The title has nothing to do with this blog, I was just being overly dramatic. That’ll teach me to listen to The Cure at work... Bought a boat on Thursday. Want to go float it somewhere fun soon, but I might sink. *scared* Wrote an RSS feed for the freakcity news section. Half way through writing an RSS feed for the forums too (you can now read the latest forum thread titles without logging in, you just need to log in to read the forum threads themselves, the RSS feed will be similar in nature). Writing a SearchMonkey for yahoo for freakcity - should be a laugh. Also on the freakcity front: Rationalising all the different themes so they work a bit better and are a bit easier to maintain. Well, this is the plan at any rate. Soon you’ll be able to adjust the font size according to your tastes too in the preferences page. And I’ll be making some new themes and tidying up some of the crappier ones. If you have any requests, please let me know? Ajaxifying the forums a little bit more, whilst keeping the existing system there for people without javascript. The new SSL certificate has been installed and is working, so if you view freakcity from work and don’t want people snooping then you can access the site on www.freakcity.net It’s bill payment time again. The total is $384 for hosting for the year, plus a $23 per month recurring balance that I currently pay for extra database space (coz everyone talks too much ), I’m talking to them about compressing it all into one single payment and possibly changing or lowering the charges, but we’ll see. So the paypal button’s back on the site, feel free to donate if you use the site and feel it’s useful. We’ll probably be looking to raise about £250 in total. Been thinking about video messaging too. We can video blog using mms, I’m going to see if I can adapt this to accept pictures as well, so you can picture blog. Then I’m going to look into some more text services. Things like a realtime quotebot via text might be fun, they’ll be free (Well, they’ll cost the price of a text message) and I want to have a play and see if I can do it. There’s the chance of video messaging too if I can work out how to do it. It’ll be free to use and mostly done just to see if I can, but it could be fun Last night I reinstalled linux on my laptop. Amazingly it works now. I also accidentally spent £250 on a lens. Oops. Last night I also bought a draft N spec minipciE card for my laptop to make its wireless connection supermegafast. I’m considering creating a 1000mb network at home, but linutop (the fileserver) is only 100mb. Not sure if it’s worth it. Cycled over to Liam’s new place-to-be on Sunday, it’s pretty even if it is all uphill. It has a lovely kitchen and I’m pretty sure I can make all his new flatmates love me if I go cook in it for them all. Well, it worked for him... Saturday I bought a new camera, the EOS40D — it’s very big heavy and shiny and I think it’s a bit lovely really. TJ is buying my old one off me and he may be interested in my old lens too in a couple of months time when he’s a bit less poor. Mind you, he’s poor because he wants to buy one of the new godforsaken shiny plastic crap looking iPhones. Meh. Took the camera up to Broadway market and had lunch in some hideous chippy (damn fussy eaters) with MySound, Moogal and Sunin. “So these are proper chips then?” says Mike. Myself and Alan look at each other. “They were probably proper chips when they were made, yesterday” I replied. Bought some gorgeous balsamic vinegar syrup. Wandered round the park and drooled at hot people playing footie. Took lots of test pics which litter my flickr account (if you’re reading this on facebook, click the link to my actual blog to see them). Popped to Lidl (they do amazing steak at a reasonable price, no really) and bought some aforementioned steak and made foods for Liam when he arrived after work later that night. Doctor Who was re