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So it was my birthday last month and it was a low key event.  I’ve decided I’m getting too old to go out and make a fuss about it, so it was just myself and my girlfriend out for a meal; all the family was before hand (except my brother who only having 24 years to lean when my birthday is, forgot) and it was nice to have time to myself for a change.  I was on holiday from work, sat in front of the TV watching snooker.  What more could I ask for?

Well, i’ve wanted for longer than I can remember a remote control helicopter and it happened that most people gave me cold hard cash this year, so I put to and am now the proud owner of a helicopter.  Its a lot harder than it looks to fly it let me tell you.

This was the last good thing to happen to me for a while.  The following day my water cooler decided to heat rather than cool so I had to go buy a new one

Later that week the oven broke so I had to take that to bits and repair it.  Then to really make sure that I had a crap couple of weeks, my girlfriend calls me into the bedroom one night and jumps up and down on the carpet to show it squelshing under foot - The emersion heater had decided to spring a leak.  So all in all a crap couple of weeks.

We are pretty much sorted now though which is good.  So now i’m sat here at my desk spending the next few hours installing all the software on my macbook pro i’ve just upgraded.

Lately I’ve wondered what is the point of this blog.  Since I lost all my old posting a few months ago, it seems that I don’t have anything really to say.  How should I restard this blog?  Should I concentrate on IT matters and tutorials or should I carry on talking about whatever is on my mind.  When I first started to keep a blog it was as an outlet from things that got on my nerves.  Like a cheap shrink if you will.

But now I’m not a pissed off at things and am happilly making my way though life.  I’m in love, got pretty much everything I want (well except that DB9) and my health is improving all the time.  So I sit down at night and wonder what I have to say to anyone who will listen.  I guess that this blog will now contain more tips and tutorials that I did in the past for IT matters as well as things that are effecting me.  We’ll just have to see.  I’m looking forward to it, I hope you are too.

After 10 long years the UK channel has brought back Red Dwarf; probably the funniest Sci-Fi sitcom ever made for a 3 part special. Months have been spent in anticipation of this event on various newsboards and forums over the internet.

9pm on Good Friday and people all over the UK are sat down watching Dave (why they called a tv channel that I have no idea) waiting for the theme tune to start. So was is as good as we all wanted it to be? Well, Yes and No..

Red Dwarf was always filmed in front of an audience and this new special was filmed on a close set and what it lacked the most was the live audience reaction that the previous series had. But this was the only downside to an otherwise funny return for Dave, Cat and the gang to our screens.

Saturday night saw the second part of the special air. This was really vintage RD and was very funny. I’ll not spoil it by saying what happened, except to say it spoofed one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. I can’t wait for tonight’s final episode.

Here’s to hoping that it gets such a good reception that they decide to bring it back for a new series in the very near future.

My main job is as an “Online Content Developer” for a college here in the UK.  What this basically means is I do all the technical side of the online face of the college so as you can imagine I spend a long time each day infront of the PC.  Fortunatly (or unfortunatly maybe)  I enjoy what I do and end up carrying on with it when I get home.  So as you imagine my house is full of tech.

Well today I’ve added a new piece to my house.  I’ve upgraded my tablet and now own a sparkly new shiny Wacom Intuos 4 to replace my old Intuos 3.  Why is this so good I hear you ask??  Well where do I start?

One of the problems I had with my old graphics pad was that there were a number of keys on there that you could assign shortcuts to but what I tended to find was that as I moved between apps I would forget what the buttons did.  This then made me not use them - A waste.  Well the new Intuos 4 has all the buttons but it also has an OLED screen down the side which tells me what each of the buttons does all the time.  Yay!

About 2 years ago, I bought myself a black macbook to see what all the fuss was about.  I went from having mountains of PC’s and laptops to going totally mac now.  I could go on a long long rant about how much better Apple OS X is over windows but thats been done to death.  So lets just leave it that I’ve got a sparkly super 17″ Macbook Pro now as my main computer.

To transport it around I had a nice attache bag but I found problems with carrying it around like that and I’ve been on the lookout for a backpack style back for it for months now.  The problem???  It seems that companies who make said bags for 17″ laptops thing that they are ok to make them as ugly as possible.

Until today…  I was in my local shopping mall and wandered into the Sony Centre to look at HD TVs and just as we were about to leave I saw it on the wall.  Black and Red..  A pretty laptop back for my size of computer.  The only problem?  The shop is Sony and its for a Sony Vaio, made clear by the fact it has is plastered down the side of the outside of the bag.  But as it is the only bag I’ve seen which looks nice, I’ve bought it anyway.  I just need to point out that if the world was ending and only I could save it by using a Vaio notbook… well I hope you’ve all said your goodbyes.

Sorry for not being around for MONTHS.  I’ve got so much to talk about but horror of horrors.  My whole WordPress Blog has been wiped off the face of the planet.  I can’t get it back; 2 years of rants and ravings are lost to the god of internet.  So please bare with me while I rebuild the site from bits of images and things I’ve had laying around on my computer.