I got a Youtube link via email of a brilliant song on IPv6. It is hillarious and had me singing along in no time – much to the annoyance of a few innocent bystanders 
http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/02/ipv4-vs-ipv6-song/
Listen to this and your inner geek will have a ball!
I had a check on the 3 main parties’ twitter accounts today, here is the current stats with percentage change since my last post on 13 April :
Conservatives: 28,259 followers, +10%
Labour: 17,073 followers +23%
LibDems: 19,664 followers +63%
I hope this is not an indication of what will happen today at the polls! Surely people can’t let Gordon be a significant player any longer? He has sqandered the good years, and left the country unprepared for a downturn. Now he claims he knows how to fix it. Yeah, right.
I think only the Conservatives have the guts to pull the belt tighter and get things on the straight and narrow again.
We will see how things turn out tonight.
I was going to write a few of my recent thoughts on Gordon Brown & Co, and then I came across this picture. I think it says it all
I wish they found some space to add Mandelson there too.
Since my original post on trying to get fit, things are still on track. On Good Friday I ran the Maidenhead Easter 10. Managed to do the 10 miles in 1:32…. nothing too exceptional, but at least I know that I’m on the right path.
I’ve just started following the Conservatives, Labour and LibDems on Twitter. It should be amusing to see the tweets heating up as we get closer to May 6.
First impression: the red colours of Labour just do not work on a Twitter page
Second : Tories have 25,560 followers, Labour 13,793, LibDems 12,046. Wonder if this can be a gauge of the the potential election result?
In theory you should be able to omit the ‘var’ statement when declaring a variable. Most people use it, but it isn’t required.
In IE, however, leaving ‘var’ out has a side effect – if you use the variable name as an element id in your html, you are likely to get some vague errors form IE.
I recently spent some time trying to figure out why a very simple bit of test code was not working in IE, but worked fine in other (better?) browsers.
This is a new years resolution. So far so good – I’ve been managing to run 3 – 4 times a week since Christmas! Feels great. I can’t believe I have managed to find excuses all these years not to find the time to fit in a spot of running into my life.
This morning was a bit slow – managed 8km in just shy of 50 minutes. But it is early days still….. last time I did any regular running was in 2006 I think.
Target is to beat my previous best of 1:45 for a half marathon and eventually to run a sub 3:30 marathon (my fastest marathon so far was 4:15 in Warsaw a few years back).
Wish me luck
Mobile tyre fitting can be a great time saver, but if things go wrong it can be a real pain to get it sorted out. Recently I experienced some pretty poor customer service when I complained about badly fitted tyres.
About 3 or 4 months ago I had four identical tyres fitted to our family car by Tyrefitdirect. Since then all four needed to be pumped up about twice a month. Clearly this is a bit of a pain and quite annoying.
I eventually got arount to calling them up today as this is clearly a problem with the way they were fitted – all four tyres leak and the previous set never needed to be pumped up.
All I got was – “not our problem” and “you took too long to let us know”. No effort at all to provide anything even remotely resembling decent customer service.
Clearly this was the last time I dealt with this lot. Hopefully this post will save you some trouble when shopping around for new tyres.
Update 01 Oct 2009
I had the tyres re-fitted at Maidenhead Tyre and Exchaust. All that was needed was to give the rims a bit of a clean, re-fit and re-balance the tyres. Total bill £46.
Two weeks later and tyres are still at full pressure. I’ll be sending the invoice to Tyrefitdirect. Not holding my breath, but I’ll update the post again if they refund this.
Ok, my wife got it, then our daughter and then finally our baby son and I. My wife called the local NHSÂ number to get Tamiflu for herself. Easy peasy, no problems.
By the time I got the flu the National Pandemic Flu Service was ready to spoil my day!
I had trouble with upgrading WordPress from v2.8 to v2.8.1. The automatic updater would get as far as this:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1.zip. Unpacking the update.
Then nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
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