Next stop Christmas

Yes, the final bank holiday is past for another year. How was yours?

I took advantage of a summer spent stuck in work to take a few extra days off this year. Managed to fit in Get Loaded in the Park and a visit to Portsmouth, so also didn't feel like I'd wasted the time off.

Get Loaded was as good as always - yet again after a shit summer the weather was on its best behavious and we sweltered ...

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Ah, summer eh?

Summer is drawing to a close, which can only mean the weather is going to improve... It seems to have vanished in the blink of an eye, porbably whilst I was holed up in a pub at the weekend sheltering from the rain. I honestly don't know what's happened to 2007 - I was so certain that this was going to be an amazing year, and yet here we are with only 4 months left to go and it seems to be the ...

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There's so much wrong with this picture I don't even know where to start......

God bless the internet

I checked my Google Analytics this evening, just to see what's been going on. Bizarrely, someone had found their way to my blog by typing "Noel Mellor" into the search engine. And spent almost 10 minutes on it.

"Who's he?, I hear you cry...." Well, it would appear he is a former Ticketmaster employee now working for Bruntwood Estates in Manchester (and abusing his internet access), who decided ...

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This google analytics thing is awfully clever

and more than a bit 'big brother'. Andy was talking about it and saying some of the slightly dodgy internet searches that have led people to his site, given that he normally has random movie quotes in there.

My first discovery is that I've had 11 unique visitors in the last 24 hours, one of whom found me by typing "john smeaton.com" into Google. I googled the same phrase, and there I am - number 5 on the list of results! Who says you have to spend money to get a favourable listing?

I can also tell that at least two of the visits have been by me, as the name of my company is shown in the networks listing. Hope they're not checking out similar things at their end.....

I've addedd Google Analytics to the blog

so I can see who has been visiting it. Thereby confirming once and for all that apart from me and my mum, the thing only has about two readers. Still, until it gets to just me reading it (or even beyond that), I shall continue waffling crap and clogging up the information superhighway....

wasted Sunday

or should that be wasted on Saturday night, leading to a wasted Sunday? Yet again I have managed to not leave the flat for the entire day and my weekend has disappeared in the blink of an eye. Thank goodness for J working the late shift, as going to collect her will force me to get some fresh air before the weekend is over completely.

Welcome to the world Leon Philipp Bickelman

Yes, another of my friends has gone and had a baby. So congrats to Stella and Pino on their new arrival. I'm off to the pub, and looking forward to having a teenie hired assassin available in years to come to settle any scores necessary.

The two videos I posted on You Tube have been viewed a combined total of 150 times

Do people have nothing better to do?

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I thought that my posts this evening might look a bit like popular drama series "24", only with days of the week. Then I realised nothing of note really happened on Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Wednesday, so it became similar to an annoying box set after you've had a party and someone's nicked half the dvds.

Anyway, it's been an eventful week.

Tuesday

4pm, Tuesday afternoon. Sitting at my desk feeling reasonably productive. The phone rings. Jane answers. "Tony, it's for you - it's Group Security and Fraud". Panicked thoughts streak across my mind - finally my idle internet surfing has caught up with me - I've accidentally clicked on an Ebay link once too often, they've done an audit of my internet and emails and I'm buggered....

I pick up the ...

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Friday

Last Friday I had the dubious pleasure of being scanned with a metal detector on the way into the pub. Such are the wondrous times we live in these days. I felt a little bit like I was in Total Recall for a moment, as the bouncer pointed at the square, wallet-shaped thing in my pocket and asked what it was. However, the novelty had worn off by the time I got inside as I wondered exactly why they ...

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