McGod

…these people surely can’t be stupid, they write what must be considered clever code, they figure out ways of avoiding detection and then think of ingenious ways of delivering their content. It’s at this point they fall down, viruses are easy to spot.

Why are their English language skills so bad? Is it an in-joke I’m missing, that coders only ever speak in Ingrish?

Modern Warfare 2 Wallpaper

I have Modern Warefare 2 on my x-box 360

The general view by most critics and the media is that this is one of the best games of the decade – how wrong could the critics be. Admittedly the online game-play is damn good, there are over ten different on-line modes so when you compare it to the benchmark of online first person shooters that is Counter-Strike there is quite a lot of bang for your buck. Unlike it’s rival MW2 doesn’t have that balance that CS posses. Admittedly everything looks amazing graphically but most new games do (I have Far Cry and that made me sit back and go wow) and tbh better graphics don’t make a game superb. Single player is waaay too short and the plot is pretty shit if you ask me but the level design is beautiful and easily makes up for this. I think this game has only shifted so many units because of the media hype (and media coverage owing partly to the infamous airport scene where you annihilate a departure-lounge chock-full of innocent and unarmed public with a fully automatic machine gun). Although these games are great because it’s nice when everyone has owned a particular game or at least played it:- Everyone loves making references to their favourite pop thing be it quoting Anchorman  jokes or making in-jokes about Star-Wars and I don’t think computer games should be any less referenced in popular culture. It’s also good that everyone knows how to play a game like that, e.g. I went over to my cousin Matthew’s house and we just jumped in to a co-op game on the PS3 together. Even Paula has got to grips with the game – her favourite level being the co-op level based on the snow level with sniper rifles and silencers – this in itself is a true testament towards the game if she wants to pick the game up again to repeat play. Ok, so maybe my mind’s been changed by the end of writing this. It’s still hardly a revolutionary game, it doesn’t bring anything new to the field of FPS so I’d give it a 9/10.

Hi,

On Sunday the 8th Novemeber 2009 I went on one knee and asked Paula to be mine forever. We now have a date set as the 24th September 2010

Diamond Ring Princess Cut 1.08 Carat set in Platinum -As modelled by Paula

Exactly six years ago today I started my first day my current place of work, should this fact be congratulated, commiserated or simply ignored?

I’m taking ten minutes out of my day (“So what” I say, I have never taken tea breaks, morning breaks, afternoon breaks or smoking breaks during my six years) to write on here. When I started on a whole £13k a year I figured that I should aim to work two years at this place and then move on furthering my career at some other firm. I don’t know what changed with this plan but I can’t ever remember marking two years off my calendar and then thinking “right, time’s up lets start applying for new jobs.” I suppose it’s laziness or the comfort of being in a job where you know exactly what you are doing, I guess the worst part is that I’m not sure I want a challenge, I enjoy my job here at times. My job role has evolved from being the office junior to a semi-respected company commodity to my current position (occupied for a year this month) of running the entire IT and Comms. The next step is my very Padawan learner, who starts full time on Monday.

I recognise that I can be  pigeon-holed as boring, lazy and career unmotivated but I have very little reason to leave this organisation (The word organisation used in the flimsiest of ways.) With the challenges that have been internally thrown at me I suppose I’ve been kept entertained at work and no matter where I ply my trade I’ll always be dealing with Microsoft Window’s errors… So I suppose I’d rather deal with these problems at a work place that’s only ten minutes down the road from where I live than have to commute to London or Birmingham for a likewise scenario.

I think Money will play a large part in the direction of my career in these forthcoming months. I’m personally doing over twice as much work for my company due to staff cuts, saving them this year about £50,000 in what were the Systems Manager’s wages & perks and now I think want a cut of this!

Sorry – I forgot to say on the 27th September…

We put Tyranasarous Rex and Cat Duck out for their first whole day outside with the other six adult ducks (which were older by about a week) and we got home to find them deaded.

We figured that the three oldest ducklings had integrated with the six fully grown ducks so well that there would be absolutely no problem putting the last two ducklings outside with them when they reached the same age. So on a Sunday morning we took the ducks from the box they were living-in under the stairs and released them into the big hutch we built a fair few months ago now. They had food and water for the day so we left to go Alton Towers with Paula’s family. When we retuned later that day at 8pm on what was quite a warm day really, I went to check on the ducklings in the waning autumn light and I couldn’t find them anywhere. After not being able to find them I got a bit perplexed and went back to the house to inform Paula that I couldn’t find them and I thought that they had escaped. It took me a few moments of thinking but then I realised that even though they were young – they weren’t so small that they could squeeze out of one of the small holes around the cage or under the duck house. I went back to the cage to seek the little critters out, taking with me this time; a torch. The first thing I did this time after lifting the lid on the cage was look in the water tub with the torch and I noticed a glint of yellow beneath the water line. The two ducks had obviously got inside the tub and because the water level had got so low from the other ducks drinking it they had been unable to get out of it. We think they got cold being in the water, which was only about 2 or 3 inches deep after I had removed their cold and dead carcasses from it. Even though the water was only sooo shallow (the ducks could stand up quite easily in that) Paula informed me that she had read up that ducklings need to retain quite a high body temperature of about 30°C.

So our potential ducks out of 7 eggs is now down to 3 ducklings.

Good news is that we have had an egg out of the adult ducks everyday since our first one was laid the other week! We think it’s just the one duck laying at the moment and she lays it in the same place every morning for us to pick out and eat ^_^

How to tell when Winter has arrived:

Someone in the office has put the Air Conditioning on and you’re now cold.

Facepalm

This is actually a warmonkey find, he sent it to me on MSN, but KJ-Il is such an amazing character I had to post it for more people to see.

http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Craziest_Kim_Jong-Il_Moments

Kim Jong-Il in Team America

The ducks have laid their first egg today!

First duck egg