Jim’s leak.

Ok, when I first heard about the bird flu cases in China, admittedly it did cause a slight bit ofworry, mainly because of the fact it was China, but I wasn’t massively bothered about it and I quickly forgot about it. However I am now fairly worried after reading the following news article: LINK The French have now found 2 cases of H5N1, the deadly bird flu. This is slightly closer to home and I’m thinking it won’t be too long before Britain has its first case. There is the channel which seems to serve a useful barrier but I’m sure infected birds will cross it sooner or later. Let’s just hope the WHO sorts this out as asap.

–Jim–

Damn its windy outside at the moment! Hope I don’t get blown away in the night lol.

Think I should go sleep now…

So, feeling quite a lot better I decided to go see the above two bands at the Camden Koko last night. Powerquest were up first and I have to say, theyre an awesome band, the singer was dressed rather out of place which looked cool lol. White and gold italian style shirt and black patterned trousers that were all swirly. Short styled hair, everyone else dressed in black with hair past their shoulders Anyway I thought they played great, the sound levels for the vocals were a bit off but they were like that all night. Helloween were after, they were alright, not my favourite band but they seemed to play well. They had a damn cool drum solo with double bass going fast pretty much nonstop throughout it for a good 7 mins at least lol. They played mr torture and if i could fly which I like but other than that it was just a bit average. They were a cool band and showy but something didnt quite make it for me. Partle the fat old german men in the crowd that didnt have the power metal spirit in them, they just had to do everything they could to get theyre photos, which were very crap anyway lol. So just before the encores I went and got myself a drink and went up on the balcony for a bit, the koko is a cool venue like that. Then went and hung around the bar for a bit until the gig finished. Not a bad night overall though.

My mate Sam liked it more than me, read it about here on his blog.
–Jim–

Going to doctors later on, but for now, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here it is, I can’t be bothered to write any more.

Terribly day. Couldn’t sleep last night, shivering too much. Woke up today not being able to talk which got a bit better as the day went on but my throat still hurts, I have a headache and I’ve felt sick on and off all day. Had a biology test first thing which I had forgotten all about then further maths which is always a headfuck, then had to give a presentation in physics which means more talking. Had a driving lesson in which I made stupid mistakes because I felt so crap. I don’t even feel like playing the drums, I always feel like playing the drums

-Jim-

Friday Feb 3rd, what a night! Saw Dragonforce headline the London Astoria in Tottenham Court Road, Central London. They were amazing. The first band on was ok, Sabaton, they only had a 15min set, the fitted in 3 songs and they were average, but then theres only so much you can do in 15mins really.

Edguy were up second and they were quite good, damn good showmanship lol, the music was quite good. Then Dragonforce were amazing, put on a totally awesome show for like an hour and a half or something. The keyboard solo was great but no drum solo yet again!!! Oh well. I did take photos but I haven’t been able to get them on the pc yet but I will eventually and will stick the best on here.

–Jim–

Having recently found out about the situation involving the printing of several (around 12 it seems to be) carttons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, I have to say I’m fairly annoyed.

Firstly, the cartoons did not just depict Islamic religious figures, there were figured from a wide variety of religions and it was in no way intended as an attack on any religion, let alone the Islamic faith.

Secondly, the printing of these cartoons abided by Danish law to the full extent and besides, there has to be freedom of speech and expression. You can’t take that away from people, or is that what has to happen?

Thirdly, now followers of this faith are running out into the streets and burning THEIR OWN NATIONAL FLAG I mean, you can’t sink much lower than that. Burning your own flag because of a cartoon. If you search for “cartoon prophet mohammad” in google image search, at the time of me writing this, you could still see one of the cartoons on there. However it does seem that all of the other cartoons have been removed from the net, which is a big shame.

Also, now there is a boycotting of Danish product, by the followers of this faith. Ok so I can understand being upset about it, to a certain extent, but burning their own national flag, boycotting their own national products and urging other followers of ther faith to boycott Danish products, trying to bring down a national economy (which frankly wont work) all over a stupid cartoon… doesn’t make sense to me personally. What’s worse, is that, apparently, the editor in chief of France-Soir, one of the papers which printed the cartoon, has been fired by its owner.

Unfortunately (in my view) the papers have apologised, but that aside, the boycotting and so on is still going on, I mean, what do these people want??? Personally I think the papers had every right to print the cartoons and freedom of speech is one of the most important rights we have. Personally I’m not overly religious, probably not at all but If we went to the middle east and started printing Christian papers and preaching Christian papers etc what do we think would happen then huh?

–Jim–

(also see Lizzies Blog for more info on this subject)

Well, today I finished watching series 2 of the young ones, had the afternoon off 6form so I figured I might aswell. Damn funny as usual. Neil trying to nail china plates to the table lol, and so on. However, the ending surprised me somehwat. It completely crap!!!! I was shocked and it pissed me off a bit really because series one was so good and so was 2 but they ended it terribly.

Thats all for now…

–Jim–

Recently a new bittorrent client has come out called Ted, a few people I know have tried it and it seems to be a bit pants to be honest. I have to reccommend one called Bust! though because it does seem to run extremely efficiently while you run other programs aswell.

I have discovered that running a single torrent file (leeching not seeding) at a time is much more efficient, but what if one finishes and I’m not around to start the next? Well I don’t know how many other clients have this deature but with Burst! you can have a queue of torrents waiting so that when your current leeching torrent finishes and starts seeding, the next one automatically starts leeching, but also this doesn’t bring down the torrent network as the rpevious one still seeds while the next begins to leech. Seems pretty handy to me.

ALso you can see exactly how many people you are connected to and if you really want, how much data you send each person and how much they send you and the speeds of up/down loading and so on. Burst! uses commant prompt windows to display all the detailed info which looks pretty damn cool (as shown below)

However, obviously these windows can make the screen a bit messy and if you did want to have mulitple torrents going at the same time you would end up with windows all over the place, so you can hide these if you wish. The main download screen looks like the screenshot below:

This screen, when minimized, sits in the taskbar in the bottom right of your screen as a simple icon, and will run very well in the background while you are doing other things on the pc. You can also vary the amount of system resources the program will use, so that it wont interrupt what you’re doing. Seems pretty good to me, best bit-torrent client I’ve found so far.

Download it and give it a go here:

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–Jim–