A car.. not mine..

This is really just a test for uploading an image through Movable Type but it’s going to get published anyway. This is a picture of the car that we rented when we went on holiday to Texas earlier this year – it was really quite large and spacious and I hope we have something similar… Continue reading A car.. not mine..

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Home Alone 4!

Just received an email newsletter from Twentieth Century Fox regarding the latest releases on DVD and Video in October and it mentions that Home Alone 4 is due out on the 20th October. Another one!?

the search for extra-terrestrial life continues

My seti@home stats are going up somewhat faster now I’ve remembered to restart the client on my linux desktop! Your rank out of 4721304 total users is: 76172nd place. The number of users who have this rank: 29 You have completed more work units than 98.386% of our users.

Alas poor comments

You probably didn’t notice unless you’re a regular visitor (in which case “Hello again!”), but I’ve had to disable posting of comments to the entries in this blog. This is due to having had the number of comments double overnight thanks to some unsavoury characters advertising porn and viagra sites in their comments. I would… Continue reading Alas poor comments

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Day tripper

Decided to “nip to the beach” today.. of course, starting from Nottingham means that any real beach is a good few hours drive away. Rather than go to Skegness as most people from Nottingham seem to, we journeyed that little bit further and went to North Wales instead!

Reading material

Recently started reading Jonathan Kellerman books and found they’re quite good. The main character is Alex Delaware, a psychologist who helps out the police with cases. Definitely a good read if you like crime/detective type books. The one I just finished reading was “The Murder Book”.

blog updated

Updated Moveable Type (the blog backend) today. Can’t see any changes so far.

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Number crunching

Checked my personal seti@home stats just now.. in the top 86,000 now! Your rank out of 4524207 total users is: 85971st place. The number of users who have this rank: 47 You have completed more work units than 98.099% of our users.

One man went to mow

Mowed the lawn last weekend for the first time in over six months! Unfortunately it now looks like it’ll need mowing again this coming weekend.