Quite Interesting October 2, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedI have decided to do do some Public Service Blogging, well, sort of.
I keep all my Bookmarks on an online bookmarking site called Delicious. This allows you to store your bookmarks online (Duh) and tag them so you can group links together. You can see all my tags and their associated links here.
It goes without saying that most of them are of no interest to any one but me but, some of them might be, so I have now created a tag called ‘interesting’ (can you see where I’m going with this yet?).
There is now a ‘Quite Interesting’ link over on the right to see a list of links to articles that I think someone else might be, err, interested in.
I don’t know if you will find them interesting or not, that is up to you. Either way, don’t bother telling me unless one of them changes your life in some unimaginable way.
Something else that is Quite Interesting is that once you start to store your bookmarks online then you can use the Delicious Firefox/IE addon from here to totally replace your normal bookmarks stored within your browser. Well, I like it even if you don’t.
Summer 2008 August 25, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedWell it’s nearly over now.
We went to Castelmola in Sicily for a week and Emily also went to Spain with Clarissa for two weeks.
Celine, the daughter of Sophie’s friend Myriam, has just stayed for a week and while she was here we went to see Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London and to see the birds at Bird World.
I also went to the Motor Show in London with Pat for the day which ended with a performance by Blondie. Great fun.
We hosted a BBQ for all our friends which was a bit over ambitious but worth it as we rarely see most of them.
This coming week we have the Weiss’s and Bluhm’s arriving for Uncle Martin’s party in Bexhill.
Before you know it Emily will be back at school, starting her GCSE course, and I’ll be on my own again during the day.
Lee.
ZoneAlarm problem July 11, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedWell, here’s another problem that I thought I’d better tell the world about.
If you are reading this then you have Internet access, which is more than I had yesterday morning. After much pointless faffing about I turned off ZoneAlarm and Internet access was restored.
I went to the Zonealrm web site and found this big warning on the front page. It appears that Microsoft has released an update, which my PC had installed automatically, which caused a conflict with ZoneAlarm meaning that no browsers, email, etc, could get out on to the Internet.
The solution is to install the latest version of ZoneAlarm from here.
I hope you find this before you get the problem.
AVG Free V8 SafeSearch July 4, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedNews Flash AVG has now fixed this. See here. Thanks to regular reader Pat for the update 
I have just read this rant on Slashdot where the usual bunch complain about how the AVG Free V8 SafeSurf and SafeSearch features are flooding the internet with unnecessary page hits in the interest of keeping you safe.
It’s up to you if you think this is good or bad, but if you want to remove the feature the follow the instructions here.
I’ve done it and experienced no problems.
Brookland “The Double Twelve” June 29, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedI had a great day out with Arnie yesterday at Brooklands for the “Double Twelve” classic car event.
There was the usual mix of cars, including plenty of Aston Martin DB4s to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
As soon as we had parked a pretty young lady offered us free tickets to the Merc Off-Road experience which we happily accepted. Our mode of transport was a diesel 430 GL which was huge but easily coped with all the usual steep inclines, two wheels off the ground, deep water type of environments. Arnie asked the driver what sort of mpg it was doing, to which he replied “currently 7mpg and the overall average is 5mpg”.
All classes of cars had to complete various trials, including a hill climb, reverse parking, the Wiggle Woggle, etc.
The secret to the hill climb is to try and snatch 2nd gear as quickly as possible and stay there. Many smaller engined cars could only manage it in 1st gear. We were standing half way up the hill when an Invicta tried to change up but got it all wrong and bits of the engine were deposited on the track in front of us, as oil started to trickle back down the hill. An expensive mistake for the owner.
Lewis Hamilton made a guest appearance and after an interview with Tiff Needell he took last year’s McLaren F1 car around the small circuit for a few laps. The noise was amazing, you just don’t get the sound levels at all on TV.
You can see some photos and videos here.
Site building May 23, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedIf any of you want to build your own web site then Google has just opened it’s Sites builder to the general public and Webon also looks interesting. Both are free.
Drupal to you too May 20, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedThe eagle-eyed amongst you (and I know there is at least one) will have noticed that I made a change to this web site a few days ago as a prelude to moving over to the Drupal CMS.
Well I decided to revert back to my native Wordpress for the time being as Drupal is a bit mind boggling and it’s easier if I just muck about with it on my PC rather than install it on my web site.
Something will change somewhere, eventually. Maybe.
Super Fit May 17, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedSophie&Val after their 5K run
It’s nearly May already! April 27, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedAs you’ve noticed, there have not been too many updates lately. This is generally down to not much happening.
Having said that, we have done some travelling this year, New York, Helsinki, Beijing. The latter two were business related, so not very note worthy. There were also some birthdays.
I have moved the TomTom article over to the Travel section (I thought that this seemed appropriate). You can see it here.
I will add some more photos soon.
Sophie is in full swing in the garden so perhaps I’ll start a gardening section, or maybe not.
As I write this I am being prompted to upgrade the version of Wordpress that I use. I am on 2.3.1 and it is now at 2.5.1, so I better do something about that. There must be a few new features that are worth having.
Happy 2008 January 20, 2008
Posted by lee in : Uncategorized , comments closedWe’ve had a busy end and then start to the years. Christmas was nice and peaceful, spent with my parents. New Year was spent at home watching the London fireworks on TV.
We did go out for a lovely lunch with Chris & Pauline, Pat and Margaret, on Dec 28th at The Chop House which is in a great location. We walked back from here to Waterloo along the Thames, stopping off at Tate Modern en-route.
Next on the agenda was a long weekend in New York as part of Sophie’s birthday event, but really it was so that Emily could go shopping. We stayed at The Wellington Hotel, on the corner of 7th Ave and 55th St. It is where we stayed about 15 years ago with P&M and it hasn’t really changed. It’s fairly basic but great as a base for exploring the city. As well as shopping we made sure that Emily saw all the sights, and even went to a show on Broadway.
The day after we returned to England I took Emily, Holly, Clarissa, and Hannah to see The Spice Girls at the O2 Arena. It was a great show with a wildly enthusiastic crowd.
Finally there was a big party for Sophie’s birthday and the whole Bluhm family came from far and wide to help celebrate.
