Be Excellent To Each Other

That's why extension ladders rule.

Some of these funds write of tens of millions of investments with the line "Company not performing as expected, we will not particpate in further funding, and, as such, have written the value of our holding down to zero". But, I suppose it is better not to throw good money after bad. Sating that, most startups fail due to lack of cashflow. Still, pension funds, council money and trusts at work, there.

I know you can get Twitter for the Spectrum, but I didn't know you could get it for the em@iler.

That reminds me! Saw this across from my car boot stall on Sunday and thought of you.

...and no, it didn't sell.

Support ended last month meaning they can now only function as a normal phone.

Never cared for them myself as they seemed like a way to get money from the technically illiterate. Low up front cost but a premium rate number to collect your email + IIRC they phone home once a day if you like it or not.

But, can you still play Speccy games on it?

I never did see a list of games available for it.

The FAQ says downloaded content will work. but time limited games will still expire.

And, get this, each game cost 50p for three days of play or 12p for an hours "trial".

Suddenly the app store prices increases look like good value.

No idea what titles were on offer.

Barclays have blocked my card again, so I have no money. I've tried ringing them, but I get cut off halfway through the conversation every time, and I can't get to a branch.

Fucking annoying. Need to ring them from a landline when I get home, and change banks at the weekend. Sigh.

You need to stop stealing your own identity.

"I'm watching you, Malaboob!"

Bought Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere' at lunchtime. read first two and half chapters. I like it so far.

Whatsitabout?

Some people in London do some stuff and things happen so far. Gaiman said in the introduction he wanted to write soemthing about an 'adults al;ice in wodnerland', and it was a bbc drama.

For an author, Neil Gaiman sucks at spelling.

Rather despite your synopsis, I want to read this! Only because Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two of my three favourite books ever.

First of four books arrived today. With big perma-stickers over the beautiful cover art that attracted me to them in the first place. Fucking marketing twats

Interview went fairly well, I think. Turns out I'm the first of 5 or 6 people for first/second stage interviews (third stage will be in a fortnight). Is it a good or bad thing to be first?

Good, if you make a good impression. Bad if you don't.

Worst is probably to be right at the end, when nobody gives a fuck anymore and they've probably already made up their minds.

Oh. Shit.

No prizes for second place.

Good work.

Sat about for an hour and a half at the doctors. Was told to buy some Becinase for ailment A, and return in a month if ailment B continues. I'm sure he thought I were a hypochondriac.

Sleep paralysis ahoy!

You kept your panties on during the leg crossing?

This would be a great clue if we ever did a BEEX computer game crossword.

Wouldn't mind that. I'm waking up sneezing in the night as it is so I'm almost constantly tired and grotty. I didn't want to ask for the spray with steroids in case I looked, well, y'know.

I'm going to buy the stuff I want from the Internet. Should have done that in the first place.

Can't even do that as it is prescription only. Boo NHS! Stop the cuts! Life was better under Labour! And so on and so forth.

Ok... Now excited, off to Italy on Thursday!!!

Drank a few mouthfuls of milk of magnesia about 2hrs ago, straight from the bottle, employing the "drink until you think it'll work" policy I like to employ with most liquid medication.

Beginning to regret that slightly at this point. Judging by the very liquid sounding burbling and rumbling going on, I'd say I may have had just a little more (ok a lot more) than necessary to help with the indigestion I was suffering.

Flis, I did that once. Just once. I fear for your future.

You do know that milk of magnesia also works as a laxative if you take enough?

Small dose = cure for indigestion
Large dose = you shit yourself

An industrial version is also used for adjusting the PH in sewage works. CHINNYTRUFAX!

Yes you would. Sleep paralysis accounts for the most disturbing experience of my life. It's fucking horrible. Picture people you care about being tortured (by other people you care about, for bonus points) while for no reason, you're unable to move. For example.

I think I am beginning to realise that, yes....I read it and assumed it meant a laxative effect in the same way as too much chewing gum has a laxative effect. I didn't think it would clean out my insides so effectively that they sparkle.

It's ok, I will sleep with arse on Rameas side of the bed.

The rumbling is on an epic scale now

Although the first few times it happened I thought it was a dream. It was the Beconase because I used to be prescribed it in the days before it was available in chemists. It worked well, but when I finally realised what it was doing I refused to have it anymore.

Doctor acted like I was a mental and the leaflet said nothing of the side effect. It took the advent of the interweb for me to find out that steroids can cause sleep paralysis.

Pah, beconase. Lightweights. I was on flixonase (the double hard version) for years.

Of course, the doctor didn't think to tell me/know that prolonged use could pretty much destroy your sense of smell. Not particularly helpful for a chronic problem, doc.

I only mention Beconase because the cocaine nose spray the Doctor used to squirt up my nose didn't cause sleep paralysis. Far from it.

The mistake I made one day was after having one inspection, they'd given me rather more than they usually would due to it being a bit painful. Felt fine afterwards and returned to college, but about half hour later I was in some difficulty. Thankfully I can't remember that much of what happened.

Mmm-hmmm.

Ah shit. Now I'm remebering that god aweful rose/10 fan fiction I couldn't stop reading because my brain went "waaaait? Whaaaaat?" instead of "oh god no stop!".

Rose+The Doctor+Chains+ Screwdriver+ Captain Jack. Surprisingly Jack was in it for one sentance where he poked his head though the door and went "carry on" and left. Also Rose wasn't in the chains.

I had a Doc Who fanfic in my mind involving the Lake District, Edvard Munch's 'Scream', an inexplicable camp dose of Buck Rodgers, the death of Bobby Kennedy and the notion of Rosetti era muses. I stopped very quickly as I was uncomfortable with the idea of fanfic.

Which Doctor/companion?

Ah! Similar problem. Was prescribed that spray by a negligent GP, who failed to inform me of the corrosive properties of said medication. Was only informed by a hospital nose specialist, after a long wait for an appointment, who told me to change my GP straight away (I did), but some damage was already done by then. Bah.

Said nose specialist stuck a telescopic thing up my nasal passage, incidentally. Literally the most uncomfortable and perhaps painful experience ever. I wince just thinking it over, to be honest...

I had that camrea u pthe nose thing. Didn't find it too bad to be honest, though my eyes watered. I had a horrible tasting local anaesthetic up there first though, mind. I wouldn't have minded it tasting nasty, but some oaf had decided that they'd try to mask it with horrible banana flavouring of some kind. Medicine will taste/smell manky, I can live with that. Don't try to make it nice.

I hada similar thing with the vitiligo - doctor prescribed a steroid cream, which rarely works and can only be used for a couple of weeks anyway. Thanks, doc! That'll help the chronic condition that's been worsening for over a decade, I'm sure.

More spray needed. The guy who stuck the camera up my nose wasn't shy about how much he used when I was complaining about the pain.

6 megapixel scan of the Barbarian inlay. If it wasn't in foreign and so grainy I'd get it professionally printed and would stick it on the wall:

http://www.speccy.org/spa2/Inlays/Barbarian(Erbe).jpg

You've clearly never been to a GUM clinic, then. The thing they do with the cotton wool bud. Fucking ouch.

Bit easy, though. "The winner takes it all, but will it fit on his motorbike?" might be better.
Did you see the video game crossword I put on WoS, many moons ago?

Oh, my, GOD! They're here!


Robots in Disguise? by MrDavPaz, on Flickr

Brilliant!

IDGI.