Forty pounds

And all ruined because I happened to see two drunk people getting off with each other. Utterly ridiculous.

This isn't healthy. I'm beginning to worry for myself.

In other news, the boathouse didn't have any hot dogs, and Lou is looking really quite nice these days, as is Emma, as is Mel, as is Janine. Janine wasn't being very nice last night and I have no idea why. Hopefully go for a drink with Mel tonight and catch up.

- Chris

My new year's resolution is very likely going to be

Not only should you not tell anyone anything, but you should not inquire about your friends' lives.

My general feeling of satisfaction lasted until about 4am this morning. It depresses me that jealousy causes me to feel so goddamn angry. My ego is ridiculously fragile.

- Chris

Merry Xmen, everybody

np: Pitch Shifter - Triad (my own "video edit" from the Info? quicktime)

I just found out there's a wysiwyg plugin for Wordpress. Yes. Hope it works as well as this one.

So, yeah, the demise of my old work has meant shifting this rubbish onto Blogspot. I'm eventually going to import all this into the proper blog and then syndicate back into Blogspot, which will be a fun exercise to get working. But for now there isn't much to see here.

Didn't get in until 5am. Considering the abject lack of normal Xmas things, like presents and good films on the telly, it's gone pretty decently actually. Probably going to avoid this bird, it'd just be awkward otherwise. Although last night was a first in several ways.

- Chris

SO SAD

Got Wordpress running. Locally. In the process I have learned more than I did in the last two years of my university life.

Anyway, yeah, it's not likely to last, given that I have to turn the server off to get to sleep, but when the server is a little box in the living room of el condo that might change.

(running a web server, database and preprocessor on a wireless PC in my living room. I cannot, cannot believe I still kiss girls.)

http://thumper.kicks-ass.org/wordpress : when I can be assed I'll get the thumpercam and everything else linked to that properly and drop all the external guff. Means I'm not relying on my old work's server too.

- Chris

Mission Accomplished

np: Prong - Out of This Misery

Just need to make it last until next week.

Still. Third choice, but she went for me. I am thoroughly chuffed. If I can milk it I will be A Bit Pleased. If not, meh.

- Chris

Fun in

np: Regency Buck - Monkey Girl

Just watched Pi (for the second time) and Analyse This (first time) bck-to-back. Six cans of Miller between both. Impressive.

Could really have done with a couple more. I've got one left and nowt to do with it but get pissed and read MZAD. Oh well.

Party tomorrow. I have a bet to win. I will get this Robin bird. I;'ve had a whole night of Bookworm Bitches to get me in the mood.

- Chris

Fun in

np: Regency Buck - Monkey Girl

Just watched Pi (for the second time) and Analyse This (first time) bck-to-back. Six cans of Miller between both. Impressive.

Could really have done with a couple more. I've got one left and nowt to do with it but get pissed and read MZAD. Oh well.

Party tomorrow. I have a bet to win. I will get this Robin bird. I;'ve had a whole night of Bookworm Bitches to get me in the mood.

- Chris

Off paintballin'

np: Ben Folds Five - Champagne Supernova

First time. Wish me luck.

- Chris

Reservation met

np: Regency Buck - The Ballad of Duke Ironfist

Go go condo. I'm so stoked.

I'm finally warming to the awesomeness of having a publicly-readable and yet utterly ignored diary. Being a camwhore with a blog is refreshingly modern.

- Chris

FLAAAAAAAT.

np: No Doubt - Suspension without Suspense

Oh Christ. It is the best flat evar.

Seriously. I will sell my body for this flat.

- Chris

Republican copy-pasters on forums

np: The Boo Radleys - It's Lulu

Seriously. The worst thing ever to happen to the Internet. Including Robbie Buckshot La Funk.

- Chris

P A R T Why?

np: Manowar - Achilles, Agony and Ecstacy in

Meant to be going out tonight to a party. Don't think I can be assed. It means starting late and finishing very late, there might not be many honeys there (at least, not single, hot ones who like boys with red skin and yellow hair) and I'd probably end up sitting talking with (i.e. mostly not talking with) the boys.

I need a change. Pronto. Disappointed with the way this weekend went. Need to do something before the holiday.

- Chris

Oooh! Sun!

np: Parliament - Give up the Funk (Tear the Roo

(Winamp loves this track.)

Jobcentre time. Wish me luck.

I need to get back and out in this weather. I'd forgotten what sun looked like.

Nearly party time! After today I'm going to relax in this heat for a week. Try and get some sunburn protection in place before I leave. And cut down on the lager (by "cut down" I mean "cut out altogether" to try and rid myself of the gut for a bit.

- Chris

Another entry from the Book Of The Best Things Ever

np: Bis - Burn the Suit

Stolen from someone off the MAME boards.

- Chris

Test. Again.

np: Blur - Entertain Me

I've decided that w.bloggar isn't actually that bad. Could still do with being Free.

- Chris

Sacked.

np: Marilyn Manson - Seizure of Power

Fuck. Shit. Bollocks.

That's putting it mildly. You get what you wish for, and that's what I get for wishing it.

On top of that, no redundancy insurance on either the lappy or my loan, and the bank isn't letting me change my mind now. The utter shits.

So, good news:

1. I no longer have to restrict my job- or flat-hunting to places which leave me within an hour of the middle of nowhere. This is great.

2. I've got a paycheque coming in real soon now.

3. Magaluf next week. I'm going back into town to buy bleach. Pray that the ends of my hair don't rot off: if they don't it should look okay, and in a fortnight I will be the Sexy Euro Boy again.

4. I thought these jeans had shrunk. Wearing them in the rain has sorted them. w00t.

Anyway, yeah. I really hope my hair works. I could seriously do with some immediate fillyification.

w.bloggar's annoying me, as all proprietary software does. Where are the alternatives?

- Chris

The wonders of sleep

Or the lack thereof.

Went to Glasgow yesterday; got drunk with Readwin on a pub crawl; went back to Edinburgh; slept on a step.

Gah.

Now at Conrad's, showing off Firefox and watching F1. wysiwyg still rocks hard.

- Chris

Jill is the best

True.

thumperward@hotmail.com please. Ooh I'm so excited.

Note to self. Nightlies are more trouble than they're worth.

- Chris

I'm probably going to collape shortly

np: Cay - Resurrexit

Curry on the hob, beerishness imminent, and mym mummy just spent one whole pound on a brand-new Model M. I have my own keyboard again. I fucking love these things.

- Chris

WYSIWYG! Bitchin'!

Two things:

1. No Tahoma font. Waaah!
2. Bitchin'!

No, actually, three (ctrl-I) things:

1. No Tahoma font. Waaah!
2. Bitchin'!
3. Double-bitchin'!
   

WYSIWYG editing on Firefox on Linux. The world is a better place. Next stop, Hotmail.

- Chris

Forgive me lord

Reinstalling Windows on the Ferrari. Left ten gigs for Debian to go on when I can be bothered. If the drivers don't install cleanly then I have just broken my beautiful lappy.

If they do though, I rock. Hard.

- Chris

Just have to post this

np: The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

The best gif of the year. I love it.

- Chris

IT WORKS! IT's ALIIIIIIIVE! 2

I give it a month or so. Christ, this is so near to working right.

I really like the look of BloGTK. I reckon it's got a rosy future.

- Chris

Test.

Debian Test

I am this close to getting this working properly. If this blogs right, then I am even closer.

- Chris

Further idiots

At this rate I'm going to have to stop visiting MZ.

- Chris

Goddamn no-cash ass-munching death blues

Fuck's sake. I desperately need a bonk.

Seriously, I'm getting fed up with my current social situation. I haven't been out on a Saturday in ages, have no idea what the women situation is and am currently in abject poverty.

None of this is good. At all.

- Chris

Yes

np: Christina Aguilera - Fighter

So, it's here. I love it. Muchly.

Even though it's got a Radeon.

I'm going to play a game now. Bye.

- Chris

RAAAAA

Here now :)

BEST. THING. EVAR.

- Chris

LAAAP. TOP.

np: Zeromancer - Doctor Online (Rico Remix)

WHYYYYY isn't my laptop here yet? Whyyyyyyyyyyy.

- Chris

So, let's try again

Fucking stupid bastarding server.

I have no idea why it refused to post a file with the title "dhtml-lemmings.html" and I have little desire to find out currently.

So let's start again.

As of today, there's a DHTML Lemmings site available at http://www.lemmings.giointernet.co.uk . It's grate. Go.

[edit] It's alIIIIIIIIIve.

- Chris

New theme

Winstripe for teh win. Using it now. Great.

Despite the fact that I am writing this exclusively for myself I feel the need to qualify what I write here in the hope that it will look good in the future. But still:

(let's check something)

• Is this working?
  
• Does it look right?
  
• P.A.R.T.Y.?
  
  

Wahoo.

My blog needs to be silver. shiny silver. and red. nobody uses those. Silver and red are the new Millennium Orange.

So now a pic-choor:



So much for aligning in the middle, so much for fucking titles (ALT? ALT? FOR TITLES??!!one)

- Chris

LAME

DNS is totally trashed at work. My job to fix it, and I can't do anything about it until Wednesday.

At least MZ's working so I'm not going to die entirely of boredom.

Maybe.

- Chris

Tired

np: Earthtone9 - Grind And Click

Shouldn't be up at 4.36am.

I need to get into the habit of decent length posts. These look so unprofessional.

- Chris

np: Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

Und now.

The end is near.

And now we face.

The final curtain.

Wait a minute, is this Tahoma?

- Chris

Yeah.

- Chris

Frist.

- Chris

Bullet lists!

np: Supergrass - Sun Hits the Sky

One down. Wait till 4.0 and I've got them. Woo :)

(however, I now need better auto-text and smileys. Arg.)

- Chris

Once more with feeling.

np: Sneaker Pimps - Can't Find My Way Home

This is a long post.

Yes. I actually might start using this. It's all lovely and MFCey and it's nearly not annoying and I've got plugins. It's still an evil device which will reduce me to ruin, but that's my problem, not its.

Ha. King of apostophisation. (Apostrophication? Apostrophe? :) )

Goog music just now. That's what I get for randomly downloading whole albums. I love broadband.

Right, actually going to use this. What does that mean for my future?

* I have to get el blog looking respectable. Trim it down. Make it less Bloggery. Hell, I'll probably end up on Wordpress just because. (remember to mirror content!)
* I have to figure out how bullet points work. This may involve changing blogging tools. (to something with the name spelled properly.)
* Markdown is too complicated. I shall have to write my own. (my ass.)
* No sleep. Till Brooklyn. Or, in fact, ever.

I want more hours in the day.

- Chris

Music.

Please bitch, please.

- Chris

[Listening to: Underachievers - Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick (5:32)]

Test (again)

Oh, fucking sue me.

If this works, I'm going to start proper blogging. proper.

[edit] wow! WOW.

- Chris

Idiots. Fucking idiots.

Idiots.

Can't wait for this new theme. Fucking fanboy retards.

In other news, I got a haircut. Sexy. Maybe.

- Chris

I don't believe I'm doing this.

- Chris

Humpy bumpy.

I suspect that I'll probably end up actually using this, which does of course make me a special kind of pathetic waster.

- Chris

Test.

- Chris