My Sky+ fucked up this afternoon, I got a little worried as my warranty has expired on the box and new ones cost around £150-£200. After doing a reset the problems remained so I rung the customer help line. There I was told it is a known problem at their end and is being worked on. Phew – not my box.
Looking on Digital Spy it turns out this has happened before and some people believe it is Sky pissing about with the EPG Software.
Now Sky, if you’re going to experiment with the software fine, but why do it at a potential busy period for your customers? The Manchester derby just finishing, being followed by an FA Cup game on Sky Sports and the England – France rugby game was being shown on BBC1. Mind you, looking at the result, the English Sky viewers unable to watch the game are probably glad they missed out!
It would make a lot more sense to piss about with the software at a time like 3am when only drunks, drug addicts and the unemployable are watching TV.
Sky+ is one of the best inventions in the history of entertainment and a brilliant piece of equipment – when it works! I am yet to hear from somebody who has had it over 6 months and not experienced any problems. Sky and the box manufacturers have a lot to answer for in my opinion!
Anyway, I’ll leave you on that angry note with this link – it’s a totally bizarre Flash animation, probably created by somebody with more than a few screws loose. It’s funny because it’s so insane!
Another great performance from Super Leeds United today – they managed to score 3 fabulous against Reading, a team in a very respectable 4th place in the Coca Cola Championship.
The whole team’s performance was marvellous and you would be hard pushed to really fault any individual. The two stand out players were the newly titled H-Bombers, David Healy and new loan signing Rob Hulse.
Leeds are still in 10th place in the league but points wise are even closer to a play off place – something most Leeds fans could have only dreamt about at the start of the season. Relegation is a distant worry; there is absolutely no chance Leeds will be playing in League One next season!
With only one league defeat in 2005, Leeds really do look like a different team from last year. Hopefully this is a turning point in The Mighty White’s future. Leeds travel to high flying Wigan next weekend, should they do the unthinkable and win it’ll be 3 consecutive league wins – an achievement that hasn’t occurred since April 2002.
Now, how would you like some free SMS messages? No this isn’t one of those annoying promotions you get called up about or expect to find in a Sky TV magazine, there are no catches, it is a service being run by a friend of mine on a website called Thumbache.
Simply register with the website and receive 10 free SMS messages a day by logging into the account. There are also other interesting services on the website. Everyone’s seen those polls used on TV show’s like Big Brother where you text EVICT then a contestants name, well you can create your own poll for free – pretty cool huh?
Anyway that’s the free plug over with… I went to the cinema yesterday to see Oceans Twelve. Maybe this was a wrong move having not seen the original – I did find certain aspects of the storyline a little confusing.
Regardless of me seeing the original, it wasn’t a great film, I thought the storyline was a little dull and repetitive. Julia Roberts playing Tess Ocean playing Julia Roberts was amusing and Matt Damon made me laugh, simply because it reminded me of his performance in Team America :o)
“Maaatt Daymuuun!”
What a cracking episode of Wife Swap last night on Channel Four. The popular series had gone a little weak over the last series but yesterday’s episode was probably the most entertaining in a long time.
The show typically picks families with opposite lifestyles to encourage confrontation and to make good entertainment.
This week a Welsh, loud mouthed slapper who spent hours a day tarting herself up instead of looking after her young son swapped with a well build, no nonsense house wife and mother.
The tart didn’t get on well with her new family, they were all overweight and didn’t take a great deal of effort in their appearance. They had good personalities and seemed liked nice people. The fiery over tanned woman didn’t see this though and was always shouting out insults such as ‘Fat hillbillies’ and ‘Slobs’.
How can this tart think she looks good with all that fake tan and make up?
The woman of the overweight family didn’t have a nice time with her new husband either who’s first words to her were “You’re a large woman” and “You need a makeover!”
After a lot more amusing antics, it all kicked off at the end when the overweight woman stood up for her family after the orange tanned tart couldn’t keep her mouth shut and ended up being soaked in a glass of water. Hahaha – just desserts
I’m getting very slack and lazy with these blog updates – I’m not losing interest it’s just that I haven’t got round to blogging, if that makes any sense.
I must get out of this lazy streak, I’ve kept up this site up until now and am not prepared to let Sparkster.net join the millions of other non-updated websites in The Internet Graveyard, like this totally random one!
So, Monday night I went bowling with my mum, brother and sister. Not normally the done thing on my part but my sister is off to America tomorrow for a break and my mum thought it would be nice for us all to do something together – you know what parents are like.
We went to Hollywood Bowl, the area was in no way unfamiliar to me as it is right next door to the Showcase Cinemas where I go most weeks. Like The Showcase Cinemas, I found out that Hollywood Bowl sell Ice Blasts. Feeling rather thirsty I went to order one.
The choices were Small for 85p and Regular for £1.25. Strange I thought, no large ones. Maybe the regulars are large and cheaper than the Showcase. Big mistake! Not only are they half the prize but half the size! I really dread to think what the Small 85p ones are!
Due to the size of the Small Ice Blast, its best consumed through a syringe
Now it’s not very often I talk about stories in the news on here, but some article caught my eye yesterday. It is the story of Ellen MacArthur and the record-breaking voyage around the world.
Now hundreds of thousands of people (if not more) have been singing this woman’s praises and in my opinion “Is all this all over the top and just another record?”
The reason I say this is because
1 – This was solely for personal gain, if she had been doing this for charity than great, but she didn’t.
2 – News reports compared this story to attempted achievements many years ago. This woman probably had more technology onboard than Apollo 11 had in 1969! Maybe I’m wrong, but I bet it’s a lot easier and safer nowadays.
3 – Almost every month there’s a new record for something like this, to me this is just another one that’ll be forgotten about by March and maybe shown by Angus Deayton on January 31st on a review of 2005.
I would like to say that what she did was a great PERSONAL achievement, I certainly couldn’t do it myself, but there is billions of people worldwide achieving equally as amazing tasks, surviving in terrible conditions, through awful diseases and disabilities while managing to live normal lives.
For them it isn’t a 71 day task like Ellen had, this is for the rest of their lives! These are the people who should receive praise for achievement.
I’m not criticising the people who admire Ellen MacArthur by any means, I just think it’s a little strange she has received so much recognition.
Not only does she have the technology of an astronaut, but she dresses like one too
Still on the subject of news, I read another story yesterday about a Welsh rugby fan who chopped off his bollocks after his country beat England in The Six Nations on Saturday.
According to reports, before kick off he told his mates in the pub that “If Wales beat England I’ll chop me nuts off!” After Wales won (c’mon it wasn’t hard – England were shite), the crazy Welshman went home, chopped off his manhood and staggered the 200 meters back to his local where he proudly showed off his missing genitalia before collapsing on the pub floor.
The bar maid collected his bollocks and put them in a pint glass full of ice. The man was then taken to hospital where he is said to be in a serious condition.
There are also unconfirmed reports that doctors were unable to find his penis and balls in the pub and believe they may have been mistaken for a bar snack.
This story has been doing the rounds all over the net and according to the fans on WACCOE it is far more interesting than both Ellen MacArthur’s record and the boring England friendly this evening.
No blog entries for yesterday, so quite a bit to cover today…
Firstly Super Leeds United beat Burnley yesterday, a very good result as Burnley have been doing great at home lately. In fact they haven’t conceded a goal in all competitions since playing Spurs in the Carling Cup – this run includes the FA Cup game to Liverpool which they won!
Leeds were the better team, but were still lucky to go away with all three points. Burnley were awarded a penalty late on but Super Neil Sullivan (the Leeds keeper) made the save to secure victory for The Mighty Whites.
Slowly but surly, Leeds are moving up the league
I watched a couple of televised games this afternoon. First up was Southampton against Everton. Southampton are in a real mess and are in a massive fight against relegation. Everton have been doing surprisingly well this season and are hoping to qualify for The Champions League.
After going ahead very early on, Everton shut off while Southampton kept up the pressure. It wasn’t long into the second half when Southampton were deservedly 2-1 up. They could have made it more and were by far the better team. Everton dealt Southampton a bitter blow however by equalising in the dying seconds.
I’ve nothing against Southampton as a team, but as a neutral supporter I would like to see them go down. It will make both The Premiership and The Championship more interesting and it’s always nice to see the teams promoted the previous season stay up.
The next game on Sky was Chelsea against Manchester City. Prior to this game, Chelsea were 8 points clear at the top of the table and were looking to make it 11. Man City are the only team so far to beat Chelsea in the league this season, repeating the same feat looked very unlikely. They didn’t manage to win, but City got a well earned point for the 0-0 draw at full time.
Now, this league winners situation is a difficult one for me. I hate Man Utd and really don’t want to see them win the league. I don’t really like Chelsea as if they win, I will think they have bought it instead of earning it. Ideally I would like to see Arsenal win, but after losing to Man Utd last week that looks very unlikely. Maybe Everton will overtake them all and claim the trophy – Hahahaha!
Still on the topic of sport a quick word on the rugby. A friend came over to watch the England – Wales game with me. I don’t know very much about rugby at all, but I knew England were playing shit and looked a totally different side to the one which won The World Cup back in 2003. It’s still early in the competition, but I can’t see England winning the 6 Nations – sadly.
England’s rugby hopes are breaking
Moving on from football and rugby, I was having MAJOR computer problems last night and this morning. It all started when I was watching a film on the PC, outputting to the TV when we had a power cut.
Once the power had been turned back on I booted up the PC. The screen resolution during boot up was all wrong, my friend and I were both a little confused as to what could have caused this.
I entered the BIOS and in a vain attempt to try and solve it turned the motherboard logo on at start up – big mistake. Firstly it didn’t solve the problem and I couldn’t get back into the BIOS to turn the logo off!
According to the onscreen prompts I should press TAB to enter the POST screen where I would then hit DEL to enter the BIOS. In typical computer fashion this didn’t go to plan and I couldn’t get into the damn POST screen.
After many attempts, including switching keyboards, I finally got in and turned the wretched logo off. I then realised what the problem was regarding the resolution. I could have kicked myself. The S-Video cable was still connected to the graphics card and the TV! Unplugging this resumed normal activity. Phew all sorted, or so I thought…
Got up the next morning, booted up the PC. No mouse activity! After much messing about uninstalling and re-installing hardware I found out that the mouse had a bent wire on the PS/2 connector.
Easily fixed and another lesson to learn “Computer problems are not always complicated – always look for the easiest solution first!” Had I followed that lesson this weekend, both problems would have been sorted in a matter of minutes.
I came very close to smashing up my PC!
Last but not least the tale of my works party I went to last night. I arrived soaking wet due to the rain. There were loads of people there, most of them I had never seen before in my life, which was surprising as it was supposed to be for my department!
It wasn’t a bad evening, I took a friend with me to keep me sane and the few work colleagues I did know kept me amused.
I did get a little embarrassed that evening – no I didn’t get drunk or get off with some ugly woman in the toilets. While getting up to leave, I was dragged onto the dance floor by a colleague. Her grip was strong and my attempts to get away were useless. I was left to do a pathetic side step/dance to Red Red Wine by UB40 before running out of the Social Club to the safety of the hospital grounds.
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