Bitches who don’t act straight (and can’t drive)

If you drive a car in London, undertake cyclists, then cut them off turning right without indicating… don’t expect them not to swear at you.

This morning a woman did just that. I almost was hit, probably avoided by 5cm and thanks to my brakes. I swore the shit out of her. She could have seriously injured me or even killed me.

She had the audacity to wind her window down and scream ‘Dont swear at me, get a f**king license and learn the road you f**king cyclist’.

This is the type of person we need off the road. Blathering idiots who disregard anyones life other than their own. Who talk on their phones while driving. Who smoke in their cars with children. Why can’t people be mindful that they are driving a vehicle, weighing over a tonne (more than 10 times the weight of a cyclist). She obviously doesn’t know the road code herself.

I was indicating right, sticking the the right of the road getting ready to turn into the adjacent road, when she undertook me then cut me off while turning right.

If I was a cat, i’d have one less life.

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Avis – chipped windscreen

tl;dr Avis didn’t sign off our car, chipped their own windscreen on transit to another branch, charged us for damages.

update: it appears this link has been removed from google search. Yesterday the search term “Avis chipped windscreen Melbourne” brought back my link in 3rd place. Now it’s absent, even if you include “marksy”

update 2: Google “may” have inadvertently rolled the search result back to a month prior, as it’s back in the search (and ranking high too).

update 3: Avis contacted us last week saying that they’re sorry to hear of our poor service and offered to compensate us 50% of the damage and want the receipt to look into the matter further. That’s a good start, however we don’t feel that we should pay anything since we didn’t do the damage! Also, travelling 22,000km back home – we’ve misplaced the receipt, so don’t really have anything to go on. My advice is, don’t drive with Avis.

My girlfriend and I flew into Sydney for a holiday in late February 2012, to see friends and travel a bit on our way to Melbourne.

We used vroomvroomvroom.com to choose a car rental company, and found Avis to be the cheapest at about $150 for 4 days unlimited kms, no return.

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Thailand, Bangkok

I left work early to meet Rouzie at London Bridge after a stressful day trying to sort work matters before leaving for a month. But glad and excited that i’ll be spending the next month away from it all seeing new places and finally returning home.
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Raspberry Pi

Last night I bought a piece of hardware that will be a piece of history. The Raspberry Pi computer is a tiny (size of a packet of playing cards) logic board, system-on-chip arm CPU, 256mb ram, ethernet, USB, SD Card, HDMI, LCD out (direct into panel), and IO port. It’s very low power and can be run off of batteries. It can run such OS’s as Debian squeeze, Fedora 14 remix, or Arch Linux ARM.

For £30 including shipping, this is the cheapest PC in the world. This is less than the price of an Arduino starter pack. For developing countries this is a massive opportunity. All you need is a HDMI tv / LCD and i guess innernep.

It probably won’t ship until late August though.

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Serious Eats

My new favourite RSS feed, Serious Eats is fantastic to get inspiration, recipes and read stories on food around the world.

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Mount OS X share on Windows 7

Windows in general is a pain in the bum. I’ve had to install it on my media PC for the TV as Netflix only support PC/Mac – not Linux.

However when configuring Windows I found I couldn’t access my Mac. I restarted everything including the router. Nothing. It kept asking for my username & password (the account that has access on the Mac). I then did a quick search and found this piece of information:

You have to manually disable security polices to connect to LAN based NTLM. Go to Local Security Policy; find Network security: LAN Manager Authentication and set it to “Send LM & LTLM Responses”. Find Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP (may be 2 of them) and set it to “no minimum”

Without knowing this I would probably be in the corner, crying and gorging on a whole thing of candy beans.

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Burt Wonderstone

Burt Wonderstone is an upcoming film featuring Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi and Steve Carell about the two longtime stage partners breakup and the arrival of a new “hip” street magician.

Sneak peaks look fantastic.

via imdb

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Netflix for UK

Out of nowhere, Netflix just landed in the UK, rivalling longtime assholes Lovefilm. I’ve just signed up for their 30 day trial, and at £6/month for all you want TV/Movies (from their not-so-amazing but okaaaay library) it beats Lovefilm’s shitty £10/month disc rental method with limited shitty streaming that buffers all the time. It’ll be great competition rivalry though.
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Thailand, AU & NZ

Just shelled out a lot clams for my trip with Rouzie to Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. It’s cool though. Will be well worth it. Haven’t been back home in ages, and plus i’ve a good friend getting married in Auckland so that’s all good.
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2012

It’s been a while since the last post. Many things have changed too.

  • it’s now a new year
  • I moved into a new flat
  • I now own crystal (thanks parents)
  • built a hdmpc from scratch for under £170

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