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  • All Gardened Out

    Bloody knackered. Edged the lawn, put in the edging stuff, and collected loads of crap. Still looks like a hell-hole, but its my hell-hole. Settled in with S now for a quiet night of too much wine, possibly some SingStar, definitely some crap TV. Bit brain-dead and tired.

    Will have to do some more work on the site tomorrow. Haven’t got some stuff working yet I would like to work. Namely style sheets and the links above. Its a matter of figuring out directories. I’ll get there one way or another.

    Have paid off my first house in Animal Crossing. This is an achievement of some nature. Not a lot to be fair. But I think I now have a quarter of all furniture in the game too.

  • Chores

    I have every intention of doing some gardening today. It is partially because my garden looks a bit of a hell-hole today. I’m just off to buy some edging for the lawn and a tool to edge it. I live life on the edge.
    *Stabs brain a little*

  • New Start

    So, this is my first proper post in the new blog. I fancied using something different this year, and this is written using a program called Blosxom. It is a perl-based blogging system, with a lot of possibilities for setting things up. I am hoping in the near future to configure this blog to allow comments on postings, and to allow me to post from a browser. Which is nice. It is a very nicely written program, quite easy to set up. I will probably spend a little time getting the look and feel right.

  • Coffee is your friend

    London was good, managed to learn a lot about the exciting world of PL/SQL. May well mean I start writing a lot of stuff in that, as it is certainly very useful. Will be investigating some things to do with that today. Also visited good mates TnB over the weekend, and swapped Christmas pressies. I know have the Sega Superstars EyeToy game, which is entirely worthy. There is a Super Monkey Ball game where you control the ball as if you were a kid pretending to be an aeroplane, which is sheer comedy (and tough on the arms too). Will have a good go of that this weekend, along with the dance mat I picked up recently

  • Not quite a cobweb, but close

    Just got to get my writing mojo back basically, not feeling that inspired right at this moment. Hmmmm. Will try and knock out more soon, just not been that bothered to update. Off to London for two days for another course, will be hoping to try and get my brain going a little whilst I am down there. What is amazing is that despite my laziness, traffic to this little dull corner of the internet seems to be as high as ever. Lots of search engines like to come and have a look (hello to all the search engines) but enough real vistors to be a surprise.

  • Protect yo neck

    ODB died over the weekend. Very sad, especially as he was recording a new album. He will be missed. I am wearing a black hoodie in tribute.

    As we found the fop shop in Reading, I have some more good music to listen to. This is all good. I have an U-Roy compilation to hear sometime soon. And 2 CDs of Northern Soul.

  • Nearly the weekend

    And so off to Reading tomorrow. Will be cooking a big fat Mexican meal tonight, can’t wait for that meself. Then some shopping and relaxing with friends. Its bloody cold already, and its supposed to drop below freezing at some point this weekend. Really should bring in my little outdoor cactus tonight. My cactii have been going great guns lately ,I think I should get some more soon

    Right, off home shortly. Yay!

  • Official Firefox 1.0 out now

    Sorry, thats my browser advert for the day out of the way. Firefox as a browser is a constant delight, I very occasionally have to go back and use Internet Explorer, and its like the difference between a racing car and and a Skoda. Its designed how I want it, cos I can set it up how I want it. Simple really.

    I’ve also just downloaded the homeland security threat level extension, that tells me how safe the world is in a little icon at the bottom of my browser. Well, saves me reading the news don’t it?

  • DVD Killed the Radio Star

    New toy, have a DVD recorder. Its a cheap and cheerful Liteon, and it is lovely, does everything I want. Have started to copy some video tapes onto DVD. Am going through my collection of music documentaries at the moment. Have a vague plan to copy all my Twin Peaks too, but will see how I get on/far I can be bothered

    Am going to try really hard and get caught up with writing here again, have been naughty. I will try harder.b

  • So where were we?

    Have had a few days off work to do the sum of shag all. In which sense I was successful. Got GTASA, which is a great game, amazingly atmospheric. Also had a little trip into London on Friday. Paid a visit to Cybercandy which is a shop specialising in imported sweets. My personal highlight was the Reeces lipbalm, which just can’t be healthy. But it is good.