Major accomplishment
I wrote a whole 2 articles for Kebeol.net today. I wanted to write something but I felt that it would be better if everyone posted something so as to highlight the fact that we had all been on vacation and had not simply forgotten about Kebeol. Thankfully Kev obliged with a quick "we're back" post and I followed up with a couple of articles.
The latter was a slightly random humorous article. Speaking with Kev and Beth on iChat earlier, they said I came off slightly homophobic in it so just to warn you, I'm certainly not of that nature :) It was supposed to be more a sort of augmenting of this running joke Conrad and I have, and indeed one I have with my family: about 'Manliness'. Its just so comical because the pure distilled form of machismo is so thoroughly berated in todays society that it warranted a parading around :) The joke in my family is probably due to the fact that without any men in the house whilst my father worked in Hong Kong my little brother said he had to be extra manly (indeed the term used was "Mr. Macho Manly"). Chiara and I have been saying "Manly!" to each other for a long while since so when the opportunity came to tie it all together with another important facet of my computer-bound life (Manbran) and my search for Nutri-Grain, a cereal only found in Australia (and imported into Hong Kong), I couldn't resist :)
Oh yeah as I said above I've been using iChat to, well, iChat with people over voice comms.. Unfortunately my BT Time just ran out. My glorious "50 hours" of internet service for £15 a month. Thats just plain bollucks as I've said many times before. Indeed I noted before that I only kept the BT account because my guild site was still hosted by them, but since I bought www.crimsonmace.co.uk (or more accurately actually bothered to load the site onto it - had it for ages) that reason has more or less evaporated. Anyhow because my BT time ran out I've had to fall back on my emergency ISP "Madasafish" who are now dropping me whenever they feel like it (principally in the middle of voice conferences with Kev and Beth).
Kev has been moaning to me that I ought to change ISPs and to be honest I think I will. There is every chance that we will be moving into the big new house soon which will most likely have Broadband Access (it is very close to the university) and so as long as I could cancel the contract in time I might just tell BT to shove it and switch to Freeserve. It works out cheaper and I don't think they have a lame hourly quota on their supposedly unlimited internet access.
Right I'm gonna have another bash at speaking to Kev/Beth. This time I have headphones so I can better hear what they are saying.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 27, 2003 02:21 AM