It’s all his fault

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Originally uploaded by fotdmike

I was walking through Bedford town Center, when I heard this fellow playing Flowers of the Forest, which reminded me of Mike Oldfield’s Voyager album, which in turn reminded me that he had a new album out so I had to go and but it….. I always wondered how he managed to sell millions of albums without being in your face like pop singers are, maybe I should have asked the Bagpiper if he was in the employ of Mike Oldfield!

Roots

Went to the dentist yesterday to get a root extracted, I have to admit I was imagining all sorts of horrors before hand but it was over very quickly, two injections to numb it and out it came, then they sent me packing looking and sounding like Sylvester Stallone for the next 3 hours!

I did get the rest of the day off work.

St patrick’s day blues

I have just been reminded that it is St Patrick’s Day and being that I work in a pub this is possibly the single worst day for me, I hate it when all the fake Irish descend upon my bar wanting to drink Guinness, when for the rest of the year they drink shandy’s or something equally as pointless, now let me qualify this by stating I have nothing against the Irish or indeed St Patrick, I just think that most people are moronic sheep who do what they do because the media tells them that this the thing to do.
It’s the same with most thing’s which are perceived as “fashionable” or “trendy” the only reason these thing’s get that status is because they are in your face 24/7, on the TV or in the Press, my favourite thing to hate is the Ipod, just look at the way it is advertised, they never tell you in the ads what the sound quality is like (which is rubbish) it’s advertised as a fashion accessory with funky white Silhouette dancing to the latest pop tune even the headphones are for fashion not function.
I’m very sorry not sure what happened there got a bit too serious, didn’t mean to rant like that, although after reading the Grumpy old man secret diary, I have realised that even tho technically I’m too young I am indeed a grumpy old man.

There is so much about the modern world which makes me angry I sometimes think my head will explode.

My new toy

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Originally uploaded by fotddarren

This is my new toy a HDD Media Player with a 500gb hard drive, got it last week, sort of birthday present.
I was so excited to get it I didn’t think about having to set it up, which of course if you know anything about how these things go didn’t exactly go to plan.
Firstly I had to format the hard drive(which was bought separately)then install it in the media player then get Windows to find it, simple.
So 2 days later when I finally got the damn thing to work with Windows,
I thought I was sorted but oh no plugged it into the tv and got a message saying no media detected, many expletives later after taking it apart(I also played with the jumper switches) I realised what had happened in the process of attaching the IDE cable to the hard drive I had pulled it loose from the bit that fits to the media player!
Have I mentioned I am an Idiot, one day I’ll learn, one day.

Having got it to work now I love it, even treated it to some nice shiny new Creative I-Trigue 3330 speakers, would have got some Logitech ones to match the other ones I’ve got but, fell in love with the shape of them, they sound rather good too.

Should be working

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Originally uploaded by fotddarren

It may appear from all the photo’s I take whilst at work that not much actual work gets done, just hope the boss don’t think that too or there may be trouble ahead.
Oh well at least I get to use my camera and any way I blame my mate he’s always coming in with his camera and just leads unto temptation, not that I need much encouragement mind.

Plus I get to learn stuff too, again today I realized how much of an idiot I truly am, messing around with my camera setting’s, I found out what I thought was some sort of Macro, was in fact the manual focus setting (got confused by the little magnifying thingy that appears on the LCD screen).
But when I did actually get the camera set to macro the photo above was the result, quite pleased with that.

New To This

As the title suggests I am new to this blogging thing but having been invited by a fellow idiot, I thought I’d give it a go.
Now what does one write about on these thing’s I asked myself, before embarking on such a venture(no point having a blog if you ain’t got nowt to write about) and then whilst setting this thing up the answer presented it self.
Whilst in the process of setting this blog up I found out I could link up to my Flickr account and have my photo’s displayed in a little box in the sidebar, excellent I thought that’ll be fun to play around with.
And so I went ahead full steam trying to figure out how this little display box worked, I think I said something about this being a fun thing to do, boy was I wrong. Just follow the instruction’s simple, all I needed was the URL for my RSS feed link, the instruction’s said and I quote “Your RSS feed can be found on your Flickr homepage. Scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see the Feed link and copy that into the box above.” do you think I could find it, so after scrolling up and down several times and even resorting to squinting at the screen in the vain hope it would magicaly appear and much swearing later, I had to finally admit defeat and consult the Flickr help page, not so much a traditional help page but more of a post a question and hope someone out there has the answer you are looking for. So after several pages of questions and answers, there it was, like a shining light sent down from the heaven’s the answer to my question, the RSS feed link is a little orange button(of coarse how obvious!?), there’s me looking for a text link saying RSS feed.
So I hit the button found the URL and Bob’s your uncle I now have my photo’s on my blog, all I need to do now is figure out how the rest of this blog thing works, so many options so little time.

Thanks to the idiot who got me into this, I had such a great time.