I’ve actually got a modicum of respect for Noel Gallagher – he’s not a completely talentless bastard. Unlike his brother, Liam, that is, who is, by far and a way, up there amongst all time biggest wasters in the world (amongst the likes of Pete Docherty and Amy Winehouse). So, certainly, this chap my have improved his aim by decking Liam off the stage, but nevertheless, I feel Noel has done enough in his life to deserve it. Quality.
(it gets good around 1:50)
What I find particularly amusing is Liam doing his “big hard bastard” act giving it all the “YEH mate, I’m gonna twat you yeah eh?” business after the sizeable security staff have actually grabbed the guy and there’s little danger to Liam himself. If he was truly hard, he would have nutted him off the stage. Or hit him with a guitar, Keith Richards style:
No five minute break for these guys. That’s right, guy invades stage, Keith smacks him, everyone carries on. Oasis have got a lot to learn.
Quick hint: if you’re having trouble getting wireless backups on Time Machine and an Airport Extreme working, then try this – I had the same problem and fixed it for me. Plug the USB drive in to your Mac and using disk utility, veryify and repair the disk not the actual partition. Alternatively, remove all existing partitions from your drive, and then recreate the necessary partitions for your backup scenario. It seems that if you only verify / repair the partitions then the Airport Extreme won’t necessarily mount the drive properly (meaning you can’t use it as an Airdisk, and you can’t use it with Time Machine.)
No guarantee this will work for you and also note: wireless backups create sparsebundles (as opposed to real actual files) so it’s more of a headache to restore from a backup. But wireless backups are far less of a headache than having to periodically plug my Macbook Pro in to the drive, so for me, it’s worth it.
OK, so it’s nothing major, but I got a small mention on the sport section of the BBC website, as part of its coverage of the Channel Islands Cup, in which I am playing, for PKF Wanderers.
The standard of cricket we play in Guernsey is very good and it’s right that the BBC monitor the CI Cup. Wanderers this year have an excellent chance of winning it, and it would be a fantastic achievement to do so. The semi-final last week was washed out, so we’ll try again this weekend. We’re strong favourites to win, which will most likely set up a final with arch-rivals (and Guernsey-based) Cobo who are unbeaten in all forms of cricket this season.
Fingers crossed eh?