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Author: NiteMayr

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Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.

Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-17

Published by NiteMayr on March 17, 2009
  • Good Afternoon, I’m on my unpaid day off, I’ve already been working … 7 hours before my normal shift would be starting! DAMN!!!! #
  • MMMMMmmm Proper Peaberry Coffee freshly brewed! #
  • Work Finished? Please? #
  • I’ll sat it again #teaparty folks, where are you “No Bailout for Banks” signs? Where are your “No Corporate Welfare” signs? #
  • Additonally #teaparty ers where were you when millions were being tossed into the desert? Huh? Billions evaporated into the sand. #
  • #912 #teaparty Where the hell were you for the 8 years of Bush slapping your future into the dirt? NOW you get religion? NOW you have it? #
  • tftp and pxe ubuntu install to an old 1U rackmount…. fun stuff #
  • Now for MOAR COFEEE #
  • Re-Orged DVD collection, Series first, movies I love next, then the rest…. I’ll have to set up that second set of shelves soon #
  • IANAM, but encourage my female friends to read: http://tinyurl.com/d8lsxc Viva la Revolution! #
  • Fun Geek Note: One of the PMs at the office was hovering during troubleshooting and I described a service as “Borked” this was a new term. #
  • IANAM, but encourage my female friends to read: http://tinyurl.com/d8lsxc Viva la Revolution! #
  • Blocked three robospammers in succession… damn robots! #
  • IANAM, but encourage my female friends to read: http://tinyurl.com/d8lsxc Viva la Revolution! #
  • wget –user=ftp –password=ftp ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache -O /etc/bind/db.root Yeah #
  • I’m really pissed off, I automated the deployment of an app, manually confirmed that it was in place and now a coworker is redeploying it #
  • Oh Crap on a Cracker Facebook, I don’t care that Friend X has scored Y on Howmuchofadoucheami? FILTERS PLEASE #
  • Weekend Fail: Being on call prevents me from enjoying 66% of my weekend. #
  • Mashed up some data, I appear to be on call on or around every long weekend from now until simcoe day…the august holiday…. damn. #
  • Spencer is obsessed with the space behind Jen’s chair. What’s going on there? He freaks out when I go over to look #
  • Say your charter school fails; it was teaching kids 2+2 = pepsi. Then what? well, that’s 100s of kids that need to be reeducated…. #
  • The Prayer Challenge on Craig Ferguson http://tinyurl.com/ccdyme #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-16

Published by NiteMayr on March 16, 2009
  • Another Call… at least something was actually wrong this time. My Unpaid day off tomorrow has turned into a time and a half full day! #
  • Dear Seth MCFarlane, why are you putting scenes from my youth on your show? #
  • The Song “Mellow Samba” from the Choke Soundtrack is beguiling me…. where can I get it? #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-13

Published by NiteMayr on March 13, 2009
  • l8ter: http://tinyurl.com/bqgaor #
  • Skippy also can’t do these things http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html #
  • 191. My character is not related in anyway to Boba Fett. This goes double for Star Wars characters. <- The Winner! #
  • “Sprechen Sie Bang-Bang” may not be German, but it is a Kick ass Band Name #
  • I have mott the hoople touring uin my skull… how do I banish the mott? I tried Queen and Prodigy… #
  • okay, done for the night. Achieved some stuff, tomorrow I present a java app for managing users rather than writing on in PHP #

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Hotlink protection added

Published by NiteMayr on March 13, 2009

I’ve had a couple of bandwidth losing moments this week; and rather than worry about it I’ve moved to prevent hotlinking of images from from my blog.  The only sites that are allowed to hotlink images from here are  my other blog, the rest of the world will see an anti-hotlinking image in place of the image they have hotlinked.

Oh well.  It’s not friendly but I’d rather have more control as to where the images I host locally are presented.

Review: "Bloody Crazy" does not rhyme with Satan

Published by NiteMayr on March 12, 2009

Blood Crazy

Nick Aten ambles over the bloody remains of a boy evicerated by his own mother to eat a burger and shoot the shit with a friend. The next day his younger brother is dead and the adults have taken up the hobby of killing everyone under the age of 20, all adults everywhere. Now Nick has to get away from it all and slip his parents as they hunt him across england.

Blood Crazy is a recounting by Nick Aten of the year that Adult humanity stopped caring for the youth and instead began turning the bodies of the young into massive necropolises and temples of death across the countryside.

Anywhere there were young people, the adults would gather and destroy them.

Nick spends a whole year on the run from place to place; finding his way from callow youth to something else.

Simon Clark does a fantastic job of making the story fast paced enough to keep you reading and 300 pages in I realized I’d read the majority of it in one go. Bravo I strongly recommend Blood Crazy!

My rating: 4.5 stars
****1/2

I’m not exaggerating when I say that I read this one quickly, I usally only read in small drips and have spent MONTHS not reading a DUNE novel, but I gave this book a minute while I was in disposed and could not stop reading it.  It’s not high literature; and once again we have a post-apocalyptic hero that can’t walk 20 yards without tripping over yet anothere willing woman who needs him to make love to her and plant his seed.  I wish that I was exaggerating this point.

The “cause” of the adults going crazy is explained; it’s a bit weak.  I don’t think it detracts from the book at all, but the explaination is weak.

This book does the oppostite of “Graceling” when it comes to travel, the travel portions are either mad dashes from blood-crazed adults or treks across wastelands that are leading urgently to somewhere; not detracting from the pace or the action.  It was a relief when a character found a safe place to sleep;  I cared that they got to sleep comfortably.

Nick Aten; the main character is somewhat stereotypical lead character.  He’s smart, but not an intellectual, strong, but not too tough.  Cocky but not cock-sure… I could go on.  He’s not so generic as to be an everyman, but he’s no stand-out.

The “Bully” character which serves as the human plot point for most of the story has a back story that I think that Simon Clark almost maliciously leaves off, going so far as to cut the character off when he attempts to vocalize his perceived injustice with Nick.   I was most frustrted with this; Tug Slatter is a bully and a thug, but he is certainly more than that and we are NOT given more than a glance at whatever motivates him and his misanthropy.

All in all; I will recommend this one to fans of Post-Apocalyptic survival novels.  It was a good quick read and worth picking up.