iJoy Ride

I have it on good authority that this is neither a sex toy or a rodeo bull... What it is, is it's a exercise "device" that works on your stomach and hips. Good to see that yet another industry is adding "i" to the front of everything. iWish I could go back in time and assassinate the person that thought of using iWhatever as a naming policy at Apple... iHate it... the only thing that iHate more is when other companies copy it. Even more so when it's totally nonsensical like this. iJoy? Really... I mean come on... Sounds like a vibrator attachment for the iPod... No wait that's the iVibe. Perhaps it should be renamed the "iLook Like a Cowboy on This Thing".

Retro Poster

Whilst sorting some of my crodge out I found this old poster. I can't even remember how I got it... All I do remember is that for years it was stuck to the underside of my pool table. Now I think of it , it might be worth something, being an original promo poster for the book possibly dating back to 1986. Shame it's not in mint condition.

Out of Sequence Posts

Some out of sequence posts have been added... see below:

• Mysterious Hole
• Beat It!
• Snowman Time
• And Then There Was Space

Edited 23-01-09

Corsetry

I love corsets... And I'm very glad that Nomi does too... As such I've learnt a lot about putting them on. For Christmas I got her this lovely new one. Unfortunately it saw laced completely the wrong way for Naomi's petite figure so I bought some more ribbon and re-laced it (Could have used the original, but wanted the cords to be longer). I was pretty impressed, even if I do say so myself, that I managed to get it perfect first time :)

My Heath... (Insert Gimmic Here)

I know Ubisoft are kings of the cookie cutter game. But this just takes the piss... What's next... My Health Coach Let's Quit Heroin?

Suggestive Cacti

Seriously... It's not just one... There's dozens of them like this in my local garden center. Whoever planted them must've been laughing hysterically! Either that or I have a depraved mind?

Robins are coming to get you!

My sister bought some garden ornament Robins for my mum for Christmas (she specifically asked for these ones), however on close inspection they just look plain evil! I mean those eyes! They just look like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie!

500

Woo hoo... 500 posts :-)

Irony

Went for a meal with my sister and a couple of friends to a Beefeater. The restaurant was decorated with photo's like this one with certain things highlighted in colour. Thought this flaming one of the kitchen was ironically placed below a no smoking sign :-)

Upgrading a PS3s Hard Drive...

... Is not as easy as it seems!

All was going well... I backed u[ the HDD on a new portable drive I purchased just for the job. Then come the trauma of fiddling with such an expensive piece of equipment. I fiddle about with computers all the time, but this is different, If I break something I can't just go down Maplins and get a replacement part!

I was warned that the screws that hold the drive in place were "soft and over torqued" little did I know that it must've been done with an air spanner! Crikey... I stripped the head off of three of them trying to get them undone.

Try as I might I couldn't get them off. So I decided to use a Dremel with a cutting disc to slit a groove into each screw and undo them with a large flat blade screwdriver. Thankfully this worked brilliantly :) tho taking a cutting disc so close to a hard drive made me very nervous!

I've now replaced the screws with propper computer case screws that are a lot tougher... Not that I'll be trying this again anytime soon!

Restoring the backup was a piece of cake, and now I'm sporting plenty of HDD space :-)

For those of you that are brave enough to copy me you can find a useful how to here and another here. If you need to back up loads of data, you'll need a USB HDD, but it's not as easy as just plug it in and go... fol ow the guide here to see what you need to do, an essential piece of software you'll need is a FAT 32 Formatter for large HDDs. And a dremel if those screws were made from blue tac like mine :-)