What makes you happy ?

“They should ban fireworks because it affects my cat” says one caller.
Get a bloody grip! How pathetic a reason is that – and how pathetic a person for even considering saying that let alone ringing national radio. Idiot.

http://scientologyattack.ytmnd.com
File is currently on rapidshare – http://tinyurl.com/y9eq3b 88mb wmv

Link courtesy http://xenutv.wordpress.com

I read some posts actually at Gordon’s blog instead of in FeedDemon. I was unaware of the protection that my feed reader afforded until now. I am in the early stages of a cold and I blame Gordon :) . He passed it to me. So I sit here feeling like some crap and knowing that the next two days at least will be horrible.
It’s at this point that working from home becomes not so hot – I can hardly ring in sick can I?

I updated – and then unupdated – to the latest alpha of Thunderbird. Plugins I use didn’t work and I really dislike the default theme (the new mail notification per folder isn’t good imo) but they have somethings I did like. Unfortunately it’s very much a Web 2.0 thing – tags. Instead of labels, I can tag my email. It’s colours again but this time you can add more which is neat. Very neat. More labels (tags). There is a limitation of colours of course. What is a shame is the lack of ability to background colour these labels. It’s all very well having the blues and greens but it’s small type on a white bg – it doesn’t stand out a lot. I’ve yet to find a fix but the ability to set the background in the summary pane would – for me – be more useful than colouring the text itself. I know I can filter to label but that takes more clicks and Web 2.0 is all about ‘less is more’ isn’t it? So colouring label backgrounds – I’d be amazed if no-one has asked before and even more amazed that there is no plugin for that. usercontent.css is not a friendly place, esp with the constant exit/reopen. They have some funky Saved Search folders going on – which gave me an idea for my email habits (I remain appallingly bad at my own email. If I was me sending me mail I’d be disgusted.). So, that was a mini-review :)

I’ve literally while writing this come across another site. You’ll have to link it because I’m not: http://.premon itionweb . com. They want £6 a year for you to “register your dreams” and for that you get to update your dreams up to 6 times a year! Woooooooo. What complete bollocks. Which dillweeds are going to fall for this heap of crap? This is funny – his “Private Policy”:

Records will be held electronically, only accessible by the administrator Mr B.C.Bamber

Okay… even though reading the site it’s pretty obvious that it’s a one man op. He may as well call himself CEO.

Any paper copies shall be kept in a locked filing cabinet

So Mr Bamber will make paper copies, and then he will lock them away. In a filing cabinet. (I’m sitting here laughing an image of this guy patting the cabinet “Your sssssecretsss are sssafe”). But why is he making copies? Because he just bought a shiny new filing cabinet?

Any request to receive a copy of held records will also be complied with within 28 days

What? They wrote them you idiot. Or have you added some juicy morsels for your … entertainment?

Good grief – he’s even selling the dreams. And when you go to submit a dream he even gets you to choose just what sort of dream it was. Studying that list it is obvious he is aiming for the more mature person – there is no category of “Wet”. And do people really PDF their dreams? (Maybe in that ‘missing’ category they would laminate them :) There’s a PDF download. I just cannot bring myself to get it.
The scary thing is that someone somewhere will pay their cash. I’ll bet a packet that he never has to buy another filing cabinet.

I bet Tom Cruise is just thrilled to be a member of this:

The unfunny truth about scientology (src: link bunnies)

The wikipedia page on scientology is in itself weird – but click the History tab and follow the links to those that ‘repair vandalism’ or ‘make it read better’ or just ‘correct’. Read about those people. Mad beyond all measure.

There are few things that would cause me to intefere in the life of someone I know or in the lifes of my girls. This scientology crap is one.

And I just had an idea and acted on it. It’s playtime somewhere….

Looks like Tom ‘I’ve got a kid so I’m NOT GAY’ Cruise and his brainwashed companions now have a Scientology branded NASCAR.

A NASCAR spokesman told the newspaper while the car has “generated a lot of interest in the past few days … It’s not really something we want to comment on.” He called it “a minor league, small-team sponsorship deal.”

Race fans, let the couch-jumping begin.

Love that one :)

Dianetics has supported many winning teams…..even hot air ballooning

Heh, why is that just so in keeping with the Scientology nutcases?

Her worldwide television show has raised the consciousness of the universe about the critical issues of homelessness, poverty, hunger, race, crime, AIDS, women’s inequality and others. These social conditions greatly hamper world peace. Oprah did not just talk about the issues, but donated large portions of her wealth to eliminate them.

So … she broadcasts to throughout the Solar System. She has identified all the vital issues that affect the universe. I know that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” but hey, saying women’s inequality greatly hampers world peace is taking things just a little too far isn’t it? What is this ‘others’ ? Must be a hidden cause because I’ve not heard of it before. And she has given ‘large portions of her wealth’ – so damn what? For most people giving £50 would actually be a greater donation in relative terms than whatever she had given. And that last sentence would imply they have actually gone…..

Oprah for the Nobel Peace Price? Get a bloody grip ffs. http:// oprah4peaceprize. org

What next? QVC for a World Economics award?

Seems that Tom wants the domain tomcruise.com – but someone else has it. Oh dear :) Maybe I should register tomcruiseisanutter, or themadnessoftomcruise or toothytomcruise ….

A few minutes ago I installed a small program that measures mouse movement and mouse clicks. My screen is 36cm by 23cm. I have already mouse travelled 9.18 meters in answering an email,checking a url and watching the numbers rise. The computer is on and actively used for at least 15 hours a day.
How far do you reckon I will travel – starting from zero – on Sunday up to 11pm? How many L / R mouse clicks? Do you care? :)

You Are 68% Evil

You are very evil. And you’re too evil to care.
Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot.

How Evil Are You?

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