Make your own at wordle. Thanks to Emma for showing me this.

… or at least plan to get married, the conversation of children must crop up. The one thing I can conclude from, both my own conversations and various people when talking to them about kids has been summed up in this xkcd:

Worth seeing the film just to read this.

darkrock was compromised over the last week.

I noticed that something was up when I tried to do something and noticed that permissions had changed in the directory. Today I got emails from Google saying that darkrock had various spam/porn hidden links in the template. I looked further into things and it appears that at some point yesterday someone uploaded various files like a remote shell.

I am in the process of investigating the problem and have basically reset the website to a clean install getting rid of everything that was here before.

I like to listen to my music on random, in the hope that there are tracks on there that I’ve not listened to in a absolute age. However, I find it weird that there are times when I listen to tracks I genuinely have no recollection of adding to the library.

For instance, I have some Foo Fighters music, but I’ve not idea where I got the album “There is Nothing Left To Lose” from. But it is currently playing (and I am enjoying it).

On a slightly different note, I bought Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare yesterday. That pushes the number of tracks I’ve bought from iTunes Music Store to 857, 2.5 days of music in 4.13GB of disk space. The most interested statistic is that it equates to 28% of all the music on my computer. Since the launch of the iTMS, I’ve only bought one physical CD (Blues Brothers Soundtrack) and that was only because it wasn’t on the online store.

The most interesting [and slightly scary] fact is that at £0.79 a track, I’ve spent £677.03 on music from them.

I forgot to mention that my wakeskate board was delivered by Freddie at the weekend, looks not too dissimilar to this one [I'd take some photos but the board is in the garage, I'm not in the garage and I can't at this moment, be bothered to transport myself to the garage]:

I, for one, am quite excited about hitting the wake park again in a couple of weekends time. The plan is to take Mike for the intro course (like I took Bailey) and then the three of us can go be way macho and go all at the same time.

I also need to hit it a few more times to improve my skills as Freddie, Lewis and myself plan on hitting Sheffield cable tow and having a “lets jam*” session.

* Contains no real jam. Or nuts. Well, not the traditional peanut style nuts. Except when really cold.

The weekend just gone, I headed up to Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness to hang out, ride and have at the British Kite Surfing Association round 2 event.

The weekend was a good one although, to be fair, the wind wasn’t howling but the sun was shining.

I spent most of my time on land (having a couple of cheeky water sessions whilst the wind picked up) which wasn’t such a bad thing. There was only about 6 land-boarders out riding on Saturday but don’t let the number fool you, the list was quite distinguished (L. Wilby, M. Berry). Whilst riding with top fly riders, you can’t help but watch, feel inspired, see something they do and try it yourself. By the end of the session I’d cracked big floaty rotations – 360, 540 and 720 – with landing to toe-side, grabs whilst rotating and almost managed a 360 foot out. All in all I must have been out kiting for 5-6 hours in total on Saturday and was really pleased because I could feel the benefit from swimming. I am still buzzing now from the session, I’ve got so many ideas of what I could do now – I certainly want to try 360 inverts amongst a fist full of other tricks that look fun.

Saturday evening was spent in a local working mans club hired out for all the people who were connected to the BKSA event. There was a really good band called ‘Sevens’ who have just been signed. They were, unlike the crowd, full of energy and rocked out good and proper. I must confess that by this time, several beers down, I was exhausted and took the chance to grab a lift back to the camp site. Ended up having a really interesting conversation with Mark about kite films, effects, editing and his new venture KiteFreestyle TV.

Sunday was another windy and hot day. Had a cheeky fly on the water, but the wind died off soon after I went out. I practised some loops but there wasn’t enough wind to have fun. I ended up heading home and crashing out with a big smile on my face. Spent the evening with Emma and had a cheeky Chinese take-away to full fill the hunger that was rumbling inside me

All I can say is this: bring on the next session!

Sometimes the weather can be a complete arse. For instance, this weekend Emma and myself are heading down to Littlehampton with the plan of looking for places to move to whilst having a little jolliday at the same time. I, for one, was going to be taking my water gear with the plan on having a surf. However, the weather seems to be conspiring against me:

The white areas are the times I shall be there.
The blue areas show the good weather either side of when I will be there.

Looks like I will have to find something else to do over the weekend.