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I’m currently stuck in Edingburgh Airport (I have been here since 11am this morning) and we can’t get a flight until 20:20 this evening.  I thought I would share with you my view from where I’m sitting, which thankfully has a full free wi-fi signal

UPDATE: The time I finally got home was 2am this morning, Friday 27th June 2008.  I’m working from home today.  It turned out that there were server delays with the aircraft and technical problems and people on from previous flights who had not got home and replacement aircraft which seemed to the cause the delay.  To be honest I am just glad I got home.  Flybe didn’t even make an anonucement over the tanoid system they only told a select number of people, it was only when the plane landed in Edinburgh that they started to make announcements.  Best of all was when we landed and we were waiting for our luggage, the machine broke which brings up the bags and then had to half an hour an hour for that to be fixed.  When that happened the whole mood of the place got very bad indeed.

Yes world, today I am 29.  My last year in my twenties!

Today has really been an excellent day for me.  I woke up and headed off to the gym and did a 45min run in which I covered 7km of which I’m dead proud of.  Katie and I then headed off into town for some breakfast where I opened some presents (I actually now have fancy pants, both Becca and Richard can firm this) and I got very excited.  As I had the day off I wandered into town and picked up a space invaders tshirt from next and headed home.  Now because it was such nice weather I sat outside in the garden, read some of my book, had a beer and a little nap (heaven).  To round the evening off Bob, Becca, Richard and myself headed off to Las Iguanas in the arcadian for some mexican style food and cocktails.  Karl popped in and said hello and everyone had some goodtime.  Highlights include the photo caption game and also my mini birthday cake.

While we were drinking, Katie got a call from Andy who had received my macBook and dropped it off at Katie’s work so after dinner we dashed back to Symphony Hall so I could play with before I had to leave early the next morning for Scotland.  Also to enjoy with my geek out session I got a monster sized Jolt Cola from Bob and a sweet WiFi detection t-shirt from Gary.  Special thanks has to go to Becca for complete history of RSS which she performed while I was drink my Cuba Libre cocktail, awesome

Thanks guys a really had a great day, as always photos can be found here

Today it was our turn to really have some, we both headed off to Debenhams to create our wedding list.  Now sadly sense prevailed, I was unable to add either the 40inch HD Sony Bravia telly or the Krupps coffee machine because people might that we really want them and instead of people buying the various kitchenware (and there was a lot of kitchen ware items added) they might all club together to and buy us them instead *humbug*

Katie I must admit really enjoyed running around with a barcode scanner, scanning stuff.  In fact I think that she enjoyed it a little too much but we both had a really great day it was fun picking stuff we would ask people to buy for us.  I did have to take a break at one point to grab some doughnuts, not for myself but for work tomorrow.  I ended up getting 3 boxes of twelve, and walking around the bullring with that many doughnuts by your side can make you feel like quite a bloatter.  By the end of the day we were both really pleased by what we had put on.  You can follow the link here and just enter Katie’s and my surname on the right to be taken to our list or you can go into the store.

Well for all of those people who are just as geeky as me should know that today is download day for firefox 3. Now from doing a little reseach its avalible from today at 5pm UTC which as it turns out is 5pm GMT, I think the time works out to be 10am in America (I’m not sure which time zone that applies to). So rememeber to do your bit and break the Guinness World Record and download it today….after 5pm, I know I will. Well me and at least one other person I know so thats only 999,998 downloads to go.

Update: What a surprise, the servers are being hit really hard so stay tunned.

MIT, have a of their site devoted called MIT OpenCourseWare to as they put it “Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds” by providing free lecture note, exams and tutorials for their courses. All the courses are available from their site without the need to register and can be used either online or off. I have been thinking for a while of doing a few courses before what ever is left of my ability to learn has dried up and since these are way, way cheaper than the open university option I think I will investigate these and let you know how I get on.

Crunchgear has some leaked photos of the iPhone 2.0, yummy

The Onion (America’s finest new source) have released a film if you don’t read the site please go and take a look. The is only avaliable at the moment as a region dvd from Play.com

I opened outlook first thing this morning (which is something I try quite hard not to do after reading this article) and I was sent a link from one of the guys in the clever office. Wow, now my personal favourite is the space invader wall decals but I don’t think that Katie would let me do that but how great are the Lego salt and pepper shakers.

The crown jewel does have to go to the arcade coffee tables, if you are quite flushed and feel that you want one, you can grab one from here for only £3295 with free delivery. I mean why wouldn’t you want one, imagine all the things you can do with there’s a PC in there. Pictures, games and music not to mention websites being displayed. I wonder if I can put this on the wedding list.