Puke
Today I’ve got another nasty hangover. The worst one in a while actually. I was at the Institute for Jim’s show and I ended up going to the party afterwards. My goodness, am I hung-over.
I’ve noticed that I’ve got really bad at being sick recently. I puked last night and it took ages. I don’t mean that it took long to actually vomit, it’s just that there was a lot more waiting about than normal. Usually, I just roll up my sleeves, take a deep breath, and get it over and done with; then that’s it, I’m reset- free to pass out or carry on drinking. I’m not used to waiting around for waves of nausea to run their course. It’s boring. So in the end I put my finger down my throat and blaaaaaaaaaah blah blah, you get the picture… I puked what looked very much like the contents of a bag of red sea anemones.
And so today I am missing the annual scout fair thing. I should be down there buying cheap ZX Spectrums and hotdogs… but instead I am in bed feeling like I’ve just had electroconvulsive therapy.
Oct 8, 2005 at 13:00 Filed Under: Blog Comment
Glitch Fixing
Okay, so that’s September out of the way. Good.
I’ve finally managed to fix up the weblog problems I was having… as usual the details are pretty boring but suffice to say that it was really starting to piss me off and it’s all fixed now. This is, of course, an integral part of the internet. You get the chance to do all of this great fancy stuff but don’t forget that it’s ultimately run by machines. And while all of the machines in the world generally do their jobs as instructed, they also tend to use any free time they have to commit as many random and unpredictable acts as possible. The result is, you spend more time fixing things instead of doing what you actually set out to do in the first place. This is why I have been fiddling around with computer stuff instead of writing nonsense. And that is why over the last month or so Burning Salad has been pretty crap (to write as well as to read). But hopefully that’s the last of the glitches dealt with since switching server and I can get back to talking rubbish again.
In the meantime, it seems that the number of visitors has withered somewhat. Maybe I should adopt that tried and tested strategy traditionally employed by failing magazines and give away a free gift. Plans for making your very own life-size wolf out of macaroni and glass beads. Something like that.
Oct 7, 2005 at 16:12 Filed Under: Blog Comment
Destroyed In Translation
More test posting. Sorry. I’m going to use this one to bring some recent, high-quality Engrish to your attention…
Poop Collection and Pub Smell.
Sep 30, 2005 at 0:46 Filed Under: Blog Comment
Cat
There used to be a picture of my cat Shape here. It was another test photo from my phone. It’s gone now because out of context it wasn’t especially representative of his cat based antics. Never mind. He doesn’t. Here is a photo of his balls instead.
Sep 30, 2005 at 0:45 Filed Under: Blog Comment
Kids Show
This is another crap post where I’m just testing stuff out. So I might as well put it to good use and mention Wonder Showzen. I always was (and still am) a big fan of Sesame Street, but this is something else.
Sep 29, 2005 at 9:34 Filed Under: Blog Comment
Rain
There used to be a picture of a rainbow here. The reason that there used to be a picture of a rainbow here is because the function to post to Burning Salad from my mobile phone seems to have malfunctioned. This in itself has got nothing to do with rainbows. The rainbow certainly didn’t cause the malfunction… and I really doubt it appeared as a result of it. It was just a test photo and now it has been removed because rainbows are, by and large, boring.
Sep 28, 2005 at 17:29 Filed Under: Blog Comment
I got my Hotmail address back today, seven months and two days after it got hacked. I’ve tried to log in every day since then because Hotmail addresses usually expire after ninety days of inactivity (sometimes sooner). Anyway, mine didn’t- maybe the hacker was logging in every once in a while to keep it active, who knows.
So, every day I’ve been making deliberate bad login attempts with passwords like thanksfornothingmicrosoftthisaccounthasbeenhijackedandyoudon’tcare. I’ve been doing this until Hotmail says ‘Too many incorrect login attempts- this account has been temporarily locked’. Eventually this is all that would happen, even after one attempt. Hotmail had put a permanent lock on the account. Well, apparently not that permanent, because when I tried this morning it just told me that the account didn’t exist. I almost fell over. A few seconds later I had signed up and now I own gregorwright [at] hotmail [dot] com again. Now I’m going to use it to email Microsoft once a day, thanking them for their swift customer support response.
Sep 28, 2005 at 8:47 Filed Under: Blog Comment
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I forgot to mention that I’ve been tinkering with things again…
The links on the memes page are all live now. I re-coded the dream generator in php, so it should work in all browsers; the indifference engine is still the best way of browsing the web at random in ten second intervals; and there’s a variety of other crap to download.
Sep 23, 2005 at 22:41 Filed Under: Blog Comment
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Well, there goes another gap in posting. Sometimes it’s nice to not bother staring at a computer screen for a while. And for some reason I never seem to post very much in September anyway. If you really want to fill in the gap, you can read it in the real world next month.
The truth is, nothing much exciting has happened recently. The weather has slowly been getting colder and darker and although I like the autumn, it’s getting round to that time of the year again. Oh, well. On the plus side, my martial arts quest is due to resume again soon with some kung fu, so that’s good.