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Mellow weekend. Didn’t achieve much, didn’t set out too. Sat out in the park on Saturday, alternating between resting in the shade of a tall tree, and playing diabolo. I’ve still got it, I can throw my diabolo way up in the air and catch it without it smacking into my face. I don’t look forwards to the day I find I haven’t got it anymore.

Bought and assembled a new barbecue, and most of the parts ended up where they should go, so I consider that a major success. Cooked what are fast becoming my patented chilli-lamb kebabs on it. I intend to use it whenever I can this year, if its going to be this hot, I may as well be outside with a glass of wine rather than sweating in the kitchen. I have a thermometer in there, and it has got up to 33C in our kitchen recently.

It is stupidly hot this week. Could barely sleep last night because of it. Ah well, I’ll be bitching about the rain next week. What a joy it is to be English.

Now well into early 2003 in terms of copying old posts across to this blog. Very odd re-reading your life of the past two years. Must try and do a bit more of what I have siad I’d do. Or not.

My good friend TM whom I visited a couple of weekends ago has had an affect on me, and got me sipping Peppermint tea from time to time now. It is very refreshing, and also caffine-free, which cannot be a bad thing for me, the coffee-addict that I am. Will have to get a larger supply in.

I realised last night I forgot to mention my other obsession at the moment, the number puzzle Sudoko. I realise I may be the very last person on this bandwagon, but I am loving them, have a couple of books of them now I take on bus journeys and the like. Good for helping to tax my brain a little.

Also, last night for the first time I watched some TV Poker. And felt myself starting to get it. I may have to start playing myself. Don’t worry, I don’t do proper gambling for money or anything. I have known since an early age when it comes to betting I have zero luck. I may however download a version for my phone, I have a version of Blackjack I have been playing on my mobile for months, which is a good little travel diversion.

Right, I have redesigned a lot of pages on this site now. Hopefully, the vast majority should look like the main blog page, and all the links should point to pages that look like this too. If you are looking around, and notice any mistakes, I’d be most grateful if you would let me know (hint hint, look around quickly if you have time, see if you can break it for me). I now run a stats package for the site called Urchin, which lets me see (amongst many other things) what errors crop up, so I am watching that at the moment. Although probably not right this second. Very happy with it so far.

In addition as part of this burst of energy, I have updated the blog archive to go back as far as September 2004. I eventually want to copy across the old diary entries back as far as when I started doing them in 2002, just so I have them all in the same format. I’ll get there one day.

One thing I realised I haven’t been doing is explaining what the other links on here are. Will start putting that right now, and will explain each one in turn every so often. Lets start with Likes, which is list of some of the things I am most passionate about.

Google Suggest for Firefox

This extension autofills your google search bar with what it thinks is the most likely result. It is very quick, and works well. What I am interested in is if this can be used for other search extensions. Both in terms of them using Google to suggest results, or using other sources, which may be a harder part. If I get chance, I am going to look at the code

Way to bring the mood down after yesterday. Multiple explosions in London, on the tube, buses and possibly trains too. At least one controlled explosion. Many dead from the looks of it. London in utter chaos, everything is being shut down for safety’s sake.

Just horrible, I’m just refreshing the news to see what is happening, and none of it is good. Simply put, a terrible sad day.

We’ve got the olympics! Yay! And we as a nation have crashed bbc.co.uk to celebrate.

Today is the day the IOC decide where the 2012 Olympics will be held. And in a spirit of entire selfishness, I really hope it is in London. Hang the expense, we’d only spend the money on bombs or war or IT projects that just don’t work. It would be great to see them held in my country in my lifetime. I would like to see the athletics, the cycling, many things, as many events as I can reasonably get away with. I’m just sat here crossing my fingers.

Which doesn’t make typing easy.

EDIT: 11:42 AM, London, Madrid and Paris left in it.

Okay, was thinking this morning about all my devices. I have 3 computers (mine, my work PC and my laptop), a camera, a mobile phone, an ipod, consoles, handheld consoles, tv, sky+, dvd recorder, lots of stuff basically. Plus all the things that then provide the data, so cd’s, games etc. I want an end to all this.

I want a device at home, and a device I can carry. I don’t want it to be heavy. I only want to keep my personal private data. All the rest, the games, music etc, I would like to download on demand. Quickly. If I have paid for it, then I want access to it anywhere. I don’t want to worry about copy protection. If you are a media provider, then the deal should be when I want to use it, you check to see if I have paid for it, then you let me have it. Simple.

I want my portable device to let me play games, take pictures, listen to music, surf the net, make and receive phone calls. I think it has to have a bluetooth headset, as I want as few wires as possible. Oh and it is not a Gizmondo, no matter how much the makers think it is.

If I could have that all sorted for next month that would be lovely, ta.