Bad time to be me

I’ve been feeling al ittle down the last couple of days and couldn’t quite figure out why. Something was niggling, I just couldn’t get any enthusiasm for anything, I’ve been snappy, I’ve hardly eaten anything…

Then something clicked. I checked through my blog and came across this post.

Yup, almost three years to the day that I started going out with Louise. And even on a subconscious level the whole thing is still ******* with my head. I know I don’t post about her any more, I know I try not to talk about her any more – in fact, I know my posts on here have become less personal in the last year-and-a-half since everything fell apart.

Thing is, I’m still trying to put it all behind me and it does still interfere with my life, much as I don’t want it to. I don’t post anything about relationships on this or my other blogs any more because I’m just scared it’ll just blow up in my face again.

I’m scared to be happy with anyone. Basically. Or at least I’m scared to let anyone else know about it in case I end up with emotional egg in my face again.

Thing is, if an anniversary of something I don’t even recall the exact date of can cause me to become depressed without me even realising why, what hope do I have? I know some people who will find this blog post hard to take and to them I apologise. I never try to pretend – I know I still have issues and I’m doing my best to get over them – but I was completely devastated by what happened and it’s taking me longer than I ever thought it would to get over stuff.

It’s a hard position for me to be in. I like being in a relationship – in fact I need to be so that I can do what I really want in life which is to have a family. However, my head is obviously still buggered up. I do think my heart is as well. Frankly, it’s frustrating more than anything else. Right now I need a good bunch of mates around me – and I mean right here around me – just to keep me busy doing stuff to take my mind off things.

I do apologise for this post as I know the more recent ones have been quite up-beat, but I’m always honest and open on this blog. Go back a couple of years to when I was having horrible problems at home, and the ones throughout my breakup with Lou for proof of that.

And don’t worry. I won’t do owt stupid. Never have (apart from those two “punching hand through window” incidents and I nailed it with the second one so I only broke the glass and not myself that time), never will. Just bear with me if I sound like a miserable sod on MSN or anything.

Thanks.

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Google can’t count

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As well as doing searches, Google‘s capable of some other funky things. Try entering the following if you’re in a foreign country:

16500 VND in GBP

That’ll convert Vietnamese Dong into British Pounds. Handy for any currency conversions.

define serenity

Popping that in your search box will return a definition at the top of the page, followed by the usual search.

what is the time in Beijing?

Will, surprise, give you the current time in the Chinese capital. Hell, if you’re not sure what the capital of China is:

what is the capital of China?

Maths is another useful function. Quite a few complex functions such as roots, squares and the like can be handled. Yet it falls down on subtraction. Before they fix it, try:

399999999999999-399999999999998

Copy/paste if you want to ensure you get the digits correct. I’m pretty sure you can get the correct answer. Shame Google can’t.

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Jade Goody may die!

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I only just found out who the **** she is and I couldn’t really care much less aside from the following news story allows me to make a really tasteless post:

TV star Jade Goody, who has been diagnosed with cervical cancer, has said she fears she may not live to see her two young sons grow up. [BBC News]

I’ve seen the pictures and it’s awful. Not her scans. Her face. And someone ****** that? Twice?

Ew.

Hey, won’t you lot be glad when I get the **** away from Kota Kinabalu to somewhere I don’t have as much free time and internet access?

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Interesting Olympic fact

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I read this at the temporary Olympics exhibition at the Sabah Museum in Kota Kinabalu this afternoon: The International Olympic Committee regard the Olympics as a collection of individual and team events. Countries do not come into it except to differentiate the competitors.

That is, they maintain no records based on the number of medals won by different countries. Seems like those facts only matter to the TV companies, newspapers and America as a whole.

And I’m not just saying that because we’re beating them. Honest.

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Anatomy of a Malware Scam

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Jesper M. Johansson has a very interesting 8-page article up on The Register entitled Anatomy of a Malware Scam that’s well worth a read. It does start a little techy, but I urge any Windows user to have a browse through it just to see how “clever” the thieving ***** who write this software really are.

It’s quite an eye-opener and I’ve seen a couple of other examples of this “in the wild”, particularly since I returned to Asia where anti-virus/anti-spyware software on public PCs is a thing of legend.

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