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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!

I just discovered today that Google publishes statistics relating to searches on a page called Zeitgeist.

This page shows not only the most popular searches but also those that are increasing and decreasing in popularity (and loads more) An interesting read once a month or so methinks.

Zeitgeist Explained…

zeit?geist | Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-“gIst, ‘zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Thanks to Eliot for the link

I’ve just upgraded to Movabletype 2.11 so if you run into any problems please let me know

I think that I moved all my MT file changes over.  I updated the automatic smilies so that they now align=”absmiddle” which had been bugging me for a while <--see!

Just remembered!

I have just installed seti@home and am know part of the worldwide internet based search for extraterrestrial intelligence :vbg:

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Poor Vic

Working at home I like to snack.  Before Monday it would be something tasty – sandwich, potato chips, chocolate, you know, nice food.  Due to my one day old diet yesterday found me chowing down on raw vegetables and fruit. I love raw veges and yesterday saw me consuming raw cabbage, carrots and oranges.  These, in conjunction with the baked beans on toast that I had for lunch made for a very intestinally volatile mix.  Let’s just say that by the end of the evening poor Vic wasn’t very happy with the fetid atmosphere in our little flat – sorry baby!  *smooch*

Spell checking within IE

I found a link on movabletype’s support forums to ieSpell. ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.  Very handy for bloggers who can’t type for shite ie: me

I’m sure there was something else… maybe it’ll come to me later!

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