Welcome back me…..

07/10/2009 by outreacher.

I have been absent for ages and ages, mainly because of my amateur geek status. I have to administer my forum as well as this blog, the forum is at:

http://www.brenttoday.co.uk/forums/index.php

Well administering a forum is ok, when it’s just editing abusive comments. It’s a different ball game when you get invaded by spammers and bots, sometimes 50 a day, registering and posting links to ‘Viagra and porn sites’. It’s then that amateur geeks like me get very stressed and bewildered, especially when I look for support and am told (by real proper geeks) to do this and that to the php coding, then I despair and pack it all in.

So that is what happened to me, I had to close the forum for nearly a year, because I was failing miserably to control this invasion of cyber bandits taking over my forum. It was very disturbing, I mean what the hell do they gain from it, exposure of zero on the forum as I was continually banning them and deleting their spam.

Now I am happy to say I defeated the bastards and updated security and tackled the problem, only took about 8 months to master the techniques. Now it’s time to start on this blog, since I have been absent, about three new versions have been made available and I need to install the latest one, the bad news is I just read the upgrade information and I am baffled again.

Oh well, I will take it slowly and read it 25 times, then maybe my feeble geeky mind might grasp the complexities of ‘MySQL’ and databases.

I would love to be a proper geek someday, it would certainly save me lots of hours scratching my head.

Bye for now.

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Bankers v Natural Disasters

13/10/2008 by outreacher.

I watched a TV programme the other night about what would happen if London was breached by the sea. The catastrophic results, similar to the New Orleans flooding would wipe out the Tube system for weeks if not months and cause unimaginable chaos.

What I found interesting was the enormous cost this act of nature would burden the people of this Island with - 50 Billion quid.

Now my point is, the Banking system of this country is costing us more than a catasrophic disater of gigantic proportions could.

In my opinion the Bankers of this country that are partly to blame for this countries current crisis, should never be allowed to work with money again, they should be put on the ‘Money Offenders List’ and only be allowed to work in jobs that dealing with money was not a requirement.

Also if those same bankers who are responsible for the hardship and troubles the British people have now to suffer, caused solely by the incompetence and greed of those money men entrusted to guard this countries assets, have the nerve to take bonuses from the bail outs given by the taxpayer to save their asses, they should be locked away in Prison for a very long time along with the other thieves, robbers and worthless scum that inhabit this planet.

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Forum Spammers

11/10/2008 by outreacher.

I have a forum, internet forum that has not been active for some time. Last week I decided to resurrect it so I cleaned it up and opened it up for registration.

Since the last time I used it the cyber waves seem to have been overrun with ‘internet spammers’. These strange creatures seem to dwell in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, with a fair proprotion from China.

What they do is register on your forum and leave a link either in their profile or in a message they post. The link will probably point to a cheap viagra site or a sex site. What gain do these morons get for their efforts I ask, apart from being banned immediatley with there IP address listed with spam control sites.

The internet is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t take long for the scum of the world to begin infesting it.

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Banks

09/10/2008 by outreacher.

I was always under the impression that the banking sector was a bastion of sober, dilligent fellows that held buckets full of money, all there just in case the country got into serious financial trouble.

What with bankers buying football clubs and Banks buying each other out on rescue deals while others go bust. Think I have lost faith somewhat in the capitalist dream. I am fortunate enough to be skint so all these shares losing value and billions wiped off the stock market, well quite frankly I couldn’t give a toss, hope it isn’t too painful on the unfortunate greedy bastards that might have to cut down on buying football clubs as hobbies.

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Footballers charged with burglary

17/06/2008 by outreacher.

“Two Championship footballers have been charged with burglary in connection with the theft of items from a Portsmouth nightclub.

Southampton Football Club striker Bradley Wright-Phillips, 23, and winger Nathan Dyer, 20, will appear before Portsmouth magistrates on 8 July”.

Not much hope of getting away with this as they were caught on CCTV. The young football superstars who flaunt their wealth in peoples faces, go buy flash cars and demand incredible wages from football clubs, without showing any loyalty to anyone. Don’t know about you, but I find them the most obnoxious group of people on the planet along with talentless celebrities.

My verdict send them to prison for two years, Southampton FC should sack them immediately and the Football Association should give them a 5 year ban from the game.

On the bright side, MPs were today revealed to be asking for a 21 per cent pay rise - worth £13,180.
Their demand caused outrage on a day the economy fell deeper into crisis, with inflation bursting its official ceiling to hit 3.3 per cent.

Well what do you know, us peasants have to stick to the rules when it comes to pay rises ask the firemen and nurses, yet MPs can have a vote on their pay on July 3, opting for an increase that makes a joke of their pay rise policies for the rest of the nation.

Not much about Brent today, can’t see anything happening though as I stare vacantly through the window.

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Long time no post

16/06/2008 by outreacher.

Let’s see where was I up to in my moans about Brent, oh yes ‘Parking Permits’.

Well I can tell you for a fact that they haven’t come down in price, they haven’t gone up either. Everything else as though, food, petrol, cigs, beer, wiping your ass, the cost of soft toilet tissue risen by 30%, f88k you Sainsburys.

Cost of houses have fallen a bit, could end up less than three times what we can afford if the trend continues.

“More troops to Afghanistan”, Flash Gordon tells George Wya, we can afford it, money is no object to keep the Talaban from our beaches, they should apply properly like all the rest of the Terrorists do, through the immigration authorities we are a very obliging country when it comes to giving out social housing and British Citizenship to people that make the effort to learn our language.

Rant over, have a nice day.

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Parking Permits

14/01/2008 by outreacher.

Just been to buy some new ones - 100% increase since the last buy. I use these for workman that come to my place or for friends and family.

My street has never had a parking problem, Brent Council decided that to stop people from out of town parking and taking the tube into Central London the solution should be Residents Parking. So why are residents charged, when they could always park outside the house anyway?

Is the country now in the hands of untruthful, thieving crooks that masquerade as government spongers that reckon they are doing us a favour.

My opinion is, I would sack the lot of them and employ in their place the workforce that they sanctioned from amongst our new found friends (Eastern Europe), we could replace the council workers with minimum wage immigrants.

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AWOL

14/11/2007 by outreacher.

Long time since I posted on the blog, been unable to for months for reasons beyond my control. Surprised the site is still running and not been devoured by aliens. Well I am back and will begin to work on on the website and make it up to date.

Noticed a lot of new subscribers with the address of .ru, noticed also that no comments posted from the said subscribers, nothing personel but .ru addresses will be deleted as on my forum all users with from this IP are spammers.

Bye

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Democracy Rules

05/03/2007 by outreacher.

I hate reading about Iraq and the alleged democratic government. If there is a god then the demons that caused the mess, mayhem, death and turmoil in the country should repent their sins right now. This is on par with Vietnam.

Mr Blair I reckon your to blame.

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Jumpers for goalposts?

12/02/2007 by outreacher.

Found this somewhere else.

Before the Internet…Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack….Before SEGA or Super Nintendo… Way back……..I’m talking about Hide and Seek in the park.

The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch. Skipping. Handstands.

Football with an old can. Fingerbob.

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.

Topper, Beezer and Whizzer and Chips.

Roly Poly. Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.

The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.

Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a
tune.

Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps
screwball.

Cider lollies

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.

Children’s Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,

Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and ‘Why Don’t You’?

- or staying up for Doctor Who.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going somewhere.

Earwigs wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. Sticky fingers.

Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big ‘uns and Little ‘uns.

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees.

Making igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.

Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt.

Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.

Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was
cause for giggles.

Being tired from playing….remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

Knock-a-door run and mischief night.

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

Choppers and Grifters.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies

Remember when…

Conkers were fun and not a weapon of mass destruction

There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green
Flash
- and the only time you wore them at School was for P.E. (and they were
called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsolls)

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.

It wasn’t odd to have two or three ‘best’ friends.

You didn’t sleep a wink on Christmas eve.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When a tanner was decent pocket money

Curly Wurlys. Space Dust. Toffo’s. Top Trumps.

When you’d reach into a muddy drain for a penny.

When nearly everyone’s mum was at home when the kids got there.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry the shopping and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head’s office for the cane was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn’t because of
drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.

Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and some of us are
still afraid of them.

Didn’t that feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

Remember when….

Decisions were made by going “Ip, Dip, Dog Shit”

“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.

And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that ‘British Bulldog 123′ wasn’t an Olympic event.

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED………….Happy Days.

 

 

 

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