November 2003 Archives

I have been thwarted yet again.....

If you are using "Win 2k pro on screen keyboard", how the heck do you "Ctrl Alt Del"....

Deciding that there were enough witnesses, I left them to it :-)....

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Leaks and Thieves

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The door bell rings and I pick up the intercom to get, Hello mate, I`m the plumber where`s the leak?....

I am outside saying goodbye to the guys and persuading the Traffic Warden not to give them a ticket (sucsessfully)....

I went over to the car to see what they were so interested in.....

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Housing problems

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I have a bee in my bonnet....

After a bit of squabbling the woman tells me that they have found someone that will repair it tommorow....we`ll see...

Tonight is cancelled........

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What an effin day!!!...

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I was going to update the blog with my latest views on my sightings of strange and wonderfull things today....but...

I am splodging through the rain down the high street and I see this disabled persons four wheeled electric wheelchair complete with canopy, careering down the footpath towards lots of "Sheeple"

LOCK and LOAD comes to mind...;-)

*WANTED*
Ideas and upfront funding (the cheapest price so far is ?200...but might haggle to ?140) for the London 2600 xmas party,...

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Karma and Explosions

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Dada da!!! Leicester Square here I am...and what the hell is this in front of me?

Warchalked
all of a sudden there is a noise of explosions from the kitchen, uh oh! sounds familiar.....


It must "Karma" for them nicking my spot :-)

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Porn Studios and Books

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At one time there was around ten of us and one of the guys found out that the top two floors are porn studios he hadn`t been to Cyberia before....

I was lent a copy of Neal Stephenson book called "Snow Crash".....

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Olympia Exhibition centre is hosting "Enterprise Wireless Technology" and yet another night of debauchery ended up with me not getting out of bed untill 4.30pm.....

The Weatherspoons pub in the High street had a big fight kick off .....

They said they want a panel of leet H4xZor5 doing some sort of hack the flag type of thing, and that they have used the "Cult Of The Dead Cow" on a previous show, so volunteers are wanted,.....

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What a Party :-)

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For one and a half hours there were two US army helicopters circling overhead...

We then noticed a massive wind generator next to the London Eye....

The party went well with around 300 people turning up and the bad weather held off...

There were two bonfires going and an effigy of George Bush was put on the the one furthest from me...

I found out during the night that the Beach party that was filmed by the BBC a couple or so months ago, was on telly last week .....

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Apples do they grow on trees?
well if they do it must be moulting season I have just found yet another Apple 4400/160 but at long last this one has come with a keyboard :-) so I can play...I have now got six Macs and the one thing I have waited for was a keyboard as I have all the other bits...

At the same time I have found a couple of Compaq`s one is a dual processor complete with a matching pair of Pentium 2/400`s using pc100 ram but no ram was with it and no Hdd either...but Heh you can`t have everything :-)

The other is a single processsor Pentium 2 but no chip or Hdd/ram, but uses the same type of ram as the other, it has a riser board allowing the use of three pci and 2 isa slots, both boards are also fully equipped to take scuzi onboard and agp graphics, and on the back sockets another skuzi along with sound and nic connections.

Just after that I found a half breed CB antenna with cable and connectors.

Not a bad night out eh?

I`m knackered, its 4.30am and I have a busy day today as it is the Beach party unplugged and we have to get loadsa firewood for the bonfires.

TTFN
CSB
As usual, thanks for looking in.

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My locals.....

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The result is one psychopath on crack with a hunger to feed and a crack dealer / knifeman getting away virtually scott free........

Motoring offences ie, no anything, License, Mot and Road tax insurance etc...


Cameras, Id cards, Iris scans etc....

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WiFi and Sainsbury`s

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WiFi is back up at Leicester Square ...

Warchalked....

The fire alarm at the Sainsbury`s complex went off all night .....

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Exploding Spuds....

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I blitzed the flat including the kitchen...

There`s oil all over the kitchen walls the floor, fridge, ceiling, cooker and me...

Beach party on the 15th at Festival pier around 21:00hrs...

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Firework time:-)

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I got ready to go to the church and realised the T shirt that had just put on was advertising a drink called Red Devil,.....


Dumb criminal of the month award, goes to the customer in the local supermarket...

The man that assaulted me at Waterloo station has been let off....

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I went out for a walk around 19:00Hrs and everything was peaceful, and then all hell broke loose....

Prediction by Rat ....

There used to be a "pirate radio station" called Radio Jackie....

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Biometrics etc.

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Hi everyone thanks for stopping by,

I made it to the Biometrics show, it was held in the QE2 conference hall which is massive and has an amazing view over Parliament square....

Dr-K came arround to do an interview with me for his new book Hackers' Tales.... I am looking forward to Friday, fireworks first and the London 2600 meeting straight after it.... :-)) The WiFi is up and running in Leicester square, it`s a nice fat 10mb connection

A poster that amused me

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