Snotty Coughy Phlegmy

Snotty, Coughy and Phlegmy were the three dwarfs who didn't make it into the final cut of the movie. Walt Disney preferring the mysticism of the number 7 to the round, easy to calculate, figure of 10.

The above is a blatant lie, but what is true is that I have had a cold for over a week and I can't shake it off. I feel terrible in the mornings with all the symptoms above but over the day I feel better, only to start again the next morning, I obviously have the "Groundhog Day" version of the common cold.

My voice is in my boots, as my mother would say, and that means one thing. I spend most of the morning singing, in my world renowned tone deaf way, the first two lines "Ol' Man River" not that I have ever seen the musical that it hails from but Paul Robeson has always been someone I admired.

Looking through the wiki entry it has just struck me that I can't remember a there being a 'Bio-pic' movie about Paul Robeson, is he still too hot for Hollywood to handle?

Photo Fun

Museumr on Dumpr discovered via Photojojo

Progress Bars

How much of modern life is spent watching progress bars?

I know I will spend a lot of time today doing just that as I have 12 Flash
files to upload for my work and they are on average 15Mb. As well as
uploading and downloading from the Internet I have spent many hours
waiting for new software to download to Mac's when I worked in a tech
support role. I remember rooms full of Mac +'s with SCSI hard disks.
Setting up a master system, copying to one hard drive then two, four
etc... All the time more and more progress bars slowly moving.

If I was planning on being buried when I die then I would be tempted to
request a completed progress bar on my head stone, but I plan to be
cremated so there is not much point.

Maybe you should have a 'Life Progress Bar' so you know how much time you have left? It would take the surprise out death, you could plan better, you would save
money by not buying expensive insurance you won't benefit from. Then
again knowing how inaccurate most progress bars are I think it would
add more confusion.

Okay three files uploaded, on to the next :)

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Random Music Meme

Kind of tagged by Waltzingalong @ better living through chemistry

Instructions:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

• Opening credits: Better Living Through Chemistry : Queens of the Stone Age [Totally random honestly, that is weird!]


• Waking Up: Gays in the Milltary (standup sketch) : Bill Hicks


• First day at school: Hearts of Olden Glory by Runrig


• Falling in love: Telegram Sam by Bauhaus
  

• Fight song: Orpheus by Carly Simon


• Breaking up: Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey
  

• Prom: Our Favourite Shop by The Style Council


• Life is good: Boy About Town by The Jam


• Mental breakdown: Bare by The Cure


• Driving: Working On The Highway by Bruce Springsteen


• Flashback: Vision Thing by The Sisters of Mercy


• Getting back together: Monday by The Jam


• Wedding: Dumb by The Beautiful South

• Paying the dues: Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus

• The night before the war: Alison Gross by Steeleye Span


• Final Battle: Slow Down by The Jam


• Moment of Triumph: Homeward Bound bySimon & Garfunkel
  

• Death scene: We Are The Sleepyheads by Belle & Sebastian


• Funeral song: Super Trouper by ABBA

• End credits: Ghostdancing by Simple Minds

A Long Week

Need I say any more? Okay you persuaded me. :)

This week seems to have had seven days between Monday and Friday. I
have been tired all week and getting my head off the pillow in the
morning has been next to impossble, but that may just be that I need a
haircut :)

I had wanted to write up a 'feature' type article for here this week
but I had to fix a problem with my WordPress plugin and that ate up two
evenings. The plugin issue aside I must say I am not too impressed
WordPress 2.1 it seems to have created problems without a great amount
of extra features I think a couple of extra weeks in development would
have saved everyone some grief. Drupal looks as if it is becoming my
web development base of choice and there may come a point where I look
seriously at moving Darkest Before Dawn to Drupal. I have already
completed a successful experimental of a port to Drupal but currently I
have no compelling reason to make the switch so I will stick with
WordPress.

Tonight I am being very brave and watching SAW if you hear someone screaming it will probably be me.

Congratulations to Laasya on her engagement :)

Will get round everyone's blogs at the weekend take care and if anyone offers you chocolates hold out for the coffee cream. ;)

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