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FoJ scale

Spicy food varies in spiciness so to attempt to describe it I'm developing a scale, from 1 to 10, called the FoJ scale (or Flag of Japan). This is due to spicy food's knack of tasting great on the way in but causing havoc on its way out the following day. In other words it causes one's arse to do a convincing impression of the Japanese flag...

Suffrage Little Climate

There's a lot in the news about global warming and climate change these days. I've traced back the cause of it all and found someone to blame. Emily Pankhurst.

Climate change

So the government ministers are wanting climate change to influence the budget. The treasury are being asked to combat global warming. Er, how exactly will a bunch of accountants persuade Mother Nature from taking her natural course? When are they going to get it into their thick heads that global warming is a natural process? The globe has been warming up since the last ice age.

Trackbacks off

Due to ridiculous amounts of spam appearing in the trackbacks of many of the posts I've decided to switch off this feature. The spam filter on this software doesn't work. Why do spammers have to spoil everything? Is there nothing they'll leave alone? Bugger the terrorists, the governments should be going after spammers and instead of putting them in prison they should stick them in an arena somewhere and let disgruntled victims of spam loose on them with heavy, blunt objects. Fucking wankers.

Ubuntu - a Linux-based laxative for Bill Gates?

I've been tinkering about with Linux distributions for some years now. I'd always get the system "just about working" and lacking the knowledge and inclination to tweak it until it was right, I'd eventually give up. Windows was always more convenient for me, I'd become lazy relying on GUIs to do all my configuring. Or was that just my excuse for not being technically competent enough? More than likely a bit of both. There were times where I'd sat down and started reading various HOWTOs, trying to get some service or other doing just what I wanted it to, but then there'd be dependency errors or even worse, no errors at all (at least visible ones) - the thing just refused to work. Nothing I'd read up to that point had referred me to the existence of error logs, let alone their locations.

Drivel drought?

Things have been quiet over here - maybe a little too quiet. Or perhaps they've been too hectic to post anything. Possibly. There are a couple of rants simmering at the back, awaiting seasoning and a quick stir before being unceremoniously dumped onto here somewhere. But yeah, a number of changes have taken place since the last offering of drivel...

Steve Bennett - Chelsea Fan

I don't think I can remember seeing such a biased display from a referee as I did tonight when watching Chelsea versus Newcastle in the FA Cup Quarter Final. I saw several occasions where Chelsea players went through the back of Newcastle players only for the referee to wave play on, yet it seemed every 50/50 ball the foul was awarded to Chelsea. Then there's the pushing and shoving in the box during one of the free kicks - Chelsea players pushing Newcastle left right and centre yet the referee gave nothing, didn't even have a word. A few minutes later, a slight shove on John Terry and the Newcastle players are spoken to. Then to round it all off Robbie Elliot was dismissed because Shawn Wright-Phillips ran into him! Absolute disgrace.

So Mr Bennett, who made the oh so long journey from Kent to London, I hope you can sleep well in your bed after that performance. You shouldn't be allowed to officiate a jumble sale never mind another football game.

If this is a taste of the way things are going to be, with the fashionable clubs being afforded all the decisions, then I'm afraid football has died. I just so wish that fans up and down the country turn their backs on this game until the FA get off their committee-man gobshite arses and do something about it. It's nothing short of a farce.

And as for the BBC's commentary - Mark Lawrenson is a complete arse with his totally unfunny and frankly tedious comments.

Bollocks to the lot of them!

The History of Pr0n

Pr0n is all around us these days. It is estimated that in Britain someone is looking at pr0n within 10 metres of where you are. On the continent in places such as Amsterdam and Hamburg, that distance is even less, perhaps as little as 10 centimetres. That's because European pr0ns are far more advanced than those in Britain. But where did pr0n come from? This article will help answer that question as we take a look at the history of pr0n.

NUFC - Nauseating, Unable, Farcical, Crap

I was hoping to keep football, and Newcastle United in particular, from these pages but recently this has become an increasingly frequent source of my misery. So I'm going to have a big rant about it to make me feel better. Yeah, that should work.

(somewhat belated) New Year Post

Well that was another year zooming past. It didn't seem like 2 minutes since the year began. Actually, 2005 lasted 2 hours longer than normal as it started for me in Bucharest, Romania's capital, which is 2 hours ahead of the UK. That was an experience! There were fireworks going off all over the city.