Celebs

Are there no depths to which LL will stoop. Is she trying to be a Paris Hilton clone? I know she said she wanted more adult roles for her films but isn’t this going too far?

I remember why I always liked Christina – it’s because of this and this. Why she ever got married I’ll never know. [EDIT : and this]

Paris Hilton is disgusting. do not click if you are eating. or have eaten. ever.

And WTF is this? Desperate Housewives ? desperate for a paper bag ?

Awkward Silences

I was asked by a neighbour to come and check his computer because he thought he had been infected by a virus. I went over and could see that he’d had several virus and malware infections. I sat there and worked through with anti-virus software and anti-malware/spyware software, rebooting – scanning in safe mode – cleaning the Reg etc. All the while i was sitting there watching the screen and typing away my neighbour was sat peering over my shoulder.

I felt as though I was being monitored myself in case I tried to steal all his information or install some hacking software. The PC wasn’t particularly fast so the silence was deafening as the progress bars ticked along slowly and we sat there, me in my trousers, smart shirt and shoes, him a 60 year old man in his vest, shorts and slippers.

I began to wonder if there was something on there that he didn’t want me to see. (bomb plans, seditious essays or nasty letters to the BBC about the swearing on ‘Eastenders’, you know….the usual stuff) and what would happen if something popped up on screen that I wasn’t meant to see. It was a little creepy.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what topics of conversation I could use to avoid those long awkward silences?

SMS for geeks

I saw this post on Liz Revision Blog – really funny but I feel sad that I don’t know enough geeks for this to be of any use to me – my non-geek friends (who are in the majority) would end up texting me back with ” WTF?” or “what?” and I’m too lazy to try to explain to them.