I’m Hitting The Cloud Baybee

So Hotmail/Windows Live will soon be offering mail aggregation wherein you can have other mail accounts come in to this account. That’s cool but is being pushed out periodically to different countries so until we get it here (Ireland) I have manually made all of my email go to this cloud-based pretty nifty way-better-than-it-used-to-be solution because i am SICK of static applications like Outlook pulling everything into a single file which I then can’t get to if I am out. I have also imported all of my contacts, made seperate folders for each account, and set up rules to store them automatically.
Why am I telling you this, you ask? Because i have absolutly NOTHING else to say today. Thank you for your time.

Posting? Not So Much. Thanks To Eircom.

I haven’t been posting much the last few days. My reasons for this are two-fold. One is that it’s difficult at work lately. The other is my Broadband at home is and for three days has been somewhat FUBAR. (Can you be somewhat FUBAR?)
I called my ISP last night and waited out the “we are aware of a problem in your area” message which really means “stop bothering us” and got on to a real live (and even Irish!) person who said they were having major trouble with one of their DNS servers. I politely said “dude i work in IT and if I had a server down for three days there’d be skin and hair flying”.
I mean WHO takes three days to repair a server when it’s affecting regional and possibly national service?? By then haven’t you just ripped it apart and rebuilt it? Don’t they have a backup? Are they aware there’s a better way then a gerbil on a wheel? Come on Eircom – can you spell FAULT TOLERANCE?

Get Email From Other Accounts In Hotmail/Live Email

This is cool. In some countries (the rest coming soon apparently) you can add extra email accounts into your hotmail service to get all of your mails in one cloud-based location.

Once it’s available here I’ll be all over this. Right now I use outlook and want to move away from locally stored email with clunky pst files and whatnot. I have already added all my contacts into Live mail and as they offer a pretty nifty calendar too then it’ll be a nice little one-stop-shop. And as it’s cloud based it’ll be wherever I am (or would be if I ever went anywhere!).
A small simple touch I like is the wizard lets you specify a folder to send the email from the extra account to, which as the anal person I am, will be cool for keeping things where they belong.

Crazy On Ann Wilson

Sandra Bernhard referred to them as “the big tittied bitches of rock and roll” – this is Heart singing one of the sexiest hottest songs ever – Crazy On You. This version, with a slowed down intro, manages to sexify it even more. Ann Wilson is a Goddess of rock and roll and sex.

“There’s nothing left to do tonight but go crazy on you.”… Come here and go crazy on me Ann, PLEASE!

Monday Morning – Oy Vey. (How Do You Spell Oy Vey?)

So it’s monday and I took Friday off so I am already sorry because I have three medium-sized mountains of crap to wade through because my “replacement” would have to train up and really dedicate himself in order to be as good as useless.

The Humidity!!

It’s so humid here the last few days. I can’t even describe the state of my crotch. Seriously.

MJ Jokes. It Was Always Going To Happen.

I heard Bubbles found him but couldn’t administer CPR as he had only been taught to suck not blow.

Apparently Jacko didn’t actually die at home from a heart attack – apparently he was in a children’s home having a stroke.

Apparently McDonalds are going to release a special burger to remember his life. It is 50yr old meat between two 10yr old buns.

Rogue Trooper on Wii

I am playing this at present.

Although I rarely play games with no Light Sabers, this is pretty cool. Based on the Comic book character (a character from 2000 AD which I had forgotten when I bought it) it’s a really cool stealth-based action shoot ‘em up. The Wii control works the angle of the camera which means you can stay behind the character, in front, beside, anywhere you want as you play. Very handy given the nature of the game and its environments. I’m never really sure what to say about games, so that’s about it really. Cool tough-guy dialogue, nice death moves, groovy weapons. Check it on Wii if you’re looking for a new game.

Speaking of which…why is there no Judge Dredd game…??

Someone’s Watching Me

I just called the company who provide my monitored house alarm to report a fault. Their hold music was Someone To Watch Over Me. Funny.

Must Blog… Must Blog…!

I haven’t blogged in about eight years and I really need to again. I feel guilty for not blogging. I don’t know, maybe it’s a Catholic thing.
So I spent the weekend in sloth and now I have the house to myself (family away on vay-cay) so I am pretty much slothing it then, too.
Actually that’s a lie, I have been trying to get some music recorded but getting home from work and trying to get in the zone just because you don’t want to lose your couple of free evenings isn’t very conducive to being inspired.
So, what else is going on? The “king of pop” is dead. Who cares? He was a so-so talent anyway who used cloak and dagger to make himself look more talented. He also dangled babies over balconies. Why didn’t he go to jail for that? I mean he didn’t go to jail for molesting kids either, so let’s look at those first: it was his word against the kids, so let’s say for arguments sake it was ok that he walked free in the face of lack of hard evidence. But the whole world saw him hang that baby over that rail, and I don’t give a shit how tight a grip he said he had on that baby, I don’t give a shit if they were duck-taped together there is NOTHING that would make that safe to do. But he’s rich and famous and “eccentric” (which basically means a total dick) so it’s okay. Didn’t he publically apologise? Ah, that makes it all okay then.
How did I get on to this?