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Procrastination has lead to this new layout (if you are reading this in a RSS reader you might not be able to tell). Its a cleaner look but still works as it does before, if a little faster. I’ve started to notice that Blog design seems have its own fashion trends that change every few months. A few months ago it was the trend to have a photo at the top, now everybody seems to be striping down to basically just text. So I hope you like mrblack’s new clothers, I’ve tested it in IE and Firefox if anything queer happens in other browsers please tell me.

As the Queen (Liz 2) conducts her review of the Naval Fleet marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar the BBC Radio 4 Today program has put online a little snippet of radio commentary from a similar event in the 1930s. The clip is of a 1937 naval review by a drunk Lt Cmdr Tommy Woodroffe on HMS Nelson. So funny.

Link to Audio.

Boing Boing linked to a site full to the brim with Soviet propaganda posters. Rarely in my research do I get to see pictures, especially so well designed and beautiful to look at, a refreshing break from texts. Out of all of them I find this one perhaps my favourite. It depicts the the Russian factory worker saying “NO! to Drinking” (according to the translation). As I’m sure you are aware Russian’s like a drink not only in bars but at work. (BBC Report on Vodka drinking in Russia)

Why do people highlight and underline with pen sections of books. Its most upsetting, and makes them unreadable. Swines.

Well that was fun and I have the bruises to prove it! The concert was excellent, with Green Day playing a fair few from their new(ish) album American Idiot to 56,000 people. Jimmy Eat World supporting were also wonderful. It looks like they were filming it, with one of those crazy cameras on cranes skimming my head every few minutes. So a DVD perhaps? Let’s hope so.

Whilst chatting away with Ed yesterday I was messing around with Flickr, the online photo storage and organiser website. It truly is a supper cool, offering fantastic photo editing and organisation all from within the browser. One of coolest things you can do is set it up to automatically post pictures to all manor of blogging software, including my very own wordpress. This is pretty damn bitchen. However for a while now I have thought about moblogs, using you mobile to take and post pictures. Sooo, today I bit the bullet and brought a brand new phone with one of those cool cameras in it. So I can now take a photo, email it to flickr, which would then automatically post it here if I desire.

Now whats the point of all this coolness if you don’t move from you chair I hear you ask. Well, this afternoon I’m off down south in preparation of seeing Green Day in Milton Keynes on Sunday. This will first real test of this super fantastical blogging system and the camera phone. Don’t expect professional standard photography but it should give me the chance to take those photos which I would otherwise miss.

Hay fever really sucks. I get crazy pink eye and sniffle constantly through the day. It must be disgusting to witness. Anyhow to combat the wretchedness I employ hay fever tablets which work but can make me drowsy. Today the drowsiness was insane, I kept falling asleep even though I had a full nights sleep. Time to change tablets again or just try to live without them. Or even go on a mad Pro-Plus Piriton combo.

Last night after a few soft drinks at the pub I really fancied a jammie doughnut. So with Teekai and Matt in tow I set out on pilgrimage to Tesco to get some sugary filled goodness. Tesco at 11:30pm is filled with students and shelf stackers (often one and the same), there I ignored the fruit and headed straight for the bakery. Unsurprisingly they were not making doughnuts fresh at that time of night (I see a market ready to be exploited), but worst of all, there was only one beaten up doughnut that was bleeding its vital jam juices. The horror, the horror. Inconsolable I searched around for anything slightly doughnut shaped. That was when I found a 12 pack of jammie doughnut balls (or bites) for the bargain price of 99p! I had to get them, not only to quench my jammie thirst but for the obvious comedic value of owning a box of balls.

Here are some pictures of my balls

My balls came in a handy cup, great for in the car.

This is one of my balls. Note how my balls don’t have any sugar on them, this was perhaps the most disappointing thing about my balls.

Look! My balls were filled with goo.

Strangely enough Teekai didn’t want to chomp on my balls. I think I will eat the rest of my balls by about 11am today.

Update: At 1:18pm I only have one ball.
Update 2: I have lost my balls!