I don't know about you, but this wording on the MSN Music sign up seems designed to confuse.

For the second time in my life, I popped a tyre at speed on the M25. In retrospect I think I heard it go; there was a spang kind of noise - as of a stone hitting the inside of the wheel arch, which is what I though it was at the time. But then things became progressively more wobbly and I switched the radio off and things didn't sound good at all. Fortunately, I was near the turn-off to the A127, so I trundled down there and parked just prior to the roundabout. Not the best place to change a wheel really, but I was rather out of options. It's possible I was in more danger of some drunken idiot ploughing into me down the slip road than when I was barrelling along at 80 with a rapidly deflating rear tyre.

After I got the spare tyre on - which is one of those mini-spares they always seem to supply - I slowly finished the journey. Today I splashed some cash on an entire new set of tyres. Before I took the old one in, I took a snap of the damage.

What not to do when you're asked to feed the cat, but forgot to take the keys:

Reading the link in Gawker's Bill O'Reilly: 99 Problems entry, I noticed the Google adwords on the Fox News site were being a little rebellious...

There's still a very strong smell of smoke when you come out of the Dartford Tunnel, even four days later.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Warehouse fire causing M25 chaos

Four long distance pictures of smoke from the fire that closed the M25 yesterday, necessitating a 27-mile detour for many people and my journey time extending to three hours rather than forty minutes.

...in a world rocked by devastating natural disasters, whilst civil wars and atrocities wreacked havoc, one man stood alone: Stephen Green - National Director of Christian Voice, a UK-wide prayer group - fought tooth and nail against swearing... on... TV?

“We will probably bring a private prosecution against them for the common law offence of blasphemy.”

“Having seen the thing, if this is not blasphemy, nothing is. There will be nothing sacred if we cannot successfully prosecute the BBC.”

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Springer opera draws 1.7m viewers

The sad thing is he's not alone. In addition to Christian loonies, The Sun managed to motivate 0.06% of it's drooling hordes to send in their complaints before the thing was even shown. Of course, the Sun wasn't motivated at all by outrage, but simply in another attack on the BBC because it's consistently shown up Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV.

“Blade is recruited by the Night Stalkers, who reach him through Whistler's daughter Abigail (Jessica Biel). It would have been too much. I suppose, to hope for Whistler's mother.”

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

I spent much of yesterday trawling through old logs at work, cross-referencing email addresses and checking IP numbers. And why? Because, some idiot's spent the better part of eighteen months creating upwards of 60 accounts on the servers and then tricking the more naive amongst our users to give him email addresses so he can send them viruses >_<

As soon as HatfulOfHollow's device is done, I'm buying multiple copies.

Time for a new site system/design I think. The old site is here until I can be bothered to move the old posts over (if at all).

Update: apparently I can be bothered.