Windows Solitaire

Has anyone noticed that Windows XP Solitaire is much harder than Vista Solitaire??

Girl Gamers

I found a site about Girl Gamers and I thought I’d write an article about it.

Personally, I think it’s quite difficult being a girl gamer, since the industry caters mostly for men.  Not in the sense that I suddenly want pink versions of all consoles (oh wait – you can already get them in pink – yuk) or that I want a Powerpuff Girls game (oh wait, you can already get that too).  What I WANT is a change of stereotyping.  All girl gamers are generally thought of a proper girly girls who use their Xboxes, PS3s blah blah blah for instant messaging (Xbox Chat/ Playstation Home) and games like Singstar and Lips.

I am an addict to Fallout 3 and haven’t yet met a bloke who has once said anything other than “Ey?  Girls don’t like Fallout!”.  Same with Unreal Tournament, Forza, Timesplitters, House of the Dead, Res E etc etc.  They all seem to think we just sit there looking at our pink Xboxes and thinking “What a conundrum!  Do I play Bratz or Lips?”.

My boyfriend (no I’m not a lesbian either because I’m a real gamer) thinks it’s cool that I like games.  We sit and play Xbox and Playstation for hours.  We love it.

Ambiguous Bollocks

This site offered a free past life reading based on my star sign.  Just so that all Scorpios in the world know, this is our complete and utterly rubbish ambiguous past life reading that to me, means nothing to me now let alone in a past life.  It’s extremely vague, pointless and utter crap.

Scorpio Then: You come from past life experience in which your motives and intentions were constantly questioned. This made it necessary that you be very clear with yourself about your needs, desires and feelings.

Now: Scorpio has learned to question others from having been questioned so frequently themselves. They have learned the power of knowing themselves very deeply and sometimes wish they didn’t have that power. But this is their gift. Yes, power can be abused, but if one has it, there is a karmic obligation to discover it’s use.

Future: You are moving into a realm of finding something which you can believe in. The cynicism of Scorpio has a point – to find that which can be trusted. This is what you must look for in order to achieve the peace you so desperately desire. Don’t give up looking.

Summary of Your Past Life Test: You are learning to seek answers for yourself so that you can learn what is right for you while allowing other people to also be true to themselves. You may know what is right for them, but they — like you — are here to discern what is their personal truth. Both can co-exist, but not always together.

Circles of Light my arse.

Housekeeping Revolutionist

I decided to see what Google would burn my eyes with if I typed in “Free past life reading” and this is what it came up with.

The site was all pretty and pink (made me want to vomit, personally) and it didn’t ask for my name/gender/occupation/personality type/pets or bugger all.  All it wanted was my date of birth.  Which I typed in.  This is the response the Oracle gave me.

Diagnosis:

I do not know how you feel about this but you were Male in your last earthly incarnation.

You were born somewhere around territory of modern South China approximately on 1075.

Your profession was shepherd, horseman, forester.

Your brief psychological profile in that past life:

Revolutionary type. You inspired changes in any sphere – politics, business, religion, housekeeping. Could be a leader.

Lesson that your last past life brought to present:

You are bound to solve problems of pollution of environment, recycling, misuse of raw materials, elimination of radioactivity by all means including psychological methods.

Allow me to venture my OWN diagnosis.   “I do not know how you feel about this, but you were a bloke in your past life”.  Very tentatively put, as though, just because I ventured to that pretty pink site means that I’m a burn your bra feminist and hate men.  As though the very written text “you were a male” will make me nauseous and suicidal.  It didn’t.  Men have all the fun.  That part I’m fine with.  The next part I’m not.

I was born in China (cool, I get all the best toys direct) but I was born in the year 1075.  That was apparently my LAST incarnation.  So I haven’t lived since then before now?  Man, how much did I offend the powers that be, that they thought letting me loose on Earth so soon after running rampage chopping down trees and chasing sheep in China, was a very bad idea?

The thing that got me most however, was that I was a “revolutionist”.  Yes.  Possibly in housekeeping.  Oh yeah, I can see that one right now.  The only reason that Dyson brought out that hoover with the ball on so it can go loads of different directions is cos I actually drew up the plans a thousand years ago and left them lying around when I died.