In August 2002, I visited Florida on holiday. In return for what seemed like 7 successive days at theme parks in sweltering weather, my family kindly allowed me a visit to the Kennedy Space Center which was a fantastic day out. As luck would have it, a shuttle launch was actually scheduled during our stay so I planned to drive out to the highway to watch it. Unfortunately, the initial launch was postponed due to inclement weather conditions so I sporadically checked the TV and radio for the rearranged launch date and time. ...

Poor old Spain. After their fans roundly booed the French anthem, I was almost rooting for them to prevail over France last night. However, I don’t like Luis Aragones. I think he is an arrogant racist so I was quite pleased that France beat them. Well, no, hang on a minute, actually no I wasn’t that pleased because I also think Thierry Henry is an arrogant cheat. Let’s just hope Brazil beat France on Saturday. ...

One of the things I like about WordPress is the sense of community. Wordpress users (and developers) willingly help each other out on the support forums. There is also a FAQ with useful information for newcomers and experienced users alike. You can find similar, related WordPress blogs of interest usings tags and you can also discover new material by examining the league tables of the most popular WordPress blogs, individual articles and the fastest growing blogs over on botd.wordpress.com. ...

On Monday, I received two DVD’s (’Ascension’) containing 225 minutes from some of the last shows by The Chameleons in San Francisco from October 2002. Great songs, great lyrics, great artwork. Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. PS. Don’t bother commenting that this contravenes rule 3. I know.

On Friday, I saw the massive Rooney crucifixion poster on the westbound M4 in Brentford near the GSK offices. I think the Nike creative is an interesting use of religious imagery. Deliberately provocative but much better than the unimaginative, banal media advertising we normally see in the UK although my wife was heard to mutter ‘Ugly man, ugly face, ugly poster’.

Collin from that esteemed, well respected publication ‘The Blog Review’ was kind enough to review this humble blog and raised the thorny question of an ‘About’ page. The absence of an ‘About’ page is one of Collin’s pet hates and Lorelle also thinks they are very important. While I agree that background information about the author may be interesting and contact details may be useful for establishing dialog that isn’t suited for comments, I don’t think that the lack of an ‘About’ page is necessarily a habit of an ineffectual blogger. ...

Someone in my family was lucky enough to receive a Sony PSP over the weekend. The Sony PSP is a fun device. The PSP can play music. The PSP can surf the Internet. The PSP can even view photos and DVD’s. The PSP is also pretty good as a games console apparently. The PSP is attractively styled in black although, bizarrely, my model came with a hideous white strap and incongruous white earphones. ...

When you are trying to print something in a hurry, there is nothing worse than discovering that your work of art has just been queued behind a monster 764 page document. As you are stood by the printer wondering whether to hang around, return to your desk or to submit the job to that printer on the fifth floor, the printer LED displays ‘Attention: Out of Paper’. Naturally, there is no paper in the print room so you go to the stationery cupboard for more ammunition and load Trays 1, 2 and 5. ...

England qualifying for the last 16 in the World Cup after those two very mediocre displays.

I was travelling on a train in Stockholm today when a man walked through the carriage selling something. Unlike London, he wasn’t flogging copies of the ‘Big Issue’ to feed his dog or demanding money with menaces. Instead, this gentleman simply proceeded to place small cards on each vacant seat. He did this very quietly and politely and then returned to his original position. Despite craning my neck and desperately trying to look at the cards while simultaneously trying to look completely disinterested, I couldn’t actually discern what was on offer. ...