Andy Warburton

Sleep Deprived Geek in Blunderland

Archive for July, 2006

iTunes Quiz —

Stolen from Timmargh How many songs: 3657 Sort by song title First Song: 2 People – Jean Jacques Smoothie Last Song: Zooropa – U2 Sort by time Shortest Song: To All The Kids – The Vandals – 28 seconds Longest Song: Mutter – Rammstein – 18 minutes, 48 seconds Sort by artist First Artist: 3rd [...]

Yay! New Camera is here! —

I’m very happy! Despite sony updating their website to say my order wouldn’t be shipped until Mid August, I’ve just received my brand new Sony Alpha100 Digital SLR. It’s a world apart from the F828, so I have a lot to learn, but I’m going to stick with it. I’ll let you know how I [...]

Better Scams Approaching… —

I’ve just been reading an article on The Register. Apparently India has rejected the idea of one laptop per child but the Nigerian Government has ordered a million units. If the history of computer using Nigerians is anything to go by that can only mean one thing for the rest of the world, which is [...]

Damn Banks —

I’m not one to normally talk about money, but this last month I went a little bit overboard and went slightly over my agreed overdraft limit. Fair enough, my mistake, I’ll except the (stupid) charges but what I really detest is that today I received two letters from my bank. The first was advising me [...]

Do you remember… Large coke cans? —

After discovering that Nestle have removed the blue Smarties from their sweets me and the missus have been discussing sweets that we had as kids that you can’t buy any more. Once of the things I remember is before the advent of plastic bottles being able to buy coca-cola in large (1pint-ish) cans. The missus [...]

Fuck You Stupid Fucking Bug! —

My super immune system never ceases to impress me. Last night I went to bed with all of the typical symptoms of a flu type illness, this morning after a pretty rough night of tossing and turning, I woke up feeling almost perfect except for a slightly croaky throat. Incidentally, I passed my ITIL foundation [...]

Bloody Typical —

Tomorrow I have my ITIL exam that I’ve been revising for weeks for but this last couple of days I’ve been screwed up with a head cold. I started out as a lingering headache that no amount of drugs would shift, then late on today has turned into tiredness and achey bones. How unfair is [...]