2008 birthday bonanza

What a bunch of alcoholics!

Thanks for the great birthday lads !




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Favourite Quotes

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
- Jack Handey


The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I like sounding well read so.....

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
- Anonymous

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
- Don Delillo

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- Quentin Crisp

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e e cummings

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
- Mickey Mouse

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

Free Films

I am always up for free things, as free is GOOD!

However the sites below are technically breaking the law, so you could end up in jail. There are loads of formats out there, based on flash players but they aren't great quality wise and you can't keep a copy of the movie locally so they are pointless. The best format is DIVX.

You need to get the divx web player : http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/
You need to ensure the movie will be saved on to your hard drive after you watch it. To do this click on the Preferences icon on the bottom right hand corner of the player. Take a look at http://labs.divx.com/files/DivXPlayerUserGuide.pdf for the full spec.

I like these sites :

• http://www.ovguide.com/
• http://movielab.tv/
• http://www.66stage.com/movies.php

But there are loads of them out there. Just let the player load the whole movie and if your prefernces are set correctly you can keep a copy of the movie to watch later.

Set your self free - you don't need microsoft

Right, first of all I don't hate microsoft because it's a huge conglomerate, it just makes me annoyed when people don't know there are other options to Microsoft products. Try googling "alternative to ...." and see what you get.

There are millions of free pieces of software out there that do they same thing you are paying good money for. I'll list below some examples:

• Email Client : Outlook Thunderbird
• Browser : dump slow Interner Explorer and get Firefox
• Office Application : save your self a few hundred euros and get Open Office

For the really adventurous try a free operation system...... If you have an old PC that is not used any more go to http://www.ubuntu.com/ and have some real fun.

The Bluett Rant

Right, I just need some where to let it all out ...........

First of all Isn't the internet great? I'm old enough to remeber having no internet, when you had to remember stuff. You had no calendar, no email, no text reminders from Google. But You also didn't have to answer your boss at 3 am when he can't read his email in Singapore.

I'm not sure what this blog will be used for but if your reading this then you must be bored so here a few things you should do....

Set up a google account https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount and then

• go to https://www.google.com/ig and add a few gadgets to your new home page. I believe Yahoo started this lark but the google onw is the most useful.
• get on gmail and get rid of spam. GMAIL is a little different than most mails as it is fast and has useful tools etc.
• Get a blog like this and let it all out !!!!!!

For the cynics reading this, I don't work for google, I work for my self ( http://www.bluett.ie)