Loadsa Dead People !!!

Ah soooo many dead bodies. Awesome!!!

Ok I suppose I should explain myself...

I just watched 'The House Of A 1000 Corpses' - definately an awesome movie.
Now, you wonder: "How could a movie with a tacky title like that, possibly be cool and super awesome?"

Well, I'll try and sum it up in two words: everybody dies !!!.

I'm not even kidding, all the good guys (some stupid teenagers), go and chase some country legend, get caught in this hicky little country house, and get killed in absolutely horrendous ways.

Ofcourse, there is a lot of senseless violence in this movie and - I for one - am all for senseless violence.

Also, if you have seen the movie, and didn't like it - you suck.

Microsux

Ah bugger it, even though it's saturday, I thought instead of bitching about public transport, I'll do the next best thing. I'll have a go at Microsoft.

Firstly, there are several websites you should probably be aware of/shoul, so you can understand my bitching-ness about Microsoft.

• www.Microsuck.com - formerly known as FuckMicrosoft.com. A good article to check out here is the 'Whats so bad about MS' page


• www.microsoft-watch.com - mostly informative stuff about whats happening with Microsoft (non-Microsoft website).


• www.opensource.org - all about open source software


• www.annoyances.org - good old windows annoyances, and ways around them.

That's all for now - I really recommended the 'Whats so bad about Microsoft' article, this will surely raise your brows !

Before I go on and post - If you are using Internet Explorer to visit this site, you should read the following webpages/articles:

• http://browsehappy.com/why/


• http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet.explorer.web.usage.logs.html

there are probably some more, and I'll add em as I think of them...

I'll leave this on a lighter note, as I like to do.
Go here to create your own soutpark dude. :-).

I want it, I want it, I want it

Ah, I want one of these (Nokia N91).
I love my MP3 player, and am very fond of my phone. So Nokia has made the logical choice for the mass market and made a phone that is also an MP3 player (and it has upto 4GB of memory). Ah how I love technology. I guess you could call me a gadget whore, and if I could afford it, I would definately be a gadget pimp.

Also, I'm pleased to see that Apple is going to make a move to intel chipsets, as I've always said, that as soon as OsX is released on the x86 platform, I'd go and buy it. Read about it here.

No bitching about the transport system today, mainly because it's Saturday :P.

Once again

Once again trains were late, and not to mention packed full with people. Ah well, what else is new.
I guess I shouldn't bitch so much about public transport so much... Then again... I do enjoy going on about how much it sucks!

Ah, on the lighter side of things, my girlfriend's wit (read: stupidity) always seems to cheer me up :-). Yay for her!!! I don't know what I'd do without her. Probably laugh a lot less ...

Ah bugger it, back to public transport.
This morning I was wondering how shittyrail justifies its fines.
Several of the fines as listed on their website:

Offence:          Putting feet on train seats
On the spot fine: $100
Max. fine:        $550
Offence:          Travelling without a valid ticket
On the spot fine: $200
Max. fine:        $550
Offence:          Smoking under any covered station 
                  area (including covered platforms 
                  and underground stations), 
                  or on a train
On the spot fine: $400
Max. fine:        $1,100

Now compare these to say, I don't know very fucking serious offences like speeding, this list is from the Roads & Traffic Authority website:

Exceed speed limit by: Not more than 15 km/h
Fine:                  $75
Exceed speed limit by: More than 15 km/h but        
                       not more than 30 km/h
Fine:                  $208

I mean, fair enough, you get demerit points on your license as well, so you could theoretically only get caught for speeding about 4 times before you lose your license. But the principal of the matter is still that I am not going to endanger any person by putting my feet on the seat of a train, nor do I harm anyone by not having a valid ticket. These ridiculously high fines do not reflect on the petty things they are imposed on.
Shittyrail, you suck. Big time.
Furthermore, they claim to have some real complex stuff going on, offcourse I don't want you to take this out of context, so read the full page here

CityRail works hard to meet its on-time running goals, however the performance of our trains can be affected by a number of factors. The NSW rail network is one of the world?s most complex and the task of moving close to 1 million passengers each day presents a real challenge.

If moving 1 million passengers is such a challenge, howcome the US and many countries in Europe don't have the same problems when moving many many more people. I mean, sure they have their delays and what-not, but they also move more people.

Anyway, I think I might leave it at this for now, enough crapping on for one day I suppose.

Again, on a lighter leaving note, I found some fantastic videos on the web, be warned, even though I thought they were all amusing, you might throw up or in some other way show your disgust.

Extreme Movies - http://www.ebaumsworld.com/emovies.shtml

Thank you and goodnight!

Fuck the system!

Tuesday is now official "FUCK THE SYSTEM" - day.

This was decided after shittyrail trains were late, not just once, but twice in one day.
I mean really, is it that fucking hard to get at least ONE train on time a day ?
It wouldn't be so bad if there was a seemingly good reason for it, but when your train stops about 800 meters before the platform, and sits there for no apparent reason (not even a notice) - when it is already running late - you can't help but wonder what the fuck is going on.

Ony of my friends made a nice logo/motto to go with the whole fuck shittyrail theme, her blog is here

In honour of Shitty Rail Tuesday...
"Keep on Complaining sydney"

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On a different, and definately not lighter note, why am I seeing commercials on TV that aren't even in english? It would make sense, that if you're advertising a product in an english speaking country like this one (Australia), that you would make an advertisement IN FUCKING ENLISH. Cockspanks.

I'm sure there was something else that had to be complained about, and I'm sure I'll think of it eventually.

Did I mention there is some excellent reading material available at maddox.xmission.com - for those of you not already familiar with Maddox, this is a good time to get aquainted. Enjoy.

ACK - Neighbours!!!

So this morning, all was dandy, untill the dogs next door started barking !
I really fucking hate my neighbours sometimes - which is mostly on weekend mornings before 10 am when I am attempting to sleep in.

So I did the only thing I could have reasonably done. I took a sip of my half-day old chocolate milk sitting on my bedside table, stuck my head outside and in a somewhat demonic voice shouted "SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!".

Ofcourse, this would normally work, however these dogs are so small and fucking pathetic that I must have scared them, because they both started yelping. ARGH!

Luckily their owners must have thought they got injured somehow and decided to get their dogs inside. Aahh, 15 minutes more sleep. It was definately worth the effort.

I don't really know why people decide to get pets if they don't want to keep them inside of the house. I mean, fair enough if you live on a farm or something, but really people should keep their dogs, cats and other annoying pets inside. *Especially* the noisy ones.

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On a lighter note, I went out last night... which was good. Not terribly riveting, but good nonetheless. Getting home was definately a plus!

Ah well, nothing more to bitch about for the moment.
I suppose monday will bring a load more annoyances, as mondays often do.

later!

xanga #2

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Wow, whats with all the comments? Is that supposed to happen ?
Ok fine... I'm only pretending to be a blog newbie
(or n00b for the edumacated nerds that maybe reading this ;).

Anyway... I guess I'll write some stuff that is worth reading.

Some interesting things that happened/evented at work yesterday:

• I learned that Napoleon was the inventor of the tin can (though I haven't verified this, but I have been told it is so).
• Apparently it takes 4 (four!!!) technicians to mount an ashtray on the side of a building.

Ok, so these things might not neccessarily be interresting, but they seemed amusing at the time.

After being dubbed a "Public Transport Whore" I feel it is now my duty to bitch about the
public transport system in Australia at least every so often
(this ratio will invariably rise due to the major suckage of Public Transport).

So... lets bitch. CityRail (or ShittyRail, choose your pronuciation of city carefully :P),
has got to be one of the worst train systems I have ever encountered. Ever.

Their trains are late, probably about 80% of the time. Which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't
have anywhere important to go, but when I have get to work, or more importantly Home,
I would like to get there in some reasonable amount of time.
And what the fuck happened to my train on wednesday ... the first four carriages arrived... only to be followed by an announcement that
"the other four carriages adjoining this train will be 15 minutes late".
Ofcourse 15 minutes became 20 minutes, and they had to shunt the fucker before leaving (another 5 minutes). WTF!!!

At least my housemates are nice. After telling my girlfriend I'd have to catch the late bus
due to ShittyRail fuck-up-age, who then told my housemate, who then came and picked me up.
Thanks J.B. you're a champ.

More bitching to come... perhaps about... buses... or other annoying things.


Ah... I feel much better now that I've said the above. Now all that is left... is, err... nothing
I think is worth reading (unless of course everyone wants to be hopelessly bored, please comment and let me know).

*waves*

xanga #1

Monday, May 30, 2005

Holy shit ..
after moaning for months that I wasnt going to get one of these stupid accounts ...
here I am...
blogging ARGH
I mean really - who has time to do all this blogging...
as it turns out, the whole world is full of bloggers...- happily blogging away in bloggery goodness for other bloggers and non-bloggers (and whatever is in between) to read
Who knows... I might actually end up writing something interresting in here...

Err - New blog

I guess I wasn't 100% happy with Xanga, because they do stuff, and stuff...
So After this post, I'll copy over the contents and stuff so peoples here can read them...

Yay For Blogger.com ... so much (FREE) bloggery goodness. And damn, I LOVE free stuff.