My god, Ash was listening to the cricket on the BBC, so I thought I may as well have a listen while I watch on TV, see if I could get some better commentary. What do I discover, Henry Blofeld is still commentating on cricket. I thought he had retired years ago, I'm sure I hadn't heard him commentating for years.
Then again maybe I haven't been watching or listening to enough cricket. I can't describe how happy I am to hear Henry commentating he is just wonderful, lovely, watching the television almost detracts from the game.
Wonderful, just wonderful.

I wrote this off as a load of old bollocks, but having happened to run in to it. Wonderful, watch The Memphis Trousers Half Hour With Roy & H.G..
Wonderful, irreverent comedy.

God I love British television, even while watching on with a shite signal.
Spooks it is just wonderful.

Well, interesting day yesterday, woke up to someone trying to break in through my bedroom window, uncool. Rung the police haven't heard back - I live 50m from a police station.

I don't mind them being that slack, I just want a gun if they are going to not respond.

Fish popped in as well so we nipped round to the National for a meal and some drinks. Wonderful evening but it did make for a long day today.

Checked out the Marble Bar and Zeta bar on Saturday night, I think I prefer Zeta over the Marble, both nice bars though, over all a good day.

Rich T has come through with the business - Stuff on my cat, class, fucking class.

Oh spent 3 hours cleaning my flat tonight, it's 2 rooms how the fuck does that happen, I think about an hour could have been trying to figure out how to stack my CDs without bookend to hold them in place.

I need more music, people need to give me money to buy more CDs, or if apple ever get the fucking useless arses into gear, tracks from itunes in Oz.

Well Emmas found someone else, that took a long time.
Venting don't want to talk about it.

Looks like they are at is again, so far it is on sky news

Excellent, although wonderous song from rather good, Independent Women is still the fave though.

Well almost at the end of a super productive weekend, sleeping and drinking, and a little bit of eating.
The weekend is far to bloody short, just been watching Human Traffic, good movie.
God I'm not looking forward to monday, the weekend needs to be longer.

Ok so I've been back from San Francisco for about a week. Richard has a good write up on his blog, with some pictures.

I can recommend walking over flying United, planes so out of date you would be happier with a DC 3. 747s that looked new when I was flying to the UK in 83, now are cramped and lacking in any of what one would consider the basics, like in seat entertainment or say sound that works or a semi clear picture. Lets not mention the food or the service.

Javaone was good, a touch short of brilliant. A few of the key notes were disappointing, some of the sessions more than made up for them, as did catching up with friends from the UK, I'll attempt to get my head together enough to comment on the sessions / ideas I thought were interesting.

Oh and apart from a few clothing purchases I also got a new toy. It's a Nikon D50, it's nice to have a camera again. It's been bloody agese since I've had an SLR that I can play with whenever I want.

Closed Brighton and Swindon stations

If you in London could you drop me an email if I haven't heard from me today.

Someone has to go over the F1 cock up that occurred this morning ( my time), very glad I didn't wake up at 3:30 to watch.
What a fucking joke. The sport is dying, bring on 2008 and a new championship.
We can then watch Max, Bernie and Ferrari race themselves, as by then they will be the only one left in F1. To do something so monumentally stupid in the US of all places where people think as much of suing someone as saying hello to them, well done Bernie you were worried about the European banks taking all your money, well now it will be a bunch of lawyers.

Quick Book update, not because you're interested, but because I don't have anywhere else to put it yet. I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a couple of weeks ago, easy going in terms of reading, and relatively enjoyable.

I've just finished The Moon and Sixpence, which is wonderful, well worth a read as imagine all Maugham's books are.

The New York Times as a good biography of Maugham, some what bizarrely in the film section, but still good none, the less.

As a quick note, I've also read Collected Short Stories: Vol 3, which was brilliant, Don't ask me why I started with the 3rd Volume and not the first, I have some vague recollection it had something to do with Emmas suggestion.

Lastly on a geek note, I'm reading rather slowly through Alistair Cockburns Agile Software Development: Software Through People, so far it is easy to read and makes sense. I guess you buy this kind of book to help better understand the ideas
of software development you have bubbling round in your head, well I do anyway *cough*.

Hmmm well it has been a while, not a lot has changed. I've started going out on either a friday or a saturday and then feeling rather unless on a saturday / sunday.
Bloody good fun.

So someone stole my BBQ, I now miss Emma AND my BBQ. Miss the BBQ some what less than Emma, but still. Guess if you live in a country built on thieves what else can you expect.
Fuckers.

Ahhh, there is truly nothing like thinking you have read Penny Arcade for the week and finding a wondrous unread errr comic.
I don't game as much as I used to, I sleep and go to work now. I don't even keep up with gaming anymore, the closest I have gotten is waiting for GT4 & Doom 3. I own GT4 and play about once a week, Doom I've seen and may purchase for my Mac if it is fast enough. It's not that I don't love spending 6 hours of my evening killing things or racing it more that I know that I would wake up one day being forty and the Don at GT 8 but unable to drive a real car.
I digress, read Penny Arcade, not because it's about games, because it is funny as fuck, with a wonderful sense of humor - even if you don't know everyone they are talking about.

Brilliant, Boris is a bit of a dick for the family issue, but still wonderfully funny.

It is hailing here - yay. Just reading The Guardian and found guess the google - fun.