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I had a great day with Conor in Albert Park a few Saturdays back, it was Pirate Day, we saw (and participated in) a magic show, did a treasure hunt (won a Frisbee), saw some hawks and owls, bumped into Deborah and Spencer and got a little sun burnt but I think the highlight of the day is when I was put in the stocks and Conor threw wet sponges at me, I got soaked. Me and the family also popped into town the next day to see Middlesbrough music live.

I still haven't been able to get to the gym regular because of my job, but I did get in once last week, and I hope to go tomorrow as well. I'm also going to cut down on the drinking as it is making me very fat, unfortunately when I'm working away I’ve got the choice of going out for a meal and a drink or staying in and watching six year old episodes of Judge Judy.

The comments system has been updated and to answer Scrib's question about it, it does some simple validation on what you enter (email address and main text), but it does not ban any words such as spunk (I'm not that much of hypocrite) but it will not allow comments with any words assoicated with spam (e.g. Vigara).

I'm working on an ObscureInternet news feature which will be a news system for all the ObscureInternet sites and will be customizable to work on each site and as an RSS feed, it should be good if I ever finish it. I'm also working on IRC chat feature for the main page, and a Rich Text editor for the backend updating.

We’ve all being enjoying the weather this past week, it’s been very hot all over England, which is good job because I was in various parts of it last week. Cheadle and Didsbury were particular highlights.

One thing I meant to tell you in the last post is that I (finally) watched Godzilla Final Wars it’s an odd mix of Godzilla, Destroy all monsters, The Matrix and Independence day, and unlike The Last Samurai this is a Japanese film featuring an American bad-ass with a samurai sword. Therefore it is most highly recommended by myself.

Of course the greatest thing to happen this week is the start of the World Cup, seven matches so far and I haven’t missed one!

Finally I’ve been fiddling with the comments system to make it more Knobhead proof, so if you have any problems drop me an email.

Alright,

As you will have noticed I’ve been losing the fight against bloggers block. I do have a lot to day, I just have a problem typing/say them.

What I wanted to tell you last month is that I’ve managed to find some time to update ObscureInternet, It’s updated for the month of many with around fifteen stories. I’ve also started to advertise the site, so I’m now looking for some more articles, users and writers. I didn’t get around to searching for the articles, users and writers but May was the most popular month for ObscureInternet in the last year. I also wanted to tell you I’ve also managed to convert the entire family into using Gmail, but I guess those moments are gone.

I’ve been having a look thought the blog and it’s about this time of year I post about going on Holiday (for the Wedding anniversary) and Passing Exams.

So why should this year be any different Me and wife visited Dublin, our third European capital for our third anniversary. I made sure we visited Dublin’s number one tourist attraction the Guinness Storehouse. The Exam news is I final took and passed my ITIL Exam, although I was not confident and under prepared (I had a wealth of Training Material which I hadn’t studies as much I should) I did get quiet a good mark.

I had more stuff to write about such as the Explosion on Teesside, doing the gardening, working away and the World Cup but I can’t remember any of it.

One thing I do remember is that Conor got pupil of the week again, fifth time in the last two years.