How del.icio.us

Now I got bored with Jason Kottke's self satisfied ramblings months ago however stumbled across this rather amusing piece about del.icio.us eating del.icio.us whilst finding a link to the page I linked to here. You probably have to be an internet nerd to appreciate this though.

In other news....

Right all sorts of little things have been going on that I thought I would have a brief rant about.

Firstly, you may have noticed some subtle changes to the appearance of Nick101, such as the loss of the Weather-pixie, the Blogger and Britblog icons and the loss of my nice centrally aligned format to posts. All due to the 'upgrade' Blogger Beta which I am somewhat nonplussed by to be honest (sorry nice people at Blogger (aka Google)). Additionally this has also messed up my Statcounter stats as the the html no longer works and I haven't had the opportunity to fix that yet.

Next... over the summer period those nice people at Network Rail appear to have installed a CSR (Cab Secure Radio) telecommunications mast outisde my flat which has only just become apparent due to the autumn loss of tree screening. I am not really bothered about this, and actually am not actually allowed to be bothered about this having ranted to so many people who have mobile phone masts approved by me that are at the end of their gardens that such matters were a non-issue and their children and pets wouldn't die of radioactive death plague. Interesting for me though as it tests my proffessional convictions.

This weekend I met Claire's parents for the second time which went very smooothly if I do say so myself. I also (and possibly more challengingly) met her autistic brother for the first time which also seemed to go well. I think fun was had by everyone although I do feel a little socially drained from the whole thing as I have only just recently got home from this little adventure (hence my late night post).

Speaking of Claire, if you are interested you can see her Myspace page and blog here (hope you don't mind the publcity Claire!) (I shall hold my tongue regarding my general opinion on Myspace).

More news... I am bored with my now not so new job (again) having been there nine months and am getting itchy feet again. Am intending on applying for another job with a certain other London Planning Authority. Although this one will require another move of home becuase it is massively uncommutable from Maidenhead, probably more into London (which I have been thinking about anyway... Chiswick, Acton, Fulham, Chez Bue locale methinks), says he in advance of having even completed the application forms let alone get an interview.

Erm, what else...

Presently enjoying listening to: Faithless - Bombs. Video is very good.
Presently downloading planning on hiring from the video shop as is legal and proper: Prison Break.

That is all for now. Have a good week people.

(And yes I know this post is full of repetitions and typos bt I don't care so there!)

New York photos

The majority of the photos from New York are now on Claire's flickr. However here are some of my favourites (click to enlarge - the photos are quite big).

A really nice candid shot of 106th Street off Central Park West.

Claire being all artsy in Central Park.

Central Park, looking west towards the Upper West Side.

Nick and Claire in a helicopter. Yes that's right we did a helicopter tour of Manhattan which was nothing short of amazing, even if the weather weas a little grey and windy.

Statue of Liberty from the aforementioned helicopter.

Upper East Side of Manhattan taken from Central Park across Jackie Onasis lake (this is my new desktop background on my computer).

Nick and Claire messing around in Sheep Meadow in Central Park.

The Flatiron Building in Mid Town, New Yorks first steel framed skyscraper.

Nick and Claire looking very fetching by a fountain in Central Park.

Chrysler Building et al as seen from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.

Fun in the Skyscraper Museum.

Flight time

New York is amazing. I didn't want to leave. However, now back in glorious England and feeling a little jet lagged. Photos (of which we have around 300) soon...

Did I mention New York was amazing?

Also congratulations to Laura who gave birth to six and a half pound baby Thomas last night at about the same time I was leaving JFK airport I think.

New York baby

Nick and Claire are flying out to New York on Tuesday. We are staying here. We are going up this and going on this. And lots of other things too.

Blog may be updated and photos may be added to Claire's flickr while we are out there dependent on time and internet accessibility. No doubt there will be more on the blog when we are back.

Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

This evening I saw Borat's new movie Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. This film is funny. It is also very, very wrong. Just when you think the absolute high point of wrongness has been reached it is subsequently surpased by further even more extreme wrongness. Go see.

Additionally, apparently potassium is not Kazakhstan's biggest export.

Its bad to laugh at other peoples misfortune

Except when they are complete idiots who deserve it... Very funny video of dumb drivers having issues with rising bollards (via).

Cold and windy and omg look what I was doing this time last year

I was going to do a brief post moaning about how it is now cold and windy. And well it is. So I guess that concludes that bit.

However as I was typing the title of this post into the title bar in the blogger interface the autocomplete function popped up with a previous post title I had done, specifically cold. Which erroneously reminded me of this post about daylight which I did around about this time last year.

But in looking for these posts to link to I found that this time last year on Friday I had my interview for my current job. Now this is probably fairly meaningless for everyone else but it is the first time I have stumbled across something on my own blog that I had forgotten about and re-reading it was really cool. A lot of things have changed since I had that job interview... (he says whilst staring wistfully into the middle distance).