I have two computers, the old one and the new one. Truth be told, neither is really new — the old one is positively ancient, while the other is simply middle-aged.
Earlier tonight a fan gave out on the old one, forcing me to shut it down as fast as possible, before it could overheat. All the essential software is duplicated here on this machine, but the news feed database — all 300MB of it — is kept on the old machine, and only backed up here occasionally.
In other words, because the articles collected for tonight’s news feed are locked away in the shut-down machine (which I hope can be resurrected before too long), there will be no news feed tonight. I can start tomorrow’s feed from scratch on this computer, but for tonight we shall have to do without.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
8 comments:
Merry Christmas one and all, hohoho. I suppose you deserve a day off xx
any where near buckingham UK?
bilbo--
Do you mean Buckingham England??
[BTW, speaking of place names, the robot word for submitting this comment was "euresia". I MUCH prefer that to Eurabia. The former means you get to keep your pianos and Bach]
I thought you got arrested for wishing people Merry Christmas in the USA these days. Happy Holiday by the way!
Well done to my compatriot who spoke of Buckingham, England. Always have hated the term UK and with Scotland disappearing from the Union in 2014 perhaps and Wales sure to follow we hope to get good old England back as an independent nation free of the Norman Yoke before I curl up my toes.
ah, you're in the USA, bad noos!
i got a dell gx380 optiplex pc, mint with win XP pro on it going free.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
12/25/2012 2:06 PM
"Well done to my compatriot who spoke of Buckingham, England. Always have hated the term UK..."
dis united kingdom now.
"...and with Scotland disappearing from the Union in 2014 ..."
and down the drain soon after.
"...perhaps and Wales sure to follow we hope..."
we do too.
"...to get good old England back as an independent nation free of the Norman Yoke before I curl up my toes."
well actually, quite a lot of us are of Norman descent as well as Norse.
i happen to be both!
Anonymous above. Well, if you are Norman and Norse then you should have a double dose of Viking spirit. I am hoping that DNA will prove that I have Danish Viking blood, too. Something has to explain why I just won't stay dead and buried, unlike so many of my cowering compatriots.
A pity we can't give that spirit back to the emasculated former Vikings of Norway and Sweden. No offence to those with Norman blood but the term Norman yoke was coined by a clerk with both Norman and Saxon blood shortly after the conquest with regard to the way the former had treated the latter.
However, the Norman yoke now refers mostly to the British establishment who would rather see England carved up into regions in line with the EU's wishes rather than be an independent whole. I think they really are pretty scared of the English if they give them too much power. Divide and rule.
The New World Order thought that they could eradicate nationalism by removing all borders and mixing up all races, religions and cultures in a great big pot. Unfortunately, they never took account of human nature and the borderless multicultural EU has only lead to us all becoming more nationalistic, even within Great Britain (not the UK), rather than less.
Anonymous said... 7
"Anonymous above. Well, if you are Norman and Norse then you should have a double dose of Viking spirit."
it may explain my love of axes and broad swords.............
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