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I've been listening to TalkSport quite a bit lately, interesting to hear the callers they get on the late night phone-ins, in particular the BNP supporters, you really can tell that they're not 'all there', anyway, speaking of the BNP, I couldn't resist checking out the leaked membership list which has made the headlines this week, it was somewhat of a surprise to see members from postcodes such as WA15, WA16 and SK9 on the list I must say, also interesting to see a few from my hometown, who interestingly almost all gave their town as Sale, Manchester, despite Sale not actually being in Manchester, I'm guessing those members are not originally from my town or really are that ignorant to not know their own address, although can this only be expected from these Sun-reading, lager-swilling knuckle draggers? That said however, and without wanting to sound like I'm defending the party, it is disturbing to see some of the comments from those on the BNP witch-hunt, you really do have to question the sanity of these extremists who are supposed to support democracy and freedom and tolerance, yet plot violence and harrassment against members of the public just for being members of a political party they happen to disagree with.

Anyway, in other news, I have completed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas again in just over a total of 25 hours gameplay time, I'm hoping to get all the spraytags, horseshoes and photos, completing the fire missions really helped me escape the burning drugs factory in the final mission. Google's Gmail service now has some nice new themes for its users to pretty-up their inboxes, I've got a nice 'aqua' bluey sort of theme at the moment, very calming.

Another rant, I was on Facebook before and I now seriously think they should have some kind of mandatory IQ test prior to registration, I came across a group illegally displaying name and address details of three people involved in the on-going 'Baby P' case, accompanied with fanatical calls to hang those responsible, of course it's a tragic case, but we live in a modern, democratic country with laws and a judiciary system, it's not up to vigilante mobs to despatch justice, no matter how heinous the crime perpetrated, I really do wonder what goes on in these people's minds.

Got a bit of heartburn now, might go to bed now, I'm sick of being out of synch, no BF2 tonight sadly, although got a few projects and stuff to work on, good things are ahead for 2009 and beyond!

It's 05:00 as I write this. I have just brushed my teeth and I am ready for bed, no sign of rtk tonight, had a good game in BF2 in uKm before and EAF earlier this evening. I am so near my goal of 30,000 points I can smell it, although I still neeed 50,000 before I can reach my next rank.

By the way, had four 1664s tonight, the normal kind, not the widget sort, anyway, earlier this evening I completed leg #3 of my epic around the world trip in X-Plane. I flew in my trusty King Air B350 from Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada to Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. I'll tell you, the weather was fucking awful, I'm amazed I got down in one piece, it's damn good to be in the comfort of my hut now, although the locals don't speak much English.... anywaaaaay, my target is to get to Nuuk, Greenland soon, then it will hopefully be plain, or should that be 'plane' sailing to Reykjavik and then onto the Faroe Islands and the UK!

Erm, in other news, well there's not much else to report except that I now have 43 things to be getting on with and that's about it, I'm very lazy at the moment, apart from the X-Plane stuff, I'm doing very little, I hope the other guy sorts me out, anyway, quite drunk here and desperately in need of sleep, bye for now!

Just had to reboot, was absolutely powning in uKm with Vendetta, Fred, Reaper and some others and my fucking PC froze, I'm sure it's because it's overheating again, fuck! It's so fucking annoying when you're powning away and it just freezes as you're about to cap a flag! Anyway, 2008 has been a good year in retrospect, 2007 and 2008 have been good years come to think of it, 2009 is going to be the year though, I can feel it in my bones! Oh yeah, I'm going to have to renew my hosting I think on Jan 1st, I actually bought the HWDN hosting on new year's morning 2008, I remember that night so well, good times, so full of ambition, hope and beer!

Another thing, I fucking took screenshots in xfire and the fucking thing hasn't saved them after the crash! I screenshotted my awesome top scores, and now I can't impress my xfire friends with them!

The things you can come across on 43things....
Anyway, got some 1664s in for tonight, hoping to enjoy some BF2, music and general chillage! Was on EAF before with Embed101, JinHit and the others, damn GG guys, very close to my 30,000 goal now, I can almost smell it! Argh I'm already adding inline CSS bad, bad, bad, still, there's much to be done, I need to think out how I'm going to deal with images in blog posts, I mean images are vital but I want to be able to upload images and not worry about resizing, I might use a PHP script to generate resized images on the fly, I think I'll also have a look at Mootools and those other JavaScript kits to add a bit of functionality to the site and have those cool 'Lyteboxes' when viewing images.

That reminds me, this site will only use JPEG and PNG images - no GIFs! Just having a nice cuppa, some home-made biscuits and quite possibly a packet of Flamin' Hot Monster Munch in a minute, an episode of Father Ted is on BBC 2 at 11, yes, Father Ted on BBC 2, it's being aired in tribute to producer and writer Geoffrey Perkins who died in August.

Just had a really shit game of BF2 on uKm, shame to see Vergil has left and has come back and is now causing grief with other uKm members, breaks my heart to see a good clan tearing itself apart, especially members you used to enjoy fragging in Karkand! Anyway, time for bed I think.

Just been checking my stats in BFSV and good to see |PT|RATING has become one of the latest victims of PID spoofers or has unwittingly gone on a hacked server. A bit harsh? Well, no, you see |PT|RATING is a maggot of the BF2 world, he truly is, not just because he is a jet and helicopter whore, but because of his penchant for redlining, you see, |PT|RATING doesn't like having passengers in his aircraft, and he certainly doesn't like being left on the ground with lots of bullets whizzing past him, that's why you'll never see him actually involved in a firefight or in an infantry server, he's not a teamplayer and now he has paid the price, enjoy your reset, Rating!

In other news today, I decided to do a bit of a mission in X-Plane, flying from Medellin, Colombia with the intent of flying as far north as I could, echoing the flights of the 'Cocaine Cowboys' back in the 80s between the United States and Colombia. About 10,000ft above Baranquilla, I needed to go for a much-needed shit, shower and shave, so with autopilot on, I left it as it was on a pretty much 0° heading, with the intention of refueling in Kingston a few hours (hopefully) later. About 45 minutes later, I was shocked to return to a frozen PC... whilst I was showering, my X-Plane had frozen somewhere over the Caribbean sea and I couldn't alt-F4 or alt-tab out of it! Annoyed, I pressed the reset button and booted back up.

Finally, a rudimentary blog working on HWDN! I've been working on coding this on my local machine for a few weeks on and off and I finally have got round to uploading it, everything is written in PHP and I have coded it to be as simple as possible (for me) to work with and rely on as little (or no) repeated code whatsoever, in fact, the words you are reading now are extracted from my database using one class, the RSS feed will use the same class, but simply call a different function getblogsXML(), which will output raw XML, rather than HTML.


More work is to come of course, I need to add some sort of navigation, I have at least two pages, this and the contact page. I also want to make a nice AJAXy blog admin page, allowing me to create, edit and delete blog entries, although one step at a time. Been listening to TalkSport while working on the site, damn good radio station, especially since I can no longer listen live to Radio 2 using the BBC iPlayer, as I am still on Windows 2000. The BF2 is going well, I should be at 30,000 points soon, getting into the top 100,000 of the leaderboard is proving to be just out of reach as usual, not helped by the recent spate of 'hacked' accounts, although of course, they're not hacked as such, the servers they play on are. Right, time for bed, it's 03:38 as I write this, I am knackered.

It's fucking freezing tonight! Going to bed now, will work on HWDN tomorrow.