Why?

With the advent of Windows Vista Microsoft heralded it as the only operating system you will ever need. It, like other systems were force fed to us all by all the computer shop/sheds having it pre-installed on every computer they sold.

My question is, if it was so good why are they producing Windows 7?

What is so different that we need it now?

Do we really need another pile of crap that no one really wants just a year or two after they have learned to use Vista?

All that seems to be happening is tail chasing. We have big hard drives so the manufacturers of software can make bigger programs so the drive makers can make bigger drives so the . . . . . I think you get my point.

So what if you can store a million music files on the drive you will never listen to them! It's a bit like my quarry here at Shipton we can fill it with 1 million tons of hard core and soil but we can only walk on the top inch.

Despite all the hours MS have put into it W7 will not do what I want in a way I want it done. It will continue to ask me if what I just asked it to do is really what I want to do. It will ask if I "really want to close this window", (which is why I clicked on the little cross in the top right hand corner). My computer will still do what it wants when it wants. It will print when it thinks printing is the new black. It will send emails when the moon is blue Stilton, it will tell me I am not allowed to do that despite doing it yesterday without problem, It will once more tell me that I do not have the correct administrator access or it will tell me to contact the administrator for my system (me). It will allow twisted morons with no life to hijack my email address and send all my, now ex-, mates sales patter for crap they neither want or need, or drugs they have been trying to kick for several years. At the end of all that it will still be interminably slow, to the point where either I throw it out of the window or I shoot myself.

Why, oh why, oh why, don't they just make what they have better!

Right or wrong?

At 69 years of age Maria Del Carmen Bousada has sadly died. Not a great age you might say, it wasn't. What is sadder still is that her two year old sons are left to grow up without a mother. Yes that's right at 67 she gave birth to twin boys. This is exactly why fertility treatment should be used with care, consideration and wisdom. This woman lied about her age to get the treatment which was pioneered with young(er) couples in mind who could not conceive naturally. I am not a greatly religious man but such acts of selfishness fly in the face of all that is decent, all that is right and indeed nature herself.

There are good sound reasons why women have the menopause. It is natures way of saying enough is enough, you are no longer fit enough to do this, the risk is too great.

If a young woman should be unlucky enough to have a menopause early (an unnatural phenomenon) she should be helped, I don't disagree with that, but there are more than enough years for any woman to get her life sorted early enough to have her children within the natural allotted time span.

Thank goodness the NHS will not give IVF to these women and here private clinics draw the line at 50.

US not the USA

Asperger's Syndrome sufferer, Gary McKinnon, allegedly hacked into a computer system in the USA. The USA want him extradited to the States to face charges that could put him in jail for up to 60 years.

Short of locking him up he should receive a medal for exposing flaws that the multi million dollar system builders should have sorted in the first place. That Gary could hack into the system is an indication that someone in America is taking money under false pretenses.

Now many MPs who originally backed the proposal to prevent this extradition have gone all jelly spined and refused to vote against the government.

Poor Gary is up the creek with out a paddle. Americans are baying for blood on one side of the water while this side he is being unceremoniously launched into the hostile sea. Shame on our government for not standing by one of our citizens.

Our Parliamentarians need to remember who they are representing. It is US not the USA who put them in their exalted positions. It is US not the USA who pay their vastly exaggerated salaries. They should start working for the common good of US, every one of US not the USA.

Given the bunch of ugly bastards that pepper our house of commons I just might think of standing myself. If nothing else I am better looking than most of them.

Time to go Mr Brown

The Army chiefs are saying that our troops in Afghanistan don't have the equipment they need to do the job. They are profesional. They understand the situation. Many have been there at the sharp end and stood toe to toe with the enemy at some time.

However some jumped up wannabe, pretending to be the priminster, says they have all the equipment they need.

Who should we believe? The men who stand on the line and often over it or a man who doesn't even know where the line is. The men whose commitment to duty is never questioned or a man whose commitment to duty, the people of this country, is determined by self interest. The men to whom honour is a way of life or a man whose honour is severly suspect.

We cannot allow a man who changes the rules when he doesnt like the outcome to be the man who our troops rely on for their lives. Nor can we allow someone who refuses to allow democracy to run this country to stand up and say I have your best interest at heart. I seem to remember Mrs Hitlers little boy did that!

The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things. Gordon Brown must step down. He is not the peoples choice, has never had one vote cast in his favour as Prime Minister, he certainly does not have my respect and I doubt many others. His truth is espied through a crooked eye and therefore flawed.

His best mate Mandelson was twice disgraced and left government under a cloud yet now is a senior member of the cabinet, a bloody Lord no less, not one vote in his favour from the people.

We live in modern times, but Gordon Brown would do well to remember, 'of the people by the people for the people', I think GB stopped being one of the people a long time ago. Our troops derserve the best Brown isnt the best. As an accountant he may well have been a great Chancellor of the Exchequer, but as a Prime Minister he is a mediocre plumber.

Eberspacher

Two questions asked on GOOGLE today

Will eberspacher hydronic 10 run on white diesel?
Will hydronic 10 coke up on white diesel?

both led the searcher to narrowboater.blogspot I trust he found what he was looking for.

I don't think there was ever any worries about the Eberspacher running on white diesel, it's what they were designed for. Now running on red diesel that a different question.

Ha Ha

Last night I was watching with disgust as Blue Goose sped past. I mentioned that he would pull my pins out, which he did, but he seem oblivious. Well ha ha ha he may have learned a valuable lesson. If you must go speeding don't do it on a blind bend, especially if you are going to want to stop to pickup crew.

My pins were ripped out but I couldn't help laughing and applauding as he pulled into the offside to pick up his crew member demolished half a tree lost the contents of his roof and got stuck in shallow water.

I was well amused! If all speeding boaters are going to cause this level of entertainment lets have more, its worth the work putting your pins back in.

Its a good job nb Harari Kishti and nb Faith were not on their mooring of he would have given them a good bashing too!

Sp**ding Again

It's been raining. "I know," you might think, "but so what?" Lots of rain equals soft banks. Soft banks equal torn/bent pins. Banks then collapse and there are fewer places to moor. Yesterday One Anglo Welsh boat and two from College Cruisers came past at a phenomenal speed in the rain. What were they trying to achieve? Does one get less wet if one goes faster? I don't know but the bastards pulled my pins and damaged the bank. It's a shame we cant install speed bumps.

I think I will write to the APCO to see if I can ascertain what there rules are for operators and how they police that.

TWENTY PEE

I said earlier this week that there was more in the pot for the flawed 20ps, and there is, if you want to wait a bit.


And it would apear that the sky is the limit

Twitter

@M99RAP said on twitter

watching the non stop MJ videos on tv & can't help but sing & dance along! Pure legend genius!

It will take the world awhile 2 get over this

Maffi said, "Most of 'the world' struggles to find enough to eat and drink every day. I doubt they even know who MJ is, let alone care".

I cannot believe that these twitter people can be so shallow

Ya just have to see this