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Finally got a home to go to. I packed her off with the largest bag of dog food in the entire universe, for her first few meals.

Dog Blog update

More news in Is this your dog? Still no name, but open to suggestions, and anyone that would like to adopt a hugely confident, bundle of safety, as seen pictured here eating her reward for rescuing a baby from a burning tower block.



No name as yet, can you think of one?
And no she doesn't speak with a Sylvester the cat type lisp, the tongue just happened to be out when the picture was taken.

Sexist Feminism

In a slight departure from the norm, I would like to bring your attention to a piece by Shayne about Sexist Feminism. I agree Shayne, good on you!




Lady stuff

Is this your dog?

Ok, who ever left this large killing machine in my back yard, is welcome anytime to stop by and retrieve it.

Found on the evening of July 24 2004, and still here. Mind you, nobody is coming near the house with this horse sized jaws of doom waiting for them! I am full to capacity with five cats, two turtles, and a dog. So somebody come do the right thing and get your dog!

**UPDATE**
Well perhaps there is more to this than a lost doggie after all? When I arrived back last night there were flowers on the doorstep. Not unusual as I have a great neighbor who often leaves them, after doing green-thmubery things in their garden. But when I was warning them today of the new fatal-friend in the yard, they informed me that they did not leave them there. Was this from the mysterious doggie dropper?

**UPDATE**
Managed to get the wonderful Amy from It's a ROTTn PITy! to come take a brief look at the dog. It's a ROTTn PITy! do great work, finding homes for those animals so desperately in need of care (and often attention too). Amy is trying to get funding as well as a place to take the as yet nameless Rottweiler.

The dog is most definately female, and seems older. Right now has an amazingly calm attitude to life. But seems to be in a lot of pain. A visit to the vet will soon sort out the start of getting her back to full health. She is living in the yard in a hastily constructed (and very large) house. Wimpering occasionally, but mostly still. Seems to love people and the attention she is getting so far. I hope she does not take it upon herself to vanish once she feels better. She is eating and drinking like a late comer to a Roman orgy, so no problems there, although she is flinching at very light touches to anything other than her head. It's a big dog and in the image below what looks like a plastic bowl which recently contained food is actually a football stadium!

**UPDATE** July 26th 2004 (Must get a graphic for this I think....)
It appears the dog is about 6 years old, and simply in heat, nothing more serious. The only serious thing about it seems to be the 79lb of pure doggie! But even during the examination, there was not a single sign of 'I don't want this' coming from the dog, merely putting up with it.

Added to the LOST AND FOUND website, so hopefully if the person out there is looking, then they may just find them!

**UPDATE** July 29th 2004
Dog finally got to it's new home. She has a black lab puppy to keep her company. Don't tell anyone but I actually had a SLIGHTLY hard time walking away from her when I gave her over. It didn't help the fact that she tried to follow me home, and watched me all the way down the road. Now she finally has a home.



I had to stand on a ladder to shoot it from this angle, honestly, uh huh!
Female, Approx Age 6, 79lb

Who makes these things?

I was in Target the other day, looking at some video game stuff, and came across this little GameBoy Advance section they had there. As usual they had all the consoles on display so you could try what ever game they were trying to sell that week. I always wonder who comes up with the little pieces these things sit on, or in? I mean, do Nintendo and others all have their sales department's sub section spending every waking moment, coming up with new designs on which to display their goodies? I have the sinking feeling of Jedi-consumerism that perhaps they do!

I want to know more!



There must be a very odd factory somewhere...

Who are you?

Someone visited me recently, and I think a while back, with avery strange setup....

Imagine this folks...
Win98 at 640*480

The weird thing was that they were not looking how to fix their display adapter, but for piccies of Walmart!

HEY WHOEVER YOU ARE, WE CAN HELP, LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE PANEL ON THE RIGHT, PLEASE!! IT'S FREE, IT ALWAYS IS HERE!

I know it could be someone who is amazingly clever and can make people outside see something odd. Color me impressed!


No graphic, because it could be a PDA they are visiting on.

Getting rid of MSN Messenger

Recent reinstalls of WinXP and rampant backing up of all my data, on a regular basis (OooOOooo get you. What next, taking out extended warranties on desktop computer purchases? Someone get this person their slippers, pipe, and hot milk, oh too late, it's after six pm.) caused me to remember certain pains.....

Anyway, I kept getting the message to update the MSN messenger, which I refused to do. Then one day I just did it, figuring it would stop bugging me after that. Well I was wrong. I must have sleep-computed and entered my details because it all of a sudden would pop up with a message from someone asking some computery question. I can let you in on a secret, that sometimes I actually turn off my messenger so I can do this thing called er... what was it now...er.. oh it's that thing that pays the bills..er.. WORK! I use Trillian when I need to, as it has all the different messengers combined into one thing. So it doesn't matter which service your chum calls you on, it's all in the same window so after a while you tend to forget which one they are using.

So back to the plot...

Some people at Jonathankay.com had some very simple steps to removing the MSN messenger from WinXP.

Simply START then RUN and type in the following...
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
You can just copy the above line and paste it into the RUN command line.

Quick as a very quick thing with diahorrea, on it's way to the bathroom, you are hearby granted freedom to roam the net without the most annoying sidekick since Jar Jar Binks.



Pesky MSN Messenger, always urging you to send that instant message