Not me…. but my friend. Not just a walk in the park but 54 mile trek from Fort William to Loch Lomond starting at 7am on the Saturday and ending at 7am on the Sunday. This is non-stop!!

The proceeds are going to the Scottish Communities Foundation which gives distributes money to various charities and community projects in Scotland.

To sponsor go to http://www.caledonianchallenge.com/sponsorship/online.php scroll to the bottom and select Miles Forward II and you should see my friends name - Carryl Christie.

 If you can donate £1, £2 or even £3 I’m sure she would appreciate it. 

 

I’ve read a few websites recently advising mothers on how to ensure their babies are not born on 06/06/06. What a load of rubbish. Are people really that superstitious?

 Just out of interest, did anyone have their babies today? You’ve got 33 minutes left to hold the wee fella in.

1 -Within 1 minute of kick off in the opening match (Germany v Costa Rica), the commentator must mention England.

2 - Regardless of what two teams are contesting the final, England have to be mentioned within the first minute.

3 - The commentator shall refer to the Falkland Isles in passing at some point in the match if England play Argentina.

4 - Whenever a hat trick is scored, comparisons with Geoff Hurst will be made within seconds of the third goal hitting the net.

5 - Should England wear their red jerseys, then ‘1966′ should be mentioned approximately 20 times.

6 - 1966 will be mentioned approximately 10 times a match, or only on 4 or 5 occasions for matches not involving England.

7 - Prior to the captain of the winning team lifting the trophy, the commentator will mention Bobby Moore. And 1966.

8 - When Germany are playing, they must be referred to as being arrogant by the commentator on at least 14 occasions.  This must refer to their style, their passing, their haircuts and their general footballing ability.

9 - Should England play Germany, mentions of Winston Churchill, Dambusters, The Luftwaffe and Adolf Hitler will be compulsory.  And 1966.

10 - All Scottish members of our commentary team must continue to refer to England as “we” and “us”.

11 - We must ensure that nationlistic stereotypes are adhered to.  Of course, the Germans are arrogant. The Spanish are bottlers, The Ivory Coast are fast but bad at defending,  The Angolans are disorganised, The Argentinians are cheats and the French are only good because their best players play in England.

12 - For matches not involving England, we must only discuss the players that are playing in England.  (eg – Holland v Argentina should be referred to as Van Nistelroy v Crespo).

13 - The mythical “bulldog spirit” phrase should be used as often as possible.

14 - Each match involving England should begin with the phrase “England Expects.”

15 - Should any player be involved in an injury that involves the loss of teeth, then references to Nobby Stiles and 1966 are compulsory.

16 - If in doubt, mention 1966.

17 - Praise all of the stunning new stadiums in Germany but emphasise that they lack the presence of Wembley, the spiritual home of football since 1966.

18 - Commentators should feel free to imitate the style of Kenneth Wolstenholme, the hero of 1966.

19 - Should any team feature brothers playing together, then Jackie and Bobby Charlton should be mentioned.

20 - When England bow out after the first stage, we must emphasise that it is a massive blow to football and a serious loss to the World Cup.

Courtesy of my Scottish uncle who is married to an English wife.

I came across this hilarious link. If you get past the silly game thing the song is pretty funny. I haven’t listened to it all the way through yet so I’m sorry if it’s got anything offensive in it. (It didn’t on the parts I listened to)

 Jason Scotland plays from Trinidad and Tobago by the way.

 http://www.scottishquest.com/howscottish/game.html

Jason more commonly known as yfs1 was kind enough to hand over www.web-design-articles.com to me so I could sell it to pay a few bills. As a freelance web designer there are a few times in the year where you have plenty of jobs on but no income for a few months.

You can see the full details of the auction at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=85174

I have personally found that it can be very rewarding to buy an older site as opposed to having a new 1 built.

• The site has backlinks already in place
• Most of the pages will already be indexed
• There may already be repeat customers who have browsed the site previously
• Cut out development time

I think you’ll agree this site has a great domain name as well!

On the news the other week it said that over the next 4 years the average house price in Northern Ireland is going to go up £60,000 ($120,000 for all you non Brits). For home owners this is fantastic news but for first time buyers like myself who have been self employed for 2 years which is our only income which hasn’t been astronomical, it is a very tough job.

It seems that the best thing for first time buyers in our situation is to get a property as soon as possible before the house prices escape us. The government offers a co-ownership deal where they buy half your house and you pay them a rent type thing until you can afford to buy the other half off them. Of course their half increases with the house price increase but it at least helps you get on to the property ladder in the first place. We’ve also found that many banks won’t give you a mortgage with the co-ownership deal. You can find more info on this at http://www.co-ownership.org/about_us/

 I can think of at least 2 other couples in this situation. I have no idea how a single person on a low income would ever be able to afford to buy a house and with the way things are going there’s going to be a lot of 30 year olds still staying with their parents.

Are the house prices really going to keep going up so much or will with this crazyness end soon?

  

Over the last 6 weeks I’ve been getting an increasing amount of spam being posted onto the blog. I’m getting brainwashed with the same words over and over again that I have to keep deleting. I’m sure anyone else with a blog knows the words I’m meaning.

  Are there any programs out there that auto delete posts with certain words?

When I’m getting really stressed or concentrating on something I’ll crack my knuckles without even realising I’m doing it, to which I get told off by Grace lol

 People have told me from time to time that cracking my knuckles will give me arthritis while others have told me that it’s a myth so I decided to do a bit of research.

 It was considered on a few sites whether there was a trend between knuckle cracking and arthritis of which none was found. It was also considered whether those who cracked their knuckles had looser ligaments which would then result in proneness to joint damage of which the result concluded negative.

 Therefor I’m satisfied that the answer to this question “Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis?” is no and that it was indeed people that found it annoying that started the myth.

 What is the cracking noise that comes from your knuckles? Apparently it’s gases (Nitrogen) escaping from between the joints that makes the noise.

It’s version number 6 for the Weirfire website and I hope this one will satisfy our needs for a few years yet. We’ve gone down the content is king route and got as many keywords as we can fit on the site while still trying to satisfy the visitors needs in letting them get what they want without a lot of hassle.

I would like your comments on all aspects of website design from marketability of our products, SEO, asthetics, layout and usability plus anything else you can think of.

We will also be adding a free tools and a not so free tools section in the near future.

 The site is at www.weirfire.co.uk by the way

After almost 2 years trading Weirfire Web Designers has made the decision to get its own premises to work from.

The unit is situated in a business park in Larne called LEDCOM industrial estate.

Some pictures to follow.

http://www.ledcom.org/tenant_list.html

This was a picture taken last week but I’ll get a new one with all our stuff in it.