Annual Non-Imaginative Day
Posted: Thu 14 February, 2013 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Valentine's Day Leave a comment »So yes, Valentine’s Day. Again.
It’s the day where unimaginative couples everywhere buy cards, flowers, chocolates and/or food to say something they should be doing on every day except this one.
Enjoy. Or, you know, say it with roses…
Rose with a skull in it
Driving Day
Posted: Tue 12 February, 2013 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Today is the real ‘shake-down’ run for the new Saab, one of my classic “Devon and back in a day” jobs.
Only time will tell how well the run goes, but well, it’ll be interesting, regardless.
The Value of Romance
Posted: Mon 11 February, 2013 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Domestic, Food, Marketing, People, Thoughts, Valentine's Day Leave a comment »While out over the weekend, I went past a Wetherspoons pub, and they’ve got a stunning offer for Valentine’s Day.
2 for twenty quid – feel valued yet?
Yup – take your beloved out and show her how much you love and value them by making it a Meal for Two for £20. What could possibly be more romantic than that ?
And the sad thing is, I bet they’ll be bloody packed.
Under Attack
Posted: Sun 10 February, 2013 Filed under: D4D™, Technology Leave a comment »Over the last few weeks, D4D has been getting a really heavy load of spam hitting it, and I don’t really know why. Akismet is installed for antispam, and reports itself as working, but the load is getting ever higher. It’s been two to three hundred a day, and while none of them get to show on D4D itself, they’re still a pain in the tits from my side.
As it turned out, a lot of it was coming from a small collection of IP addresses, so I spent a little bit of time today blocking everything from those IPs – and lo, the spam has fallen massively.
It may be that with time they’ll change IPs again, but if I see it happening, I’ll just add those IPs to the blocked list too.
Photos of Building Sites
Posted: Sat 9 February, 2013 Filed under: London, News, Photography Leave a comment »I don’t quite know why, but I find this set of photos on the BBC really interesting.
Basically, as the title says, it’s about photos of building sites in London, but the views just make it interesting.
Bye Mondeo, Hello Saab
Posted: Wed 6 February, 2013 Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Finances, Travel 2 Comments »So, today was the day I picked up the new (to me) car.
It’s a Saab 9-5, big beast of a thing, with just under 75,000 miles on the clock. It’s just had an MOT as part of the price, so that’s clear ’til January 2014 without any advisories, so that’s good news. It’s also cost me a lot less than the Mondeo did, which is also (for now) a good thing.
It’s now all taxed and insured, so I’m completely legitimate – I always am, and the insurance was in place before I picked the car up. The tax couldn’t be, as I didn’t have the V5 and so on, but it’s all done now.
So yeah, time to play with a new vehicle. I’ve got a Devon run next week, which will shake it down nicely. (That seems to be almost becoming a tradition, having done the same thing with Mondeo in its first week)
Hopefully this will last a good couple of years, get me through everything else without causing me issues. Time will tell, but that’s currently the hope.