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Here we go again. Late Sunday and I'm still bloody working. Just filed the WSR report, now to Justin Wilson's brilliant victory at the Glen. #

Went for a walk in an attempt to clear my head and improve efficiency. In this regard it succeeded. But back has now locked up. Pain… # For them as like small balls of squawking fluff, see this new site that we built and sent live yesterday for a client: http://bit.ly/SE8bb # This heat is…

Calm before the – well, not the storm, but the busy period. Got a half-day marketing training session here at our home office. Wish us luck. # Emerged unscathed from seminar, plenty of ideas, but now hungry and a bit raw. #

For a day that started so dismally, it seems to be picking up as it goes along. # http://twitpic.com/8r2kb – The Spitfire goes in for repair next week – will be so good to have it running again! # Andy Murray getting murdered out there… #thecuckooclock #

feels rough. # is looking back fondly to the days several years ago when weekends last weren't working days too. # More shaky arms after garden strimming. Poor tortoises – all the clumps of long grass they were used to hiding in have suddenly disappeared. # Can't believe how many idiots failed to put their…

Gah. Head hurts, back hurts, feel very woolly-headed. Supposed to be having a biz dev away-day today but the word is thunder and bad roads. # BBC NEWS: Web slows after Jackson's death http://bit.ly/hQD2M [I hope you're all pleased with yourself – you broke teh interwebs.] # Off the mark quickly: http://www.ismichaeljacksonstillalive.com/ (via PL on…

Another day very much like other days before and yet to come. So please feel free to insert your own witty comment here: [ ] # Had good business dev day looking into pricing etc in prep for marketing consultation (note, will block all Twitter marketers, don't try it) # is deeply amused to find…

So difficult to focus today. Working from home is great but on days where your brain is fuzzy there's nothing to force it back into shape. # Frantic few minutes updating our motorsport site & @britsonpole after Max Mosley announced he won't restand as FIA boss http://bit.ly/19MXEw # has taken off his web onliney hat…

Finished Freya North's 'Secrets' last night. As ever, she transcends her genre. Not saying it's great art but it's far above usual chicklit achat cialis 20. #

In foul mood today after heavy working weekend. Have vented by being rude/angry to two cold-call salesmen. One asked for it, one didn't :o( # Good stuff from MySociety on the Govt and what it fails to understand about the web: http://bit.ly/iIkg9 Should be compulsory reading. # Right. I might just feel ready to face…

RT @radioriel Today on Radio Riel we take you back to the years of WWII http://tinyurl.com/lz2a7w [wonderful music & interesting story] # Have written up our visit to #F1 Silverstone yesterday here http://bit.ly/staof – really interesting day on a lot of different levels #

Still scheduled to be at Silverstone later as Shell/Ferrari guests despite last night's implosion. Could easily be cancelled, obviously. # http://twitpic.com/7sev2 – Silverstone weather holding up, just. #

Still a bit stunned: if it all kicks off tomorrow in Formula One, we'll be in the Silverstone paddock as Ferrari/Shell guests to witness it. # is back from a trip into town to buy a camera and dictaphone. I swear the guy in the gadgets shop hasn't aged a jot since I was a…

WTF? Am awake and it's barely 6am. Not Want! # RT @ElrikMerlin @billt:http://twitpic.com/7lyr7 – Pizza with radius "z" & thickness "a" has volume pi*z*z*a ! [Oh bloody hell that's bad…] # RT @girlonetrack INCREDIBLE hi-res photos by Boston Globe of gov't violence post #iranelection http://is.gd/13o9W [via @Swerdloff] # One door closes, another opens – Renault…

Good day so far: a van has arrived with 24 bottles of Cornish real ale, bought from Sharp's at http://bit.ly/cfvne. I <3 teh interwebs. # RT @white_hart RT @unblinkered Will be "living" in Tehran for a while…..explanation here http://bit.ly/GNyon #iranelection #

All hail the healing power of tea and cornflakes when faced with an early-morning splitter of a headache. Almost feel human at the moment. # RT @girlonetrack We should line up all the blog commenters who shout "First!" in front of a firing squad and ask them, "Who's first, then?" # Headache returning: need more…

Is this 'counting data' proof Iranian election was fixed? Looks pretty convincing to me. http://bit.ly/EDpoD via @ElrikMerlin & @MusicThing # Am sitting here thinking 'okay, it's the weekend. What now?' Tea probably. May well go to watch the town cricket team in Herts Cup later. # http://twitpic.com/7ddtc – # Hmmm. Test of sending photo to…

Despite forgetting all about it, managed to grab http://www.facebook.com/andydarley. Clearly there is not much competition for this very fine name. # Brilliant steampunky b&w advert showing how the world might have been if the web had come first and newspapers followed: http://bit.ly/GfjzG # Is really enjoying having a non-working day site fiable pour cialis. Done…

RT @Astrofiammante Suspect in US Holocaust Museum killing has BNP links http://bit.ly/oMd0L # RT @helenduffett Blogged – How to opt out of the mobile phone directory: http://bit.ly/2e4vU4 # Working on an email template. In HTML tables. It's making me feel dirty, and not in a good way. It's like CSS never 'appened. Ack. Ugh. Ick.…

is feeling surly. # is feeling quite cheerful as three nice things have happened so far today. # Up to my elbows with emergency re-skin of our motorsport site following WP2.8 upgrade disaster. Will be using @justintadlock 's Hybrid theme # The BBC's @the_magazine produces one of the year's most groan-worthy headlines on a story…

Today looks very much like yesterday, which is not on the whole a recommendation. # You know you’re past it when you see the headline ‘Pop star Stevens robbed at home’ and assume it means Shakin’ Stevens. http://bit.ly/JTKAh # Here’s a fun game: hunting for perfectly-camouflaged tortoises in torrential rain to check they’re somewhere sheltered…

If there is a theme to today, I have yet to discover it. #

RT @Kate_Butler anti-BNP demos today: Liverpool 1730 Town Hall; Manc 1730 Piccadilly Gdns; Sheffield 1700 Town Hall; Preston, 1800, Flag Mkt # Some background on one of the UK’s new MEPs. Source isn’t exactly impartial, but oh my what a pleasant character he is. http://bit.ly/TZluO # RT @ElrikMerlin RT @theplayethic: Post-BNP, if any video should…

Just settling down to do my half of the live blog of the Turkish GP. Did the report on the IRL Texas race earlier this morning. Need tea. # If this is true http://bit.ly/5RNJk it’s way worse than anything UK reality TV ever did. Passports seized, quitting contestants locked up… # Toast and Marmite =…

Back from London & what turned out to be a pan-European (or even global) humanist conference. Brilliant speakers from UK, NL, BE, DE & India # is adjusting to life after Second Life. The withdrawal symptoms are pretty severe. Getting unhooked from absinthe is nothing on this… #

Green Party surge helps Tories win Hitchin N by 6 from Lab and saves them in N Herts Rural by 73 against LDs. BNP scum win in S of county. # Ruddy Norah – the Dutch have beaten England on the final ball of the opening match in the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup. Astonishing stuff.…

Fascinating piece in the Indy. Newly discovered World War One photographs, help needed to identify people/units in them. http://bit.ly/geSFI # Nice tinkly piano music/squiggly jazzy stuff on @radioriel at the moment. Perfect for when (as now) one’s head is stuffed with cotton wool. # RT @danieljowen loves headlines mentioning gay penguins. Makes you just want…

And… relax. That’s the last of the election leaflets done, with help from Beloved Other Half comparatif cialis. Back is a bit of a wreck but rest will cure. # Just been watching nesting blackbirds in the creeper on the garage wall. Very sweet. # I love a dual-monitor set-up: work on one monitor, live…

Bloody tortoises. One came into the house when we weren’t looking, crapped on the carpet, and toddled merrily off into the garden again. #

Woke up with my back locked solid… bloody leaflet rounds. # Bof. Tired and battered after a ridiculous working Sunday. #Scrum estimation meeting, IRL & Indy Lights and more motorsport. Need a weekend. # (Bof)x2. Just remembered I have to do a quote for a possible new client. Think I’ll review it tonight and nail…

OK, have had tea. Let the day begin. # Certif arrived from FSB, with comical covering letter: “Now, as a member, high-handed gvt officials will be too scared to bully you’. ROFL. # Sniffing an upset in Britain’s Got Talent. Suspect Susan Boyle might have peaked too early and Stavros Flatley might snatch an surprise…

Last day of sprint & suddenly none of the network clients can access the #scrumworks server. Firewalls check out OK. Odd, maddening. #scrum # is suffering uncontrollable twitching in the dead nerve deep inside his leg and feels sick because of it. Meralgia Paresthetica is a bitch. # thinks life seems a lot better with…

needs breakfast, coffee, inspiration, animation, tea after the coffee, a clear head and a rocket up the arse. Apart from that, all’s well. # Well, never did get the inspiration or the animation – but my old contracting agency did just send a case of wine so it’s not all bad. #

feels all grown up and professional cos he went to a seminar yesterday and is now about to have a phone conference with a marketing expert. # thinks life would be a lot easier if only it wasn’t so difficult. Although perhaps it’s only difficult because it’s not easy – who knows? # is having…

is off to London for training seminar later. Hopeful of good stuff but West End agencies – bah. Black holes for clients to pour money into. # doesn’t like London and doesn’t want to go back. It’s crowded and too full of people and smells. Can’t we just wall it off, be done with it?…

Happy Towel Day folks – do you know where yours is today? #towelday # Absolutely wiped out after yesterday liveblogging F1 in Monaco and doing live Twitter updates on Indy 500. Going to have a quiet day today. # Tired but happy after a burst of gardening (and pouring cold water on shagging tortoises) #

Meh. Woke at 6am from bizarre and upsetting dream about a lack of blue cheese. Never got back to sleep again. Long working day ahead. # #3drunkwords “I wanna tattoo” # #failedtvpilots Life on Pluto # #popefacts The Pope IS Spartacus # Heh. Twitter memes, the Chinese takeaways of the meme world. Gone in a…

RT @Astrofiammante Hurrah! Just got tix for British #Humanist Assn’s Darwin, Humanism and Science conference with Dawkins & Grayling in June # Lovely day… tempted to take the laptop into the garden and work there. # Jesse “The Body” Ventura: can we get him back into politics please? http://tinyurl.com/qmsr6b # A simple job of sorting…

Argh. Webserver running slow. Laptop with IE6 (for testing) booting slow. If I put kettle on while waiting I bet that’ll never boil either. # #CSS Universal #IE6 stylesheet – neat solution to IE6 headaches, but not convinced many clients will buy it. http://tinyurl.com/odf43t # Just had a visit from Papa, John, Ben and Jerry.…

OMG – Radio Riel is playing ‘The Good Ship Venus’ (Loudon Wainwright III version)… Just Google the lyrics if you don’t know it… # Am having a battle over whether the blind should come down because of glare on my PC. The more things change, the more they stay the same… # Pushing 10pm. Time…

Hair cut and eye test today. Preferable to eye cut and hair test, I suppose. # http://twitpic.com/5he1q – Early morning head-clearing Tai Chi. # Mmmm – pancakes! # Haircut: emphatic. Eye test: passed. Good stuff all round. # And AGAIN I am moved to state, clearly and unambiguously, that Internet Explorer 6 is a syphillitic…