I again apologise for the fact I barely blogged in the last month (over three weeks since my last real post), but I guess I’m currently going through one of those drought periods of blogging that have plagued me in the past. It’s usually at this point I end up completely forgetting about my blog and shutting it down. But I’m determined not to do that.

Anyway, on to what I want to talk about: I’m a fairly regular user of Bebo (the social networking system, for those not aware), although not as much as I once was, for reasons I shall explain.

The “remember me” option when you log in to Bebo only last for two weeks, and when I went over to the site after work today, I had to log in. Upon doing so, I see this:

Argh. This is one of the many reasons why Bebo has turned to complete shit. First off, it was the themes, and the ability for members to create their own. This leads to most people’s pages turning into something reminiscent of the average MySpace page: my eyes being raped. But, I found a decent theme that was easy on the eyes, add did most of my (good) friends, so it was too much trouble. Then the applications came. So, now, once your eyes are being fucked by horrible design and colour combinations, you get the added enjoyment of having 200-foot long pages filed to the brim with “super-comments”, “countdown to my birthday”, “what kind of kisser are you?”, “which celebrity are you most likely to butt-fuck”, etc, etc. Argh.

But, I still stuck with it, since the majority of my friends have Bebo and not Facebook (mostly for the lack of themes or something similar). But not, this is getting ridiculous. The spam is no longer tolerable. Sure, at first it was a little funny, in a weird kind of way, getting a friend request from a “porn model”, or a private message from someone who thinks I’m “cute and wud lyk to get to kno me heres my msn addy kthxbi”. But now, I’m getting a good few of these friend requests a week, and a private message at least once a day. I’m just about ready to ditch Bebo completely.

Anyway, that’s all from me for now. I’ll try and write a decent post sometime when I’m not working my ass off or two busy playing with my friends on Xbox Live,

Remember me posting a while ago about how my PS3 packed in and it would have to be replaced? Well, I got my replacement yesterday ad I was a very happy bunny.

That is, until I came to restore all the data from my last one. When my last PS3 went kaput, I created a backup on everything on its HDD: save data, demos, and game data (updates, downloadable content, etc). However, upon restoring it all to my new PS3, I find that the only thing that was actually restored was my save data, music and movies. No game demos, data, etc.

Apparently, it wouldn’t restore it because it was from “another system”. WTF? I understand the reasoning behind this when it comes to PSN games: Someone could buy a copy of a PSN game, and then “restore” it to all their friends PS3s. But game demos and game data? That doesn’t cost anything! Now I have to spent ages updating all my games! And the worst thing is, updates to games are mandatory; you cannot play the games until you have downloaded and installed the updates.

Grr.

If I had an awesome Internet connection, this wouldn’t phase me too much. But I don’t, so it does. I foresee many hours waiting for game updates to download in the near future (here’s looking at you, Burnout Paradise).

In other news, The Co-Op (where I now work, for those that didn’t know) are having a night out tomorrow, which I am going to. It’s at a nice restaurant/bar/thing in town, so it’ll be a nice meal and a few drinks. Should be good. Also means I don’t have to work tomorrow night, making my Thursday not feel so long.

So, guess what? My PS3 broke. Guess what else? The warranty ended less than a week ago. And unfortunately, it’s not a simple thing that I could just fix on my own. It’s pretty serious - the Blu-Ray laser’s broken. Which means I can’t play PS3 games on it.

Well, isn’t that great.

So I’ve fired an email off to Sony, asking them their advice on what to do. It’s inevitably going to have to be sent off to get fixed or replaced, but I can’t imagine either of those options being too cheap since I no longer have the safety net that is the warranty.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a truer example of Sod’s (Murphy’s) Law in my life.

Anyway, eye screening went fine yesterday. Was in and out in a couple of minutes. The photos get sent down to Aberdeen, so I have to wait an agonising month to find out whether or not my eyes have become damaged by the diabetes. Hopefully they won’t, since they’ve been fine the past three years.

Hopefully.

Anyway, I better scoot; I’ve got to leave for college in a few minutes. I have a mock Software Development assessment.