Gymmage (again)
Posted: Fri 18 February, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions, Thoughts 4 Comments »After nearly a month of going to the gym, I’ve come to the following conclusions :
- I really hate communal changing rooms. They’re the one place where I actually do feel body-conscious. Maybe in the end I won’t, but for now, yeah, totally.
- Whoever designed the cross-trainer missed out on a satisfying career creating torture devices for S&M people
- The TV screens in gyms are invariably filled with shite. Although at least we don’t have kids programmes like Adrian’s one does.
- My legs are far more developed and muscular than my arms/torso. Not in an unbalanced way, but it’s noticeable.
- Did I mention that cross-trainers are torturous?
Stylish Apology
Posted: Thu 17 February, 2005 Filed under: B&Q, Customer Services 2 Comments »I don’t normally read spam-mail from Amazon, and I didn’t read the original mail this refers to, but I do like the certain style with which they’ve apologised for the fuck up. It’s paragraph three that wins it for me…
We’re writing to correct a recent e-mail notification that we sent about “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6).”
In our e-mail, we stated that this title would not be immediately available from our suppliers, and that you may want to search for it elsewhere. We would like confirm that this book will be available from our suppliers and will be delivered to UK customers on the day of release (July 16th 2005).
We assure you that howlers have been sent to the muggles responsible for this action and we are investigating the possibility that You-Know-Who may have been involved.
I do like it when people can turn round, admit to a fuck up, and make me smile at the same time. Far better than the B&Q “It’s not our system, you must’ve ordered it incorrectly” methodology that makes me just want to reach for the over-powered cattle-prod.
Linkage
Posted: Thu 17 February, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 6 Comments »While I know I edited my .htaccess file so that any requests for random.html would get redirected to /random/index.php, I’m still quite surprised by how few people have changed their links from .html to the .php link.
So, in the aim of sorting out some of them, can I just point out that the address for this page is now
https://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/index.php
Links can change accordingly. It’s just that if one day I screw up my .htaccess file or whatever, I’d hate to lose everyone overnight…
Derogatory
Posted: Thu 17 February, 2005 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Yes, the post below had a semi-derogatory term in it initially. I’ve changed it, for a number of reasons.
Partly, my mood wasn’t where it should’ve been yesterday, but that’s no excuse. Really, there’s no excuses at all. I was just being a slightly crass twat.
Ireland Beware!
Posted: Wed 16 February, 2005 Filed under: General, Travel 7 Comments »Advance Warning for inhabitants of the Republic of Ireland – it looks like we’re going to be visiting Dublin, Kilkenny, and a few other places in early June. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Food Stuff
Posted: Wed 16 February, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions 6 Comments »While I am (in general) being pretty good food-wise at the moment, I do still have some thoughts about certain things.
- Following on from a gym session, walking the dog, and generally freezing one’s arse off, the restorative powers of chip butties (or, in this case, chip ‘wrap’s in tortillas) are greatly under-rated. And not excessively fatty.
- No matter how appetising their muffins and cookies look, there’s just something that stops me from buying Otis Spunkmeyer foods. Don’t know what *cough* other than a slightly childish sense of humour, but I just can’t do it.
- Cheese must have addictive qualities. I’ve cut down on my intake of it since moving, and it’s the only thing I crave.
- Hotel Chocolat‘s Chocolate enrobed fruit (particularly the Mangos and Oranges) are truly evil and lovely.
Mutterage
Posted: Wed 16 February, 2005 Filed under: General 6 Comments »At work I have to use Windows XP Pro. Frankly, I wouldn’t use it anywhere else.
The current bugbear is that it’s auto-updated today, and (as with Windows the world over) it now wants to restart. I don’t want it to yet – I’ve got a couple of processes running that need to be completed before I ditch them halfway through. XP’s just thrown up it’s fourth message telling me that it needs to restart, and there’s a nagging icon in the system tray.
The other part with that icon is that if you hover over it, it produces the message
This computer hasn’t been restarted since you last installed updates. Click here to complete the installation process
This isn’t quite as helpful as you may think. Clicking on it will stop everything you’re doing, dump all the processes, and restart the computer. That’s ‘completing the process’. No warning, just click on it and your work is fucked. Nice,helpful messages, and SO user-friendly.
Why doesn’t Windows have an “Oh, fuck off and stop bothering me, you sack of shit. I turn you off every night, fucking wait ’til then, for crying out loud!” option?