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This is what they call a discount?

 Taken in my local Woolworths, at lunch.

Via Spiney Head

On Friday night I was pulled over by the police on my way back from Avebury, according to their database; my car is un-insured, now this is a data base that is 68% accurate on vehicles [Reference]. Now Insurance details are dealt with a different database, one that not all insurance company’s send there data to [The Police officer who pulled me over told me this]. now rather than the police doing police work and investigating me for not having insurance, they ask me to prove that I do have insurance, (so much for innocent until proven guilty).

So After taking my MOT, Insurance, and Drivers licence to the police station, and having to prove my innocence, for a offence they can not prove has been committed, but is also statistically unlikely to have been committed by me. (You need insurance, and an MOT, to get a tax disk, and mine is only a month old [This is on my car])

Today I have been playing with getting with my drivers licence, and now have sent it all off to the DVLA to get it updated to a full pink one,

While filling out my D1 form I noticed a section on it relating to being an Organ Donor; While I was in NY, Manda, Ian, Dave and Myself were discussing the campaign for opting out of organ donation. Now I am opposed to implied consent, however the other three thought that implied consent is a good idea.

I am all for organ donation, as such on my drivers licence I have consented to my organs being available for transplant, but since they asked for me to Opt-in, and I agree with organ donation, I did.

Four of us Escaped the clutches of Manchester on Saturday, and Made a long distance (high Speed dash) over a large body of water,

Manda, Dave, Ian, and I have now spent two full days in New York, We are staying in a Hotel called the Carlton Arms (http://www.carltonarms.com), the entire insides of which are covered in art work, (will try to get some good photos)

Wondering round the city is interesting, the entire area is based on a grid system, which should make it easy to navigate, but not convinced as yet.

Today’s half plan is to go and see what central park looks like, as i have seen it in a few movies (one notable is the 10th kingdom (IMDB). and it looks extensive, i am not sure how it compares in size to the royal parks, but no harm in looking.

As some of you may know, and others of you may not, i am not going back to Plymouth this year, and as such i am looking for a job to tide me over for a while,

Tommorow i have an Interview with Hill McGlynn, in Bristol. they are a consultancy firm, and i am not sure what sort of clients they have beyond the railway environment being there fortay,

If you know of any body who is looking for employees please let me know as at the moment any job would be cool :D

Ben is looking to upgrade/fix his computer and has been looking at dual core PC’s he mentions that they use the line “…now you can simultaneously burn a CD, check e-mail, edit a digital photo, and run your virus protection - all without slowing down your computer” as a benefit of dual cores….. Corect me if i am wrong, but was that not the marketing tagline of some of the following :- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, 64bit processors, and any new computer From PC world?

Saga my poor under powered server is a 1.4GHz 256mb beast, running Windows 2000, and Ubuntu AT THE SAME TIME, all without me worrying about slow down, why? well  not just because the virus checker only runs at 3am? or because i don’t have a CDRW attached?

Oh and 64Bit? bugger that, it still doesnt work with XP, yes i have tried, Repeatadly to get it to work, and its a waist of time, Windows XP64 is a pile of crap, which is why i still use XP32 on my 64bit computer

Today was my last day at Scott Wilson! off to greenbelt on monday!

If you dont understand a Scot, or if your american (and think they need subtitles in films) the Scottish Vernacular Dictionary is for you.

This small document contains 1000’s of usefull words, and exsample sentaces.

An intresting look at the three Abrhamic religions
Via Spinneyhead

In Other news Swindon Station was closed off last night due to a “Security Alert” [from Swindon Advertiser], Now as some one on the 18:11 departure from Swindon to London Paddington, i can assure you that the adver is yet again full of crap. (not really unusual) the security response was, the guy in a yellow jacket that FGW employ to look after the station, four plane clothed security staff (possibly police), and only when the train was due to depart one lowly WPC on the platform. oh and no one had a gun,

So 2 hours of sitting on a train in swindon, and Ben has lots of work to do.