Who’d have though that an Apple sale would require you to don riot gear in order to attend.. According to the BBC, “More than 5,500 people queued for a chance to buy one of the 1,000 laptops and stampeded when the sale of the computers started.” And apparently there were “people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in [...]

Chesney Fucking Hawkes man! Originally uploaded by charmingman. Stopped by the Cardiff Big Weekend last night, managed to catch Chesney Hawkes play a few tracks, was pretty fucking good if I may say so. Check out myFlickr for more pictures.. Click here for the video

Well, following on from my previous 1,2,3 posts, I have finally sorted the technorati tags situation. They work! Plus, in getting them working the site is now 99% more efficient than it has been in many a year. Still a few things to tweak, but I’m glad to say, we’re on our way!

Oh shit! Lil’ Churchy isn’t happy with ol’ Benedict XVI. Time to consider your resignation then Your Holiness, if this Kerrrrrazy chick isn’t impressed then you had better watch out, she’ll probably hit you with the bottle of vodka that is permanently fixed to her hand. But seriously, check out this new story, apparently “I’m from a Catholic family. But I don’t like this new Pope – he even wants to ban Harry Potter. He says it’s because it’s full [...]

Well, I didn’t get around to doing anything with the code last night, but I’ve spent 5 minutes looking at it this morning, and have managed to rid myself of 300 lines of redundant code. Yes, that’s right. I’ve more than halved the amount of code in my index.php and the site looks, acts and feels exactly the same. Now to start re-writing what is left of it so that I can get indexed on technorati, hopefully shouldn’t take long.