It's only the first day of the year and already I'm complaining! Someone tried to phone me at about 8.45 a.m. this morning - whoever it was came up as a witheld number on  1471, so it was probably the hospital. Every bloody free day I have they have been ringing me about crap. No, I am not coming in to do any more stupid scans which someone else is ( Read more... )

So, the final day this year. When one looks back on the year, what does one think? One thinks "why am I talking like the Queen?"
So instead, here's some things I hope will happen in 2008, but which are unlikely to.
1. Chris Martin of Coldplay should get his sinuses drained so he doesn't sound like he has a head full of mucus when he sings.
2. Arabic ( Read more... )

Finally we have all the Christmas decorations up and the house looks properly atmospheric. And we have tasteful lights not those Las Vegas neon flashers that some people love to fix on the outside of their houses.  Morgy is arranging presents round the tree, the stockings are hanging on the stairs and I expect any minute now the doorbell will ring ( Read more... )

I have finished the mighty "It Never Snows At Christmas" and have begun distributing it to the masses, if you are a mass and want to hear it don't forget to tell me. I am quite pleased with how it turned out ( Read more... )

We went to the cinema to see The Golden Compass today, I enjoyed it but feel that it could have been a bit better than it was. It felt a bit rushed to me, but that could be because I've just been reading the books and am used to their slower pacing and slightly more complex unfolding of events. I do think some things needed to be made clearer in ( Read more... )

Step aside Mariah Carey, Slade, Paul Bloody McCartney and all the rest of them. Because the mighty Bugdozer (i.e. me) will be releasing the Christmas single to end all Christmas singles, and it will be coming at you like a breezeblock of pain. In a way it's almost the reverse of the usual Christmas song theme. Anyone who wants to hear the future of ( Read more... )

Interesting news - there is a nurse at work who looks exactly like Pip, including glasses and hairstyle, and is called Jess. Though her voice is different ( Read more... )

After 2 days, PC World finally finished doing stuff to our computer. They discovered it was riddled with viruses which Norton had totally failed to detect, possibly due to Norton itself being one of the infected programs. I have no idea where the viruses came from (apart from Teh Internets, obviously) but they seem to have targeted The Sims 2 for ( Read more... )

 In about half an hour I will be taking this computer along to PC World to have its health check thingy, and to have new power supply, memory and graphic card fitted. Wahey. However, I am assuming that PC World will cock it up and when I go to collect my computer tomorrow evening it will either not be ready or they will have broken it in some way. ( Read more... )

How horrendous that the evil teacher has allowed some children to name a cute and inoffensive stuffed toy Mohammed. How wonderful that certain hardcore Islamic people are now calling for her to be executed by firing squad. How marvellous that this demonstrating increases Islam's image among the infidels as a tolerant and sensible religion. I am ( Read more... )