The thunderstorms are here 🙂 I love lightening.. I have been wanting to take photos of lightening for a long long time. The last time I did it successfully was when I was about 14. I am not even sure where the negatives are.

Geek Stuff:
In the last hour there has been 20 hits on my firewall on port 80. I guess its the Code Red Virus. Most of them are from 66.61 which is road runner in my area

Yeeks I need to do something other than watch TV. I am sitting watching the simpsons. I have a Tivo that I haven’t been taming for the last week or so. Now I have about 20 episodes of the simpsons sitting on it waiting for me. When I lived in Scotland the simpsons weren’t showing on any of the 4 broadcast channels and we didn’t have cable or satallite. So I only ever saw the simpsons was when I ate dinner at the KB student union. Since getting the Tivo my goal has been to watch every episode. I was doing well for a while since I had seen most of them already but they just started showing the really old ones 🙂 I love the simpsons when Willy the grounds man turns to skinner and says “Thats the last time you’l slap your willy around”

Geek Stuff:
Oops, I think I might have upset RoadRunner, I came home and found that I couldn’t get an ip address from road runner on my firewall 🙁 I wasted most of the night trying to work out if it was the new firmware I just loaded onto the firewall or something else. I tired getting an IP address using my laptop (worked), tried getting an ip address on my firewall from my internal networked (worked). I finally changed the MAC address on the firewall and BOOM it worked. Hmmm me thinks they banned my MAC address for some reason. Oh well I have an internet connection again so I can’t be bothered spending an other hour on the phone with them I will just wait a week and see what happens.

I got stumped by Circuit City last night. I went out to buy a cable modem since they were having a special on them. She scanned in cable modem and then asked me for my telephone number. I said “no”. she said, “I can’t continue unless you give me your telephone number”. I said “You have to be kidding”. She then said “do you have a work number I can use”, I gave her my works main number and then saw a nice list of people pop up on the screen of people who had done the same thing. Is it to much to expect that I don’t want to give out my telephone number. I mean I just wanted to buy something?

Hmmm not sure if this icon I want. If you don’t ready know Irn Bru is a Scottish soft drink. Look at my web page for more details. The bottle in the picture is a recyclable glass bottle that you can return and get some money back. After leaving my student flat I got back about 5 pounds (That’s Pounds Sterling). One of my friends was in the UK a few weeks back. He didn’t think very much of it when he tried it 🙂

Its time to rip another CD, I picked up a cd over the weekend that I thought would be good. I am sucker for celtic music. I looked at the title “Roots, reels + rhythms” then looked at the bands and thought “I know Capercaillie and Tartan Amoebas”. I was hoping it would be more ceildh type music turns out to be more well, emmm, I not quite sure. The CD says that it is “A totally modern celtic experience”. Lets just say that I am trying to decide wether it gets added to my play list.