Be Excellent To Each Other

And you had better use your immortality wisely:
'BE. EXCELLENT. TO. EACH. OTHER. AND...PARTY ON DUDES!'

8 weeks in now! Still going, still very happy with it Had a couple of duff meals that were a bit bland, and some of the instructions could be better written, but other than that it has been brilliant.

Curio, have you been emailing the gruaniad?

In the cricket? Yes.

Fucking kleeeek.

That new Cravendale advert is creepy as fuck.

My current headphones (Skullcandy Lowriders, fact fans!) are giving out. Should I get another set, go back to the old faithful (Sennheiser PX100s) or is there anything good in the 'compact NOT-in-ear headphones' category that I'm missing out on?

I use these and i'm very happy with them http://www.whathifi.com/sennheiser/pxc-310-bt/review

You're welcome!

Holy shit. I'm not paying that much for a set of headphones for out-and-about use.

Had a fun day in Wolverhampton at Retro Revival today.

I was there yesterday and it was brilliant! Was the big Mortal Kombat MAME cab (pretty much the first one you see as you went in the main hall) working?

It wasn't yesterday. Neither was Killer Instinct 2 or the VR machines.

Still... It was an excellent day out.

KI2 was up, as was the Oculus and the other VR one. Can't remember whether MK was on or not. There were a few that were off it nothing too upsetting.

It seems I'm still shite at Defender. Never could get the hang of it.

An ex of mine is off to Nigeria with what i assume to be her work with a medical charity. This could get interesting

That retro show looks awesome! I wish I could have gone!

They had pretty much every 8 bit home computer you could imagine, from the ZX81 through to the PC Engine.

About the only one I don't recall seeing was an Enterprise 128.

Decided to try going cold turkey on sinister Facebook for a bit. Deleted the app on my phone and Ipod, and will see if I can go a week or so without accessing it.

Why?

I've started to realise that I was probably too addicted to it, feeling a need to continually check it and getting frustrated if I couldn't due to a lack of wi-fi or whatever. For the past few years I've had the Ipod by bed at night, and if ever I woke up at 3AM I'd reach for it and start browsing it. Likewise, I've been prone to stay up late reading people's postings or getting into chats, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't be spending more time building relationships in the real world.

I'm also starting to think that it exacerbated the initial tensions during my recent troubles, as we would chat almost daily and when we weren't on at the same time we would post comments on each other's pages etc, and to go from that stage of 'always on' to 'completely cut off' made everything feel 100 times worse than perhaps things were. Blocking me just made the situation worse (I almost did that myself, so I can't really criticise him for that), although I never looked him up and only found out one or two upsetting things about him completely by accident.

I do enjoy hearing about my friends and learning what they're up to (in a completely innocent, non-creepy, way), and I don't want people to think I am cutting them off. So, er, happy birthday if you've one coming up.

That sounds like a really positive step, Kern.

The other thing you could do if you find yourself going back to it is to Unfollow/mute people you're actually not that bothered about.

That way if you keep checking it constantly, and find there's no updates it may help break the habit.

Thanks. Expect more 3AM nonsense on this site instead

Main concern is the messaging system. In the past, it used to automatically email me a message if I wasn't online, but in recent years it has not been as reliable. Sometimes I get these notifications, other times I don't. But then, almost everyone has my email address and mobile number, so if it is important they'd contact me anyway.

I seem to have a lot less spam now I learnt you can unfollow

I had used the direct.gov website to change the address on my driving license. It was easy and my new on is on the way.

Cheers Trooper

You know your office has gone overboard with tech when the water tap has had its software api license revoked, thereby cutting off the drinking water supply.

I'm not even joking.

lol

Brilliant. Details?

I'll post a picture later.

(Sadly, I suspect the reason given may actually be a joke, although the water being out isn't)

Don't they have to shut to office if there is no water..

HSE Guidelines -

Sorry I misread it was water. When our office lost water we were sent home as the toilets would not work

And some automatic fire fighting systems don't work as well.

Okay, what's all this about people giving up Facebook? There's nothing sinister about it all, everyone go back to what you're doing right now please.

Stop sucking corporate cock, salaryman. Facebook sucks. Everyone would be much happier if they used Google+.

Or Google Groups

On HP laptops with HP printers.

OH HAI I'VE BACKED UP YOUR PHOTOS

I use google+ every day. it's superb.

Or Beex.

I agre with Mali. The wife has had some auto awesome videos made for her and they're brilliant!

Let's keep things plausible here, please.

I know the guys who wrote that, the project is based out of London. And yes, it's pretty cool. All the g+ photos stuff is, to be fair.

OH HAI I BACKED UP *bang*

Aye, G+ is excellent for photos, especially for sharing them amongst select groups. Far easier than on Sinister Facebook.

I have decided that I can use the Messenger app if someone contacts me that way during my sabbatical.

Ace! Tell them from the wife and I that they're doing a brilliant job. My wife would like more awesome videos please... Especially of the kids.

Instagram is also a decent way of sharing photos!

I agree with TheVision.

Sinister Facebook? Well, after reading this in the Huffington I deleted the new chat app, and then the main app from my iPod. It's browser access or nowt for me from now on. And then there was this in Wired, which shouldn't have surprised me really.

That article is older than Jesus. There was actually a fairly balanced counterpoint in the independent over the weekend. Link.

That said, trying to find that article was a pain in the tits. I'm sure it is the same on any newspaper, but given that 90% of news articles now are made up of 'users on twitter/Facebook/bebosaid' trying to find an article about Facebook means you have to wade through every article written on anything in the past week

Good grief. I didn't look at the date on the Huff article as I only saw it for the first time last week, so thought it was much more recent than that. As it happens, I'd already deleted the app from my iPad because I don't like apps that don't have the facility to log out. I don't like being logged in all the time, unless it's my choice. So, that ruled out the chat app for me. Then, the most recent update to the main app also won't let me log out, so that had to go too. Perhaps I'm overly security conscious (or just paranoid) but that's how I feel about these things.

Lots of shooting stars tonight - I saw four during a break in the clouds.

More tomorrow!