Spam or mistaken identity?

Other

Just got this addressed to my Gmail account

Subject: you
is there something you need? apparently you keep going through carol and my dad to get a point across. let me tell you something-I think we are a little to old to be running to someones daddy and telling on them when you have a problem. if you need something and you cant get a hold of tristan talk to me. you have my email address and i know you could have contacted me. but lets be mature about this. honestly, i dont even know whats going on and tristan isnt here but im sure it can be handled maturely and civilly. Tristan’s cell phone doesnt work half the time and that could be why your having problems getting in touch with him. Im gonna end this with a little word of encouragement-not all of us run to mommy and daddy every time we have a boo boo. maybe you should learn to do the same.

allyson

Should I reply..?

Breakfast Vidcast

Mobiles, TV

Breakfast TakeawayI decided after seeing the advert for the Breakfast Takeaway Vidcast to give it a go on my P990i. I was expecting the quality to be pretty poor, and wasn’t expecting many stories. However it’s 10 minutes of the mornings news in quality which is better than that off an analogue TV.
If you are one of these people who rushes out of the house without getting to catch the news, but then have a 10min+ train/bus/tube journey, give it a try.
The only shame was that it didn’t have the Borat story, where Sacha Baron Cohen kept calling the short BBC interviewer as small girl.

Firefox 2.0 – where?

Web Design

So there was a lot of fuss yesterday about how Firefox 2.0 was to be launched today. Then today more fuss about how Firefox 2.0 had been launched today. Yet when I go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ it still shows only 1.5 available to download. It’s now 10pm (BST) so nearly Wednesday, so why can’t I download it?
ps. I don’t do RC’s after trying (for about 5 seconds) IE Beta 7, so don’t point me in that direction.

Semi-edit: whilst looking at the BBC website they say that it’s released at 1700 PST, which would be 1am here, so I’m off to bed.

Google Co-op LibDemBlog Search

LibDemBlogs

Whilst surfing about on the net I came across this on the BBC website “Google offers personal searches“. Now Google had told me in the monthly newsletter about Co-op and as I’ve signed up to almost everything Google have to offer I though I would give this a try.
What I’ve been able to do is put all the URLs of the blogs which appear on LibDemBlogs into a Co-op, which then lets me and you search this subset of Google search results. I have previously built my own search engine using the Google Search API, but this only allowed me to search the contents of one site. So for now anyway I’ve changed the search box on LibDemBlogs to use the Co-op version instead.

Well done Lincoln

Other

Jamie ForresterYesterday Lincoln thrashed Rochdale 7-1. I was thinking about going to the game as I had nothing else to do and the ground is only 2 minutes down the road, but not knowing anyone to go with sort of stopped that. So I missed out on an 8 goal game with Jamie Forrester scoring his third hat-trick of the season and it looks like that finally Lincoln might be able to get themselves out of League 2.

Young binge drinkers

Other

Bombardier Bottle As the government launches it’s new TV adverts, the press are quoting these figures

Latest government figures show that young people are more likely than any other age group to drink heavily [binge drink]. Among 16- to 24-year-olds in England, 33% of men drank more than eight units on at least one day a week and 24% of women drank more than six units on at least one day.

Source: Guardian
Now I can’t believe these figures. Are they really saying that two-thirds of young men don’t drink 3-4 pints in a night at least once a week? I had a look at a bottle of Bombardier this morning and it contains 3 units of alcohol. Which means as I’m just finishing off the third bottle I become a binge drinker.
Only recently was I asked how much I had drunk. It was two pints (4.544 units) and three large Baileys (3.57 units), therefore making it a binge. However I had started at 6pm having a pint with my dinner and was asked at 2am in the morning.
I think the definition is just too low, I always believed that someone who binged was drinking nearer 6 pints in a night if not 8. Maybe someone from the health profession can correct me.

The Manuscript

Reviews

The Manuscript Having purchased this book by it’s cover some time ago, I’ve finally got around to reading and finishing The Manuscript and whilst it had some geeky Usenet and Grepping, it let me down on the blackberries (as featured on the cover) and a plot line that was just too unbelievable. I couldn’t workout where in the 2000’s the events were taking place as I’m sure they were mixing technologies. The story had too many organisations, too many escaping shootouts and not enough geek. 6/10

Convertion to WordPress

Web Design

Finally made the move to WordPress. After hours of finding a way to import my posts from Blogger as the import method just didn’t want to work, I wrote some code myself. Then I tweaked the template I had been working on, and this morning I renamed the directories so that the WordPress version went live.
Most things have moved, just need some time to get the comments and then the adverts back.