Hello Mary

Aha! We know that you visit us, so we thought we should leave a message here for you....

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Making do....

Blimey! This is one of those scary lists, that make you glad you shop in stores, and use electricity occasionally!!

Ikea

Editing a rant down considerably.... Come on sort out your website.... just try looking for something there, or finding any relevant info... It's made by people that understand websites, and don't need to look for anything they need/want for their house. It's all very well making a nice site, but remember that those people coming to it, know only what they want from it, NOT the entire thing before they have even looked at it.

If this makes little sense, then tough, just don't tell me about your next online information gathering experience there.

There.com (Again)

Odd things that people seem to work out....

I have a Teleportal on my site now, to get to objects, places and the odd person or two within There. Those of you lucky enough to be in will be able to try it, those not....well, we just don't associate with those sort of people (smuggity smug smug)

I will be collecting more of them in the coming weeks I suppose

Windows Update Mysteries...

Just at the beginning of installing a bunch of Windows98 PC's and after a format and a clean reinstall of one machine, went to Windows Update and it kept telling me that I did not need any updates..

How odd?

After a while, I worked out that it was the clock, which was set at 2005, instead of 2003 (for those of you reading this in the history books, it was before flying cars and really USEFUL house cleaning robots) and Windows Update must have taken the PC's clock time, or some other thing that I could not really have any knowledge of...

Does anyone out there know what you call a dish that you put your car keys, spare change, etc into? You know the one you have near the front door, so that thieves can easily take all the important things without having to rummage around and wake everyone up.

I need something that will hold keys, change, mobile phones, and sunglasses....

This looked promising, but there seems no information on HOW they made them from the alledged materials...

Wow, look at this well spent time, with a CD-ROM DRIVE and a microwave AND a toaster.

Mistaken Identity

I managed to clear up one nagging notion....I thought this chap was indeed this chap, as I kept seeing him on Robot Wars over here in the US.

Strangely enough, people go on about all the American programming, people in England have to watch, where all I tend to see over here is mostly the BBC being shown..... mind you perhaps one is naturally drawn to such things...who knows...?

And with all today's research into the BBC and various fronting people, I found this page on a program I thought was long forgotten called Now Get Out of That... hmmm

Star Wars Episode II

It took me an age to finally get to see it, and two different DVD players to be able to see it (Netflix grimy disc) but it just wasn't up to the immense amount of trouble it must have taken them to make it. Every scene was stunning, and the computer graphics were getting further away from that look of where people seem to jump and move a little too quickly to be real. However the acting was awful. Yoda, R2-D2, C3P-O, and just about every other thing in the movie which one would have no way of knowing if it looked real or not, did indeed seem believable. However, the people in the movie, (except for Christopher Lee) just seemed plain not-bothered by the whole thing. Ewen Macgregor's terrible accent was back for this installment, but top prize for completely unable to act/react to anything at all, while all the time sound like they were learning to read, instead of acting...goes to....Anakin Skywalker

The other chracters, even Mace Windu were just too cool, and so at no time did you ever get the impression that ANYTHING going on was of any real importance anyway.

Lovely looking, and probably we're to be subjected to a million of those film making documentaries, where they tell us things like "the left leg of Padme is actually a computer graphic which took 18 months in post production to get completely right, it isn't of course, just a piece of her body which we can film along with the rest of her, as that would be too simple." So why is it they can build entire universes of wonderful monsters, robots, and space ships, and yet every time a man has to jump of anything higher than ten feet tall, he looks strangely FALSE!!

I know about the fact it is easier to make unreal things LOOK believable, because you have nothing to base your judgement on, other than what you are seeing for the first time. So perhaps they might want to think about NOT using computer graphics for real people, until they get it looking right. Doing such a good job as they did on this movie, means that the wonderful fantasy items look so good. But that just makes the gap between those things and the supposed 'real' items all the more obvious....having said all that, I will try and catch Episode III at the movies..

I do get the feeling I should like Ewan McGregor but somebody PLEASE tell him to leave that Noel Edmonds beard in the sink for the next movie (although I fear my influential request may be overlooked)

I am so glad it wasn't just me that thought the Matrix Reloaded was an incredible waste of time...