Livejournal? What Livejournal?

Me: Hey computer I’d like to visit www.livejournal.com

Computer: What www.livejournal.com? You’re fairly sure there has never been a website called www.livejournal.com and there probably never would be.

This is the conversation I’ve been having with my computer for the best part of the last week, or it’s the conversation I would have been having with my computer if it wasn’t an inanimate object or I was slightly unhinged. In reality I was just asking my computer to load livejournal and it was politely declining, for a given amount of politely. So in the end I decided that I was going to move over here onto WordPress at least for the moment. It’s all a bit weird and unusual and I don’t really understand what’s going on, but it’s something. All I have to do is learn how to press words and I’ll be all up and running. Pressing words is a bit like pressing leaves or butterflies into a book isn’t it? Do people really do that. I mean the pressing leaves I can kind of understand (in a I would never do that in a thousand years kind of way but you know what I mean) but have I just imagined the stuff about pressing butterflies into a book? Did I perhaps see someone maliciously squash a butterfly and assume it was a fantastic new pasttime? Either way it’s not making me any more adept at using this damn website… erm… I mean this damn fine website. Good old webby website. I’d totally be using this website even if I had access to Livejournal. Yep. It’s just that good.

My Computer Sticks It’s Head Up It’s Own Backside

Yesterday I was having some serious issues connecting to the internet, specifically to Livejournal. I spent most of the day moaning that Livejournal was down and so on and so on. However as the day progressed and I was forced to retreat to my tatu blog I came to the inevitable conclusion that it was not Livejournal being awkward but my computer. Then I messed around with the router to try and fix this problem and now our internet is broked even worse than ever. Only one computer in the house now actually has the internet at any given time and it seems to be completely random chance which computer has it at any given time.

Anyway that’s my story of how with good intentions i managed to make things ten times worse.

Expect The Principalities as soon as the whole internet situation has been stabilised.

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I remember complaining about World of Warcraft when it first arrived. Moaning that it wants to do download this and download that, update after stinking update. And yes while loading World of Warcraft was a long and often torturous process I have found something that has looked at World of Warcraft and gone ‘I can make my program more difficult to install than that!’ and then gone and done so and sold me a copy. I speak of course of Final Fantasy XI. By the way did I mention I’ve gone and bought Final Fantasy XI. I think it could be good. I’m just not sure as of the now because I haven’t actually got on it yet despite having started the installation progress almost twelve hours ago.

First you install the PlayOnline Viewer which is like something that you can view things in or something. I don’t really understand it. Anyway next you have to update that to it’s current version. Then you have to make an account with PlayOnline. Next up comes tying your GamerTag to your PlayOnline profile. After that you get to watch a cinematic which although good I couldn’t help but think ‘couldn’t the game have been installing while I was watching that’ once it had finished. Then you have to install the game and then navigate your way through the confusing PlayOnline profile I don’t really understand. Next up is buying a Content ID of which apparently sixteen are available and I think that’s kind of like paying for sixteen months into the future or something. Anyway then I have to register all the expansion IDs that come with the game. So there I am, by now it’s about three in the afternoon. I’ve been registering and updating and tying things together since twelve. I figure it’s time to get in there and make myself a character and start bashing things till they die but no I’ve obviously forgot the updates to the game itself, which my xbox informs me will take 8 hours to download. EIGHT HOURS! That’s a long time to do anything, nevermind download.

One day I’m hoping to come up with my own MMORPG and upon that day I’ll unleash a set-up more demanding, more rigorous and more difficult than the game itself! And upon that day rhinocrabs shall crawl from the earth and the sky shall turn red with blood and the world shall end.

Top Ten Cake Based Events of The Year 2008

Surprisingly when I have a determination to do something it can take me significantly less than three months. Voila.

Top Ten Candle Based Events of 2008

Lateness Alarm! Three months late is better than never eh?

Red Dwarf Thoughts

Breaking news!

People who know me from like a long time ago may already be aware of my long running feud with Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Kate Nash and how last year I gave up hating people for no apparent reason and resolved my feud with the aforementioned singers. The latest news in this ongoing saga of on-again-off-again hate is that I recently purchased a song by Lily Allen via iTunes.

Oh and I forgot to give up something for lent this year so I’m falling back on the “I’m giving up giving things up for lent for lent” joke. It’s an oldie but a goodie.