A few Dilberts...

I read a load of blogs each and every day and I keep some posts that I like... Like thousands of other office people I read the Dilbert every day too. Here are some that have tickled me over the past few months...

Affirmation

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

Short Emails

Grinding tonight

Ok. $6 in the account. That is 3 shots at a win. I will be playing $1.80 + 0.20 SnG Satellites up to 2 at a time and I have 2-3 hours earmarked for the grind. Each table normally takes somewhere around 30-45 mins to finished so there is a potential to bust or move into the teens in 'roll. I will report back later to let you know how it goes. Grinding is a bitch but, as before, the 'roll is low and I don't want to buy back into FTP again just yet.

"The Dyer"

The house

Things are getting exciting in our house. For a long time now we have been saving our pennies and over the next month or two the house is getting a little lift. 4 main areas are going to be covered.

1. Hall floor will become solid wood.
2. Kitchen floor will become tile.
3. Our bedroom will finally be stripped back, painted and a new wardrobe will be introduced.
4. Our spare bedroom will have a wardrobe built into the alcoves.

We may even get the kitchen and spare room ceilings re-skimmed as they are both showing serious signs of wear.

Either way, come the now traditional June party there should be some more DIY to feast your eyes upon.

Family Guy vs. Journey.

Awesome dance mix up

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' - Journey vs. Family Guy
Uploaded by cjvalencia0407. - See the latest featured music videos.

Scene From Family Guy Banned From TV
Uploaded by nastytroy169. - Classic TV and last night's shows, online.

mydrivespace.co.uk

I now have Chained payments working through the paypal API which was the final hurdle in making http://mydrivespace.co.uk a reality.

Now I just have to code out the other stuff like reservations/confirmations/email templates/small print/disclaimers/etc and then I can look to roll this baby out...

Please use the forum to comment on this blog.

Stir up Sunday

Everybody took a go stirring the mix for this years Christmas cake!! :-)

Drying paint

In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all, but very interesting.

Dilbert

Chained payments in paypal.

API options coming in November apparently. Should be very useful for my project that I started off a couple of months back. By useful, I mean, actually makes it feasible...

Some links:

http://paymentsviews.com/2009/07/24/paypal-adaptive-payments/
http://transfs.com/blog/2009/07/27/paypal-announces-adaptive-payments-parallel-payments-and-chained-payments-functionality-via-api/
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/168040/paypal_to_open_platform_to_thirdparty_developers.html

Best online poker result to date

Best poker finish last night. Made the final table of a 6-max donkfest for a $50+ payout.

Busted in 6th which was worth $51. Really happy with my play, especially from 50 players down.

Halloween Bean

kudos on the carving needs to go to Legs...

IT vs. Management

A woman in a hot air balloon, realizing she was lost, reduced altitude and spotted a man below. She descended
further and shouted to the man "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet her an hour ago, but I
don't know where I am"

The man below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between
40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be in IT," said the balloonist.

"Actually I am," replied the man, "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct but I've no idea what to make
of your information and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've
delayed my trip."

The man below responded, "You must be in Management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are due to a
large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you
to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now,
somehow, it's my bloody fault..."

Forcing my hand...

Twice now in a week I have been passed bills with 'donations' bolted onto the bottom of them. The sick thing about these forced donations is that you have to physically ask for the donation to be removed. Now. Don't get me wrong. I am a charitable man but I give to charities I choose and when I choose. I don't need a hotel or a fast food restaurant (Pizza Hut) telling me when and to whom I should donate money no matter how small the sum so I for one am proud to stand there and demand my bill be reproduced without the 'optional' 'donation' and pay them only what they are due.

shame is that the charities in question (especially the one today) are worthy causes. I just don't think this is the right way to get money off people. A charitable donation is one that you consiously take part in. It is not something slyly chucked on the end of bill like a service charge.

They are struggling to get donations. I understand that, but you will never get a penny out of me by forcing my hand.

I wish I was this smart

clever man

In other news. I am working on a website that hooks google maps, paypal and asp.net AJAX together to hopefully earn me money and save my users some. I shall say no more for now. I have bought the URL and I will make it public knowledge in the coming weeks and months when it goes into testing (via you guys hopefully) and then live....

....to be continued.

Good weekend

Saturday - Picnic with bro and amassed families.
Sunday - Nature in art with Legs and Alfie. :-)

Chosen Hill

There is a lovely hill near my office and I have never been up it. Today, at lunch, I drove up to enjoy the view. I will be going back. It was lush.

New monitor and memory

So now that website orders are starting to come into kruelintent.com I am going to strengthen my home PC. I have my eyes on 4Gb of DDR2 RAM which dabs seem to be selling for sod all but also this new monitor.

Monitor: here

Review: here

What do you think?