Monthly Archive for October, 2006

so little time

Published by shaky at 2:54 pm on 27/10/2006 in miscellaneous. 14 Comments

Apologies for not updating. If anyone cares. Just too busy and tired. Been having very full days, weeks and weekends for the last few months. My mates think I leave work early, 6 or 7ish, but they don’t always see me re-logged on as soon as I get home and naked, or on the conference calls at night.

Also had a couple of mid-week tear-ups and too many Large Fridays.

Anyway, I’m sick of logging on every night to discuss things with teams in London and New York. I have to do this, but why not be horizontal while doing it? So, I ordered one of those new fangled BlackBerry gadgets (well not so new), got it all set up yesterday and sent my first email from the lift on the way out of work … just for a laugh. It always amazes me. Poeple in the lift on the way to or from their desk. You just left! You’ll be there in a moment! Give yourself a break.

What also amazes me is why these gadgets are not standard office issue – you get loads more hours out of your staff. I’m telling everyone to get them. The handsets are free! For example, I just popped to the coffee shop and checked and sent a mail while I was waiting. Productivity that would not have happened without the BlackBerry. Or if I wasn’t such a knob. I have the day off today!

Well it’s a new toy, but I hope after the novelty wears off, I won’t turn into a Blackberry Cock. As I call them.

Two tips for pretending you are still in the office:

1. Turn off the auto-signature – you know, the thing that says: “Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld”. Get rid of it! Open up Desktop Manager and go to Redirector Settings.

2. When you reply to an email in Outlook, it puts “RE:” in front of the subject. When you reply from a BlackBerry, it puts “Re:”. So, remember to change that to “RE:”

Then, wherever you are …. it looks like you are in the office. Lovely.

I have the day off because I was supposed to be in Manila for the weekend, however I have to move apartments this weekend, so I had to cancel. Yeah, I found a new place. Lovely. High floor, sea and mountain views, balcony. Not in Mid-Levels. Showers should be interesting!

So, I’m gonna need a telescope and a torch (sorry, handheld tactical illumination device) to check out and signal to passing ships from the balconooooire. Or should that be balconage?

Anyway, got stuff to do.

mid-week tear up

Published by shaky at 3:40 pm on 12/10/2006 in miscellaneous. 2 Comments

Now I know why I stopped going out during the week – you feel like a fart in a trance all day the day after.

Out until 4am, woken by boss at 7am with an emergency. Awesome.

I’m always amazed by the things the human body can take.

Quote of the night, when looking at Crazy Facial Piercings Doris:

“She’s the sort of girl you take home, then wake up the next day with your penis beside you on the sofa”

Closely followed by this little convo:

A mate: Would you two ladies like a drink?
The ladies: No thanks.
A mate: OK, so how much to take you both home?

UPDATE: Just been told that 4am was actually more like 5am.

The human body. Amazing.

free hugs

Published by shaky at 1:46 pm on 8/10/2006 in miscellaneous. 1 Comment

I bet this makes you smile. Free hugs.

More on this here.

qt codecs

Published by shaky at 1:37 pm on 6/10/2006 in geekery. 0 Comments

Mac geeking alert!

For video playback on a Mac I mainly use VLC which plays just about everything, but if you want Quicktime (hence Front Row) to be able to play almost everything:

Perian. More info here.

With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

  • Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
  • MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
  • These formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

Straight to the pool room.

Also, this looks, er, nice.

telly

Published by shaky at 10:08 am on 6/10/2006 in telly. 0 Comments

New season of Lost – WTF is going on there then?

Guess what’s back tonight? Battlestar Galactica.

So what’s new for me this, er, season. Well, enjoying these:

Studio 60 on Sunset Strip -if you liked Sportsnight and the early West Wing, then you’ll like this. Or at least recognise it. Sorkin producing. I love it.
Jericho – post nuclear what’s going on thing.

Only seen a couple of each of the shows below, so will wait to see how I feel about them:

Shark – James Woods – lawyer show.
Vanished – guess what happens in this show? Someone vanishes.
Kidnapped – guess what happens in this show? Someone is kidnapped.
Six Degrees – JJ Abrams of Lost/Alias fame – six strangers in New York who are drawn together through a series of coincidences and interactions.
Heroes – a bunch of people realise they have super powers.
Smith – professional thieves thing with Ray Liotta.

Not seen, but must check out:

The Nine. From Metacritic:

Nine one-time strangers are now linked by a 52-hour period when they were held as hostages during a bank robbery. The show begins after the event occurred, and each week an additional ten minutes of the robbery will be revealed in flashbacks. At least there’s no hatch.

Returning:

Lost – back oct 4th for 6 eps, then another 17 in Feb 2007.
The Wire – look at that score!
Weeds.
The Office (US).

And of course, Extras, which is just getting better and better. Chubby Little Loser. Count Fuckula. The Agent. Barry. Well for me it’s The Agent – just great. The chat-up scene is brilliant.

clazziquai

Published by shaky at 7:39 pm on 4/10/2006 in music. 0 Comments

Chilling back to some Korean vibes at the moment – Clazziquai.

Very nice. Courtesy of The Snoop.

boobies

Published by shaky at 5:45 pm on 4/10/2006 in miscellaneous. 5 Comments Tags: .

Check out Mia’s boobies!

Well not quite:

October is breast cancer awareness month and its all about the boobies

Well you do actually get to see some boobies.

BTW – I offer free boob examinations if needed. *

If needed. Reminds me of a chat I had a while ago with an interbird, who told me she would come round to give me a massage:

“So, do your massages include a special finish?”
“If needed.”
“I think it might.”

OK, getting in the mood for boobies, here is another interbird I call Ridiculous Doris and her NSFW boobies. Ridiculous? Cos that’s the only way to describe her.

* I’m not actually a doctor.