Why is it that when you are on holiday time seems to go that much quicker?
It's certain something that appears to be happening to me at this time, it's just strange how quick time is moving for me..
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21 May, 2011
Reading again
Another book that I am reading at this time while being on holiday is called 42 and is by Peter Gill and it's all about how the number42 keeps appearing in life in some of the most unusual places, that I bet Douglas Adams never heard of.
He died at the age of only 49, and as you know the answer to the life the universe and everything is 42, it comes as a bit of a surprise just who many things have something to do with 42.
The book is a nice easy read and does have mostly lots of stuff that have 42 in them in one way or another.
So the book is entertaining but the one thing that did surprise me was just how much paperback books have gone up to I mean that this book has only 341 pages and cost £8.99!
Why?
Has paper and printing really gone up that much?
Anyway the book is worth a few hours of your time because thats how long it took me to read it.
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He died at the age of only 49, and as you know the answer to the life the universe and everything is 42, it comes as a bit of a surprise just who many things have something to do with 42.
The book is a nice easy read and does have mostly lots of stuff that have 42 in them in one way or another.
So the book is entertaining but the one thing that did surprise me was just how much paperback books have gone up to I mean that this book has only 341 pages and cost £8.99!
Why?
Has paper and printing really gone up that much?
Anyway the book is worth a few hours of your time because thats how long it took me to read it.
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Blue sky
Today 18th May is the first blue sky day of the holiday. It's nice to see it would just be great if me and Donna could just work out where we want to go to day.
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Flat tyre
A flat tree is always something that you don't want and more so when on holiday in a place that you have never been to.
Now I have over the years had the pleasure of changing the odd tyre and it's not a very difficult job.
So after spending sometime in working out how one realises the spare on a Clio, the first three bolts came undone with relative ease, the last one was the problem, more so as it's the locking one.
It did not matter what I did it would not move with the equipment that we had.
This is not good!
Lucky I am a member of the AA which in four or so years I have not used, so it was good that I had renewed this year again, a quick phone call and also the use of the help button on the Tom Tom satnav to find out just exactly where were were was all it took.
The lady at the other end said that an engineer would be with you within the hour, fifteen minutes later we get a text message on the phone saying that he should be with you in fifteen minutes and true to there words about fifteen minutes later he does indeed turn up.
After checking that we are who we said we are he gets to work and get the last bolt undone using a very long wrench, the problem he said was that who ever put the tyre on did it up with an air gun, and it's something that the AA get called out to a lot.
A little bit of confusion on that the spare tyre has different bolts and the entire job was carried out in less than ten minutes.
So really good service from the AA and I am pleased that we are members.
Because of where we were a new tyre was also fun but in the end we found a place that could not have been more helpful and had a new tyre on in no time, the replacement is not a top end tyre but will do the job for the next 17000 miles or so, not that I am going to check that sort of thing.
The only bad thing was having to payout for a new tyre.
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Now I have over the years had the pleasure of changing the odd tyre and it's not a very difficult job.
So after spending sometime in working out how one realises the spare on a Clio, the first three bolts came undone with relative ease, the last one was the problem, more so as it's the locking one.
It did not matter what I did it would not move with the equipment that we had.
This is not good!
Lucky I am a member of the AA which in four or so years I have not used, so it was good that I had renewed this year again, a quick phone call and also the use of the help button on the Tom Tom satnav to find out just exactly where were were was all it took.
The lady at the other end said that an engineer would be with you within the hour, fifteen minutes later we get a text message on the phone saying that he should be with you in fifteen minutes and true to there words about fifteen minutes later he does indeed turn up.
After checking that we are who we said we are he gets to work and get the last bolt undone using a very long wrench, the problem he said was that who ever put the tyre on did it up with an air gun, and it's something that the AA get called out to a lot.
A little bit of confusion on that the spare tyre has different bolts and the entire job was carried out in less than ten minutes.
So really good service from the AA and I am pleased that we are members.
Because of where we were a new tyre was also fun but in the end we found a place that could not have been more helpful and had a new tyre on in no time, the replacement is not a top end tyre but will do the job for the next 17000 miles or so, not that I am going to check that sort of thing.
The only bad thing was having to payout for a new tyre.
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13 May, 2011
Blogger
What's been going on with blogger?
Have not been able to update for most of the day so far
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Have not been able to update for most of the day so far
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Birthday
So another birthday is not very far away as you get older the day does not seem to be that important, why is that?
I can remember when my seventh birthday was the most important birthday ever!
Why?
Not a clue now, but it must have been very important for me to remember
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I can remember when my seventh birthday was the most important birthday ever!
Why?
Not a clue now, but it must have been very important for me to remember
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11 May, 2011
Flowers
Just noticed that the ox eye daisy's are now out in great force nearly everywhere I look, I am sure that they have appeared over night. I know that they are early this year due to the warmer weather that we have had, I am sure that they normally come out in June.
Anyway it's nice to see them.
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Anyway it's nice to see them.
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10 May, 2011
Rain
So off for a weeks break soon and looking at the long range weather forecast dos not look good in that it appears at this time that it's going to be wet almost all of the time we are going to be away and to just to add to the fun we did plan on having lots of walking. So it might I suppose be a good idea to think of some other things to do if the weather really is as bad as they are saying it's going to be.
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Websites
Just and up date to me that since I started tore edit and put back the missing pictures on the Dirk Maggs productions website the site has gone from third to first yeah!
The bad news that is attached to that is that accruing to some website logging software I am only get five or six visits a day but still getting 500 to 900 hits a day, not too sure what the real difference is and as I do the website for me and no one else the number of vista is not that much of an issue as I don't make any money from it, in fact it costs me money!
So the thing that I don't understand is why is there such a big difference between hits and visits?
Are they the same thing?
Are they both telling the truth or are they both wrong?
I don't know the answer all that I do know is that the site is steadying to look much better than it did and that at the rate at which I am going sometime in 2012 I may have all back working as it should.
It would be nice I suppose to have some new Dirk Maggs productions to report on but at this time that does not look very likely, which is sad as I have missed hearing his work.
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The bad news that is attached to that is that accruing to some website logging software I am only get five or six visits a day but still getting 500 to 900 hits a day, not too sure what the real difference is and as I do the website for me and no one else the number of vista is not that much of an issue as I don't make any money from it, in fact it costs me money!
So the thing that I don't understand is why is there such a big difference between hits and visits?
Are they the same thing?
Are they both telling the truth or are they both wrong?
I don't know the answer all that I do know is that the site is steadying to look much better than it did and that at the rate at which I am going sometime in 2012 I may have all back working as it should.
It would be nice I suppose to have some new Dirk Maggs productions to report on but at this time that does not look very likely, which is sad as I have missed hearing his work.
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Books
I am as you know if you have looked at this blog this year also writing a book as I reported last time, I have and am still stuck with draft 2 of the book I am writing as the free software that I am using to write the book keeps crashing, which is to say at the least not very nice and does just annoy the he'll out of me.
I am told that there is an update of the software coming up very soon, like late May so there is a good chance that perhaps in June I will finally be able to get on and start editing the 2nd draft of the book, let's hope so!
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I am told that there is an update of the software coming up very soon, like late May so there is a good chance that perhaps in June I will finally be able to get on and start editing the 2nd draft of the book, let's hope so!
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New mobile
So the current mobile phone that I have is now some 18 months old and I now have the chance if I want to update the phone if I want to.
So I have, it's costing me about 3 pounds a month extra but then I get more text and data allowance than I ever had before, so that's a good thing!
The new phone is another Nokia, I know that they are falling out of favour as everyone is either getting an iPhone or a samsung android phone, well I don't want to pay all that kind of money for a phone I want a phone that is built really well and just works. What I mean by that is that I want a phone that just gets on with it, and so far with my previous Nokia phones that is just what they do.
My old phone is a N86 8MP which has been very good, it's been dropped and generally abused but it still works real well and does a good job.
The camera on it which is 8million pixels is very good and so is the lens on it, and that's one of the reasons that I have gone for the N8 by Nokia as the camera on it is 12million pixels which is very high for a camera phone, but as it tends to be one of the features that I use most it stands to reason that it is one of the main reasons for choosing the phone that I have.
I know that the amount of apps for it is not as great as the iPhone, android handsets, but then again I also have an iPad for that sort of stuff and when I look at the software that I have installed on my current phone I find that I don't have very many installed, so having apps on the phone is not the main reason for getting a particular phone.
So it will be interesting to see how the new phone is compared to my old phone, I understand that Nokia are now moving away from the operating system that that have on their phones to a Microsoft one, I wonder if the N8 can be reprogrammed to run on the windows operating system?
In the long run to me it does not matter, as all I want is a well built phone that just works, is built well and takes very good pictures, not much to ask for is it?
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So I have, it's costing me about 3 pounds a month extra but then I get more text and data allowance than I ever had before, so that's a good thing!
The new phone is another Nokia, I know that they are falling out of favour as everyone is either getting an iPhone or a samsung android phone, well I don't want to pay all that kind of money for a phone I want a phone that is built really well and just works. What I mean by that is that I want a phone that just gets on with it, and so far with my previous Nokia phones that is just what they do.
My old phone is a N86 8MP which has been very good, it's been dropped and generally abused but it still works real well and does a good job.
The camera on it which is 8million pixels is very good and so is the lens on it, and that's one of the reasons that I have gone for the N8 by Nokia as the camera on it is 12million pixels which is very high for a camera phone, but as it tends to be one of the features that I use most it stands to reason that it is one of the main reasons for choosing the phone that I have.
I know that the amount of apps for it is not as great as the iPhone, android handsets, but then again I also have an iPad for that sort of stuff and when I look at the software that I have installed on my current phone I find that I don't have very many installed, so having apps on the phone is not the main reason for getting a particular phone.
So it will be interesting to see how the new phone is compared to my old phone, I understand that Nokia are now moving away from the operating system that that have on their phones to a Microsoft one, I wonder if the N8 can be reprogrammed to run on the windows operating system?
In the long run to me it does not matter, as all I want is a well built phone that just works, is built well and takes very good pictures, not much to ask for is it?
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08 May, 2011
07 May, 2011
London Pride
You had the chance to drink some London Pride all I can say is that it's very nice and it will be a real ale that I shall try again.
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Dirk Maggs Website
Just had a look on Google to see where my main website is today....the good news is at this time I am first... Yeah.....!
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Podcasts
Just a note to me that the Ben Nicky podcasts of which there are only some 6 episodes as I write this are really rather good, the only two things against them are that there are not many of them and the other is that each podcast is only about a hour long which on some of the mixes is too short as I am left feeling cheated somehow!
So the mixes are good some very good track choices and some very good mixing going on most of the mixes flow really well.
I shall have to let you know later as to how his podcasts go, will they be better? Longer? or just about the same?
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So the mixes are good some very good track choices and some very good mixing going on most of the mixes flow really well.
I shall have to let you know later as to how his podcasts go, will they be better? Longer? or just about the same?
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New book
I have another new book that for reasons that will become very obvious in a minute I can't claim to have read only use, and have used it on lots of occasions which is good as that's what this book was written for.
The book is called The Cloud Collectors Handbook and it's by Gavin Pretoria-Pinney and I must say it's been a real easy book to use.
It goes through all the differant type of clouds that you a able to see, I am not sure if every cloud type is seen in the UK but it gives you information on the cloud it's Hightower and it also shows you pictures and that's something that has been most useful.
As a reference book worth every penny.
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The book is called The Cloud Collectors Handbook and it's by Gavin Pretoria-Pinney and I must say it's been a real easy book to use.
It goes through all the differant type of clouds that you a able to see, I am not sure if every cloud type is seen in the UK but it gives you information on the cloud it's Hightower and it also shows you pictures and that's something that has been most useful.
As a reference book worth every penny.
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Rain
So it turns out that the weathermen were correct and it is indeed raining for the first time in about six weeks, I am sure I have heard lots of the plants in the garden sigh!
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06 May, 2011
Reading
Just completed reading yet another book that I brought on impulse if I have to admit to myself.
The book is called I never knew that about the River Thames by Christopher Winn he has also written other books in the I never knew that about series.
This is a book that can be read two way either from the start to the end or it can also be read by dipping in handout of it as is your want.
I must admit that I enjoyed reading it and did learn lots about place and the River Thames that I never knew, it must have made me a bit more curious about some of the the stuff that he talks about in that I went and looked up stuff in greater detail.
Worth the time and money to read and yes I was entertained while learning!
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The book is called I never knew that about the River Thames by Christopher Winn he has also written other books in the I never knew that about series.
This is a book that can be read two way either from the start to the end or it can also be read by dipping in handout of it as is your want.
I must admit that I enjoyed reading it and did learn lots about place and the River Thames that I never knew, it must have made me a bit more curious about some of the the stuff that he talks about in that I went and looked up stuff in greater detail.
Worth the time and money to read and yes I was entertained while learning!
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Weather
The weatherman have said that this Saturday we will have have some rain for the first time in six weeks, it will be interesting to see if the weathermen are going to get it right for once.
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