Nothing to declare but my… pants?
I try to get over to visit my eurototty GF in Czechland as often as I can at the weekends. I usually fly from London Stanstead airport into Prague and after quite a few visits now I have fine tuned my travel planning into an almost military like operation.
I always book my flight and pre book my car parking to save on money and as I’m going for just the weekend I only ever pack a few clothes into a rucksack to save having to check in any hand luggage. I also check in on line, so I don’t have to queue to get my ticket.
Where did the music go?
Music artists say they write their music to be heard. It's always been the case going back for thousands of years. By allowing people to listen to your music you bring it to new ears and your fame and your message is spread.
Now that has changed in the UK.
You cannot play a radio or a piece of music in the UK if it can be heard by more than 3 people unless you pay an annual licence fee.
The licence is paid to the Performing Rights Society (PRS) who represent the artists.
Dammit, Microsoft! If you did everything badly it'd be so much easier to hate you!
So it's fashionable to rant at Microsoft, to moan and bitch and whine about a successful business model which if it didn't exist, there would be someone identical in its place. It's a market, they fill it. Yes, they abuse their position but power corrupts. It's the world. Accept it.
Anyway, that's not really the point I wanted to make.
Geekism, is it like being gay?
I've always been a geek, a nerd, a computer freak. As soon as my mother gave me a ZX81 when I was 10 I knew it was what I'd been looking for. Since then I've never been without several computers, barely gone a day without using one and since I eventually dropped Fidonet and embraced the Internet in the mid 90's, hardly ever been offline.
I geek therefore I am.
Bully - Rockstar screwed it up again!
Recommended by a PS2 owning friend, I bought Bully for the PC. A very fast quad Phenom with 5GB, 9600GT, Vista x64 and two monitors.
Installs fine and then the fun begins!
During first run, both monitors change resolution 20 or 30 times.
Bully seems to lose control of the mouse meaning it's straying to monitor 2 so when I click something it loses focus and after much monitor resyncing dumps me back to desktop.
Eventually I get the game to start the intro sequence, am dropped at the school gates and told to report to the headmaster's office.