Another Lazy Friday

[tgpo]

It seems like on a typical Friday 3 or 4 people visit the forum, while the rest are off having "real lives". So who is here today?? And why are you here.

I'm here because I work on Fridays, and need a way to pass the time.

[Will Hay]

I'm here because I've had such a manic morning I need a break, and I've double the work to do this PM
Will

[bugster]

I'm here whilst at work. Dvdrhelp helps me fill in the time between re-compiles and tests on the software I am debugging.

[bugster]

I'm here because I work on Fridays, and need a way to pass the time.

Isn't that what work is supposed to do

[lordsmurf]

I'm here because my computer is too busy to do anything else besides run the Internet without crashing. Nothing on tv. Finished my work for the week, so nothing until next week.

This is the only place I go online these days, for the most part. I've been online so many years I feel like the guy in that commercial... the one where he reached the end of the Internet. Anything I ever wanted to research as a hobby, I've already looked into.

You know what? Screw this. I'm gonna go for a walk. :P

[Hardcoreruss]

At work, bored out of my box am switching between this site, ebay and bloomberg.

[tgpo]

At work, bored out of my box am switching between this site, ebay and bloomberg.

We can't visit ebay here, but Amazon is okay.

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah I have been there a few times today also.

[tgpo]

Yeah I have been there a few times today also.

I mostly stay here all day, plus I'm learning flash. And every now and then I edit a little video or two.

[pacmania_2001]

I'm on because I just got off work and my plans to go into the casino tonight fell through.

Just bludging around here wishing that more people would post to keep me entertained. Maybe I should start work on writing the great American novel or an Oscar winning movie script.

The best idea I have thought up so far tonight though was the One Man Film Festival.

[Craig Tucker]

I am always here

Like the new avatar TGPO

[housepig]

here while at work... I work as a receptionist, so in between people coming and going, I can hang out here...

as for blocked eBay... they've got www.ebay.com blocked here, but if I go to pages.ebay.com, it comes up. (they have recently managed to disable the script that views auction pages, though, so I can check my watch list, leave feedback, do searches, etc, but I can't actually view or bid on an auction..)

[Cricket90]

hiya All

N00b here

Im here 3 just got a Dvd Burner and Was reading all about it

And Doing housework at the same time

Cricket

[tgpo]

Like the new avatar TGPO

It's my halloween costume

And Doing housework at the same time

It's always good to mix pain(work) with pleasure(Will Hay's Good Looks)

[i_am_dave]

I'm here whenever I am doing a recompile, updating source code in ClearCase, downloading programs to PLCs, the usual.
Lately, I've been writing lots of code and haven't had much chance to check in.

I think I hit the site only 1 or 2 times yesterday. Doesn't look like today is going to be much better....

[shoozleboy]

I'm here today to tell all you people to GET BACK TO WORK !!!!!!!!





(now let me get back to my game of solitare and surfing ebay for christmas shopping - before MY boss comes by!!!! )

[stiltman]

I'm not here today, because I have a tun of work to do. I really don't have time to update my avatar a read posts. Hopefully I can post this tomorrow when I do have some extra time

[tgpo]

So far I've spent my day making 6 Halloween avatars and playing around in flash. Very productive.

[bugster]

I'm here whenever I am doing a recompile, updating source code in ClearCase, downloading programs to PLCs, the usual.

You just described my average working day

[Devanshu]

I mostly stay here all day, plus I'm learning flash.

Flash is so much fun, but very time consuming.

I'm here because I just came back from work and I'm getting ready to go to Purdue to meet some friends. Gotta get my daily dose of dvdrhelp.

[lordsmurf]

here while at work... I work as a receptionist, so in between people coming and going, I can hang out here...

as for blocked eBay... they've got www.ebay.com blocked here, but if I go to pages.ebay.com, it comes up. (they have recently managed to disable the script that views auction pages, though, so I can check my watch list, leave feedback, do searches, etc, but I can't actually view or bid on an auction..)

Have you tried changing your proxy settings?

[The village idiot]

Have you tried making a free account at http://www.surfola.com ?

[g_shocker182]

My Day: (Ill start with am, and end up with am)

friday:
6:20 get up
6:40 leave for school
7:30-2:00 school. hell trying to stay awake
2:30 get home, watch some tv, check email
3:30-10:00 volunteer for other schools fundraiser.
10:00-11:00 trying to navigate way home
11:00-12:00 matrix reloaded (why?, i dont know)

saturday
12:28 now, tired as ever
future:<sleep>
future: 50mile bike trip @7:30am

way a day(s)

[lordsmurf]

My Day: (Ill start with am, and end up with am)friday: 7:30-2:00 school. hell trying to stay awake

The one think I NEVER want to repeat. Maybe college, but even then, I don't know. Some of that sucked too, especially exams.

[ChrisX]

Friday is normally my day break and I go out to enjoy.

However, the last two Friday's weren't the lazy days and unfortunately I got into problems with my local telco and too busy updating my computer system the following Friday.

I wasn't impressed with the telco at all and in fact I was very angry on that Friday.

There was a telephone and Internet outage lasting for 14 hours. I have to go out to get help so my services would be restored urgently.

I also needed to go the local bank to get an urgent payment done instead of doing it online. I wasn’t very happy at all.

The telephone line was restored quickly just before lunch. This wasn't all; there were more problems that Friday all day due the same telephone supplier.

Their online payment server was out of order all day and an unreasonable credit card payment restriction on an outside website.

I can’t get anything done with these ridiculous barriers. The telco wasted a lot of my time on that Friday and I blasted them. Where is the compensation?

That same telephone company is also the biggest ISP in Australia and recently a lot of complaints were submitted to authorities due to poor services generally.

Its Internet services are particularly very bad recently and problems are still there especially with email going slower than normal mail with email outages.

Anyway, last Friday I was very busy all day and got the chance to go to my local club for a few drinks and to eat out. The night out was a great.

[pacmania_2001]

Don't you just love dealing with Telstra? That's why I switched to Optus.

[ChrisX]

Don't you just love dealing with Telstra? That's why I switched to Optus.

I deal with Telstra on a telephone line only to get Internet access.

The telephone outage was an unusual occurrence in local telephone exchange upgrade. The outage was at a bad time for me and there wasn’t any notice given to me of a problem like that.

I am not impressed with the telco at all.

My ISP is iPrimus; I don’t have a problem with them and got no restrictions going online. Their servers are very reliable and I very rarely experience an outage. There is no download and time restrictions either.

In fact, my website is at iPrimus and my web pages are safe from accidental deletion. Not like at Telstra having personal web pages gone by a server bug.

I’ll never join Telstra's BigPond with all its problems. I can't even get a decent cable broadband connection here at home.

There are a lot of complaints on Whirlpool’s forums, the website located in Melbourne. Check out: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

Telstra isn’t a good enough ISP for me.