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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 12:52 pm on 21/09/2011
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Back Stabbed

Someone i love dearly has recently backstabbed me. That is technology. More specifically, my android phone that i love so much, my beautiful Google Nexus S, has recently had trouble charging. I’ve tried several leads and they all don’t seem to work too good. However, the normal wall charger seems to work fine, although that’s no use when i’m at work. So i took it back to where i got it, the Carphone Warehouse. The hot foreign blonde girl took it into the back for a few minutes, came back and said they need to send it off to the manufacturer. Which would take about 4 weeks. Yep, 4 WEEKS. What the fuck takes them 4 weeks?!

Anyways, i’ve had to resort to using my other android phone, my HTC Hero, which i use a bit anyway, and my even older phone, the Nokia N95. Not touch screen. Retro. I’ve also been having trouble with the Hero. The screen isn’t very good anymore. And when it’s a touch screen phone, that ins’t good. especially when you try to use the touch screen keyboard. The main problem seems to be the L on the keyboard, i can’t directly touch it. I have to touch the K and slide over to the L. Also, occasionally it randomly types letters or clicks things or zooms in/out of web pages. However, i have found a solution to the typing problem. A bluetooth keyboard. It never used to work but does now for some reason. Maybe they integrated into android 2.3.5 or they just put it into the custom rom i use. Good old Cyanogenmod.

Naturally my increased usage in my Nokia means i have to take a charger to work. It doesn’t charge over USB, luckily i have an old charger that plugs into the USB into a computer and the other end into the normal charging hole. That works fine.

One more thing that has failed me recently, in fact it;s failed a LOT of people, is Dead Island on PS3. I play it, it saves at checkpoints, i stop playing and play the next day or whatever, then when i go back, i’m back many missions earlier. and i played it for several hours one day, going through several missions, hoping there were like more major checkpoints it saves at, but no, i’m still back loads of missions. So i’m not playing it again until there’s an update.

And you all know about the PS3 backup that failed to restore properly (or back up properly), assuming you read that post. So yeah, technology hates me. AFTER ALL I’VE DONE FOR IT! ALL I’VE EVER DONE IS LOVE YOU!

I’m going to eat ice cream and watch The Notebook while i cry

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 3:33 pm on 05/09/2011
Tags: adblockers, , blogs, donations, , , paypal,   

Realisation

OK, so I’ve thought of something. I have Google adsense. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it means I get paid for having ads on websites I have. So far, the last time checked, I hadn’t earned any money at all. And what I’ve realised is I think I need to make more blogs to get some cash. The more I make, the more it’ll get linked to from Google, which means I’ll get more readers, which means hopefully people well click on ads they see, which means I get my money.
Since I haven’t had any yet, I don’t know how much I’ll get. Probably not even that much. As well as people not actually liking ads, and ignoring then, there’s also something else that’s going to stop me getting monies. Adblockers. So people might not even see my ads if they have adblockers.
So if you have then enabled, disable them on this page. For me. Every little helps. Even though it’ll probably be just a few pence
On a related note, I’ll also accept donations via Paypal 😀 The email for that is micolps3@gmail.com. (except for Andrea)
Anyway I just wanted to get they off my chest. I started this blog at about 4pm and it’s now 5.45. Work has been very busy.
So see you all next time
Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 7:38 am on 03/09/2011
Tags: , , backup, , cloud, deus ex, , , oasis, , ribena, save,   

Freaky Friday

So I’ve just found on the android market the official blogger app. I wish i’d known about it sooner. It would have made mobile blogging easier. Not like I would have anyway.
Anyways, what I wanted to tell you about today is a slight but annoying issue I had yesterday.
So for a while I’ve been wanting to exchange my fat ps3 for a slim one. So obviously I backed up all my data from the old one onto an external hard drive, got the slim one, restored my data. And it restored the game saves. But not all of them. Actually most. Except the one I wanted. Deus Ex. It didn’t even restore the games. None of them. As far as I can tell, it’s restored all of my game saves except Deus Ex. That’s all it’s restored.
Whether it’s because it’s on a different console I don’t know. But I really wanted my Deus Ex save. I got really far on it. I do have a game save on there personal cloud that Sony give to PSN users, but it’s several days old. It’s really annoying that that’s the only game save that didn’t back up.
So yeah, that’s what I wanted to rant about. It’s 7.30 am on Saturday morning, I’m at work and I didn’t get much sleep last night, as usual. I never do when I have to be up early for work. That’s annoying.
On a side note, I’ve decided to stop buying Ribena because it has a lot of sugar in it. So I’ve started buying Oasis instead. That has less sugar. And hopefully gets rid of my thirst better. I find all too many drinks don’t make me much less thirsty, they just make my throat wet (that’s what she said).
This is actually turning out to be quite a long blog. At least on my mobile. Obviously on a widescreen monitor it’ll be shorter. But it’s still quite long for one of blogs. I’m just talking crap aren’t i. I’ll shut up

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 8:12 pm on 23/08/2011
Tags: black ops, , buttons, dinner, fat, jeans, kitchen, , , pee, , , western, zip   

Broke

OK, so it’s been a while since i’ve done a blog. No reason for that other than nothing has happened. Except i ran out of money with 5 days till pay day. Literally £0 in my bank account. I actually had to borrow £10 off my dad, and i hate borrowing money. Luckily i don’t have any more working days, i have the next 2 days off and i get paid Friday so i won’t need more moneys.

As we speak, i’m playing Black Ops with the missus. I’m kicking her ass 🙂

So after leaving the computer for a couple of hours after starting this, i’m back. I kicked my girlfriend’s sexy bum.

So now i’m in the kitchen making dinner. I need to pee. I always do when i go into the kitchen. Weird. And my jeans keep falling down because im getting fatter and fatter and the buttons keep breaking. I have them “western style” instead of a zip. And my fat belly has broken most apart from the very bottom one (which makes it too loose) and the very top one (which makes it too tight). And i can’t be arsed to use a belt. Fascinating isn’t it.

Anyway i’m getting Tracey to install ubuntu on her laptop so i’m going on video chat on PS3. See yaaaaa

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 12:11 am on 13/08/2011
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A Bit About Me

Ok, so for those of you that haven’t read my profile, here are a few things about me.

I… am Michael. Shocking right? I’m 26, I live in Birmingham, England. i do have the accent. I have a girlfriend. Her name is Tracey, she’s 31, from Ireland. I’ll tell you more about her in another post.

I currently work part time in a call centre in Birmingham city centre. It pays decent, but i want to work somewhere i actually enjoy. It’s not a bad place, but the work is quite repetitive.

I’m a geek. I like lots of computer and technology related things. You know i’m a geek when i’m the person people go to when they have problems with their computer. I’m also a linux user. I’m against Apple and Microsoft and i only use them when i have to. Like at work. I prefer to use free, open source software as opposed to buying stuff. No point if you can get it for free, right?

I’m also a gamer. Not just modern games. But old ones. I have some pretty old games consoles, the oldest is an Amiga 500. I also have an Amiga 1200, a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast. And dome more modern ones like PS3, PSP… that’s all 😀

I also have 2 Android phones. a HTC Hero and a Google Nexus S. I also have an Android tablet, An Asus Transformer. With the dock. It’s awesome. They all are. Except the Hero.

anyway that’s enough geekiness from me. Have any questions, ask. Follow my blog. All that shiznit. I don’t remember if i told you my youtube account. I think so, but just in case i didn’t it’s http://www.youtube.com/user/micol19 and my Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/micol25.

That’s enough blabbering from me, see ya next time.

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 11:32 am on 11/08/2011
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The First

ok so this is obviously my first blog. as you can tell by this being my only one. i didn’t want to name it “my first blog”. That’s too common. So what i plan to do is occasionally make a blog telling anyone that looks at this thing things that happen in my life. the interesting things. not a lot happens in my life so don’t expect many.

I’m currently typing this on my android phone. it doesn’t seem to work very well with it so i should remember to go on it on my computer when i get home.
ok well I’m out of things to say now. when I’m on a computer I’ll use better grammar and punctuation. i just cant be bothered on mobile. next time i’ll tell you more about myself. also i have a youtube account on youtube.com/user/micol19 (i think).

Have fun and no rioting!