Norton Canes Services - M6 (Toll). Three clocks behind the till:- Clackett Lane - 13:59 Norton Canes - 13:57 Watford Gap - 13:58 You genuinely could not make it up.

I was enjoying a stroll along The Embankment yesterday morning, dressed in my Pearly King outfit, listening to Chas’n’Dave tunes on my iPod, munching on cockles and mussels, when I noticed banners hanging from each lamppost proudly proclaiming ‘We are Londoners’. The letter ‘D’ was shrunk to accommodate the rest of the letters. Just like a kid writing a Thank You letter to Auntie Joan and suddenly realising he’s going to run out of space. ...

I heard an interesting interview on Radio 5 yesterday with UK blogger, Tom Reynolds. Tom works for the London Ambulance Service and his blog is a mixture of amusing anecdotes and real-life experiences. I really like Tom’s blog title (‘Random Acts of Reality’), his tagline (‘Trying to kill as few people as possible’), the dry sense of humour (summary of his recent holiday) and his general writing style. Tom started his blog in 2003 which has just been made into a book (‘Blood Sweat and Tea’) which is pretty remarkable. ...

The first blog I ever saw was this one (this entry to be precise) and to be honest, I just couldn’t see the point whatsoever. Then I stumbled across Tom Kyte’s blog which was relevant, interesting and sparked my interest in reading other technical (Oracle related) blogs. Just over a year ago, I started a blog (on blogger.com). Little did I know it but WordPress.com was launched the day before. The creation of the blog was simply a quick experiment to play around with the blogging software. Secondly I was interested to see how long it would take to get a comment on the blog from a standing start. Then I fully expected to lose interest completely. ...

The annual Brightside family vacation in Norway is now over and the nominations for ‘Highlight of the Holiday’ have just been received: Norma - ‘The fantastic scenery, the awesome mountains and unspolit beauty of the fjords coupled with the feeling of absolute peace, solitude and tranquility.’ Norman - ‘The 3 hour hike on the Jostedalsbreen glacier with spiked boots, roped together in a group, taking in stunning views back down the mountain, sticking an ice-axe into ice that is thousands of years old.’ ...