Reuters has a report that the US are keeping CHILDREN in the Guantanamo Bay as prisoners. I just don’t know how to express my disgust. They aren’t even allowing the kids to phone their parents! It seems that they were forced into service by warlords and I think it is shameful that they haven’t been returned to their families.

It seems that there are a lot of prisoners being held without charge at Guantanamo Bay. It’s about time the US allowed these people legal represenation and the right to a fair hearing. You can bet that if Americans were being held without charge by another country, there would be an outcry from the US…

Discovered that it’s fairly easy to lose data in ADiary if you have Windows crash. Have taken more steps to help ensure that if that does happen, there’s more chance that you’ll get your last backup back.

It really didn’t help that I had a couple of silly bugs that meant that ADiary was autosaving once per minute and wasn’t checking if the file had been modified before it did the save :(

Was a great game to watch last night! I didn’t particularly care who won; I just wanted to watch a good game of football. Well I got that in spades last night! The Real Madrid goalkeeper is either really good or really lucky! or maybe a good keeper is a lucky keeper.

Seven goals, Manchester United won the game but lost on aggregate. Clearly they had learned from the shambles of the first game and football fans had an enjoyable evening.

Today has been a day of travel. As it’s the first day back at work after the long weekend I drove up from London this morning to Stratford-upon-Avon to do the work thing all day. After work, I drove over to my Mother-in-Law’s to do a couple of jobs and then drove back to my digs ready for tomorrow! All in all about 300 miles wrapped around a nine hour working day.

Now I’m tired…

I bugfixed/enhanced ADiary a bit today. First time I’ve changed it in nearly a year and only one “real” bug reported (bug 10)! Pretty pleased about that so will look at more enhancements, even though I’m pretty sure that only Sylvia and myself use it :)

I arranged for a man to come and look at my old Peugeot this morning at 10:30. The general idea was that he turns up, looks at the car, offers me some money for it and then takes it away. However, he didn’t turn up. Phoned him at 11:15 and he said that he “was running late”. That sound’s similar to “the cheque’s in the post” to me…

and so I’m doing not a lot at the moment :)

It’s Friday and I’m not at work! Can we have a 4 day weekend every month please?!

Spent the day with Jon. Didn’t do a lot, but he enjoyed seeing the diggers at the dump and playing with the football in the sunshine all afternoon. It’s a shame that today was the last of the good weather (until Tuesday of course!).

Got home today from the week at work to a pile of paperwork. Going through the paperwork showed that we have moved on a few steps in our efforts to move house.

We’ve had our application for a mortgage approved by Natwest! Yay! For some reason (“Drawdown of loan fees”) we have had ?30 deducted from the amount we have borrowed. Will have to ask the solicitor what that means!

Also, the paperwork for the purchase of the new house has turned up. I have now read all of it; not a particularly interesting task. It all seems fine except for the details of what’s included in the sales which clearly wasn’t updated based on our offer which specified that we wanted the curtains too. Presumably, that’s an oversight and we’ll get it sorted on Tuesday.

As I said, we are now a step or two closer to moving :)

Came across this in The Register:

“In the UK nine out of ten children own a mobile phone, and spend £100,000 a day solely on text messaging.”

Wow! That’a lot of text messages at 10pence per message!