XBox 360

Remember folks, tilting your XBox 360 when in use, can cause damage to discs in the disc drive!!!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/16/xbox_scratched_discs_updated/

Well who would have guessed....

Poor old Stephen Fry...

Getting in a tizzy because he can't connect his new laptop to his network... Awww.

There is a saying that a little bit of knowledge is a bad thing. Now I don't know how much knowledge Mr Fry has of IT, but I do know he is not an IT Professional. If an end user gets stuck whilst trying to do something, call support. After all, thats what it is there for!

On my own home network, I have have / had a mixture of PC's (Vista, XP and 2000), Linux (Linpus Lite and Ubuntu) and Macs (OS9, OS X, iPhone and iTouch). All connected without issue.

I wonder, is it possible that the problem was not with the PC but with the user or his network??

Reindeers....

I had a conversation with a friend over the weekend about reindeer. I was told that at Christmas time, the male deer would normally have lost its antlers and therefore the images depicting Rudolph and Co. were all wrong.

I asked if the fact that:

A: They could fly
B: They could talk
C: One had a glowing red nose

might mean that they were indeed magical deer and therefore kept their antlers all year round....

Stunned silence...

Seriously, stop thinking too hard about Reindeer!!

F*cking Engineers!!!

Bastards, the whole lot of them are bastards!!!

Seriously, just give me the mark up in a form that is legible! Oh and when marking up, mark up what you mean, I am not a mind reader. If you mark it up wrong, it will be drawn wrong!

Arrgghhh!!

A Christmas story...

One of my neighbours died on Sunday night. I have lived here almost 10 years and I still did not know the man. My loss I suppose.

Another old neighbour, younger than me, lost her husband to leukaemia. He was only in his early 30'. I didn't know the guy, but it is still sad. They only married 4 months ago.

Yet another friend is facing his first Christmas without his wife.... It will be tough on him and his children.

See... even though things are bad here, there is always someone worse off. Sure my job position is dodgy, sure the economy is in the shits, but hey, I am alive and should be thankful for that.

Its Christmas time. Its not about the presents, its about family and friends, about celebration of life. If you are religious, then obviously it is about Christ.

Remember, you don't need money to be rich.

I came across this today, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.