Look Over There --->

As a fan of Dilbert and a reader of Scott Adam's blog, I was happy to see he had put up on his site for use a "Dilbert Widget" in which there's a new comic strip everyday of the week... sweet! Enjoy the free daily Dilbert people.

Dead Pool Curse...

Was listening to the radio the other night (well a podcast of the radio) and they were talking about the notion of “The Dead Pool”.

This is where a group of friends would list 20 celebrities of any type and the one who has the most people on their list to die in that calendar year wins the pool of cash.

The guy on the radio was already gloating how he was “up” as he had Ike Turner!

So, this morning… who had Heath Ledger???

What a turn up for the books is that. Yes, its all a bit sketchy at the moment, but you have to be certain it was drug related and the question needs to be answered was it suicide or accidental overdose? Its very sad, but again and again these people get caught with their fame and fortune and wind up dead from so much drugs because they have such a large disposable income.

The thing about Heath Ledger is that I am a bit surprised and shocked. He wasn’t a known drug user, he wasn’t a “bad boy” so to speak… he seemed like a fairly young clean cut guy who was able to hang out with some very attractive girls… in short, a young rich guy enjoy his fortune! But drugs? We all know about Aussies with troubles – Keith Urban’s alcohol rehab was news for weeks (and alcoholism is hardly uncommon) so I am starting to think that Heath Ledger may have committed suicide. If he was a druggie, we’d have known about it…

Which brings me to the other gripe I have regularly – the press’s fascination with Amy Winehouse. The day Ledger dies, she is all over the news videoed smoking crack cocaine at 5am before she went to her husbands court hearing. Give this skank a wide berth please! I still haven’t heard her sing… and yet she’s supposed to be famous, yet all she is is a deadshit loser with a death wish.

Wish she was on my Dead Pool…

Bloggidy Blog

I seem to have attracted a bit of attention from my blog post of yesterday from my family… I do come across as a bit down, but hey you can’t be a happy extrovert every day of the year!!

Nevertheless, whilst things are a bit tense on the work front, its not the end of the world and we move onward and upward…

With lots on the work plate and the weekend ahead, I am a bit rushed in regards to digesting the recent news but it appears that the stock market has plummeted like a stone.  I am not a share market player, but I do have Super so it has wiped a bit of that… but hey, I won’t be retiring soon so what the hell!! hehe

But when reading this today, you have to wonder if any of us will get to retirement!  In these troubled socio and economic times, when the world is being divided by the have’s and the have nots and when the worlds major religions seem to be seeking to obliterate their rivals rather than to nurture the faithful they have, the Western military think tanks that resorting to pre-emptive nuclear strikes is “the way to go”…

Way to go?  Way to go to hell…

Job Stress

I alluded to a possible sale of my company last week and on Friday afternoon this transpired with approximately 50% of the company being sold off to a competitor.

I am more than likely to remain with the remaining business as opposed to going across to the new company but it does bring a whole degree of uncertainty to my place in the working world at the moment.

Readers of Lime Kettles would have read that I enthusiastically changed jobs last August for a bigger and better role and whilst that is the case, it has been relatively short lived!

My role isn’t under threat exactly, but it is hardly a morale boosting issue and I must admit that I have been thinking as to whether the move was in the long term the best idea.  People tell me it is because I have gained new experience and increased by pay packet, but I would really hate to be unemployed again (I was “between jobs” for 3 months in 2001/02 and it was the worst thing I have ever experienced!).  You tell yourself that you’re quietly confident of getting a new job (and the job market is great at the moment) but there is always the dark spectre in the back of your mind… how are you going to pay the bills etc etc…

Yes, you get a payout (if it happens) but its never enough for both the payment of bills and the angst and stress it puts you under.

Still, we go on… work today as been pseudo productive… I have things to do, been busy, the remaining business just won a new contract but still, there’s a lot of “water cooler” talk as well….

Will keep you posted… sorry for being a bit of an Agony Aunt today :-)  Look at the pretty pictures below…. Hehe.

CanCon Team Complete - Nurglatosis

CanCon is soon upon me and I have been busy painting up my team for this years event...

It's a Nurgle team and I am fairly happy with the result... now I just need to win some games next weekend!

Beast Of Nurgle: Huge tentacled creature that puts the fear into the opponents and looks to devour opposing players to create more "rotters"



Nurgle Warriors: The big guys up front holding the line and pushing the opponent players back...

Pestigors: The ball carriers and ball hunters who look to win the game...


Rotters: These are the corpses of past victims who are infected with "Nurgles Rot" and are used as fodder for the opposition team to beat on... basically bags of gizzards on legs :)


And a happy team snap:

2007 Freeware Listing

Regular tech site I read "LifeHacker" has a list of all their top Freeware Applications for all sorts of things.

Check it out, you may find something useful :)

LINK

Get back to work slackers!

How ridiculous is this?!

Can you imagine having to come into work and have your heart rate monitored? What happens if you “accidentally” look at p0rn on the internet?

Red Alarms and Sirens?!

This stuff is scary because I bet in 100 years, it will be considered normal and Big Brother will be real…