Chrizzles

No new posts cause I’ve been away for the festive season. Had a top time at our kid’s and got some really cool presents, though was a bit disappointed to find that the first season of the original series of Star Trek on DVD doesn’t include the pilot with Captain Pike, so have had to resort to downloading it. Got some really cool CDs including the new album by Amadou & Mariam, “Welcome to Mali”, which is brilliant. Also got “Dreams from my Father” by Barack Obama, which I'm part way through and it’s awesome. Got some cool Star Wars kits, including a Snowspeeder which is very well made and a Republic Cruiser which is about a foot long and very detailed. No idea where they’re going to go though.

haven’t done much in terms of web stuff on account of being away. Mark sent me a new mix that I haven’t had chance to listen to yet, but it’s Christmas-related, so I guess by the time I get round to it, it will be too late to put it on the site. I did help my brother set up a site for his father-in-law, but I didn’t actually have much to do with building the site, Andy had already built it, I just set  up the domain and the DNS and showed him how to upload stuff, corrected a few code errors and so on. Might keep an eye on it though.

Kind of nice to know there’s a site out there built from scratch by my brother. He’s very methodical about learning stuff. He basically decided his father-in-law needed a website, so got a book on html, read up on the various versions, and learnt how to write html. He basically feels that anything which follows a pattern of rules and logical steps, can be learned by oneself with the right study material and the determination to keep going until you’ve achieved what you set out to do. It was following this philosophy which has allowed him to do up his house to a standard that would make most people tremble. And we’re not talking about a small terrace house here, this is a 6-bedroom Victorian town house in Kidderminster, which is slowly being restored to its Victorian splendour by learning the required skills as and when the need arises - he even rewired the house himself. I sometimes wish I had that kind of self-discipline and determination, but as they say, each to his own.

Seem to have gone off on a tangent there. Ah well, that was Christmas, pretty much. Normal service will resume shortly. Thanks for holding, your call is important to us.