Went and saw Attack of the Clones with Emma and Iain tonight err well its last night now, but you get the drift. I think it was Terminator X of Public Enemy who once said �Don't believe the hype� all I have to say is Damn Straight. The graphics are totally amazing I didn't realize they had come so far, however it seems to be at the expense of acting and plot. I dunno everyone I had spoken to before seeing the movie said that Yoda was the man, he was cool, but even some of his lines seemed a bit tacky. Ahhhh well one more and we are finished. Unsure what to do this weekend whether to make a start on Keep it Save, another game, finish Save or extend Save, maybe I'll invest some quality time with my PS2 :). Oooooooo one more thing about the Clone Wars, it had at least 3 New Zealanders in it wayhey. Hmmm possible parting thought, maybe it was called attack of the Clones because they ripped so much from the first 3 movies, I dunno. Ok just got a link from Richy Rich, I haven't included the link he sent me but here is another similar

Went out for some drinks lastnight with Emma, we were only going for a few and ended up there till closing both felt pretty shit today, woke up for the football, though I must confess after making breakfast and getting back into bed to watch the game I just went back to sleep for the second half :). So a quiet night tonight, cooked another thing out of my Donna Hay book Off the Shelf, it was piss easy, didn't take long and tasted great, that book is brilliant. Can Sleep at the moment so apart from surfing a bit I've been reading the latest Wired, its such a brillant read, I love it, hmmm will give examples when I'm more away. Yay Ash is back tomorrow, bastard has been on holiday in (I think) southern America, so will be relaxed and browner. Righto bedtime.

Waahey Ireland won !!!!

Brilliant article on legacy unit testing, its a pdf, However I'm not sure about null classes I can see where they could be handy, but also where it could be abused.

This is excelon and the company I work for

Crap day at work, started one thing, had one server go tits up with a failed power supply and on just ASR for what I can see is not reason. Started work on new functionality on a site I haven;t worked on before and instead found an error that I can't get to the bottom of and a small error in another site I had been working on.
Just finished watching the BBC 1 Ten O'Clock news, the Americans have someone in custody for thinking about building a �dirty bomb�. This is where you blow up a normal bomb with a load of radioactive material, so you just get the fallout not the big nuke explosion. All I see is a government that has found a scapegoat for the pressure it is currently feeling. The man they currently have is an ex-gang member, and he can get hold of nuclear waste or whatever nuclear crap he wishes to use in the bomb, the explosives for the normal bit of the bomb, then get it to Washington and set it off. I dunno it seems like a Government trying to build fortress America, which in turn alienates its citizens against others and get out of a tight spot in the press.

Hmmmmmmm, plugin for Eclipse Jalopy Java Source Code Formatter Beautifier Pretty Printer, Takes about 5 seconds to get working and looks like you can then spend 5890 hours fine tuning, hmmmmmmm Jalopy. Oh and this is my first "Blog This!" post lets see how it goes.

Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa blogger/blospot is/was broken, what do you do, It's not like you can blog about it. Boo. Bayliss made it two out of two again this weekend, not sure what Edwards can do, Xaus got past him but is looks like he got Team orders to back off. Oh well maybe next year it will be a bit closer.

I'm a bit lost at where to move with Cave, I know I need to tidy my code and get a proper license and get a copy of the source on the site as well, but in terms of making it better I'm a bit lost. I thought about colour but so far only one emulator I have supports colour and its an Emulator only you can't buy the phone so I dont see the point at present. Righto half an hour till the superbikes, I think I may go look at writing some tests and making the code looking a bit prettier.

Well England won, sounds like a small riot / footy match outside the office, inside it's quite quiet and people are trying to pretend to work. That is all.

Ok total Twilight Zone today about 3 seconds after putting up my last blog I get an email from Jane saying the link is incorrect. Ok that is silly once you type it, at the time it was werid.
Next Stopped smoking the other day, ummm tuesday I think, it was, can't remember when I had my last one. Sometime round 7 ish or something, Emma and I had been down for the fly over so it must have been round 7ish.
Okay as a side note, feeling pissed at the moment, so listen to Some soothing DanZig and would it play in my CD player nooooooooo, put it in the DVD player XP pops up a window saying " so ya want me to play da CD or what ?"

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Anyway, giving up is somewhat different to what I remember when I last gave up nearly 9 years ago. Needless to say I think if I had to sit next to a junkie for more than about 3 minutes, they would get up in disgust and part saying "Your fucked up", Got headaches, totally nill attention spam and a very vivid imagination at the moment, which seems to be liking paranoia at present. Anyway folks either don't start or live in a small cave with no people for 3 months when you give up, preferably with about 16 tons of your favourite booze.

Good one, we lost our pipe at work yesterday to our servers from noon till about 19:30, it took that long to trace the problem to a "mid point exchange" fault. What is going to happen because of it? Fuck all that�s what.
I can�t get Eclipse to work with our cvs setup, I assume it�s just me being silly, but still it�s pissing me off.

Back at work after the jubilee weekend spent in Normandy with Emma�s folk, Claire and Al, Caught the train to Dover on Saturday morning, with Claire and Al, all four of us with various states of hangover. At Dover we met up with Peter and Joy where we all piled in to Peters Jag, needless to say I�m now eternally grateful for being tall as this meant I got to sit in the front. We had a couple of hot, sunny days and a couple of hot rainy days, all in all nice weather, with the most amazing lighting storm on Sunday night, it was very weird a lot of the time there was lighting without thunder. It was between clouds rather than a cloud and the group, very freak. What other randomness occurred, we all went to the Benedictine Museum and some cliffs on the Monday and over a couple of f-off big bridges which were cool. Emma, Al and I flew back on Tuesday from Caen airport, which was brilliant, two check in desks and room for about 2 plane loads of passengers, ultra small and ultra clean, Very cool. By the time Emma and I got back to the flat we both collapsed and watched the Jubilee on the BBC, what a load of crap, the commentator was shite, I guess its hard to ramble on about nothing for 8 hours, anyway, Emma dragged me down to the Mall to see what was going on and catch the fly over. Masses of people, cool fly over, and all in all a relaxed atmosphere.

Interesting article about Java and open source development, although they don't mention Eclipse which seems a bit silly. On a completey different note check out This, its what happens if you go for one too many beers, its a joint Rich T, Jono idea.

Ok, I�ve made a start at my website , Bit of an arse that Im not going to have time to work on either the site or any of my MIDlet stuff till next week. Oh the YAY side of things we have just relaunched the archive at work and so far fingers crossed it seems stable.

It would appear that the English government has decided to mimic blackadder and apoint a Darling in place of buyers.

Went to a evening put on by the Friends of Imperial College at the Science Museum with Emma tonight. It was a private showing of the Human Body at the Science Museum IMAX cinema, with a talk by the producer and several academics from Imperial afterward. The movie was brilliant. It was my first time at an IMAX cinema and once again I learned some more about something not to do with computers. The talks, and the question / answer session was also interesting. The producer spoke about how the movie was made, which was cool. I think I got more out of the evening than Emma, because she works in the field.
OK and on a completely different note, I was thinking about previous lives early, and thought that there are now more people alive than were ever alive before [1]. Anyway how could there be previous lives if there are more people alive now than have ever lived in history [1] . I though maybe previous lives could be from other creatures and seeing as there are a load of extinct creatures and small creatures we have managed not to wiped out, they could come from. Just a thought, I think I've just come up with Nirvana or at least the cycle of karma, Oh well.

[1] Crap explanation email if you wanna know I mean.

Some people are funny, isn't he a big girl.

Emma sent me this link, looks as though Linux has just been released for the PS2 in Europe, sounds interesting, I'm tempted to get it to have a play, I think I may wait till others have it and we can see how much Sony has crippled it or at least access to the hardware.

Ok, only been using Eclipse for a couple of hours so far. Even so it has some funky new features like, organizing your imports, removes unnecessary imports, suggests ones that are missing and narrows the scope if you put .*. Also has a quick fix option that attempts to fix your code if there is anything wrong with it. However possibly the bees knees is the Junit support, F Brilliant, already found a bug I had no idea existed AND it�s a piece of piss to set up. Brilliant !!!