tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173773642011-04-22T04:11:02.881+01:00Opinions and rants from my world.Boidsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17003798356821676613noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17377364.post-19107655366927651762007-06-06T20:51:00.000+01:002007-06-06T20:55:42.550+01:00

As of about 20 minutes ago, this blog will now be hosted by thos elovely people at WordPress.Nothing personal Blogger, you've been great, but I felt it was time to move to a system I know a little better.From now on folks, just point your browser towards boidster[dot]wordpress[dot]com.See you there!

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Not me, this blog!Nothing against blogger as it's a superb service, but hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have a new blog up and running, which means this here blog will be officially closed.Although I'd be amazed if anybody is actually still reading this blog seeing as I haven't posted shit since January, but hey. Once I do have a firm date, I'll make sure that a link goes up here to help

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I know you're in heaven, smiling down.Love you Dad, I'll see you in a while :)

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It's a strange time of year. One for reflection, of looking toward the future to imagine what it may bring, a way to put the past behind you and step boldly into a new way.Some people see it as so many positive things, and rightly so. It's probably the one time of year where you see genuine comradry amongst strangers as people huddle together in the cold winter weather in one of the many mass

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It's been some time since I last posted on here so apologies for that. My writing time has been taken up by GBS and most things I've wanted to write about have been game related so I popped them in there.I actually can't believe it's 16th December already, Christmas Day in nine days! Doesn't feel like it at all! Although to be honest, yesterday at work oddly helped a little.You see my boss is

Boidsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17003798356821676613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17377364.post-24394236738531365872006-11-27T21:14:00.000Z2006-11-27T21:39:33.752Z

What a nifty little weekend that was!Aside from the Project BBC pilot being sorted, I'm pleased to announce that The Good, The Bald and The Stupid is now up and indeed running!What does that mean for this blog? Well I'll still be posting here, but probably not as much. Reason being, the new site is all about video gaming and it's many ways to please and annoy, so most, if not all of my gaming

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For the first time in a while I actually managed to keep to my own time schedule and as a result the pilot for Project BBC is now complete. I'm just awaiting feedback from the selected test group, and I didn't even have to bride them to do it, and then it'll take flight as soon as!Weirdly enough, remember that other joint project I mentioned yesterday? Well it turns out that Project BBC and

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Ok, panic over!Driving to work yesterday I realised what an absolute pillock I'd been over that technical issue. Amazing what a good nights sleep, mixed with an absent minded drive to work can do for the old mental powers.If any police are reading this, I was paying due care and attention to the road.............Officer.So that means I'm back on track with getting a pilot sorted out. I've

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I was hoping to be able to launch my new idea in some form this week, but between work at home and away from home, and some technical difficulties (not forgetting our efforts to catch up with Lost) it's all gone a bit South for the moment.All that has happened is my plans for a bit more development time have been pushed to this weekend instead of, well, now. It's annoying because I wanted to get

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It's been a little too long since my last post, but that's mainly due to being ridiculously busy at work, and home, then using the free time I have for playing Call of Duty 3.However, there is another reason for not posting, one which I hope will become clear very soon. I'm going to get some pilot work done on my blog expansion today (Sunday). It's nothing ground-breaking, but something I've

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I've just had a small moment of glowing happiness after realising that it is now a month until Nintendos new rectangular kit of joy hits UK shores. My joy would be ott, except I'm tempered by the fact that I'm still not 100% sure whether I'm getting one at launch.I've pre-ordered a unit a local GAME store, but nothing has been confirmed to me aside from I'm in the queue. Yes I know I wasn't

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It had to happen sooner or later, but national UK retailer GAME have now formerly ended their 10 day return policy, and with it, an institution for many a gamer.For as long as I can remember using GAME, or Electronics Boutique as they used to be, they have had the 10 day return/exchange if not happy. By it's nature, it became a way to for us all to try that game we weren't too sure about, safe in

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Now those of you reading this who know me from the GA forums will no doubt remember the discussion we had about one Canis Canem Edit, aka Bully, from Rockstar Games. Those same people are probably still choking at the idea that I actually bought this game after what I said. Yet I let those guys post comments if they want to ;)As for the game itself, well I must say after only a couple of hours

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Saturday brought with it a trip to the local shops and yes I ended up in a game store. With a bit of trading I got hold of Fifa 07 on the 360 and a second title I’ll discuss tomorrow.Previously I’ve always been a devoted PES player. Not necessarily brilliant at it, but devoted nonetheless. But something about this current edition of Fifa caught my attention. After playing the demo from the

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I think I've worked out the problem with what to write in this blog. Sometimes I spend ages trying to think up a title before even writing an entry. Mostly it works as usually I have a particular topic I want to write to about.Today however I do not. I find myself sat at work, remembering I didn't make an entry as planned yesterday. Trouble is I can't remember what it was I was gonna write about,

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To fill you in, I'm a long suffering Leeds United fan.*awaits the end of usual chanting I get when I tell people that*Well that is accept for one bloke in a Kwik-Fit garage who actually complimented me on my choice of team.....and meant it! A saint amongst men ;)I digress.At this point in the season, having just appointed our newest manager (God Bless ya Wisey!), Ken Bates effectively saying

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This is a public service announcement:The following post contains my opinions. These opinions you may not like. There is also a few occurences of bad language. Should any of the above be liable to cause offence, best sod off now!And now, we return you to the scheduled entry.When is the British public going to learn that all the money they spend voting for these people goes nowhere but to the

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Yes it's amazing but after about 2 months I finally manage to get into making a new post on here!However, it'll probably end up as one of those babbling posts where nothing actually gets discussed in any detail, and becomes more a brain burst of stuff I think of right here and now.Ok.........Let's start with the obvious topic, gaming.The past couple of months has seen me go from a 'can't be arsed

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A couple of months back we got two Guinea Pigs............I say 'we', but it was actually my other half that wanted them, but that's another story!So, since getting them I wanted to build a run for them, but seeing as we had them within a couple of days of agreeing to take them off a work colleague of the ladys', there wasn't much time, thereby settling for a pre-built from from a chain pet-store

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There is a very good reason why I never went to Uni. Quite frankly I think my brain is fried! Unfortunately it's taken me another 10 years and alot of money in course fees to understand this!Ok, so that's a slight exaggeration, but this distance learning stuff isn't easy. I've been doing it now for about three weeks, even using my own study schedule to make sure I put the hours in so that I'm

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Some you may be pleased to know that despite my predictions of about a week ago, vagusnet.com is no longer going under and has now been taken up by new management. However, as for what the future holds now the place has been saved............well I really don't know anymore.At the moment I'm not really that much involved in the running of the site, even though I remain an admin on the forum.

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True to my word, I'm going to keep this thing updated, so here I am!See what I did there?No?*sigh*As the title says, I'm going to change how this works. Instead of just being a general bunch of text about whatever it is I can remember at the time of writing, I'm gonna try sticking things in little segments. Now it's nothing ground breaking, but it might work. You lot will just have to tell me

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I finally get around to making another post!Things have been somewhat busy shall we say. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.Since last time, I've been hard at work trying to get Vagusnet.com back up to scratch. Having lost a lot of visitors since the turn of 2006 it's been somewhat of an uphill struggle; one which at the moment looks like it may be coming to an end. As of the 26th July (this

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So what's happening in the world of me right now?Well one major thing I somehow managed to omit from my last post, was the addition to our family.Now that's got Paul and Phil paying attention, it's actually a new cat ;) An 11 month old jet black girl that we've named Suki. We got her from the local Animal Rescue Centre, after she'd spent over two months there, with just a small pod and cage to

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Again it's been a while since my last post, but there's been quite a lot going on!In between various stuff that needs doing around the house since we moved in, we've now decided to tackle the garden. A garden that at the moment is full of bloody gravel, and when you imagine a garden of some 60+ foot length and about 15 foot width, you get why it's such a pain. Especially you want to have 80% of

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You've all heard them before, you know, the 'life's too short and fragile' kinda thing. The sort of comment that in everyday life you just brush off as the throw away comment it often seems to be. Today I've been reminded just how true that is!A very good friend of mine, the guy who was Best Man at my wedding only last year, has just been through possibly the worst Xmas and New Year ever after

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Yep, I can finally announce that after a number of weeks of intensive coding by Father Fil, www.f1shoutbox.net is live and open for business!So if you're a fan of Formula 1 and want to keep up to date with all the latest happenings from the F1 Circus, then head over there and add it your favourites. As the season begins this Saturday with qualifying then the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday we'll be

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Two posts in two days, what the hell is going on!I've had a few ideas floating around my head for a while now on various little projects I want to have a go at, and hopefulyl over the next few weeks I'll get chance to give at least one of them a go.It started a while back when my Mum gave me her old Camcorder, we're talking tapes here, not digital. After viewing a number of different movies over

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I decided to try and make an effort to post more on this here blog thing. I guess those of you who do bother to come over here are getting bored of seeing just the one post every month or so. There is actually someone who reads this isn't there?Anyway, it's only Tuesday and already it's turning out to be an odd week. Not because of anything in particular happening, well except Saturday but that's

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You know the old saying about time flying when you're having fun?Well it's been more of a mixed bag but time has indeed flown by. We're now fully moved in with just about everything sorted out, bar bloody wardrobes that we're still waiting on (must call them and find out what's happening actually!) and of course the mammoth task that is completely re-working the garden! Plus I can happily say

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At long fricking last!!!!Yep we're finally moving house tomorrow (27th Jan) after a number of ups and downs, but we made it. Which means I'm in for one hell of a busy night getting all the final things taken down/apart/packed. Not great when your wife won't be home late as well, but hey, what ya gonna do, can't be helped!Sadly, it does also mean that I shall be broadband-less for just over two

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Well it's been a busy old year so far!Firstly the house move looks to be getting somewhere now, and hopefully we should be on the go at the beginning of February. We're just awaiting the confirmation of the specific date. Only about a month and a half after the initial proposed completion date, but who's counting eh!I'm also now involved with two new projects with a couple of very good friends

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Let me start off, this my first post of 2006, a very Happy New Year to each and everyone of you reading this!What a year it's already shaping up to be, as not only is our house move on the cards to happen this month (and long bloody last!) but in a few days time I have an interview for a new job! Probably not exciting news for you, but when you consider I've been stuck in a dead end nothing of a

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This past week has been, well, pretty crap to be honest.First off, last weekend, my Mum's partner was taken to hospital having suffered a stroke, and is still there now, looking at a few weeks of physio to get everything back to where it was. Then, we find out that the house move which should have been happening now, is going to be delayed until mid-January due to the folsk we're buying from

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Well the good news is that I was one of the lucky people to get my hands on a 360 on launch day! To say I was surprised is an under statement, but that was soon taken over by that feeling of being a kid in a sweet shop when I got the thing hooked up.Now this is either going to encourage, or really piss off a few people reading this, but it is a sweet machine. Even working on my 3/4 year old

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Not quite sure where the time has gone since my last post here but there you go. No rest for the wicked, or something like that!It's been a funny old weekend this one. Got a call from one of my VN colleagues on Saturday telling me that I had an Xbox 360 secured for me at the GAME store on Oxford Street, London. Great news it was too after us all spending the last few months wondering if we

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Well that's a bit of a lie but hey! By the way, anyone remember that ad? I bet they thought they were at the sharp end of youth culture when the PR guys came up with it.Tossers!Anyway, it's all go at the moment. just taken on a new staff writer on VN this week, bringing the writing team to a whopping five people. Fair enough you may not consider that whopping, but since I joined VN, when it

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Since my last post here I'm very happy to report that our house has been sold and a price agreed on the place we want! Took a bit of dealing at the 11th hour (nothing dodgy mind) but it's all looking rosy now. Now it's a case of seeing if we can push for a Xmas move completion. Chances are slim seeing as teh family we're buying from don't have anywhere to go yet, but they are trying hard to

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That someone is pissing on you from a great height?Last week we lose Millie, this week it looks like we're going to lose the house that we want! As weeks go, it's turning out pretty shit so far. Sadly I think it was mostly down to our choice of agent, who despite promoting themselves as a 'proactive agency' have been quite the opposite. Consider the fact we've had to chase them all the time to

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I was hoping that my next post on here would be a little lighter, but sadly my wife and I came home from work last night to be greeted with the news that our cat, Millie, had been hit by a neighbours car and killed, right at the end of our drive.Now I just feel lost, angry, numb and upset all rolled into one, that one of the sweetest cats I've ever known has been taken from us. What makes it

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How to start off a blog for people who really have no idea who I am?A question that everyone who's done this has sort of thing wants to answer in a sharp and witty manner. Well apart from those people who have a purpose, a message, a teaching they want to get out there. Me? Nope, don't fall into those cateogories.Well maybe I do, but I don't think I've found it yet.As you'll no doubt gather by

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