I started this as a comment to a friend's posting but decided to post it as a full Blog instead.

We are now at an age where the vast majority of people are becoming technically adept and technology is creeping in to virtually (!) eveything we do.

However, technology and people is a frustrating combination. Patience with technology is at a premium as the human element cannot cope with the slowness that occurs through excessive traffic or the crashing of machines or applications due to the whole system being dependant on a piece of mechanical hardware somewhere along the line.

The frustration that manifests itself can then sometimes be self destructive. Technology becomes bad so threats of ceasing to use it rise to the surface. We can't cope with having to wait for something so we get wracked off with it.

But the technology is not the problem. Our inability to design robust systems, reliable hardware and use the darn thing properly is the problem. Our need to run through our world at a 100 mph is the problem. We want it and we want it now!

Technology is wonderful (and you really don't know how long it has taken me to teach myself to say that!). To be able to communicate, through written word virtually (there's that word again!) instantaneously to someone on the opposite side of the world is a marvel. In a few minutes I'll press "save" and this will be available for reading to potentially thousands of people around the world.

And the Internet IS a wonderful place. It's filled with so much information and opportunity to learn. Ok, there are some dodgy areas but the vast majority is good. Life is like that - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (cue the music).

So don't threaten the technology with excommunication when your Blog is slow or, heaven forbid, crashes altogether. Remember how wonderful it is. If you can't use it at anytime, come back to it later when the server has been rebooted or the software reinstalled.

Come back to it. Don't ever turn your back on it. Cause one day, it may turn it's back on you. And where will you be then!

Ok, I'm game....

You may ask me three questions and I shall try to answer them. Things that you would like to know about me or my life, my past my future, what makes me tick, what makes me sick. From the mundane to the serious - fire away and I will endeavour to answer for you... but I make no promises!

Thought it would be interesting to find a few instrumental rock songs. So here they are ...

Transylvania (Iron Maiden)

Captain Nemo (MSG)

Genghis Khan (Iron Maiden)

Into the Arena (MSG)

YYZ (Rush)

... do we build castles in the Sky (77)

everybody say whoa......

whoaaaaaaa.....

Ok, time to get (some) credibility back (if you're still with me that is!!)

This is Canada '85 to me ...

Haven't written one of these for a while so here we go...

The plot is taking off again and I am slowly getting back in the swing. I have done another three or four pages this morning and am now up to 127. That is equating to 35,500 words so far.

Part 2 of the novel is reaching conclusion and I will soon have to start work on gluing it together with part 1. That should be interesting.

I plan on having maybe another hour or so on the book before doing a bit of research for the thingsthatgobump blog which Sweet Lady Jane has kindly let me co-author. I want to try and live up to her excellent standard of postings.

So onward and upward as they say. The bad guy is in the hospital ready to spin his evilness. Hmm... wonder what he is going to come up with?

Time will tell ....

Prize goes to Jenray who spotted I only did 10 of the 15..

11. Type in "[your name] gets" in the Google search:
Phil gets his ass kicked

12. Type in "[your name] eats" in the Google search:
Phil eats paper

13. Type in "[your name] can" in the Google search:
Phil can nab Ronaldo

14. Type in "[your name] drinks" in the Google search:
Phil drinks tabasco sauce

15. Type in "[your name] makes" in the Google search:
Phil makes a woman cry (Sorry ( )

With thanks to Mademoiselle VisionInBlue ...

1. Type in "[your name] needs" in the Google search:
Phil needs to help AT&T

2. Type in "[your name] looks like" in Google search:
Phil looks like Zippy the Pinhead

3. Type in "[your name] likes" in Google search:
Phil likes to do Dylan songs

4. Type in "[your name] says" in Google search:
Phil says 6 more weeks of winter

5. Type in "[your name] wants" in Google search:
Phil wants a Chelsea dream team (?!)

6. Type in "[your name] does" in Google search:
Phil does a coke rocket that goes very high

7. Type in "[your name] hates" in Google search
Phil hates bum fights (!)

8. Type in "[your name] goes" in Google search:
Phil goes pole dancing

9. Type in "[your name] loves" in Google search:
Phil loves snakes (NOT!!)

10. Type in "[your name] has" in Google search:
Phil has it all

I've just spent the last hour trying to redesign my Blog and it has really frustrated me. It has been a real bind trying to get Buddha positioned correctly but there he is now, in all his glory.

Fresh look, fresh out look. Hopefully the posting may be a little more interesting from now on. Nearly gave it all up this weekend....

Three years ago we decided to completeley redesign the back garden. Being a hayfever sufferer I was fed up of sneezing and streaming when I mowed the lawns so decided that we would landscape the whole thing. It took three years to shape and mould the garden into something that would be decorative but easy to maintain.

Part of the plan was to create a Zen Garden. I constructed a frame up near the summer house but never got round to completing it. However, I can now proudly say that this has been done and here are the pictures to prove it ...

1 Give the address of a crap website.

www.portvalefc.com

2 Name a crap song.

Anything by the Artic Monkeys

3 Name a crap T.V. Program.

The Apprentice

4 Name a crap film.

Dirty Dancing

5 Name a crap T.V. Presenter.

Jeremy Kyle

6 Name a crap singer.

Lilly Allen

7 Tell a crap joke.

Waht's yellow and dangerous - Shark infested custard

I tag nobody cause I can't be bovvered!