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Um, you’ll have noticed it’s all gone MT default on the main page. Due I strongly suspect to something weird the template for this page got cropped losing about 3/4 of the html. And I don’t have a backup. At all. So while I re-do it all (which shouldn’t be that hard as all the design stuff is in the style sheets) you’ll have to put up with this. Ooh, the embarrassment…
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Tomorrow I’ll be working the bins in Bicester (prn. ‘Bista’). I haven’t been a bin man for, ooh, 12 years, so it should be interesting. I suspect hanging off the back of the truck won’t be allowed in these Health and Safety conscious days. Anyway, 6.00am start and, I’ve been warned, non-stop heavy lifting. So I’ll be knackered then.

Just had a mail from my O’Reilly source (woo, look at me!) saying that they’re installing a WiFi point at Foyles bookshop in London. So that’s your breaking WiFi news from pa.c. You’re welcome.

I have a mate who needs a favour - he’s been given a month’s notice to move out of his room in Camden and is urgently looking for somewhere to live in London up to £100 per week. He’s clean, sensible and Canadian and I can pretty much vouch for him as a nice guy.

Anyone can help please contact me and I’ll pass it on.

Matt Callow’s Urban Textures photo site is worth a look. Lots of people photos seemingly taken covertly . A nice mix of portraiture, observation and espionage

For some reason I haven’t been in a writing mood this week. Can’t think why but I suspect a fully loaded RSS reader has probably kept me more that satisfied. Especially with the recent explosion of sideblog/linkfarm/low-threshold linkblogs that are cropping up everywhere. Here’s a project for y’all. Grab an RSS reader (Newzcrawler is okay for PCs, NetNewsWire for the Mac) and load it up with all the linkblogs listed on Cameron’s Overstated blog. Then watch your browsing quality rocket. Gary kindly noted I was blogging well and this is why. Try it.

That aside I’ve been working hard which is probably the other reason for no writing. The cable pulling job turned out to be very dull but extremely tiring with a fair dollop of emotional stress. But it’s over now. I’ll probably write about it later if it still seems interesting. On Friday I worked at an old people’s home cleaning the toilets and emptying bins. Now that was fun!

And now I’m off to Banbury to stay with sister for a couple of weeks. Then it’s probably back to Winchester to dig up mum’s garden for a few days (she wants a patch of lawn to, g’wan guess, do yoga on) before finally making it to Brum on or around September 14th.

So, that’s me news. Or some of it. I’m not sure how frequent my blogging will be over the next month but I’m pretty sure it’ll be less that this one.

Ooh, got an early birthday present today! Mum bought be a new mobile as my old one was physically dying. I would have kept it if the keys worked, the vibrate was consistent (ie worked), it could get a regular signal and the battery lasted longer that 18 hours. But since it’s my main form of communication right now it’s kind of a necessity. So I now own a wee clamshell mobile. It’s tiny! The size of two fag lighters! I keep losing it in my pocket. It does make a hell of a racket though, blurting out deranged harpsichord tunage at every opportunity, but I’ve managed to shut it up most of the time.

So, fun there. Wish someone would call me on the thing though… Or send me a text… I’ll be able to reply now.

Okay , one link. This was put in the link farm but it really deserves a proper post. EVERYONE should read Quickos’ weblog. There can be no excuses.

No posts tonight, not even on the organic link farm, because I’ve spent the evening putting the finishing touches on Matt Abbiss’ new stripblog. Actually it’s the same as his old one only it’s now on Movable Type rather than Blogger. While it slightly pains me to say so Blogger realy doesn’t seem worth it for serious blog stuff any more. Maybe I’ve moved on and am looking back with more experienced eyes, or maybe the fact that the archives had vanished and the option to “republish” don’t exist any more had something to do with it. Anyway, had some fun playing with the layout (nice and simple is always deceptive) and talking Matt through the joys of MT. All in all it was very painless. I might be on to something here…

Well, we’re calling it a Yoga Diary (get indexing, Google!) but it’s really a blog. Early days but I have high hopes…

Figured I’d doa quick google for any yoga-specific blogs and found a few, though not all are yoga specific. Alan Little blogs about it occasionally but has lots of nice yoga photos, the Sivasakti yoga blog reads like a stuck record but maybe it’s just a temporary glitch, Mike’s Yogablog is much more promising being more of a links based tradblog, American Swami is a full-on MT blog and looks comprehensive though a lot of it is over my head, the Yoga Fitness Magazine yoga blog looks like it was a nice idea at the time, and finally Michelle’s yoga blog, well, I think she’s being too hard on herself.

Any others of note out there?