{"id":103,"date":"2010-11-13T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/some-footballmuggy-bonehead\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:22:58","slug":"some-footballmuggy-bonehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/some-footballmuggy-bonehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Football\/Muggy-bonehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a random selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/veghead\/Bob_Mills-Football_and_Muggy_Bonehead.mp3\" title=\"Football and Muggy-Bonehead\">football\/muggy-bonehead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muggy-Bonehead: Video Howtos.<br \/>\nHOWTOs were one of the best things about Linux when I first started. They explained exactly how to do something in simple layman&#8217;s terms. They were written in plain, easily comprehensible HTML and could be printed out to be used wherever your computer was located. Network was optional.<br \/>\nBut nowadays, people can&#8217;t just sit down and write clear and plain text, they all have to be fucking TV presenters. The You-Tube tutorial is one of the worst consequences of the cheap CCD. Rather than skimming a page for relevant information, we have to try and scrub through a tedious 10 minute video which mainly consists of some little twat&#8217;s poor typing on a black console screen! Just type it out in a text editor! You will not get famous, asked to present X-Factor or laid as a result of this bullshit. Type it out in plain text\/HTML\/Docbook and you will get the unspoken respect of thousands of your peers. If that isn&#8217;t enough for you, get a coke habit and leave the rest of us alone. Here&#8217;s an example: I wanted to find out about some of the inner details of the web-cam drivers under Linux. For example, what does GSPCA stand for and what interfaces does it provide? After a bollocksload of googling all I kept coming up against was this tedious fucking video of a geek with no communication skills, typing shit into a terminal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FxVsxxfbggg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FxVsxxfbggg<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;Feel free to pause the video if you need to copy these lines into your terminal&#8221; &#8211; this is <i>NOT<\/i> progress. If, rather than trying to be the worlds least charismatic TV presenter, you had simply typed this shit into a text editor, we could &#8220;Copy and Paste&#8221; the lines directly into the terminal! Unless we were using Windows Phone 7 of course. Either way, you have a face for text-files &#8211; stop trying to make yourself more interesting and instead, gain some respect from your peers.<\/li>\n<li>Football: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.garlicsim.org\/post\/1495459004\/technology-principle-the-toy-will-win\" title=\"The toy will win\">The Toy Will Win<\/a> is an excellent tech post and it made me happy.<\/li>\n<li>Muggy Bonehead: Dan Bull. He did that open letter to Lily Allen thing and I liked it, and found myself liking him.  But today his youthful smugness got right on my tits as he wrote another one of his identical semi-raps, but this time objecting to the &#8220;bad apples that spoiled an otherwise significant demonstration&#8221; &#8211; the students that raided Millbank. They&#8217;re not wankers Dan, you are. They&#8217;re angry &#8211; as am I  &#8211; but they got up and caused some aggro, while you and I got on with our poxy day jobs. Your little publicity coup with the Lily song is now in the past &#8211; you&#8217;re going to have to try harder from now on. That you made a tune about the activists highlights the fact that you had heard of them. That&#8217;s because they got on the news. They got on the news because they started doing &#8220;bad&#8221; things. Much like the Poll Tax riots, the Brixton Riots, the Miners&#8217; battle and all of the other significant public displays of anger that have shaped history. If no-one broke a window, no-one else would ever hear about the demonstration. Fuck you Dan Bull &#8211; you&#8217;re not angry enough to matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough for tonight. BTW I know Dan Bull doesn&#8217;t read this, but he is clearly the sort of bloke who Googles himself on a regular basis, so eventually he will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a random selection of football\/muggy-bonehead: Muggy-Bonehead: Video Howtos. HOWTOs were one of the best things about Linux when I first started. They explained exactly how to do something in simple layman&#8217;s terms. They were written in plain, easily comprehensible HTML and could be printed out to be used wherever your computer was located. 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