Well after a couple of months put the ceiling back up in the shed again, not the best job I have done as the plasterboard was a different thickness, still I should be able to cover it up with a skim of finishing plaster during the week. I also fixed the back gate with Angel managed to bow outward, I think this was more down to the problem with damp than anything else truth be told. Also started to clean the shed up and put up another set of shelves and painted around the door and the window ledge (at last).

What else.. threw away a load of empty boxes (huh) and watched some B5 on the TV.. thinking of sieving the garden during the week and maybe trying to finish the small wall along the path too.

Played a bit of Too Human and bloody well died right near the end of the level *again* ARGHHH!!!!..

Still managed to level my guy up to 23 which was cool..

Well today been playing about with a broken Xbox 360 and trying to see if I can get it to work (showing the dreaded RROD). Read up last night about re-flowing the board using a heat-gun, now me and power tools are not the best mix. So looked at other ways.. The way I decided to go for in the end was to remove the fan from the box and place it on-top of the CPU so that the machine didn’t shut down when the CPU got too hot (has thermal cutout built in). Left it for 35 minutes and then let it cool down.. I honestly didn’t expect too much but blow me down it worked! So ordered up some new bits (heatsink and xclamp).

Not really updated my blog a lot lately and the main reason for this my lack of faith in the whole Internet deal

The UK and most of the rest of the world are pretty much set to sign (have in fact signed already) some pretty crap laws about cutting people off without warning, or proof of file sharing. The law is pretty much if you are *suspected* then they can cut you off.. Ok bit more detailed than that, but still essentially the same thing. On top of that they now have a lovely law that states that ISP’s *must* block access to sites is the Mafia say so (replace mafia with those scum who say everyone is a pirate, MIPAA, BPI etc etc ).

I’m getting a little cheesed off with the way in which the public have no way of stopping these laws being passed, on one hand you have the government saying “everyone will be online by 20xx” and on the other they are saying “If you are suspected of file sharing, being a naughty boy or just saying something we don’t like, we will cut you off from the Internet and/or block access to you website”

And then there is OFCOM, what a bunch of usless paper pushers! They are supposed to “look after” the radio frequenecy but instead they have allowed the biggest ever pollution device to be sold on the shelves of super markets, because “it passes tests”. What tests are pretty mute as most of these were not to do with the radio like pulltion or even with them swicthed ON! You have to admire the way they then back these claims up by asking the industry what they should do about it “WHAT THE HELL! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE REGULATOR, NOT A COMPANY LACKY!!!” So instead I have +7 of noise all over my radio and I should be happy as I don’t pay a license fee anymore

Sorry ranting a bit eh?

Anyway this evening was cool Lemmy looked at me new Travel Guitar (bought from down the road in Ripe from Patrick at Playawayguitars) before we played Rock Band all night (yey!). I think the cats have now moved out of the area too, something about my singing being so damned good, I should be on stage I sing that well.

Ok.. Missed a few weeks here.. But goes a bit like this -

Laid a few more cables started one on the 22nd then abandoned due to the weather..

Got off on 23rd in the afternoon (after expecting to have to stay on another day due to weather), put up with boring trip in Taxi home..

After settling down, used Xbox 360 hacking to *calm* down a bit, did some work on websites, for peoples PC’s and sorted out an office (while bored)..

Played a lot of Rock Band and Lips on the Saturday, yey.

Bought an A3 printer, bought two new monitors for my PC, bought some WiFi and 433Mhz Modules for some testing (if I ever get more than five minutes at home)

Got a call on 3rd asking me to go back a week early (I hasten to add just after buying a new Guitar – which is ace thanks for asking) a nice little argument ruined the rest of that day

Back of the house is being sorted, made a mess of the internal walls upstairs (nice cracks).

Managed to get someone to cover for a few more days so back on the 13th now instead (Oh yes just in time to miss the new F1 season Grr)

Went out for a meal in Cooden (erm,.. was ok I guess)..

Looking at Kitchen cabinets and sideboard for Computer room as desks just pants for here, they take up too much room..

Spoke to Froodle for first time in ages.. Chatted to Lemmy on Radio and online for a bit..

Still need to practice my Guitar more (new one should help though ).

Still hate doing websites lol.

Oh and yet to setup the Bubba Two (which arrived and looks kinda cool).

Not long now till I go home (yey) but alas things are still not sorted here so have to sit down and do a lot more paperwork, decided to do some paperwork on the cable cut lengths and sealing stuff.. Started then had to rush down on deck and do some work there too.. Also managed to get the server running the way I wanted, so at last it is all up and running and (fingers crossed) it should stay that way without any input needed from anyone.

Although I did have a nightmare getting the DHCP server to supply the DNS for the WAN port.. Oh well. fingers crossed it should work fine.

Yep yesterday I was listening to a lot of music while working on documentation etc.. Did a fair bit but still have a load more to do. The stuff for the server and DVR arrived today so I ahve been going through that with an eye to working out what to do with it all, so fair I have added the HDD to the DVR and set up that (no picture to record at the moment though). Also trying to find out who is going to come and cover for me for a few weeks. The person that was suggested I have had to say no to as well.. Errr. They would probably end up having a fit on the deck and running about like a headless chicken or something.. Oh well..

Anyway managed to get another cable done which is cool..

Starting to get into a rhythm now, sods law really, so getting pretty laid back, couple of annoying gits on here but they won’t be here for ever.

A person alone driven to tears by the emotions it impales upon the senses,

A Longing to hold someone, while shedding tears of sorrow, joy and happiness upon the floor.

Staring into space as the sound cascades over the senses, like a sail boat adrift in a stormy sea.

Once again feeling like a child, finding awe in all things.

Personal and fleeting, astounding in the effect, like a river reaching a drop you fall over the edge and scream towards the impending end.

Simply music is colour with the light shone upon it, rising from the depths of darkness once more freed for the embrace.

Shane

Ok so rushed about doing a lot of work today only to appear on deck and find that err… The procedure has change yet again, hmm , anyway after waiting about for a fair amount of time it was time to go for it.. when.. PING the wire snapped and back to square one.. Oh well.. End of shift then.

Have to add a quick note here about the Kindle 2 and my thoughts on it so far -

I have noted one thing about the leather case that I have for it, you can use it to prop the Kindle 2 up while in bed on your chest making it easy to read, the only problem with this is.. if you fall asleep while reading and the boat moves.. it falls and the Kindle 2 hits you on the head.. Making for a comedy moment (ouch) after this happening twice you might think about wearing a hard hat in bed (see I knew there was a reason we had them!).

The battery is great, if the wifi is turned off, out to sea it was running out of power after 3-4 days as no signal around, with it turned off the battery lasts a lot longer (2 weeks +).

The experimental web-browser only works with WikiPedia which SUCKS.. Sort it out!!

Don’t bother with the TXT to voice.. Erm.. BAD..

I love it, the way it works is great only things I would change are -

Add touch sensitive screen, I like to interact with the page I’m reading.

Sort out the Web Browser

The PDF reader is currently terrible WHY bother if it’s so half arsed?

Colour.. Oh god if you make one with colour.. Hubba!!

So my bog has been pretty boring and lacking in a lot of detail, content and general good humour or even attempts are humour (whatever level) this has a lot to do with the comms here, although I have some they are so bad its almost akin to watching paint dry when trying to load websites and this one doesn’t help. Even using word to type up my entries and then doing bulk updates is SLOOOOOOOOOoWWWwwww ZZZzzzz

So forgive me but errr.. After a 12-14 hour day rushing about like an orange clad Ninja of the sea the last thing on my mind is updating the rest of the world on my daily waffling.. However I may try and write a piece about the Wind Farms at some point and maybe post up here for people to comment on and answer some questions you may all have about them.

So everyone (well nearly) went out for a beer last night and I awake to find everyone is a little worse for it I feel great for about 2 hours then all my energy is just snuffed out! Mad.. anyway seems we are about to go for another cable so can’t be all bad

Heard my replacement is not coming a week early and may not even make it for a couple of days having a hand over of minutes.. So having a chat to my back to back we decided to make up a load of hand over notes, start making them up and cover most things.. Hmm still waiting on a load of computer bits though so who knows when that will 1. make sense and 2. be finished

Still tired but manage to eat some food (although not much).. before another early night.

Can’t remember much about this day to be honest as I’m typing this a couple of days later, I was very Ill had some sort of bug didn’t sleep much Thursday night and was too hot then too cold.. Spent the day wearing a coat shivering in 30c room falling sleep most of the time, I did do a lot of work on the server in the morning and some camera stuff but the afternoon became a blurring and as everyone was knocked off early rather than go to the pub I managed to get to bed at 9pm.. Knackered.. No food just water all day