Football

Meridian is doing well this season, we've managed another win in a cup game this morning.

Winning it was even sweeter against a bunch of dirty players, Microblast FC. I hope they get what they deserve. In the game, they tried kicking me off the ball and one of them even stamped on my leg intentionally.

World's strongest man

Just finished watching the Met Rx World Strongest Man 2005 competition on telly. This year it was held in Chengdu, China. From the outset, there was only gonna be one winner, Mariusz Pudzianowski. Some of the competitors in the heats were not that good compared to others but 2 of the heats were amazing.

Throughout the heats and the final, 2 world records were smashed: Fingal Fingers, Hercules Hold and the Atlas stones.

I first got hooked on watching this event a few years ago when we were on holiday in Malta. That year the finals were in Malta and one of the competitions happened to be on the same beach as we were. The competitors are huge in physique. Their arms were almost as big as my legs :)

Anyway, Mariusz is only 28 and already has 3 world's strongest man titles under his belt. I reckon he has a few more years to dominate this competition.

Epson scam

I've been using an Epson RX500 printer at home. This is a replacement as the first one had to be replaced after 16 months or so. Luckily it was still within the warrenty period. Guess what, after 18 months of usage, this one has a fatal problem as well, identical to the first one.

Looking through the forums on the net, I don't seem to be the first one or last to see this. The printer says something like some parts of your printer are at the end of their life, service required. When you call up Epson helpline, they tell you that it would cost you too much to repair it and practically advise you to get a new one.

However, it seems to be a case of an internal counter reaching a limit in the printer rather and any obvious problems.

Anyway, I found a way of resetting the counters in the EPROM on the net. All I need to do now is to clean up the ink pads.

Only 6 bags of rubble a month

During my recent trip to the Maidenhead tip that you can only take 6 bags full of rubble to the tip a month in your car. For more than this, you probably need to start paying for it. Isn't this encouraging people to fly tip?

Coughing again

I've got this bloddy cough again. Every year, I seem to be getting it exactly the same time. :(

Coming down with a cold again

Damn it! Every year in November/December time, I seem to be ill.

Got the new golf clubs :)

Finally, I 've got my brand spanking new golf clubs last week. They're Lynx Blackcat ones. I haven't had the chance to play with them yet though; not even at the driving range :( So, the excitiment is wearing off a bit now.

I'll get out and play a round soon hopefully.