#42: “Emotional bollocks”

I don’t have time for women who can’t or won’t communicate. Getting left standing around when you’re supposed to be meeting them is just totally unacceptable - I wouldn’t mind if you can’t be arsed with a relationship any more, or if you’d rather fuck your ex or something, but you could at least tell me about it.

#41: No Spoilers

I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I’ll just make it clear now that I’m not going to post any spoilers or anything like that, because it isn’t fair. I tried very hard to avoid them before I got the book, and once I did have it, I didn’t even go on IRC or the web until it was finished.

Having finished it though, I have to say it was a good book. I’m pleased I’ve read it, but the one thing I will say is that I wished I had re-read the 6th book (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) beforehand. It would’ve made the whole story a lot more fluid in my mind, as I saw the new Harry Potter film in the cinema at the beginning of last week and thought that too was very good. I’ll be interested to see the film version of the last two books just because I think they will cause the whole story to “grow up”, just like the actors who are playing the parts are in real life.

It’s certainly worth a read, if for no other reason than to put an end to all the hype that’s been flowing around the book.

#40: Choccy Woccy Doo Dah

I went to Brighton last weekend to meet some guys from IRC - namely #linux on irc.netgamers.org. I’d met a few of them before (idimmu, SIR-Millar and HRH_H_Crab) but the others (Jeekay, RR|Away and queball) were all new faces to me. It was a good fun day though - we sat on the seafront and drank quite a few pints, visited a good chip shop and talked a lot about things.

One of the highlights of the day though was visiting Choccy Woccy Doo Dah, which is a rather flamboyant cake shop. They apparently made all the cakes in the recent Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film, and I have to say that when I set foot in the shop, it was quite apparent. The cakes were absolutely massive, and for £3.95 you got a huge slice, drizzled with chocolate sauce and garnished with strawberries. I selected a cake that was all chocolate, with chocolate buttons on the top, chocolate filling and chocolate icing. It was totally decadent and I did almost feel guilty afterwards, but I have to say it was totally delicious. I just about managed to finish the slice and felt there was just the right amount there. Unfortunately for queball his eyes were bigger than his stomach, and he ordered a chocolate sundae *and* a slice of cake with jelly babies on - this wasn’t bad in itself, but he got the biggest slice of cake I have ever seen! It was nearly the size of his head, and he didn’t manage more than half of it before having to give in through sheer sugar overload.

I heartily recommend the place though, although it’s so unbelievably over the top, the cake is delicious and really something to try if you ever visit Brighton.

Here’s me enjoying my cake…

#39: New server

When I logged onto IRC yesterday (as I do every day), people in one of the channels I frequent were talking about how little the dollar was worth against the pound at the moment, and saying that it would be a great time to buy stuff from the US as you’d obviously get more for your money.

This got me thinking, and I spontaneously decided to purchase myself a very cheap hosting deal from serverpronto.com. $29.99 a month is only about £14/month here which is an absolute pittance, and although I have the use of my work servers at the moment (where this blog is hosted) there are some things which I am honour-bound not to do that I could do on my own server if I wished. Plus it gives a handy place to back things up, and I could even run a webvictim.net backup HTTP server on there too if I wanted to. Also, let’s not forget I *am* a geek, and this sort of thing is right up my alley…

So, say hello to aphrodite.webvictim.net :)
(this is to fit in with my Greek naming scheme, of course)

#38: Warlocks

While playing the increasingly-addictive World of Warcraft last night, I discovered that my warlock (who was the second character I got to level 60, in the days before The Burning Crusade) is absolutely awesome. In some cases, he’s so overpowered it’s unreal - I soloed a level 63 elite with him last night. Considering that elites have about three times the HP of a regular mob, hit three times as hard and usually have special abilities, I’m quite pleased with that. I needed a healthstone and a healing potion, but that was only because the chain fear I was using failed and he hit me over 1000 in a single hit :/

In slightly less geeky news, what the hell is going on with the weather?! As a person of slightly larger proportions, I don’t tend to complain about the weather not being as hot as it should be (it means I sweat less, and I can’t stand sweating) but seriously. It’s July and there seems to be no sign whatsoever of the sun. In fact, there’s a sign up on the wall in our office kitchen - it says, “MISSING: Large round yellow object that emits lots of heat and light. Usually seen in the blue mass above known as the sky. Answers to the name “Sun”. If you see him, tell him it’s f**king July!”

It made me chuckle when I first saw it.