This is great, and such a simple but addictive idea. Keep the drunk bloke upright for as long as you can.

I’m sure there are many of you who have seen someone like this, or maybe there’s a few of you that have been like this yourself…. (I’m saying nothing)….. but all you have to do is keep the drunk upright for as long as you can just by moving the mouse left or right…. so simple!!

I was just starting some database work on a client’s site, so started up SQL Server 2005 Express and got this rather useful error message.

I can only assume the error was so serious that it left the program speechless and unable to express in words just how serious the error was!

OK, I’m sure there are lots of t-shirts designed for bloggers, but none are as cool as these!

That’s right, gazraa.com has opened it’s shop. More witty slogans will be added to the choice soon, as well as more t-shirt designs and other clothing options.

If you have a witty slogan, or a request for a certain style of clothing then don’t hesitate to let me know. If you are one of those stylish bloggers who do end up wearing a gazraa.com t-shirt, then send in your pictures so we can see just how stylish you really are!

Yes, already there is an update.

Basically the network card hasn’t made any difference at all. The wireless connection decided to drop right in the middle of a skype call to a server technical support bod I was trying to to sort a client problem out with.

I swore at the wireless connection several times, but even that didn’t help.

It is really frustrating!

I’ve got a Acer Aspire 3610 laptop which I currently use to do all my work on. It comes with a built in wireless card which has caused me no end of grief. So much so that when I use it in my house, I use an ethernet cable that goes from my router, down the stairs and across my front room as I need the reliability.

I had the problem where I would be connected fine, then out of the blue the wireless network would disconnect and then it wouldn’t be able to connect again even though the signal is classed as excellent. A major pain in the rectum, especially when you are mid way through uploading a client’s web site. I upgraded drivers, reinstalled it, played with the settings, but nothing seemed to work.

So before I got to the stage of throwing the laptop out the window, I bought a 802.11g Wireless cardbus adaptor from eBuyer. It’s the D-Link 108G AirPlusXtremeG, sounds scary doesn’t it. It cost me a massive £26.88 but hopefully it’ll cure the issues.

So far so good but I’ve only had it installed for about 30 minutes!

I don’t know whether I just got a duff card in my laptop, or whether the drivers are rubbish, or something else, but it really put me off wireless for a while.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to get out more, or at least do more that other people may find interesting and useful that I can blog about. When I started this blog, and my photography blog I thought I could make a couple of updates a week at first and see how things go. It appears that I am struggling to make ONE update a week, if that, which is bad, very bad.

I think reaching the status of pro blogger is a long way off and I haven’t yet reached pre pro blogger yet. What I have found is that I think of something to post about, but then think “hmmm if I talk about this, then I should explain this, but by explaining that I will need to explain that otherwise it won’t make sense”. So that’s my first problem…. maybe I’m a PROcrastinating Blogger, the blogger that never quite blogs.

I then think “well if I post about that, I need to make sure I link to some other sites and blogs, so I need to find and read related sites and see what they are saying about what I want to say” so then I might have a look at some other blogs, but then I get caught up in the “oooh this blog is good, and that link takes me to another good blog, and that blog takes to me to another site with something funny on, or possibly something interesting, then a client phones up needing changes to their web site done, then I need a cup of tea, then life gets in the way of letting me remember what it was I was first going to blog about….. etc etc blah blah blah”.

It’s very tricky!

I do admit to being easily distracted, if fact I nearly went off to look at another web site before finishing this post off, maybe I have Attention Deficit ……….. something or other….. what was I saying?

Ah yes, focus, I need focus. I am still new to this though, but I can’t use that as an excuse for too long……. any suggestions for helping me focus are gratefully received.

Well I made the effort and got up at 2.30am to catch the first Grand Prix today. What a boring and uninspiring start to the season. OK, it was a good result for Lewis Hamilton and he showed great promise for the rest of the season, but nothing else stood out as remotely entertaining.

Kimi won it easily from the front, Alonso got past Hamilton in the pit stops and everyone else just sort of lined up behind them… a long way behind them.

I think I saw about 4 overtaking moves, one of which ended up with Coulthard flying across Wurz’s car, a moment of excitement, but other than that nothing else.

And that new tyre rule, you have to use both soft and hard compounds during the race, they are getting desparate if that’s the sort of rules they have to come up with.

Come on F1, make it exciting to watch again!

Finally the F1 season kicks off again this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. I’m a bit of an F1 fan but I must admit to not being too excited about this season. There just don’t seem to be any drivers that stand out or have any character.

OK, most people didn’t like Schummy, me included, but at least things happened when he was racing, some good, some bad, but it brought a bit of excitement. There are some great drivers, Kimi, Alonso, Massa and of course our own Jenson Button, but none really stand out as having much of a personality. Button is the driver I would like to do well, and I was so pleased when he won his first GP last season, but will his team give him the car and support he needs to win again? We shall see.

Let me know what you think about the coming season. I shall be posting my thoughts about the races I watch. Speaking of which, it’ll be an early start Saturday to watch the qualifying on TV and again on Sunday for the race. Hopefully it’ll be worth it!

Just found two other blogs all about F1 with a quick google, so I’ll be keeping an eye on them over the season too. They are:

F1-Blog and F1 Fanatic, they both look to be well informed and updated regularly so they will added to my daily blog read. I’m not going to have to time to do anything else soon with the amount of great blogs I’m finding.

Daniel at Daily Blogs Tips posted about a great plugin for web developers, bloggers and anyone who does some form of work to do with the web.

I won’t steal his thunder by going into detail, but it’s well worth getting the Search Status plugin if you can.

Just been reading an article over at The Register entitled “Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live“. An interesting point of view, but in my view it’s utter bollocks. How can he even predict what will be happening in 10 years time?

OK, so a blog as we know it today may not be the type of blog we see in ten years time, but people will still want to write what they do and feel on a regular basis.

Blogs are no more than web sites. Before ‘blogs’ people would create there own web pages about what they wanted to talk about. Web Logs was the term used to describe them, the term Blog came about and scripts were created to make creating regular updates easier, but they are still just web sites, and web sites aren’t going to die in 10 years.

Blogs have become community driven, bloggers link to other blogs, and the word is spread. OK, there are a lot of blogs that do a lot of linking, but not much talking. There are bizarre blogs, weird blogs, rubbish blogs, pointless blogs and of course, really good blogs, some of the more pointless ones may dwindle and die but there is still going to be blogs in one form or another.

Apparently Bruce said “You are never going to see a painting by committee that is a great painting,”. That may be true, but I don’t think you can compare blogs to a painting in that way as they serve different purposes. Paintings are there to please and show what the author was feeling at the time of creating it. Emotion and feeling are part of it.

While bloggers do put their emotion and feeling into their posts, and share their views (just like I’m doing here) it would be a pretty boring thing if there weren’t views from others and discussion about what the blogger is saying. That is what the community is great for, and that is why it will continue in some form long beyond 2017.