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The annoying, uninformative error message.

This message can’t be saved to the Outbox.
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Have you ever got this error message before? I use Mail.app IMAP’ing from my GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain) account and thought I was going insane when I was getting this error message the other day.

I went in and emptied trash, cleared out a bunch of emails – basically got back to 50% free space, which was moooore than enough for the 5mb attachment I was sending. I also checked my local hard-drive to ensure I had plenty of free space, and I did.

It turns out this error message actually means that the attachment that you are trying to send on hasn’t finished downloading yet. 

A more descriptive error message would be nice!

So I just got back from watching Wanted… I’m not going to say I didn’t like it, because I did. It just left me feeling a little awkward. I think this quote describes how I felt walking out of there, “It was like a reach around, then I turned around and it was from a guy… now everyone feels a bit awkward” (Please note that I was on a 4way man date, but noone reached for anything).

If I had to sum up the movie for someone going to see it it’d be like this:

“Dude… y’know what’d be cool… if people could shoot bullets and bend them…”
“Yeah, that’d be awesome, let’s make a movie about it!”
“Yeah sweet. We better make sure Angelina Jolie is in it.”

I’m not going to spoil the ending or story line twists or anything, but I will list my favourite and least favourite parts.

FavBits:

• Angelina Jolie getting out of the bath
• Angelina Jolie pashing the guy in slow motion for about 45 seconds
• The main guy smashing the keyboard across his mates face.

Least fav:

• When they flip the cop cars (cool) and land on the bus (still cool) then they magically do a mono/wheelie off the bus and land smoothly on their rear wheels (stupid – made me question my sexuality).
• The bit where the train snapped off and they were in the carriage that crashed ~50m down into a cliff, and survived easily
• The last line of the movie “What have YOU done today?”… Well I sat next to a really fat guy on the train home, and I ate schnitzel, then I went to watch a movie that was almost great, but in the end, just ok…

Overall I didn’t mind it, but it wasn’t nearly as cool as I thought it would be.

Tonight was one of the most frustrating games of indoor cricket I’ve played in a long time. It was the first time we have played at North Wollongong in our 4 seasons in the comp, and I never want to play there again. Every week we hear teams complain about it – the courts are poorly maintained and too small, the umpiring is terrible and the players are a pack of wankers. The 3rd one (barring a couple of exceptions) we knew, but we suspected the rest was just bitter teams.

I hate when an umpire 1. doesn’t know they rules of the game they are umpiring, and 2. deliberatly makes decisions in favour of the team they support (cheats).

There has only been one other centre we have played at that has had an umpire that cheats until now, and she did it both times we played there, blatantly. This frustrated us, but we know to expect it now.

After tonight, I would prefer to play there every week than ever play at North Gong with that umpire tonight. He gave 2 calls of ‘not out’ for the home team where the batsman was at least 1m out. AT LEAST. These were not close calls that went in their favour, these were blatant disregard for the spirit and rules of the game. It made our team angry. We are happy to accept that umpires make mistakes, and not every call goes your way – but when he is clearly basing his decisions on which team is batting, it is wrong. I suggested to a team mate that it is no wonder they make the semi’s every year playing half their games in front of this joker… A guy from the sideline said “yeah, but we’re ahead of you on the table”. I turned and told him “you were ahead of us last year… until we beat you  twice by 100 runs in the semi finals andwe finished second..”

Getting sledged by people from other teams pisses me off. It happened again later on, after bowling a great over, a guy from the sideline sledged the shit out of me. Normally I would flash him a smile and get on with it – but he was a guy that had attacked me before. I walked over to where he was sitting and asked “when do you bat? oh… that’s right, you’re not good enough to play top grade… oh well.. it’s probably more satisfying being the best player in 3rd grade.” He stuttered and had no comeback.

There were a few funny moments – a wanker from their team faced up to the first ball of the over, then missed it, turned to the umpire and asked how many left. I walked over and said “8 minus 1 and you can’t work it out yourself, that does explain a few things”.. He then tried to hit the ball at me and got out. Score 1 to us.

At the end of the game the umpire began to have words with our team (after the 4 nationally accredited umpires questioned the rule he made up). I got the shits, gave him a spray and left.

I am pissed off with cheaters, we lost the game, the umpiring was shit, I have a massive bruise on my leg, yet still – I can’t wait for next week… Am I a sucker for punishment? Yes… but fuck I love my cricket

When the Facebook developer Platform was first announced, thoughts of brilliant applications using Facebook’s amazing viral marketing ability was all I could think about. It was touted as an online revolution. Colleges ran classes on developing Facebook applications and every Tom, Dick and Harry had a play around with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) – myself included.

Just saw an interview with Australia’s latest test debutant’s Dad – Mr Johnson.Ian Healy asked him “Do you get nervous watching ?”
to which he replies, “watching cricket?”
Healy – “No, watching Mitchell”
Mr Johnson – “I’ve never seen him play cricket.”
Healy – “Ever?!”
Mr Johnson – “I’ve watched cricket, just never seen Mitchell play”
cue 5 second awkward silence… Then conversation moves to Mitchell’s girlfriend.

Mitchell has been playing cricket all his life, played for QLD and the Australian 1Day team – both of which are TELEVISED, yet his Dad has never seen him play.

New late favourite for the worst father of the year award!

Why does the paypal global home page have a login form, but the paypal australia page not? This frustrates me every time I visit!

See for yourself:
http://www.paypal.com/au

There is more to come… but the my USB external HD died. The card that interfaces IDE to USB has died in some form. Originally, I thought it was just the USB cable, but after opening the case found that the adapter was overheating so badly, it had melted a lot of plastic surrounding it. From a cold start, within30 seconds (after 4 hours off), this part became insatiably hot.

I am now on a quest to find a new (better quality) 2.5″ IDE to USB solution that supports my 160GB drive.

This is relevant because it had 3 or 4 posts on it that I now can’t access or publish