Quote of The Day – Winston Churchill

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You know, I was wondering what to put today, seeing as I actually like putting up quotes for you guys to look at, and I thought about all the mistakes that people make, and thought ‘Hey, I wonder if Winston Churchill ever said anything about mistakes?’. I was surprisingly right! So, saying nothing more, here’s todays quote:

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill

Well, I’ll leave you to mull this quote over your breakfast, and figure it out yourself.

Alex Out.

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Tweet of The Day – Oxygen And Helium

So, here’s our tweet of the day from @Laughbook, telling us those niggling little questions that we all have. This one is personally my favorite from them, and until I go on Wikipedia and find out why it’s wrong, it always will be.

@Laughbook: What if Oxygen makes our voice really deep…. And Helium just brings it back to normal?

Frustration – Philosophy Time!

‘Sup reader? Yeah I know I don’t usually start off with that but hey, everyone needs a change once in awhile, right? Yeah, you know I’m right so stop complaining. Most of this post is going to be meaningless drivel and some lines of philosophical HTML code disguised as plain text so if your a casual reader who just happened to ‘stumble upon’ this then be prepared to have the logical side of your mind blown away…or leave. Seriously. Just kidding. If I could make my blog your homepage I would! That’s a suggestion to all of you who haven’t done so yet, by the way. Anyway, I finally found out why my last post sucked so much! I reasoned for the best half of an hour (yeah just for you guys…feel special…NOW!) and came to the conclusion that no-one likes a post about me lying in bed and doing nothing…so I won’t do posts about my day if that’s all I’ve done for the best part of the day…which is why you won’t get a long story out of this post either. Yep, you heard me. No long posts about my snoring (I don’t snore, seriously). Aren’t you glad!

So, getting back to the post, today I thought I’d talk, type, relay or whatever you call it…about frustration.

Have you ever felt frustrated for along period of time? Years even? Did you withdraw from all those who you felt were responsible for that frustration so they can’t cause more? Do you remember what caused your frustration? Maybe someone lied to you. Maybe someone kept something from you. Maybe you needed un-accessible answers. Either way, whatever the circumstances, you were frustrated.

Frustration isn’t a nice thing to feel, I’ll testify to that, and it, in some people, can take root so deep that is morphs into bitter resentment towards the source of the frustration. It also holds great power. The once bubbly, happy go-lucky guy/girl you used to know is suddenly replaced with a dark foreboding figure who, whenever you try to get close, shuns you and turns in the other direction. It can change a persons morale, dress, character and complete personality, even. Frustration holds the power to do many things, I’ll admit that, but it also has an authority over it. The person in which is dwells. The person in which the frustration has taken root has the power to either contain or expel the feelings within. Unfortunately the latter is often chosen. Containing your frustration only helps it grow and escalate to abnormal proportions and can either do two things: Sink the person into a state of depression and drag those in who are around or, in most cases, bring itself out in anger, hurting those close to the victim of the frustration who often have no connection to the source of their anger. Given the chance, the first consequence of containing frustration will often lead to suicide and the latter consequence leading to an angry psychotic mass-murderer. Most of the times the victims of frustration blame their actions on the source but, as they fail to realise, pain, anger and frustration are all a part of life. It comes in the package. They all had the chance to let out their anger and therefore stop their actions and reactions. All anger is just a heightened and almost twisted form of frustration, too. Many don’t think of frustration this way and place it and anger in two completely different sections where they don’t rightfully belong. All anger comes from frustration and all frustration, if dwelt on, leads to anger. Many people, when they realise they need help and are humble enough to accept it, go for counselling and it often helps them a great deal. Another thing which they usually assume, however, is that counselling will solver the problem. This theory is completely wrong and should not be endorsed by any person at all. No amour of counselling can expel frustration. It may help but, ultimately, you have to choose whether to let it go or not. You can talk and pour out your feelings with an counsellor till your face turns blue but you may still have your anger inside, unwilling to let go. The key is to want to let it go and then go for help because, whilst you are still in that stage of dwelling on it, no one can help you.

There! Done! Good philosophy, eh? Ok maybe some of it was slightly dodgy but I doubt you could to any better! I didn’t take a course in philosophy! What’s that, reader? You think you could do a better explanation?! Go ahead then! I’d like to see you try!

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No hard feelings and all but I think your attempt failed…I mean I can’t even see one letter. Better luck next time then, eh? I’m glad we’re back on even terms, anyway. Or at least we’re on good terms until I miss my next post time.

*shudder*

Might as well do the out-tro then since this post has officially come to an end. What? You don’t want me to finish? Aw you’re so sweet but seriously I need to go. You’ll have to wait till tomorrow. I know I never keep my word but sometimes things come up. You known what I mean? No, the thing that came up was not a lie in…I genuinely had something to do. I’m getting off track pretending like you can actually respond, anyway. So, without further ado, I will now graciously end this mighty post of darkness.

Bless your face. If you coughed or sneezed during the reading of this article then bless you.

Peace Off!

The Faily Mail – Read If You Want To See A Forced Post

Hey, explorer! Reading my posts again? Knew it. Stalker… Not that I mind, of course. It gives me views so you just keep on stalking me and whoever else you follow, ok? Good. Now for today’s post I’d like to first apologise for failing to put up a post in the evening about my day. I failed at my task due to me me falling asleep waiting for a mention from the ever elusive Rhiannon and Brynmawr Jackson-Hyatt. You can check up on our conversations on my Twitter profile. Be warned though, for this is not your average timeline…follow me if you dare…be prepared for talks about flapjacks, pies, pastry and other off-topic things. Anyway, back to reviewing my day.

Err, yeah. At that sentence you wannabe readers are kind of meant to go ‘Review? Day? Aw that’s too much words… *closes browser*’.

Now that I’m left with the hardcore readers only I think it’s time I really started the post…oh I really do love my long introductions…

Slow? Yes. Productive? Kind of. Happy? At the last part…

Those questions and answers could be used to describe my whole day, could they not? But, as you all know, I’m not into these short 200 word posts and skirting the outsides of my day. Oh no. I like to go deep into the day (or as far as possible) and bring out valuable lessons in the day that can help us learn something in life. As you can tell I have not once achieved the latter but, since that sentence was typed off the top of my head, I shall pursue to bring out some life lesson today.

My day was a long and tiring one. It started at 9am and ended at around 11pm when my eye lids couldn’t sustain my vision any longer. Most of my day was spent doing absolutely nothing…and when I say nothing I do mean nothing. I moped around, read FanFiction stories, pondered…and pretty much sat in bed all day. In short, my day was completely meaningless. Until 5:30. Why 5:30 you ask? Well I went to Pathfinders and, while I was there, my day took on a whole new meaning (excuse the exaggeration). I finally got to talk to my long lost friend/confidant Rhiannon and that was all that was good about it. Yep. That was the only highlight of my day. Nothing more than meeting a friend. Of course there were other people there that I consider acquaintances but I don’t really talk with them on the level I do with my close friends.

I’ll be completely honest with you now, dear reader. I am completely appalled by that post. I don’t know of you are but I am definitely not happy with the way that turned out. It seemed more of a forced post to me. I had good ideas for the perfect post yesterday but obviously it only would’ve worked in the spur of the moment. So, next time I have an idea I’ll be sure to put it up ASAP. That ok with you? Thought so. Anyway, sorry to cut this short to all those who are reading but at around noon I’ll have some quality writing ready for you. No! Don’t leave yet though! I need to give you your blessing…

Bless your face. If you coughed or sneezed during the reading of this article then bless you.

Peace Off!

iOS 5 & Site Changes

After being housebound for the entire day due to sickness (blame the weather) I decied to give my blog the once-over and finally finish updating my iPod to iOS 5 with a tethered Jailbreak.

First of all, the blog. I know many of you won’t be able to utilise the changes made but I decided to enable the ‘onswipe’ feature and create a iPad friendly app-like safari alternative to the original site. If you do have an iPad you should be viewing it right now. Secondly, I decided to use my logo instead of an ‘S’ as the website icon so you may notice that change since that goes for all users. Those are the only changes I’ve made so far today and hopefully there won’t be any more.

Now then, iOS 5. It took me a while to decide between a tethered Jailbreak and no battery percentage and a fully working iOS 4.3.3 with no notification center and addons…the choice was pretty clear. After around 4 hours of backing up, upgrading, jailbreaking, restoring, tweaking settings and finalising I have finally got my fuly functional iPod back and I have to say I am mightily impressed. Let me just go through some of the features:

1. iMessage – BlackBerry Messenger Rival (Finally I have something to knock down BBM and be proud of)

2. Wireless Sync – Does what it says on the tin, wirelessly sync with iTunes

3. None-Lockout Sync – You can still use your iPhone, iPod & iPad whilst sync

4. Reminders – A simple To-Do list app built in

5. Twitter Intergration – Does what it says, you can Tweet from Safari, Photos & and any other native Apple application (developer API’s coming soon to build into other apps)

6. Newsstand  – Save the forests! Get your magazines delivered straight to your News folder.

7. Game center – A bunch of improvements, including profile pictures.

8. Photos – You can delete and create photo albums on the device itself

9. Music – You can delete music on the device

10. Wireless Activation – Instead of the ‘Plug Into iTunes’ screen you get a friendly ‘Slide To Set Up’ prompt to activate your iDevice. Steve included this feature as part of the Post-PC era (no more standard computers)

11. FaceTime – Now over 3G networks

12. Notification Center – Finally! No more blue popups! The noticifations silently appear on the top of the screen and wil dissapear unless you click them. If you dont, they remain in the notification center so you know which ones you haven’t checked. The center can be acessed by swiping down from the top of the screen (it also includes weather and stock widgets). Also, the notifications you get whilst you device is off the put on the lock screen and can be chacked by swiping the icon on the lockscreen to the right.

13. iCloud! MobileMe is dead, according to Steve Jobs and I’m glad it is! With iClud you can get 5GB of free storage, backup (for non iTunes users who still want to backup their devices), a free @me.com account, photo storage, document storage, settings storage, contacts and calander. There are pictures below that will show you some of the features graphically.

14. Camera – How many times have you missed that moment because you had yo put in your passcode? Well no longer! When you double tap the home button on the lock screen the ‘Slide To Unlock’ bar shoretens and reveals a camera button that you can use to quickly take pictures. The volume-up button can now be used also for taking photos instead of touch-only.

There are over 200+ new features in the software (suprisingly it’s only an extra 52mb for the iDevice) so I won’t go indepth but, to all those non-apple users out there, it may be a good time to get yourselves into your local store! For all who want to contact me I would request that you use my new email for test purposes on: alexholyoake@me.com 

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