With several people now successfully using my Amazon Sidebar links (those I am reading/watching/listening… on the righthand side), I’m going to offer them to the wider public.
Click the link, follow the instructions.
Being crap at explaining anything, please leave feedback in the comments.
Tip: if you want to give referral sales to me use artesea-21 as your tag, theliberaldemocr for the LibDems or ldys-21 for LDYS.
Staying at the Hilton Newbury North for the week, David and I went for dinner last night in jeans and t-shirt.
We went to give our room numbers but we were just waived in.
When we sat down we suddenly realized. There must have been at least 20 chav’s all staying the night. Somebody must have been paying their bill, but the hotel staff must have believed that we were with them too!
Whilst the dinner ended up being free, I was going to claim it on expenses anyway.
Some how I feel dirty.
If you are reading the permalink version of this page, you will have noticed something new at the bottom.
Using the Blog Search XML files, built with the url of the title link, I can see who else has been blogging the same story as me.
With some fancy code I can place this information at the bottom of each post.
This one is a bit of a cheat, as I’ve linked to the Brown speech promotes Britishness off the BBC website just to demonstrate, but if you go back through the archives you’ll see other examples.
The lads at work have just started blogging, here are their efforts:
David Hayes, Paul Finney, Adam Beers and Daniel Ward.
It’s good to see that Tony has given Ruth Kelly his full backing, means she should be gone by the end of next week.
It wouldn’t be an election without a bar chart, so here’s one
This one is based on T-Shirt sales.
Last updated Wednesday 25th Jan 2006 19:47
Get your LibDem leadership T-Shirts today.
MPs currently available are Ming, Hughes, Oaten, Hemming and Lembit.
Others will be available if they consider standing, and if I can come up with a design.
Postage is approximatly £2.20
EDIT: Free postage for all orders over £16.90 within the UK
Phil Willis, John Thurso and Chris Huhne tops now available
Posting as a grassroots activist who has been backing Charles to stay as leader, I now say it is time to go.
It’s now obvious that Charles hasn’t had the support of most of his front bench for almost a year, and that he has been ignoring their requests to stand down. It’s a shame that the gang of 11 didn’t have the guts to send their letter before Christmas or call for a vote of confidence before now.
Instead as a party we are left with a leadership election of one, who will have no shadow cabinet.
Hopefully by Monday morning we will see Charles stand down and Ming, Hughes and Oaten put themselves forward to start what we will an exciting leadership contest.
If there is only one thing you do this year, it has to be this.
One of the worst vulnerabilities in Microsoft has been found and it is really really easy to exploit and be caught.
Please download and install the temporary fix from this nice bloke’s blog
Hex blog: Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix
More info here:
F-Secure, Microsoft and US Cert
This weekend Heather and I went to Welsh Wales to see Sally from the Valley.
This is Peter (and me), say ‘hello’!
Peter is cute and only 5 weeks old.
Heather wouldn’t let me take him home 🙁
More pictures on flickr