The Big Bang Theory

Does anyone else love this? You may appreciate some of these Sheldon Cooper quotes!

Bazinga!

I’m not insane, my mother had me tested!

Sheldon: I made tea.
Leonard: I don’t want tea.
Sheldon: I didn’t make tea for you. This is my tea.
Leonard: Then why are you telling me?
Sheldon: It’s a conversation starter.
Leonard: That’s a lousy conversation starter.
Sheldon: Oh, is it? We’re conversing. Checkmate.

Penny: So what do you say Sheldon, are we your X-men?
Sheldon: No, the X-men were named for the X in Charles Xavier. Since I am Sheldon Cooper, you will be, my C-men.

Sheldon: Oh Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch

Sheldon: Hello, Amy Farrah Fowler. I’m sorry to inform you that you’ve been taken in by unsupportable mathematics designed to prey upon the gullible and the lonely. Additionally, I am being blackmailed with a hidden dirty sock.
Amy: If that was slang, I’m unfamiliar with it. If it was literal, I share your aversion to soiled hosiery.
Sheldon: As a native Texan, I must say that I’ve never heard the phrase “yee haw” used in quite that context.
Penny: Oh God.
Sheldon: “Oh God.” That I’ve heard on multiple occasions.

Sheldon: Enjoy the accolades now, Wil Wheaton. But like your time on Star Trek: The Next Generation, your smug self-satisfaction will be short-lived.

Leonard: What were you doing at Penny’s?
Sheldon: Well, we had dinner, played some games, and then I spent the night. Oh, and you’ll be happy to know that I now have a much better understanding of “friends with benefits”

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdgI1pwFHb0

Sorry the buggers won’t let me post it here, it’s the top 5 Sheldon moments!

Red Rose

I recently realised how easy it is for a piece of malware or a virus to move into your computer and set up shop. I also realised that antivirus software does not automatically mean you are protected. My laptop got a small sniffle the other day, and my antivirus ESET completely ignored it, thanks to Malwarebytes I had it removed. But not before a lot of damage was done.
The malware/virus copied my FTP password to Russia (who know they cared about me) who used the password to infect wordpress files. Now I know these are dumb automated scripts and will grab any password, but when it comes close to home it gets personal. Thanks to @blacknight this is now resolved. I just wanted to make a few notes for those other unfortunate people who gets this so called Gumblar infection.

• Backups: Although I had database backups, I was completely unaware that my web host did not automatically backup my files, apparently this is normal practice, it is up to you to run you own weekly backup.
• Keep wordpress up to date – My wordpress was up to date, but many people ignore the update warnings – don’t.
• Preempt those buggers.
• I found a handy tool.
• I learnt how to run a cron job backup – knowledgebase article.

There is just something about this photo, that says, “we will look back and laugh. Don’t you agree. It’s all about 3D now, you blinked and missed HD!

Ahh would you look! You’d want to have a heart of stone not to want these two, I’d take them in a second if I had the space.

Wibble and Wobble are best friends who were rescued from the streets together. Wibble is a beautiful young tabby male boy and Wobble is a very pretty black girl. They are both only six or seven months old. They love each other dearly so we would love to find them a home together…f you are interested in adopting please contact our Field of Dreams Sanctuary in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick on 063 91110, visitors welcome 11am to 3pm, Monday to Saturday. We ask for a minimum donation of 80.00 euro per cat to help cover some of the cost of veterinary care. More info: http://www.limerickanimalwelfare.ie/

In typically modest fashion, Sharon Ni Bheolain laughs in surprise at being told that she is officially Ireland’s Sexiest Woman, as voted by readers of the Sunday Independent.

“Genuinely, I am embarrassed. The whole thing is awkward for me. I am a leggings and Ugg boots kind of girl,” says the 38-year-old newsreader.

I like to keep a common password for sites I don’t mind if someone finds out the password and unique passwords for the important ones. This may not work for you, but each to their own, but even if you do this and someone gets access to data on a website you use, you will need to change it.

Boards.ie was hacked yesterday, boards.ie “as of April 2009 the site has over 1,000,000 visitors a month, 220,000 registered accounts, more than 1,000,000 threads and more than 15 million posts.” (source: wikipedia)

Imagine being a hacker and having access to everyone’s password! While boards.ie do say on their website “While our investigations indicate that individual user accounts are not in danger we have taken the step of changing all user passwords. “, it is a warning to all surfers, mix it up a bit when it comes to passwords.

I find using symbols and numbers and ‘non words’ is a good idea. But at the end of they day you need to use something that you can REMEMBER, but is hard for others to guess.

Doo-Lally

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Grilled lemon & herb chicken with mash

One of my plans for this year is to create some interesting meals. Interesting, for me that is you might find many of them a little ordinary. And I love nothing better than to integrate technology into my passions.

I downloaded ‘Jamie Oliver 20 Minute Meals’ for my iPhone, which as the name would indicate suits me down to the ground, simple yet a little interesting . Jamie (and the designers) have  put a lot of love into this little application, it is very easy to use.  Yesterday I cooked up the above. And yes the above image is from the application mine did not looks as delectable, it it tasted pretty damn good if I may say so myself!

By the way, you may have noticed my avoidance of the words – new year resolutions,  I am calling these new year plans, it seems resolutions never pan out. EVER!

There was something odd about Dublin this morning. Everyone was operating in slow motion. People who walked to work, started out at their usual rushed pace, but quickly realised speed is not the way this morning, and reduced to a cautious ice-avoidance dance.

I figured out fast it is safer -  for where I live, to walk on the road and avoid the footpath completely. It was the first day back at work for a lot of people. Very few were without gloves, many had a hot coffee with both hands clasped around the paper cup. Of course it has been like this for the past while, but I had the joy of not stepping out in it.

Happy New Year.

By the way, if we have had a very cold and icy winter does that mean we can have a wonderful warm summer also? I tweeted the above pictures this morning. Dublin looks great in white, but it is a very cautious white indeed!

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