My room’s been completely cleared out by now, including the PC, which is why I’m composing this blog entry from the middle of the hall at the top of the stairs. Tasha finds it hilarious, since now she can look over my shoulder as I type.
Katie (the younger one) is going off to the Gordon Brown Centre tomorrow, following a rite of passage which continues with the Isle of White next year. She’s still awake – but probably only because I’ve got the radio on. In the middle of the hallway.
Using a wonderful ‘Grade Calculator’ our ICT teacher gave us, I’ve worked out that given my coursework grades, I only need 46% on the final paper to get an A* GCSE. Needless to say, it’s not at the top of my revision timetable.
Today is a day to celebrate. We have a third-term Labour government, something which has never been achieved before in the entire history of the party.
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As Nic will know (because I’ve moaned about it to him many times) my biggest gripe with Nucleus is the lack of a separate field for URLs \ Email in the comment field. Well, I’ve finally fixed it with the help of these guys which means that someone like Alex will be able to advertise their site with their comment as well as have a groovy gravatar to accompany it.
As you’d expect – your website is displayed – your email address isn’t. This caused a bit of grief this afternoon as I manually edited the MySQL tables to hide people’s email addresses they’d entered after I promised to keep them private. See how much I care about you and your spam-free inboxes, readers?
I love it when Nic redesigns his site – it always motivates me to do things like this! 
The Daleks are back! Like, on TV! Finally, people will stop asking me about my nickname!
Seriously though, that was one hell of an episode.
Staying on the TV theme, the BBC are current broadcasting BBC 1, 2, 4 and News 24 live over the internet. Please note that these tests are likely to end soon, so for the moment:
Two great days in a row… how lovely.
[Update – as predicted, links now dead]Just noticed BT have (finally) upgraded us to delicious 2Mb broadband from 512k. Nice one!
(Wow – after all today’s goodness I bet tomorrow will be shit, just to balance it out perhaps?)
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
