One hundred and ninety nine
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Banquet - Bloc Party
Topic: XLNT
Hi.... I'm feeling pretty good today.
Last night I went out for a drink-date with Vicky. I haven't seen her for about 5 months or so and I wasnt sure what was going through her mind.... So I probed...
It was a really good night. We got on well, unsurprising, we always have.
Well, no details to reveal but it was a great night. lol

One hundred and ninety eight
Mood:  accident prone
Now Playing: Dekota - Stereophonics
Topic: .alt
I was so bored at home this morning, I had to leave the house early to get to work.
I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window at the rain and it feels right. The mood is set. Grey skys, overcast clouds and reflections of water on the celing. There are stars flying around in my mind.
Here is copy of an email I recieved.
Sometimes my brain ties together things that are better left alone. Here are three things I've thought about recently:

- Microchip designers often embed microscopic messages on the surface of the chip as a way of signing their work.

- DNA has a lot of "junk" parts that don't seem to have any function.

- A lot of people think evolution is obviously "designed" by someone.
I wonder if any cryptographers have looked at that junk DNA to see if it's a message from the designer. I'm guessing that it's a code that says something like, "I am Kaloopah, from the star system Nebulon IV. I have sent this evolution program into space as my eighth grade science project."

I imagine that a few thousand years from now, when scientists have learned to manipulate DNA, we'll be launching evolution programs into the cosmos, programmed to seek any planet that has the right environment. The rocket will land and spill its primordial goo, programmed with evolutionary preferences such as gender, eyeballs, limbs, mobility, and the urge to sit in cubicles while complaining about coworkers.

Evolution on that new planet would be programmed to develop over a few billion years to resemble us, obviously, because we're spectacularly vain, so we'd write the DNA program to turn out that way. There'd be no point in going to all that trouble just to create the Giant Chipmunk Planet.

This doesn't answer the question of who created the original aliens. But I suspect that the only way time can be infinite is if the past connects to the future like some huge Mobius strip-wormhole kind of deal. All you need to make this hypothetical system work is people like us who evolve and create new planets, who in turn evolve and create more new planets, until time loops back to our past and we get created again. In other words, we'd HAVE to evolve to the point where we could create a new planet or else we wouldn't exist in the present. Freaky, huh?

One hundred and ninety seven
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Embrace
Topic: .alt
Monday morning, and the sun I shining on my desk.
I’m considerably bored today, Work is good… but I’m having the Monday blues. As is, the rest of civility. What have we done on the weekend? I was meant to go out on Friday night… I got ready, Fish came round and we had Jack… We didn’t make it out the door though. We turned the music up and had a laugh. Si was meant to be coming, but the lazy bastard couldn’t be arsed. Never mind….
Saturday morning I woke up to the familiar sound of the shower at 6 am… nice. Not pleased by this, I hid under the pillow and forced slumber. Then at around 11, I got up and had a chat with Lisa. She was going to Lakeside so I decided to join her. Look for Kim’s birthday present. I got the 2 hours later and wondered around a couple of shops. Lisa wanted to get a dress for the night… and luckily, due to my late arrival, she had time enough to find out the type of dress she didn’t want to get.
Being indifferent about what to get Kim, I decided on a card and another shopping trip later in the week.
I managed to get home a few hours later and have some dinner. Faffing about I got ready and left to meet Fish. We went out to the George for some drinks and met up with some girls from our Trinity. To my surprise, we met Hanna, who, it turns out was very good friends with my sister, Gerarda. So we hung out with them for a while and then went with them to O’neills in Leytonstone. Si was also meant to be joining us, but again the unsocial tit didn’t make it…. Not even a call to say he wouldn’t. Git. Lol. So there we were in O’niells having a few. As usual, it was dark and crap. But we weren’t gonna let that change our moods. So we just got on with things and ended up talking to a couple of girls, again from Trinity. The exception this time was that they were actually our age. While Fish was chatting to Kerri about things.. I was talking to Denise. I remember Denise from school because her and Claire didn’t exactly get on and well, you notice these things. I always assumed that because of my connection with Claire that these things just continued. But after a good talk with her… It seems that I greatly under valued her and Kerri. A couple of really nice girls and not what I expected. So, moving on, we got dragged out of the pub by the girls we had met earlier in the night and on to McD’s for nothing it seemed. Neither of us wanted food… so we said our good byes and left…. Having a good laugh on the way back to Fish’s place.
Sunday I was feeling a bit rough… I didn’t drink that much and for some reason I couldn’t really think properly. But It soon cleared up in Romford when I met Kim for what was to be lunch but ended up just hanging out. We went back to mine and Kim was nice enough to make dinner.
So the weekend was cool. Nice to get out and play a bit.

Turning away from the light becoming adult.
Mood:  amorous
Now Playing: Banquet - Bloc Party
Topic: Lyrics
A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I can give you life, I can take it away

A heart of stone, a smoking gun
I'm working it out
Why'd you feel so underrated?
Why'd you feel so negated?

Turning away from the light
Becoming adult
Turning into my soul
I wanted to bite not destroy
To feel her underneath
Turning into my soul

She don't think straight
She's got such a dirty mind and it never ever stops
And you don't taste like her and you never ever will
And we don't read the papers, we don't read the news
Heaven's never enough, we will never be fooled

And if you feel a little left behind
I will see you on the other side

Cos I'm on fire
I'm on fire when you come

I'm on fire so stub me out

Rather fancy
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Roseability - Idlewild
Topic: .alt
One rather clever development from BT that you may not be aware of .. Yes, I said BT, the landline provider that provide a lot of the UK's standard phones. How do they warrant a story on Gspaced? Well, you can now send a text message to any "normal" landline phone.

"Oi", I hear you cry, "your losing the plot. Not everyone has one of those flashy new BT phones where you can send / receive text messages"

... You don't need to. Sure, it helps - the new phones let you send messages from a landline number (and they're quite cheap too)... they even have polyphonic ringtones and colour screens as BT struggle to compete with their mobile competitors - however anyone with any phone can now receive a text.

How is it done? Well, it's real easy. Go on, pick up your Smartphone now and send a message to your own home phone number. Type a proper message in, like "Hello, I will be home in 5 minutes, get the dinner sorted love" ;) Within seconds your home phone rings and the familiar "1571" BT Answer lady will READ OUT your text message along with the number it came from. If no-one answers then BT will keep it as a standard voice-message and will inform you with the usual two-tone dial-tone.

Note - Bluesmudge has emailed me to say NTL customers can get this too!

The journey
Oh my lord. A few drinks last night and I feel like crap today. Not good. Starting to feel my age.
I'm sitting here on the train to Hemel. Boldly going where I've gone so many times before. Today I just couldn't believe I was actually having to drag myself out of bed. Not even the usual shower was good. Normally the pick up I need to get me started. Breakfast wasn't good either. I guess the good thing that will come out of today is that i should be heading back to my office today. No longer will I trek to and fro... I nice quick journey to Waltham Forest... And then the comfort of my own office again. Granted a very quiet office... But i will be getting my assistant soon so that will change.
Has any one seen Wembly yet? I pass there every day on the train. I'm passing it now in fact. It looks great. A really good stadium. I can't wait to see it completed.
Well as soon as I see it, its gone just as quick.
Todays train takes me past all the little stations between Euston and Hemel... Bushy, Harrow and Wealdstone, Watford and Kings Langley.
I'm thinking about what I want to do this year. I don't usually get a chance to go on holiday, so i'm going to set myself a goal. Do a little saving and then go away. Not just the usual trip away... Something substantial. A real trip. Initially i was thinking about going to Australia but i think i'd like to go away somewhere different. Visit the Inca mountains maybe... But not just there maybe all over south america and maybe california to... I do want to go to California... So that would be good to.

#193
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Drops of Jupiter - Train
Topic: Stuff
Sunday morning has been and gone without event. Mostly I spent the time in bed, either sleeping or reading... Da Vinci's Code is gripping. A worthy read and oddly fitting...
Have you heard about the latest? Last night I heard that the pope died. RIP John Paul II.

So here we are, Sunday afternoon, the Bahrain F1 has finished with another great race by Alonso. Woo Hoo. I feel like certain parts of my life have changed... I went to play Golf with Marco yesterday, first time this year... It was great to get out and into the sun. So there we were talking about our friends and things of equal precedence... We sort of realized that although, children we may still feel like, there are aspects of this that just don’t interest us any more. Games, films and music are all changing for us. We are not interested no more in the lost art of being able to beat a fellow companion at the lost art of Ninja fighting... We no longer require quick action movies to keep us from being bored in the movie theater, no longer are the days were a happy chirpy ballad about a love that slips through our fingers... I mean to say that I am slightly more patient, more attuned and more me... defined characteristics are now what I see in my self, and a five o'clock shadow that is there at five and not just the next day.
I don't know what spurs me on, and what instigated this new culture shock.... But I’m trying to say.... I am me.
Here are some fitting lyrics for me at the moment:

“And I don’t know what you mean to me
But I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, I want to take you on”

Gspaced.co.uk
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Like Eating Grass - Bloc Party
Topic: .alt
Anybody notice whats happening over at the Gspaced.co.uk site these days... Last week there was a change to the layout and then again the layout changed...It seems to have changed completely and become more dynamic. Professional is not the word i want to use here, but its definatly a step in the right direction.
So check it out boys and girls...
Full URL is: Gspaced.co.uk

B tween
Along the right lines....

Just
I just finished watching a movie. Granted I do this a lot, but this one
was different. I liked this movie. I liked it so much, It quite possibly
was the best movie I've seen in a long long while.
The movie is called Garden State. See for yourself..