Hope you had a good one!
Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2009how much?
November 10th, 2009Sitting here feeling sorry for myself I was watching “Dave” on TV. No not my brother, but the TV channel.
Up came one of those financial adverts. a company called quickquid were telling you how you could get a short term loan from them until pay day to tide you over. What struck me was the text that comes up on screen saying what the APR is.
2356% APR! that is not a misprint “Two THOUSAND three hundred and fifty six” percent APR.
I don’t care what the circumstances are, the people behind that company need to be tarred and feathered for that.
Random Ralstons are back
October 4th, 2009Not that anyone noticed they were gone…
A piece of toast…
October 4th, 2009In the mentalist last night, delivered at machine gun pace…
Suspect: “Are you sure about that, Agent Cho? Because I can make one phone call and your career is toast”
Agent Cho: “That’s impressive. The best I can get with one call is pizza”
Its becoming a pretty good show although still not as good as “Lie to me” which is back on screens next week! (I think we watch too much TV…)
well it’s all gone wrong
September 19th, 2009My Webserver died, not too bad I thought, just put a new disc in the server and restore it from my WindowsHomeServer (WHS) backup.
Not a chance, the backup was apparently “good” but when I tried to restore it just didn’t work, it kept dropping the network connection (which is a known issue with no real solution).
At this stage I thought “well – might as well build the server again from scratch, it has been running for a good few years now”
So I rebuild it then load php mysql, apache. I set the correct directives and paths, then open the backup on my WHS Server to pull out the data I need.
Oh Sod it! not a chance it was going to work as “bits” of data that were marked as being on the disc actually were not, and as that included a SQL db, i gave up then and there.
Luckily a SQL backup that I had left on the desktop was intact and after reinstalling WordPress I restored the database. At the moment virtually none of the photographs are there as they were stored in gallery and that is not running yet as the backup for that was completely fooba’d.
I think the disk on the webserver was on the way out, (I had to run a chkdsk the week before) so that might be the reason for the dodgy backups as WHS has restored a PC quite happily before now.
Long time no post
August 5th, 2009Well it has been ages since I posted anything, so I thought I should write something, however be warned it may well all just be a ploy to post what I think it a cute picture of my daughter…
I finally managed to get some diving in, we went to Mull for a week, staying in a small village Lochaline in Morvern and diving with Lochalinedivecentre.co.uk. I think for a while I lost my diving Mojo, but had a great week, the highlight was diving the Hispania again (been waiting for that for 8 years!) and the Rondo, a great wreck. Unfortunately as I no longer have an underwater camera – no pictures from under the surface.
I did use Microsoft ICE to stitch together a few montages of landscape photos, brilliant – much better and faster than anything else I have used (including the rather clunky photoshop panorama tool. it is handy to bash Microsoft , but occasionally they come out with gems – and it is FREE!
An example Panorama is linked below…Not bad considering it was from a moving boat.
Mull from the boat
We then went to a VWT4 Forum meeting at Beaulieu, and had a great time, althought the weather on the friday (while we were getting ready) was appalling and I was grumping around, but the Sun came out for the weeekend although ironically we didnt get into the museum we were so busy! I got lots of ideas for the van – most of which I cannot afford. The next project is an elevating roof for when we go camping.
Emma had a great time running around, so here is the gratuitous picture of our cute daughter.
Here’s a photo of both of the women in my life!
Some more photos of my Scottish Road trip to Lochaline HERE
ok, its official I am a big softie
May 15th, 2009Today was a momentous day (well for me anyway).
When I got home (a very long day at work) and came through the door Emma walked towards me arms outstretched with a big grin on her face.
It was so cool.
What a diference a year makes
May 13th, 2009May 2008
May 2009
I know I havent posted my “tash” photo yet
December 11th, 2008Ummmmm, I errrrrr just havent got round to it yet 
OK so I look a little silly…
November 25th, 2008I decided to join in with “movember” so I am currently sporting a rather silly tash
If anyone wanted to contribute the following link will allow you to. It is all for a good cause. It is to help the fight against Prostate Cancer. A photo will be uploaded at the end of the month.