John Peel, probably the most influential British radio personality has passed away whilst holidaying in Peru. The BBC has a more complete piece. No doubt that tomorrows papers will have Peel on the front page. I used to listen avidly to his show on Radio One many years ago, sort of tuned out after he moved to Four, however it was always good to see him doing the Glastonberry for the beeb and other television programmes.
Monthly Archive for October, 2004
It was my birthday yesterday, I’m now 28 years old. Only 2 years left till the big 3-0. Knocked a couple of things of the list, however not much as I hoped. Of course the list has also grown a little bit, some things have also increased in priority.
I must buy a house soon, I know I have been saying that for the last 2 years, however due to stability concerns (and hoping for a crash) I pretty much had to wait it out. However I’m now at the point were I must take some action. So this week I will start looking for a place again, the last time I was looking I was not enjoying it at all. However this time around due to working in Egham my list of prospective areas is quite good, however generally speaking Surrey is not exactly cheap. My ideal location is still Hampton, I can’t explain why.
Have been thinking about the APR days a lot recently, some things don’t really change from one place to the other, also I think some of the lack of fulfiment from work is raising their head again. The variation of work is something I have always loved, however I think I need a long section of concentrating on a single task. Hopefully things will get calmer, however they never do. Which I guess is a good thing, but of course has side effects. Don’t really have any time to play with new tech as I would like too, I have plenty of ideas, however I had zero time to experiment thanks to 12 hour days, and working at weekends. Will hopefully be able to wrangle a week of some time soon, will probably just sleep.
Was driving upto Bradford on friday evening for the weekend, we got on the road at about 8pm, we where at the start of the M1 at about 8:45pm after fuelling up, topping the oil and water up. We went about 20 minutes then released that the steering was pulling a little to the left so we had to pull into services to get the tyres sorted. After about 10 minutes we were back on the road.
Now we were whizzing by nicely, we did 80 miles in about an hour, then we hit a big problem. Junctions 20-21 was restricted to 1 lane due to a bridge being fractured, the tail back was about 20 miles. To make things worst our car started playing up just as we hit the queue. I think the immediate slow down caused the temperature gauge to jump upto the 100 C mark. Resulting in the engine shuddering, we pulled into the hard shoulder and had a look at the engine. Checked the oil and water again. So we sat there waiting for the temperature to fall a bit before joining the queue.
Once we were in the queue it took about 2 hours to get past the road works. So we pulled into services to grab a bite to eat, since we had planned on being in Bradford by 11pm. We got back on the road at about 11:30pm, all was well until Sheffield were a down pour started, now normally this wouldn’t be a problem except that after about 5 minutes of activating the wiper, the wiper blade decided to break. So every five minutes of driving we had to pull into the hard shoulder to fix the wiper. We arrived at my Aunt’s house at 2:15am. This run normally takes us 3 hours door to door.
Got into work this morning only to see the headline on http://news.google.co.uk about Christopher Reeve.
The Thinking SAFE website finally went live last friday , sort of had to be done before the show. Still some niggles and missing features we had done, but could not deploy for one reason of another. Things will continually evolve, keep checking back periodically.
Watched Bride and Prejudice last night, a highly enjoyable film, and extremely funny. I think Asians will be able to relate to the subject matter a little bit more. Thankfully the musical aspect is not too Bollywood, a good mixture of songs and in different styles.
Well almost a month has pasted since my last entry, much has happened in the past couple of weeks. To start with some weeks ago my uncle passed away, he had been suffering from cancer for a number of years, his condition had worsened over the last couple of months utlimately resulting in a stroke. So that week was spent up in Bradford with family and friends. I don’t go up to Bradford as much as I used to, It was strange seeing some old friends up there after a number of years. Will be heading back up to Bradford in a couple of weeks time when my dad gets back from Pakistan
On the rest of life things are ticking along, busy with work, hard at play. Still preparing for the big 2.6 release at the Storage Expo next week, a little worried about the stand and the show, hopefully everything will go well.
On the movie front went and saw Collateral which I thought was excellent, so much so that I went and watched it again last week. Also caught Hero some weeks back, which was good however it will obviously draw comparisons with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon which I think is a little unfair. Hero is a good film however there are elements of repitition and slow scenes, however the cinematography is great and the story is okay.
On the DVD front finally got the Star Wars DVD boxed set, the picture quality is amazing and the extras are good, especially the Episode 3 preview. Also got the Clerks 10 Year Anniversary Edition a couple of days ago, which I have not watched yet.
