Sunday 28 March 2010 at 8:30 pm
I had a pop up earlier today that upheld the facade of being not only a genuine website, but also user comments. However, quite expectedly, when I tried to post my comment there was a convenient server error. Just for everyones reading the URL in question is http://www.weightlossproductreviews.co.uk/amysstory.php
The comment I attempted to post was thus:
"How to lose weight. Stop eating as much as you currently do, but not drastically. Ideally work out your current calorie intake and reduce it but at the same time making sure you are eating a varied diet with appropriate amounts of fat, protein and carbohydrate along with foods containing the all necessary vitamins. On top of that try to just move more, not necessarily exercise excessively, just walk more than usual, or move around more. Cleaning your house is good exercise too. The two things combined will gradually lead to weight loss. Gradually IS the only way you will EVER lose weight. Ignore what is said on here. Even if it is true for this one "person", very very few people could ever benefit from this. All people will, however, benefit from a slight reduction in intake and a slight increase in activity, then after a while (if your original intake was REALLY high), another decreasing of intake and slight increase of activity. Fad diets will never work."
The honest fact of the matter is, that is the only way to lose weight. Ironically, fasting diets actually only serve to make you fatter, because the period of starvation causes your body to try and store as much fat as it can the next time you actually eat, such that it is preparing for the next period of starvation. What annoys me most about this bullshit is that everyone KNOWS what I have just said is true deep down, but very few people are willing to accept it. They just want to lose weight without any effort. But for overweight people, losing weight is just as difficult as an alcoholic trying to curb their alcohol addiction (I should know). There is, and never will be, a quick fix. If you really want to lose weight you will do the difficult thing and do it. If you don't really want to, just accept being fat and dying younger. Ultimately if you're enjoying your life that is all that matters. The only definity of anyones life is their death, we will ALL die, and ultimately, even if you have a profound impact on humanities future thinking, in the grand scheme of things it is still MASSIVELY irrelevant.
So yeah, be fat, be thin, be whatever you want. But if you want to lose weight, do what I said. And I say that with absolutely no dietary education, but I can guarantee any doctor you ask about it will agree.
Friday 26 March 2010 at 10:23 am
The following is an old article resurrected from an old site, but I liked it so much I thought I'd bring it back from oblivion.
Now I'm sure there's plenty of other articles on the
internet detailing how dire Windows Vista is. But since yesterday I was
forced to install it since I did something stupid and left my Windows
2000 installation unbootable, and then discovered the only working
installation disc I had was for Vista, I am currently in the process of
being angered to the point of mindless screaming.
Aside
from the constant requests for authorisation to do fucking ANYTHING (I
had to click 14 fucking times to confirm installing Flash Player for
fucks sake), the OS itself is about as fucking stable as I am. It's
reset itself 4 times already today. I'm in the process of downloading a Windows 2000 installation disc, but of course Vista doesn't seem to like
any of my bittorrent clients, so that constantly crashing is prolonging
the agony of the time I have to spend using this shite.
Then of course there's Microsoft's apparent inability to
program a reasonably accurate progress estimation bar, which would be perfectly
adequate if they used simple fucking division.
To the untrained eye this might not seem like such a
fucking ridiculous screenshot. But when you consider that it's telling
me it will take 19 hours to transfer the files, and it ACTUALLY took 10
minutes, it's difficult to see how Microsoft could have gotten this so
fundamentally wrong.
For
example, there is 11.4gb remaining to transfer. That is roughly
11,674mb. It handily tells me the speed at which the transfer is going.
So 11,674 / 18.5 = 631 seconds. 631 / 60 = 10.5 minutes. Simple. So how
the FUCK did it think it would take 19 cunting hours?
And finally another small irritation (there are lots of
others but I could literally go on forever and the chances are, it would
crash and reset before I had chance to finish writing), the new
Internet Explorer. When you open a new tab, and it shows you a page
entitled "Welcome to Tabbed Browsing", like it's some new fucking
innovation.
With tabs you can:
-
Use one Internet Explorer window to view all your webpages.
- Open
links in a background tab while viewing the page you're on.
- Save
and open multiple webpages at once by using favorites and home page
tabs.
Like I fucking need that
explaining. Like ANYONE needs that explaining. Even the computer
illiterate could work it out eventually. But well done Microsoft, on a
new feature that CLEARLY you invented. It's not like other, better,
browsers haven't had this wonderous ability for fucking years is it?
Wednesday 24 March 2010 at 3:44 pm
Might just be me, but this sounds like the most painful pasta in the world.
Wednesday 24 March 2010 at 3:34 pm
After reinstalling
Microsoft Windows (
Microshaft Winblows if you prefer), I understandably went about downloading and installing all the immediately necessary things such as drivers etc. Following that all the applications I use on a regular basis. It was during the installation of Windows Live Messenger I noticed something wholly amusing and ridiculous at the same time as this screenshot illustrates.
"Installing Installer" -
then is it not an installer installing the installer? Also if it's not installing the program but the installer for the program at this point, what the fuck was it doing for the other 84% of the progress?
Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 10:30 am
This picture pretty much sums up
politics. That is, of course, until someone adopts the surname Nobody and runs for
election.
Monday 22 March 2010 at 3:44 pm
Well I need to kick start things off with something, and I thought it apt to use an idea I discussed with a friend of mine during one of our Gin drinking nights.
Of course purely imagined and with very little basis in scientific fact, I came up with a theory that I am sure many have thought before. Atoms and their orbiting electrons bare a striking similarity to planets orbiting suns. This might seem like a slightly idiotic thought to begin with, but when you realise that 99.99999(etc)% of an atom is infact empty space, and everything we perceive as solid is similarly empty space, it starts to seem much more like a minute version of the universe.
Add to that we've been gradually breaking the atom into smaller and smaller pieces, what's to say that there is ever any limit to how small a piece can be broken off? Currently electrons are considered fundamental particles (not possible to break into anything smaller), but I would suggest eventually we'll find a way to do that too.
So what if all our atoms are merely suns and planets of a microscopic universe? And all our suns and planets are just atoms of a macroscopic universe? And both the tiny and massive universes are similarly just part of a smaller and a bigger one in much the same manner?
Just a thought.
Monday 22 March 2010 at 2:38 pm
Need to see if this shit is set up and working correctly. Would appear to be doing so.
