This is fucking ridiculous. I have to renew my annual travelcard next month so I need to get the paperwork into work quite soon and it’s taken me 3 bloody sites to find out how much it is. I can’t even get the correct fare from the actual train company that gave me my bloody ticket *sigh*

There are some real stupid fuckers in this world. some 15 year old gets hold of a plane and crashes it into a skyscraper killing luckily only himself, but you have to ask why?

I met up with a group of friends tonight, we do a Saturday night movie thing on a bit of an irregular basis so he met a few of the gang and after much indecision we went to see The 51st State. It was really an only thing on we want to see, 6 of us getting tickets to LotR was just not happening, but it was brilliant. It’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. I spent most of the movie laughing and would highly recommend it. I will be buying it when the DVD comes out. Went to a nearby Irish bar (Waxys) for a quick pint afterwards and they were playing some U2. I am now listening to the Best of πŸ˜‰

I’m annoyed I have a way to bring in some drop-down menus as links across the top and it looks and works really well (as far as I am concerned) but mouseover and status bar text fucks up the script and it’s pretty useless without them, I want to be able to say a few words about each link πŸ™

Comments are really begining to piss me off now, they are more obvious on the new layout and there is really no need for them. A daily system would work better. If not for bloggerbot I would be using MT

I’m listening to “Californication” by The Red Hot Chili Peppers at the moment. I had never really heard much of their stuff until late ’01. I saw them playing as support for U2 at Slane and pretty much went out and bought some albums after that. I quite like this album, “Other Side” is my favourite track on it πŸ™‚
Spent a few minutes over lunch working on a minor change to the template, some dropdown menus to go above the blog area containing some links, have some other blogs to add in, quite a few comic links and so on. Saved it on my test template and it looks quite allright. I’ve got to slot them into a table and finish them off so will do that at home tonight so version 4.1 will be the next live.

I actually found the original site in Google when was checking my referrals a few days ago, the first blog from way back in March. That one was killed off pretty quickly I didn’t have enough time to actually bother with a site, but that is changing these days. Besides I’ve paid for this so I am determined to keep it going for a good while πŸ™‚

Great interview with Straczynski (aka JMS, author of Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, Amazing Spiderman and creator/writer of TV legand Babylon 5) about his comic properties

New Star Wars pics including a great pic of Christopher Lee holding two lightsabres.

My head hurts, I’ve resorted to printing code and getting my pencils and manuals out in order to make sense of it all. That’s always a bad sign, but it’s always helpfull in the long run. The code now makes far more sense to me and I have a better idea how to document it πŸ™‚

Word of the day: parse
t verb [with OBJ.] resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles.
n Computing analyse (a string or text) into logical syntactic components, typically in order to test conformability to a logical grammar.
t noun Computing an act of or the result obtained by parsing a string or a text.
β€”ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: perhaps from Middle English pars ‘parts of speech’, from Old French pars ‘parts’ (influenced by Latin pars ‘part’).

composed to: Know your Enemy by Manic Street Preachers

Right going to take a break now, been on pc most of the day. Got a good basis for my idea built, one niggle which I intend to run past some smart people tomorrow. Time for some food and maybe a movie

I’m working on some documentation for an area that I have long history with at the moment and well it’s not all that great. Basically the code was developed by three people, one of them was me, when my part was done, it went onto someone else to be finished. It’s done and been live for sometime now, but it’s having fuckup after fuckup. I was able to fix a pretty big problem last week but it took me nearly 2 hours to realise what the problem was. The details I have are all well out of date and I am a) rusty and b) ignorant on some of the code I have to document at the moment.Still it’s some important stuff and will hopefully get a first draft for review tomorrow afternoon.

But having built my little link-o-matic yesterday and even adding more to it for my own blog last night (an extra option to add my via formatting) and looking at some of this fun (and more importantly smart coding) I have an idea for something I think I’ll have a bash at tonight πŸ™‚

Word of the day bug

I’ve just found out that one of my favourite movies “The Thin Red Line” directed by Terrence Malick is in fact a reamke of a 1964 movie of the same name. I’m gonna have to track a copy of this down.

Check out this Star Wars Episode III petition, releated to that it has been confirmed that N’Sync will be making an appearance in Ep II. What can you say to that?

I had completely forgotten but my new job is now 100% official, been in it about a month now, but it was all a done deal from Tuesday πŸ™‚

I finished Lord of the Rings late last night and I did enjoy the book. I am looking forward to seeing how the movies deal with the next two in the series. Couple of minor points, I did not like the way the story’s were continued in every second book, it left me wondering about time frames a couple of times. I don’t understand the high regard this book is held in either, sure it’s a good book, but there is nothing absolutely spectacular about it. I know also get why there were allot of possible similarities discussed during the run of Babylon 5. All in all it was well worth the read and did not disappoint.
Roll on the next two movies πŸ™‚

Online sales have been give a hugh boost over at AOL by Harry Potter $33 billion in 2001, that’s up 67% (via El Reg)