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I have uploaded a couple of new emoties for your enjoyment

Have a look at the emotie page

This month has been a bit of a strange one, like everything suddenly decides it all wants to be against me, first the computer goes, the cats misbehave, I walk away without pulling the money out of the cash machine, the 360 red rings and plentifull in repairs to the car, it has indeed been a strange month. I think the important thing however is to not give in and keep battling on no matter how trying these things seem to be and in order to try and readdress a balance in the great scheme of things I have started a cleansing of the soul.

Those who know me know the rough ins and outs of my history, or more specificly, the complete bitches I have been associated with and for some strange reason I have elements of these periods still hanging about, passwords, items and things of a more personal nature. Overall it’s not really fair on the wonderful lady that is now in my life and it is not doing the soul any good.

So far, I have started changing passwords, that’s going to be an ongoing process for a bit as I have passwords everywhere, deleted images and a ton of emails off the computer and sold on some various gift items. Only a couple of days ago however was a major event, old love letters and cards associated with these people, all up in smoke, I only wish I took photos of it, the stuff before, during burning and the chard remains but overall it has been a major step in the quest of moving forward and bringing balance back to the soul. My lady stood by me as the evil items burnt out of my life for good and that is the main thing, although I had trouble getting it started to start with we were starting to think the evil was repelling back the flames!

There is another thing that has been needing cleansing however, a moment of complete stupidness that has impacted finances in a bit of a twonky mannor. The iPod touch’s have now been sold on, how could I have been so stupid? You see, now we have a laptop and that sees so much more use than the 2 iPods put together, if I had just listened to my wonderful lady and had a good discussion about the whole thing, some problems could have been so avoided, but no, ‘I want one and you can have one too’… So they have been sold to help balance finances and for some other further cleansing.

They got quite boring if I was to be honest, at the end of the day it is simply a glorified media player, the whole app store thing just got quite tedious trying to sort through them all finding good useful ones. Don’t get me wrong though, there are some good ones out there. When I decided to sell mine my lady wanted to go back with a little Creative Zen mp3 player and it really does say something when she prefers that over the ever so fancy iPod Touch.

It’s such a dinky little thing.

I remembered though however when I got past all the glitz as to why I have been avoiding Apple products, the arrogance of Apple and the arrogance of the Apple fanboys. ‘Oh I have a Mac, I’m superior to all you’. Well, I have used both systems and they are both as bad as each other, only one is more expensive, let’s not forget, a Mac today is only a glorified intel PC.

There was one thing that really annoyed me with the iPod, it was only a simple little thing but in my opinion it’s the little things that speak the loudest. In iTunes you download podcasts, you transfer them over to the iPod to listen to, the iPod puts a little blue dot next to the ones you haven’t listened to yet and removes the blue dot when you have. I got the Touch when it was at firmware 1.1.4 and assuming you have synced for a couple of days these blue dots would reappear… ok, a little issue. Several firmware upgrades later, 2.1, and it still has the same problem with the addition that it can remember half listened to podcasts just fine. Have this been listened to, yes or no? How fecking hard can it be? That amongst the regular app crashes, no Apple, just because an app just quits without reason still means it crashed, at least put a little error message there saying so.

While I’m on this rant now… if OSX is oooooooo so brilliant, why the hell is it creating all these unwanted hidden files on my USB stick? Eh?

Another new one to help keep you all warm on the darker colder nights.

I have sorted out some basic resolutions of one of the previous ones that was up, RGB Madness

Hope you enjoy

Some new desktop wallpapaer up currently in a basic selection of resolutions.

Heart

Enjoy

I’m kicking off the wallpaper reconstruction with something new, ‘Ying Yang’ currently only avaliabe in a few select resolutions.

Well, I have gone through my entire collection and left with all of two designs, could have sworn that I had more with the new URL on, ah well, better snap to getting the fresh/rewatermarked ones up then.

I have finally managed to intergrate my desktop wallpaper page code into a wordpress page so now the new location to get access to all my Desktop Wallpeper can be found here and so the old page has been wiped. At present I will be going through the entire collection because most of them contain old URLs in the watermarks so over time you will see the collection dwindle up but do not fear, I’m on the case to build the collection back up again after I have done all that. In the mean time just be aware that any of the ones you do download will probably be out of date… hope you enjor either way.

Also it is probably worth noting that I am still playing with refreshing the format of the actual page so please bare with me on that front.

Ta

Please excuse any strange going ons you might see around the site, I’m fiddling with stuff as I usually do.

First, appologies for the ads but unfortunately this site costs me money, the donate button is right there on the left, who knows, it might persuade me to switch back to the ad free theme.

It all started back in Feburary-March, I embarked on a computer upgrade, first motherboard blow up on me (not quite litterally) when I rest the machine and the replacement would seem to give me nothing but headaches! Well come a few days ago, after a particular troublesome phase, the PSU tried to set fire to the house. After total shut down of operations it turns out the PSU is not rated to what I thought it was and has probably been underpowered all this time causing all these problems I have been having… oops!

So in the mean time I have had to fall back to the laptop, I’ll get done what I can while the main workstation is out of action… was right in the middle of a few vids as well.