Flat all Safe

Managed to get through the whole series of Spooks with my flat undamaged by bomb, gas, floods or fire. Well apart from the threat of Nuclear War of course

1/4 Million Hoppers

Well it took a while but we got to 250000 space hoppers. the 250000th is called 'netty' and hails from hungary.

Angel is off

Sad day Today as Angel our Spanish Systems Administrator is off to pastures new. He's been a quite force keeping things together and all the project running smoothly. He knows where everything is and what all the passwords are.

UPDATE:

We been phoning him about once a day since he left needing to know one thing or another. He's in Spain so this must be getting quite expensive. Most things have been sorted out but for some reasons half the testing environments have gone MIA, but Angel didn't know about them. That's just what happens around Xmas when hardly anybody is in the office.

What's Spanish for C'est la vie?

Rage against X factor

Made my little contribution against low quality mass entertainment.

Hopefully Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine will be the Xmas number one. Suitablity enough after having seen them live last year.

Go buy it and stop the Cowell machine you know it makes sense.


UPDATE: WE DID IT YEAH!
Rage beat X factor by about 50,000 copies Merry Xmas

An online Xmas

Done it

I managed to get all my stuff ordered online for the first time. for a couple of years now I've run pretty close but this year I've bought all my pressies online.
Hopefully they all arrive at my parents' and then I can have a huge wrapping session.

Marilyn Manson and the Dry Ice

Not as good as I was hoping it would be.

Went to see the controversial one the other night, Marilyn Manson.

The support act Esoterica weren't too bad being maybe a bit like the Lost Prophets.

The main act started with the most dry ice I've ever seen in my entire life. So much so you couldn't really tell what was going on for the first 4 songs. He did a great effect like Edward Scissorhands with laser pens for fingers which looked great with all the dry ice.

The audience didn't seemed to really get into the swing of things as the show went on despite there being nothing really wrong with the set. They did get worked up for the song The Beatiful People which had some fire to it. However that was the last song so it was a bit late.

Rob and Me found a nice pub around the corner as we got out before last orders.

The last of the few

Another leaving do today.
Actually its worse than that as our only sys admin has just rang me to say he's resigned so working conditions are going to get bad as we will have to do all the systems bug fixes as well. But it's good for him as they where taking advantage of him something rotten. He should be going to something much more interesting and pays better.
One of the other developer and myself actually arranged to meet with our CTO yesterday to see if we could try and help the situation. I think the CTO was quite surprised as he must have been thinking everyone is against him. A bit too late I think but at least we tried.

You've got mail

Finally got my first bit of mail in my brand new mail box, apart of course from all the pizza and take-away menus.

Unfortunately it was just my phone bill :-(

Spooks

First episode of the new season last night. not bad, my flat, in fact all of London managed to get through the whole episode without being damaged at all.

100000 Hoppers

At 7:50pm UK time on 2nd November 2009 we had our 100,000th Hopper created, in Latvia of all places.

This means is this campaign has been quite successful

And that's alot of hoppers!

Trying out a new bit of Tech

I just downloaded a new app for the fashion victims brick (my iPhone) to write blog entries and this post is the result. Ok not that exiting but it's the future!

On the home front not much movement on the selling. However we have had our letterboxes upgraded. The new ones are much bigger and much less likely to bite your fingers. It's just a bit of a pity that i'm not getting any letters with all the postal strikes at the moment!


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Live again

Phase 2 of the great hopper invasion is live.

After a mad rush on Friday doing multiple fixes and changes to the site, refusing to add stuff that there was just no time to do and getting the final deployment out at 7pm and then off to the pub for several pints of Guinness.

It was a combination of the client wanting lots of small changes and trying to convince people it is more important to have a stable site live than keep trying to add stuff.

But it finally went live in Australia 6pm EDT and everything seems to work fine. The Yahoo site showed the special adverts at the correct time and the main site stood up fine.

So now we are waiting for the statistics to come back and to see if the client will say thank you.

By way of celebration I did get one gift, from my Mum, appropriately enough for this project it is a stress ball shaped like a space hopper.

Arraggh it's been released to the public

In a typical half asleep moment on the way to work the other week I was ambushed by my own work on the tube.

I was travelling on one of the escalators watching those new TV advert boards that they have started to install everywhere when an advert for the current web advertisement campaign I'm working came on. It's based a around a famous bouncing children's toy and we have done a site that lets you pick and personalise one to have on your PC.

My first reaction (and this was the same for some of the others on the team) as oh sh*t! I hope its working.

But it seems fine and the project is still just about on target (if a little stressful due to a dithering client constantly changing her mind). When it is finished it will be available in over 30 different languages (including ones that don't read left to right) and will be quite a complicated a mix of technologies.

So something to be proud of so long as it doesn't crash!

Bonus or a Bung

We all got an envelope at work today.

Mine contained a thank you note and a 50 quid note.

This I believe is in lieu of any bonus or pay rise for this year!
They still manages to do things here that surprises me. Most people seem have taken it as a bit of an insult.

Nobody leaving this week I think...

Leaving Fatigue

Three last week, one on Wednesday and three more today on Friday.
It's a good job its payday as all these leaving collections and drinks night are getting a bit too much.

First Viewing

For some strange reason I tidied the flat this morning. Made sure the junk was tidied away and the dishes had been washed.

Fortunate really as the Estate agent rang me at lunchtime to say could he do a view at 4pm.

OK I laid the ground work for this last week as I met up with the estate agent, this time called Neil and I agreed to drop the price another 17K to get the price in line with the current market that makes the whole drop about 13%. so hopefully the people will be back to view

no news yet on how today's viewing went, but I'm starting to have a little fun looking at the sort of property I may be able to get in this current depressed market.

A slight obsession

I find myself checking the ad breaks on the BBC more and more, for news of a new series of 'Spooks'.
I'm beginning to think its that time of year again to watch the fictional version my flat and where I live get gassed/flooded/bombed for dramatic effect on the TV.

The Offspring

Popped to another gig on Tuesday night thanks to a last minute Facebook message from my friend Nils. This time it was the Offspring supported by Broadway Calls and Rival Schools.

It was a good little night and it got suitably wild with great versions of 'self esteem', 'pretty fly for a white guy' and 'get a job'.

A department of one

It the time of year again for the company staff survey. we had a little competition in the tech department to see who could put the most truthful negative comment.

The morale is a bit low in the department although the boss seems to be in denial.
we lost 3 out of 4 of our flash developers in the last couple of weeks. So now the last guy is now the entire flash department!

With no pay rises due to the recession and not much in the way of career development most of them have decided that its not worth putting up with some of the silly stuff management try and get us to do.

From the recruitment agents who ring me up I would probably be 5-7K better off if I move at the moment and at least for IT, the job market in London is quite good.
I would seriously think about it if I wasn't trying to sort out other things in my life at the moment.

Well I figure that there'll be more people to leave in the next few weeks. I there may be more news to follow.

15 months on the Market

OK that surprised me too

I just got around to checking and my flat has been on the market for 15 months!

I hadn’t realised it had been quite as long as that. There are several reasons for this long period. The main one being the whole market crashing thing and me waiting for things to pick up again
I've not dropped my price enough and so haven’t had any interest in the property for months. Rather than take the flat off the market because nothing was happening, I've kept it on at a too high a price so I don't have to pay again for all the selling documentation to be set up.

According to mousePrices.com they think I should drop the price by another 6% to be competitive. I’d already cut the price by 5% back at the start of the crash before I decided to pause.

But I got a bit of news this week telling me the market may be up and running again and that it’s time to get selling again.

My friends Colin and Clare who live in the next postcode over have just managed to market and sell their property and put an offer on a new place all in the space of a couple of weeks. All this they managed and had time for a week’s holiday abroad!

So I guess its time to get on with it and drop the price again. Oh and contact my agents and see if they are still in business.

More free music

And this time its Kasabian

I actually knew quite a few of the tracks. according to one of the guys at work it's 'cos they'd been used on nearly every ep of Top Gear recently'
Rob at work managed to get the tickets and gave me one as I had managed to sort him a ticket to NIN

I got quite carried away a fun night

Surf and Shoes

Holiday time again and this year I'm mixing it up with a family hols in the Forest of Dean and a couple of days down in Newquay trying out surfing.

The Forest of Dean is the bit between wales and the rest of the UK and is as you can guess full of trees. I had a nice week with my Parents and One of my Sister and her family. We did various touristy activities such as butterfly houses and miniature steam railways and of course a BBQ in the rain. I was all quite relaxing in a hectic
kids and Thomas the tank engine sort of a way.

Newquay was a completely different proposition. I had a couple of goes at surfing and a quite Sunday morning coasteering.

I surfing a strange sport or at least it is for a beginner.

It mostly seems to consist of getting battered to bit by the waves/board/random other surfer as you try to fight your way out a suitable distance. Once there you try not to drown while gauging the moment the bigger waves come rolling in. Then at the right moment you drag yourself onto the board (you're knacker at this point from getting out from the beach) point towards land and madly thrash your arms to propel you forward.

If you time it right the wave picks you up and you go like a rocket straight through the rest of your group and back to the shore. Now at the point you get picked up by the wave you are meant to use some style and get yourself standing.

So far I've managed to be so surprised I actual caught a wave that all I managed to do was hang on and yell incoherently.

However I can sort of see the appeal of this sport and will more than likely try it again. A wet suit purchase maybe in my future, as being in the sea in the UK is a chilly affair.

Coasteering is an odd sport, it's a mix of swimming in the sea, climbing on wet rocks and then jumping off (small, fortunately for me) cliffs. It's weird if quite fun way to send a Sunday morning.

So all in all it was a good mix of stuff and by the time I got to work it felt like I had been away for a long time.

oh and 'Shoes', that comes from my niece Edie. 'Shoes' seemed to be her favourite word on the holiday. She would come up to you look up at you very seriously and say 'Shoes' then she would look to her right and left and then go on a hunt for her shoes. Once found she would take great delight in stomping around the place with her shoes on, hopefully on the right feet.

Office space

Any one seen this film?
I only ask as we got a new employee at work this week.
He's called a COO and he is here so help improve our business processes and streamline the way we work with each other.

So I'm thinking of having a sweap stake and I'll take either He fires our management or just decides to get rid of our entire department.

Getting all arty

it course booking time again at the various evening course places in london
I book myself on two
weds at the city lit doing sulpture
thurs nights at the bethnal Green centre doing stained glass workshop

all very arty! looks a bit like I'm over compensating for working in IT techy stuff all day long

NINJA

Continuing with my year of music I’ve just been to another gig. Considering I said I wouldn’t go to a music festival this year and so I didn’t really think I would see a lot of live stuff this year, my total so far is pretty amazing.
First up was a trip to see Placebo and their support at the Roundhouse. I got the tickets in the iTunes free festival draw and Placebo where great. Notable songs included Infrared and the brilliant Meds.

Next up the big event of the week was the NINJA gig at the 02. Ninja is nine inch nails and Janes addiction. After a few beers and a really rubbish queuing system which made us late for Janes addiction we got to our seats. Seats which I have to say were great just off to the side of the stage at about eye level with the band. The end of the Janes set was good and then came the huge power of volume of a great NIN set. Lots of shouting and jumping up and down from yours truly, I was knackered and a little hoarse by the time they finished with the song Hurt. As an extra treat there was a surprise guest appearance by Gary Numan (a hero of Trent’s), who came on to do a couple of songs including an amazing versions of Cars. All in all it made for a Wow evening.

Still quiet

Well not a lot happening at the minute

So a quick update on life

Both knees are not too bad at the minute but I’ve managed to mess up my back,
I swear this gym business is a bad idea.

Actually I’m thinking it maybe my new sofa. It’s a huge deep sofa bed thing from IKEA with the base so deep that you have to slouch on it to get your feet on the floor and your back on the upright bit.

In other new the gym trainer is talking about going off to climb Mont Blanc, hopefully I won’t need to look for a new trainer and I've book a weekend away surfing!!! This should be final proof that the knee surgery was completely successful.

All Quiet

Nothing much happening on the home front. Yes the economy is in crisis and all that but work is busy and showing no signs of slowing down.

My knee is pretty good now and I have more problems with my other knee which is slowly recovering from me twisting it in the gym a while back.

Zombie on Red Bull and Beers

It was sci fi festival this weekend accompanied by a visit from the boyz so we could not win but not lose the Sunday afternoon scifi pub quiz.

this year we also had the opportunely to do some pervasive gaming on the theme of James Bond... We did a little gambling on the tables, ran around looking for clues and held meetings of find a mole.

I helped out at the sci fi festival again this time including staying wake all night to help with the all-nighter screenings. So I was a strange mix of lack of sleep, red bull and alcohol by the time we got to the quiz. So I don't know really if it went ok I think it did.

Firestarter ! - Touch the Keith

Managed another 'must see before you die' event. I got to see the Prodigy live at the Brixton Academy.

It was great stuff they play all the classic you could think of and a load of the new stuff (which is good) as well.

They looking fine shape for a band from way back when. Keith and Maxim look just as much the tattooed nutters as ever.

Despite my dodgy knees I got completely carried away and spent most of the gig right in the front of the mosh pit. I got to touch the Keith as he reached out to the crowd and I definitely could breathe from the crush and shouting during breathe.

It must have been the maddest biggest mosh pit I've ever been in as you could keep hold of your drink or avoid the rush even towards the back of the main floor.

I was right there for firestarter and my brain is now seared with the close up view of Keith doing he bit for the crowd and screaming 'I'm the firestarter'!

My that's a big Chopper

Relaxing in the park is meant to be a quiet time but the other day we (a group of us at work) were sitting having lunch in the small bit of green grass in a square near the office, behind John Lewis on Oxford Street when, we became aware of a helicopter in the area.

We watched it for a bit as it circled around quite and then left.

Next thing we knew the chopper was back as it appeared low over the top of the buildings at the edge of the square.

'My that's a bit low isn't it!'
'Yeah'
'Looks like the Air Ambulance'

at this point a siren started coming from the copper

'Er its getting nearer'
'Yeah, that's quite close'
'Oh Crap its going to land here!'
'Er I think we better move'
'...'
'Yeah, lets'

So our lunch ended in an unusual manner. It got very loud and very windy and all the people in the park scattered and the helicopter landed, in order, we found out later, to help someone at a car accident on Oxford St.

Beyond the Warrenty

How can you tell when you've been in a flat too long?

When everything starts to break.

It will be 10 years in September that I've been in my flat and some of the electrical items seem to want to celebrate by breaking down. The washing machine decided it didn't want to tumble dry anymore quickly followed by the light in the kitchen and then because I was trying to reason with the washing machine the handle on the cooker broke off.

OK the last one was my fault as I hit it with the washing machine as I got it out to try and fix it. You'd be amazed how tricky it can be to use an oven without an way to open the door. I tried to superglue the thing back on but funnily enough the door gets hot so the glue melts.

Da Management

After all the argo I've had with the management company of the flat. I find out the other day our residents association board have decided to fire them! without telling anybody. Apparently this is mainly due to always getting a call centre when you rang them up.

So we have joined the Alliance! Alliance Managing Agents that is which look like they cost a bit more but on the plus side may actually do stuff.

Just don't tell Darth Vader...

Snow and Sun

Managed to get away last week for another week's skiing (I shouldn't be having a problems with too much holiday left at the end of this year at this rate :-)).
This time I went to Crans Montana, in Switzerland. This was my first trip skiing in the land of clocks and chocolate.

It was very good. Crans is advertised as the Sunniest resort in Switzerland and so I was planning on getting a bit of a tan. We call it T shirt skiing when the weather is very good and warm, for as long as you don't fall over you can ski without a coat and jumper. Of course if you fall over you get pretty damn wet and when cold so you have to be careful.

The Weather had other plans and for the first couple of days and it snowed heavily. We had about 20inches of snow, which for Europe in March is huge. This meant poor visibility and hard conditions.

Fortunately the tail end of the week was clear so we had some deep powder and sun to give a real magical skiing experience. We could get into the deep powder, just to the sides of the pistes, and once they had bashed down the main pistes we could get in some hard and fast carving runs.

The trip was run by the same people who organised last years Turkey trip for singles and it worked quite well with an interesting selection of people.

A week of live music

I didn't really plan it in fact the week before I only thought I was going to see the Ting Tings with some mates in Leeds. But I managed a whole week of live music.

It all started the Friday before when my friend John MSM'd me to remind me that I had said yes to going and seeing the Killers at the 02 on Monday. This was a surprise as I guess I had agreed to it a couple of weeks ago in a pub somewhere while quite drunk!

So Monday is away off to the O2, London, what used to be the Millennium Dome. We had tickets in the god and 'F**k me we're a long way up!' about said it all when we got there as it was very much like watching the Killers from Orbit. we must have been 80 foot off the ground in a really steep sitting section with the stage about 100 metres away. These sizes are all pretty amazing if as well you know its all indoors. The gig was quite good although the distance was so much that there was a difference in the time the light and the sound took to get to you.

The rest of the week was quite quiet until Friday. The normal plan is for me to go up to Leeds on the Friday night train, fighting my way across the rush hour madness. However this time for some reason I booked the tickets for Saturday morning. The Ting Tings gig was on Sunday night so there was no rush. Anyway this was handy because we had a major musical event just around the corner from the office on the Friday evening which I happened to walk into.

U2 decide to play a gig on the roof of the BBC building a couple of streets away. I was a little late a work when an email went around (OK I was playing Quakelive.com with Angel) saying that U2 would be playing at 6pm. I finished playing around quarter past and noticed the email and so went to have a look to see what I could see. There was a huge crowd doing nothing outside the building, so I hung around too to see what would happen. at about half past the Police stopped the traffic (this is Regent Street in London, during rush hour and so it was busy) and the crowd rush forwards. Then when things settle down U2 came out on to the roof of the build to the roar of the crowd. They played for about 20 minutes and did four tracks ending with a great version of 'Beautiful Day'. By the time they did the last song you could hear the horns from the car of the now irate drivers stuck in the jam, but the crowd left happy.

I rounded the week off in Leeds at the Academy with a storming set by the Ting Tings singing along at the top of my voice and bouncing around like a nutter. My voice wasn't to great the next day but I loved it.

So the full line up for the week was

Louis XIV (a bit rubbish)
The Killers (OK a bit far away not sure it was worth the 40 quid)
U2 (great crazy stuff, tick them off my list of bands to see)
VV Brown (good didn't know anything about her but we could swing along to it)
LadyHawke (got a bit confused that this might be the Ting Tings doing some new stuff but it was very good)
The Ting Tings (YEAH! That's not my name!!!! la la la la!)

Sans beard

Yeap Saturday night I shaved the whole thing off and I look about 20 years younger!

I measured it just before the end and the longest bit was just about 2 inches.

it's an odd sensation to feel the wind on my chin again.

The generally the verdict so far, mostly people at work, is that I look much better.

In fact it was funny as a couple of people didn't notice straight off when they where talking to me. They would sort of go boss eyed and then step back as if trying to get my face in focus before they realised the goatee had gone.

Sorry we shut Wales

The plan was, as is a bit of a tradition with me and a couple of friends, to go winter walking in the mountains. We try and do this around February/March time each year when the conditions are hopefully cold, clear and frosty.

So we had planned for a long time that at the weekend we would travel up to the Brecon Beacons in Wales, however the weather had other ideas. The heaviest snowfall for years put a bit of a stop to that. In fact when they started closing the bridges into Wales we knew it wasn't going to happen.

So plan B, we had the train tickets (fortunately we got a refund on the cottage) so we went down to Bristol and went walking in the Mendips instead. it was good if hard work with wading thru snow drifts. We took in Beacon Batch the highest point at a modest 325 metres above sea level (not quite the Brecons!) and the Rock of Ages, made famous in the hymn of the same name.

The knees didn't half ache the day after.

Snow and the Tupperware flat

Lovely new windows and not a moment too soon.

I got back to the flat on Sunday night after being back to the Folks for Dougie's first birthday party and general kiddie chaos, and found the builders had done a great job. The windows are very nice and will keep the flat cosy and warm. Not like the old drafty ones which suffered from too much repainting. They are clean and plastic so it's a bit like living in high class Tupperware.

It's fortunate really as winter has now hit London with some force and 15cm of snow have caused the whole place to grind to a halt. I made it into work after a bit of walking and a lot of Tube changes but hardly anyone else has and the place is a bit dead.

Handy then that I've got all my winter walking gear out of storage for my trip to the Brecon Beacons at the weekend.

New windows

As IF!

not surprisingly I didn't get back to new windows, just emails from the management company asking me why I wasn't at home.

So a few calls to the company doing the install, cutting the management company out of the loop and I now have all the new window leaning on a wall in my flat, ready to go.

I gave the key to the foreman and they will be putting the nice new, plastic, modern windows in this Saturday.

Hurrah!

Deep snow

Yeah we had over 50cm of snow during the week so the powder was deep and the skiing was nice.

I only had the one crash all week due to getting into the white stuff waist deep! Actually there was so much snow, or rather it was snowing so much they had to close down most of the runs one afternoon. but that was okay as it was the end of the week and I needed the rest.

Powder is hard work (particularly on the legs/knee) to wade thru but when the sun is out (as it was for a couple of days) and you can see what you are doing (one morning we had fog and everything was white!) its a joy.

I got my perfect skiing moment, which I try for at least once every trip. That is; going fast, on a nice piste with a bit of powder, with something good on the music player, cutting at few clean carving turns as the sun shines down on me. bliss!

I'm back fit and able, if a little poorer (6 quid a pint due to the exchange rate was about the cheapest ) and trying to work out how to go again this season.

Off-ski

right !

packed and ready to wooosh down the slopes.

Haven't managed to get the key to the management company so it doesn't look like I'll be getting new windows while I'm away.

Spent all day doing project hand over notes for people at work so I don't get phoned next week.

now lets just hope the snow is good.

scafolding

Next week will be exiting for the flat as it will be getting a nice set of new windows. These are the ones that where due to be in by Xmas but hey no one really believed that.

The whole property is now covered in scaffolding to allow the builders access and bits of blue netting, no idea about the netting perhaps its for catching fish if we get alot of flooding!

In a typical bit of timing, I won't be there as I'm off skiing next week, with my collection of knee supports, so I'll have to sort a way of allowing the builders access.

This means I'm back in communication with the flat management company again and they started this time with a new approach to confuse, saying, when I told them my address, that they no longer manage the property!
But I'm used to them by now and such a simple attempt to confuse didn't work. After a bit of convincing that they did still look after the flats I managed to explain that all I wanted this time is for the cleaner to pick up a copy of the flat key so
the builders can get in to fit the new window.

One little bit of fun I will have before I go is to clear an area around each window
to allow the work to be done. The flat is tiny and moving stuff generally means another bit of the flat gets full. Particular fun will be working out how to let them get to the bedroom window as the bed (which is on stilts) is the size of the room and blocks the window pretty well. looks like I will have to leave that as a bit of an obstacle course

so It's 50/50 that by the time I get back my flat will be
a) still there
b) water tight (why do they want to pick the wettest month of the year)
c) have full set of new windows

Review of the Year!

Well so what happened in 2008. this year I've decided to use the status history from facebook to tell the tale...

26/12/2008 David a proud user of the Force since 1977. 13:21
23/12/2008 David has got Christmas in his rucksac. Heavy! 11:07
17/12/2008 David is thinking how much worse his head would be if we'd have found the sambucca. 11:16
12/12/2008 David is having the boys over. 16:09

28/11/2008 David is wrapping. 15:41
26/11/2008 David is starting a new project at work that he might call Customisation. It's got Aspects in it! 09:54
23/11/2008 David just gone all retro at a Carter USM and EMF gig. Ooh my knees! 00:01
20/11/2008 David has the distinct feeling that he's missing something. 17:13
19/11/2008 David is having a cup of tea. 16:19
14/11/2008 David is wondering what to do this weekend without being organised by a tour guide. 15:31
11/11/2008 David has returned with the Sun. 08:03
06/11/2008 David is in the warmth in Turkey. Nice! 15:50
03/11/2008 David has left the country. 10:17

24/10/2008 David is neutrally buoyant. 17:37
15/10/2008 David has paused. 13:12
13/10/2008 David is pondering hot beverages. 17:53
09/10/2008 David is having his credit crunch with chips and a cold beer. 12:16
04/10/2008 David is looking for to a long long sleep after being awake since Friday morning. 21:54
03/10/2008 David is helping out. 17:31

28/09/2008 David has just got around to doing some spring cleaning . 21:49
25/09/2008 David has been to the apple store and wasn't amused. at least the iPhone is working again. 00:03
14/09/2008 David is watching Where Eagles Dare again. Ah the snow and the music! 20:38
13/09/2008 David has got his suit out of storage. 07:54
05/09/2008 David is multiplatformed. 17:02

19/08/2008 David is looking for his badself. It's festival time!!!!! 13:43
07/08/2008 David is in need of beer. fortunatly its the beer festival tomorrow. Yarp! 17:22

31/07/2008 David is oh dear... 18:46
24/07/2008 David has crossed the Alps and met the French... 17:31
09/07/2008 David can hear the theme to 'Where Eagles Dare'. Yes he's heading for the mountains. 16:37
01/07/2008 David but it's a dry heat... 14:14

29/06/2008 David is a beening an Uncle...Chocolate! 09:49
20/06/2008 David is moving office and hoping it will go better than last time... 10:54
13/06/2008 David is wishing everything would come with chips. 12:01
02/06/2008 David has been fighting with little paint pellets. 10:42

23/05/2008 David is not in at the moment but if you would like to leave a message after the tone... 16:11
22/05/2008 David is keeping his mouth shut and trying not to get fired. 16:00
14/05/2008 David is looking at flats...nice! 18:57

29/04/2008 David is fighting the facebook API. 12:00
23/04/2008 David is chilled after his day off. 11:00
15/04/2008 David likes chips! 10:31
01/04/2008 David is forgot his gym card so he's off to the pub. 17:50

26/03/2008 David is doing some Xmas shopping! 14:55
17/03/2008 David is cursing bloody load balancers. 19:23
09/03/2008 David is back from the skiing and amazingly can still walk. 11:07

29/02/2008 David I'm going skiing...I'm going skiing...I'm going skiing...I'm going skiing... 16:14
17/02/2008 David can nearly smell the snow. 23:31
05/02/2008 David mmm! pancakes! 22:39

30/01/2008 David has seen the weather forcast and brought some more survial gear for his weekend in the mountains. 16:03
29/01/2008 David is working for a livin'. 14:43
22/01/2008 David has got the date for the return to his flat its the 18th Feb! 09:14
09/01/2008 David hears the pub a callin'. 17:56