According to the main BBC Sport website Dietmar Hamann wants to leave Bolton to join Bolton!

I’ve tweaked the background and style sheet to make the left column slightly wider, whilst taking the pixels from the right hand side.
By doing this, it allows me to whore my blog to the advertising world with 468×60 pixel ads. I’ve made a script which rotates the order and changes the ads for each company on each reload. It also places an add at the bottom of the item page, and I’ll work on getting the archive pages pimped.
I also played about with the flickr badge, so I now show all my pictures instead of my Cullen photoset, and they also have a “shake it like a Polaroid” background.
You may need to do a Ctrl+F5 to load the modified style sheet.

Some Tories are suggesting that we should allow left turns on red lights.
I can see advantages and disadvantages of this, however it is reported as some new idea from a Tory policy group, yet I’m pretty sure that this was included or being spoke about during the 2001 general election.

We went to see Mark Thomas yesterday at the Drill Hall.
He was talking about his “new book“, well he didn’t really, just did his routine which may have contained stuff from his book, but it wasn’t made clear if any bits were from it.
However he was still clever and still funny.
The only thing I’m left wondering is why whenever Mark goes on tour does he always visit The Old Town Hall in Hemel?

On Monday I went to the Lincoln Book Festival.
I saw Mark Billingham and John Harvey talk about crime writing. Heather not too keen on the subject stayed at home, but I still had a good time.
Managed to spend £23 on books which I probably won’t read for another 6 months, as I now have a shelf full of books to read.

If you look to the right (on the main page) you’ll see my upcoming events.
This is my first attempt at playing with the Google Calendar API. It wasn’t as easy as some of the others I’ve used, and a lack of any real PHP code made it harder.
For some reason the XML files return different date formats depending on the type of event. For short one day meetings I get a start and end time inside a <gd:when /> tag down to the nearest millisecond. For all day events I just get the Year-Month-Day. For reoccurring events, a completely different set of data is returned inside <gd:recurrence /> tags, one day events have start and end times, whilst hourly events have a start time and a duration.
It also only shows the last 25 modified events (although you can search by date ranges), so if I enter an event a year in advance it may not show up.
Maybe if a GData library is available for PHP it’ll be easier, but at the moment my nasty hacky code seems to work.

After Blogger ate my template, I’ve finally rebuilt it.
There are some tweaks, but I’ve learnt that you should regularly back up EVERYTHING.
I’ll probably knock up some code soon to automatically backup the template each day. It shouldn’t be hard to make, as I’ve already used the Atom API before.