This time last week, spotting number plates seemed simple, getting at least one a day, everything was going fine.
On the way to work trying to find a 136, I saw two sets of consecutive 137 & 138, and driving a 139, I was sure that I would be looking for a 140 in no time.
Still no luck at lunch time, and then on the way home, I saw another 137 driving past me. Then, 20 seconds later a 136! This was going to be easy. I had seen at least 5 different 137s in the last two day. OK they were all moving, but they were all in the area.
But no, ten 138s later, I finally find the 137 a week later. Luckily for me, a 138 then appeared within a few minutes. Next job was to safely pull over, spot my number plate before a 140 appeared. No 140 did appear, nor have I found one yet, but hopefully I’ll find one soon, and my ratio of 0.6318 won’t drop any lower.
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LibDemBlogs Grows
The LibDemBlogs site continues to grow It now has 25 regular posters, which has meant that over the last 3 months, the number of days shown on the main page has gone down from 7 to 2.
Other features that I might not have mentioned when they were rolled through are:
* An RSS feed – http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk/feed/rss.xml
* Daily Archives
* and some changes to the location of the BlogBox
If you have any ideas for more features please leave me a comment.
ps, try googling libdem
This week I have been stealing a V800
My new job at Vodafone means that I can borrow phones for the evening/weekend. I’ve been trying out the V800, but as I have an o2 sim card, and we have no 3G Vodafone signal in Lincoln, the main feature of the phone is a bit pointless.
Haven’t noticed anything special about it really, and am missing the functionality of my P910i.
Lincoln 2-0 Shrewsbury
I went to my first Lincoln game, haven’t had a chance to go before as I’ve had conferences, family, sleep and cold weather when other matches were on.
The ground is only down the road (literally) from Heather’s, the game was a good one. We got to see two goals (well one, as I was reading the programme during the second). The crowd though were pretty quiet, which is odd as on some days you can even hear them from my place. Probably go again before the end of the season, and there’s always the chance that Lincoln might make it to the play-off finals, when I’m guessing the whole city will suddenly remember that they are fans.
Everyone to pay inheritance tax
According to a new report today everyone will be paying inheritance tax by the year 2105. This of course is based on the judgment that the average house price will rise to £1,000,000 whilst the inheritance tax threshold will stay the same.
OK the later is unlikely to happen but this is exactly what the HBOS scare story today is claiming about the next 10 years.
Donate
Just trying to see if this will work.
Currently I have no money, I also like to help people with their blogs and webdesign.
Therefore if I’ve helped you, why not help me, by giving me money 🙂
Just fill the PayPal form in below, thank you.
My name is Ryan Cullen
I was thinking about this post, because when you Google my name, I appeared somewhere on the second page. Noting how Google was giving me some higher ratings, I felt a post with my actual name in it might push me above this person, but today when I went to check where I appeared I found myself top anyway.
Sky News, News for intelligent people
Today on Sky News at 1.30 they had a story about PMQ’s and they had their big banner on the screen. On the left in the red box it said “PM’S QUESTIONS” and on the right it had “Prime Minister Faced Questions in the Commons”.
Shocking stuff there then!
Clarke retreats over house arrest
I wish I had posted on this early, because I could have then said “told you so”.
It was pretty obvious that house arrest under order of the Home Secretary, was going to be the concession for the Lords, but it seems pretty silly to tell David Davis this before you debate the bill at the Commons stage.
Search Engines
I’ve been playing about with my webstats, looking at phrases which people used to find my blog.
24 Spoilers, is really popular at the moment (304 hits!), although I’m sure they are all disappointed with a story written in August 2004.
Javascript Hack and Drinks Promotions are currently making me feel lucky.
And rather amazing Arsenal New Ground is second behind the BBC, but above Arsenal.com!
Whilst we’re here, I only use Google to search, but the other day I was looking for the Windows Update page, I know that typing Windows on Google will give me the Microsoft Site, followed by the Windows Update page. However I was on the MSN website already, and assumed that a similar result would happen on their search engine. Nope, the first Microsoft site is 9th, after several double glazing sites.
ps. If you did/do click through from Google, you’ll have noticed that there’s a box at the top of the page asking you if you found the page useful, and to leave comments. Unfortunately, unless you host your blog on your own site, which has PHP enabled, and allows you to modify the .htaccess file, then I can’t offer help on making your own. Although I’m sure you could achieve the same thing with JavaScript.
pps. If you also notice that some of the titles on Google have the link as Hapless band of staff and regulars: Post Name, however the page title in your browser has Post Name: Hapless band of staff and regulars, this is because I’ve used PHP pattern matching to swap them around. If you want the code let me know.