Ta1no’s Weblog

Friday today is the day of the big office move, actually let me correct that today is the big day of the office move for all but a few people, me and the rest of my renegade Eco system will still be here for two weeks.

Right so to the usual format,

In the news today we have had one person dies in a crane crash in America. Iron Mike Tyson will be fighting in an exhibition fight in Essex tonight. Which the papers say is a bad thing and shows how far he has fallen from his hay day… I think not what wrong with Essex, Essex is the poor mans Vegas, or the footballers Wag hunting ground. also the parents of one of the stab victims has said parents must take more responsibilty in preventing knife crime. I for one agree.

Grinding my gears today is the people that thought of taking the picture of the Amazon tribe and posting on the Internet – One of the world’s last ‘lost’ tribes has been photographed for the first time deep in the Amazon rain-forest. Thanks I can see how this will pan out, someone will try and find the village and covert them to modern ways loosing there identity and killing off another tradition and peoples culture. Why cant we leave them alone, if they want to contact us like aliens they will just kidnap someone and probe them.

The list:

Today I have been stuck in the office so I haven’t found anything to go on the list. Oh wait I lie McDonald’s is going on the list. I have a simple maths question for you to explain why they are on the list. How can you have 100% more beef when you told us previously that your burgers where 100% beef in the past. Just so you know 100% of 0 is still 0, which is probably the amount of real beef you have in your burgers.

Oh as someone keeps noting I am getting a lot of my material from work I will not disappoint and add something else that I got from work onto the list http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=g4usqfqjue take a look at the link. It’s a viral for Microsoft’s news touch table. If you read the news yesterday bill gates said is the way forward for Microsoft.

Joke of the day:

What’s black and blue and brown and laying in a ditch?
A brunette who’s told too many blonde jokes.

Oh I watched channel 5 last night there was a programme on about weird people that love there cars, and I mean love the cars. One guy made ‘man milk’ over the car – twisted i tell you! twisted only in America.

Grinding my gears actually apart from work I haven’t found anything that has been grinding my gears today. People at my work stealing my resources that’s all really.

Oh in the news today another young person has been stabbed. Not totally sure what to say on this subject without coming across ignorant, but i am starting to think we are in an epidemic and someone needs to take control. That or beat the little twats. But then another part of me things stabbings have been happening for years but all of a sudden the news seems to bring them out so maybe it’s always been this bad, but due to the slow news period we are having its become headline news. However I feel sorry for the parents of the victims as it must be hard on them. The government needs to get a little stronger on the stabbers and give them harsher jail terms that or flog them in public.

oh and the only toilet on the international space station has broken down. I would be pissed as it’s not like you can take a wee outside. Or can you……

Oh I will also add another company to the list today. Today’s addition is the

BBC weather – yep I am going to put them on the list let me explain why. So this morning I woke up and thought the weather ‘looks’ nice. Jumped on the BB and went to the BBC website and looked at the weather and it said it was going to be hot and sunny all day. Hot and sunny my ass when I left work I was swimming home. I wore my RIFTS and they are soaked. Dam you BBC weather you ruined my day. The rifts are as water repellent as a sponge.

While I am writing this I am watching Gavin and Stacey; which I think is actually very funny in a quirky way, but I am thinking its racist – look at series 2 episode 1 and tell me what you think.

Oh as of Sunday I can eat meat again. 3 months without any meat, did well but I cant wait to have a lovely steak. next challenge is to learn Spanish in 3 months. Yes I will do it I will be fluent in Spanish in 3 months.

Take a look at the Trackback I was reading that blog this morning and was slightly amused.

Right so I thought I would update you on what I have been doing today. On top of having discussion at work in regards to resources that people are stealing from me I also been looking through my personal email account deleting emails that I don’t want or try to send emails to people I haven’t spoken to in a while like family members. But alas no one uses there email address anymore that teaches me to reply to an email from 2005.

Right what’s grinding my gears today are rude people at work and as I have all faith that none of them will pick up on this they can all kiss my ass, its not hard to open your mouth and say hello or good bye when someone talks to you. Right I will put it into context for you, someone at work today got a promotion and I said well done one the promotion and with a whatever look on his face he replied its not a promotion. Well fine next time I will say congratulations on the new job that you will be doing, would that have been more appropriate for you.

Oh also in the news today is the story of the Two people that may or may not have faked parts of there 14 hour ordeal in shark infested water story to make money, what strikes me is why they didn’t just swim back to land. You have wet suites, diving gear and a shark deterrent swim you lazy f*cks swim. And how the hell did they stay afloat for 14 hour without getting tired or needing to take a week or a number two. What makes it worse is how many vehicles it took to rescue them “The search for them involved seven helicopters, three aircraft and many boats, and is estimated to have cost up to £200,000” this story just sounds so fake to me but people are starting to find holes in the story, what gave it away the 500k they have made or the film deal they have just signed. Well as I don’t believe this is a new thing as several people have done it in the last year. Like that family that had there daughter “kidnapped” in Spain and became celebrities, and also that family up north that tried it too until they found the child at her step dads uncles house hiding in a bed after 2 weeks missing. Makes me thing people are suspect and would do anything for a little bit of fame even at the expense of there children.

Oh I will also add another company to the list today. Today’s addition is the
London Metro (free paper) –
Let me explain why, I love a good read on the way to work in the morning, but more and more I am starting to realise that the news in the Metro is becoming a bit liquidated, I think the writers are being obtuse on purpose as the Metro is full of advertorials and advertising with the hard hitting news gone in favour of glossy Mag’s stories such as the penguin that has its on blog (who cares).
Not sure if you know how much a colour page advert in the Metro cost, well it cost over 22k – yeah that’s a lot. So you can see why they love to put adverts in the Metro. In favour of good news stories…..

I have also found out how to add blogs to this from my BB I mean CB.

So as I was thinking of what to write on today’s blog I came across this really cool article, not sure if I can do a track back to it thou but will try.

Anyway the long and short of it is;

This dude sent a parcel around the world and using the GPS system he was able to track its journey around the world. This journey created a huge self portrait drawing.

Check out his site:

http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx

And salad man is back from his holiday, yeah but only for a few more days then I am back on the meat and wont be going to salad mans stall. oh and if you have never been to exmouth market then you dont know about salad man, makes the best veg food in london.

My blog from today I am thinking I should update the hate list and I think I have something to add to the list today. Yep that’s it

Halfords seriously the staff in that place are so inept that they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. Anyway so I went to go get a bike and the guy was like we have no bikes at the moment we wont be able to give you one until next Friday. What the hell. Then I asked for the advice… what ever you do never ask for advice in Halfords seriously a one eye tramp that has just come out of the woods where he has lived his whole life with wolfs would give better advice than the staff in Halfords. Highly trained staff my ass. You can be highly trained if I know more about your stock than you do.

Apart form that my day has been quite slow, just full of industry and work stuff, and all my resources have bee stolen, going to have to burn the building down now. If I cant have them then no one can have them.

Right so the long weekend is over and its back to work, well I would like to say I had a great weekend relaxing with friends and spending a much earned bank holiday relaxing, but I would be lying if I said any of that, the weekend was good apart from going Halfords and the inept staff not allowing me to purchase a bike for some silly reason, going to Evans cycles and falling in love with a bike to only find out that it cost about a month wage to buy, not telling how much it was as that would let you know how much shackles I have in my bank at the end of the month.

Sunday and Monday was pretty much a wash out. When I looked out the window yesterday I was like f**k that I am staying in bed, until someone had the idea to have a BBQ, well long story short we didn’t have the BBQ, but I do love BBQ’s no matter the weather, I got by umbrella Ella Ella A, so the rain is not going to stop me.

On a different note 7 days till I can eat meat again then dude the BBQ is on I got your back. I would also like to take back my message from Friday I don’t consider people fake, it just hurts when friends treat you like you are worse than garbage, but I am not bothered anymore.

OK so last week we had the following go around at work. I think this is the most pointless application ever.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx>
Zooming software that allows you to zoom in and move around on whatever is on your screen.  You do however lose the cursor when in zoom mode.

When all you have to do is the tried and tested method of ‘leaning forwards a bit’ have the same effect? Or you could just do Ctrl and scroll in or out, which ever is easier for you.

Woke up this morning after thinking its a bank holiday weekend and I can’t waste a day like this. I should have got up and went bike shopping but I didn’t actually I should have done some design work but that never happened either. However I had a late lunch with a friend in a Thai restaurant, the place was ok, but the food was spot on and at £6 for 2 courses your laughing. Had vegetables in oyster sauce which was spot on. When brick lane, after not having any takers I went on my own, was cool, I feel ashamed that I have only ever been there 4 maybe 5 times.

Which made me consider todays thought which was Places in our own city that we don’t go to or bother to see and why. I truely had fun in bricklane, I even went into a vintage shop, which I thought was funky and fun, the shop that is not me. Even had a nice bagel from the bagel joint (hope it don’t come back on me thou). Went to the big chill which I am guessing is the heart of ‘new’ bricklane. With the office moving to here soon I am going to have to get more into that scene and take a trip to east abit more.
Or actually just get out and see london abit more.

Going to post something of more relevance later than crap about my day.

‘Your welcome, your all welcome’

Its Friday and this morning when I started to write this I thought it was only a hours before the long weekend, so wanted to go Amsterdam but couldn’t find anyone to go with at the last minute, so I am going to chill at home this weekend.

Anyway what is grinding my gears today is fake friends or those who havn’t got the nuts to fess up, smile to your face and stab you in your back. So let me explain what I mean was out with a old friend then saw my lot so thought I would go say hi. Went over and sat down and they are going on like I am a stranger so I said hi and went back to my friend, then they do a stealth move to get out the place not even saying bye or to let me know they are leaving. Thought I would call to see if they where ok, after 2 calls and a text I gave up and think f-ck it. I am really starting to see peoples true colours.
Thanks bruv don’t expect help with anything else in the future good luck with your stuff. Seems that it was all a misunderstanding. It “seems”.

On a quick note I found out why we all get bank holidays off, yeah I am slow but the reasons is that the 9-5 day was built around banks opening and closing times and we get a bank holiday as companies couldn’t opereate when banks where closed.

If you have read in a previous post I was going to put together a list of things that are annoying me or that have in the pass. So here goes. I will build the list over time.

• AA (back in 2002 when I had a little accident early in the morning they left me at the crash scene and roadside for 3 hours without even a call to say sorry we are delayed. I drove the car back after thinking I cant stay here anymore) Looking after the interests of its members as motorists has been at the heart of the AA since it was founded in 1905. taken from the AA. Apart form in 2002 when you left your member at the crash scene without any help.
• 3G – this list could go on, but lets just say Indian call center and systems that are always down. And a network and customer service which is just bad real bad.
• O2 they keep messing up with my contract 3 times they have messed with my bill or have done something to try and shaft me.
• T-Mobile – Seriously when you where younger t-mobile was cool when it use to be One2One those where the days when occasionally the network would crash and you would get free calls and text’s, but now they are just so annoying the service is crap and there customer service is just behind that of 3G
• Supermarkets :
  • Tesco – I think you have read the previous post, but it’s a toss between these guys and the AA and 3G who I detest the most, but until Saino’s steps up I will have to keep shopping here.
  • Sainsbury’s – not the retail side but the corporate side, thank you Sarah Squires cause of you I don’t shop in this place anymore.
  • Budgens - Who and what that’s all I have to say. Seriously who are they trying to fool and what are they trying to pull. They are more expensive than Waitrose and about the same quality as Asda. No offence to Asda, they are not on this list thou.
  • M&S – that Woman they have on the advert make me wan to go there and either buy everything on my CC or burn the place down after I turn fat. I like this spoof advert for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzupByLKCgA
• Microsoft I wouldn’t say hate but dislike, a few reasons that i cant go into as they are a client but they are on the list
• London Transport – Have you ever tired to get home after 12 in London. Not nice is it now, other countries in the word have great public services, but its seems that when I want to go home 77other people have the same idea and then I end up becoming the Garfield doll on the bus getting molested by someone.
• Egypt – Dam you! Had such an amazing holiday when I was there that now all I want to do is go back, but no I am stick at my desk. So yes Egypt you are on the list actually for that fact the following are on the list
  • Malaysia
  • New York
  • Spain
  • Jamaica
• American Express – the American gimps won’t give me the RED card, but they will try and sell me the platinum card with a stupid yearly fee. Why would if want that, give me what I ask for
• FRANCE – I hate that place. That’s it I just hate the place.
• HALFORD – Seriously the staff in that place are so inept that they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. Anyway so I went to go get a bike and the guy was like we have no bikes at the moment we wont be able to give you one until next Friday. What the hell. Then I asked for the advice… what ever you do never ask for advice in Halfords seriously a one eye tramp that has just come out of the woods where he has lived his whole life with wolfs would give better advice than the staff in Halfords. Highly trained staff my ass. You can be highly trained if I know more about your stock than you do.
• London Metro (free paper) –
  Let me explain why, I love a good read on the way to work in the morning, but more and more I am starting to realise that the news in the Metro is becoming a bit liquidated, I think the writers are being obtuse on purpose as the Metro is full of advertorials and advertising with the hard hitting news gone in favour of glossy Mag’s stories such as the penguin that has its on blog (who cares).
  Not sure if you know how much a colour page advert in the Metro cost, well it cost over 22k – yeah that’s a lot. So you can see why they love to put adverts in the Metro. In favour of good news stories…..

Basically its my first relaxed day in So long. It’s the day after and the dust has settled, while I was in the Zone the war zone that is; I saw shells flying over head, blood and guts strewn across the floor, screams of pain from wounded comrades – I love the smell of Success from PRINCE2 in the morning…..

4 months of being in the zone, Not going to let anything get me down today. Just going to take it easy and breath. Going to put together this hate list today as well please note this is not in priority its just a as they come List apart from the AA they are at the top and will stay there until someone build a time machine and goes back in time to when I crashed and they would come and recover my car for 3 hours as they couldn’t find my location on a map. I am in LONDON how does your GPS not pick up London. Anyway I deviate….

Ok so now prince2 is out the way for a few months. I can spend some time on doing this thing up and getting it to look just right.

Todays blog is about offensive words or phrases. Not just your usual words that you are aware off but the offensive words that we call each other and think its kosher. So while I was out today having a few drinks a friend said she thinks wogs not wags, but wogs had nice teeth. Now I automatically thought she meant golliwogs which I have been told use to be a racist (ish) term used against people of colour in the UK in yesteryear. But its seems to skippies I mean Australians wog means people from the Greece, Cyprus and those countries. The person didn’t understand the UK context of the world. But does that make it ok. Umm I think so others might not but if you don’t understand what something means then you can really be punished.
Which has lead me to evaluate words that I call friends as a joke or in a joking way that might come across offensive.

So to all those that I might have offended I am so sorry. Now move on and enjoy the summer. oh yeah and as i write this Chelsea has lost the football. oh well, i did want a London team to win. oh well at least the cheating gimp Drogba was sent of for his girly little slap.