You don't think their sample was drawn from ice cream tasters, demolition experts and the judges for Miss World, by any chance....?
John
- Thu Jul 29 14:40:12 2004
I found it really surprising - two thirds of people the interviewed, when given a golden opportunity to complain to a stranger about their job, actually said they were happy at work.....? What is this country coming to?
John
- Thu Jul 29 14:36:54 2004
I agree with it.
Rob Lang
- Thu Jul 29 14:20:12 2004
Has anyone read this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3935009.stm
John
- Thu Jul 29 14:05:47 2004
Yea I saw that too... Although the picture is a bit misleading - does it actually come witha free kevin warwick attached?
John
- Thu Jul 29 09:24:01 2004
Ah, go on!
Rob Lang
- Wed Jul 28 14:36:12 2004
Rob, I'd love to bid on that mug...but it's simply out of my price range
Travis
- Wed Jul 28 13:45:43 2004
- Wed Jul 28 13:02:14 2004
Count your blessings
Mad Mumsie
- Wed Jul 28 12:57:02 2004
Well he hasn't turned up yet...
John
- Wed Jul 28 08:58:35 2004
Don't tempt me Betty.
Rob Lang
- Tue Jul 27 14:48:05 2004
If I were you John, I'd get UNDER the chair.
Mad Mumsie
- Tue Jul 27 10:32:08 2004
Ohmegod, you're not going to SING are you Rob. Batten down the hatches, pull up the draw bridge, issue the ear plugs. TAKE COVER.
Mad Mumsie
- Tue Jul 27 10:31:33 2004
I am waiting at my desk, on the edge of my office chair.
John
- Tue Jul 27 09:52:29 2004
Generally, I wouldn't mind. However, I have just been inspired to go and sing to John...
Rob Lang
- Tue Jul 27 09:47:20 2004
Now, John, don't make it sound as if I'm forcing the view upon you. I'm just saying you ought not rule it out as an option. I wouldn't mind being sung to. Rob?
travis
- Mon Jul 26 23:40:20 2004
Travis - I will bear the thrashing option in mind for next time a group of strangers come and sing to me.
John
- Mon Jul 26 08:58:27 2004
John, it's never a bad time to deliver a thrashing. But I understand how it could have been done in good spirits. Incidentally, it's STILL fairly early...or at least not late.
Travis
- Sat Jul 24 01:06:06 2004
Carpenter's monkey bag elephant grape moneky.
John
- Sat Jul 24 00:23:42 2004
Oooooh it's late isn't it?
Apart from for Travis, that is.
For whom it is early.
John
- Sat Jul 24 00:23:06 2004
I am being hounded by Michael Jackson's "Earth Song", with Vic and Bob's ingenious lyrical addition of "What about chickens...?".
John
- Sat Jul 24 00:20:18 2004
- Fri Jul 23 13:22:37 2004
- Fri Jul 23 13:22:30 2004
Oh I don't know Travis, I think the spirit of it was a positive one...
John
- Fri Jul 23 09:29:41 2004
Jimmy: Its a boat to Harris, apparently there's not always food. Cyberdad organised a motorbike rally based in Uig and because he had a large number of people interested they laid it on. But in summer months it might be standard.
Mad Mumsie
- Fri Jul 23 08:33:21 2004
Did that singing bit really happen, John? If so, I would have destroyed those who were singing. Isn't it a song about breaking up? They likely cursed your relationship. A sound thrashing sounds appropriate.
Travis
- Fri Jul 23 02:05:27 2004
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- Thu Jul 22 18:39:42 2004
Yes Travis - I was talking about Dry Your Eyes. I think a big part of why I like it is that when me and Chie were at Glastonbury Festival, we were sitting on the muddy ground at one point, drinking some coffee, and suddenly a big group of people turned up out of the blue, surrounded us, and started singing that song to us. It was a bit embarassing at the time, but looking back you might call it "a Glastonbury moment".
John
- Thu Jul 22 09:17:54 2004
Right, so who is posting the blank messages then? Come on, own up.
John
- Thu Jul 22 09:15:10 2004
- Thu Jul 22 08:28:17 2004
John, been out of the loop for a while. I just now saw your post about The Streets. Which song are you referencing? I'm a fan...I've heard their 1st album and a few from their new one. 'Dry Your Eyes', 'Fit but you Know It' are the newer ones, methinks.
Travis
- Thu Jul 22 02:20:52 2004
Jimmy: I'll make more enquiries about the boat.
Mad Mumsie
- Wed Jul 21 14:23:18 2004
- Wed Jul 21 12:56:43 2004
- Wed Jul 21 12:56:38 2004
- Wed Jul 21 12:56:31 2004
Not the big boat, surely? And by "Big" I mean the car-ferry to the Outer Hebrides. I've been on that quite a few times (used to have relatives out there, beyond Skye) - it used to be a horrible, rattling, sea-sickness-inducing bastard of a boat. I have never once known the water to be calm - it's always been choppy and has always made me turn a weird colour.
Jimmy
- Wed Jul 21 12:55:50 2004
They also do a fairly good late afternoon boat trip from there to one of the other islands, can't remember which one. You don't have to get off the boat, but the cost, which was very reasonable, included what they call tea, but turned out to be quite a good meal.
Mad Mumsie
- Wed Jul 21 08:37:15 2004
Jimmy: If you can find the jetty in Uig, the brewery is right next to it. Have a great time.
Mad Mumsie
- Wed Jul 21 08:32:11 2004
Right, have made some changes to the message script, and hopefully it ought to cut down those blank messages a bit.
John
- Tue Jul 20 22:35:56 2004
Think I've got it now...
John
- Tue Jul 20 22:34:44 2004
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- Tue Jul 20 22:32:03 2004
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John
- Tue Jul 20 22:31:22 2004
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John
- Tue Jul 20 22:30:31 2004
Does it still work?
John
- Tue Jul 20 22:21:22 2004
- Tue Jul 20 22:17:37 2004
Possible the world's longest domain name?
http://www.buecher-und-verlage-verlagswesen-belletristik-und-sachbuecher.de/
dsp
- Tue Jul 20 16:41:38 2004
Jimmy, Oh Yes, and Cyberdad brought home some of the local brew, which (not being an ale drinker myself) I understand was very good. Will get more details when himself returns from France, where he has been sampling other forms of alcohol!
Mad Mumsie
- Tue Jul 20 14:13:13 2004
Whisk[e]y tasting memory loss. On Saturday I tasted loads of really nice whiskies with my brother-in-law. There was a cask strength Macallam, Isle of Jura, and lots of others I cannot remember, including a 15-year something. Trouble is, this always happens, and I have previously vowed to take digital photos of the ones I like for future reference. But standardly, I got pissed and forgot.
dsp
- Tue Jul 20 14:07:58 2004
There's a brewery in Uig?! Last I saw, there was a pier, and not a lot else. I shall see if I can hunt it down, during my planned excursion around the island. As for the Talisker distillery ... no, I've never been there either. Another one for the list!
Jimmy
- Tue Jul 20 13:42:45 2004
Every time I get an "espresso" from our company vending machine, I imagine Lorenzo taking a look at it and saying "What is this craaaaaaaap?".
John
- Tue Jul 20 11:41:13 2004
- Tue Jul 20 10:13:42 2004
Why up to 200 GB then...? Are you only ever allowed to buy 200 discs? Or is that the number an average pack horse can carry...?
John
- Tue Jul 20 09:57:27 2004
I think that their implication is you could buy lots of additional discs. As far as I am aware, a single discs data capacity is 1GB. The older style discs is 200 or 300 MB.
dsp
- Tue Jul 20 09:41:45 2004
Incidentally, a number of those pictures are in my old flat in London.... oh how I miss that place...
John
- Tue Jul 20 09:40:09 2004
I'd forgotten about mine and Rob's cybperpunk thing - http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/john/pictures/cyberpunk/
John
- Tue Jul 20 09:38:57 2004
The blurb seemed to suggest you could get Hi-MD discs up to 200 GB... is this true...?
John
- Tue Jul 20 09:37:38 2004
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.
John
- Tue Jul 20 09:34:01 2004
John: Remember ages ago when Mini Disc came out and they were used in Strange Days as storage. And you and Rob made a photo story about exchanging a disc (presumably not music). Well now you can buy a USB 1GB Hi-MD Walkman than you can use as a data drive too! Its on my shopping list. Its the Sony MZ-NH600 Hi-MiniDisc Walkman
, 130 notes from Amazon.
dsp
- Tue Jul 20 09:30:42 2004
- Mon Jul 19 20:59:51 2004
I understand from Cyberdad that the Brewery in Uig is pretty good too
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Jul 19 16:48:12 2004
- Mon Jul 19 15:22:04 2004
Jimmy: have you ever visited the Talisker distillery...?
John
- Mon Jul 19 14:26:14 2004
Jimmy; are you going for 4 nights, or in 4 nights or perhaps in 4 weeks, or even for 4 weeks. Or is it a little typo and should be 2 weeks. But lucky you. I love Skye and hope to visit there in September.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Jul 19 14:20:57 2004
I shall be off to Skye in a fornight.
Jimmy
- Mon Jul 19 12:56:14 2004
- Mon Jul 19 12:55:12 2004
- Mon Jul 19 11:57:33 2004
I think at least some of them are caused by someone/something accessing the add message script directly - probably bots I would have thought. Ought to be easy to get rid of.
John
- Mon Jul 19 11:28:21 2004
Something will have to be done about all these blank messages...
John
- Mon Jul 19 11:27:32 2004
- Mon Jul 19 11:27:23 2004
- Mon Jul 19 11:09:21 2004
Dolphins eh...? Fantastic!
John
- Mon Jul 19 09:52:14 2004
Probably because the regulars have been having a well deserved holiday in very sunny and warm Scotland. It was lovely. Dolphins swimming in the Moray Firth, NO RAIN, well a tiny bit on the Tomintoul road, but at least it wasn't snowing.
Now I'm back at work.
mad mumsie
- Mon Jul 19 08:54:22 2004
- Sun Jul 18 14:51:33 2004
- Sat Jul 17 19:47:14 2004
Hmm, seems as though the spammers are more active on the board at the moment than the regulars :)
Kev
Home - Sat Jul 17 15:56:30 2004
midi music download..audition .lyric search.
GJJ <CC@GJJ.CC>
CHINA, CHONGQING - Sat Jul 17 15:10:37 2004
Thank you, please come again.
Apu
- Sat Jul 17 08:28:43 2004
A thousand apologies. I am most ashame'd of my postings.
Sanjed
- Sat Jul 17 08:28:24 2004
Thank crunchie
tom
- Fri Jul 16 16:47:05 2004
Must be a Friday or something.
John
- Fri Jul 16 14:32:12 2004
- Fri Jul 16 13:29:33 2004
- Fri Jul 16 13:29:28 2004
I am most offended.
Mr. Singh
- Fri Jul 16 13:29:03 2004
Oh my goodness. I am very interested in your job, oh My God yes.
ranjit
- Fri Jul 16 12:59:06 2004
Got any jobs for cowboys?
dsp
- Fri Jul 16 09:13:30 2004
Are any users of this site residents of Indian....? Not to my knowledge.
John
- Fri Jul 16 09:10:14 2004
No, piss off.
John
- Fri Jul 16 09:09:21 2004
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india, chennai - Fri Jul 16 05:55:30 2004
(that was me being quiet)
Jimmy
- Thu Jul 15 18:03:19 2004
- Thu Jul 15 18:03:02 2004
- Thu Jul 15 12:04:42 2004
- Thu Jul 15 12:03:19 2004
Nice work Tom.
John
- Thu Jul 15 10:59:31 2004
no. I was deliberately keeping quiet. DOH!
tom
- Thu Jul 15 09:49:37 2004
I wonder if anyone else but me is planning on using the message board this week....?
John
- Thu Jul 15 09:15:51 2004
Ok stop that now, it's annoying.
John
- Thu Jul 15 09:13:11 2004
- Wed Jul 14 18:43:12 2004
mcity4 <mcity42001@yahoo.com>
- Wed Jul 14 06:17:57 2004
Does anyone else secretly quite like that song by The Streets, and yet, like me, is a little afraid to admit it?
John
- Tue Jul 13 17:27:22 2004
Still, at least it isn't snowing.
John
- Tue Jul 13 14:28:46 2004
...and another great point.
John
- Mon Jul 12 17:41:46 2004
- Mon Jul 12 17:41:23 2004
I couldn't have put it better myself.
John
- Mon Jul 12 16:04:23 2004
- Mon Jul 12 14:35:16 2004
Self hacking. nice.
tom
- Mon Jul 12 14:24:25 2004
I think you mean "Were". I believe it's just Ben Folds all on his tod, now.
Jimmy
- Mon Jul 12 13:27:18 2004
This morning I will be busy reminding myself just how unparalleledly fantastic Ben Folds Five are.
John
- Mon Jul 12 10:42:44 2004
In honour of Jeff I have made a temporary modification to the main page...
John
- Mon Jul 12 10:08:17 2004
I promise I wasn't crying when I posted that last message.
John
- Mon Jul 12 09:49:58 2004
Thanks Jeff, you don't know how much it means to me to hear there is at least one person in the world who looks at the site that I didn't already know... My work here is done.
John
- Mon Jul 12 08:20:31 2004
How cool is that?
tom
- Sun Jul 11 19:25:23 2004
Jon, I found your pics of the scottish/celtic islands and kinda tumbled into your life. You have a wonderful site. And no I don't know ya or Leon but the guy makes me laugh eventhough i'm in America! I am a bloody Maison de Stuff fan! And its all your fault!
Jeff <jffbrooke@yahoo.com>
texas, - Sat Jul 10 19:07:09 2004
Thanks Michelle! Will look forward to getting those pictures...
John
- Sat Jul 10 12:08:45 2004
Obscure texan - do you know Leon then? Do I know you...?
John
- Sat Jul 10 12:06:59 2004
SCOTLAND...I'm going there monday and tuesday...
Chris Rowan
- Sat Jul 10 01:25:49 2004
Leon married? Go figure...the king of madness?
obscure texan <jffbrooke@yahoo.com>
a rather hot place..., - Fri Jul 9 21:51:42 2004
Hi,
Just looked at the gastonbury picures and listened to the sounds. Isn't technology brilliant. I will send you some pictures of you and Chei.
Love Michelle
Michelle <spiderblonde@hotmail.com>
- Fri Jul 9 20:54:54 2004
MMM.. Scotland.
tom
- Fri Jul 9 16:41:40 2004
Sounds very nice... I love Scotland... Hoping to fit in a trip to Islay some time soon.
John
- Fri Jul 9 11:19:10 2004
I'm off now for a week in sunny(!?) Scotland. Luverly.
Mad Mumsie
- Fri Jul 9 10:52:23 2004
Highly coloured ones are much easier to match up. Unless you're like an ex boss of mine who always wore white socks! Yuk.
Mad Mumsie
- Fri Jul 9 10:51:20 2004
Incidentally, aren't stripey socks quite fashionable at the moment? Presumably for women that is. I think men's socks still go by the rule of the less noticeable, the better.
John
- Fri Jul 9 09:51:01 2004
Probably...
John
- Fri Jul 9 09:49:59 2004
It depends on whether they had stripey socks and red glittery shoes.
Mad Mumsie
- Fri Jul 9 09:47:32 2004
Did your house land on any of my ex girlfriends, per chance?
John
- Thu Jul 8 14:11:51 2004
What, like in the Wizard of Oz...? I
John
- Thu Jul 8 14:10:47 2004
Everything's got blown away!
Mad Mumsie
- Thu Jul 8 13:58:31 2004
Well I see there has been a riot of messages since I last checked on Tuesday.
John
- Thu Jul 8 11:49:06 2004
Yes, there's nothing like MIDI to turn an all time classic into a festival of cheesiness.
John
- Tue Jul 6 14:31:04 2004
I'd suggest a Beaver Patrol!
tom
- Tue Jul 6 13:29:27 2004
But first catch your beaver.
Mad Mumsie
- Tue Jul 6 13:20:30 2004
John, that is *so* cheesey. It's like being in a cheese-shop. And a fully-stocked one, at that (including full compliments of Japanese sage derby, and Venezuelan beaver cheese).
Jimmy
- Tue Jul 6 13:02:45 2004
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- Tue Jul 6 10:45:17 2004
To all developer types, if you happen to be giving any demos over the coming days, may I suggest you go to the link below, download the file in question, and use it as a soundtrack. I think you'll find it will add an edge of quality and style to your presentation: http://www.anthea2.freeuk.com/carminaburana/
John
- Tue Jul 6 09:53:56 2004
Never mind Blackadder, it's Jeeves & Wooster you want to be buying!
Jimmy
- Mon Jul 5 13:31:02 2004
Well its Monday then. The evil play.com was trying to persuade me to buy a load of Blackadder DVDs this morning. It was a battle the site very nearly won.
John
- Mon Jul 5 10:14:42 2004
Um. Yeah. Finished work at 1900 though, so with timeshift involved...
tom
- Sat Jul 3 23:04:05 2004
I think you were a good couple of hours passed it by that point there Tom.
John
- Sat Jul 3 09:42:02 2004
MMMmmm...... BBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR O'clock.
tom
- Fri Jul 2 21:14:47 2004
So, er, is anyone planning on drinking at all this weekend? I can't help but think it is getting very close to beer 'o clock.
John
- Fri Jul 2 17:04:48 2004
I am listening to Irish radio again... I think the Gerry Ryan show ought to be imported over here, it's very good.
John
- Fri Jul 2 11:17:41 2004
I am currently installing Gentoo.. now thats more scarier than yours JH
Kev
Home - Thu Jul 1 21:34:00 2004
Have had a slightly scary time this evening attempting to get a nice clean install of Windows. I think the old addage "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" applies here.
John
- Thu Jul 1 21:22:50 2004
I the wing board exam about being qualified to play Monopoly whilst sitting on the side of an aircraft at 5,000 feet...?
John
- Thu Jul 1 11:24:26 2004
Congrats Tom. Go for it. He loves it really, all that swanning around in a posh uniform.
Mad Mumsie (aka Super Adj)
- Thu Jul 1 09:29:58 2004
Tom: REPENT! REPENT! THE END IS NIGH! Don't do it sir!
Rob Lang
- Thu Jul 1 09:20:50 2004
Ooh, and look, it must be the 1st July.
John
- Thu Jul 1 08:22:50 2004
Well done Tom... although I don't really know what a mock wing board is!
John
- Thu Jul 1 08:22:29 2004
Rob: I passed my mock-Wing Board last night. Proper Wing Board is on 28th July.
tom
- Thu Jul 1 08:02:29 2004