Yawn, said the lazy tw*t.

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Right now, my eyes are hurting as all day and I’m slowly but surely falling asleep as the most energetic things I’ve done all day is catching up online with a few people and then proceeding to destroy my life using World of Warcraft, bringing the mighty BrianPotter up to Level 54.

Some would say that that is not a very clever state of affairs and I should be out at the sales buying tat instead. But considering the fact that normally I’m tired from working over hot coals all day and this tiredness comes from being lazy once again, I’m willing to take the ridicule on this occasion.

But that’s what this Christmas time is for; doing nothing of worth and dreading that start back at work again.

Granted though this Christmas there has been more than just sitting down, because it’s been the time when I have been able to see a good number of people again that feel left behind since the move to Nodnol or London as other people may know it as.

There have been a good number of surprises over the last few days, some good, some bad, and it does cause the three cogs in the brain to start turning round as it may actually make for an award winning post. Granted the content may not be a surprise to some, but nevertheless, you never think of it, until you expereince it all yourself.

For now campers, I’m off to have some nice local Oswestry Fish and mushy peas. Enjoy the rest of your time, and more than likely, I’ll find more time to pull away from WOW to update on naughty. BYE!!

Merry Christmas 2008

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Yes, it's the same picture used on last year's christmas post.Merry Christmas to everyone today, hope you got what you wanted, and if not, just remember, the receipt for it’s probably hanging around somewhere so just have a quick look when everyone’s dead from eating too much Christmas pud, mince pies and maybe those tiny pastry things with cream in the middle.

But if they bought your present from Woolworths, well, never mind.

In case people are wondering (mind you I’m expecting no-one to be reading this blog today, hopefully they have something better to do), I actually wrote this post a few days ago, because just like last year, I’m away from the normal place of work and instead am back in Oswestry, more than likely right now I’m on the floor under the influence of questionable substances, all the time laughing at shiny things. Then maybe watch Doctor Who and Wallace & Gromit later on.

Last year, I wrote about the fact that you would have the January sales to look forward to, along with New Year’s Eve getting absolutely wasted, stealing a traffic cone and weeing on someone’s car after today’s blessed day off from work (The more cyincal way of looking at Christmas, but that view does seem to be gaining weight with people recently).

But instead the sales already started before christmas, the ongoing terrorism that is the financial market will make sure that no-one spends for some time to come, and more and more people lose their jobs. Does that mean the terrorists are going to be annoyed that they’re not in the news? Robert Mugabe seems to be annoyed, now proclaiming that Zimbabwe is his and it’s soon to be renamed Mugabeland, the crappest place on Earth next to Milton Keynes.

I suppose it’s rather a terrible thing to be down on today of all days to remark on so many things which have become a cause of “concern”, but let’s be honest, here in the western world at least we have family and friends to remind us of great times. Money comes and goes, but at least there are people out there who you may actually like. Have fun and remember, It’s not all bad campers.

A little treat

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Music from the Ooh Sometimes Podcast

Every year it’s the time of giving and for once I give something which a) I didn’t make and b) is all far better for it. It’s been a huge amount of time since the last Ooh Sometimes podcast turned up on these fair pages, generally waffling about body parts unknown and making a mockery of the latest games.

Last year, there was a best of… which had a fair amount of good bits, which as it turned out, wasn’t a bad show. So basically I have placed some of the best music from the podcast into a nice small zip file of about 78MB in size for you all to download and enjoy for this year’s Christmas treat.

Ho ho ho and all that other stuff!

I’m confused again

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Perhaps this will not be in keeping with the festive mood which should be in the air but I wanted to write this post just to get some things off the man breasts. I suppose it won’t make much sense really, and in the grand scheme of things, people will disregard it as a piece of writing and more the dribble falling out of someone’s mouth made into sentences. But I suppose I had to get this down, even if only to make some small part of my aching body feel better. A little bit of history to start this all off with is in order first;

I was born in London though never really lived here until 6 months ago when coming down for a new job and possibly to progress further in a field than wouldn’t have been possible elsewhere. Everyone knows that London possesses opportunities and experiences you can’t get anywhere else, that is why many people come here.

The new world order.I came down with ideas that it would be filled with fun days, great nights and hopefully things would begin to look up, far more than they had done in a long time. Don’t get me wrong, I was aware of some of the differences that come between London and where I came from, sunny Shropshire, and I didn’t have any illusions it would be easy.

But when I got here a few months ago, even I had not prepared for what was to come and in fact not a lot of people believe it either.

People, work, money, money and then even more money with booze to top it all off with, it all revolves around the fact that unless you are famous or indeed just lucky enough to be rich, you are most welcome in the capital, whereas the majority of people fall silently into the good night without so much as a fart or even heaven forbid, a thank you for working double your hours for free.

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Keep in touch

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A crap picture about keeping in touch.Something which recently came up in conversation with my imaginary friend Ted, was that I don’t keep in touch with anyone any more. And actually as it goes, it’s 100% right.

When I was back in sunny Shropshire, I spent all sorts of time on the phone to various warlords arranging the next civil war in Africa, or simply asking if anyone was bored and wanted to go somewhere and cause another traffic accident.

But since being down in London, I have contacted only three people regularly and they are all from my family. Others of course have been left in the dust, bringing up concern by well, three people in Manchester and two in Shrewsbury.

Don’t get me wrong of course, there have been others which have talked to me in the meantime as I happened to have left MSN or Steam online, but aside from that, it appears everyone else has been perfectly fine in the lack of communication.

But that is the very essence of Human nature. Unless you have a vestured interest in someone, you only give them as long as you have to if they are around you. If they are not there in front of you on a regular basis, then after about 5 minutes, you get bored very easily and start playing with that new yo-yo you were saving for a special occasion.

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And so the blogging continues….

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http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-fud-blog/

In case people are wondering why I never write anything for Ooh Sometimes at the moment, it may be because I’ve begun writing blog posts for Computer Weekly about a mass Office 2007 deployment I am doing at work.

Yep, I’m writing for a respected computing publication now for a short while, shouldn’t there be some form of cake or something? And at this point am I meant to laugh in a evil manner, swish the cape and escape in the air ship with the damsel in distress?

Hell, it’s about time…

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I suppose at some point, instead of letting this once proud pole used by ladies of the evening to dance on rot into the ever growing number of blogs without any real purpose or indeed enough funny photos of drunk people pulling their trousers down in front of a bus, write something.

Not just any something, but something which may once again restore lost faith in me.

Sadly the only such things which come in my head at this late hour are not so much profound, rather annoying as they all still revolve around mucus dripping from my leisurely nose.

Still on the plus side, I hope to be back in full swing shortly once again, and slowly but surely the eggmen site will receive more pointless podcasts and ranting about the world of games, which as it goes, seems more interesting than the world at large right now.

Or maybe, I haven’t found the right thing to laugh at yet?

Woe to the republic

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When you get a man-cold it’s simply no fun. It stops you thinking, or rather thinking like you usually do. Which lets be honest normally consists of doing naughty, scratching yourself or what to eat.

And now the throat has basically gone which as things go, may not seem a bad thing, but when you planned to do a few voice-overs for a podcast, it seems to be rather the end of the world. At least my fingers still work, unless I get leprosy and they all fall off.

And I still feel tired after the weekend which was basically written off from work.

Dude, basically I need right now to do less.

Games you can play right now if you had the money…

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While the times and cocaine habits have been eating into more worthwhile pursuits like washing up, perhaps it’s best if I actually give a humble written opinion on the gaming silly season’s worth of recent releases onto the gaming platforms of recent memory.

Granted, one could argue that there are greater topics of discussion to be had, such as the fact that Climate change has basically taken a back seat to everyone’s pockets being emptied more than usual, or that AC/DC have released an album for the first time in years.

But seeing as I know very little about all that, I may as well amaze you all with my lack of knowledge in another area. Don’t be sad, there are pretty pictures with all this at least. So let’s take a look at some of these choice pieces of meat and make rude comments about people’s hard work starting with;

Fallout 3

BOOM! Shake, Shake the room...I'm so sorry, that was just a very bad joke.

It’s America’s favourite Nuclear holocaust simulator. And I suppose to a great extent it went down very well in other countries as well. After all, what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than blowing up Super Mutants using grenades and a handy aiming system which lets you view the resultant carnage in swirly telly vision?

(No, down the pub getting smashed doesn’t count in this case)

One wonders if Al Bundy or whatever the terrorists call themselves these days like playing this game as it’s as close as they going to get seeing the whole of Washington blown up in detail. After all, they get to set off a bomb of two in this and I guess they need to get in some practise somehow. Oh, look at me, saying this game is a training ground for Terrorists. Next thing you see is that they cry out against Microsoft Flight Simulator for teaching them how to fly aeroplanes….

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Twittering the s**t out of em

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You may also notice that in the meantime in-between these now sparsely populated blog pages that I have added an extra thing onto the sidebar. It’s a Twitter feed and this is the logo for it for no reason whatsoever….

WOW. It's so amazing....

Now Paul you mostly absent man of mystery I hear you cry, what is a Twitter feed?

Twitter is another one of those internet fad things which have come around, just like MySpace, Facebook and Gordon Brown. It allows you to write very little via a device of your choice and then people know what you wrote if they actually bother to follow what you are writing.

Seeing as these days, I’m rarely online enough to actually write things of interest despite the fact that everything is in full swing, it seemed like a good idea, so that some of you will still know about the lies, treachery and deceit that goes on.

The problem is I guess, is that you only get 160 characters to use when doing a post, so entire postings are impossible, and so far I’ve only been able to conjure up useless things like “I’m playing games” or “I’m being sexually assaulted.” As you can imagine, not very interesting. But hey, why be down on the system? After all if we don’t embrace these things when they come, then they will just fade away and we carry on with our lives….

(Things like this kind of make you wish you could call on dramatic music at any moment…)