PTHX Pictures

I have put pictures of our outfits for the treasure hunt in my gallery.

Hopefully I will be able to fing some pictures of some of the other teams to put here also.

Treasure

Well another treasure hunt passes us by. This years theme being cult TV programs. Captain Scarlett was our chosen theme, Tsuki and Dom made some spendid outfits. Myself and Sarum spent 3 hours at work making the shittest mysteron torch ever!

The night was good and I am looking forward to seing the pictures. I will as usual post them in the gallery at cleggville.

I am feeling a little ropey today, I ended up in toffs till the wee hours. I left my keys in the office and had to ring up my flatmate to let me in, I don't think he was too impressed. If that was not enough, it would seem like I left the front door wide open all night. So in general just pissed off all my flatmates. Oh well.

On an unrelated note I have the 14-16 June booked in my diary as SAS training in Norwich. I fear that it is nothing to do with the elite fighting force, and something much more work related.

Yeaah! zzwwm zzwm

Went to see Episode III tonight, I know a lot of people haven't seen it yet but so all i will say on the subject is:

Best starwars ever!

The darth side

This is great.

upper hand

It has been a while, but i have been finally prompted into posting by a number of factors.

1) Tsuki finally posted a blog, this would make me officially "worst blogger ever". Not wanting to have to have to try and defend this crown, and getting overly competitive about being rubish. I decided it might be best just to do a post.

2) Sarum advises me that Jaq will be frequenting this blog to get the upper hand if we ever meet. My logic is this; I may be able to confuse with my random ramblings such that this is not the case.

I suppose now that i have explained my motivation, I should possibly write something of interest.

A simple update of my life at the moment is probably a good starting point, as whoever has looked at this blog in the past must think i have died.

In work, the Norwich experience seems to be over, giving me time to actually have a social life, worryingly though, I still have no social life.

I have moved into Monks Cross temporarily (maybe!). I don't really know what I am meant to be doing here. But I do get to sit next to Sarum. This could be seen as a good or a bad thing but i think generally good.

Looking forward the PTH, the theme is cult TV shows. Bad data is going as Spectrum (captain scarlet theme). I have the pleasure of trying to make myself look much older than I actually am, to be colonel white.

I would love to rant here about something, but without going into work, that seems nearly impossible. The weather is sunny outside and I am in quite a good mood.

Nazi Nerds

Well it has been a while. I have been away in Norwich a lot and then took a week off to see my folks. All in all having a week away from work was great.

As part of my week off I went to the UK Gentoo linux conference in Salford. This was a great oppurtunity for me to meet Gentoo developers and discuss the furure of Gentoo. I also saw applications of Linux and Gentoo that I had never even imagined. On the down side some of the geeks there gave geeks a bad name. These were the hardore SS nazis of geeks, I won't go into details but it is a shame that some people see knowledge as something to rub in peoples faces, rather than sharing.

I have recently built a laptop of my own using Gentoo, so if I ever get wireless working I should be able to post more frequently.

I realise this post isn't on the usual subject of inane chatter that is usual, but it is a subject that I am passionate about. Maybe even to top the point of volunteering some of my time to the Gentoo project.

I will be back soon with inane chatter.

What News?

It is a week of no news. This week has been has been spent in Norwich, staying in a grey hotel. The new starter was as bad as expected; I have nothing in common with him. Oh well. At least from now on I shouldn’t have to look after him as much.

On a lighter note, this afternoon Burnley drew at home with Blackburn. The match was a below average scrappy affair which saw a 0-0 draw. Obviously I would have loved to see a win, but a replay at Ewood Park is bound to bring in some more much needed revenue to the club. The match was a below average scrappy affair which saw a 0-0 draw.

Next week again I have the pleasures of Norwich, but this time I have set p email blogging so should be able to blog whilst I am there.

Hello, Man

I was sat on a bench in York With Sarum this Friday, I am a couple of a couple of days behind this week. Eating some fish and chips, it was friday after all!, when an odd looking guy, some may have called him simple, walked by and mater of factly and said "Hello!". At first I thought "what an odd man". Then almost instantly I thought "why is that so odd?". In todays culture it is more odd to say hello to a stranger in the street than to scurry by head looking at your feet.

This got me thinking that wouldn't it be nice if we were all a little bit more odd and wouldn't fear that saying hello to someone in the street. Obviously I know these days actuallty looking at the wrong person would have you beaten to a pulp. So maybe it is not a great idea!!

On an unrelated note I have had a pretty awful day. I won't go into it here, but why are some people so stupid?

Tommorow is the start of my record breaking three consecutive week tour of Norwich. My posts may be a little (or a lot) less frequent than they are at the moment, this no internet thing is really inconvenient.

Signing off for the evening. Cleggton

Blackout

Imagine my surprise this morning when I was awakened by silence. Yes the worst thing ever had happened. My computers were off. How had this happened. It was 12.30pm and I doubted anyone was up to cause this.

Instantly I was in panic. "There goes my uptime stats!" I thought, my poor machines turned off without a proper reboot. I hoped they were ok.

After the initial panic I calmed, but found myself unable to do ANYTHING!. I couldn't shower, as the boiler measure the demand through electronics, I couldn't have breakfast as the cooker is electric, I couldn't have a cuppa, couldn't write my blog - nothing.

I couldn't believe how dependant I was on electricty and how trusting I was in the national grid to provide power to me.

So I sat there in disbelief for about 15 minutes. Until I realised that I could be waiting all day, I got dressed unshowered and left the house.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

It is late and I have meant to write this post all day but I'm too tired to say what I wanted to say. It is quite exhausting spilling your guts to tangible black and white. So I guess what I will do is get some sleep and a bright eyed eager Cleggton will write what he wanted to say Tommorow. Night Night.

Digesting Bad Photos

It has occurred to me today that there exists not one good photo of me anywhere (in my room) in the world. This has come to light purely because of my need to prove that I can have a successful date has forced me to look into the world of internet date sites. I am not willing to be worried about this and defend myself by saying that I am a very busy person with a close and mostly closed group of friends.

The lack of a decent photo has mostly concerned me, I have checked all my photos, the only ones that I look OK on are like the ridiculous one in my profile, the others mostly have my face contorted in some horrific smile/grimace. Purely by deduction I have come to the opinion that my self image of myself is obviously much better than the reality, leaving me with no surprise that I have not had a successful* date in yonks.

ON an unrelated note, I have recently reacquainted myself with the humble digestive biscuit. Aren't they great!! My flat mate noted that this is why your grandma always has them. "They know" he said! "They have shunned the new fangled biscuits and have chosen the digestive"

The above was written yesterday, I didn't have time to finish it because I was at a cheese and wine competition, Lint was there. Whereas Lint has half a bottle of wine on his desk I drank mine and then was persuaded to go out till 1 O'clock in the morning. My head hurts and it is now the weekend, I have it all to look forward tonight and tomorrow.

* definition of sucessful: Having a date, havind date arrive, not having date run away with "my pet lizard is very suddenly ill" excuse.

Dangerous Liberal Baby Sitters

Today I have mostly realised that I am indispensable, or stupid. Unfortunately I fear that it is most likely to be the latter.

I seemed to have been signed up to spend the next 3 weeks in Norwich, Which, to coin one of my favourite phrases at the moment, Sucks!!!

I also seemed to have gained a number of dependants, not only am I expected to baby sit a new starter on his first week, but have been asked to mentor another new starter for as long as he needs it. Quite why I have no idea as it seems so long since I actually did any of my own work, that I have probably forgotten what I do. But as a positive, at least I have Sarum to keep me sane/insane next week.

On an unrelated note, my friends and I are entered into the bowling competition at work. Inspired by an American Advert during the elections we call ourselves "The Dangerous Liberals". I happened to come across a Blog explaining the problem of widespread liberalism in the American college system, find it here.

Those Damn Liberals!

AH-HA

That has surprised you!!! not the band but more earth shattering than that.
Yes 2 posts in 2 days.

This damn Blogging malarkey just makes me realise that my life is actually really fucking boring!!

Anyway those who know me may know I can loose my patience with my flatmate. I have finaly found someone in Blog-space who has similar feelings. I saw this and thought of the monkey in my house: http://ihatemyflatmate.blogspot.com/

Yes I know I am Slack.

Yes I know. It has been nearly a month since I last posted. I have maybe some good excuses.

I have been working in Norwich a lot. "Why would this stop you posting?" I hear you ask. Well the answer is that amongst other things is that the market leader in its industry, that I work for, still doesn't trust its employees enough to give them internet access. All this in a country where the govenrment are trying to get the whole coutry access "at home or work".

On top of this my web server has been being used by a Hacker. So rather than leave it on the web being used against other unsuspecting people, I decided to "take it offline". Hopefully these holes have now been plugged and everything is now fine.

I have nothng to say really today. I promise that I will say something intersting next time.

Pressure post

The pressure is too much!!

I never realised having a blog could be so stressful and time consuming. I know what you are going to say here: "But this is only your second post, and it has been a while !!". But that is not the point. I spend at least 10% of my daydreaming time thinking what I should put on here, and maybe another 10% stressing that I haven't actually posted anything yet. For anyone that knows me you will probably realise that this amounts to substantial amounts of time.

To compound the issue Sarum at TheBlog@TheBlack.org has added my site to his links and made me headline news in his most recent post. This has forced me to write at least something, this offerering being the product of that.

My creative juices are at an all time low at the moment, mainly due to my gin hangover from drinking in MacMillans of all places, last night. I fear that this is all I can muster for the moment. Don't forget to tune in soon for the next exciting installment.

Blog Virgin

Well, being the new year and all I thought I will trying something new, dangerous and liberal. Hearing about the excitement today on other NU members of staffs blog I thought I would have a go and see if I could cause similar offence. Well probably not.