Dave’s Rants

Yesterday terror finally struck at Britian. We’ve been warned for ages that Terrorists would strike at Britain but of course all the top security in mainland Britain can’t do much to protect British interests abroad.

I forgot how great Launch.com was. I first used it ages ago in college before they upgraded the system so we could play anything the newer versions of Windows Media playercan play, but I was always able to use Launch.com, but for whatever reason I didn’t bother much last year. So today I threw it on and put on my radio station

Since I did my last political compass test I found out about another political compass site. Apparently the maker of this site reckons that it gives better results, so I decided to have a pop off it….

‘ve picked up a Dell Dimension 4500s whose PSU seems to have been fried. I’m having a nightmare trying to find a replacement PSU. Apparently Dell use proprietary PSU wiring so I can’t just plug any old generic PSU in there………

Well I saw this the day it came out, there was no way I was waiting any longer than that. I had waited since 1999 when i first heard there were going to be sequels to the original film…..

Well we’re gonna have some fun next week with George Bush’s State Visit to the UK. I’m hoping this is the PR disaster it could be for George Bush. American’s believe that the Brits stand shoulder to shoulder with them on the War On Terror, so hopefully seeing 100,000 people protesting against American foreign policy might make them ask, ‘Are we wrong to support Bush?’.

The first half wasn’t that great and I started to wonder whether I’d just wait until next year to watch them on BBC, but by the second half the episode had picked up so I decided I’m going to keep downloading the episodes!

Well thanks to Phil Gyford, the archives now have a new easier to read structure. Gone are the non-descript numeric URLs like

This must be my 3rd or even fourth time taking this test. This time I decided I’d keep a permanent record of my scores so that I could accurately track my changing views over time! I’ve yo-yoed a bit over the past 3 years or so. I’ve always been this Libertarian maybe even a little more in the past…..

Stargate - Well, in a shock to anyone who’s been reading my Season 7 reviews, I actually enjoyed this episode. It was a Daniel centric episode which was nice to see considering the reason Michael Shanks left the show was because Daniel’s character was being under-utilised.