Xmas heels

Donna in Xmas heels not looking very happy having her picture taken.

Donna is wearing her red high heels that she likes.

Xmas break

it's funny thing that you would think with all the free time over Xmas that I would be able to get on with my reading and to also do some much needed updates on my websites.

So what happens?

Yes, your ahead of me on this one!

Nothing, I mean I might get up a hour later than I DO NORMALLY, BUT STILL FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER I HAVE DONE NOTHING THAT I WANTED TO DO.

Why?

My books of which the reading pile is far too large remains un-looked at, my websites are still waiting to be edited and added to, but some how or other I find myself at nearly 4pm today and i have not touched either.

I don't understand where the time is going, it's not a nice feeling loosing time, but that is what appears to be happing to me.

Dirk Maggs

As you may or may not know I had a really bad day not so long a go, when I lost my Dirk Maggs website, and some how or other the six yes that's right six backups did not work and the database that ran the whole thing also broke.(Just don't ask)

It's easy to see how I was just a little bit upset( and that's an understatement!)

So what's a man to do?


Well start again!


That's what I have done and I am pleased that so far I think this version of the site is better than the last one. The good news is that all radio shows up to 1998 are now back on apart from the images that go with each show.

At the rate that I am redoing each page I think I will be done by Xmas 2010!

ipad

I see from looking at the internet news that in the USA today the ipad version 1 was on sale for the first time. Now the interesting thing will be just how much an ipad will be in the UK when they decide to sell them here, which is rumoured to be later in April.

I suppose that as normal we here in the UK will get charged more. So I will not hold by breath for the price to be similar to the USA one.

It has made me start to think what would I do now for version or generation 2 of the ipad ? and that's were it can get a bit difficult in just what do you add to a generation 2 device?

So of the things that you can do to9 a generation 2 device are easy in that you can update the operating system to a newer one with more features.

But do you start to add new hardware to your Gen 2 device?

I have been told by many that the Gen 1 ipad is not the right one for me and that a Gen 2 will be better, I have been told that Xmas 2010 is when a Gen 2 ipad is due and that before that a new OS will be realised updating or adding stuff that just was not ready for the launch of the Gen 1 device.

So as long as my itouch keeps working, and I hope it does I can afford to wait until Xmas 2010 to see what is or is not going to turn up.

Xmas

is wishing a merry christmas to all

Xmas Lights

So today I had the joy of putting up some outside Xmas lights, now we don't go for loads and loads we go for light colours that the other folk in the street don't have like pinks and purples, while every one else has blue or white.

Fun no cold yes, end result nice.

Hunt the Lights

Playing one of my least fun games called hunt the missing Xmas lights, this time its a set of blue lights seen 11 odd months ago.

Blues Brothers

Went to Guildford to see the Blues Brothers Xmas Party! yeah I know not something you associate with the Blues Brothers is Xmas, but actually it all seemed to work very well.

I must say that the band of which there where seven members all seemed to be having lots of fun especially the base and lead guitar players because at the end number then actually came down on to the stage and played, which is something I have never seen and it worked real well, all the normal songs that you would expect at a Blues night where there and for most of the songs we that is the audience where standing up and bogeying and singing the songs!

A good night out and as it has been a very long time since I experienced live music its something that I think we will do again

The we in the above sentence is the whole family.

itouch & all that

Can you guess what I got for Xmas?, yes that's right a new mp3 player, this time it's from Apple and it's a itouch.

My old creative mp3 player has done very good service, and it still works but as I am into podcasts it does not handle them, mainly because when it was made they did not exist!

So I am now in the Apple crowd along with lots of other folk and I must say for the most part the experance has been very good.

My podcasts are all where they should be and it all sync's nice.

What I don't like is that when i transferd some of my exsisting music it never seems to have the album artwork and this is for stuff that is in the shops and had been out there for folks to buy for weeks or months why is it? The stuff is very popular eg the albums are in the top twenty.

The other thing that I like about the itouch is how light and small it is and how nice the screen is.

As I have the 32G unit you can see why I needed one that big as I have already only got 14G space left on it!

So of course it goes with out saying that in early 2009 they will release the 64G unit, not that I need that much space yet!