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Ever have a reeaallly long URL that email clients screw up all the time by putting line breaks in the middle of them?

I just found this site called makeashorterlink.  What it does is take a long URL and creates a page with a short address and an autoforward function to the original.  You can then email this URL happy in the knowledge that it won’t get split.

Here’s an example:

http://forums.pdabuzz.net/showthread.php?

s=38f2372f89b4e568d25f7736a12daaa5&threadid=

38402&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

changes to http://makeashorterlink.com/?J61056AE

It also has options so that you can hide the redirection page, use a new window etc.  Handy and free!  :star:

1) After watching England’s poor showing against South Korea in their World Cup warm up match today I don’t think they stand a snowballs chance in hell of bringing that cup home.  I know, I know it was only a warm up match and Beckham, Fowler et al were out injured but even so……… The first half wasn’t so bad but the second half they played like a bunch of schoolboys.

2) I bought Vic some flowers today.  I don’t buy Vic flowers (well not often) I had a moment of love towards her when I was out today and thought she deserved them – she likes flowers

She gets home in about an hour and it’ll be nice to surprise her.

Well the weekend has come and gone and too quickly at that 🙁

Did sod all this weekend.  Vic and I spent saturday morning in the center of London getting the battery in my Longines watch replaced.  I have found a place in Bond St that replaces batteries in an hour or so instead of the 3 weeks that some of the high street stores take.  I also used them for my Tag Heuer a while back as they can pressure test to 200m.

Sunday morning Richard and I went to Spitalfields Market.  I wanted to have a chat to the pro that judged the photo competition I won last week and so we thought we’d get together for a coffee. The food stalls there are great and it was very hard to stick my diet :zoink:  but I did……….

Besides that we did f*ck all except chill out and speak to our family back in NZ!

I did however come across this very funny link (IMO) .  It may make sense to church-goers but just made me laugh.

Well it’s the end of my first week of dieting and the figures are:

Date……………………20 May

Weight………………..197 lbs

Loss/Gain week…..5 lbs

Loss/Gain Total……5 lbs

Pretty happy with five pounds, although most of it is probably fluid.  I made a mistake in my maths last week – I actually weighed 202 lbs!

1. What shampoo do you use? – Head and Shoulders.  The problem with having hair that’s about 1/8” long is that my scalp gets dry (too much information?)

2. Do you use conditioner? What kind? Nope – but I do moisturise my head!

3. When was the last time you got your hair cut? 3 days ago. I cut it myself about every 2 weeks

4. What styling products do you use? None

5. What’s your worst hair-related experience? When I was about 20 I had long brown hair in a ponytail.  The afternoon before our company Xmas party I got it cut short and died “platinum blonde” The only problem was that it actually came out more like piss yellow!  As it was such a big change no-one but me knew it was not the colour it was supposed to be.

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It really is a gorgeous day here in London with fine weather and a temperature of 25?C/77?F

Whilst I may not be as lucky as Martin (who was sitting in his garden ICQ’ing me on his wireless network earlier) at least I can sit in my home office with all the windows wide open and the sound of the River Thames wafting over me.

Gotta be better than an air-conditioned building with just the sound of bickering to keep your aural senses working!

1) It’s now been 18 months since Vic and I had a microwave in our flat.  Do we miss it?  Sometimes, but not as often as I thought we would

2) Stories like this piss me off.  You try to save lives and get screwed for it.  They need signs that say “Danger – pretty much everything in life”

Well, I went to my first photography club competition last night.  There were about fifteen entrants and 40 entries.  The judge was a London based professional photographer and had judged many competitions in and around London.  Some of the other club members have 20-30 years experience and are are members of other clubs and have been entering competitions for years.

The judge had to mark the photos out of ten and then choose a first, second and third.

I got first and second equal!!! :vbg:

FIRST

SECOND EQUAL

So out of the three positions I got two!

I was so buzzed!