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Wow, I have a lot to write about. Unfortunately it is all geek stuff, don’t worry,

I haven’t got anything exciting to tell. Will try and get this all up over the
next few days.

Right, first up then is del.icio.us, which is a social bookmark manager. Save sites to here as your favourites, look them up from any computer. You “tag” bookmarks, which means that when you save them, you enter keywords at the same time, which groups them together by theme nicely. You can then also easily see what other people have saved under the same theme.

Now this is all very nice on its own, but you can also do a lot with it under Firefox, such as right click to add any site you are on, and a sidebar with all your current bookmarks. Lots of .rss feeds on the site too, something I always like to see.

I will explain more about the Firefox stuff soon, but in the meantime have a look at del.icio.us/flotsky to see mine. May well link to that directly for my links section too.

Sorted out for a trip to London tomorrow to see some mates. Hoping I can fit in a visit to Cybercandy which is basically my favourite sweet shop in the world. Hoping I can finally find in stock the holy grail that is white chocolate reeces pieces. I could always order off the site, but in some ways I enjoy the randomness that is the shop, you just never know what you are going to find there. Pocky goodness too.

highly unawake today, am mainlining coffee at the moment in the hope that it vaguely rouses me into conciousness. Would be helpful. Have the ipod on my playlist of top flotsky songs, again to try and engage my brain.

I think I am going to try and reawaken my interest in reading, and I think I am going to start with the basics, get a new copy of breakfast of champions and dive back in. I am shamefaced to admit I have only read one book this year, Douglas Copeland’s Microserfs, and even then I really should have read that several years ago. I actually found it a little depressing, in that even Microsoft sounded a fun work environment to me. Don’t take that the wrong way, very good book.

Got a nice bonus this month from work. Very pleased with that, some funds for a holiday and some stuff. Have invested a princely £30 in a 1GB USB key that means I can finally set up a project I have fancied doing for ages, namely a bootable version of linux on a USB key, so I can carry a whole operating system on my keyring. Bit o’luck I should have that to play with tomorrow night.

Have been enjoying this site, A blog of an occasional East Enders writer . It reads a bit like Ed Reardon’s Week, which is a cracking comedy on radio 4 about a hapless writer. Obviously this chap is somewhat more successful, but still worth flipping through the archives for a few gems.

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Slept badly again last night, got an early night, and then was kept awake for a few hours by the mother of all storms. It was very windy, one of our garden chairs was halfway down the garden this morning, almost in my new crap rockery, or crockery as I now think of it. Still, good to see the plants I put in there at the weekend are still looking alright. I was worried the wind might trash them somewhat.

We are off to see a friend of S for a night tomorrow, and then as we are passing through London, are hoping on the way back we can get into Tate Modern for a few hours. We went there a couple of years ago and loved it, so hopefully now a lot will have changed there. Other than that, hoping sunday to finish off the crockery, get the top level dug out. Once that is done, there is a large pile of leaves and earth to be sifted and sorted out, then I can think what to do with the top bit.

Had a late night Sunday, felt not too bad. Had a early night last night, feel like death, just cannot wake up yet. One of those cases where autopilot does everything from getting you out of bed to you having been sat at work for 15 minutes. Actually that is pretty cool that you can do that without functioning properly. I am very glad to be wearing clothes mind.

Trying to write an entry for the Last Laugh contest on BBC3 at the moment. Basically, they have several scripts half-written, and you have to complete the story. I have picked my story, and come up with what appears to me to be a plausible and suitable ending. I just need to write it and make it funny now. I suspect that is the trickier bit.

Getting back into the way of walks in the evening with S again, now that the weather is improving (HA, except for the past two days weather, although we still managed a walk last night). Last week we had a beautiful long walk down by the river, very pretty, and now that the clocks have gone back, once it finishes raining we can manage longer still we hope. Looking forwards to the first evening this year we spend wandering along the Thames in lazy daylight.

In other news, iPod, still good, DS decidedly super

Well it is not, but I am off tomorrow. And Monday. For no good reason, which suits me fine. Going to
catch up on some reading for work, and generally chill. Oh, and garden too. Got things to start planting,
which is a nice position to be in after a couple of months of almost solely bagging up crap. Still got plenty
of that to do too, but it will be nice to break it up. Have a small rosemary bush, garlic, and several herbs and plants to plant.

Very close to finishing the mass copying project that is getting all our cds onto my ipod. Think I am on the home straight now. Would like to move onto copying some videos onto DVD next, would love to get rid of a load of my vhs tapes, and hide/sell/throw out my video. Might even get a little of that done this long weekend.

So I am now a fully-fledged member of the ipod community. It is a fantastic bit of kit, once you’ve
had it a few days you wonder why you haven’t had one all your life. Am carrying around my entire record
collection on something slightly bigger than my mobile. Very happy with it.

Had a course on Friday on HTMLDB, which is a web-based development suite for Oracle. I have been
using it for almost a year now, but I had to figure it all out for meself, so I was quite untutored in it.
Feel a lot more confident about it now, can see some new areas where I want to use it now. Also want to get our system upgraded to the latest version, as they have added a lot into it, some new things I would really like to start using.