I'm not a small guy, in fact I'm taller than the average guy which is why it's so degrading for me to have to buy clothes labelled "small". That aside, it really comes to something when even small is too big.

I got a jumper from a retailer, nothing unusual there. I got the same small size that I'm always forced to have, took it home and it was too big on me, too baggy and the sleeves were too long. How very annoying as I was rather fond of that item of clothing and the retailer doesn't do "extra small".

This made me question the whole size rating scheme. If your a big guy you can choose from "large", "x-large" or sometimes "xx-large" depending on how hungry you were this morning. If you are a small guy you have no option since small has been removed and medium re-branded as small. So why has this happened? Well, the UK is the third fattest nation in the world so perhaps, if we factor in all the obese people I am indeed small by comparison. It's also possible that it's ploy to re-rank all clothing one size lower in order for obese people to get the impression they are fitting into some clothes smaller than they really are.

With the joking aside I think it's a simple case of supply and demand, there's little call for normal sized clothes in England nowadays so rather than remove the "small" range they just increased the size of each range. Curse you abnormally oversized people, I shake my fist at you sirs!

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On a statistically unfounded estimation, I would assume idiots account for 60-80% percent of all Internet users, using the Internet solely for recreational purpose. It really is hard to guestimate this figure with any degree of accuracy but 60-80% is what it "feels like".

If you examine any popular site with a large user base, it seems idiots take the fair share of that userbase. A perfect example would be MySpace, YouTube or Digg. These sites are full of idiots as is evident from the comments there. However, there is also the possibility that the more intellectual users distance themselves from these cretins by refraining from posting there. What is the point of giving input to someone who has failed to grasp the concept of, grammar, punctuation, spelling, etiquette and make up for this by substituting obscene language and moronic comments.

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A few hours ago there was a thunderstorm, nothing spectacular but a thunderstorm none the less. I was on the phone at the time and had my ear pressed against the phone listening. I could hear the interference created by each crash of thunder, then came the "big one". That was very loud over the phone and made me jump.

Anyway, the outcome was every device that was connected to my router including my router breaking. The NIC of three PC's were broken and my router no reboots every five minutes! My server is now totally wrecked as it was a small purpose built system which can not have it's NIC replaced My main computer now has a broken on-board NIC. I have had to remove my �0�570 Audigy 2 ZS sound card to fit in a replacement NIC and now I'm using some rubbish on board sound card.

Total cost is around �0�5160! So in future readers, unplug your computer from the phone line in a thunderstorm... curse you electrical discharge!

EDIT: It would seem that I was not the only one affected, seems everyone in this area seems to have been hit to, some have had their phones or alarm systems broken.

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Audible.co.uk seem to enjoy rewriting the way the internet is supposed work for the obfuscations of others, especially those running Linux. Ignoring the fact that Linux can't play the heavily DRM'ed AA, what happens if one wants to download an audio book using Linux to place on a media device that supports the AA format?

Unlike 99% percent of all web sites where your download is handled by your browser, audible go one step further to annoy people. They try and make it so that you can only download files using their pointless software, why? If you want to supply software for people, fine. Don't force them to use it! Even if I was using Windows it would annoy me to have to use their pointless software, I don't need a special app just to transfer audio books to my audio player .

Anyhow, the simple way around this is, purchase your book, select your audio quality. Click the "Stream" button and save the link. Open the file "aw_assemble_title_stream.pl" in a text editor and find a line similar to this

Quote:
http://cdl.audible.com/cgi-bin/aw_assemble_title_dynamic.aa
/AB_CDEF_000000aUKmp332.aa?user_id=username
&product_id=AB_CDEF_000000aUK&codec=mp332
&source=wmpstream

Just copy this address into your browser and your download will begin.

Annoying? yes. Better than booting into Windows, hell yeah!

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Would you believe I have just spent to days trying to set up a MythTV system? When I first set up MythTV and didn't know what I was doing having not done it before it took half a day. Now I know exactly what to do and yet I can't get it working, Why? TV-Out issues. Firstly I spent a day and a half messing around with an ATi card I decided to shove in because it was quieter. Eventually I found out the drivers for ATi have a bug which has not been fixed since the dawn of the millennia, I should have known better than to use ATi. Now I'm back with a noisy nVidia and to my surprise having problems with their drivers too, of the Xserver crashing kind. Having reinstalled Ubuntu Feisty Beta again and still having the same problem I'm beginning to think it's time to call it a day and move back to an older version of Ubuntu.

Oh how many more hours must I waste!

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