The weather forecast guy said if we have our summer duvets on our beds we should consider adding a blanket tonight. Summer duvet? Only in England would you have a duvet to keep you warm in summer! I did actually have one - it was in two halves, a thin half and a thick half; press studded together for winter and just the thick half for Spring and Autumn and of course the thin half for our cold wet summers. This year has been weird. I'm never too warm and even I felt the heat - now we are back to cold and wet - with arctic winds blowing from the North. But as I write this I hear the chimes of an ice cream seller driving around the streets - in the hope of enticing out young children to buy his wares.

Have you noticed you can have a freezer full of ice cream and the sound of the jingle of an ice cream van still attracts children like the pied piper to his van. Even if the ice cream in the freezer is much better. They still want you to pay for some horrible over-priced crap from the ice cream salesman.

I read some stuff on a website over the weekend that was supposed to be stuff that had been said in IRC chat rooms. Most of it had originated in the USA so wasn't at all funny. But one line was humourous about the guy with the Icelandic mother and the Cuban father - he thinks he's an Icecube.......

Google are banning journalists from using it's trade name as a verb. You are no longer allowed to say I googled it! You must say I found it using Google or something like that. I found Google actually tries to guess what I'm looking for as I start to type my search. It's taken me to Chinese sites so many times, I'm starting to understand the language....

The advertisements on this page will relate to what I write. Last time I mentioned stamp collecting and it put lots of advertisements on to do with stamps and postage...

I also found a site that was a sort of forum for the best massage parlours in a city in Canada. I hate to think what the Google robots deciding on advertments will make of massage parlours. But this site had a guy that appeared to have tried them all and reccomended the girls by name - in fact he even gave phone numbers....

My last blog in this site was also about the "We promise to pay the bearer the sum of One pound" - that used to be on bank notes and referred to a pound in weight of gold. Of course the gold standard was abolished years ago and the governments of the world now just print money willy nilly. The strange thing is if too much of it gets slushing around in the economy - they raise the interest rate that they offer to borrow it back....

Too much money slushing around, leads to inflation. When people have too much money, insead of doing the sensible thing and investing it - they spend it. But have you noticed how hard it is to invest money. You can't just get on the net and buy company shares just like that - you have to go through an agent and pay commission and every trade you make makes the brokers richer and you poorer....

I wanted to "buy" a domain on the Internet. You don't actually buy them. You sort of lease them, again through an agent. The cost of going through an agent varies quite a lot and so does the cost of web space. The cost of web space in the USA is half that of the UK. But I have found one place in the UK that has reasonable prices and even lets you have a few gig free for the first 12 months. I thought at last. I even thought of buying, or renting a few domains with the idea I may be able to sell the rights in a few years time. More money for my retirement fund - along with the sale of my stamp collection. You can also have sub-domains. I had this great idea. I was going to have www.just4U.EU. Then I could add sub-domains like www.handy4U.Just4U.Eu and put advertisements on my website for all the handymen throughout the European Union. I missed out on that domain - but have another one in mind......

The sun is actually shining now and it sort of looks like summer. It's time for me to cook dinner. I'd go for our national dish. The National dish in England if Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, and veggies if you're rich or middle class. If you're common like me it's fish and chips. I think I'll have chicken and chips.......

When I first found that art on the Internet called manga from Japan, I really thought it was brilliant - especially the art for Final Fantasy - some of those characters look real. I found some Art in just about every country. Photobucket has some good pictures on there. I'm slowly roaming the Internet like an International art thief - downloading pictures and turning them in to jigsaws. I add music to the jigsaw to make it a little more interesting and when it's finished - it is hung in my virtual art gallery - that is really cool. You can download a trial of the jigsaw program and the gallery and the only restriction is the number of pieces and complexity of the puzzles you can create. I was impressed and bought the full program. It cost £6.80 including the VAT. So less than $10 US. You can get it from www.Tibosoftware.com and the site is virus free. In fact I was detecting 3rd party cookes at the time and that was the only site that didn't ask me to allow one. Well actually some sites won't let you in unless you allow about a dozen cookies from them, their friends, the brother in law, the mafia and of course the US department of Defense. I mentioned that Manga Art, just because a movie just started on TV, using it.....

I started to watch a movie last night on DVB, Digital Video Broadcasting. We have Channel 4 on analogue TV. Now we have Channel 4 on digital TV and more 4, more4 +1 E4 +1 and so on. There is probably a fourplay channel too. Anyway, I knew the movie was on one of them. I went to bed hoping to watch it on my laptop, with a DVB stick plugged in. Apparently, it was on More 4 +1 which has now been changed to Film Four and so my laptop needed to scan all the channels again. I also found that a channel that used to show continuous holiday stuff is now showing proper programs. They could have told me. I'd given up watching TV months ago apart from the odd Grand Prix. I know Grand Prix and Formula One isn't what it used to be.....

Someone, just logged in on MSN Instant messenger. They ask me to add them and I do and I have no idea who they are most of the time. I added a girl in the middle of the Lebanese war zone the other day. I'm glad to say they have now announced a ceasefire. Hard to think what to tell someone who has bombs going off around them and watching kids get killed. A girl who just logged in, logged in with the message that said "If you treat a girl like a dog, she will pee on you"; I assume that's metaphorically speaking......

I wonder if Google will come up with an advertisement to match metaphorically. My Lebanese friend just logged in. She's only 15 years old. I have to cook dinner or I'd ask how the ceasefire is working out...

That's it. Take some paracetamol for my "summer cold" and cook dinner.....

I wonder what would happen if I googled paracetamol?