The Den

The Real News

2008-02-02T09:23:00.000Z

Well I guess the real news from 2007 is that we are now back in the UK, the whole move to Denmark having fallen apart. We found out on a weekend when we were back in the UK visiting my parents, and told that the our friends had, was being re-possessed and not to come back, as Basically there was going to be no where to live.

So we are back in the UK, with a handful of clothes, and not a lot else, we have manage to get hold of some extra stuff so we can continue our lives a little, but all our possessions are in a storage facility, we understand, in Denmark, and we have little hope of getting them back at the moment.

Well that's the big news from 2007 ... lets hope 2008 is a better year.

To Blog or not to Blog?

2008-02-02T09:16:00.000Z

Well ... It's been a while. Over a year! But here I am again... Will the blog continue on, and take more entries than before, or will it be another year... Till I post again who knows.. but What ever happens, life will move on.

To start with .. I love my photoshop *smiles* ... I've not had time to get out and take pictures of the world in part due to a lack of digicam *grumbles* my last one broke, but been practicing with the aid of some of the online tutorial sites..

3 tutorial sites I'v looked through and used when trying to get to grips with all that photoshop can do ... there are plenty more out there but I thought I'd start with a couple ;-)

I have always had an affinity with art, I am I suppose moderatly talented ... :) I like taking photographs, I'v an eye for a good picture. Now with digital photography and photomanipulation I'm finding that I can expand my creativity to cover a wider scope.

At school, I didn't really excell at practical art .. though I did score an A at O-level for Graphical Communications - Technical Drawing to those doing the CSE :)

Been a little while....

2007-01-25T11:34:00.000Z

... well we are here .. in Denmark, been here just over a week now, and erm still unpacking ... boy is that a chore.

Everything seems to be going OK at the moment. Though job hunting has yet to start. I think we need to get a bit more unpacking done first, so then I don't have to do that when I get back from a job (when one arrives.)

What other things are going on .. oh yes this PC of mine has been giving me some irrational greif.

When I purchased it, I bough one for the other 1/w at the same time... so both PC's were identical... now my PC for some reason, it only knows, has decided to turn it's self off at the most in appropriate moments, usually whilst I am at a critial point in a 3D game, such as the MMO's I play in.

I have swapped out the Memory, Graphix Card, the only things left it could be are Motherboard and CPU ........ *Sigh* ... that next I suppose.

On the Move again.

2007-01-14T10:30:00.000Z

So here I am once more....

This time, the ferry should sail. We will be heading from my parents at about 14:00, to reach the ferry terminal in time to check in about 16:00 ready to board about 17:00 and leave dock at about 18:00 .. and finally sail to DK.

We should already be there if the weather had been better behaved!!! But as I'm sure everyone in the world is aware the weather does not behave :)

Well during the time off what have I mangaged to acchieve? I'v started a private blog for my Second Life character ... that's about it really. It's been a tad boring really waiting .. well at least it's waiting in comfort I suppose as opposed to waiting in a ferry terminal or airport, I suppose.

Life, Love and Moving Home

2007-01-12T00:14:00.000Z

Oh boy ... what a day ..

Get up bright and early to get the last of the things packed into the van ready to move to Denmark, I head out grab some coffees, and get home to find that, owing to bad weather the ferry has been cancelled .....!!!!

Eeep!! what now ... this means that the van, we hired in DK, will be late home, the driver (a friend) will be late home .. aaaarrrrggghh!!! is an understatement of the level of panic that almost set in ....

Well I think we managed to get through most of the day unscathed, well .... Colin has had a major case of CFS related pain today and last night, and it hasn't subsided yet :( I am hoping (crossed finger toes and anything else I can manage) that it might go when stress levels from moving are reduced, but ... we will have to see...

I would like to hope that I have coped with everyone very well today, and that what I have done has reduced everyone's stress levels considerably ... but as they say you can never tell.

My Parents have been great offering to put us up as long as we need .. they are the best ...

well time to find a bed ...

Time is an Illusion

2007-01-05T13:45:00.000Z

Well, so they tell me .. and lunchtime doubly so ...

People coming over for dinner tonight, the food is in, the house is a tip, doing good so far then ;-)

Moving has this effect on homes .. turns good old fashioned chaos, into organized chaos with a side order of panic thrown in for good measure. And if the panic doesn't get you .. then the general upheaval will ...

... think I'll stop panicing now and get on with the important issues of Lunch, and more sorting and tidying .. if I can do that in style then the old fashioned chaos wins out ...

Oh the Eagle or the other half as he is better know is keeping a moving blog (I have just found out :) ) .. anyone that does read this and is interested .. not that people do, or are .. check it out over at :: myspace ::

Well as I said time to hunt food ..

Anya!? I mean...

2006-02-26T17:41:00.000Z

Another one of those fun yet fairly pointless quizzes, this time about Buffy! :) Very good show with a superbe ending.

You scored as Anya. You're a very straight forward person. Some people think you're self-centered, but you don't care. Though most of your relationships seem to shatter in front of your eyes, when you love it's with everything you are.

Anya

67%

Willow Rosenberg

63%

Tara Maclay

63%

Buffy Summers

58%

Dawn Summers

54%

Rupert Giles

54%

Spike

50%

Xander Harris

29%

Which Buffy The Vampire Slayer Character Are You Most Like!?
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Another Personality Test

2005-12-06T00:24:00.000Z

So ... Here we have it .. another Personality test to see what sort of person I am.

On the Swirve Personality Test, I am a Mastermind.
My Characteristics Chart:


Extroverted		Introverted
Sensitive		Intuitive
Judgemental		Perceptive
Thinker		Feeler

Read more about Masterminds or take the Test yourself!

What D & D Character Class are you?

2005-09-30T11:56:00.000+01:00

Another one of those interesting yet seemingly pointless What xxxx are you?

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Fighter Bard

Alignment:
Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups.

Race:
Humans are the 'average' race. They have the shortest life spans, and because of this, they tend to avoid the racial prejudices that other races are known for. They are also very curious and tend to live 'for the moment'.

Primary Class:
Fighters are the warriors. They use weapons to accomplish their goals. This isn't to say that they aren't intelligent, but that they do, in fact, believe that violence is frequently the answer.

Secondary Class:
Bards are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.

Deity:
Tymora is the Chaotic Good goddess of luck and good fortune. She is also known as Lady Luck, and also Tyche's fair-tressed daughter. Followers of Tymora believe in the tenent that, 'Fortune Favors the Bold,' and will throw caution to the wind and trust to luck to work things out for the best. Tymora's symbol is an unmarked silver disk.

Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of NeppyMan (e-mail)

It came with a detailed report :Shock:

Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXX (3) Neutral Good ---- XXXX (4) Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXX (7) Lawful Neutral -- (-5) True Neutral ---- (0) Chaotic Neutral - XX (2) Lawful Evil ----- (0) Neutral Evil ---- XXXX (4) Chaotic Evil ---- XXXX (4)
Race:
Human ---- XXXXXX (6) Half-Elf - X (1) Elf ------ XXXXXX (6) Halfling - (-5) Dwarf ---- X (1) Half-Orc - XXXXXX (6) Gnome ---- (-3)
Class:
Fighter - XXXXX (5) Ranger -- X (1) Paladin - (-2) Cleric -- (-3) Mage ---- XXX (3) Druid --- (-1) Thief --- (-3) Bard ---- XXXX (4) Monk ---- (-3)

So you are a vapire are you?

2005-09-25T09:37:00.000+01:00

Oh my .... here we go another fun little quizz ... Hmmm I'm Vlad Dracul ;-)

You scored as Dracula. You are the smooth sexy cool Dracula. Patient and lustful. If you were any cooler youd be ice. Great style with a way of seducing those around you. And three brides who wouldn't want to be him.

Dracula

100%

Akasha

75%

Lestat

75%

Marius

67%

Blade

58%

Deacon Frost

58%

Louis

42%

Armand

42%

Spike

42%

Angel

25%

Whose your Vampire personality? (images)
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What Group are You?

2005-09-09T12:50:00.000+01:00

Well After the quizz I thought I'd see what all the "Social Groupings Were" ....

Well After a quick search on Wikipedia .... we get ..

Chav: is a slang term in popular usage throughout the United Kingdom, usually used in a derogatory fashion, referring to a subculture stereotype of a person with: fashions such as brand-name tracksuits with white trainers, and sometimes flashy 'bling' jewellery and/or flat fronted, occasionally Burberry caps; a magnetic attraction to congregation points (sometimes known as chavaramas) such as fast-food outlets or other shopping areas; a concentrated music taste (centred loosely around Rhythm and blues, Rap and Hip Hop); and a culture of antisocial behaviour.

Skater: Well no actual entry here, but it re-directs you to skateboarding ... so a Skater is one who likes to Skateboard, or wants to be good at Skateboarding.

Goth: is a modern subculture that first became popular during the early 1980s within the gothic rock scene, a sub-genre of post punk. It is associated with gothic tastes in music and clothing. Styles of dress range from gothic horror, punk, Victorian, fetish, cybergoth, androgyny and/or lots of black (inspired by the beatniks). However, there is no dress code for goths.

Trendy: found no reference to this in Wiki (other than x-ref to the word trend.) But from the dictionary I grabbed this ... Of or in accord with the latest fad or fashion: trendy clothes.

Preppy: This style of dressing first emerged in the financially prosperous 1950s, when students went for the Ivy League look. According to Yesterdayland.com, "Madras plaid dress shirts with button-down collars, v-neck sweaters and slimmed-legged chino pants marked the college boy, while slim sweater sets, pleated skirts and saddle shoes all but guaranteed a good girl entrance to the university."

Three decades later, the Ivy League look became the preppy look.

These characteristics include particular subcultural speech, vocabulary, accent, dress, mannerisms, etiquette, and general way of being. Lisa Birnbach's 1980 classic Official Preppy Handbook is a tongue-in-cheek, "guide" to the preppy subculture. The term is similar in formation to hippie or yuppie, and had great currency in the 1970s and 1980s.

Rocker: was a term originally applied in a derogatory manner to British motorcycle riding youths in the 1960s, but was later taken as a badge of pride. The word can apply to both male and female riders, and their pillions. Rockers were almost entirely defined in opposition to their famous antitheses of the same time, the Italian scooter riding Mods, or Modernists. Mods and Rockers rocketed to fame in 1964 by the sensationalistic media reporting of what by today's standards was very mild youth behaviour; the famous Bank Holiday clashes between both parties on the English South Coast holiday resorts of Clacton, Margate and Brighton. Before this time, young motorcyclists had not been grouped together and labelled in such a manner.

Emo: Erm ... it refers to emo music ... which is Emotional Hardcore of the Washington DC area in the 1980's .. Also a cross reference to Emo-Fashion which says ...
Emo fashion relates to the Emo scene and can relate to the hairstyles, clothing and demeanor of those involved. Traditionally, the term "emo" when used in describing clothing meant clothes such as tight jeans and fitted T-shirts or polo shirts, sweaters, and "Buddy Holly" glasses. However, as the variety of music labelled "emo" has become diffused with more mainstream popularity, there are now several distinct strands of emo fashion. Most popular of which is Emo-Nerd epitomised in such bands as Wheezer.

Now whilst the above isn't a very good insite into popular subcultures ... It is a start ...

What Group are You?

2005-09-09T12:48:00.000+01:00

He!HE! ;-) found another pointless quizz earlier today ... and so I did it ....

I am a Bit embarresed by the fact that I'v got some Chav (et al) in me to say the least.

You scored as Goth. Your A Goth!

Goth

70%

Rocker, Mosher

55%

Prepy

40%

Emo

30%

Skater

10%

Chav, Townie, Rude Boy, Ned, Kev

10%

Trendy

What Group Are You? Chav, Rocker, Skater, Emo, Goth, Trendy, Prepy E.c.t
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Which Nigerian Spammer are you?

2005-08-17T13:48:00.000+01:00

And finally for the quizz links .... ;-) I'm Peterson Bolinga ...? who?? :-)

Which Nigerian spammer are You?

Which File Extension are you?

2005-08-17T13:45:00.000+01:00

Then after that we get the File extension quizz .... oh my I'm an image format :)

Which File Extension are You?

Which OS are you?

2005-08-17T13:40:00.000+01:00

Well here we go ... I got the quizz from a friend ... and lo and behold I'm Amiga OS!!! :-)

Which OS are You?

Show of Hands

2005-07-14T09:41:00.000+01:00

SHOW OF HANDS

Well here is the website for Show of Hands, featureed in my Playlist today ... they are a folk band that write songs for a modern age as well as play some standards.

New Playlist Shock

2005-07-14T09:34:00.000+01:00

Well there I changed my Playlist :P ... the last one lasted for quite a while...

Oysterband - Bright Morning Star
Prior, Maddy - Dance of the Wind
Runrig - May Morning
Drevor, Ivan - Half Past Ten
Enya - Anywhere Is
Show Of Hands - Country Life
Vega, Suzanne - Luka
Velvet Underground, The - All Tomorrow's Parties
Tabor, June - The King Of Rome
Simon, Paul - Graceland
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Robert miles - One & one
Young, Paul - Both Sides Now

This one is a little less Rocky... and a little more folksy ... My favourite two tracks in the list are #2 & #6. #2 - Dance of the Wind is from Maddy's Raven Child Album, and is full of space and air, you really get the picture that you are flying ... and #6 is a tale of how the modern english country side is a travesty of it's former self.

What ..... No Playlist?

2005-06-24T09:12:00.000+01:00

It's been a while ... Not had a new playlist for a while :-) I seem to like the last one ... Also for work I cut a CD with one of my Playlists from WinAmp. So that I wouldn't get board of the using the bus playlist.

So ... Why don't I try talking about me for a change :)

This weekend we, me & Colin, are having a few strangers dropping by and staying for a few days. Boy, doesn't that sound wierd? ;) But these people are people we have known from Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC.) Some we have known for as long as 3 years! :-) They are online gamingin aquaintences, time to meet them in person. A Little nervous, but hell it should be a fun weekend ;-)

It finally happend, the Humidity Broke at about 4am this morning. We had a massive thunderstorm, and it's now settled down into pissing it down with rain, so I'm happy. I'm not really one of the sun worshiping types. Don't get me wrong I like sunney days, I just don't like very hot, or very humid days, my brain starts to seize up. Give a nice winter with snow, and sun that's nice, where the temperature never gets much above 10-15 Celcius, as opposed to Hot Summer Humidity .. where you have temperatures in the 20-30 Celcius range and 70-90% humidity ...

And another list dawns...

2005-06-09T09:45:00.000+01:00

Well here we go onanother 64Mb day ...

Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Evanescence - Going Under
Extreme - Song For Love
James - Sit Down
Nightwish - Wish I Had An Angel
Darkness, The - Love Is Only A Feeling
Disturbed- Shout 2000
HIM - The Sacrament
Lacuna Coil - Angel's Punishment
Linkin Park - Rnw@Y
Faithless - Mass Destruction (P Nut & Sister Bliss Mix)
Audioslave - Gasoline
Hypertraxx - The Darkside

I really must do something about that ... but being poor I can't affoard to get a bigger damn memory card or a 256/512 Solid State MP3 Player ....

My main PC needs replacing more than I need a new MP3 Player .... I play a MMORPG Dark age of Camelot, and the PC is barely managing to cope :( ... the bigest problem I have is when editing art (this is why I'v not done any recently) ... the damn PC Crashes after about 5-10 mins of editing a photo :( I know it's the graphix card, but the PC is so Old that I cant get a decent PCI graphix card easily ... as they are all now AGP or PCI-E ... time to save for a new PC...

Canonballs & Waterfalls

2005-06-06T10:16:00.000+01:00

Here we go .. as much of a compilation album I made a few years back as I could fit onto a 64MB memory card :)

Linkin Park - Opening
Oldfield, Mike - Family Man
Connells, The - ´74 - ´75
Waterboys, The - The Whole Of The Moon
Oldfield, Mike - Five Miles Out
All Saints - Pure Shores
Take That - Relight My Fire
Cat Stevens - Father and Son
Spears, Britney - Stronger
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffanies
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World As We Know It
Scarlet - Independent Love Son
Tampera ft Maya - Hammer to the Heart
Blink 182 - All the Small Things
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

There are 4-6 tracks missing from the list (cant remember how many) but the important first and last tracks are there ... the album took it's name from a line in the Whole of the Moon ... but having checked the lyrics the line isnt there ;-) so it must be only there in my head ;-) :) and the way I remember the song ...
That asside I think it's a pretty cool title for an album ;)

Which Disney Character Am I?

2005-06-01T21:59:00.000+01:00

I am mary poppins! I have a wild imagination like no other! I will turn anything boring into FUN!

Oh ... My .... GOD!!! ......... I'm Mary Poppins ... who'd have thought :)

In someonelse's words ...

2005-05-31T11:45:00.000+01:00

"I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore."
- Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine

Very much where I am in my headspace at the moment .... or more where I feal that Colin and I are ... :/ It think it makes sense ...

I know what I mean, it's just whether anyone else does ....

Oh well ... bak to work ... ;)

Download Wine tonite and get a compiled copy for your PC ;-)

Playlist and Ramblings

2005-05-31T08:47:00.000+01:00

Well time for a change at the Mp3 Playlist ...

Era - Ameno (Remix)
Bush, Kate - The Big Sky
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Lavigne, Avril - Anything but Ordinary
Linkin Park - 1stp Klosr
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Aqua - Cartoon Heroes (Radio Edit)
Bourke, Toby With George Michael - Waltz Away Dreaming
Dr. Alban - It's my Life
Rammstein - Das Modell
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring On the Dancing Horses
Martha and the muffins - Echo Beach
Limahl - Neverending Story
Shampoo - Trouble

Think this one shows off more of the eclecticism of our music collection ... ;-)

Spent some of the bank holiday weekend (that we've just had over here) Ripping another pile of CDs .... this time it included all the CD Singles :-)

Also finally got round to making my PC Dual Boot ... \o/ Linux + Win2k. Took the risk of re-partitioning my already filled up harddrive ... and it worked ;-) Was using Mandriva Download edition, which has support for NTFS Filesystems built in along with the ability to re-partition them during set-up, providing you have de-fragged and done a full chkdsk first ;-)

It installed fairly straight forwardly .. next step is getting my bloody Tablet to work ;-) there are no Linux native drivers for it ... might have to get the coding hands out again

The other thing that needs to be done, is to get installed Wine or Findout what WineX is like, I need to get some Windows apps up and running the ones I use the most .. PageMaker, Photoshop & Illustrator ... (Or get Gimp working properly with my Tablet that would cover for photoshop) PageMaker is a must as the Linux DTP Package Scribus is just not quite as good yet :(

Latest Mix

2005-05-16T09:53:00.000+01:00

Well time to move the pony down the blog ;-) The latest 64Mb Mix on the PDA ....

Rammstein - Vampire
The Saw Doctors - Teenage Kicks
Backstreet Boys - Larger Than Life
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Marillion - Uninvied Guest
E-Type - Champione 2000
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
Minogue, Kylie - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Savage Garden - Affirmation
Sonique - It Feels So Good (Dance Mix)
Levelers, The - Hope St.
Roxette - Perfect Day

I'm going to have to upgrade to 128 or 256 soon ... or possibly a solid state MP3 Player ... 64meg is all well and good for the bus to work in the morning, but during the day it can get tedious ;-)

My little what?

2005-05-09T07:28:00.000+01:00

Arrrgghh!! I Don't believe I'v just done it .... I filled in one of those silly quizzes ... Which My Little Pony are you!!

Which My Little Pony are you? - brought to you by Quizilla

Nooooooo! I Just Don't Believe it ... ;) I don't know what the world is comming to .. I'll be doing more of these silly and pointless quizzes no doubt ;-) but hey .... I'm Glory so what does it matter ;-)

Whats in your player? :)

2005-05-05T09:31:00.000+01:00

The new playlist ...

Rammstein - Ich Will
Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient Mix)
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
a-Ha - Crying In The Rain
C, Melanie - Northern Star
Sugababes - Round Round
Linkin Park - Points of Authority
Hypetraxx - The Darkside
James - Sit Down
Calling, The - Adrienne
Bucks Fizz - The Land Of Make Believe

This playlist is a bit shorter than usual but it's got a few long tracks on it ;/

Play-it-again sam

2005-05-04T08:49:00.000+01:00

Well not posted one for a while, so here is the playlist that I'v been listening to for the past 2 weeks, I've just changed it today ;) so will post the new one later...

Malinky - Follow the Herron
MacCall, Kirsty - A New England
Marillion - Map of the World
Prior, Maddy - Yellow
Nanci Griffith - Outbound Plane
Bangles, The - Going Down to Liverpool
Placebo - Black-Eyed
C, Melanie - I Turn To You
Ash - Burn Baby Burn
Evanescence - Going Under
Linkin Park - Crawling
Corrs, The - Toss the Feathers
Lavigne, Avril - Sk8er Boi
Nightwish - Nemo
Williams, Robbie - Radio

So .. life is all back to what one would like to call some form of normal ... what ever that is?

With forward looking reflection...

2005-04-26T10:16:00.000+01:00

"I don't want to change for the world, I'm not looking for New England, are you looking for another guy?"

The world will change ... I just want to be happy, and I want my Eagle!

I hasten forward, jealousy is not a part of the feelings, and I am concerned and ever so slightly scared. I want to be the big brave guy who looks after he little ones, Wolf with his Cubs. Wolf is scared that if eagle flies he will be chained again and this time never to be free!

"Strange how much pain you can hide away behind a well cut suit"

The suit is not very well cut, and in fact it is a worried wolf, remembering the aeons of loneliness. Remembering the pain, the anguish of the loss of freedom. Now he is free he will fight tooth and nail to retain his pack and his freedom.

Lonliness and Concerns

2005-04-26T10:14:00.000+01:00

Wolf has been alone for aeons and now he has a pack again ... but the pack is becoming larger and wolf is unsure, as are the cubs ... Will they be safe? Will the den be secure with the enlargement?

What lies ahead? Will eagle stay with him? Or fly to his new companion? If eagle chooses to fly, what will become of wolf and the cubs?

Questions running in the mind of one who is unsure what lies ahead? What the future holds? But then who am I? Am I the Wolf? The little quite lonely one who just wants to help and be there with the simple outlook on life.

The World is too complicated for us to understand, we like the simple life that we have carved out, we know where things stand. We understand that the eagle needs more than we can offer, but we cannot loose the eagle we are pledged to protect and look after.

If we cannot keep the eagle from flying away what will become of us? Back to the madness I suppose? But we hear it calling, everyday, it beckons us to the deep, when are we going to get a grip on it? It's been there too long now, the others ... they are none of them malign (save for the one), but we try to keep him away ... because when he comes out the evil beckons and comes to us.

We mean no harm to anyone simplicity is all we ask for, in a world of complications ...

It's Alive

2005-03-18T07:46:00.000Z

Well after some tinkering last nite ... I got the PDA working!! :-) yea!! So it's new playlist time to celebrate :)

Wild Dance - Ruslana [Eurovision Song Contest 2004 vol2]
Wonderwall - Oasis [(What's the Story) Morning Glory]
Slave to the Wage - Placebo [Black Market Music]
Rain - The Corrs [In Blue]
Adelante - Sash! [Encore Une Fois: the Greatest Hits v1]
Both Sides Now - Paul Young [Form Time to Time: the Singles Collection]
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen [Greatest Hits (UK CD)]
London Kid - Jean Michel-Jarre [Images: Best of Jean Michel-Jarre]
Radio Sweethearts - Kate Rusby [Hourglass]
Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics [Eurithmics: Greatest Hits (RCA)]
Dancing with Tears in my Eyes - Ultravox [Lament]
Reach - S Club 7 [Now, Vol 46, Disc 1]
Windmills of Your Mind - Alison Moyet [Voice]
Hearts of Olden Glory - Runrig [The Cutter and the Clan]

Well there is the new play list for the resurected PDA ;-) I'm off to work ...

An Unusual Week

2005-03-17T09:48:00.000Z

Well what an unusual week it's been .. Last friday I had all my hair cut off for Comic Relief (a UK Charity Event) - I'll post the pictures later. Then on Tuesday I collapsed at the bus stop with a Seizure, and yesterday I'm told that I'm ignoring Colin, treating him like he's invisible.

The haircut was quite amusing ;-) it's amazing what can be done with a set of clippers in 15mins straight ;-)

As for collapsing at the bus stop, well not only did I smash myself up a bit. Bruising to face, ribs, arms, took the skin of my nose, I also appear to have trashed my PDA! :( this is a bit of a blow as it was my only source of music on the go... The only way to alieviate the bordom of the journey to work, and sometimes the day at work... oh well cest la vie.

Now onto the starteling revalation last nite ... how do I feal? I know how Colin feals, he made that abundantly clear. Well at least he made sure I knew how he felt. Ok I do admit that I'm not the most communicative person in the world, and probably when I do talk about real world things it's done in a naiive, and child-like manner, so I suppose that from that point of view, just from a talking point of view I do neglect him. But I don't know what to do to change? Or even if it is something I can change ... I just don't know. I'm going to have to do something ..........

And So another week begins

2005-03-08T07:46:00.000Z

The New Playlist for Weekbegining 7th March:

Cover My Eyes - Marillion, A Singles Collection 1982-1992
Sitting Down Here - Lene Marlin, Playing My Game
Stepping Stone - Clannad, Sirius
Bitter Withy - Maddy Prior, Flesh and Blood
Belong - REM, Out of Time
Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders, The Singles
Popdorian - Dubstar, Disgracefull
Running Free (LIVE) - Iron Maiden, Beast Over Hammersmith (Disk 2)
Weightless - Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells II
Who will raise their voice? - Capercaillie, Choice Language
American Pie - Madona, Music
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen, The Rising.
Once You've Tasted Love - Take That, Greatest Hits
I Hold Your Hand In Mine - Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer in Concert

and now to work :/

More about me

2005-03-03T14:19:00.000Z

I live in Exeter (UK) with Colin (my partner) who has CFS [cronic fatigue syndrome] as well as depression. It can be very difficult dealing with a full time job and making sure that Colin is ok.

In an ideal world I would work from home, and be able to maintain a nice safe work / life ballence. But I do wonder whether with the causes of his depression that somedays it's better for me to be at work than at home, even though it means leaving Colin to be "Home Alone." It is very diffuicult ... dealing with the constant fear of losing him vs overprotecting him.

At the moment he's also suffering with cold and flu :( :( which is doubly worrying as when he was a student he got a chest infection, which in essence destroyed half of both of his lungs. Cold and Flu has a nasty propensity in him to drop down to his chest and become a chest infection... which in turn can lead to pnumonia!!

Where am I now?

2005-03-01T12:15:00.000Z

Right now ... well I'm doing work, and listening to my Current mp3 Playlist ... I got a 64Meg SD Card and use realplayer in my PDA ... it's not too bad in terms of Music playback .. I get about 17-20 songs on the card, which is enuff for the time being. To Rip the music, I'v got Apple iTunes, imho the best music management software available for free :-) I'v got a collection of some 30-40 gig of music, of which 95% I own the CD's of... the other 5% is stuff given to me in mp3 format by friends, or occasional copies of CD's friends have lent me.

Currently in the Play-list is:

Useless - Depeche Mode - Singles 1986-1998 (disk 2)
Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue - Fever
Chronologie, pt4 - Jean-Michel Jarre - Chronologie
Only Time - Enya - A Day Without Rain
My Mouth - Oysterband - Rise Above
The Darkside - Hypertrax
Get the Party Started - Pink - M!ssundaztood
Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield - Crises
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Viva Forever - Spice Girls - Spiceworld
The Cobbler's Daughter - Kate Rusby - Sleepless
Sit Down - James - The Best of James
Running Up That Hill - Placebo - Covers

Kasper & The Skull

2005-02-26T16:03:00.000Z

Well here we are ... just finished this my first attempt at serious modification to a photograph :)

The original picture is of a danish friend of mine, I have used photoshop to darken the glasses and replace half his lower face with that of a skull .. I think it looks pretty cool ;)

2005-02-24T22:32:00.000Z

Here I am in my full glory :-O and another one of my digitally enhanced pictures. This one has is two copied of the same picture overlayed on top of each other with the overlaid one having a mask so that only me has been enhanced so produce a better skin tone and more accurate hair colour :)

Learning the Art ...

2005-02-23T14:14:00.000Z

Composite Image

2005-02-22T23:31:00.000Z

This picture is my first attempt at digital photo manipulation ;) It's a composite image of a couple of Danish friends that were over here this summer.

The Epilepsy...

2005-02-22T23:14:00.000Z

Now onto how I feal about "the illness" ...

The Epilepsy doesn't affect my day to day life. I occasionally get major seizures even though the medication controls the fitting. Up until about 2-3 years ago I really resented my condition and the sesiures and was very bad at taking my medication. But after a series of bad fits I was convinced by both my family and my partner to take my condition a bit more seriously that I had been.

I still resent the ilness to a certain extent because of the time it steals from my life, but I have learnt, in my own way, to deal with it ... The time is lost when I black out with a fit, to describe it is difficult ... initially I'm awake and carrying on with the task at hand, then the next thing I remember it is between 30mins and 2 hours later and I'm vaguely concious and coherent, and able to move a little. Then I sleep off the shock to the system which can be anything from 4 - 10 hours. So, intotal I effectively loose on average 8 hours from a day when I have a fit.

Who am I?

2005-02-22T22:52:00.000Z

"So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts,
one more experience, one more entry in a diary, self penned"
- Script for a Jesters Tear, Marillion.

Well not quite a playground of broken hearts but ... ;-) So to day is brought to you by the website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

Two good resources of information on the net. The first wikipedia I'v been following since it's inception (several years ago) I think it's probably the best online encyclopedia out there. The BBC site is an online Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a web project similar in concept afaik (as far as i know) to wikipedia.

Now ... onto me :-)

I'v lived here in exeter for 5 years now, before that I lived in london, and before that Portmahomack, a small fishing village 40 miles north of Inverness. Prior to moving to Portmahomack I lived with my parents in Chelmsford, Essex.

I live with my Partner of some 12 years. He is the love of my life, I'd do anything for him. He has his own blog over at MSN Spaces (boo hiss.) I suffer from Epilepsy and have done so since I was 12 years old ... I'm now 35 so that's erm ....... 23 years .. oh my is it really that long ;)

How I think of myself

2005-02-22T00:01:00.000Z

Well this is how I see myself ... A big old friendly Timber Wolf. Very grey round the edges ;-)

Monday Evening.

2005-02-21T23:34:00.000Z

Well I'v had time to think about what to use the blog for ...
... shall I list out a webpage a day?
... shall I make it a kind of diary?

.. or a mix of the two.

Hmm .. I think a mix is going to be a bit more interesting ;-)

Today is brought to you by ...
http://www.bloodeagles.org/

This is the website of my Guild in the game Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC). For those that don't know DAoC is a massivly multiplayer online game. I am GM of the guild, along with my partner and some friends we've made online. I enjoy playing it's relaxing, and fills an addiction I have of old for social interaction throught gaming ... I'm a die hard roleplayer, and DAoC seems to fill that niche.

If there are people viewing this that play on the EU Server Excalibur .. My Characters are: Sughild, Khazak, Arctellion and Shavek, I have others but they are not really ones I identify with at the moment ;-) At some point I may have to detail their personalities here, just so I know what they are like ;-) and it might be an interesting insite into my psyche

Well I think that will wrap it up for now ... a website and a bit about me ;-)

First Time Blogging

2005-02-21T12:17:00.000Z

Well let's see how we go ... I'm a blog newbie.