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Friends Only
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1st Jan, 2010 @ 00:00
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ZoneAlarm
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23rd Aug, 2008 @ 15:19
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ZoneAlarm is a very good filewall program for Windows. It protects you from hackers and the like. ZoneLabs - the company who wrote ZoneAlarm - were recently bought by CheckPoint - the authors of one of the worst firewall programmes I have ever seen.
Since the acquisition, CheckPoint have broken the installer for the free version of ZoneAlarm, so if any of you need to get hold of it, don't use the zaSetup_en.exe file on the ZoneAlarm website as this points to a non-existant domain. You can get the ZoneAlarm installer by going to http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/1023_zl/zlsSetup_71_254_000_en.exe instead. :)
Edit: Apparently that exe is useful for Vista users only, so I'll add a link to the XP version once I can find it.Current mood:  techie |
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Clearout time
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16th Aug, 2008 @ 13:42
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I've removed people I don't talk to, people I don't actually like but spoke to anyway because I thought it was politic, and people who haven't friended me back from my friends list.
If anyone thinks they've been removed incorrectly, comment. (I did go through and check, but it's possible I clicked the wrong box by accident.) |
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Le rofflé
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13th Aug, 2008 @ 10:05
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Omguh!
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17th Jul, 2008 @ 23:44
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On a related note…
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17th Jul, 2008 @ 21:07
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…I point you to two very well written articles on the subject of Lillian Ladele (apparently the single mother of a bastard child) and the Tribunal which came to the monumentally stupid conclusion that she had been discriminated against for being homophobic and refusing to do her job.
Ministry of Truth: Ladele v Islington - was there a conflict of interest?
Head of Legal: Ladele v Islingon
Having read those, and a few other articles I found by way of the Wikipedia Effect, I am now pretty much content that the ruling will be overturned and Ms. Ladele will lose her job. :) When this happens, I shall lean back and laugh at the wonderful spectacle that is our karma running over her dogma.Current mood:  pleh |
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
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13th Jul, 2008 @ 20:03
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What idiot designed this DVD case? Honestly, who designed it? It's US patent No 5788068 (it would have to be, because no other country in the world would design a case you can't open and then shrink wrap it). I want to know who designed it, so I can stick the fucking security bar in their eye.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kelemvor bought me a DVD of the BBC dramatisation of Tipping the Velvet when I told him I was reading the book. I got it out to watch it about 20 minutes ago and removed the shrink wrapping. I then attempted to open the case. It didn't budge. I applied a bit more pressure, since they sometimes stick, and it still didn't budge. Then I noticed the big red clip in the gap in the middle.
"Ok," I thought. "They've clipped it together so that it doesn't come apart. That makes some sense, I suppose."
So, I reached for a fine-tipped screwdriver I had on my desk, and tried to lever it out to no avail. About here I started to lose my patience with it. After about 2 minutes more of fighting with the bastard thing, I managed to lift the clip up enough to prise the case apart, though not before I managed to snap the fucking thing just above the clip.
After actually getting the case open, I removed the sleeve to stop it getting damaged and noticed that the clip was actually a bar that goes right through underneath the disc.
So, I tried to remove the bar, which indignantly refused to budge. I tried to press the clip at the centre of the disc down to remove it, but the bar was preventing me from doing this. I turned the idiot-designed thing around a few more times and tried to figure out a way to get this stupid bar out of the case and evenutally gave up.
My final solution?
Cut the fucking box in half (with a large chunk of it flying off and landing somewhere behind my desk) and the disc 'magically' falls out. Now I have to go and buy a case for this DVD because the case it came in was more secure than Fort-fucking-Knox.
I mean, for fuck's sake, I could understand if the security bar hadn't been removed in the store if they were kept bare on the shelves, but the fucking thing was shrink-wrapped!!
Also, which idiot thought a box like this was a good idea?! What happened to the exoskeleton boxes which we all know and 'love' and can reuse, unlike this stupid Yankee wastes of plastic?
Urgh!
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P.S: Don't worry, kelemvor - the disc's not damaged. :p I'm watching it at the moment. :)Current mood:  The world is full of morons! |
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Black-Eyed Susan
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9th Jul, 2008 @ 23:19
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Black-Eyed Susan (first verse only) [00:31]
Go on, it's only one verse. Could do with Mawgen and Jen singing the Alto part, and Maria and Zoe singing the Soprano. :p Oh, and someone other than me singing everything else, but neh. :p
If you fancy singing stuff like this, we rehearse every other Wednesday at Treadwell's Bookshop, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. :)Current mood:  creative |
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Hurrah!
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26th Jun, 2008 @ 08:09
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Robert Mugabe's been stripped of his knighthood! Looks like the old woman finally saw sense. :) Now, if only the bastard would keel over and did from a heart attack…Current mood:  'tis a start |
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Robert Mugabe, Kight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
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22nd Jun, 2008 @ 19:54
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Can I just say what the fucking hell?!
How is this detestable man still a Knight of the Realm after all he has done?
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/mugabeskcb/
Deadline to sign up by: 19 December 2008
"We believe that it is only proper and consistent with Britain's position on the issue of Mugabe's tyranny in Zimbabwe that he be stripped of this award of chivalry, as advised by the UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee in 2003.
This would be in accordance with the 1847 statute allowing those "convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or any infamous crime derogatory to his honour as a knight or gentleman... [to be] degraded from the Order by a special ordinance signed by the sovereign".
To have Robert Mugabe as a knight of our realm is a poor reflection on the award and this should not continue."
Please repost this and 'sign' the petition.Current mood:  shocked |
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*looks at the front page of the metro*
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12th Jun, 2008 @ 07:58
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Ugh. The government of this country is entirely staffed by idiots!
Listen to this, you fat, stupid, overpaid bunch of morons:
We did not need 42 days' detention when the IRA were planting explosives across the country, and we do not need it now!
Every one of you bastards who voted for this bloody bill, you are driving us straight into Nineteen Eighty-Four with the brake cables cut! This is not a good thing!Current mood: irate |
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Oh no!
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26th Apr, 2008 @ 10:33
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Humphrey Lyttelton died! :(
Not fair! Denied! :(Current mood: devastated |
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BEHOLD!
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24th Apr, 2008 @ 00:42
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Terrifying Pertwee knows your secrets. *cackles*
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Poll!
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19th Apr, 2008 @ 17:45
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Poll #1173735 Komedy stuff
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat would you like to see? If you selected other(s), please enter your suggestion(s) here. When do you want to see?
View AnswersMay, 2008
   8 (66.7%) June, 2008
8 (66.7%) July, 2008
9 (75.0%) August, 2008
11 (91.7%) September, 2008
9 (75.0%) October, 2008
8 (66.7%) November, 2008
7 (58.3%) December, 2008
7 (58.3%) January, 2009
9 (75.0%) February, 2009
8 (66.7%) March, 2009
8 (66.7%) April, 2009
8 (66.7%) How much are you willing to pay for tickets if the recording isn't free?
Please to be filling out. |
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Right.
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22nd Mar, 2008 @ 09:39
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Right, I am absolutely sick-and-fucking-tired of saying this, so I'll say it only once more and then fist with barbed wire everyone who continues to be a complete and utter arse without actually knowing anything about what they're bitching about.
The beef isn't the fact that they got rid of free accounts; it's with the fact that they tried to hush it up.
I don't particularly care whether or not LJ has free, adless accounts, but I do care about whether or not LJ actually decides to inform its users that they're going to be making big changes to the site. I have a paid-for account, so I rarely see advertising, and I thus have a vested interest in making sure that LJ doesn't go tits up as the result of really, really bad management.
Grrrrr.
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In other news, BT are absolutely fucking rubbish. I just spent 15 minutes on the phone to them, eventually spoke to a real person after ten minutes of being on hold/wrangling with a stupid arsehat "press the backwards elephant key to speak to an advisor" system to be transferred to a department that gave me a voicemail message saying "We will return on Tuesday."
I'm trying to re-arrange a line installation which is currently scheduled for Tuesday 'cause they didn't give me an option to choose a date.
URGH. |
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Architects never to employ: Michael Hopkins and Partners
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8th Feb, 2008 @ 11:13
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The building in which I now sit is barely ten years old, yet has suffered from severe leaking problems since it was built. There are stalactites forming mere metres away from my desk.
A few minutes ago, a very loud crashing and banging that went on for a few seconds reverberated through the building as one of the supports holding in the windows on the top floor fell down into the atrium.
Sometimes, I really do wonder why this building is not condemned…
For anyone who is interested, it's this building, which is built on a hill that is gradually subsiding into the sea. :) The bit of girder fell from the top floor above where that third photo on the second link was taken.Current mood: worried Current music: the gradual collapse of a badly-built tower block |
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I am the embodiment of halcyon tranquility.
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8th Feb, 2008 @ 00:31
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I must not put my fist through my laptop screen, however tempting it may be, for Canterbury's exchange fellating the foetid smeg from the underside of Hitler's dead and decaying foreskin is not the fault of my laptop.
I also must not put my fist through my laptop screen because Vista being as stable as a PTSD-suffering former US Marine rape victim who is currently being threatened with a machete is also not the fault of my laptop.
I must not hunt down Canterbury's telephone exchange and introduce the nearest telephony engineer to a world of pain he and/or she never believed possible, for killing people is illegal, no matter how gratifying it may be.
Impaling a wax figuring imbued with a fragment of the blackened soul of Bill Gates with needles coated with cyanide is not an appropriate use of my time.
Punching the wall next to my piano will hurt, and it will not change the situation one iota, except to possibly send it in the direction of the nearest hospital.
The katana in my wardrobe are blunt; testing them out on passers-by is a pointless exercise that will only serve to get me arrested.Current mood: apoplectic Current music: The sound of small animals screaming as they burn to death in a pit of flames. |
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Japanese has the best words
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4th Feb, 2008 @ 22:31
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辻斬り 【つじぎり】 (n) killing a passerby in order to test a new sword
ごっつん盗 【ごっつんとう】 (n) (sl) stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out
生首 【なまくび】 (n) freshly severed head
Nuff said…Current mood:  tired |
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This needs no explanation, only watching.
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2nd Feb, 2008 @ 19:51
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Ugh.
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24th Jan, 2008 @ 02:02
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Fucking inbred Westboro cunts want to picket Heath Ledger's funeral.
I'd pay to see them strung up by their extremities and shot.Current mood: disgusted |
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