Tim Dobson's Blog

Whilst staying in Madeira in July, I came face to face with a "spa" for the second time in my life (the first time being 2 1/4 years earlier at the same hotel).

I hate spas!

Ok, a slight clarification on that point:
I hate the IDEA of spas.

I find it extremely difficult to come to terms with how anyone can get satisfaction from getting "invigorating" mud spread on them whilst considerably lightening their wallet.
Sure, it's great to relax from time to time, but seriously people - get real!

However, this is not the point.

Then and Now

A few months ago there was glorious sunshine which let me sit outside in the garden doing work. These days, in August, which is meant to be the hottest month, we have had some immense downpours and very little "good weather" to write home about. :(

oh well...

I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I spotted an answer which Perfdave had put down which I really liked., and decided to do one for a change!

Why are you single?

I broke up with my ex a while ago, I just haven't got together with the right girl yet. In general, I'd rather be single and happy than in a relationship and very unhappy.

Tell me about the shirt you're wearing?

It's a white tshirt I got from TK MAX a while back, however it seems to have faded, a lot in the wash and most of the writing has faded from it's faux-faded look to vrai-faded look.

What's currently bothering you?

Erm, nothing much, a few odds and ends.

• My AS results a little
• The consequences of the Glossop Entry to the Southport 12 Hour Race 2008
• Whether DFEY will be a success
• Software patents etc.

What do you currently hear?

Pretty much silence. - The humming of my computer and the banging of my keyboard.

I was walking my dog along Hope Street in Old Glossop, when nature took its course Bess relieved herself on the pavement.

Being a responsible dog owner I whipped out a plastic bag and picked it up. A few yards down the street was a wheely bin in someone's yard facing the road and as I walked past, I lifted the lid dropped the bag inside.

Almost instantly the door of the house burst open, and a man, wine glass in hand, exclaimed at me "Could you not do that please!"
I responded that I was "sorry 'sir'" and that I hadn't meant to upset him.
After passing me the plastic bag he complained that he "had children you know," again reiterating I should not do this again..

Is justifiable for me to be confused and hurt by this incident?

I got a text today from 07890826450 saying (verbatim):

"If this is emma snellson I suggest you sort you are fuckin head owt calin me a slag.uve fuked 7 ladz so I sugest you shut you are big mouf and hide them teeth. Stop thinkin you are bad coz im nt ther.I dnt work with you now so I got no reason to kik you are head in.shut you are mouth if you no what's gud for you you litle sket."

They then tried calling be several times throughout the day, but said nothing when I picked up - they even tried from a different number: 07917116689.

Funny...

In a recent survey of over 9000 participants, the follow was data found:

401% of people thought that Tim Dobson was l33t hax0r
124% of people were all like "Tim Dobson? Who's that? LOL!"
11% of people abstained

Only Tim Dobson answered "No, and I'm taking this very serious."

...or not Funny?

You Decide

One of my College friends, who has a unhealthy habit of photoshopping, created this image for lulz.

My ageing laptop is somewhat trademarked:

For the record the sticker on the top right represents a sailing boat and stands for GDSC Glossop and District Sailing Club.
On the left of it is a sticker from the Free Software Foundation, in the top left is one from LUG Radio, between it and the Bad Vista sticker is a GPLv3 sticker. In the middle the GNU's head and the GNU + Linux sticker both represent GNU, whilst the sticker on the bottom right is from DefectiveByDesign.

What ever they tell you, you can never have enough stickers.

Is your laptop anything like as stickered as mine?

A few weeks ago, Easter Sunday in fact, it randomly snowed, and because it had *actually snowed* when I didn't have anything really planned I went sledging.
I took my camera with me and took several videos:
I have finally got round to re-encoding these videos from quicktime.
(the person who invented a camera to encode to quicktime needs his head seeing to in my opinion, i suppose it is better than realmedia though!)