Sterix

PC Gone Mad!

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:31:06 GMT

So I bought a new one...

Yup, my old PC was getting so bad I couldn't even access IE properly. It hogged so much resources the PC was running at a crawl...

So, adding toghether the bonus I received from work to the money I'd saved already, I went out and bought a new one. And what a relief! I can actually multitask again! Multiple applications running all at the same time with no perceptable slowdown in performance... HEAVEN!

I've even managed to get the old monitor I'd been given to work with this PC. The monitor is flatscreen (and a little faulty - can't access the menu or turn it off without unplugging it at the back) but the picture is a thousand times better than that Mr Magoo-inspired piece of trash I was forced to use.

My wife has now got the old computer - cleaned out and rebooted to the factory spec (still slow though). It will satsify her needs - she doesn't require the spec I do (except when she wants to play Sims 2 + addons - she uses my PC when I'm not here for that). When I can get hold of an extra wireless reciever I can set her up on the net as well and we can connect the two together.

What a xmas present!

On a sadder note: it's now Thursday the 3rd and work has already restarted (yesterday). I booked a few extra days off out of my floating allotment so I don't personally go back till Monday. How the hell does the holiday fly by so quickly? Gonna have to readjust my sleeping pattern to suit the 7.30 start (currently the time I'm going to bed!).

Concert

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:02:11 GMT

ZOMG! ZOMG! ZOMG! ZOMG!

My wife and I went ot our first concert on Thursday night at the Manchester Academy. We went to see a Dutch band called Within Temptation, one of our favourite bands.

What a concert. The place was bouncing from start to finish. They were absolutely fantastic. The warm up band (The 69 Eyes from Helsinki, Finland) were pretty good too - must look out for some stuff done by them).

We queued up for over an hour and a half in the freezing cold but it was worth it. :D

Can't wait for April now when our second concert looms: Nightwish! Can't wait!

Forums Update

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:52:09 GMT

It's been a while since I last updated this. I really should come on here more often, but I'm a man of too much to do and nowhere near enough time to do it!

Since my attention got drawn to this place again by some e-mails reminding me it existed I thought I'd at least update with something or other.

So I thought I'd update with details of the forums I'm involved with at the moment.

First off is my own place which, frankly, is as dead as a dodo currently. I just haven't had much time to work on it and to get it where I want it to get to so the odd times that people turn up it gets a few posts then dies again. I really need to get a number of people there at once to kick start it into life. It's a pity I had to start over when I lost the password to the database (I'm still convinced I didn't forget it but there was a problem at the server end) when trying to update it. I lost the posts of a lot of members that day and very, very few chose to rejoin the new place. :(

The place is called GUTS! and the link is http://www.guts.me.uk/guts/index.php

I have a homepage at http://www.guts.me.uk but I only had a chance to mess with that and need to re do that from the start. The javascript is nice but the application is amateurish at best!

GUTS! is an amalgamation of three sites I used to run, and is still split into three distinct areas. The Quill and Scroll is a poetry and writing area where members can discuss not only their own work but published stuff as well. The Wyrmhole is an area for fantasy, sci-fi and horror worlds (although I'm not really keen to have too much horror there). Dice of Destiny is an area for dice-based roleplaying games (mainly) of all genres.

Anyone feel free to join and kick start the place to greatness!

Another site I'm involved with on an administrative level is a great little fantasy site called faerunrp.com. It's a free form roleplaying site which means you don't roll dice but just create stories between you.

The link is: http://www.faerunrp.com/forum/index.php and it's well worth a look.

My avatar on both of these sites is Flame of Eternal Darkness (although I also have an account called Sterix at GUTS! for my poetry and writings).

Now, lemme see... any other sites...

Others you may be interested in...

http://www.nihonin.net

Hard to describe this place except to say it's what happens when the lunatics take over the asylum! :P

My avatar there is a loonball called Incognito (I chose the name because when I first joined at the previous incarnation of this place, the now-defunct Rusty Axe, I decided to have a little fun with some of the members there to see if they could work out who I was).

One final site is run by a lass called Jemima. I'm no longer a member of this site after making a bit of a booboo and upsetting her. I still occaisionally look in on the place, mainly to check on an old RPG I used to be a part of.

If you do happen to go there and join just don't say where you got the link from... http://jemimaaslana.proboards22.com/

Well, those are the sites I can recall right now. I'll sign off now. Too much to do and not enough time to do it...

Ouch!

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:53:15 GMT

I ache all over!

My sister was away in Blackpool overnight so I borrowed my nephew's Wii... boy was that a mistake! After a couple of hours swinging recklessly hitting golf balls, tennis balls, base balls and whatever other balls where flying around my arm was ready for falling off. When I woke up this morning I was as stiff as hell.

The missus asked me if I wanted one. If she'd have asked last night I might have said yes but since she asked today the answer was a resounding no! I like my body in one piece and unaching thank-you-very-much. I'm getting much too old for all that running around crap...

Novus Orsa

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:04:01 GMT

A New Beginning...

I've got rid of all my previous entries for the past two and a half years. They are memories best left forgotten. It's time to shape up and ship out the old crap and shovel in the new.

I may as well begin with a question that's been on my mind for a while now... how do you say sorry when it's way too late to say it? If anybody has the answer...

Photo Album: Darts

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:06:04 GMT

Darts

Martin

Campioni!

Me and Brother

Me, Proud Dad, Brother

Campioni2

Me and Wife

Custom List: Websites

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:06:38 GMT

Websites

Nihonin.net
A general site with fantasy overtones
The Writers Forum
Poetry and Writing
Mansion of Myth and Magic
Fantasy site
FaerunRP.com
Free Form Roleplaying site
GUTS!
Guild of Undesirables, Torturers & Sociopaths

Custom List: Favourite Groups/Singers

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:50:10 GMT

Favourite Groups/Singers

Queen
Simply the best group ever, in my humble opinion.
Nightwish
One of my current faves, heralding from Finland.
Within Temptation
This Dutch group sing one of my all time favourite songs... Angel.
Ultravox
80's band from Scotland.
Bon Jovi
Metal group. Livin' on a Prayer one of the best anthems ever.
Erasure
Another 80's pop group.
Enya
Simply one of the lovliest, most haunting musical voices.
Iron Maiden
Heavy Metal at its best. Supreme.
Europe
Another fave rock band.

Book List: Favourite Books

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:32:21 GMT

Favourite Books

David & Leigh Eddings: Belgarath The Sorcerer
Fantasy
David Niven: Bring On The Empty Horses
Biography
John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids
Science Fiction
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
Comic Fantasy
Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
Comic Fantasy
James Clavell: Noble House
Fiction
Raymond E. Feist: Silverthorn
Fantasy
J. R. R. Tolkein: The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy
David & Leigh Eddings: The Redemption of Althalus
Fantasy
Arthur C. Clarke: The Sands of Mars
Science Fiction