The Triumphs and Tribulations of Wiz

Many will know of the popular microblogging tool twitter for posting little tidbits of info to the world, similar to a blog but with only 140 characters available. But I have decided to not use twitter as it seems to have a lot of problems scaling, and so I have been using the smaller, but in my view better, Plurk.com as my microblogging tool. Instead of displaying posts down in a list it displays them in a timeline view that also includes the plurks of your friends. Also, friends can discuss about your plurks and you can share images and other things like youtube as well. Altogether it is a well rounded service with lots of new features possible. It is still in its infancy and we will wait to see how well it scales with that being twitters main problem. But it is good and if you want to join then click this link

P.S. I am going to try and post regularly, hopefully once a day if not then once everyother day.

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The following excerpts are allegedly culled from church magazines.....

Thank G-d for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:

• Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
• The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals."
• The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
• Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.
• The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.
• Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
• For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
• At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice
• Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
• Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
• Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
• Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.
• The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
• The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
• Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done.
• The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
• Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church Please use large double door at the side entrance.
• The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours."

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I have just logged back into to the blogger dashboard and noticed that my last post was dated 29th of April so I obviously didn't post any time in May due to revision and exams. So now as I finish my last exams (physics tomorow and Geography on Thurday) I hope to get back to blogging.
I have a few post that I can write. I have started using plurk, a micro-blogging tool a bit like twitter. Also I want to do a full review of NEXT, by Michael Crichton that I finished reading earlier this week, a very good book and well worth the read.
And to finish off, yesterday I ordered GTA so that should come by Friday or Saturday, so I will write a review of that probably Sunday. As for the future, well I don't know what I will do. I will probably write quite a bit about the 3G iPhone that apple announced on Monday and also comment on some of the stories that I find on Digg

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Heard this on the local news. Gates have recently been installed around the borugh of wigan to protect the back alleyways from ghroups of chavs. But when do they stop working? Think about it if you were to have a gate then you have something to protect but how the hell are you protecting it if there is a one metre gap at the side of the fence. This is what happened when contractors left a gate with a one metre gap adjacent to it. The gate which cost £1400 is now rendered useless and is a complete waste of money.

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I've been hosting some games on Rainbow 6 Vegas today and it went smoothly cos I got a 24mb/sec connection but I know that it never actually recieves 2


Not bad I would say for hosting games.

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So I have been paying a bit of attention to some of the news of the auction of the 700MHz spectrum in the US and it now seems that the hammer has been thrown down and the auction finished. Now then the 700MHz spectrum is the spectrum that analogue TV signals are broadcast on, as such they can penetrate walls and so would be good to carry internet signals and stuff like that. As such the auction has finished and the results have been released. Verizon Wireless spent over $9 bil on one block of the spectrum and AT&T spent $6.5 bil on another block on the spectrum.

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Thought some people may find this, trick is to read it but not as if it is code just as normal text.

/*
TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project: Longhorn(TM) SP1
*/
#include "win95.h"
#include "win98.h"
#include "leopard.h"

char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];

void main() {
while (!CRASHED) {

if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}

if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}

if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow)
set_mouse(reaction_sometimes)
}

//printf("Welcome to Windows 2000");
//printf("Welcome to Windows XP");
printf("Welcome to Windows Vista");

while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}

create_general_protection_fault();
}

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Yesterday I went to london with my family to watch Les Miserable. We got on a train to London Euston at 8 and got into London at around 10:30. From Euston we got on the underground and spent most of the morning following my sister round Primark (great :( ). Then from there we went to the apple store and I played on the macs which are very nice and I would get one for my birthday if they weren't so damn expensive. Walking down regent street we found a subway which we all got subway from and we sat on the fire exit steps of some church in a backstreet. After that we got to the theatre on Shaftsbury avenue.
The show was amazing. I can't really describe the show only that it was amazing and everyone should go and see it. The scene changes are so quick and the moving turntable means that the next scene can be set behind the one that is going on. There is also lots of leg room in the theatre as well.

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This is another of them facebook groups that I keep finding this especially for the people of TSR who read this and go to uni
I- Thou Shalt Nap
And God gave unto Student a great gift, the gift of napping. God said to him, You shall spend half your day napping. You shall nap in class, in your room and in your friend's room. And God said, if you don't nap, you will not be able to stay up all night drinking. And Student said, Nap I shall, and it was good.

II- Thou Shalt Get Ill All the Time
Now God said to Student, you must be ill all of the time. And student said why. And God said unto him, you shall share drinks, stay up too late, drink too much and hook up with people you don't know. Therefore, God said, you shall be ill all year round. But God said, blessed are the sick for they have partied the hardest. And it was good.

III- Thou Shalt Acquire A Nickname
And Student asked of his name, for he had heard that names often change at university. And God said unto him, you shall acquire a nickname and that is what people will know you as forever. Some may even forgot your real name, God added. And student asked if he could choose the name he was to be known by. And God laughed a mighty laugh and said to Student, he who attempts to pick his own nickname shall be called Assknuckle! And Student understood his wisdom and determined to accept whichever nickname he was given.

IV- Thou Shalt Wear a Hoodie
And then Student asked God, God how do I look like a university student. And God said unto student, you must wear a hoodie, for it is a useful garment. And you shall never wash it either. Student asked God, "What kind of Hoodie should it be?" And God said, "You shall own many of varying colours and creeds." And Student was pleased and God was pleased.

V- Thou Shalt Embarrass Yourself Online
And next student asked God of technology and how one should conduct himself online. And God said to student, thou shalt embarrass yourself online. And student was confused but God explained it to him. Said God, you will log into facebook drunk and write embarrassing things on your friends profiles. You will message people you are attracted to and then completely forget you have done so. You will post pictures of yourself that will someday be the reason you cannot find a job. And student began to weep so God took a video of this and put it on youtube.

VI- Thou Shalt Order Many Takeaways
Student asked unto God if there were any need for takeaways given the numerous recipe books he had already acquired, but God said to him, "You shall order many a takeaway, but you are poor, with little money and shall eat 8p value noodles instead of using said books." Student ordered takeaway and ate 8p value noodles and it was good.

VII- Thou Shalt Hook Up
Student then asked of sex. And God said, Student, you shall hook up and be happy. You shall go home with random people every weekend, do the walk of shame and forget about them the next day. You shall see them at uni and be awkward amongst their company. You shall exchange saliva at clubs and parties and it will be good. And Student became gleeful and said 'giggity, giggity' and it was good.

VIII- Thou Shalt Join a Club and Never Go to Meetings
Student inquired of his spare time and God reminded him that he should be napping. But Student said he wanted to do other things. So God said unto him, you shall join a club at the beginning of the semester, but then never go to meetings. And Student asked why he should not go to meetings, and God told him, because the glee club is gay. And Student understood His wisdom.

IX- Thou Shalt Wake Up Confused
God said to Student, there will come many a day when you shall wake up in the bed of another and not know where you are. You will not remember what you did last night and you shall be confused. You will see that you have nipple rings and a tattoo now and are covered in marker pen. And Student was disturbed by this, but God said, you shall tell great stories about it to your friends someday. And Student understood and God took a sip of a beer.

And God gave Student the final Commandment

X- Thou Shalt Gain Weight
And Student wished to hear the final commandment and God said he would not like it. But Student insisted, so God said unto him, you shall gain weight. However, God said, you will not buy new clothes, so you will wear sweat pants a lot. God said, Student, you will watch a lot of TV and become fat to which Student wept profusely. But God comforted Student saying, you will still hook up even if you cannot tie your shoes anymore for many will be like you and that is good. The student felt better and God pointed to Students chest saying, those will soon be bitch tits.

THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD!

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I went karting last saturday and I have to say that it is was very fun. I went with Ryan, Luke, Dan, and Dean. We went to the Wigan indoor track and even though it is small it is very good. We had a good time and I did around 38 laps in about 20 minutes and didn't crash once (some very near misses though). Danny managed to crash a few times and right at the end when the marshalls said for us all to slow down and go into the pits, luke comes hairing up the back straight and jams himself between me and the tire barrier. But that is all for now. I will post about how oliver went on saturday night

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What do you think of this slide, eh?



This is another one posted on TSR, all credit goes to Jake22



What do you think?

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