Went out for drinks with people from work for Wills birthday lastnight, started at board walk and ended up at form again, was cool. Emma couldn't make it cos she was feeling totally buggered which was a bit shite.

From the mail server:

The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods.
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.
-- "The Wombat"

And I just saw a link to this.

Rich installed Cave on his phone last night, looks good, already have a couple of updates that hopefully I'll have done tonight, wahoo wahoo. Also added a wap site, ok page, so it's easier to install via a phone, the address is wap.jonoabroad.com.

Well we have finally told everyone (ok some people) at work that we are leaving. I can't believe it's only four months to go,about time to start looking for work I guess. Clare and Al came over for dinner last night, was cool to see them, managed to not drink an insane amount, which is good. About to go for a walk and spend some money then its out into the sun, it's meant to get to 33 today so its going to be crazy. Righto.

What a brilliant night, apart from the hell that was the Wednesday update and our XML data store being shite, went to the George for a few, then decided to look around for somewhere new and found form which was soo cool, fucking amazing Hip-Hop, New York styles from 80s/90s insane break dancing, fucking brilliant. From there we went onto some place playing lounge / Jazz, which was well laid back and wicked, this is how Soho living should be, fucking Brill. Ooo also discovered a load fun using a mobile and predicative texting.
Oh and from My West Minster Noel[1] lives round here, hmmm haven't seen him much.
[1] Noel.

Well it's half twelve and I can't sleep so I may as well blog now rather than the morning. Emma and I took Monday off and had a long weekend, and and saw her parents, my god rail in this country is crap. One reason to come back on the Monday rather than Sunday was that there is line maintenance from Now till the end of the year on every weekend, with means ever train journey to the north west is broken with an hour bus trip, needless to say the train companies were saying it would only add an hour or so to the journey, however if you believe this look outside there are pigs flying. It was however nice to be out of London and as always wonderful and relaxing to see them, even if we have both eaten and drunken what we would normally consume in two week in 3 days. Oh yes and the clan gets bigger Mike and Trish had a baby girl, Sophie Patricia, 7 lb 4 oz born at 5 past 12 on Monday morning so wahoo wahoo, hopefully we hear more from Lisa at some stage. Back to staying at Emma's parents, it was sooooooooo nice to be somewhere without constant noise, in fact quite the opposite, almost constant silence and by god its refreshing, means you can really relax. Oooo spoke to Dad on his birthday last week, he and mum been out to dinner and both sounded good, which is cool. One last thing about rail coming back on monday it was a direct train, no stops and they were still 25 minutes late on a journey that was meant to take 2 and half hours, how, how how, the "train manager" said it was due to speed restrictions, but surely they knew of these before the train left our station, when they gave our ETA, the restrictions have only been in place for about 2 months, grrrr.

Dijkstra is dead, booo.

Thieves are getting dumber and dumber.

Out drinking lastnight, and just had two bacon and egg sandwiches and instead of being at the beginning of the day I should really be getting back into bed and going to sleep for a few hours. However to sort out a few things about Mt Rushmore, the Presidents are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, its Located in Keystone, South Dakota. I want one of these how cool is that, of course not quite as cool as one of these.

Well we are back to the hell of Excelon, I mean we are only using it as a glorified operating system and for searching over 2500 ~3K documents AND it goes tits up, ummmm hello, never pay for XML Store espically when its totally crap. Use open source look here if you want something thats probably good look here, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Ok this was at the bottom of a weekly email I get from a friend ::

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
If you have a bloodstained knife in your pocket, are you carrying a congealed weapon?

Went to Jane and Richards combined hen and stag do yesterday in Brighton for a day of kitsch on the pier, it was loads of fun, playing crazy golf, arcade games and going on some of the rides. We then all wandered up to a restaurant part way up the hill for dinner. Emma and I only hung round for a drink as we are both feeling coldy and completely buggered, which was a shame it would have been nice to stay for dinner and have been able to more of a chat with people. We had a fun day anyway so thanks Jane and Rich. Sports wise I see in the herald that the All Blacks lost to the Wallabies, I really don't see them being a good team for a few more years yet, boo suck.

ooooooooooooo almost forgot Rich also sent this This, so if you not short of advertising space you could be in to make some money, sorry I'll put a sock on it now. Although it could be the first time of someone getting fired for not having enough advertising space.

Just got back from Lunch for Kates (A women at work) leaving do, was nice went to Soho Thai, then to revolution for a quick drink. Anyway was a package from the register when I got back to my desk, which turned out to be a BOFH t-shirt, Rich got it cos I was bitching about, Sys Admin Day too much at work, Sooooo thank you Rich, see it does pay to make yourself heard. :D Lunch was great, haven;t been out for a a long lunch in a while, was yummy and good to sit down and natter with everyone.

Emma and I went to Pret at for lunch and Tom Baker was sitting next to us. No scarf though, I guess he was traveling in disguise. Oh and to lower the tone this from Ms Fothergill.

Its hot as hell at the moment, although its meant to be cooler than yesterday, it was 33 yesterday and its not much less today, ummmm yeah, right I'm just looking for a reason not to read Richards crypto book at the moment which is why I'm dribbling into my blog so I'm going to go read about authenication wooooooo. But before I go, I found this and I want some, I dunno why, just do. Ok, just remember what I was going to talk about, I was coming out of Pret with lunch and their was a car parked up on the footpath with a hood up and water everywhere in front of the car, the water had gone about 2 or 3 metres. Do people not know to leave radiators alone when their car is dying of heat exhaustion,poor car.

Ok, looooooooooooooooooong weekend, friday night went for work drinks for a features editor and ended up at a pub north of Oxford street and bumbed into a guy I went to school with, everyone sing "its a small world after all" Saturday I wasn't feeling to crash hot, but managed to get out of bed and make my way to Lisas for a BBQ, it was really really good got to catch up with a couple of cousins and friend of the family and meet some people Lisa works with. I was really nice to be out of London and into the fresh air, Lisa has horses and peacocks in the paddocks across the road from her cottage and while we were all sitting round in the back yard there were wood pidegons in the trees and then later when it was dark bats, sooo cool. I was sooo relaxing to have an evening without sirens and drunken bastard outside the window. Came back about lunchtime today after chatting briefly with Dad. Emma and I have just got back (ok about an hour ago) from "A Romantic Journey with the Queen of Sheba", which was put on by the British Museum, Philharmonia Orchestra,National Theatre and Barclays. It was brillant, it was set up in the courtyard of the Museum and went from 7:30 to 10:00, it was a mix of music pieces and readings. It breaks in the music for the readings worked well and gave you a chance to take it all in, and vice versa, the final piece was the Indiana Jones music, with the maddest light show you have ever seen, wonderous, righto I look through this tomorrow and add full stops etc, night night.

All I have to say is show me your love.

Rich T sent me this, I'd forgotten that Shaun had sent it off. Went out for drinks last night with Rich D and briefly Jane, before going for more drinks with a couple of ex-EGiers, it was good but by god I have been feeling like pooh today.

Emma and I went round to Claire and Als lastnight for dinner, Als just got a Dance Mat, did think much of the dancing, although that could be because I have two left feet, however using it to control Grand Turismo now there is fun an a full abb work out, dont buy for the dancing buy for the driving. Claire made a cool green curry, was yum and they both seem good. Righto back to the grindstone, oooooooooooooooo Al had a good idea for another MIDlet app, my work is coming alone slowly need to get my cave source on to jonoabroad and then finish my rms work so I can finish some more apps.