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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.

First Heat Advisory of the Year

Published by NiteMayr on June 6, 2008

680News – ALL NEWS RADIO.

Environment Canada has issued a humidex advisory for tomorrow with readings expected to be near 40 degrees Celsius.
The advisory stretches from Windsor to Barrie and Orillia and includes Toronto and all of the 905.
A pronounced warm front will cross southern Ontario tonight and introduce the first heat wave of the season.
In fact several days of heat and humidity are in store for the southern portions of the province.

It’s already fairly hot in here, it must suck outside. Yesterday was terrible for me (I had on a heavy undershirt), I’m gonna go undershirt-less today I think.

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-05

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008
  • Getting my hands on thew new Nine Inch Nails tour Sampler: http://dl.nin.com/lightsinthesky/signup #
  • Sweating, already. #
  • Sweating, more-so. #
  • The LCD on my I-POD is wrecked, DAMN! #
  • @fowgre Hit me up via the contact info at http://nitemayr.com I have Machines for your community group. (maybe) #
  • Thinking that if it is as hot as this on Saturday, I will not be able to resist the beach #
  • Please, continue to mourn “NitePod” as his screen continues to degrade, perhaps I will replace him with a new iPod in the coming months #
  • Heading Out – Sniff – Poor iPod. #

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Moar Broken iPod

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008


Post Game Damage, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Here’s a close up shot of the damage in action. I think it has stopped creeping over now so I am stuck with this. It still works, so the drama should trickle off now.

Unless I go all emo and start cutting or something, then the drama would continue.

In case I DO go emo, someone get there hands on some Hanson and Avril Lavigne and stand outside my window with it on a boom box.

in case of zombies, grab shotgun

Broken iPod

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008


Broken iPod, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Here is NitePod, all broken.

So Sweaty…

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008

Helped move PCs Yo

Left iPod in my pocket

Now iPod is broke

How nice, a haiku to my broken iPod.

It’s hot and sticky outside, I am trying to resist the temptation to complain about it, even though I had to work outside in it and get so sweaty that I think I may have developed trench foot from sock sweat. There are Germans from World War I who had drier socks than I have now.

The plant was worse; humid, sticky and smelly to boot.

We moved a ton of computers then cling-wrapped them using a big industrial roll of cling wrap that we had to carry around and so on by hand.

I better be losing weight doing all this stuff, I can certainly feel the burn in my muscles at the end of the day and I haven’t given up on salads instead of fries at lunch and so on. In fact, I’ve been eating fruit in favor of snacks during the day too.

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-04

Published by NiteMayr on June 4, 2008
  • 18 days until new Top Gear #
  • Sorry I’m late Internet, did I miss anything since last night? #
  • Busy busy busy – Laptops and Desktops and Printers Oh My #
  • Not going to the meetup at Molly Blooms, doing a nice curry dinner at home tonight instead. Cheers London Bloggers. #
  • @billdeys “Nice Curry Dinner” == S.O. Wants me to cook for her <grin> #

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Argh, CRT-eezzzzz!

Published by NiteMayr on June 4, 2008


Very British Warning, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


I’m using a CRT at work now as I had to give away my nice LCD flat panel to an end user. I couldn’t make the guy carry away a CRT into the plant and up stairs, that wouldn’t be fair. So I waved g’bye to my flat panel and got my hands on another “flaky one” that flaked out it’s last this afternoon.

Here I am on the Radiation King 9000 which has burn-in and terrible clarity. I’m going to have to get a better one soon or request a better monitor from the client.

It’s pretty humid over here in London; how are things in your neck of the woods?

If you're gonna do some art

Published by NiteMayr on June 3, 2008


Darth Vader, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Do it Strange!

I used the Jackson Pollock simulator to make this

I started out with the “grill” and started adding to it. If you can’t see Darth Vader, well, you don’t understand Modern Art!

I don’t understand Modern Art either; but I am neither erudite nor am I well-heeled. Thus I am forgiven my lack of taste.

What’s your excuse?

Oh No! Not Twins

Published by NiteMayr on June 3, 2008


Jake catches a cat nap, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Jake is sleeping here, but I bet he doesn’t sleep much now.

Congratulations on your twins Jake!