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6 July 2003

Hey, guess what? Not only am I now number 139 on the Blog Share Market [link] (thanks Jam, thanks Wilkins, cheers Squashed Toad) but I'm being syndicated on this UK site called The Rockall Times [link]. They just emailed me out the blue and said that I had exactly what they were after. So, yeah, they're now running me on their site — check it out.

I dunno why they chose me but I reckon it's cause they read about the positive review I got by Mark Leicester of the Alternative People's Voice Review. He noticed that I was absolutely right about the mistake in Starship Troopers — if you look carefully you can see a bit of a dark grey sock when he rides the bug but the scene before it's completely black. So stick it Fobmaster.

7 July 2003

This really makes me mad. Like George Bush is saying he's going to give a fair trial to these people in Guantanamo Bay but then he won't say exactly what's going to happen. I mean, do they get independent laywers? I know that in all likelihood these people are behind or at least know someone who was involved in 9/11 but you know you've got to give them a chance. Some of them may not be guilty. They probably are but you know.

And why aren't more people standing up and saying this ain't right? I mean I don't want to get on the wrong side of anyone or anything but it doesn't seem right. Why can't they just have a regular trial but with guys with machineguns trained on them.

8 July 2003

Ha! Who said the little man can't do anything? The BBC has just run a story criticising the UK government about not tackling the president over this prisoners trial thing. I thought nothing of it at first but I was going through the logs a minute ago and I saw there had been not one but two hits on my site from the BBC server. A coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe I was just that final straw that made them realise they had to do something about this man.

If we hang together we can really make a difference. It won't be long before everyone is getting all their information from bloggers. Millions of people saying what they know and feel and stuff — man that is going to make a tidal wave so big that no one will be able to ignore it. In two years' time we'll be able to bring down governments if they don't do what's right man.

9 July 2003

It's 6:30pm and I'm back on my Linux box. Thanks to Justin who suggested on my comment board that I use Begorrah to get the files open on my network. Well, I've downloaded it and it doesn't like .mpg files for some reason. It works fine with Opera but it crashes Explorer every time.

I double-cliked on the scrotal apg file but all I got for my trouble was a segmentation fault. It didn't crash me out but I'll have to be more careful in future. Speaking of which, you seen this PayPal email going around? Clever man. They pretend to be from PayPal but it links to this whole other server asking for your details. You type them in and they — the Russian mafia — or something use them to go do credit card fraud.

Reminds of that time I tried to hack into Microsoft's update server try to sneak in a little worm. Wow, if I'd have pulled that one off, that would have been incredible. Still, you know, they knew I was coming — maybe I shouldn't have written about it on this blog — cause by the time I got there, it was all zipped up tight. Didn't even get past the door. Next time I won't warn them.

10 July 2003

No time for anything today. Boss gave me this big assignment and it was supposed to be done yesterday apparently. Yeah, like I give a shi*t. Anyway, got to do it now so no time to write anything today.

11 July 2003

You ever notice how women act when they realise you're not falling for the hard-to-get act? There's this woman at work — she works downstairs — and she's kinda cute. Everytime she comes up here she sort of speeds up when she comes past my desk. So I figured she must have the hots for me. She's only human, right?

Anyway, this was weeks ago. Since then I've accidentally made sure I'm near the corridor when she comes in. First time I did it she smiled at me but since then she's been playing hard to get. Anyway, I refuse to play these games so I just sort of sit there watching her daring her to make eye-contact and then when she does I do nothing about it, just stay there looking. It's driving her crazy. Yesterday she purposefully ignored me in the lift.

Well it's Friday night and I reckon she's ripe for plucking if you know what I mean. A whole group of us are heading out to this new bar and I know she'll be there.

Maybe it's time to get laid in 2003.

12 July 2003

Too hungover to do anything today. Just watching TV, playing PlayStation and eating Krusties corn pops. Ugh.

13 July 2003

Man, I've just been forwarded this link to an article slagging blogs off [link]. I've never read such a load of rubbish. This guy wrote this in January, right, so I suppose he may not have realised the way the world has changed since then but even so he argues that blogging doesn't actually add any information, it simply regurgitates and criticises stuff that people have already done.

He reckons that since blogs don't add any "original" information that their value is tiny. I'd laugh if this wasn't so stupid. Blogs are what are keeping the world at bay. This is true democracy in action. I could point him to loads of articles that show what a load of rubbish he's talking.

And what the hell does he mean by "original" anyway. Just cause he like gets paid to write about stuff. Just because he has nothing else to do all day except look stuff up and speak to people, does that make his stuff anymore "original"? No way man. Journalism and journalists are dead. It's time they moved over and let the real voices of the people speak. It won't be long until blogs are what are printed in papers and then when that happens we'll have the money to spend all day sat on our arses writing "original" material.

Also, if you fancy a laugh, check this out: some bloke in Texas lost his foot when he mistook his lawnmower for a burglar. He fired at it with his shotgun but it rebounded and stuck in his foot. He had to have it cut off. Ah man.

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