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hurray! since getting my o2 broadband, my download speed has to be displayed as Mb/s instead of Kb/s.

I was getting 1.6Mb/s on a download the other day and everyone who I told about it, either didn’t care or didn’t know just how awesome being able to download at over a meg per second is.

the infidels!

It got me thinking about those other times where I was raving about something cool and the people I’m talking to get that glassed over look in their eyes that means they’re humouring me because I might be able to fix their computer later…:-)

I had 6 computers to fix yesterday, here are some of the things I heard..

1. “it wasn’t like that before”
   if you say so… (thinking…hah! don’t make me laugh, you don’t even know what it is like now, you probably don’t even know what it is in the first place)
2. “OMG it’s showing all my personal data”
   well, yes, you just signed in with a username and password. You’re probably registered on their site
3. “but I’ve got a virus scanner”
   a virus scanner wont protect you if you open that msn file send request from someone you don’t know
4. “it came free with my broadband”
   yes but you still need to scan regularly with up to date definitions
5. “up to date whatinifitions?”
   [sigh]
6. “that other computer has a virus scanner, can I just take it from there and put it on this one?”
   [loooong sigh]
7. “but it’s connected at 100Mb/s, how come it’s so slow?”
   that’s the speed of your network card connection, not your internet speed
8. “oh, but my internet speed is 8meg”
   It’s up to eight meg sure, you’ll probably get around 3/4 of a meg in actual download speed
9. “can I access this router from my home?”
   where do you live?
   “it’s just down the road…”
   [@!??]

sometimes I feel like the man with one eye in the kingdom of the blind

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This is my new album cover! Well, actually it’s a cool thing I saw on a blog while stumble-ing today. It involves visiting sites and using what you get in Photoshop or similar paint program. The game goes like this…
(you may want to middle click these to open them in new tabs)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
   The first article title on this page will be the name of your band.




2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
   The last four words of the last quote on the page will be the name of your album




3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
   The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.




4. http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml
   Click on the users info link and look for the italic subtitle below the bold blog name. That will be your first hit single.




5. Use a graphics program to put them all together like I did above and share it here..

For completeness, here are all the urls that came up for me..
1 2 3 4

Lets see what you get….

Here’s a couple more that I made (no refreshes allowed, you have to choose whatever comes up (even russian tag lines!) )

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I read a great poem over at AntiBarbies blog about a misguided internet lover boy, in the comments I saw someone had made a condensed version so I added my own version even more condensed as a Haiku, AntiBarbie made her own and someone added another one later.

They’re great fun, especially when people add their own in response to yours, someone responds to that one and so on.. It could be a good game to play. Here’s a bit of Haiku background..

A Haiku is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

I first found out about them in the book Shogun which my best friend Diego gave to me, it was an awesome book and it filled my days with wonderful daydreams and was the first book to make me really pissed off when a major character died. It had quite a few Haiku poems in it’s pages. Times when a warrior was about to die and there’d be just enough time to compose a death poem. How composing a Haiku in an extreme moment can give you a moment of Zen and so on.

They can be quite poignant and I like to make ones with 3,5 and 3 syllables. Diego has a talent for making poems and he has made a good Haiku or two so I thought we should have some Haiku poems here. They’re easy to make and great fun.

Here’s one from me..

Writing my own blog,
to wonder of the reader
did they understand?

in 3,5,3 format

Windy night
tomorrow the same
maybe more

They can even be funny, here’s a few from the internets

The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
(source)

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
(source)

You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail!
Behold, elevator butt.
(source)

Hehe, I like cat ones, here’s my old cat before I moved to an apartment..

actually, if he still lived with me he’d be sit on my shoulder and say ,

readin yer poem
U can haz make won for me?
ok thankya bye

What can you come up with? sling me a Haiku in the comments why don’t you….

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