Did I just say "squee"? Sorry.

Squee! http://www.hornby.com/visitorcentre/ opens next week

Hope you like Germans too http://youtu.be/Qnl3-xNlKVA /via @ppk

Delia Derbyshire would have loved this: http://youtu.be/yF_R5UJGt-g One of my fav tunes /via @geofftech

HMRC just used Direct Debit to take the full amount of my VAT Return despite already paying them. Don't give HMRC the keys to your account

Extensive drilling outside my window today. Bring back the vuvzelas FFS.

Has anyone upgraded to Wordpress 3.0 yet? And if so, is it OK? Also, why would I want to upgrade?

Echoes of Edward Gibbon at Ellis Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ is still going. That's nice.

How soon can I have elevenses?

is peckish

I can hear vuvuzelas through my window in E14

The streets of E14 are unusually busy for some reason.

Just made it clear that I won't be allowing Getty to charge for my Flickr pictures: http://www.flickr.com/people/dominicsayers/

Tomorrow is International Level Crossing Awareness Day (http://www.ilcad.org). Be aware of level crossings. Or be square.

Children just waking up. Have had a productive hour in silence. About to be shattered.

The A14 will revert to being a pack-horse route: http://hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/press_13_10.pdf

Stonehenge has been cencelled: http://hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/press_13_10.pdf

The internet has a Hall Of Fame: http://www.iana.org/assignments/special-registry/special-registry.xhtml

Second 12" I owned: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/hub/artists/sugarhillgang.shtml (first was Wheels Of Steel of course)

Very happy with my new HTC Desire and Android 2.1. Goodbye Blackberry.

My sons will laugh when I tell them how excited I was to hold a 32GB microSDHC card back in 2010

I'm using bad code to build good code. I hope.

Hacking PEAR code so it doesn't make PHPLint barf. geekfest

If I set my location in Tweetdeck and click "Remember this location", is it unreasonable for me to expect it to remember my location?

Driver left my new phone next door because he thought I wasn't in. Didn't say which flat (of 8). None of them speaks English. screwed

Hugh MacLeod is getting a bit irritating.

What is the point of setting my Foursquare location in Tweetdeck if it doesn't check me in to that location?

Trying to control the English language: good luck with that (http://bit.ly/bunchoftwats) /via @montroso

I've been out to a double-bouncer myself - more T20 lateral thinking: http://bit.ly/2bounce

Now getting BSOD, which swings the pendulum of probability back to hard
disk failure. Phew, I can fix that.

For the record, AVG Anti-Virus + Tortoise SVN + Windows Live Sync + Windows 7 32-bit = corrupt file system?

Strongly suspect file system corruption due to Windows 7 oplocks and 3rd party stuff like AV and SCC interference

Reformatted my hard disk and got fresh corruptions. Could still be hardware but...

Safely back in the east end after the excitement of Croydon. Oh, the trams.

Last day of half-term. Day trip to Croydon.

has got bad sectors

Salient & salutary: Newswipe from last year on media response to shootings http://youtu.be/PezlFNTGWv4 /@Glinner/@enhughesiasm