Yes you guessed it I'm angry! My trusty old PC's DVD drive failed, which it has several times before (I read/write a lot of disks) that wasn't what made me angry though. I popped down my local computer shop to buy a new DVD writer. First problem, they dont sell IDE DVD writers any more, only the newer SATA ones. Ok no big deal, off to my second nearest shop.... Ahhhh thats now closed and gone for ever... Bugger!
Back to the first shop, 'I'll have an external DVD writer please?' Not what I really want but it'll make life easier till I get a proper one. 'Ahhh, bad luck we've just sold the last two'says the man behind the counter. Bugger!
Ok, now this is getting to be a pain!, my brother is supposed to be getting me a sata pci card so I can fit a sata drive, but he's fallen of the end of the earth and I can't find him anywhere.
I can still burn disks but it means copying the files to a pen/zip drive and transferring them to my new super-duper computer, (which being 64 bit wont work with my favorite DVD writing software) so I have to faf about figuring out how to write the beggars using Windoze (yep that's how I spell it) Not ideal and bloody time consuming.
Next step into the nearest BIG city and another computer shop, 'have you got any IDE DVD writers please?' 'Yes' was the reply, 'I sleep with them their are so hard to find' he says. That worries me slightly, but not enough to stop me buying the thing.
Back home I fit the drive and ..... Yes you guessed it, the bastard computer cant see the bloody thing, it see's it as a CD drive not DVD (I did check it was a DVD drive)
Sod it I'll try writing a disk and see what happens, the bloody draw comes out I put a disk it and the bloody draw stays out.... BUGGER BUGGER!!!!
Phone shop, 'bring it back' he says, well what the hell did he think I was going to do with it, use it as a paper weight?
Back the the big city I go, back to the shop. He tests the drive?, of course he did!, I always take back perfectly good stuff to change it. And besides the bloody draw is still stuck out. There's a clue there for Gods sake. 'Yep it's fried inside says Einstein. 'No kidding' says I, 'I wonder if thats why IT DOESN'T BLOODY WORK?' I shout He swop's drive and in the confusion damn nearly gives my my old broken drive back (he pushed the draw back in) Back home with new drive, fit it in computer and ....... Thank God the PC see's it and writes fine.
Now all I have to do is worry about what happens next time it goes.......
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
London flooded by three feet of water!!! (well not quite)
Yes, the headline was London flooded by three feet of water! The truth was a little less dramatic however.
The story is referring to a recent report that suggests sea levels could rise by three feet as a result of melting ice, what it fails to mention though is that the report is based on the old flawed climate model ( remember the one that said sea levels would have risen 30 feet by now) Secondly it fails to mention that there's only a 1 in 20 chance of it happening even with that model. And Thirdly most climate scientists now agree we're actually entering a cooling phase not a warming phase, so even less lightly.
Lastly it's not due until around the turn of the century, 87 years away, so London has a bit of time (say 40 years) to raise the flood defences a bit just in case.
The story is referring to a recent report that suggests sea levels could rise by three feet as a result of melting ice, what it fails to mention though is that the report is based on the old flawed climate model ( remember the one that said sea levels would have risen 30 feet by now) Secondly it fails to mention that there's only a 1 in 20 chance of it happening even with that model. And Thirdly most climate scientists now agree we're actually entering a cooling phase not a warming phase, so even less lightly.
Lastly it's not due until around the turn of the century, 87 years away, so London has a bit of time (say 40 years) to raise the flood defences a bit just in case.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Whale Wars the farce continues
Well what can I say about this program! While I do applaud the efforts to stop the Japanese whaling, these guys are never going to stop it. They couldn't run a bath never mind a campaign, so far they are two months into the three month season and they haven't even found the whalers yet!
They've left crew stranded in a broken down rib, they weren't too keen on even going to help the trimaran when the pontoon broke off, they have failed miserably at disabling the whaler security ship (and I'm not convinced disabling a ship at sea is safe in the first place) They did managed to get three people to board the security ship to stop it.... that didn't work either, the poor sods had to spend ten days on board the ship and were lucky not to get jailed in Japan after achieving the sum total of bugger all.
Now the Sea Shepard crew and complaining the Japenese ships crew are getting violent and aggressive, well supprise supprise!!! what did you expect, you've boarded their ships, tried to disable them, and the programs name is Whale WARS!!! Think yourself lucky they haven't turned really nasty yet, God help you when the break the guns out.
If I were the Japenese I'd be trying the prop foulers on your ships to see how well you cope with it, not as well as the whalers I'll bet.
They've left crew stranded in a broken down rib, they weren't too keen on even going to help the trimaran when the pontoon broke off, they have failed miserably at disabling the whaler security ship (and I'm not convinced disabling a ship at sea is safe in the first place) They did managed to get three people to board the security ship to stop it.... that didn't work either, the poor sods had to spend ten days on board the ship and were lucky not to get jailed in Japan after achieving the sum total of bugger all.
Now the Sea Shepard crew and complaining the Japenese ships crew are getting violent and aggressive, well supprise supprise!!! what did you expect, you've boarded their ships, tried to disable them, and the programs name is Whale WARS!!! Think yourself lucky they haven't turned really nasty yet, God help you when the break the guns out.
If I were the Japenese I'd be trying the prop foulers on your ships to see how well you cope with it, not as well as the whalers I'll bet.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The real housewives of.....
Well I saw this today and I'm baffled! Which bit exactly of these plastic surgery, botox-ed, hair extensioned, boob jobbed women is still real? Very little from what I could see. The expression mutton dressed as lamb comes to mind.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Welsh govenrment madness!
The Welsh government are giving an American company 125m pounds to create 100 jobs. Are they mad!!! they could have just given 100 local people a 1m pounds each and told them to go and sit in the garden and we would have saved money ( and the money would have been mostly spent in Wales). Or better still we could have given 250 Welsh people £500.000 each to start up local business, that would have created at least 250 jobs (probably a lot more) and kept the money here. Why give the money to a US company when there's people here struggling to keep local business afloat.
The company they have given the money too will probably not even employ local people, half of them will be from England or the US.
Our money wasted by the shower of wasters that pass themselves off as the Welsh govenment... govenment, they couldn't run a bath never mind a country.
The company they have given the money too will probably not even employ local people, half of them will be from England or the US.
Our money wasted by the shower of wasters that pass themselves off as the Welsh govenment... govenment, they couldn't run a bath never mind a country.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Oblivion (film review)
I saw the film Oblivion last night and here's my review.
Earth is a wasteland after an alien war, all that's left are a few machines and maintenance staff, Tom Cruise is one of those men, while repairing the drones that guard the power plants he finds more than he bargained for.
The film has stunning visual effects, and wasteland earth is very convincing, Tom Cruise is at his best and in my opinion this is his best film.
There is a love story running through as well ( like all Tom Cruise films, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again while flying a jet/driving a racing car/ flying spaceship etc etc etc) and I found the film a little slow in places.
There were also a few plot holes,but not enough to worry me too much.
Waynes rating 7/10 worth a watch.
Earth is a wasteland after an alien war, all that's left are a few machines and maintenance staff, Tom Cruise is one of those men, while repairing the drones that guard the power plants he finds more than he bargained for.
The film has stunning visual effects, and wasteland earth is very convincing, Tom Cruise is at his best and in my opinion this is his best film.
There is a love story running through as well ( like all Tom Cruise films, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again while flying a jet/driving a racing car/ flying spaceship etc etc etc) and I found the film a little slow in places.
There were also a few plot holes,but not enough to worry me too much.
Waynes rating 7/10 worth a watch.
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