disturbing search requests revisited

HMV

Weird to think how some acronyms just become accepted. HMV, BT, DSL, AOL etc…
Weirder still to think that some people never knew what the acronym stood for in the first place.
Chris and his friends have had a debate about HMV and had decided it must stand for ‘Her Majesty’s Vinyl’. I nearly choked!

Dermot O’Leary

Dermot is promoting Centrepoint at the moment and recently appeared on AOL Live [AOL Keyword: Live] where he had this to say about underwear…

Question: Do you get sent lots of underwear through the post????
Dermot Live: I’ve never been sent any unless I subscribe to it myself which
has been know to happen. Sometimes I send myself some to make myself feel better.

Interwebnet Scare


According to Internet Alert [from bonzi.com] they can “allow you to see where in the world your attacker is located. ” According the them then over 40% of the web population are based in and around Dulles, VA The location of AOL.
I love the testimonials though, Mari says” I’m so impressed I’m going to put your link on my ‘cool links page’ and maybe get you some business.” – I’m sure they will be pleased to learn they no longer need to advertise then.

okay strange but enjoyable night

met my ex boyfriends flatmate Derek in the 2 sewers and he works for AOLTW – In Style magazine – funny his only knowledge of AOL is having to use a SecurID 🙂 well actually his exact words elude me but had something to do with having to enter those funny six numbers before you can use the internet.

Also had a snog from a random stranger which was you know nice – made me realise there are people out there who actually like me. His name was Mark and I have no idea why he came over and snogged me but I wasn’t complaining 🙂

Kirsten?s Birthday was actually really good too – started in Arch635 and then moved to Bar Sol, which is an overpriced restaurant by day and an overpriced straight meat market by night. Gah. The only saving grace was the company and the really cute waiter – unfortunately he wasn’t waiting our table 🙁
So that’s my Saturday night in synopsis whilst you know inebriated. gah blogging whilst drunk again.

drunk

talk about don’t blog when drunk – how about email when drunk – that’s much worse and unlike AOL there is no unsend. Please don’t hold it against me in the morning.

I probably wouldn;t want to unsend it but I would like to phrase it better – who am I kidding I want unsend it’s less incriminating.

weekend

Friday was one of those days where I thought I had gotten away without a fuss for my borthday by having training scheduled all day. I was still caught though around 5 with a birthday cake and card – sugar overdose wasn’t in it 🙂
I got home and then Andrew came around to help me celebrate so we did with a bottle of wine which was nice but left me very hungover on Saturday.
I still managed some DIY though and replaced 2 lights and put up 3 shelves so not exactly the worst day.
That evening though was the AOL Volunteers Bash. So lots of people I haven’t seen for ages and a few I work with too. Thanks to scally I was dragged up twice once to the stage for birthday wishes. I’ll get him back I’m just not sure how yet.
More alcohol than I should possibly have consumed later Rob and I decided to head off to Reflex in Kingston. He crashed at mine and this morning my head hurt lots. By 3ish I was supposed to have been at Jacs for Sunday lunch so took Rob to the station and headed off. Lovely Lunch with old friends from University so lots of reminiscing and drinking. A couple of classic quotes which I can’t share 🙂
So all in all a really nice weekend to turn 32.
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the interwebnet

you know I started my blog because I had the domain and was playing around to learn html and then I discovered blogger.com ‘[via notsosoft]’ mainly because I work with Meg and you know we chat and stuff. Not because I was surfing and looking. It looked cool and I thought hey I have server space I have time on my hands and I have an opinion on stuff. So hey why not.
Now I knew I was never going to be as prosaic as Meg. Mainly because I have never had a flair for expression – no artist is hiding in me desperate to get out. I think painting one wall in my otherwise white lounge is creative I tell you.
So I never thought of it as a competition. I did however write for an audience in the start. Blogging after all is vanity publishing whatever anyone tells you – or it would simply be written ina diary. I do have another blog that acts as my diary. The dark secrets I brood about and the things I think I will somehow become better if I write them down. You know making me think about them properly and collect my thoughts.
World in Motion is none of that though it’s about me what I do and links to other stuff which I like. Yes I know to some that is boring and hey a little repetitive but then hey I never asked you to read it. There are plenty of other sites out there with people paid to write excellent content so I never claimed to offer that. There are plenty of other blogs that are better designed with much more insightful commentary on life than I ever will.
Ian for instance writes brilliantly and has a huge array of reference from the UK press.
Having said all that though there is a debate at the moment about whether the internet has become stale that there is little that’s original. That many sites are simply recycled, plagiarised, stolen, revisited, reworked, repackaged versions of other sites we have seen before. Well I think maybe then we should look harder.
I am constantly amazed when I travel abroad and am on trains or driving by how many houses there are and wonder who lives in them. The internet is the same – geocities, AOL hometown, blogspot etc etc have made the web more accessible and so each one of these sites with it many thousands and possibly millions of sites and pages has a potential to suprise. Yes I agree there is a lot of repetition. Yes I agree there is a lot of repetition. Sometimes though that’s a good thing – I may never stumble over a decent site if it hasn’t been linked to by 800 other smaller sites.
Yes a lot of blogs are just about peoples lives – but look at the growth in reality TV. Big Brother, The Villa, Temptation Island and the like are all just peoples lives too the difference being they have been televised.
and anyway beans [via blogadoon].

It snowed today

whilst I was christmas shopping in covent garden – wandered into neals yard and it started to snow – made me feel all christmassy – or whatever 🙂

also went to the national film theatre to see the wizard of oz today – kate and paul were very suprised that this was the first time I have ever seen it. Well it was and I tell you had I seen it as a child I would have had nightmares abot the munchkins I tell you – scary was not the word.

then off to david and andrews for a christmas party in sydenham which was lovely met lots of pauls friends [well he claims not to have known most of them] which was nice and I’m feeling happy and lovely.

gotta take his pressie back to the BT shop though so he can have a dect phone with an answer machine – I mean not content with patrick cox shoes

anyways feeling really festive now with my tree and the snow so I added some snow to the site too [only on IE and AOL I’m afraid not NS] so off to walk jack and then to bed to dream of nice things.

tomorrow is jacs party with mulled wine and minced pies and then monday – thursday at my folks in liverpool so less blogging than usual. so in case I don;t log on before then – if you celebrate it – MERRY CHRISTMAS – and if you don’t – have a good few days!