Hello world

The luvvies have descended darling... and the town is the star of the new TV show Downton Abbey starring Dame Maggie Smith, Huge Bonneville and someone else who I have been told is famous but didn't recognise.

The reality is that the production guys took our lovely village green bit in front of St Marys and turned it into North Yorkshire. A stretch in my view but I am sure those guy know what they are doing.

I have just spent another two hours of my life giving 2001 - A Space Odyssey another go. I think to review it here is simply not fair. This film was made in 1968 when I was one. Man had not yet stepped on the moon and all our lives had been taken over with a science fiction frenzy. You just needed to look at the cars, the fashions and the optimism at the time. There is no doubt that this film influenced many modern film directors. James Cameron robbed whole sections of score for his Aliens movie, every British child's favourite film maker Gerry Anderson must have based UFO on what he saw in 2001. The wonderful end title score by Barry Gray is so reminiscent. 

The march of the spammers will never abait. Here is a cracker...meet beautiful 26 year old KseniyaLam (which sounds African to me). Lookin' for lurrvee.

Oh if I was half my age. 

Bridget Street

I would like to thank you for:

the  wonderful holidays with fish & chips and Walls Cornettos

Fantastic roast dinners with those spuds.

Pushing me around when I broke my leg

Getting the wrong end of the stick

Teaching me how to jog

Letting me stay up late (when Lorraine wasn't allowed at that age)

The sell in starts in September and doesn't let up until 24^th Dec at 23:59. The businesses that sell us all this stuff that we buy have to make a buck and I don't blame them for using advertising to coax the weak from parting with their cash.

Hell it's a festival isn't it. Sure a festival of consumption, of self indulgence. Where has the magic gone. The thrill of waking on Christmas morning. The sheer excitement of being all together and knowing that a miracle has happened all around the world. It's gone.

Another day and another email , this time from Vishal Vohra at Rhealsoftware spamming me. This company sounds like it might be OK. None of the usual spelling gaffs that make me laugh so heartily. No, this time my mucker Vishal is offering a developer at £8 pounds an hour.  No shit.

At that rate I needn't turn up for work. Tell you what I'll negotiate the deal and employ Vishals buddies to do all he hard work. 

ProfileCommon is not defined - Problem Solved.

I was creating a new website based on code that I have created last year. I am sure many developers copy snippets of code to speed up the website construction phase. However when trying to access ProfileCommon from an external class it threw an error stating it wasn't defined.

Dim pfile As ProfileCommon = CType(HttpContext.Current.Profile, ProfileCommon)

ProfileCommon is not defined.

It worked great in code behind classes but not in an external class.

Why did it work before and not now?

Oh yet another SPAMMER hoping for a mug. But wey-hey offering $2.3 million for the transaction.

God I love em.

START THE SPAM +++++++

Why are some trades people so rubbish at keeping appointments.

I mean, you call them up, they sound interested in the job and they will say something like "I'll call you back later to discuss" but you know what… they don't call back.

I was also looking for a builder for a building project and I approached quite a few. In six months I approached 38 builders and firms and got 9 replies.

Notice of Underreported Income - SCAM

Just had this email in:

Taxpayer ID: your.name-00000174073547US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)

Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):

review tax statement for taxpayer id: davis.brent -00000174073547US

Internal Revenue Service