This week, I have mostly been…

…watching ‘Dexter‘. Managed to get through series 1 and 2, so I should probably get series 4 downloaded while I’m watching 3…

At least the snow and ice are gone now – no idea how cold it is out, I’ve not been out of the door in a few days now – looks sunny though.

So, today – watch more Dexter, and tentatively plan a trip to Tesco for a few bits and pieces (and a frying pan) – chances are Harriett will be going there at some point soon, and will hopefully ring me to see if I want anything…

Time to eat…

snee, and the theatre…

Well, I wasn’t too sure what to expect (certainly not £5 for a poxy bottle of Carlsberg!), but I actually enjoyed it

Watched ‘The Misanthrope‘ and it was very weird…for the entire first act, I was convinced it was about ME! (although I’m not a ginger like Damian Lewis).

It was a very funny production all in all (Keira Knightley is gorgeous, but very skinny…).

Followed that up with a few drinks in a pub, then a meal in Chinatown…lovely

Have a quickie (oo-er missus)

So, Windows eh?

I like XP (Professional, SP3). It’s stable*, and you can get rid of all the girly crap and make it look like Win2K.

Vista is shit. Total shit – it has no saving graces whatsoever. When Lee died, it took me about 4 months to crack his laptop running Vista as he’d listened to me and put on the Password From Hell™.

Anyway, using the skills I acquired while cracking Vista security, I now have a bootable CD with various utilities to reset passwords, and run AV scans and the like (what’s very handy is the ability to mount NTFS volumes in read AND write mode to delete those bastard .exe/.dll files that some malware install).

So, t’other day I was given my first Windows 7 computer to crack…45 seconds later (I kid you not), the job was done.

My opinion? Windows 7 looks like Vista (so I didn’t really want to play with it for long), the security has gone backwards, and I’m sticking with XP Pro/various Linux distros for the foreseeable future.

That is all – jog on.

Why do I get nagged for not blogging when Bu’er hasn’t blogged in MONTHS?

It’s not fair I tell you…

And so, a blog shall I mention football? hmm…we gave away a 0-2 lead to end up drawing against Everton (and Defoe missed an extra time penalty that would have given us the win) so maybe not eh?

Work? shall I blog about work? much as I love my job – I don’t think so…

So, what I’ll ramble on with is my phone – the Nokia N97

It’s a lovely phone, and now I’ve managed to de-brand it (getting rid of the Vodafone crappy splash screen and useless link on the screen that you always tend to hit), and update the firmware – it’s fecking brilliant!

The touch screen is very good (not quite as good as the iPhone’s, but the best of the others), it’s fast opening apps, web browsing is faster than the iPhone (Marina has one and, being the geek I am, I opened my blog on both phones and mine was about 6 seconds quicker than hers ).

I like the way the iPhone lists SMSs in a conversation format so you can follow the thread, rather than in a list – so I found an app for my phone to do that

Also, my phone, with it’s 5 megapixel camera is FAR superior to the 2 megapixel offering on the Apple phone

Um…that’s about all for now – have a couple of short stories:

Apparently I’m off to the theatre on Saturday – Marina has tickets for ‘Misanthrope‘. I’ve not been to the theatre before so it should be an experience (and Keira Knightley is in it so I can perv her). I suppose it makes a change from hanging about in pubs…

World Cup 2010

Can’t be bothered typing, so I just cut this screenshot from the Wickipedia page for our group:

So, looking at it – we SHOULD win the group…