brighton

was really cool – and rich was really horny. Enough said I think.
Seriously though lots of beer, nice company and a great day out – almost like summer has satarted early!

Hubba Hubba

Gazza has a new obsession – only he stupidly broadcast it and now has competition. Now I’m not normally one to obsess (oh wait who am I kidding)…
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HELLO Steve :o) He stars in Latter Days – and I was trying to get to see it while I was in the US but Northern Virginia being very conservative and all…
There has been much hulabaloo around the film in the US, Utah particularly.
Looking forward to the DVD release so that we can use the freeze frame :o)

London Bloggers Revisited

I’m going through some of my code and favourites in order to tidy up for the planned redesign.

meme of 2004?

Mark told me to:

Grab the nearest book.

Open the book to page 23.

Find the fifth sentence.

Post the text of the sentence in your journal/blog along with these instructions.

And because I obviously do whatever anyone tells me to do, you?re reading this post. Mark also pointed me in the direction of A9 so you should be able to doa quick search and find the book I had to hand:

In point of fact, as he told Kester the next day over sandwiches by the river, Alan Harkness was also facing hunger of the more everyday kind.

What you got? Not what A9 think it is anyways ;o)

Washington DC

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So Allan and I have spent the Easter weekend in Washington DC doing the usual tourist sights and staying at the Hyatt. It’s been a lovely weekend and I’ve introduced him to the delights of A&F.
We’ve spent a few nights eating and playing and discovered Lizard Lounge last night which was excellent and made a change from the cowboy hell that was Remingtons.
Just dropped him at the airport and come back to Reston to check into the lovely newly refurbished Hyatt Regency. Work for the rest of the week and then heading back to London for Saturday morning.
It’s been really lovely. Lots of pics which I’ll sort out when I get back.

comment spamming and ip banning

As if getting spam mail isn’t enough I’ve just had the first (and hopefully last lot of comment spamming happen. so the following IP addresses are now banned – I’m thinking of setting up a global list for people to subscribe to.

64.159.65.78
212.58.24.202
212.179.154.242
204.90.130.25
200.105.136.20
209.36.127.4

stupid airlines :(

They would make much more money if people knew how much flights cost. instead of changing the price based on the time of day and if it’s raining.
I know easyjet are notorious for making it more expensive on a flight based on how many tickets had sold – so some people get them cheaper to start and then the last few pay a fortune. I had no idea BA did the same though.
Grrr I posted about eurostar doing the same a while back.
I tell you when I have my airline it will be clearly priced. No need to shop around either. The price you see will be the price you get!

:( poor cube

Last night I got a call from Matt asking me to come home. I returned to a scene of carnage. My glass desk had shattered (reason still unknown) and so what was left was a pile of computer equipment and shards of glass.
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My Cube no longer powers up 🙁
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The insurance people have decided to send someone from PC World to attempt a repair. I’d laugh if I didn’t find it so worrying. PC World in my experience don’t know their iMac from their eMac or their G3 powerbook from their G4 iBook.

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Did You Know…

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that’s more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)

pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)

(I’m still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Do not try this at home. Maybe at work.)

The male pray mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.

(“Honey, I’m home. What the….?!”)

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes… lucky pig. can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life…quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm……..)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

(If you’re ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(OK, so that would be a good thing………………..)

A cat’s urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they’ll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)