Playing about on the Internet on Sunday I managed to get myself on the Windows Live™ Messenger Beta trial (the new name for MSN Messenger).
Today I have some invites to give away.
Friends or donors are welcome to ask for them.

A few weeks ago I received this email

From: Admin Support <>
To: Ryan Cullen
Sent: 13 Mar 2006 09:08
Subject: National Lottery Subscription

We have some exciting news about your National Lottery Subscription. Please click http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/subs/viewSummary.do and enter your username and password to view the details of your Subscription online now.

Kind regards,

National Lottery Subscriptions Team

Now I didn’t click the link, I’m not that stupid. I get lottery spam at least once a day.
So I went to the proper National Lottery website www.national-lottery.co.uk and logged in the usual way. And what did I find?
A £10 win on the lottery 🙂

For the umptenth time Gordon Brown hasn’t raised duty on Spirits, but raised them on Beer and Wine.

Do spirits have special properties that don’t get yobs drunk on a Saturday night?

Surely it can’t be that Gordon is keeping the distilleries happy, what about all the other types of spirits?

My Amazon Sidebar tool has now been modified to accept Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr as well as Amazon.co.uk.
It auto-detects which site you were on when you selected the product, and generates the appropriate link.

MR R.T. CULLEN AND MISS H.E. QUINTON
The engagement is announced between Ryan, elder son of Mr Thomas Cullen, of Camden, London and Mrs Sallie Cullen of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and Heather, youngest daughter of Mrs Shirley and the late Mr Peter Quinton of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.

This news story appeared on the BBC Website yesterday.

Some Gmail subscribers would begin to see the changes instantly as the service was rolled out on 7 February, the company said.

But it seems those subscribers are only those from America.
Seemed to be a bit early to announce it on the Beeb, if I can’t use it yet.

Here you go Will

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Finish this off…

As everyone else is doing this, here’s my result:

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (38% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

…but only after the World Cup.

For those of you who want to read the story but not buy the newspaper.
Edit: link no longer points to that story.