I am waiting, as I have been for a few years now, for my Xbox to red ring.  I know it’s going to happen soon.  I bought that thing the day it came out, I KNOW it’s going to break soon.  I gave it a bit of a clean the other day thinking I will sell it on Trademe and replace it with the new shiny black ones that have wifi.  Then Dad was all, “But you know it’s going to break!  What if you sell it to some poor kid who has saved all his money to buy it?” and guilt, ARGH, I really want a new black one :(

I save things as .txt files in Notepad like little stickies on my laptop.  All of a sudden Notepad files decide they cannot open on their own anymore, I must open Notepad FIRST then open the files.  WHY?  WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN.  Why do I have to spend so long FIXING SHIT.

My precious first love, the PC I built for my 21st birthday and I, were reunited today.  Just like last time I came home, it’s decided to be a whiny bitch just to sulk at me, I swear.  First it decided to slap on a login password that I know for a FACT didn’t exist when I left, then in an attempt to thwart my “safe mode” login, it threw registry errors, then in an attempt to thwart my fixing of said registry errors its now flatly refusing to acknowledge that my hard drives exist.  I’ve had to throw this one in the category of Fuck This, Too Hard, accepting defeat and am taking it into my dads work to get it fixed.

My curtain has also come off the rail.  I AM COMING OFF THE RAILS.  MLIA.

Expect more changes!  And will fix links, posts that look odd, etc.

I know I keep saying this, but I really am working on changing the look of this site.  I hate the current template.  Hate hate hate.  “But, Lilley”, I hear you say, “How is it you have so much spare time?” Well, I’m hitting the job market again, there is only so much I can take from a sexist nasty manager.  Not to worry, I’ve done this before.

There’s the whole When It Rains It Pours theme here in London and aside from me being unemployed again, last week our sewer pipe exploded and we had human shit in our back AND front yard.  This week our boiler exploded and in London, without a boiler, well everything goes to hell.  They managed to get our heating going (which doesn’t make much of a difference, honestly, since this house is so badly insulated) but we’ve had no hot water for 5 days.  I finally broke yesterday and headed off to our mates place for a shower.  Other issues include, washing clothes, washing dishes, cooking with a lack of clean dishes and life in general.

But we are always looking up here at tigerlilley.com, because seriously, where else can you look to from the bottom.

http://stuff.co.nz/4654329a26500.html

I lol’d. Although it would of made me feel better if it were a Vista crash, yet I see China didn’t even want to give Vista the chance…

I know you probably have a lot of people writing to you. Most of them complaining about various things, like your service, failing graphics card chips and Vista.

I’d like to say that I am an unique case, but my feelings are, you’ve probably heard this before.

My 4 month old XPS M1530 laptop, that cost me (with help from my parents) a few thousand dollars, won’t boot into Windows. Just so you know, Dell, I am currently doing my big Overseas Experience in England. This means, the photos that are trapped on my laptop, which I can’t boot up, are very important to me. I also need to be on a drip feed to the internet 24/7 or I get slightly cranky. I’m not necessarily a violent person, Dell, but if a 5″3 blonde turns up at your door with a machete, it’s because you made me do this.

Despite all the blue screens, the crashing, the freezing, the general asshattery of “Are you sure you want to continue? Are you really sure? Windows would still like your permission. No, really, are you sure?” I wasn’t willing to blame you, Dell. I did, however, have an extreme hatred for the Hell you inflicted on me.

However, I do understand that these problems might not be all your fault. I understand that Nvidia have a lot to answer for.

So I was willing to cut you some slack. However, when I called you (and after holding for 15 min) you told me you couldn’t help me just yet. Because I’d moved to a different country. Even though I have an international warranty.

You told me I would have to fill out an ownership transfer form, for my own laptop, to myself.

Also, you added, that 3 line form, that took 2 seconds to fill out, would take 5 working days to process.

I’m not sure about you Dell, but to me, that’s the most fucking retarded rubbish ever.

In 5 days, you best fix it, because I can get more nasty than you can ever imagine.

Regards,

Tigerlilley

P.S: Dic, Nimby, I love you guys x Thanks for putting up with me.

My laptop crashes and freezes. It is one month old. It is higher specc’d than my desktop PC at home. But its much, much slower. Because of VISTA.

To be honest, lappy has been on it’s best behaviour this week since I have been threatening it with talk of finding a way to reinstall XP. I now have that guilt that I get when I talk smack about an inanimate object that could hear me. It’s not you, ShinyLaptop. It’s Microsoft. I love you still.

In other news, everyone in IRC has been on a blog kick. Hi everyone who has joined Nimbys Friendly Neighbourhood Server.

People, this is not intelligent conversation:
“HAI U R SEXI SND ME PIX PLS” – No.
“ASL?” – Are you serious? VIEW PROFILE. Clearly, I am a 55 year old balding man from China.
“HI LOL” – Why the lol? If I met someone in a bar who said “Hi” then proceeded to laugh out loud, I’d think they were fucking crazy. Excessive lol useage!

MyspaceTom was online. So I messaged him. He is secretly a bot. Asshole.

It wasn’t all a loss. I met 3 people who were sane. And used vowels and shit. Which was nice :) Far be it from me to give a rats about spelling and grammar, but seriously. I can’t read chatspeak.

Ahh Myspace entertainment at its finest.

In about 10minutes of the ban being discovered I’d (with a bit of help) figured out away around it.

So if anyone is wanting to unblock a site at work, or school, this is how you do it.
Go to www.unblockall.net . Its a web proxy. Enter the web address. Done. Easy. I take no responsibility for you getting fired.

This worked well, until today. One of the techs (who also happens to be a member of the Board, someone quite important) came into my office. “Hello Miss Get-Around-My-Web-Filters-To-Look-At-Sites”. “Hello” I squeaked. He kinda smirked at me then said very kindly “not to put him in a bad position”. “Ok” I said.
“Have you told anyone else how to do this?
“umm well maybe one person” LIES I told about 6 people and txted others who were not present in the office at the time.

Soon after the entire company received this email:

>Hi Team,
It has been brought to our attention that a number of staff have personal web-sites active throughout the day. These sites are considered distractions and are no different to receiving personal calls or texting during work time. Given this, we have blocked the following sites during working hours:

Bebo Google Mail
Yahoo Mail MySpace
Paradise Mail Facebook
Friendster Hotmail
Photo sharing Flickr
Photobucket Youtube

Access will be available after 5pm each night. It is our intention to allow access to these sites at lunchtime by setting up a separate PC in the cafeteria. Please adhere to the above policy decision ? thanks. >

It was sent from the Managing Director. My boss. Also… my Dad. There are pros and cons to being the boss’s daughter. The cons being I miss out on the office gossip sometimes, people stop talking when I enter a room. Also the added joy of Setting A Good Example. The pros are quite naturally “Dad can I have $5 for lunch” and Not Getting Fired for sneaking past company policy to check my Myspace.

I was having dinner with Mum when Dad stormed in. “LILLEY! The tech just came in and told me that within 10minutes of that ban being put up you had found a way around it! And that you told OTHERS how to do it!”
“Oh did ya really?” Mum was impressed.
“You might as well just drawn a line in the sand and told me not to cross it” I told him.
“Do you know what this means?” Dad was smirking now. “It means that when that bloody ban was put on I was probably the only one in the company who was actually blocked!”
I had to laugh at that. “I notice that you didn’t ban Trademe Dad” (Trademe is the NZ EBay for you Internationalites).
“Trademe doesn’t count”.

Dad has a Trademe addiction. He sold our driveway on it once but thats another story.

By sheer luck I’ve now been granted amnesty from the ban. Not Dads idea, but the Techs. Apprently since I work for 2 websites, therefore being on the net all day, I need to have access to everything. So I guessed it kinda worked out… for me (sorry team!!)

Stay tuned for: The Goings on of Friday Night, in which I get hit on by a girl and a guy at the same time.

Since school ended there has been a sad lack of these moments and I never realised how much I missed them until last night.  I went to the parents house, and sat down to watch telly (something I never do at home) and MXC was on C4.

I have not laughed that hard in such a long time.  The episode where they have to swing off a flying fox wearing a flysuit and try to stick to a wall, was on.  These people were hurling themselves head first into this wall, sliding down it and crumpling in a small heap below.  I was crying.  These silly girls, waving at the camera then flying into a wall, I swear, so much more entertainment than Jackass.  I don’t purposly mean to laugh at people, but seriously its just so funny.

Decided TV may be worth its while again.