Month: January 2005

What the stuff is going on with the world ? One night last week, when I wasn’t really paying attention to the TV, a brightly coloured advert popped up. All I remembered about it at the time was that there were hundreds of bottles of some bright purple cleaning fluid and a guy repeatedly saying, “Cillet BANG! Cillet BANG! Cillet… Read more →

What the stuff is going on with the world ? One night last week, when I wasn’t really paying attention to the TV, a brightly coloured advert popped up. All I remembered about it at the time was that there were hundreds of bottles of some bright purple cleaning fluid and a guy repeatedly saying, “Cillet BANG! Cillet BANG! Cillet… Read more →

Living where I do – near the West Midlands (UK) there’s always been quite a few pirate radio stations. They tend to pop up, then vanish again a bit later after the Department of Trade and Industry has found out where they are and jumped on them from a great height. One, however – appears to be doing really well… Read more →

A severe bit of undercalculating (is that even a word?) means that we may possibly be moving the site yet again very soon. I’m looking at an even bigger server, with even more bells and even more whistles. The main reason is bandwidth, which is going from “oofff, that’s a lot” to “blimey, that’s completely crazy”. Downloads are to blame… Read more →

Upgrading the site didn’t quite go as expected this week. The first problem was moving the database, which was easy enough. The second was upgrading the database to the new “improved” format. This didn’t go too well. The automated upgrade script dumped some of the data, removed some fields and then threw out a whole load of errors. Once I’d… Read more →

I love the B3ta.com website, it’s nuts. It’s a big forum where graphic artists post their creations – mostly tweaked photos and news images – with hilarious results. Now, every Friday they have a “Friday newsletter”. I only got mine today, but it’s a doosey.. Check out these links. I was so impressed by the eSure video that I converted… Read more →

As promised, following this and then this earlier post, I’m now publishing photos of my poorly motor. I took all of these shots with my Orange SPV C500, so if nothing else it’s a good example of the quality you can get on a dark winters day. It’s now definitely an insurance write-off, so today I went to pay my… Read more →

I’m gutted. As you may know, I skidded on some black ice on Boxing Day. Even the police (who attended) told me that the council hadn’t gritted and there’s nothing I could’ve done. Unfortunately for me the car hit a tree stump, skidding on top of it and buckling the bottom of my passenger door and underneath the car. Not… Read more →

I’m gutted. As you may know, I skidded on some black ice on Boxing Day. Even the police (who attended) told me that the council hadn’t gritted and there’s nothing I could’ve done. Unfortunately for me the car hit a tree stump, skidding on top of it and buckling the bottom of my passenger door and underneath the car. Not… Read more →

So you know all about my car accident yeah? Well, the New Year got off to a crackin start for me. Just a week ago I was bumping off a tree, slamming into a lampost and blowing airbags. A week later and I have an Astra with a mind of it’s own. There I was, pootling up the M6 when… Read more →