JD’s Blog

… both the family’s Volvo 360 (that I wanted to one day restore as a classic), and my will & reason to keep on living as a result

CarChitChat.co.uk - another future potential classic bites the dust

Seems more & more is starting to come about about this, here’s a collection of links about it I’ve come across (seeing as I keep losing them when I need them):

Political Correctness & Global Warming

The World has never seen such freezing heat

Rise of sea levels is the greatest lie ever told

A new ice age is on the way 

You may have noticed via the big gaps between posts on this blog that they come along in pops & farts, and I don’t post on my blog that often, then post sh*tloads at once like I’m doing right now.

On 20th March of this year (2009) it was my 30th birthday, it wasn’t really that much to shout about really… was kinda hoping to go somewhere like Scarborough or York on the bus or something, but my Dad wanted me to go to the flamin’ bank for him. As usual I didn’t have a party either.

Anyway, enough of that… I suppose more interesting would be blabbering on about the presents I got instead.

If there’s any thieving little twats reading this, such as the ones who nicked my Nintendo DS + 1st Nokia N-Gage a couple of years ago, don’t even think about it unless you want to be hung, drawn & quartered.

In the weeks leading up to my Birthday, I started looking up presents to buy just for me with my own money (seeing as I rarely get given anything I actually WANT by relatives these days on Birthday & Christmas, unless it’s money… in which case the more the better)…….. in particular I started looking at Binoculars.

I eventually opted for a pair of Meade Travelview 8-24×50’s for £40 from Telescopehouse.com - there were cheaper models, such as the 10×50’s from the same range for about £22.50 but I figured if I did get the cheaper ones from the same range I’d then regret not opting for the 8-24×50’s with it’s greater variety of options, as they can be used as, with the tweak of a lever:

• 8×50’s
• 10×50’s
• 12×50’s
• 14×50’s
• 16×50’s
• 18×50’s
• 20×50’s
• 22×50’s
• 24×50’s

They arrived something like 10days or so before my birthday, and impressions so far are that they’re bloody brilliant….. better even than the 10×50 Carl Zeiss things from East Germany my Dad bought me for my birthday (out of my own pocket money!) around the late 1980’s, and I kinda accidently broke so only one side of them has been usable of the years.

I’ll try remember to write some more about stuff I’ve done with the new binoculars in a later blog post, otherwise this could end up being a very long post.

On the actual day of my birthday, I got £25 in cash… a big plastic toolbox / tacklebox I don’t have much use for (or space to put it) + some UMBRO branded showergel/deodorant.

After much consideration, I spent the £25 on these things….

Dogtanian (Series1) on DVD
I used to watch this show as much as I could when I was a kid, summer holidays when I was still @ Primary school wasn’t complete without seeing this in the mornings (usually followed by Inspector Gadget, if I remember correctly)… and I’d recently found the series on YouTube (with bits missing), so thought I’d get the DVD while I still could. With a bit of luck I might even have time to watch it one day.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (PC)
I already had this game for my Gamecube since around 2005 (in fact it’s what prompted me to buy the Gamecube in the first place) , and been considering for the past year or two to get the PC version of it so I can play the game even when I can’t use the Gamecube (can you tell I like this game?).

Race Driver: GRID (Nintendo DS)
I’d been waiting a while for a decent racing game for my DS, only having MarioKart DS to race with on that, and that didn’t really feel aggressive enough compared to, say McRae Rally 2005 on my Nokia N-Gage or GP2 / GP3 on the PC, or Gran Turismo 3 on my Playstation2. This game seemed the best bet, especially with the track designer, even more so now I’ve pretty much figured out how to work it.

After the Saturday & Sunday that followed my birthday, I’ve had an extra £40 of Birthday money come in from a couple of late stragglers, and right now I’m trying to decide what to get with it. I also won £20 on the THUNDERBALL draw of the National Lottery on 1st April, which I guess means I now have £60 to spend….. only trouble is I can’t decide what to get with it, as there’s so much stuff I want right now (and can’t bloody afford), including:

• A new fishing reel to go with the Shakespeare MACH1 8ft Quiver rod I bought with last year’s birthday money.
• Professor Layton (Nintendo DS)
• Lego Indiana Jones or Star Wars (Nintendo DS)
• iPOD Nano (but not enough)
• Fuji F50fd / F60fd / F100fd / F200fd Digital Camera
• Fuji S100fs Digital camera (not enough for that)
• Fuji S5 Pro digital camera (definately not enough)
• To start driving lessons again (not enough for that)
• Abu Garcia Esprit 13ft Match rod (mk1 or mk2)
• Abu Suveran Feeder rod (too much money)
• BERKLEY M1 Barbel rod (too much + seemingly no longer available)
• A new watch

There’s also many other things I want that’d take even longer to list, but I guess you get the idea by now. I was also hoping to have a bit more to spend after the 2009 Grand National, but if you’ve already seen the post for that, you probably know by now that that idea didn’t quite work.

For the reel to go on the rod, I’ve seen 2 for around the £25 - £30 mark, but only trouble is deciding which bloody one to get….. either the “Shakespare MACH2 rear drag” (in 035 size), or the “Mitchell Avocet Gold II 2000 rear drag”. I’ve also seen the budget version of the “John Wilson Avon Quiver” rod (I’ve always wanted a John Wilson Avon rod since I first started watching his Fishing TV shows such as “Go Fishing” in the late 1980’s / early 1990’s) for about £38.95

I also kinda want a new watch, since the Casio EDB-701 e-Databank watch I bought a couple of years ago is in nearly as bad a condition as the watch I bought it to replace (+ the battery appears to be getting low, and the backlighting won’t work as a result).

Guess I’ll just have to keep on thinking about it.

I run a number of webrings on Webring.com - joining one of these is still a great way to promote your website for next to bugger all, and I’ve recently been expanding my portfolio of webrings that I own / run.

Here’s a selection of the best ones…….

• Astronomy Ring
• The British Isles Show
• UK Aviation
• UK Links
• Vauxhall Community
• Kit Cars on the Internet
• Penpals Around the World
• Freshwater Fishing
• Saltwater Fishing

For a full selection of them, visit the “Mission Control Centre” for all my rings HERE.

For a small fee, you can also have your site featured on them.

4th April 2009 saw the running of this years Grand National, and my 2nd serious attempt at placing some money on it @ Ladbrokes.

In 2008 I won something like £20 - £25, in 2009, to say I wasn’t so lucky would be a bit of an understatement…..

£8 e/w on “My Will” @ 7/1 = £11
£6 e/w on “Butlers Cabin” @ 9/1 = £0
£4 e/w on “Rambling Minster” @ 10/1 = £0
60p e/w on “State of Play” @ 12/1 = £1.20
40p e/w on “Black Apalachi” @ 14/1 = £0
40p e/w on “Comply or Die” @ 12/1 = 80p
Bets = £19.40
Returns = £13

Results / Report - BBC Sports

Results / Report - Daily Telegraph

Cross your fingers for the Illinois Derby + Malaysian F1 Grand Prix later on….

You may recall back in December ‘07, JD got a smidgeon too carried away snapping up domain names for Domain name investing / Domain name parking purposes…….. and as I’m a bit on the skint side right now as a result, and not quite raking in the amount of money I was hoping for from this, I have this lot available to get shot of (or for “rent”) if anyone’s got a use for them:

http://Year-2008.co.uk

http://Year-2008.me.uk

http://Year-2008.org.uk

http://anti-scam.co.uk

http://anti-virus-online.co.uk

http://boxersonline.co.uk

http://boyracersonline.co.uk

http://chickenkorma.co.uk

http://chicken-korma.co.uk

http://dating-adverts.co.uk

http://dating-adverts.me.uk

http://datingadverts.me.uk

http://digital-snapper.co.uk

http://digitalsnapper.co.uk

http://electricity-online.co.uk

http://fly-earth.co.uk

http://flyearth.co.uk

http://it-vibrates.co.uk

http://needs-batteries.co.uk

http://planet-earth.me.uk

http://scarborough-north-yorkshire.co.uk

http://ubore.me.uk

Any / all sales shall be handled via SEDO - The World’s leading Domain name market place.

If none of these I have for offer suit, check out: http://domainspage.co.uk/

I’ve decided to make the “Top 10 Links” bit in the Blogroll menu into a “Favourite websites by other people” and unlimit the number of sites I add to it…. except it seems the silly person who created this Wordpress blogging software forgot to include a means to change the name of the categories if you decide to make a decision such as this.

On the morning of Sunday…… *goes to check calendar to see what the bloody date was*…… Sunday 31st August 2008, I as per usual for a Sunday morning these days went to the Cash & Carry in Eastfield, nr Scarborough with my Dad to help get supplies for his shop.

Things were running smoothly right up until the turn right into Thornburgh Road to get to the entrance to the car park. We got there just in time to have to hold on a few secs for a queue of traffic, which just also happened to be around the same time a bloke exercising his Rottweiler was picking up it’s turds from the pavement / grass verge.

The sight of the tennis ball sized bag of rottweiler sh*t (with the plastic bag moulding itself to it) was almost enough to cause me to to come close to seeing my breakfast again, and gave me a few Vietnam style flash backs during most of the rest of the day………. just as we finally got to turn right, I was thinking “you watch…. I bet before the days out, the old git’ll inform me that there’s a bag of sausages for dinner in the shop freezer” (like I really wanted to have sausage after seeing that? particularly as I’d already bought something else on Friday afternoon for Sunday’s dinner…. well, except ended up having that on Saturday instead, and was gonna have what I bought for Saturday’s dinner for Sunday’s dinner instead).

Low and below, sometime after 6pm (I think), guess what he kindly informed me was in the freezer for dinner?

In the past month or two, in order to try rake in more advertising dosh from my sites (chance would be a fine thing), I’ve been knocking out a few more websites to try make use of them.

Here’s a couple to keep you going:

BritishAngling.co.uk - A Directory of all the top UK fishing websites in one place, along with a couple of Fishing book Amazon aStores I already had going for one of my existing fishing websites + Ebay Auction listings for fishing items.

JD’s PC Security site - A site to help you keep your PC more secure from the ever increasing annoying little tw*ts threatening your PC’s security & privacy with Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Malware, Spam, Phishing……… and basically try make some use of some of the Anti-Virus / Anti-Spyware / Anti-Spam / Anti-Scam oriented Domain Names I snapped up since December 2007 (when I got a little carried away, and snapped up over £650’s worth)

Just made another Amazon Associates’ Widget…. this time to show off some of my favourite books to read:

UPDATE: 4th September 2008, 8:13pm BST
Zapped the widget from this blog entry, as it was causing the menu on the right side of the BLOG to play silly sods, and appear right the way down at the bottom instead of alongside all these posts.
You can still view the widget HERE, though.