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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2007-02-23 11:14 pm
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Dear Internets

Please to be not crashing every 5 minutes. I know the house wireless network is both beyond my control and a little not very good, but it would be nice if I could actually open up a page and/or hit 'submit' for a comment without getting a 'server is taking too long to respond' message, m'kay?

Also, Gmail? It would be nice if you stopped crashing as well, 18 months no problems, and now you've opened up to all without the need for an invite code you decide to start crapping out on me? Not good, not good at all.

No cookies for you.

Best regards, Mat

PS, once you're fixed, if you could tell the company that makes the conference badge printers that having to define which USB slot they're plugged into when you install the driver onto a laptop that will be set up by a different person actually at conference is a bloody stupid thing that breaks the point of USB, I'd be grateful, because the install software is annoying to use once...
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[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-23 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhh, you see, because I am sad and have no life and never leave the house apart from for work and exercise (which I haven't done today *guilty expression*) I don't need mobile internet access.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
If I hadn't just moved up to London, I'd be pretty much the same. And at least you do exercise, I dont in any organised way.

I plan to, but never actually get around to it.

One of my main uses for mobile internet has now changed anyway; I used to check my email when I woke up from bed, now the PC is in my room, it's not needed.

Letting Gina read the comments on her latest post while we were in the Fox last night was amusing, if a little silly.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, too mesmerised by your icon to make coherent reply. There's not taking things seriously, and then there's making a picture of yourself about to lick Tony Blair's head...
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't make it, [livejournal.com profile] mapp did; it was the icon Freddie was referring to the other day, I finally uploaded it last night.

It's taking me ages to fill up my 109 icons, which I think is a good thing...

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Hah, yes, I remember the "I'll never fill all THOSE icon slots!" feeling...

* eyes that sentence *

Worryingly, I'm now able to get into old and jaded mode WITHOUT gin, it seems LOL.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
I've been like that for a few years now, you get used to it.

OTOH, I have whiskey downstairs. Hmm...

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
You see, that's a nice easy choice; whiskey or not-whiskey. I have gin, rum, or wine to choose from.

I know gin will make me maudlin, but then David Cameron has made me maudlin already. Rum will make me randy, but I have no-one to help me out with that (and I think the poor rabbit might need a day off - stop me if this is TMI LOL). And the bottle of wine has been open for Wetherspoonish lengths of time and has probably gone manky.

And now you've mentioned whiskey I could just go for... well whisky with no E actually. A nice malt...

Bah. Stupid easily-led brain.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Grah! Stupid Americanisms corrupting me, it was bad enough when I had to relearn how to spell centre.

It is of course Scotch Whisky, with no E. Oops.

*shoots self, then hides in corner*

And also, dropping the ice tray on the floor when trying to be quiet was a cunning plan.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
You put ICE in SCOTCH?!?! SACRILEDGE!!!!

Bah, if I hadn't already poured my rum I'd be coming down there to confiscate it.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Google informs me there is a book, a film and a TV show called 'scotch on the rocks', so I fail to see why this is wrong.

Different to your tastes, perhaps, but not wrong.

A year ago, the only alcohol I would have was cider, now I'll go for a lot more, but normally it'll be scotch on the rocks, sometimes with lemonade. Horrifying, isn't it?

Oi be a Debunsher lad y'see, we baint be unnerstandin these weird northern drinkin abits.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not my tastes, but the tastes of the people who make Scotch. Who also, I believe, object to it being called scotch. "Scotch on the rocks" is an American term, and if we trusted THEM on food and drink...

* pokes you for being a bloody southerner *

...

Damn.

You know, I'm spoiling for a fight but I don't want to fight with you.

:/

I don't suppose you could pass me on to the LJs of some eminent Tories and I could go pick fights with them instead?
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
If I want a fight, [livejournal.com profile] uk_politics is always worth posting to. Alternately, [livejournal.com profile] flydanman has always been their resident troll. Personally, I tend to end up going for authoritarian NuLabourite, they're more fun to wind up, Tories are generally either too easy or actually smart, depending on whether they're Boris style liberals or Maggie/Tebbit style 'victorians'.

There's always the more widespread blogs; ConservativeHome is always a giggle to read (so stupid), and [livejournal.com profile] devils_kitchen has a fine line in crude insults to all things Left. Especially Polly Toynbee.

And I'm not trusting any 'merkins, but how the creator of something wants it to be used is irrelevent; whole point of freedom of choice is that I'll do what I want with it, which is whisky and lemonade on ice, and salad cream with every meal, thankee muchly ;-)

(also, my net connection is really dead, so if I disapppear, it's because I gave up)

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hah! I attempted to go to sleep and look where THAT got me.

* stabs brain with Q-tip *

whole point of freedom of choice is that I'll do what I want with it

Oh, you're just BLATANTLY trying to turn me on now.

which is whisky and lemonade on ice, and salad cream with every meal, thankee muchly ;-)

... or maybe not.

Isn't a merkin a pubic wig?
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
6.07am? Ouch. A merkin I think is a pubic wig, yes, but it's also a nice little abbreviation thing for our friends across the pond, seems to work well...

As for the other?

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Rawr, talk FU to me baby... ;)

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
* eyes your layout *

Oops.

Note to self: start more new threads.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-02-24 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it threads really badly, 30 pixels embedded per comment; keep meaning to bug [livejournal.com profile] chasethestars to fix it, but it's rare I get long threads...

I've hit it with ?format=light already...

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a bit of a style-mine nazi anyway ;)
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