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.

As with other Michael Crichton books, you feel like you’re reading a research paper.
I really enjoyed this book, and whilst I’m pretty sure many of my friends will disagree with the message, it’s a really good read.

9 out of 10

I’ve managed to stuff up my computer so much that I can no longer use my mouse or keyboard when windows is running.
Back up discs and CDs aren’t working, so I’m a bit stuck.
Oh well, I’m sure Heather won’t mind that I’ve stolen her laptop.

Have discovered the Comedy Night at Lincoln Uni.
They have Stewart Lee, Mitch Benn and Richard Herring all coming up over the next few months 🙂

The internet is finally here, and with 2 PCs and 2 Laptops, I thought we might as well go wireless.

Hopefully I’ll be able to post more now, but I’ll leave that for another day, as I’m too tired.

I’ve finally got my computer up in Lincoln, and whilst waiting for broadband to arrive, I’m using GPRS via my mobile to connect to the internet.

It’s pretty fast (115.2Kbps it claims), but the only problem is that o2 compress the images before they arrive. To get them to appear properly I need to hover over the images and then press Shift+R.

Below is an example of what I see:



Images copied from the BBC

Several reports in the papers about Labours plans to scrap happy hour, but what I want to know is how far do they plan to go with banning drinks promotions.

Personally I believe in a free market for both Tobacco and Alcohol sales, I would allow both manufactures and retailers to price the product and promote it according to the market (although banning any advertisements to those under the current legal age).

What the government have done to Tobacco and what they plan to do to Alcohol is a disgrace.

I can understand the worries about happy hour, with 18-21 year olds get tanked up in an hour, but if a bar needs to raise it income during the more empty hours of 6-7, then why can’t it apply a drinks promotion.

Will we also see the banning of 2 for 1, or even a £1 a pint? Is 3 for 2 ok? What about 50p off? 10p?

Or will pub, bars and off-licenses only be able to sell drinks at the manufactures advised price. Thus removing all competition in the market, but ensuring that those young kids aren’t encouraged to buy more drinks than they can handle?

Something in Heather’s house has made me ill, and now I have a Lesley Ash bottom lip, and a Jimmy Hill chin. 🙁

Just waiting for a chemist to open, to get those antibiotics.

Haven’t been posting for a while, mainly because my new house didn’t have

a) my computer

b) a phone line (well BT had reconnected the line, it just happened that we didn’t actually have a physical line into the house)

My new room is small (really small), although the large kitchen and living area makes up for this. The house is very pink, but that’s because I live with two female art students.

I’m still looking for that £40k/year IT job, however until then, I’m going to temp for Banks Cargill doing admin and data entry work.

Good to see the Tories (well one of them) not getting Kids TV, Dick and Dom, really aren’t much different to Tiswas.