Website editing

Well I have had some time to do some editing of my main website that I do, that is the Dirk Maggs Productions Website, which is now getting on in years and is as I type this number two on Google when you search for Dirk Maggs, why Wikipedia is higher I just don't know as my site has far more information and goes into far greater depth. Than they do, but then again as my site is very specialist I suppose it does not get many direct links to it, or if it does I am not aware of them.

Any way I have edited a few more page mainly the Flywheel Shyster ones now the strange thing is that there are 3 pages one for each series two of the pages edited okay and work correctly the pictures that I added show up and look fine and great, the last page that I edited uses the same pictures as the other two but when I go on line to check it it appears complete with no new pictures, I don't know what is going on as it all looked okay when I edited it and also when I saved it, to make matters worse I did exactly the same thing to all three pages, so go figure....

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Writing

I have not done much work on the book that I started earlier in the year, one reason or excuse is that the software package that I was using stopes at random times which is not good and does not help ones temper when you don't know if you are going to loose all the work that you had put into a document of the last several hours or so.

The book is as I said the last time in the stage between first and second draft with it more in the second draft stage.

I have decided to see if the word processing software has had an update, if so I will update mine to the ladder version then try again at doing the second draft.


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Trip out

So as yesterday was a bank holiday and the weather was good we decided to go out, the original idea was to go to a beach on the south coast, well to tell the truth we left it a bit late in the day to set out.

Try 11am! I know but it's a day off the weather was nice and well that's the time we set off, the first order of business of the day was to fill the car with petrol, and if you have been reading this blog then filling the car has and no days always appears to cost more and more money.

So there was no surprise that the cost had gone up again and 78 pounds later the deed was done and the car was ready to go.

So we set off for the coast and hit our first stoppage only 2 miles from home!

After that the roads where very good and we soon hit the coast, we decided to take a random approach to which beach we would go to, so we ended up at Chichester!

I don,t know how we ended up there either, the place was vey busy and I was surprised on just how many shops had decided to be closed on what was a very busy day.

Luck was taken at a pub called The Nags Head, yep straight out of only fools and horses.

The food in the pub was very good the price of a large coke was and is another matter as it would have been cheaper for me to have drunk beer, not that I could as I was driving, but when the soft drink costs more than the beer what's going on?

Any way it was a nice day out and that's all that matters, we did see the sea for about 30 seconds on the way home!

But no beaches perhaps next time.


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Warm

Very warm still, which is nice and I must admit that it is very nice that it is warm at this time of year some 10c warmer than average at this time of year.

Yesterday we had an unplanned BBQ and we were very lucky with the weather as it rained very heavily near to us, but we stayed dry all night, so a result I suppose.

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Dirk Maggs Productions Website

The main website that I do, has suffered over the last few months in that I have not done anything to it, as a result it now appears only to get 10 or so visitors which is down an awful lot when it used to get thousands.

What is also strange is that the site is still in the top three on Google!


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Hot

Today has been I think the hottest day of the year so far. It is also the first time in I don't know how long that I have heard thunder, which is typical as we have planned to have a BBQ tonight, will it be wet or dry?


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Sunrise

Sunrise today was a bit red, well actually very red, not sure if that means bad weather or not as the weather people are saying that it's still going to be a warm day with lots of sunshine.

I suppose that only time will tell.


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Dirk Maggs website

The main Dirk Maggs website has had two or more pages updated, I know! I just don't care!

I have finally updated the programme that drives the site, and lucky for me it all went well and the site is now on the most recent version.

One of the direct benefits of the update has been the fact that I have now been able to start adding back the pictures that I have of the various actors of all the different Dirk Maggs audio productions.

This is good as the website has not had any work carried out on it for a long time and it was mostly complete except for the fact that there where holes left for the pictures on those productions that I have pictures for the actors.

I did look to see where the website appears on the google search and it's currently Third, which is not bad considering that I have not touched the site in such a long time.

I am not promising, but I hope to edit the odd page or two now and then so that I will in a shortish time will have edited every page.


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Semantic web update

The truth is that I have not done any more work on the DIrk Maggs semantic website mainly because I have not had the time to sit down and get my head around it in a way that will allow me to code all the different information so that it is easier to read and also to get at.

I think and from the way things are going that it may be some time before I revisit the semantic website.


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Hot

They say that today it got to 26c I think I have to believe them as it's been rather nice and warm.

Look at weather records for the last fifty years for this day it's some 10c warmer than it normally is, not that I am complaining


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Cold

A bit surprised just how cold it is out there this morning and yet the weathermen or man are saying that it get as high as 26c, it will be interesting to see if they are right.


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Solar lights

The solar lights in the garden are working well and it's so nice to see


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Hot

The weathermen are saying that we could hit 25c today which is 10c above the average which in one way is nice but in another is not so nice as it could suggest that the weather is having something like a hiccup.

I suppose that only time will tell what is going on.


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Cancer

They say that all our lives are affected in some way by cancer and that 1 in 3 of us is directly effected by cancers, so I must be very unlucky in that I have now been touched by it 4 times all are close family members, 2 have died from it 1 is a long term survivor of it and one we don't yet know what the outcome will be.


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Weather

Wonder if the weather will hold out for Easter


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Bluebells

For some reason that I just don't know the answer to the bluebells appear to be out earlier this year.

So to make sure we at least saw some in the way that they should be seen, we went to a near by wood to see them.

The trip was well worth it as they were out and looked very good not only that but we actually had some sunshine in to the bargain.

The wood that we go to has only the real bluebells, that is the English bluebells and I must admit they look really good.


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Kite Jolly Up

Went to a kite jolly up this weekend which was fun and also very relaxing, which is sometimes just what you want and need.

I even flew a kite for the first time this year.

I flew a 4m2 ozone samurai which was fun especially as it was at times the only thing flying in the sky!


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MRI

Wonder how many times a day around the world someone enters and gets scanned by a MRI scanner


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Mobile phones

How come mobile phones stop working correctly just when you need them?

I suspect that it's some unwritten universal law.

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Go karting

Last night went go karting with a bunch of folk from the place that I work at. It was mostly fun until the second session when I got t-boned on a high speed corner.

My kart got life's up in to the air and then back down again and I nearly got thrown out of the cart!

To say that it hurt would be an understatement and I retired from the race, in fact it hurt that much that I walked off the race track, I thought at first I had broken some ribs.

My back then started to hurt, the lower back and pelvis area.

So I thought that this is going to be with me for a while.

Well that's not what happened....

I drove home and when I got out of my car I felt a slight crunching and heard a click, you what?

Yep my back does not hurt!

I don't know what happens I am just glad that it did and that I don't have any back pain.


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