 Think First!

This continues on a weekly basis for 17 weeks when it returns to just the monday supervision appointments! There is no evening session for this course, nor, as i've already said, does the probation officer have any free time of an evening.

Before that dongo judge locked me up for what _could_ have happend (but didnt) i had a business. It was turning over almost 3 grand a month (lest we not forget at least 25% of which would have gone to the public purse). I had no need for a full time job at the hands of some minute munger boss who would have you sitting around doing fuck all for 3 hours of a morning then moan when you are 3 minutes late back from lunch. I even employed someone to come and do my invoicing / book keeping once a month.

So how am i to get a full time job (the probation service is not satisfied that i am actually doing any work, now im a convicted criminal im also, suddenly, a compulsive liar too) when i am tied up jumping through hoops for the probation service all day monday and most of tuesday(including travelling time). What boss will willingly take someone on knowing that im only going to be there for 3 and a half days a week???

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:50:09 +0100 Installing Eterm

1)Download Eterm and LibAST rpms from eterm.org.
2) Go to rpmfind.net and do an rpm search for imlib2_loader, from the list download the png and jpeg loaders (make sure to get the rpms, not the html files) you now have all the kit you need to get eterm seet up!

install in this order:

• LibAST
• Jpeg Loader
• PNG Loader
• Eterm!!!

Job done! Now you have a lovely looking, theme'able terminal with transparency..

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:14:11 +0100 Bluetooth

What a fucking palava that it...Jeeesus christ! There was me thinking it would just be a case of getting a dongle and a new device would appear in windows explorer (an my nokia cable connection does!)... No no no no, got to go through your software to a bluetooth app, from that app to the dongle from the dongle to the phone! I spent most of yesterday trying to get my phone to talk to my pc to absolutely no avail whatsoever!

Bollocks to blue tooth!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:51:21 +0100 Debian on a USB stick

I, just yesterday managed to get a copy of debian sarge bootable from a USB stick. It really was quite a simple proccess in the end. In short; 1) Minimum Deb install on a hard disk, 2) Make and format a fat and a linux partition(or 2 if you want a swap file) on the USB device, 3) Grub for dos into the fat partition, 4) copy the Deb install to the USB linux partition, 5) Set up grub to boot it!

It really is that simple...

Ive also installed later versions of linux(FC7) and Enlightenment too so the whole linux thing took over a bit over the last few days :)

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:15:49 GMT Goverment Website

All the parties have them! Why are they not being used to gather public opinion where policy descisions are made? Why are there no public disscution forums on ANY of them? Another gratuitous waste of money in the name of informing the public!

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:04:26 GMT Lone parent benefits!

So John Hutton seems to be set on destroying what little is left of family values by forcing single parents close to the breadline. I cannot beleive a goverment that where supposed to be using joined up thinking are so seperate in their policy.

Driving single parents out to work seperates them from their children at the risk of creating another generation of feral wild-ones! Another smack in the chops for common sense in the guise of saving the taxpayer some money. There are hundreds and thousands of non parents on the chat, why not make them do community work for their crust???

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:02:05 GMT Interference!

Not on the radio, not on the TV, Im talking about those fuckers that come along when your right in the middle of a task and start touching and fiddling as if they can do a better job than you. Well let me whisper in your ear chaps YOU CANT!!!

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:33:08 GMT highway marine group

Finishing touches, need to add random 5 boats by make / model to bottom of each page (SEO tricks!).

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:20:02 GMT brogdale

Shopping cart completed, site signed off, another happy customer :0)

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:15:55 GMT The Police

Not the band, the supposed law of this common sense forsaken land! I am sick to the back of my teeth of hearin sound bytes such as 'the law has been broken, we mus investigate' when what they really mean is 'our targets are below what they should be, we will arrest anyone we can'. Gone are the days of the local bobby that knew all the trouble makers in your neighbourhood. Now we have the politically correct PCSO instead. A useless shower of shit that, if i read correctly does not even have the power of arrest...

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:10:25 GMT go-tec recruit

Awaiting completion of site so job search and candidate application system can be added.

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:57:10 GMT Pooch Paradise

Currently removing duplicates from database and resizing all product images to fit 120 x 140 box.

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:14:41 GMT New Page

A Letter For Tony Blair

I have decied to write a letter to tony blair, i intend to send this letter when i leave this country later this year just so HE or at least someone in his party knows that they have made my mind up for me!

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:12:36 GMT Global Warming

This is really REALLY starting to get on my tits now. For millions of years this planet has warmed then cooled then warmed then cooled. In mans superior wisdom some of us now believe that although the world has been doing this for milenia, this time, its our fault???

The UK contributes 2% to the man made carbon emmisions, over 95% of carbon emmisions are from natural sources so why is our goverment trying to tell us its our fault???

For those of you that believe this scare mongering, get a life and read a bit, you will soon realise that its nothing to do with us and everything to do with the way of the world!!!!

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:00:47 GMT Bullies

Again i hear in the media of a child being arrested, in this case he was defending his pakistani brothers honor by pushing over a fellow pupil that was bullying his younger brother. The boy was arrested and now has a criminal record for doing a job that his school, the police and the government has failed to do.

ONLY IN FUCKING ENGLAND

Wed, 13 Dec 06 14:09:07 GMT You have 20 seconds to comply!

For those of you that remember that, i have this:

And what a pain in the arse that was to build some of the parts are hard as steel and some are soft, super glue is the only way and anyone who has used super glue knows where that leads! Model parts stuck to your fingers, the desk and just about anything else you come into contact with. Anyhoo, its pretty much finished now so i though i would let you have a look!

Wed, 29 Nov 06 14:42:39 GMT Crying Wolf

Once again i read stories of the English police spending a small fortune of our money on a ridiculous rabbit chase in the name of political correctness. This time they have spent 5 months search for all senders and receivers of an email that contained images of a black man falling foul of a fence and getting beheaded.

Here it is!

In my view, and probably a lot of others, this is just a MAN, a MAN that was taught a hard lessong when running from the police! Notice i say MAN, not nigger or gollywog or coon or indeed, any of the other derogatory terms one could use! He is just a MAN, so why would A N Y O N E deem this racist. I'll tell you why shall i! Because those that deem it to be racist have T H E E biggest chip on their shoulder, these days its also backed up by the PC brigade giving them an entire fecking forest on their shoulder!

Wed, 22 Nov 06 12:44:07 GMT Alcohol

Im sick of hearing how its the goverments responsibility to do something about the alcohol problem. Firstly, the dont want us to stop drinking, they make far too much money from it. Secondly, the very same people that complain the government arent doing enough to combat the problem are the ones complaining about the nanny state. Thirdly it is nothing to do with the government if the individual is to weak to say no to a pint or a vodka is it? Sort you act out people, there is only one persons fault you are an alcoholic....YOURS!!!

Fri, 22 Sep 06 10:08:09 +0100 Pox ridden windows XP

Answer me this.. When im using linux and i want to copy a WHOLE bunch of files from one place to another i go cp -Rpv file newfiles and no matter how big or small they are away it goed happily copying until there is no copy left.

With windows first job is to select them all, then copy, then navigate to the destination folder and paste them..Ah yes..I forgot, if one wants the operation to go smoothly you have to first ensure that _View All Files_ is set up in explorer options and make sure all the files are attrib -h -r -s otherwise you will end up with loads of prompts!!!!!!

So, here i go, p a s t e -: and off to bed last night at 4 am to allow the 40 odd gygabyts to copy over knight! :)

LIKE FUCK!!!! Are you sure you want to copy the encypted file..bla bla bla..is waht i was greeted, no you T W A T, i just thought i would tell you to copy it so you could ask me once more if i actually wanted to copy it! God i hate it!

Mon, 18 Sep 06 18:36:04 +0100 Linux LiveCDs

Crap, all of em, they have all got the latest kernels but the oldest drivers. I must have tried about 10 over the last few days, only 1 had a driver for my net card. All the ones that say than can install on a usb stick / hd cant, these developers are so full of shit!

I give up!!!!

Fri, 15 Sep 06 16:40:00 +0100 Litstep

Its been a long time since ive used litestep but im glad to see ive not forgotten how. Visit the litestep page to have a read look and download!

Wed, 13 Sep 06 21:53:24 +0100 Kernel 2.6.13.17

Got a kernel compiled and installed but alas forgot to add NTFS support to it so i have to do it all again :( not that i want to because every other time ive ever done a kernel the second run has never EVER worked!!!

The FC5 Install is getting there. This install, once complete will be used to host all my sites on the co-lo machine next year :)

Wed, 13 Sep 06 21:50:59 +0100 Enlightenement Window Manager for Linux (FC5 to be precise)

At last, after many evenings of downloading compiling, re downloading and compiling i have actually got enlightenment to work :)

At first glance it seem pretty simple, like most window managers but it does look a whole load better than all the others!

Enlightenment page!

Mon, 14 Aug 06 11:34:17 +0100 Terrorism and Planes

When is this knee jerk goverment going to realise that all this agravation and extra security on planes is actually GIVING THE TERROISTS WHAT THEY WANT. As i have stated previously on many occations the death and desruction caused by bombs is a bonus side effect.

What they really want is to be in our thoughts day after day, to interfere with our economics and to have us worrying constantly!

To inconvinence hundreds of thousands of people when the suspects have been arrested is WRONG, dare i say to inconvinience hundreds of thousands of people to save a few is also wrong and, lets face it, if the terroists really want to plant bombs on planes this wont stop them!

Thu, 13 Jul 06 22:46:22 +0100 Keep Your Old Cars

So our dear old chum Gordy has decided to rejig the car tax fraud system. For those of you stupid enough not to work it out yourself making one car uses more resources and produces more pollution in particulate and gas form than the same car will chuck out in its own working life! To that end why has Mr Brown decided to tax people that choose to drive old cars for environmental reasons MORE than people that drive new cars?

In fact, Mr Brown appears to have applied the highest rate of tax on the cars we see the most, the ones ordinrary familys use, not out of choice but because they have to. I want Mr Brow to spend a week doing my job but using public transoprt to find his way around, maybe then we will all get decent taxation on our vehicles.

Sun, 11 Jun 06 17:25:21 +0100 Knives of All Types

Why is every one so scared of knives and swords when every day we are faced with a perilous battle against CARS!!!

Even the biggest sharpest sword in a great warriors hand is no where near as dangerous as a car used as a weapon..

Knives and swoders are part of history and still, even with all of todays technology, a required part of life so grow up all you sandle wearers and relatives of those struck down by a crazzed junkie with a blade. The point you all seem to be missing is the one i just snuck into this rant without your tiny little brains seeing! It is the crazed junkie that is the threat, not the knife!!!

I have always carried a knife and always will, i have yet to stab slash or even threaten ANYONE!

What right does _ANY_ human have to tell me i cant have an authentic folded samurai sword in my house?

Mon, 06 Mar 06 10:57:43 GMT The Police

What is it with these people? Why do they think that they have the right to pillage every single little chunk of personal info every time we even dare to talk to them! On my way back from a friends recently i needed a leak so i turned off the A2 at brenly corner roundabout down a little side road. To my horror there was a police road block stopping every car that passed!!

Not a problem really, my car is legal as am i, they were after info about the Securitas robbery, apparently someone had been seen passing stuff into a royal mail van(fucking dodgie postmen), the special constable proceeded to ask my name, address, dob, mobile and landline. He then went onto my passenger and asked the same info! Then, and only then after he had extracted all the info he could about us did he mention a date. Where you down here on the 21st Feb 06? No actually mr sad policeman with no brain and a nosey streak bigger then the marinas trench, we where in lapland!!! Thank you for you time sir!!!

A few days later i rang the police with reguards to disposing of a car(an old banger of and astra) again, i have to dish out name, number, address and dob...JUST TO GET A PHONE NUMBER!!!

These people have no right to this info unless they are arresting me so why do we...the english public...put up with it??

Mon, 27 Feb 06 11:42:04 GMT SATA advantages over IDE

In plain old fashioned English....NONE!!!

Ive jsut installed a 150GB SATA raid array to my home PC, i copied my winXP partition to the new drives(reducing the SATA raid array to 120GB, nevermind) and when i rebooted i noted absolutely NO DIFFERENCE...OK So _they_ would have you believe SATA cab do 150MB per second and IDE can only do 133MB per second, believe me, it makes not one iota of difference to the actual speed windows runs, boots or shuts down at!!!

To those of you thinking about upgrading to SATA, dont fucking bother, its a waste of time and just yet another way for huge commercial enterprises to make dollars from us. The same applies to PCI EXPRESS video cards, my new motherboard has a PCI EXPRESS slot instead of an AGP slot, do you remeber how _they_ said AGP will be sooooo much quicker then PCI??? And now they are reverting back to PCI...Its a money grabbing conspiracy created to earn, not to make life easier!!!

Thu, 19 Jan 06 15:16:29 GMT Fucking Women

Well, not actually fucking them in the horizontal jogging sense, fucking as in what the fuck is wrong with them???

Ive just had one of my work mates friends ask by txt(yes not even got the minerals to ask to my face at 30 years old :) does he like me? The reply i wanted to give was you have tits? then yes i like you ;) alas i result to gimpy she got nice hair and a nice smile....

The moral of this story is simple! When some one asks somthing like this tell them what you think then wait for the grief. Her reply was Well he is with someone and im far to good looking for him!!!

What sort of a cunt asks someone somthing like that then throws it all back in their face?? I will save you the though, a self-loving premadonna, thats fucking who! To Natalie i say!!! I earn over 50K a year bitch, im inteligent and mature! You are a single dole scrounging mother that should obviously still be at school playing litte games in the playground with your friends! At least my freinds are my age and not all 20yo lesbians :)

A final note: Fuck You Bitch, find somthing more creative than charator assassination to do, maybe next time ill put your phone number up here eh.....!

Mon, 14 Nov 05 12:52:26 GMT Bath and Somerset

For the lover of Jesus Christ on a fucking harley davidson!!!

The journey to Bath was shit...Rain stopped play, well reduced the speed of play to and average of about 30MPH along a 50 odd mile stretch of the M4...

The b and b was nice, the second b, breakfast that is, well... Sick scrambled rotten eggs the menu did not say!

At the door i read the price list, again i am shocked to see those on benefits get a subsidy of 50% off..Me and the other half pay our £9.50, YES £9.50(i only wish my computer could do upper case numbers). After walking through a dimly lit maze of chunks of old stone we arrive at the actual central bath. A place where the community can meet and socialise for over 2000 years...

I look up to see signs every where Do not enter the water and Do not touch the water.... Err WHY??? What the fuck exactly did i pay a tenner for then you bunch of sandal wearing cunts? To look at a pile of old stones and an overgrown puddle. Fuck me, there where even _guards_ standing a round wating to tell offenders off for touching the water!

I left a note in the visitors book As usual for the UK this is far to expensive, have you chaps never heard of getting people to sign a disclaimer??? I was the followed for the remainder of my visit by a hapless memeber of staff that read my comments and obviously thought i was a terrorist with intentions of urinating in the water!!!

On to wookie hole!!!

Fuck me, another fucking rip off £10(almost) to be led around some tunnels by a fucking gimp in a quilted jacket! A tenner to be told stories about blue peter presenters and other _famous_ people that have been diving in the caves!!! Again, sir! excuse me sir, you cant take your shoes and socks off and paddle in the water, we arent insured for that...! A fucking tenner to get in and your not insured to allow people to paddle???

This is why i have grow to hate england in my adult hood! Jesus, i do alot of road trips in mainland Europe, you dont get this kind of shit over there. I visited a V3 installation not 2 months ago, huge chunks of rock where clearly falling from the ceiling as we passed, deep water filled drops where present left right and center! The price? 2 euros...

The seemingly brainless society we live has bred contempt from me, i am inteligent enought to understand the risks of being alive and i DONT need some lentil eating do-gooder telling me that i can go in the water at the roman baths in case i get sick.. Nor do i need some quilt clad fuckeroo to tell me i can paddle in the freezing bastard cold water of Wookie Hole....

Mon, 24 Oct 05 10:09:56 GMT More Goverment Bullshit

If you speed it could cost you alot more than money!!!

WHY WHY WHY...??? I dont mean to insult anyone but i am weel and truly bright enough to KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt that it is not SPEED that causes accidents, its twats not paying attention to the road. I see them every day!!!

They pull out on you and when you toot them they jump out of their skin becaue they didnt even see you! I want the goverment to stop wasting money(that they make with speed cameras) telling us that its dangerous to speed! I want them to start tacling the root cause of %70 of accidents, lack of concentration!

Is it fair that a police man can give me a speeding ticket for doing 33 in a 30 limit when on a recent drive to Norwich i encountered more danger from mis-leading road signs than people speeding???

STOP wasting our money on telling how dangerous going fast is and start concentrating on the real cause of accidents......

Tue, 11 Oct 05 08:27:48 GMT Traffic!!!

Every day i drive along a small section of the A2, about 4 miles worth. Today i decided to count the cars i saw with just one person in! In that little 4 mile drive the only car i saw with more than 1 adult in was my one(which by the way i am dying to get rid of so i can buy a bike).

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, why do you need to clog the fucking roads up with your cars with just one person in? Why cant you take your work buddies with you and share the cost of petrol? Or even get your selves a bike?

The traffic situation is only going to get worse unless somthing is done about htese people using huge chelsea tractors to drive one person to work! Tony Blair, it time to start punishing those that drive to work on their own!!!

Tue, 20 Sep 05 12:22:03 GMT Motorways

Fucking M25....Ha, how can they call it a motorway?

I went to London via the M4 last night and as i approached the heathrow area i notice more road works, not a problem i hear they cry!

No, the road works them selves are not a problem but what is a problem is the gantry signs say 60mph and speed cameras going off at 40! Each time the reflective orange coating of a speed camera is notice i was confronted with a sea of red brake lights scrablling to reduce their speed before the camera.

I wish the goverment would be a little more honest about the scamera thing and admit they are placed to make money, NOT for safety.

Each time i go near the M25 i find my self spending more time worrying about how fast i am going and far less time worrying about the road, this is not a safety issue its a fucking money issue

Fri, 16 Sep 05 09:19:14 GMT Immigration

Why are wee still opening our countries door to all and-sundry? This has been going on for too long. I now notice that a lawyer is preaching that a group of nigerian immigrants face torture if they are forced to return home. My guess is that they should have thought of that before they ran away from their country.

I am sick of people running from countries that are i that state we where 100 years or so ago, we have had our fair share of torture and dictaorships and have overcome them. This is what these people need to understand, running from this does not solve it, they need to stay and fight the problems. Only then will thier homeland be safe for future generations.

Cowards one and all, those of you that are about to email me saying _you would do the same_ dont, i would not run from an evile dictator i woudl fight!

Wed, 14 Sep 05 12:19:07 GMT Greedy Fuckers

The threat of refinery blockades is once again looming and in a truly predictable move every fucking man and his cat are rushing out to fill their cars with fuel. What do they think they are going to achieve? Other than showing Mr Brown that he can, indeed charge what ever the fuck he wants for fuel and we will still buy it.

To those greedy fuckers i say; If it runs out is runs out, all you are doing is exstending the fatefull _i cant come to work today ive go no petrol_ call to your boss by a few days!

Any way, you should get a job with a nice boss like mine that wull pay you to sit at home because it is not your fault that you cant get in!

Wed, 13 Jul 05 11:21:00 GMT Filters

I recently bought a Baader Fringe Killer to attempt to remove the false colour generated by my Evostar 150, i have written a review of the product for the breif time i have used it.

See the review here.

Tue, 14 Apr 05 16:00:00 GMT Trafic

Oh the children are back at school the children are back at school, i know they are, im sure they are it takes 45 minutes to get to work!!!

Sat, 13 Apr 05 16:00:00 GMT Insurance Companies Again

I think they know that by law we need insurance to drive and they take advantage of that when we claim!!

Ive been trying to get a couple of faults they _forgot_ fix in the first place repaired for nearly six months now.....YES SIX months. Last week i was told, yes we can repair those faults Mr Geake, just now i was told no we cant...!!

aaahaRRRRGGGGHHHAHHHHH....Bastards!!!

Coupled to the the we will call you tomorrow and never do i vote Highway Insurance one of the most awkward and nonsensicle companies i have dealt with. They really dont know there arse from their face ;)

I would link to thier site but they really dont deserve the traffic

Wed, 30 Mar 05 16:00:00 GMT Ex Girlfriends

I have just spent 7 years of my life trying to do my best by one of the most awkward, unreasonable angry insensitive rape vicitms i have ever met. I have fed, watered and housed 2 children that i didnt ask for and suffered an abortion(without my knowledge or consent). I spent night after night sitting in "babysitting" said children while she spent my hard earned cash on cocain and alcohol. Now after i recently refused her offer of un complicated sex and have kept my mouth shut about her renting her council flat out to whom ever would pay the higest price i find myself the target of the infamous CSA...

To Sarah Henderson, 07788697848 i say, why are you not happy that you have made my life a misery by forcing me to leave 2 children i had grown to love just to escape your unreason? Why do you have to now attempt to ruin my life by trying to force me to pay to you money that i already pay in tax and ni contibutions. You will get nothing more from me.

Wed, 16 Feb 05 16:00:00 GMT Driving to Work

Normally this takes about 20 minutes and is full of people pulling out and cutting up left right and center. Following people along in the right hand lane of the dual carridgeway when there is absolutely no-one in the left hand lane(why do people do that).

The last few days, since the kids have been of school this journey has started to take less than 10 minutes???

Hmmm, i find myself wondering who is it that is not making this journey as awkward as normal?? Surley not the ladies!!!

God im gonna get some grief when my other half reads this!!!

Wed, 09 Feb 05 16:00:00 GMT More Micro$oft Nags

I dont believe it, Ive just read that microsoft are to start producing their own Anti-Virus software! The cheek of this company never ceases to amaze. Thier lack of efficient coding when building thier operating systems leave such system wide open to attack from viruses and now they are to charge us for anti virus software.

Do we not think that M$ should cough up a free updateable open source anti-virus software. If it where not for thier ineptitude at building os's the virus writers would well and truy by out of work!!!

Full Story: http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=25b53056-a9f7-4274-aa1d-47e194af4b3f

Sun, 06 Feb 05 16:00:00 GMT Fire Lighting

I have, for many years prided myself in my abilities to light fires with nothing more than a flint and steel in UK and Euopean woodlands at any time of the year(even in the rain)

Imagine my distress when i visited my local woods today to practice this art only to spend 2 hours failing to light even a tiny fire!!!

Practice make perfect and i need alot more pratice ;(

Tue, 03 Feb 05 16:00:00 GMT Micro$oft WIndows XP

Well, im selling my laptop so i though i better get shot of Linux and install the original copy of XP via the system restore disks!!!

All went well, as expected. This blog is simply to whine about the fact that this lappie is only 6 months old and upon installation i pointed the browser to windowsupdate.com ans yes chaps, it needed over 30 Security updates!

And my bank has the cheek to say "Your browser is not secure enough to use for internet banking" when i use FireFox!! Ha!!!!!

Sun, 01 Jan 05 16:00:00 GMT Boiler Aggro

I have recently moved from a mortgaged house to rented acomodation provided by Moat housing of Sevenoaks. All was well for the first few months until the boiler broke down and failed to provide us with reliable hot water. A service call was logged with the contractor(Swale Heating) and the call center was told that we both work and any visit must be booked and aggreed with us first!

Surprise, 2 days later i arrive at home to find a "we called but you where out" card on the door mat. Another call to Swale Heating and a date for the visit was agreed. The engineer then proceeded to break the boiler to such a state that it no longer produced any hot water at all. This has continued for 4 visits over 2.5 months and the hot water has still ot been repaired!!!

Tue, 23 Nov 04 16:00:00 GMT Farcical UK Law

HFC Bank, now theres a nasty peice of work. After getting a loan from them on a purely unsecured basis i encounter financial problems. Being the good citizen that i am i make contact by letter(lets face it thats the only reliable way to deal with this sort of thing) requesting a stay in payment... 3 months, no reply! I try again requesting a reduced payment untill i overcome the financial problems...again...no reply. They ignored my pleas for sympathy and instead applied to the court to use my house as security!!!

Yes you read right, the court has a time machine and have taken me and HFC bank back in time, changed the contract i signed to read "This loan is secured on your house!!!". Is this legal, obviously yes, is this fair...In a few words no fucking way!! What the court has done is favoured a financially massively superior entity and re-written a contract. It would seem that all your credit company need to do is ignore your corespondance, take you to court and say you made no effort to pay the debt(which i did) and the court will gladly sign your house over to them!!!

Law?? Piss take if you ask me. How can this be a fair system?

Wed, 24 Nov 04 16:00:00 GMT Street Light

Just put a telephone request into my local council to see if they cant alter the sheilding on the street lamp in the carpark out side my flat. I used the excuse that it shines in through my kitchen into the bedroom and "affects my quality of life". I have before tried the "i use a telescope and..." issue but that got me no where fast!!!

I was told that "I will get the guys to come round and see if they cant paint your side out or somthing". We will see wont we.

As you can see i have no faith in my local authorities at all ;)

Mon, 22 Nov 04 16:00:00 GMT Scopes and Alcohol

Got the new scope, and a mighty beast it is! Its the biggest refractor ive ever seen. So far ive had about 2 hours with it and its all seems well but only time will truly tell...

Had my neice and her fella round for dinner last night, oh wordy. I drunk far too much...

Tue, 16 Nov 04 16:00:00 GMT New Scope Ordered

Ahh, yes. About time i got another new toy. I havent had a new toy for ages! I decided to order a SkyWatcher Evostar 150 on an EQ-6 mount. Should arrive at the suppliers today and hopefully i can drive down and get it tomrrow ;)

Tue, 12 Nov 04 16:00:00 GMT Holiday Over

Ahhhhh.. What a nice relaxing week that was, i didi nothing for a hole 9 days. I fixed the brakes on the car but alas the weather was not kind to me so i got no astronomical observations done.

Such is life, the weather is looking promising tonight though!!!

Fri, 29 Oct 04 16:00:00 GMT More Info

The car has been grumbling about Check Brake Pad for 2 weeks now, i guess its time to go change the pads then. Ooo grease and dirt whilst laying on a cold concrete floor! How Nice

Tue, 26 Oct 04 16:00:00 GMT Having a week off

At last a lazy week is coming my way. All of my time off this year has been for proper holidays. Trouble is they do ware you out. This time i intend to do as little as possible for the entire week.

I also need to collimate my Europa as well as get a couple of private jobs put to bed. Hopefully that will all be done by the middle of the week and i can then spend my days checking at pics every hour to see if i can get a decent nights observing in....

Fri, 22 Oct 04 16:00:00 GMT Today I Built My Blogger

Yes, this is a first for me, trying to log everything i do! Never was one for keeping a diary, i keep forgetting to scribble in them...