After the major accident on the M6 yesterday I discovered that the RAC have a website which tell you delays on the road network. I was not aware of this, and had previously used Vauxhalls java application but this takes a while to load.

An early bedtime tonight as I was up late last night. I dug out the old Technics KN1000 keyboard, took it round a friends house and messed around for a couple of hours. Had a good laugh, but couldnt tune the keyboard into the piano, so if you have a manual for this then please let me know!

This is what happens in our household when you leave a full, unopened packet of felix cat treats in our house. Note the precision opening of the back of the pack – its almost as if they were cutting out a coupon on the back of the packet! Needless to say it was empty this morning. The sad thing is that the pack was on buy two, get one free, but Kristen didn’t bother as she thought one pack would last them ages – how wrong can you get!

After looking in my referral logs, I’ve found MetaEureka which submits your query to multiple search engines, bundles the pages up (so you don’t get duplicates) and then tells you which ones the page ends up in. Unfortunately this page doesn’t come top of the list for helsby….need to rectify that!

Would you believe it – the day after I install Moveable Type (after waiting 3 weeks and then deciding to go ahead anyway) they bring out the new version

As an update to my previous post, my nyt autologin page doesnt work anymore unfortunately, so use the logons provided

the New York Times reports on an interesting story about a guy who is using laser pointer pens to blind security cameras as they broach on his security. The article raises several points, one of which is “Is this legal to do so and if so, will it soon be illegal?”. Its illegal to jam police radio frequencies, and this could be used in similar ways but with police (and other) cameras. (asdfg116/asdfg to logon)

The YFriday gig on Saturday night at Burton was excellent. The whole evening was a good laugh including the drive to the concert. I was following “U-Turn” Pete who although he knew the way made at least 4 turns on the way to the concert and even tried to shake me off by driving down the M6 around Stoke instead of going straight through the middle down the A500. We eventually arrived there and got a bonus parking ticket when I put 20p in the parking meter and two tickets popped out instead of one – Bargain!

The concert had two support bands, but I can’t remember their names – if you are reading this and were the band members, then get in touch and I’ll put a link in to your website 🙂 – personally I think it was the loudness of the speakers that has made me forget everything but other people may have different opinions. When yFriday came on the atmosphere really improved and a neat evening carried on. I started off taking some photo’s but soon decided to just enjoy the concert. For those of you who dont know, yFriday are geordies and have a great accent and the lead singer writes all their music and he has some excellent songs. Mind you, it was one of the first concerts i’ve been too where I have come away with an album from a band that didn’t play (I got the latest Audio Adrenaline album). The only reason is that I wasn’t sure which album to get and that I was going to see them again on Sunday!
I didn’t get home until midnight on Saturday night and then we had to get up early as we were driving over to Pete’s house again and then off to Burton to see yFriday lead some worship at a church in Stretton. This was a really good service, where yFriday managed to be part of the congregation for a while – a unique experience for them I think – but then they led a 20-30 minute slot. I (and Kristen) were once more really impressed with the style and song writing talents and we ended up getting both the cd’s (autographed) but I’ve not had a chance to listen to them yet – they are on WinAmp now though.
The rest of the day was spent eating a Roast Lamb dinner and singing along with Pete’s playing on the piano – a really neat weekend.

Finally got Moveable Type working on my other host now. Took some doing I tell you. It was pretty complicated ensuring that the permissions are all correct and the files are going into the right place. Now all I have to do is work out what I am going to put where – do I keep this blog here on this server or on the other one? I’m probably going to split the blog into a techie blog and a family related blog, so the two kinds of people who read this blog wont get bored with the other type of postings…Although with Moveable type I could post by category 🙂 We’ll see.

I now know why Kelly’s counter gives me an error and tries to load Acrobat Reader. The java routine tries to detect if I have acrobat reader installed (and other programs) presumably, to put in the stats of the web page. Somehow this is broken on my pc, and instead of just checking for the plugin, it launches it! Now to work out how to fix it on the pc, or disable the routine altogether…I might just put jellycounter in my etc/hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1 😉