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For all you fans of Mr. Prudent himself…

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer

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The Seventh Annual Ketom Gambling Evening

Just finished speaking to Ken on the old dog and bone. He was a bit concerned that no-one had replied to his missive regarding the above event. I’m sure that everyone has done the same as me, read it, thought “that’s ok” and not bothered replying, but just in case you haven’t got the message and he hasn’t since contacted you another way and you happen by this way here is the email he sent out last week verbatim.

Good Morning Gentlemen,

After much deliberation and consultation, I think the best date for said gambling evening would be Saturday 20th August. I’d appreciate it if you could reply back to me and let me know whether or not you are free that day
- if there are problems we can move it to Saturday 27th August, but I would rather do it on the 20th.I’ll be away until 14th August, so if there are any problems I’ll try and sort it out when I get back. If any of the email addresses I’ve used are old (esp. Sam’s) could someone forward this on to their current address.

Toodle pip,

Ken

If you are reading this and have no idea what it means, then ignore this. If you do, then I’ll see you there.

Collier has been working on his website recently, seems like some people our age from Thomo have got married. They look vaguely familiar. Look out for my drawing which he has included!

Collier’s Website

Google has finally revealed what many people have believed for a long time.

Google Moon

So it really is made of…

A week or so ago I installed the Forecastfox extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s very handy and usually pretty accurate. It was wrong late last week when it had been really warm and forecasted rain which I would have welcomed, but not came. Even throughout the evening when it was updating it’s current weather part it was variously saying “Raining” and at one point “Thunderstorm” when it was still roasting. But what can you do?

Earlier on today when it refreshed it’s current weather display this popped up from above the notification area.

Made me smile anyway.

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Last week the driver gave me a (horsey) tip. I told him I didn’t bet on the geegees, but he gave me the name of the horse anyway. Later on when I turned the television on it was on whichever BBC channel was showing Ascot. So I decided I would have a gamble. Won £20.

So I thanked him today and he gave me another. Here it is:

Salsbury 22.06.2005 (Today)
5:10
James Cairn

He also told me some stories I shall share these too.

The Irish Man & The Lorry

Sat in a pub one night an Irishman started telling the story of how he was standing behind a lorry beckoning it on as it was being reversed. Launching into his best Irish accent, “That’s it, come on. You’ve got plenty a’room”. Only turns out he didn’t. There was a post behind him and he got caught between the lorry and the post. At this point the driver (I can’t for the life of me remember his name, so I’m going to have to continue referring to him as “the driver”) said he couldn’t stop laughing at the thought of how this Irish guy got himself into the situation and the accent was just making it worse. The Irishman was not happy and this and
said he nearly died and lifted his shirt to show massive scars all over his torso. Didn’t help apparently, still carried on laughing his head off.

Mine’s bigger than yours

Now I didn’t think anybody actually did this but… they were in the pub and they were playing one of their favourite games. Measuring their pieces and seeing whos was the biggest. Apparently there was one guy who I assume won all the time and had something of a schlong. One of the other contestants grew wearisome of this and said “I’m tired of seeing that thing” and proceeded to introduce said schlong to the cigarrette in his hand. This resulted in much screaming and yelling from the schlong-owner.

Keys!

This is a more recent one (I gather these other stories he told me were from some years past now), and happended just last week. The driver had gone to Woolworths before setting off on the return leg of his journey back to Liverpool. He’d bought whatever it was he needed and was leaving the shop. Realising that he forgotten a magazine he’d promised to pick up for his wife he turned around. Waiting in line with said magazine he heard the cashier call accross to her colleague that there was some keys here and would he take them to lost property. On hearing this the driver checked his pockets. There were no keys. Some serious embarrasement and head scratching was avoided. They were his keys. The keys to the wagon.

No more tips or stories next week. He’s off on his hols.

Ridicilous race today, only six cars / three teams took part due to safety concerns with the Michelen tyres.

“If Michael Schumaker does a victory leap, I’ll personally go and punch him.”
- Martin Brundle, ITV F1 Commentator

Was bored and so decided to poke around my own site earlier. Found something else that didn’t work in Firefox.

The Last Week

The thumbnails were not presenting themselves as links. This is code that I wrote about five years back now and has been working well enough for all this time. So I went back and had a look, and sure enough there was an error. Good old IE had been covering my back all these years and making allowances for my mistake.

Can you spot the mistake?

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Seems I have passed some sort of threshold number of haircuts. The barber didn’t ask me how I wanted my hair cut today, he already knew.

Also I have hacked together an rss2.0 feed for this blog. It’s something I really missed from the old d2kblog.

fatdotblog (rss2.0) - http://www.fatdotchris.co.uk/blog/rss2.asp

Edit: fatdotchris software

So now we get to have a look at all three new consoles.

The new Xbox looks nice. The (wireless) controllers look nice too. (I notice that the black and white buttons have vanished).

But the new PlayStation? It looks kinda… ugly. Huge and ugly. It’s like it’s this rounds Xbox. Very strange.

And the controllers? Ok, so when they launched the PS2 they were accused of not being very adventurous only adding analogue pressure sensitivity to old dual shock controllers. But these are just weird.

I see that Nintendo have also semi-announced their new console today too. Revolution is it’s codename. It looks more like the current PlayStation 2 than the GameCube. Is this an admission of mistakes made on their part?

While it’s still very early days with regards to anyone actually being able to buy any of these three machines, based on the last week my moneys on the XBox. (With it’s three dual-core processors).

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