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Ha.
The upgrade of Rachael’s machine is not going well.
First I bought 2gb of DDR2, only to then find out that the board CAN take 4gb of DDR2, but only as a maximum of 1gb sticks (anyone want to buy 2gb DDR2 PC6400/swap for 2 x 1gb DIMMs?).
Then we ordered a new HDD. A new 500gb HDD, a new mouse, and I picked up 100 blank CDs, as is customary when ordering from ebuyer. All well and good, except this time, CityLink have really fucking excelled themselves.
Not only have they not delivered the package when it was supposed to arrive (it is actually 3 days early, though that’s probably down to ebuyer)… they have delivered it to completely the wrong fucking address.
How difficult is it to deliver a package to a house that is on a main road, with the number clearly visible next to the front door? How difficult is that, when your job description is ‘put things in van, drive van, deliver things to right place’. They even have sat nav… all the driver had to do was pick from a group of 4 houses.
Jesus fucking christ. No wonder you’re driving a van around for a living, you dosile twats.
Via the Sunday Mirror:
 10/10 on the ‘appropriate images to photoshop together’ scale.
A man whose family died in a tower block inferno spoke to his wife on the phone as flames ripped through the building.
Rafael Cervi, 31, watched helplessly as wife Dayana, 26, daughter Thais, six, and son Felipe, three, were trapped in their 11th-floor flat.
He told the Sunday Mirror yesterday: “I have lost everything. They were my world, my two babies and my beautiful wife. They were my angels.”
Police yesterday named three other victims, in the next-door flat, as Helen Udoaka, 34, her three-week-old baby Michelle and Helen’s friend, Catherine Hickman, 31. They are treating the fire, which started in an unoccupied ninth-floor flat in Camberwell, South London, on Friday afternoon, as suspicious.
Rafael, a kitchen porter who moved to the UK from Sao Paulo, Brazil, eight years ago, was at work at 4.30pm when he got a call about the fire.
He jumped into a taxi and immediately called his wife.
Speaking from father-in-law Fernando Francisquini’s house yesterday, Rafael told of a series of frantic conversations with his wife in her final hour.
He said: “When the fire started she wasn’t even scared. She said she was fine, the fire was not near our flat.
“Then in another conversation she said the fire was spreading to my little girl’s room so I told her to tear down the curtain so it would not catch on fire.”
Rafael begged firefighters to enter the flat, and passed his mobile to a fireman who spoke to his wife.
He said: “I then told her to get the children and go in the bathroom, put a towel at the bottom of the door and run the bath.
“But the last time I ever spoke to her, at 5.26pm, I will never forget it. She was terrified. She said, ‘I am struggling to breathe, I can’t breathe, Felipe is scared.’ I called back, but she didn’t answer. I never spoke to my wife again.
“I do not have anything to live for any more. I wish with all my heart I had told her to run from the flat, but I didn’t.”
Rafael had to identify his son’s body at St Thomas’ Hospital, and Fernando identified Dayana at King’s College Hospital.
“I said goodbye to my son and gave him a kiss, then I got a call from my father-in-law saying my beautiful wife was dead,” said Rafael. Last night he was clinging to a slim hope that Thais was still alive, but police told him a second child’s body was found in the flat.
He said: “At the moment 99 per cent of my hope is gone. I do not wish anything bad on anyone, but I pray it is not my daughter who is dead.”
Helen Udoaka’s best friend, Saina Bousecka, 42, said last night: “Helen was an adorable person. She was so much fun and loved her baby very much. It breaks my heart.
“I saw them earlier that day looking very happy. I also saw the husband of Helen crying his eyes out as he saw his little baby carried out of the flat dead. To lose such a loving mother and beautiful baby is far too much to cope with.” Catherine Hickman’s parents were being comforted last night by family at their home in Shelley Common, near Romsey, Hants.
Several locals described the block as a “death trap” and said the complicated layout of the flats made evacuation difficult.
Local MP Harriet Harman last night promised a “thorough investigation”. Firefighter Paul Glenny, who attended the scene, said: “I’ve been in the job for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like it.
“The hot weather and the fact that windows were open made the fire what it was.”
London Fire Brigade said about 30 people were evacuated from the building in Sceaux Gardens, and 15 were taken to hospital, including three who died. Eleven people were later discharged.
One firefighter remains in hospital, but his condition is not believed to be serious.
Fire is tearing through the building you and your two young children are in. Do you:
a) PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!
b) OH FUCK, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
c) She said she was fine, the fire was not near our flat.
I lol’d. Hard.
It is with the utmost disappointment that we must announce that Machine Head will not be playing the Sonisphere date at Knebworth in the U.K. on August 2nd.
In a turn of events that has left us absolutely baffled, the promoter of the U.K. Sonisphere festival recently placed, unbeknownst to us, Limp Bizkit in our 3rd slot on the festival. Seeing as the running order was a significant part of the negotiation and agreement between us and the promoter, and the fact that we had been advertised in that slot since the festival’s announcement, you can imagine our surprise when we were “told” that we would now be playing in the 4th slot, under Limp Bizkit, and bizarrely, it was actually expected that we would quietly move down the bill without issue. We will not.
Machine Head turned down the U.K.’s Download Festival, a festival we are very fond of – which incidentally, had us above Limp Bizkit – to commit to the Knebworth festival, as we felt a closer kinship to the bands performing this year. In an effort to make this situation in Knebworth work, we have spent more than a week striving to resolve this issue in a proper manner. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
So we have regrettably been left with no choice but to cancel our appearance rather than stand for the disrespect and indignity offered by a promoter who won’t honor our agreement. While we know that our fans will be furious about this situation – as are we, beyond words – we trust that you will all understand our position, and we encourage you to voice your opinion about it as loud and clear as possible.
The rest of our festival dates across Europe, including the other Sonisphere dates, as well as our headline of the Wacken festival remain unchanged.
Please somebody, buy me some of this:
 http://bakonvodka.com
Well, congratulations to Leicester College on keeping up to date with the newest technologies…
http://80.244.187.36/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=104
Course Description
This course offers a formal qualification that is internationally recognised. The qualification is primarily aimed at junior technicians with at least 6 months experience of working within an IT Support environment.
“PC Functions and Components, Tools and Equipment, BIOS/CMOS settings, System Resources (interrupts etc)
DOS commands, Directory Structure, Basic File Management
Installation, Boot Processes, Navigating in Win98, File and Disk Management, Running Applications, Configurations, Printing, Networking.Field Replaceable Units, IDE Devices,
SCSI Devices, Peripheral Devices, Troubleshooting and Optimisation. Motherboard Architecture, Processors, Memory
Installation, Boot Processes, Configurations, Disk Storage Management, Users and Groups, Security, Network Concepts, Implementing a LAN, WAN and Internet ConnectivityTroubleshootingPrinter types, connections, configuration and troubleshooting. Installation and Deploying Configurations, Remote Management, Overview, TCP/IP, Internet Security.”
Huzzah!
Melodic Deathsters INSOMNIUM will be coming in from Joensuu, Finland for an exclusive UK festival performance at BOA 2009. Dark, melancholic, folky and symphonic, these unique doomy-deathheads are finally bringing their melodic death metal and traditional Finnish music mix to BOA after being forced to cancel a scheduled appearance 3 years ago.”We are really excited to get back to the UK” says the band. “Playing Bloodstock just before our new album comes out is a great thing for us! We had to cancel Bloodstock in 2006, so we are really happy to get the opportunity to do it this year. All you good people over there, you can expect a total carnage!”
This here, ladies and gentlemales… is awesome.
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