Saturday 25 September 2010

Weeks Update

Oh dear, this weekly update is getting a bit of a habit - I need to update a bit more often.

Well, we moved Geoff to University last Sunday.  He has a good, en-suite room in halls and has already made friends so he is going to be fine.  Roxana has found it tough but she will get over it I'm sure.

I've been playing BioShock 2 all week on the PS3, interspersed with sessions of Sports Champions with the Playstation Move great fun.

Work's been busy again this week but, once again, I've got loads done so I feel satisfied with the week.

We are heading down to Salisbury again tomorrow to spend some more time with Roxana and I'm hoping we can have a rest while we are there as we all need it.

Thursday 23 September 2010

50 Floors and Counting.

The Shard has now hit the 50th floor so only another 25 to go. The height will then remain stable for another year until the glass radiator fins are added to top off the structure.

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Friday 17 September 2010

Another Week Draws To A Close

It's been an odd week this week.  I wasn't very well for the first three days but am feeling much better now.

We went to my parents at the weekend and that resulted in another marathon clean up of Dad's PC.  I have asked him, again, not to install crap on his laptop.  If he does it again I may have to remove his administrator status and only let him install things when I log on remotely as an administrator.

His Kindle arrived on Saturday and I was very impressed by how quickly he picked it up and bought a few books for it.  I really think he will get a lot of benefit out of it.  For his Birthday, Hamish and I bought him a leather case with an integral light in it and he called last night to say that it had arrived.

I went to the Doctor's on Tuesday and we found out that I have at least another 6 months to wait for my treatment which made him angry and me quite despondent.  I know what's going to happen, I am going to get to the top of the list and then we are going to move.

I found out this week that Peter and Chris got married.  I am very disappointed in them.  When I became ill last year they didn't contact me or come over and check I was OK.  They have not been in touch since and now they get married without telling us (I found out from a mutual friend).  Once again I have made fair weather friends.  Well at least I know now.

The Playstation Move comes out today so I will be popping into town during my lunch break to pick one up.

My reading carry's on apace.  I have finished "Song Of Thunder" which was a story of a scientist who developed a quantum computer that had the ability to hack into any computer in the world and was stolen by terrorists who used it to launch America's nuclear missiles against themselves.  It was a good story let down by poor writing.

I am now reading 'Fragment' a story of a remote island that has been cut off from the rest of the world since pre-historic times and the fauna and flora have evolved completely separately from the rest of the work into very aggressive and bizarre forms.  The US government along with NASA are now trying to evaluate the life forms and are coming to the conclusion that if any of them escape the island it could have dire consequences for the rest of the planet.

I bought 'Bioshock 2' for the PS3 yesterday (second hand from CEX) and I am already addicted to it.

What else is happening?  Oh yes, the Pope arrived in the UK yesterday.  This Pope really gives me the creeps.  His anti-gay, anti-contraceptive views are nothing short of dangerous.  His eyes look really evil and I keep expecting him to give a Nazi salute and goose-step off the stage.  I wish he would hurry up and bugger off back to the vatican where he can abuse some alter boys like the rest of his priests.

We are going to Salisbury tomorrow and will be helping Geoff move to University on Sunday.  This is the start of the next phase in his life and Hamish and I are very proud of him.

Thursday 16 September 2010

3 Metres a Day

Wow!

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Saturday 11 September 2010

Happy Birthday Dad

This week has been much better than the last few. I've got loads done at work and also sorted out a few things at home too.

I said a while back that I had switched back to using my Mac full time so on Wednesday I reinstalled Parallels and moved my bootcamp volume.
God that was a painful process.
In the end I gave up and trashed the bootcamp partition and set up a new virtual PC. Luckily, all my data was backed up on SugarSync but it still took 24 hours to restore. Still, it's all working now and my shared folder are mapped to the right place.

I went up to Matt's after work last night and we went to Luton to see "The Last Exorcist". Good film but let down by a really rubbish ending.

Hamish is on his way to pick me up and then we are going on to my parents as it was my Dad's 79th birthday yesterday.

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Thursday 9 September 2010

The Shard Continues To Rise

The Shard now has a thinner core rising out of the main one like a telescope. The iron and glass work will soon be visible over the buildings in the foreground.

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Thursday 2 September 2010

Busy Week So Far

It's been a busy old week so far - the Bank Holiday on Monday has messed up my spacial awareness and I keep thinking that today is yesterday, if you know what I mean.

Boxee has released a new version which now works on our Mac Mini and so it is goodbye Plex, welcome home Boxee.

I have just finished an amazing novel, Utopia by Lincoln Child.  It is the story of a group of terrorists who hold a futuristic theme park to ransom.  I love Lincoln Child's books.  The only problem is that a few of them aren't yet available on the Kindle in the UK so I have fired of an email to the publisher to ask why.

Apple made some big announcements yesterday including a new version of iTunes with a social networking element called Ping (a dig at Bing perhaps?).  The software was supposed to be available yesterday but by the time I went to bed it still wasn't available to download.  They have also updated iOS 4 to version 4.1 which is supposed to fix the proximity sensor issue so hopefully I won't be pressing any virtual buttons with my ear any more.

I haven't updated my Vlog since last week as I can't think of anything to say. I need to structure a plan so that I can update at least twice a week with something meaningful.