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July, 2007
21.07.2007 Under Water
Holy crapbag mother of f*ck we have had a shedload of rain over the past couple of weeks here in the UK, but nothing compared to last night! Thursday evening it started raining over the UK and come Friday night, the rain was still coming down and not gently either.
According to weather reports, we have had over three months worth of rain in 24 hours and sadly, the drains and waterways of the little town where I live just aren’t coping with the extreme conditions and pretty much the whole town is under water. (see pics)
I consider myself very lucky that I happen to live on the fourth floor! Sadly, the business that my missus runs with her mother wasn’t so lucky and succumbed to the rain in the early hours of this morning. On the plus side, because we live just five minutes from the cafe, they were able to get down and shift all the furniture and electronic stuff to the top floor of the building. The bad news is that the floor is sodden and ruined and they won’t be able to open again until health and safety have made it in after the clean up!
Sadly there is even worse news than that! Both of the decent pizza delivery services in the town are on the street that was worst hit! What am I going to have for my tea now? 
I do have some good news though! Despite EVERY road of town being flooded Rich and myself did manage to make it to Worcester in time to watch the first public showing of the new Transformers movie (12.01 am – supergeek showing for those that can’t wait until Saturday night! We did attempt to make it in the car, but it just wasn’t going to work, so I hopped on the back of his motorbike and we braved the elements making it only around 20 minutes later than the start time!What can I say about Transformers movie excpet for FRICKIN AWESOME!!? Well… after that, not a lot. The story was pretty bland, but hey, it’s a film about cars that turn into robots, what more can you want? Anyway… the cars DO turn into robots and back again and there are planes that turn into robots and helicopters that turn into robots and a little cd player that turns into a robot and a drinks machine that turns into a robot and an xbox that turns into a robot and a mobile phone that turns into a robot. Oh… and they fight, a lot. 
The SFX is nothing short of amazing, the transformers are almost completely realistic and the fight scenes are just out of this world, one of my fave bits was when megatron is fighting with Jazz and after Jazz yells ‘you wanna peice of me?’ Megatron retorts ‘No – I want two!’ and then rips the poor guy in half. I thought at first it would be sacrilege to have bumblebee as anything but a VW Beetle but he works pretty well as a Camaro – especially once he’s changed into the yet-to-be-released 2008 version (pictured). I swear, if the guys at GMC ever released that car into the UK market at a half decent price, I would be all over it like a fat girl on a chocolate bar!Score: 85/97 chainsaws.
Summary: If you get the chance – go and checkout the Transformers movie – even if it’s just for the special effects and the nostalgia hit!
18.07.2007 10 Things I Would Do if I Ever Caught a Spammer
I’m getting bloody pissed off with spammers of late, whether it’s the emailing type or the comment spam type, these people are really starting to get on my tits and I feel like they’re really ruining the internet for everyone.
My hatred of spammers is such that I have now come up with a list of ten things I would do to a spammer if I could just get hold of them.
The words that follow are the words of a man on the edge. A man that is getting buried under a deluge of spam and a man that wants REVENGE!
Read on, if you aren’t squeamish or easily offended! 
18.07.2007 @$%^&$%^@£% PHP!
Grrr… sometimes I hate scripting – I just spent 30 minutes debugging a problem with a script, turns out I’d accidently moved a variable inside a conditional. Of course, if PHP was stricter it would have just told me that the variable wasn’t defined, instead it let me spend half an hour of my life trying to work out what the bloody hell I had done wrong.
Maybe it’s time to change the PHP config to strict mode…
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18.07.2007 The Weekly Picture Quiz – #1
Ok… in a desperate attempt to make my blog slightly more interesting and get a few more people interactomg, I’m going to try putting a weekly quiz on here. I’ll take a random photo of something from my daily life, most likely either very close up, at a wonky angle or with a crazy filter applied and you guys have to guess what it is!
No prizes, just a big dose of Kudos to the first person to guess correctly.
This weeks should be fairly easy… (click for bigness!)
Happy guessing!
17.07.2007 Party Pics…
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this recently or not, but I recently setup a separate blog for stuff related to the wedding, it was also a place where I could put a bunch of info for people attending, such as a map and driving directions, after all, I’m a web designer and this is the 21st century!
Anyways… if you fancy a gander, head on over to the wedding site at www.august-31st-2007.co.uk
13.07.2007 OK… I broke it.
Oooops! I broke comments yesterday – Apologies, all fixed now!
12.07.2007 Good Work Kitty!
It would appear that the kitten has done his job since the site I mentioned before seems to have taken down the entire post. I’m pretty chuffed about it, but there are still a couple of sites out there hotlinking my images. I’m sure they’ll soon get the hint though…
Speaking of other blogs… I seriously need some interesting and fresh blog content to read. Anyone got any suggestions? It could be your own blog or someone who’s blgo you frequent (other than this one of course). Share the link love guys!
11.07.2007 Plz Don’t Steal Mai Picturz. K Thnx Bye
I dunno about you guys, but of late I’m loving lolcatz, especially the site ‘icanhascheezburger.com‘ which quite frankly, never fails to make me smile.
After considering the comments on my last post I have created the following, which I will shortly be using a rewrite script to replace ALL hotlinked images:
What do you think? Mucho funny no? If you haven’t come across the lolcatz revolution yet, you might not get this… but if you have, you’ll probably appreciate it.
11.07.2007 What to do?
There’s a site out there that has stolen my top ten movie cars post, lock stock and barrel and is even hotlinking the images.
It’s not something that I’ve ever been bothered by before, but it’s kind of annoying that he’s posted it without even crediting me, so I was thinking of ways to get my own back. The easiest way to do this would be to change the source images that he’s hotlinking to, so that instead of seeing pictures of cool cars, he get’s something nasty. Only problem is, that I can’t decide what to swap them too.
Here are my ideas so far:
1) Pr0N – Switch the images for really nasty gay porn pictures, If that doesn’t teach him a lesson I don’t know what will.
2) Adverts – Switch the images for pictures saying ‘this post was stolen from bomb.org.uk’.
3) Education – A list of reasons why hotlinking people’s images is wrong – one for each image…
What do you guys think? Is there anything else that I could use that would be better or should I just disable image hotlinking altogether? Would it be too nasty to put pr0n on someone elses site? Without their permission?
11.07.2007 Bloody Strange
I’ve been tagged by Lisa to do this meme.
Each player has to list 6 weird things about themselves. The rules also have to be stated clearly. When you’re done with yoru 6 weird facts, tag 6 more people and list their names. Don’t forget to comment the person who tagged you to let them know you’re finished so they can stop by your blog!
Six Weird Things About Me:
1. My second toe is longer than my big toe! As freaky as that may sound, my second toe does actually extend about half a centimetre further than my big toe!
2. Since the age of 18 I have coloured my hair, red, green, blonde, black and blue and used to have a fetish for UV glo-in-the-dark hair gel. I’m not really sure why I did this, maybe because I wanted to be ‘outrages’ or maybe it was just because I was bored of having dull mousy brown hair!
3. I’ve been arguing with my missus for close to four months about the fact that she won’t let me marry her while wearing converse all stars. Is it so wrong to want to wear comfy shoes on the day of my wedding?
4. On my stag weekend I had my arse flogged in public on Newquay high street by a lady dressed up in military uniform. I also got really drunk on one of the nights and woke up under the bed of one of the girls I was sharing a room with (mixed accommodation at a youth hostel).
5. I have a fear of clowns. The official name of this phobia is “Coulrophobia”. It stems from my dad letting me watch the movie of Steven Kings ‘IT’ when I was a wee tot.
Seriously… is it any wonder I don’t like clowns any more?
6. My favourite sandwich is Mozzarella, Peperoni and Jalapeno sub from the most excellent buddies baguettes in Worcester. Given the choice I would eat these for every meal.
