OK, so I am still behind in updating this blog with recent events. As Irina pointed out, there is a large gap starting with the beginning of our journey to Amsterdam, all of the stay in Britain, returning to Kazakhstan, (finally) meeting Pilot Tom for a meal, and meeting up with Dave, Walton, Assel, and [...]

It looks as though my (entirely arbitrary) target for 50,000 visitors in the first two years of this blog is still (just about) attainable. As this post’s title indicates, the blog has another 68 days in which to record another 4,025 visits. Going from the last six months monthly averages, this should not be too [...]

Going for Weekend Breaks can be just the right thing to relax you and your partner, when work and the general stress of life has been mounting up. One of the best times I had ‘away’ from home was when Ira and I went to West Wales for our anniversary. It wasn’t a glitzy five [...]

At least those that smoke and live in Japan they are…
The BBC have a report on how Japanese cigarette vending machine companies are coping with a new law. (Did you know you have to be over 20 to buy fags there?!?). Anyway, pretty soon, any companies responsible for selling tobacco products to under age consumers [...]

Our friend (who originally set me up with this site) is already well established, when it comes to producing videos to accompany his blog posts and news letters. However, I still think the 4th Annual New Media Expo 2008 may be of interest to him.

As the ‘New Media’ hints at, this convention is for people [...]

Well, all seems well post-SP3 installation. There were a couple of hiccups - Windows Live Messenger now complains (error 2771) when it is started up that there is a component missing, and installation fails. This has been observed by others who have installed Service Pack 3, but it looks as though a simple re-installation (assuming [...]

Well, my PC seems to be running OK, so I thought why not give SP3 a try, and see what breaks
If you don’t see me online for a while, you’ll know why…

So, we arrived yesterday just after 11am, local time, having left Britain the morning before. We managed to squeeze in a 30 minute trip to Amsterdam on the way back, and the trip went well this time, without any silly bureaucrats trying to slow us down, unlike on the way out. I’ll try to post [...]

We should be back in Kazakhstan by Monday, though we are actually leaving Cardiff Airport tomorrow.
This is the last of the pre-written posts - anything you see after this has been written ‘live’
Hopefully my cousin has had a wonderful wedding today, and my best wishes to her and the groom.