Happy Birthday, Luci!

Today is my older daughter's 17th birthday.

(God I feel old!)

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Luci!

Happy Christmas!

It's Christmas time,
Again.
It's time to be nice
To the people that you can't stand
All year.
I'm growing tired
Of all this Christmas cheer!



© Blink-182

The best car ad you will see on eBay

Genuinely Dishonest Car

Kerrang!

The guitar lessons are really good, I've learnt loads in only a couple of weeks.

Trouble is...



I broke my first string yesterday.

And overwound the replacement today.

So I have to buy some more strings tomorrow!

Guitar!

Recently I've felt that my guitar playing has stalled. Time to get me some lessons!

So I have started guitar lessons with a chap named Paul. I'll let you know how I get on!

Bloody Nanny State!

Come on, sign this petition and tell Blair where he can stick his Road Pricing and Big Brother spy toys!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Waste of an Enzo

This bloke borrowed his Dad's Ferrari Enzo and managed to hit a power pylon. Car completely totalled. Apparently it only had 9 miles on the clock.


This is what it should look like:

My Chemical Romance - Awesome!

Saw My Chemical Romance at the Brixton Academy on Sunday. They were bloody fantastic!

That has to be the best concert I have ever been to.

F16 key

Finally found out what the F16 key is for on my Apple keyboard...

The Black Parade

Welcome to The Black Parade

End of an era

Michael Schumacher finished his last F1 race for Ferrari and his racing career. The greatest F1 driver of his era, Schumy was unable to beat the spanish flea although he did his best, from 10th on the grid and 70 seconds behind after a puncture to finish 4th was a great achievement!

A great race for Massa at home.

I'm looking forward to having the second best F1 racer - Kimi - at Ferrari. I can't wait!

Printer strangeness

I've just spent a while trying to get a network printer set up on my iBook. I used to print to the HP printer on my iMac but recently (I didn't notice when exactly) the printer disappeared from the available printer menu. Normally you can just add a printer by clicking "add printer" from the printer preferences and pick the one you want from the list. Now for some reason the printer just doesn't show up on the list. I can print to it on the iMac and even from my Windoze PC using Bonjour!

So... I found a way using IP printing and providing the local address of the iMac, allowing the iBook to use the default printer queue, which is alright as there is only one printer on it anyway with Generic Postscript as the printer driver.

Well, the above workaround works fine but why? Or, rather why does the standard HP set up not work anymore? I hate it when I can't find a reason so I will investigate further. Rest assured dear reader that I will post an update when I have more news!

Schumacher concedes title!

Schumacher can only win the championship in Brazil if Alonso fails to get a single point, i.e. finishes worse than 8th.

“We are a great team. Our guys are the best and I have a great affection for everyone at Ferrari and am always more than satisfied in the way we work. Incidents like today’s can happen and they are part of racing. You win together but you also lose together. Today we did our best, I was leading the race and then my engine broke. That’s the simplest way to sum it up. That is Formula One. We can be proud of what we have achieved since Canada, we were twenty five points behind and no one could have thought we would be back in the fight for the championship but we did it. Now we are nine points behind in the Constructors’ classification and we will do all we can to win this title in Brazil. As for the Drivers, it is lost. I don’t want to head off for a race hoping that my rival has to retire. That is not the way in which I want to win the title.” [Michael Schumacher]

I am in mourning....

Hah! Follow that, Alonso!

Actually, what made today's race for me was Briatore's expression! Hah!

Dog starts car!

http://news.bbc.co.uk

50 Dark Movies

Find 50 dark movie titles hidden in the painting

Lovely Apple stuff!

Brief visit to the Apple Store yesterday. Got my hands on the new 24" iMac - fantastic display.

Also examined the new iPod Nano, it looks as if Apple have put my iPod mini in the washing machine and it has shrunk! Out goes the shiny plastic and back comes anodised aluminium and curved edges. Trouble is now she's seen it my daughter wants one for Christmas!

Spooks

Spooks is back! Harry Pearce and his team, brilliant stuff!

www.bbc.co.uk/spooks

Broadband upgrade

Today NTL upgraded my 1Meg BB to 2Meg, FOC. Great news, especially the corresponding increase in upstream speed which was extremely paltry.

Forza Schumi!

Another great win for Schumacher! Now there's a serious chance of Schumi beating Alonso to the championship. Hope he gets championship number 8, that will be a tough act to follow. I'm also looking forward to the Kimster joining Ferrari, a worthy successor to Michael, Ferrari has all the makings of a great team again next year!