As you may be able to see, I’ve put sheeps on the top banner. I’m thinking I’m going to write something to change the image maybe cookie based, or rotate it on a daily basis. My site is now ranking top for the phrase “Graeme Lawton” on google which is good. Especially as I’ve not got round to putting it in the site title!
Wow! What a week! On Wednesday, valentines day, I got engaged and on Tuesday I was called with an offer for a new job. I’m going to work for a large company based in the centre of Manchester. I’ll be doing Perl stuff, pretty similar to what I do now, but with more emphasis on development. I’m really looking forward to it.
We have got most of our wedding sorted already. Janet is out trying on dresses as I type. We are getting married at church (where I’m a scout leader) and then having the reception at the Midland in Manchester. If it’s good enough for the labour party conference it’s good enough for us 
Well eventually my Freeview PVR unit did arrive from Dabs, I have to admit for £65 I’m very impressed. I was a little disappointed at first that I couldn’t record from both tuners at the same time, but a quick google search and I discovered that I could simply flash the unit and wahey dual tuner recording. Very impressive. If you want to find out more information on flashing the unit check out this site.
On other news I’ve been playing with Google domain tools for about a week now and again I’m very impressed. I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and change the MX records on alolal.org to point to gmail. So now all my mail is managed by gmail. I’m noticing the google peeps making updates as I’m using it. I wonder what they’ll come up with next?
I’m definitely an advocate of Internet shopping, however if anyone ever wants to purchase any technical gear I can certainly recommend not going to Dabs. One description for them that certainly springs to mind is an utter shower of sh*te. I placed an order for a dual tuner free view PVR unit from them on the 23rd January. I’ve still not received it. It is apparently with the couriers who are saying they can’t find my address and that I need to take it up with Dabs. Well contacting Dabs is nigh on impossible. I’ve emailed them with no responses. They don’t publish their phone numbers, I managed to find one from the couriers, but that just gave me an automated response, I used there live support system and was told to email them again. To say the least I’m a little peed off. Grrrr…. I just hope that this PVR unit is worth the wait!
I’m sooo tired. Being full of a cold, and working every free minute on organising things for scouts winter weekend is taking its toll. Still, it’s going to be great. We have made all sorts of crazy things, including PowerPoint presentations, spoof satellite link ups, custom badges, laminated passports with their photos on, space jump suits. It’s all taken quite a lot of work really, but it should be great. I’m really looking forward to it. I really hope the kids like it! Right, well I’m off to bed. Night Night.