................Happy New Year................

................Happy New Year................

......Here's Hoping That 2008 will be better than 2007......

The Greggs

You may recall i asked you recently to nominate your top 5 best 'Greggs' piccies and seeing how only 2 people cast their votes it has ended up in a tie for 1st place - So here they are:


Ok - you can stop laughing now!! If I'd had my other PC up and running i would have made a montage of all the Gregg's pics - But it would take forever on this crappy old thing.

Boring PC Stuff

Still awaiting my new PC components but decided to get the case ready for them - You can see my old Motherboard Minus CPU etc lying on my kitchen floor - I think i've found out what the problem was - A crack in a heat pipe on the passive cooler over the voltage controller chip set that connects the fan to the rest of the block (The long stripey thing at the top-right of the pic below) The vertical plate on the left side of the cooling block (which housed the fan) was almost dangling-off, i think this was maybe the problem - Chip set was over-heating and not letting not letting the board boot into BIOS - There is my not-so-expert analysis.


And just to add insult to injury: I knew that my new Motherboard would take DDR3 Memory but also thought that it would still run with the cheeky DDR2 Ballistix TracerX memory I just got about 5 months ago - Not the case!! Seems I need to get DDR3 memory as well - Another £300 - Brings my total expenditure to nearly a grand - Sheesh!!! - But what the Fook!!!! - You just won't see me out for a few months lol!! 8+]

Festive Drinks and Pool

Beers and Pool at The Firkin last night - Very Funny!!!

More Chinese Jocks Footage

From Henry's Cellar Bar on the 15th of December to be precise! Received a DVD from Bogus Baz today and here are a few stills i made (still using shitty old PC - so quality is a bit dodgy lol) and there's also a cheeky little video that was filmed off the TV using my camera (this PC doesn't even have a DVD drive) If anyone wants a copy of the DVD then let me know :+)






Thanks to Deek for helping out with the vocals again!

Axidents/Shock And Awe

That diary you got for Christmas - Here's your first entry!!!

Chaz's Christmas Message

As if things couldn't get any worse - My copy of Windows XP that i have installed on this, my temporary PC until i get my new one up and running again, needs to be activated today - And as i have had to install this version that i paid £90 for 5 times already (Mostly due to Hard Drive failures) Microsoft will not accept another 'activation' from me with this copy of Windows - This sucks big time but thats another issue - What i'm trying to say is that as of tomorrow (Christmas Day - The Irony!!) my Windows installation on this PC will be closed down - But i have some new hardware ordered (Xmas pressie to myself) to get my other pc back in business soon. Chances are that i will be off-line for maybe a week or so - So have a Happy New Year as well and I hope that 2008 is better than 2007! - Thanks for all your Comments etc this year!! :) - Chaz over and OUT

Tam_Balfour Wishes You A Merry Christmas

They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin's birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winters light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night
And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked at the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas you get you deserve.

=pQm= Dode

Dode Balfour turns up for a bit o Kingpin and does the business!!

Axidents - Chinese Jocks - Henry's

Managed to get my old PC set up again to post these Pic's from last nights gig - Again, thanks to all who came along - And to all the unknown photographers for taking pics of The Jocks! :) - Pic's from Dougie's party will have to wait as they are off my camera and on my "dead" PC at the moment.