note to self: manchester trip overdue

I’m thinking maybe May would be a good time to visit! Failing that I could just buy the calendar and not visit at all…
On an entirely different note.
Christmas presents are hard to find for some people so when I found the ant farm thing and liked it I figure I should just buy it and then see who I haven’t got a present for yet. I think my neice might not like it though!

bryan/brian

So I read recently that Bryan Brian McFadden was hooking up with Guy Chambers in the hopes of being the next Robbie Williams.
Listening to Irish Son earlier it strikes me he is much more likely to be the next Brian Bryan Adams.

note to self: be more festive

Okay so Meg and Dave have outdone themselves this year. Like VD only more festive… It’s ‘Tis Cards.

flickr and firefox

So I was playing with the search in Firefox the other day and I decided I wanted to be able to do a basic flickr tag search from the search bar. So here it is a

Firefox search plugin for flickr.com

note to self: when you want something doing…

It looks like makelovenotspam are not the only people with server problems today. Flickr.com seem to be having major issues with their images not displaying. So if you are missing some images from the right hand side of this page now you know why!

make love not spam

So Lycos decided it would be a good idea to fight back against spam. Something every person using movabletype will know about. I’d love to hit the comment spammers where it hurts.
Sadly the makelovenotspam site has now been hit by a denial of service attack.
What goes around comes around!
Oh the site is down but if you really want the screensaver and are using a Mac (and let’s face it why wouldn’t you be?) try this link instead.
http://download2.makelovenotspam.com/screensavers/MLNS_screensaver_en.dmg

note to self: nothing is simple

So I got an email reminder my oyster card was due to run out. I went online and ordered a new yearly one.
It didn’t charge.
I checked online and realised it was my old one that stopped working in the summer…
so now I have to manually do it for this week at the station and then order it again online for the new one.
meanwhile my refund will now automatically happen after 10 days.
grrrr

runlondon

NAME: IAIN
RACE NUMBER: 17142
POS: 8925
5K TIME: 0H 26MIN 39SEC
10K TIME: 0H 53MIN 7SEC

yeah try to ignore the fact that I messed up the form and autofill added my email not my name! So if you want to see me cross the finish line you need my name @8letters.co.uk and my surname – if you don’t know either of those then erm… why do you want to see me cross the finish line? LOL! Head on over to runlodnon.com and follow the instructions.

Black Friday

The most provocative gimmick, titled “A little naughty can do a little nice,” comes from youth apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. Early morning shoppers will get a chance to pose for photographs with sexy male and female greeters at all of the retailer’s 364 stores nationwide for a $1 fee. More…

land of the free

home of the consumer.

No really. I forget when I am not in this country how much their economy is based on shopping. Democrats take note. buy less for the next four years.