The joys and tribulations of Windows 7

Su Win 7
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As you can see this is a screenshot of my hastly set up windows 7 set up.


Yep I am writing this under the influence of several cups of coffee after trying to get to sleep for a hour I thought

"hey I know what would be a great mind fuck! Sort the drivers out for win 7 On yer main pc"

Mind fuck was a understatement. I bitch now but I gotta say in its defense its not all that bad, I am actually impressed (yes that choking sound is me eating my own words) I do honnestly remeber saying Never again but they have won me over " feck feck feck.

The only None selling point I have with this (and I have been told by a good mate of mine that its under a different name *sigh*) is the lack of outlook, or as its lovingly known now as Windows live mail. (WHY?!) but anyway thats not a big odd for me since I prefer using the web for my gmail account.

Anyway I will post a few more bits and bobs when i come across them but ah well so far so good.

Pipex the baine of my life.

I have gone off the handle several times over this company and I am going to do it yet again.


I had NO trouble with them when they were Bulldog but Now they are Pipex I am having issues. Now we called them up complaining. It wasnt the first time we had issues with them. A small list from what I could remeber

• Randomly cutting the landline attached to our broadband account with them - this actually happened not once but 5 times and they were blaiming how old the wires are. (quite a possibilty)
• Had our broadband disconnect several times over one night - they tried to blame how much we were uploading, Heres the thing We couldnt upload anyway.
• Used to be on 5.3 mbps they have now dropped us to 1.4-56 (and thats on a good day.) Looking at their own speed test now and at the time of writing this its 1.39 Mbps paying 30 quid a month for technically Dial up?! yea ><.
• Their customer service department isnt even handled in the UK so even if you do have a complaint the poor sods on the other end of the line cannot understand you ( please note my beef isnt with the poor call center folk. Its with Pipex) The only time we got someone who could understand us was when we told them we were cancelling and moving.
• The ammount of lies they have told us. Because we have the landline with them as well they have told us NO other company would be willing to take us on as we dont have a BT line. I did some digging and defunked this theory. Spoke to other providers and none of them have said they would be a problem. Pipex seem to be very cuniving and lying gits just to try and keep you sweet.

One question I need to ask myself is this.

Why do companies who get taken over ALWAYS go to the shit. I had the same with Wannado (formally freeserve!) anyway bring on next Thrusday when I am moving to someone a little more realiable.

If yer looking for a new provider PLEASE HEAD THESE WORDS

If you value what state of mind you have left just advoid pipex they most certainly not worth it.

various things.

Ok This is a biggish one but meh I am gonna say it as alot have been building up regardless if people like it or not.

The New wave of pop music

Now I am not one to normally bitch (feel free to snicker here if ya must) BUT there are several new popstars/singers/rejects. I type rejects because as I type this JLS were on (and who the fuck are they exactly?) and Lady fucking Gagga (sorry those who listen to me rant about this woman on twitter know what I feel about her).

Maybe its my old age now (ha!) but I just think this new wave of pop music is utter crap. Kinda hard not to listen to it when your fave haunt on the freeveiw box is TMF and 4 Music xD

Blizzard and their lovely instance servers.

I have just recently got back into the game. Though great make a fresh Start with a whole new toon and a good mate in Milliontwits. Go to do a instance I get greeted with

"Additional instances cannot be launched "

I actually spent a hour today trying to get into one poxy thing with my newbie and we eventually gave up. I mean after a hour lets see I could have leveled or done something a little more productive with my time. Makes me wonder with how much cash Blizzard Entertainment has they can surely afford new bleeding servers to keep their clients happy right?! Meh what do I know about business. :P

Twitter being hacked

Well there are several theories to this that it could be a bored script kiddie bored in their room (I can believe that its not the most sophisticated of attacks they made on the site.) but either way it wasnt fun. Of course I got naff all done other than move stuff from my main pc like the photographs I still need to edit (whoops) on to the external hard drive.

The Stories

No I have not forgotten I might create another blog on Blogger or two and post em here so its easier for people to read. I will just have to see how much work this will entail.

bah

BAHHH

I got back into Warcraft. Though gotta admit its nice actually starting anew. I dont know it just feels really empowering. Expect me to rant a little more about this when I level more as thats what normally happens LOL.


Last Entry

many thanks to OMG we're pregnant and Sami for the kind words and I still have not found it or anything like that, But I did learn a lesson from a friend on facebook he knows who he is and I am eternally thankful for him teaching me it. Made me think at least.

Taxi drivers!!!!

Ok these guys, Some of them piss me off some of them are sound. The kind I am talking about are the ones who say

"Oh your not from round here are you?!"

Just cause I have a small twang in my voice. Let me state now I have lived up here for getting on nearly 10 years. Just because I have a small wolves, or what ever twang in my voice DOESNT need to make you laugh or chuckle shessh. Its almost as funny as saying

"Oh yer scouse"

To every single one of those people who say that to me!!

*cough* anyway

have fun and be good and if ya cant be good be bad!!!!

hmmm

Ok this is going to sound really werid comming from me but

can self confidence be faked

I say this as I have seen so many self assured people when I myself am wishing I had that myself.

maybe I am reading too much into stuff again or sitting here and thinking about stuff alot more.

I got to add NONE are regrets or anything like that just a whole load of what if's and its leaving me with really big unsettling feeling. Does it mean I am not entirely happy now or was I truely happy back then or do I need to move on and look for something else.

I am confused as hell but I am sure I will figure it out I always do in the end.

Charities & things that I mull over

This will be a longish entry from me for a change as there is several things I need and want to touch on.


First of all

Charities

As alot of you know I tweet a aweful lot :P but there are some people and Charities who use twitter to help them get their causes across. Alot of them have personally touched me as in the case of one or two I have had happen to me.

Anyway this isnt about me for a change :p

There are two main charities on twitter that have really got to me and I am going to plug them both here as they both mean a huge to me and they are very worthy of any support that they are given.

These are honnestly being named in no particular order.

Bliss

I heard of this through a group of lovely ladies on twitter Tess Morris , Susan , Helen these ladies and several others from what I remeber (poke me if i am wrong on this ladies hehe) are currently organising a run and they are part of the #Blisstwits

Anyway a bit of information about bliss

One in every nine babies in the UK is born premature or sick. That is over 80,000 babies every year.

22,000 of these babies need intensive care, often for many weeks or even months. As medical treatments continue to improve, this figure is rising all the time.

Information from the Bliss website um I will need to get intouch with one of these for the figures as I have litterally forgot but it will be updated with the information.

Thank you Tess for the following

The Key Statistics about Birth and birthweight

the figures are shocking reading alone and touched me the second I saw them.

Jessicas Trust

This one has touched me as much as Bliss. Ben is a incredibly strong man and witty to go with it.
No one should have to go through this and Ben has my admiration for him being strong.

On the 30th of June Ben posted this on twitter to rise more awareness and its touching.

5 yrs ago today Jessica lost her life to an archaic disease just cos she gave birth.

Again like the bliss jessicas trust is trying to get it known and 14% of maternal deaths in the UK are due to septicaemia. Otherwise known as Childbed fever.

I admire all those people as its easy for me to say "Oh yes I will back you" but I would love to do more and hopefully this will help get a little more information out there for others to simply understand that not everything is a all perfect and roses.

Oh my oh my oh my what a busy busy week.

First of all

The heat

Where the hell did this damn heatwave come from?! WHERE?! its roasting and not fun with me walking around in a damn dress! (yes a rare rare thing and no No photographic evidence hahaha)

Give me a freaking thunderstorm with rain that isnt at 3 am in the god damn morning!

A big Blog entry

This is something I am slowly working on but a couple of my twitter followers know I am planning this. Regardless I will plan this saturday on the way to liverpool and on my way back.


Poker

Oh god yes I love this game. Amazingly fun and I forgot how much time I wasted not playing it.