Your chance for fame

Looking through the website for one of the local estate agents I discovered that I too could live in Coronation Street, Manchester – weird but true.

Hallelujah

Finally, after five days of being totally shonky, the comments system is back working, and *Gasp!* People can actually post to it now.

Looks like on of the next things on the shopping list is either moving d4d to a different hosting service that allows PHP for a migration to Moveable Type, or at least a comments system that works without needing reference to external companies, or upgrading the existing space on the current hosting so that it’ll handle PHP too.

Joy – just what I wanted to have to deal with.

Plenty of questions

Looking at the horrendous reports from South Korea about the blazing subway train and it’s victim count it did leave me wondering what the hell they were using on the seats. Supposedly this ultra-intense blaze was caused by a man with a cigarette lighter and a “carton of flammable liquid”. So what the hell was it that burned that intensely?

I’m sure that sooner or later it’ll turn out to have been “a terrorist attack” or some other load of shonky old shit, but I do wonder what kind of anti-fire stuff (yes, I know there’s a better word for it, I just can’t remember it right now) they had on the seats – or even if they had any at all. The smoke seen billowing out, and the flame intensity was very reminiscent of a couple of the fires we had in furniture stores etc in the UK before flame-retardant foam became the legal requirement.

Nice little earner

Looking at this story about the infamous London Congestion Charging that was introduced yesterday, I did some of the maths on it. 100,000 drivers paid the £5 fee. So that’s half a million pounds in London’s coffers for one day. 10,000 drivers failed to pay the charges, and will receive fine notices for £80. So that’s £800,000 in one day. £1.3 million income in one day. Not bad work, if you can get it. Extrapolating that, we get the princely sum of £6.5 million in the first working week. Over the year that comes in at £338 million.

Jesus H Christ on a warped pine floorboard

While floating through search requests etc. earlier, I came across Teens for Jesus. I’m pretty sure this isn’t in the same context as “Teens for Michael Jackson” or even “Teens for Gary Glitter”, but it’s still pretty weird.

For those with strong intestinal muscles, the Statement of Faith is good, so long as you don’t bust a gut laughing.

Search results

I have to admit, on looking through the referrer logs this morning, that I felt a certain frisson of bizarre pride for knowing that I come up second on google for cunting bugger as a phrase. Even funnier (from my own slightly silly perspective this morning) is being first for “Things to do to a friend” (the mind boggles why this was being searched for, but there we go). And who was the strange person who found my site while searching for Andrex adverts?

Surreal search request of the day (Non-Google for once) has to go to 8 second clicks on old cunts

Brits stuff

Not that anyone outside the UK will care about it, but the hype for the Brits awards has now kicked in. Thank christ it’s only on Thursday, so the hype won’t be around too long.

Anyway, the current rumour is that Miss Dynamite and George Michael will do a duet, probably an anti-war song. It might be an interesting combination, not that it’ll have any effect on weasel-boy President Blair.