Houses on cliffs again.

Been working hard on this for the past few days. A new David Attenborough on TV, is the impetus what made me bust a gut and get it finally done.

I've made a version for the UK, which most certainly would not have been released here in under the Armada imprint. Also I think I've caught all the Americanisms that were in the revised text.

And I've added a fresh PDF of the original text. So far I've got about 9 more to buy to add in which should, dog willing take me through 2020.

Also we're coming up to this blogs tenth anniversary which is nice, though we have fuck all planned for this home coming celebration.

Anyway here is both the original text and the UK rewrite that would have been put out back then,

Uptown trip.

Not a bad trip uptown to be honest, just a lot more convoluted than it should be, due to rail improvements on the DLR and parts of the District line being closed.

In fact we saw quite a few people out, whinging about a second brexit vote. Overhelmingly middle class, middle aged home counties types with their E.U. flags and pithy worded plackards. They even had a cute doggo that was called Euro dog there on the tube. And you never see dogs on the tube as a rule.

Euro doggo seems to be some sort of howl (spaniel) / poodle crossbreed, a cockermutt*, if you will. Would love to have gotten a photo but train was packed and they would have gotten the manager. (Yes they were those sorts of people.)

The other doggo on the tube, (yes, there was two,) was much more easier to pin down, a nice medium sized husky. He had to be carried down the escalator as is customary, and while on the train was befriended by a small girl.

Had a look around Notting hill and did the usual record shops taking advantage of the bargain bin to pick up some overlooked house for the channel.  Walked down to Kensington and was gouged £2.49 for a can of U.S soda. Rather good too, ranking behind Jone's soda for a good American soda taste and sugar free too, which is a miracle as only Bepis do sugar free right. Kind of reminds me of Sargon brewing up a batch of liberalism for the kiddies there.

Had to go to Sloane Square because of the shut down for repairs and that and was reminded that getting the regular train is also bastard expensive and that £3.10 to London Bridge and their nicely renovated station from Woolwich Arsenal. As they say a total rip off. No wonder that climate cunt was pissed off at Canning town.

We also grabbed a leaflet stuck in the tube from anal rebellion. No doubt they are light on resources as it seemed to be stuck on with the worlds smallest amount of masking tape.  Can imagine doing a bad photo shop of this in paint.  If I get the time.

*edit, as its citation has gone awry, imagine if you would the dog in the link but with the traditional brown Springer Spaniel colouring.

Mini PC continued

This is just a short version update, on the mini PC. So far I've had no luck in removing the bios password. Oh, there's guides but they mainly involve taking it apart and either shorting out the battery (yeah right like I'm gonna cause a house fire) or dismantelling it to remove the saturn battery in it (the big button cell type, I know it as the battery back up from Sega's Saturn console.) so it goes to BIOS.

Apart from that have a new game. Resonance Of Fate for PS3. It doesn't explain itself well and there are a few things a good faq will sort out, but it seems to be quite good so far. Can see echoes in the town scape of Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria another Tri Ace game. Too ages to work out how to save a game while the mini PC ran through diagnostics.

Cambodia PC

We finally found a really small netbook PC thrown out. It's one of the small Acer Aspire series of netbooks from I guess 2010 - 2012.  It runs a starter edition of Windows 7 and is quite nifty in a way.

It's not the fastest as it packs an Intel Atom processor, and I've upgraded it to 2GB of ram from the 1Gb stick it did have.  It does the internet, but really slowly and I've finally added the printer to it.

The downsides are the BIOS is password protected and will need to be unlocked before I can switch boot order and see if a Linux will run. It has no CD so maybe a puppy linux live  usb with the HD removed, as it can run in ram,  will do the trick.

So the original owner was on some sort of scholarship to Cambodia as part of a gap year / sixth form work.  They had dropbox and a few other storage solutions there as well as an expired Graham Norton antivirus.

Mostly videos of a few places, but largely mates and dorm rooms and such. Pretty normie stuff, and a typical bird behaviour. If you like no landscape shots and plenty of mates posing in front of things, including a few clips of them round the pool, then this your thing. No pron and the owner is pretty homely looking to boot.

I've been adding programs to it, to get it into shape including looking for a non adobe PDF reader as my go to favourite, fails to install.  Will I use it for much? god knows, its small enough to not have any CD drive built in so will need an external drive to take advantage of anything. Definitely do have the drives to take advantage though. So there is that.

All in all, its not bad but hardly essential. Hopefully it will linux ok.