Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21455453

Oscar Pistorius arrested after his girlfriend was fatally shot. Early reports are that he was legless at the time.

...So, very, very sorry*



























*Not sorry.

Yes. That may enter my lexicon

I'd have asked if I thought I needed permission.

Pistorious apparently thought she might have been a cyborg.

"It's called retirement"

I've never wanted to go to South Africa, it seems to be an absolutely terrible place.

Just been talking about dogs at work as my boss has just taken hers to the vets. Got onto the subject of Toy dogs and I said the only small breed I like are Sausage Dogs, most of us agreed and our new female member of the design team said, "Oh yeah, what are they called? Douche Hounds?"

Hahahahahaha!

Roses are red, violets are glorious. Don't ever surprise Oscar Pistorious.

Amazing.

Roses are black, violence is red, you bought me a present, so I shot you dead.

Sounds like a regular domestic disturbance to me. I think all the stories about surprises etc will not have been true

Around 1993, I'd left university, just broken up with my girlfriend and wasn't really doing much. I was offered the chance to go to Joburg to see if I fancied looking for work over there...even though the family friends who offered the opportunity had lost a couple of family members to crime (one killed in a car jacking and another killed in their drive way) I still regret not taking them up on the offer.

Not all of SA is like JoBurg and Cape Town is a particularly splendid party town, Durban is lovely as well.

Good God.

The telegraph are saying that they don't think he was mistaken.

In the context of the day it was fine, as it was cool to hate white South Africans. Don't you still have your free Nelson Mandella that everyone got?

I only got a Handhi Bendhi Gandhi.

That should earn me some Chinny points.

Pistorius to plead guilty, apparently.
He was going to plead not guilty but his lawyers told him he didn't have a leg to sta(Stop that right this minute! Ed)

Windows 7 not booting. Can't find the recovery disk. Arse.

What, that he was right to shoot her? Interesting standpoint.

When BEEX finally closes, we should go out like this:

Dell charging me 41 quid for an OS disk I never had. You know people bang on about Apple, but that takes the piss.

I'd go back to Nigeria before I went back to SA :/

I know someone who travels the more exotic parts of the world and has been to places in South America where they shoot tourists for sport. He lived in Glasgow for a while and describes accidentally driving into one of the rougher housing estates at night as one of the most intimidating experiences he's ever had.

Jeez, you'd have to offer me an obscenely huge day rate to go to Nigeria.

I work with a colleague who the last time he was in Nigeria when he was out at a bar it was raked with AK47 fire (some dispute between the bar owner and a group of 'local businessmen').

Someone I know was offered a job in Nigeria. The provided accomodation had armed guards, a panic room, shot gun under the bed and a fully fuelled and well maintained Land Rover in the secured basement garage. The shotgun being the last resort. They didn't take it.

Is this Grim...'s house or are we still talking about Nigeria?

You are meant to make one, when you first power on a dell. Can't you find a 'back up' on the web.

Having one of those days.

Wage is going to be wrong, even though I spotted the mistake about the fuel, and the system has updated, no on has informed pay roll.

Just spend an hour trying to print labels. Over wifi, with the printer steadfastly refusing to believe the paper was A4 and not letter! Thus a few unaligned prints.
The desktop worked fine. Bloody printers!

One of my suppliers won't make me a 34u rack that is identical to the 38u one they produce, other than it will be a bit shorter, as it is off process and too risky!!

My Galaxy s2 is refusing to charge and has been stuck at 47% for 4 hours.

*grumble*

Kovacs is not having a good day!

I did make a backup although a) I can't find it and b) the Dell is a "backup" disk that installs it to the state it was in when you backed it all up. What I need is a full Windows disk to effect a "repair".

You can of course create a 'restore' disk at any time but it needs to be from the same version of Windows. The only other version I have is "home" whereas the one I need to restore is "home premium".

Can you not download one from MS.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... 127a14612a

Now I'm not one to wallow in other peoples misery...no scratch that, there's nothing more I enjoy than wallowing in other people's misery. Yes I know, it makes me a very bad man. So imagine my joy when I was prompted to look at the 'What are you doing for Valentines Day' thread on the Sheffield forum (a forum for all things Sheffield, populated by Sheffield folk and therefore generally full of whinging and a whining). Apologies for the spelling, this is posted verbatim, so blame Thatcher's Britain...or summat.



After being quizzed on whether or not the above was true...our author who goes by the name of 'Spikey Head' responds with...



I await the follow up posts tomorrow...or the news reports of a knifing in the Sheffield area.

That actually sounds worse than http://www.liphook.co.uk/?page=talkback_wide.

The ONLY notable facts about Liphook are that Ted Rogers spent his last days there + Google adwords thinks it amusing to include Liphook as an area of the UK when all the other areas listed are counties or major cities. Since Popbitch had a longrunning Liphook gag I'm guessing someone at Google is a reader.

[edit: Oh I'd forgotten how jaw dropping that place was. Todays highlight is a man who will be "instructing his legal team" because of Sainsburys only allowing a certain amount of kids in the shop at once. Headmaster of the local school? No, he's a taxi driver.]

Wowzers.

He will be the badguy for taping it. Funny though!

Moar

Please keep us posted, Morte.

Seeing this from the other side as my (graphic designer) colleague must have somehow given the impression she wasn't bothered about Valentines.

Turns out, she really is. Who knew!

Ouch.

I am in the Brewery Tap in Leeds!

Tried that earlier but the download speed was so slow I might as well have pulled out my US Robotics 56k modem.

Granted it would have probably have downloaded by the time the DVD arrives but at least I'll have a proper backup with drivers now (they send a driver CD as well).

Anyone for Valentine's Day cake?

£3! In a wine glass! good job i am worth it.

Is that even a pint?

"It's too bad she won't live, but then again... who does?"

1/3 pint. Lovely, it was.

£9 per pint?

I hope it was at least 12% alcohol.