About time for a news roundup methinks.

As news websites have a tendency to archive stories after.. well not long, and then charge you for the priveledge of viewing them, I’ll just keep it short and sweet and linkless.

Paul Holmes leaves TVNZ for Prime – WHO CARES!?
TVNZ and Paul Holmes have a wee spat – WHO CARES!?
TVNZ claims its ratings havent been affected – see where I’m going here?

Moving on. Man in Auckland run over by his own car – hahahahaha.

“Walking helped woman lose 45kg” – listen up fatties sitting in front of your interweb boxes, fatties sitting at home watching oprah, or fatties whinging because you’re too goddamned fat.. you too can lose weight, it’s called “exercise”

Dumbarse school recalls yearbooks because one parent complained about book content. – *Groan* I would have told that parent to shove it up his/her nethers. Then again I wouldnt have let a bunch of yoyowiggy westsiders have a field day creating the year book. You let some miscreants create a year book and scratch your head when it’s full of references to drugs, gangs and the sex industry? DUH!

Schools, pay attention: The yearbook is put together by nerds and/or text and information management students, surely you’ve got some of those to assign to the task? And next time a parent packs a wobbly over some meaningless PC nonsense, tell them to go jump up your butt. And when a community group whinges saying the prostitution laws are the reason for this, tell them to look up the terms “lower socio economics” and “gangster rap.” It’s the culture that these miscreant kids are embracing that’s the problem, not the prostitution laws.

Slashdot has reported that Microsoft has .wav files in its various winXP builds that were created using a stolen, haxed version of SoundForge. I have confirmed this and have a screenshot coming up this morning, all going well.

On to some movie reviews…

Open Water – Thumbs down
Dawn of the Dead – Thumbs Up
The Forgotten – Thumbs Up

Updates coming…

(Used without permission. Penned by Tom Scott)

USA, what the hell were you thinking?

Re-electing Bush was perhaps one of the stupidest things ever, how can you have a president who often proves he is incapable of forming a coherent sentence? You trust a man who can’t form a coherent sentence to run “the most powerful country in the world”?

Here’s a better potential United States President:

Let’s get a comparison going on here…

Bush: “THERE’S AN OLD SAYING IN TENNESSEE — I KNOW IT’S IN TEXAS, PROBABLY IN TENNESSEE…THAT SAYS, FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON…SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME…YOU CAN’T GET FOOLED AGAIN. ”
Chewbacca: “GRAAAAAARRRR!”

See what I mean? Chewbacca easily defeats Bush in the intelligence stakes…

Actually, we’re all looking at it the wrong way… Here’s the best president:

Well I had a newfound motivation to get my mini back on the road. Once named Jo (the numberplate starts with JO) it has since been renamed Minji. I got Minji while I was still in high school, paid for with money saved from working on ten bucks an hour cleaning a butcher shop. Minji, like most mini’s, is an absolute blast to drive.. they’re fun cars, like go karts, but you wouldnt want to crash in one.

When I moved out of my parent’s home and went out into the big bad world, I couldnt afford to live AND own a car, so I put Minji in a garage and registered it on restoration, and I’ve done little tidbits here and there for her. In the last month I’ve found a replacement grille badge for it (so now it’s an official Mini) and I also located a complete pair of Mazda MX-5 (Miata for American readers) mirrors. These mirrors are very hard to find, as often they’re smashed in the accidents that put the MX-5′s at the wrecker’s in the first place.

So, before we have a shitty Repco $20 mirror:

Which has the advantages of looking ugly and not holding its position. And now we have the MX-5 mirror:

Looks a lot better and holds its place. Here it’s being held in place by my brother, but a visit with a drill and a couple of bolts and it’ll be on there nice and tight.

Yes, I’m aware of the colour difference, I’m still deciding on which colour to get Minji painted, but currently I’m considering a modern scheme from the new Mini line…
BMW Silver with Pearl Black accents

Will keep you updated

This arrived in my work email inbox and I thought it an interesting bit of chain mail, so I thought I’d share… prepare to suffer…

Please read and pass on.

A very good idea to get a very clear message to the people that need to hear it…….

Apparently we are going to hit close to $1.35 a litre over the next few months. If this happens the prices will flow on down to the price of every thing we buy! Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Philip Hollsworth, offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the “don’t buy petrol on a certain”day”

campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t continue to “hurt ourselves” by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

Here’s the idea: For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are: BP and Mobil). If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of BP and Mobil petrol buyers. It’s really simple to do!! Now, don’t wimp out on me at this point…keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)…and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)….

and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That’s all.

(and not buy at BP and Mobil) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I’ll bet you didn’t think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 80 cents a LITRE RANGE. It’s easy to make this happen.

Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Caltex/Challenge or Gull Outlets and drive past BP and MOBIL Stations.

In other news, it seems that freedom of speech, arguably championed by your founding documents, excludes being able to talk about your president