This is my new page of audio links to my own work (for those of you who missed it).

http://febland.googlepages.com/home

Please have a listen and feel free to sign the guestbook!

3,100 off the 100K.

Blogs :: [znethru] :: Stats

This page shows the daily pageviews, the visitors and the number of people who subscribed to your blog by email.

Pageviews total: 96900.
Subscribers: 4
.........Pageviews......Total Visitors
31/10/07 475 232
30/10/07 325 124
29/10/07 233 93
28/10/07 242 102
27/10/07 165 65
26/10/07 228 146
25/10/07 220 118
24/10/07 244 117
23/10/07 248 98
22/10/07 318 106
21/10/07 229 88
20/10/07 239 66
19/10/07 274 103
18/10/07 373 106
17/10/07 295 80
16/10/07 439 126
15/10/07 257 81
14/10/07 278 87
13/10/07 204 49
12/10/07 268 69
11/10/07 298 87
10/10/07 279 91
09/10/07 412 118
08/10/07 264 86
07/10/07 252 96
06/10/07 244 85
05/10/07 247 89
04/10/07 262 73
03/10/07 239 79
02/10/07 311 85
01/10/07 291 77

I keep getting kids like this banging on my door! Oh well, happy halloween everybody!

99.99

Things are progressing here in non blogland. They are coming into focus and landing with perspective. Flying through the air. Which reminds me of the following piece of nonsense.

O Here It Is And There It Is...

O here it is! And there it is!
And no one knows whose share it is
Nor dares to stake a claim -
But we have seen it in the air
A fairy like a William Pear -
With but itself to blame.

A Thug it is - and smug it is
And like a floating pug it is
Above the orchard trees
It has no right - no right at all
To soar above the orchard wall
With chilblains on its knees.

—Mervyn Peake

I just ventured outside. Pleasantly mild and not at all windy. Ideal weather for relocating the wheelie bins.

The microblogging concept isn't one that settles neatly among a myriad of more intuitive platforms. Regardless, microblogging platforms like Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, and PlaceShout are gaining steam in the social media realm.

http://pownce.com/

I used to admire this fellow as a lad ~

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/13463.html

I have been concluding tonight's proceedings with ~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wensleydale_cheese

which always reminds me of the famous Monty Python Sketch ~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch

I saw the original Python sketch when it was first aired in the early 70s and at the time was not too familiar with the variety known as Wensleydale. Henceforward, it really stuck in the mind.

I went to school with this guy. Real gent. Modest and WYSIWYG. Not only did he win in '96, but he was the runner-up a couple of times as well.

He was on tv briefly the day young Lewis was 'robbed' in Brazil!

I am now confirming lunch.

12.45 prompt in the BBC canteen (usual disguises).

Then he went into pop.

hah!

I am not leaving so much a Carbon Footprint as a Googly Footprint.

One's Googly-rating can be easily checked out on Googly.com by inserting ones desired Carbonic nomenclature into the blank holey bit on the screen.

OK - I have been warned to stop posting garbage (by funky mk) - she thinks I might be freebasing, but I can assure you I've been nowhere near ~

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~demo5337/Group3/bball.html

MI5 = mice
CID = Syd = Sydney, Australia
MI6 = ice cream

geddit?

Who was the first on blog to get a free monkey?

A lot of blogs are harbingers of doom and gloom, so here's something different for a change.

I am feeling very well this evening, thank you very much for asking.

An uneventful day FWIW.

9.30 a.m. Plumber fixed Central Heating
12.15 Mr B came round to fix a game of table tennis
3.40 p.m. 1st piano victim showed up
4.11 p.m. finished off some composing
6 p.m. 2nd and final victim of the day showed up (I remembered not to raise my voice - I don't want to get a sore throat, do I?)
6.32 p.m. Suddenly started to feel quite well. (Have England won a Cricket match somewhere?)
7.18 p.m. blogged about the above.
7.51 p.m. going out to shoot some cards
11.11 p.m. ETA expected time of arrival back at desk.

Are our emails intercepted by Government security? Just wondered. If so, I have devised a cunning code that none of them will ever be able to crack. Ha ha.

As the legend has it, Znethru sat underneath a Zed tree when a tiny Zee fell on his head. "I have discovered Levity!"

Very Off-Piste. Piste Off in fact. But still, staying with it. Don't let the bastards grind you down and all that nonsense.

This hour-shift thing threw me completely off-balance and I was unable to get my usual early night (of 01.30) in. I ended up staying up well past my normal bedtime (highly inadvisable this, children).

Anyway, I'm just starting to feel a tiny bit better this evening. By evening, I mean 00.47.

Let's hope to settle down to some more productive work tomorrow (where, I've heard it on the grapevine that the sun will come out).

I have put up a helpful info page over at googlepages. A facility so easy that (virtually) anyone can now design their own website from scratch.

http://febland.googlepages.com/home

Any more Facebookers out there?

Paradigm: How to win an argument.

"You're talking rubbish as usual. Anything you come out with can be exposed as garbage just by looking it up on Google. If it's not on Google, it will be in Wikipedia... and if it's not in Wikipedia, I WILL PERSONALLY WRITE it in Wikipedia, so in all cases, you lose!"

Speedy, I tried...

http://add.urbandictionary.com/verify.php?code=5f0eb69d41&function=submit

Directory Enquiries. We phone them to get the number (or do we?)...

Ever since the 142 / 192 had to be paid for (and is now 118 500 or "W" - [whatever...]) ...I have noticed something and it's not positive.

Since its inception I have tried the paid service approx. 8 times and have a 100% success rate of never being given a correct number.

There was an old lady from Rhyde,
Who ate so many apples, she died.
The fruit the lamented
consumed was fermented,
Making cider inside 'er inside.

Harry is getting along in years and finds that he is unable to perform sexually. He finally goes to his doctor, who tries a few things but nothing seems to work. So the doctor refers him to an American Indian medicine man.

The medicine man says, "I can cure this." That said, he throws a white powder in a flame, and there is a flash with billowing blue smoke. Then he says, "This is powerful medicine. You can only use it once a year.

All you have to do is say '123' and it shall rise for as long as you wish!" The guy then asks, "What happens when it's over,and I don't want to continue?" The medicine man replies: "All you or your partner has to say is 1234, and it will go down. But be warned--it will not work again for another year!"

Harry rushes home, eager to try out his new powers and prowess. That night he is ready to surprise Joyce. He showers,shaves, and puts on his most exotic shaving lotion.

He gets into bed, and lying next to her says, "123." He suddenly becomes more aroused than anytime in his life ... just as the medicine man had promised. Joyce, who had been facing away, turns over and asks, "What did you say 123 for?"

And that, my dear friends, is why you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition!

Well, to be literal, none. Three minutes to go before the crazy hats come out.

OK Nick, put your business-skills cap on and tell me what you reckon here.

"A friend" is quoted a wide-ranging ballpark £15,000 to £20,000 for a business 'transaction'.

1. Will the final figure be £15,000.00?

2. Will the final figure be nearer to £20K than £15K?

3. Could the final figure be above £20K?

4. Assuming that VAT is added on to the final figure, what is the highest sum that you could imagine that the Professional Business will come up with before confirming the deal (signed no doubt, in blood)?

"A friend" is trying to organise something with a critical deadline. He is told that the person in the office will deal with it "on Monday". Monday comes and goes. He contacts the person today (Tuesday).

His email continues... "I received an auto reply saying that the person dealing with this matter is away until 6th November."

How incredibly helpful.

I pronounce Znethru with Zneth to more-or-less rhyme with 'death'; and ethru with the e as in 'bet' followed immediately by the word 'through'. The opening of the word is just like the 'Z' in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabaglione

There was a young lady named Bright,
Wha travelled much faster than light;
She went out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

(anon. - unles you can research it better than me!)

'People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.'

Mark O'Neill just sent me the link for his new website:

http://www.makeup1.co.uk/

I wasn't able to give him a link from one of my sites but I said I'd put it up on my blog.

I think this website is well worth a quick visit!

Henry Reed "Naming of Parts."

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.

This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For to-day we have naming of parts.

http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/namingofparts.html

I posed this question on my blog #8 recently and I'd now like to tackle it myself!

In a way, the answer is "No, because no one else does!"

I think my quick answer is: "Yes, it is worth going the extra mile with your own projects, but probably not with anyone else's..."

Now we are getting on to the subject of "giving value for money if you are employed to do something". If you are paid £10 to do a £10 job, why should you give £20 or £30 of value?

Anyway, that is what I was driving at with my question. I wasn't "literally" talking about "walking one mile!"