So I started attempting to grow all sorts of fun vegetables and fruits 2 months ago, I've now got all sorts of things growing...

So it's that time of year, gardening season. With my lovely fancy new garden I'm really looking forward to growing some stuff in the greenhouse and raised beds...

I moved into my new house last month. It's now 39 days, 4 BT engineer visits (although I guess technically 3 as one never turned up after phoning me to say he'd be there 'soon'), 29 phone calls, 4 letters to BT's managing director and many many lies and broken promises later.... and they think it might be sorted 'soon'.

Words just cannot describe how awful they are.

If anyone is considering BT Infinity do yourself a favour, see if any other company is available.

I'm now a home owner. Put an offer in on a house and it's all gone through.

Nice 3 bedroom house with drive and garden (and a vegetable 'allotment').

So no sooner had I said how useless I think the new UI for Windows 8 is on a normal PC than 'secret rumours' of Windows Blue surface....

I'm still waiting for the first person to tell me how all their servers have touchscreen monitors.

MS certainly appear to believe this is the standard given it's the default.... *sorry* only UI available.

Another new year, and we've still not got hover cars or boards....

Todays XKCD.com comic is all based on my brother's paper.

http://www.xkcd.com/1104/

So I made it home from my trip to America, which was great fun.

Got to see Pen and Tellers' show in Las Vegas, various animals and geological interests in Yellowstone National Park and of course my brothers wedding....

Klynton.com has moved to a new host.

Ages since I posted anything on here. I guess Facebook / Twitter have killed personal sites.

So long in fact that I'd forgotten my own password to log on here.

With Natal just around the corner I finally saw a decent deal for an Xbox 360 so purchased it. Impressed so far, some aspects I think the PS3 got right however the online does seem far more established with everyone chatting away happily, rather than the 'sat in the voids of outer space' feeling you can get with PS3 games as no-one ever talks.....

So I saw a link to Klynton.com coming from a random domain so thought I'd check it out.

Thus I discovered http://web.archive.org a site that holds copies of websites going back to the 90s.

This includes copies of Klynton.com from back in 2002 when I first bought the domain (sadly I can't find the sites from before I purchased a domain name).

So my car died last week (**poor Klynton**). Driving out of the car park at work the engine blasted out, and then the exhaust fell off at the front.....

So it's been a few months what has Klynton been up to?

Well towards the beginning of January I went down to London to help showcase our new software at the BETT Show (British Education and Teacher Training).

Click below to read more.....

It's that time of year again. The snow has started falling and everyone is busy rushing about buying last minute gifts... Hope you all have a great Christmas!

Searching on the site has been fixed. I had forgotten to load some modules into the system consequently it failed when it couldn't find them.

On another note, it's getting cold here but Wintereenmas is yet to start.

So you may have noticed Firefox didn't like my site for the last few days.

A mate asked me for help setting up a website for them and I recommended a new CMS I was thinking of running, almost prophetically I pointed out at the time that I hadn’t updated the CMS software this site used as a backend for about 2 years and that it's only a matter of time until it got hacked, then two weeks later I saw a random bot had been inserting all manner to crap into the SQL database and taking control of the old legacy CSS/SSI pages I had from the previous non php website.

Still it did force me to upgrade and now we’re back online and in true great form after contacting Google they reran their risk assessments on the site and unclassified it as ‘malware distributing’ within 12 hours. Can’t ask for better service.

Italy pictures will be up soonish.

So it's been over a year since the last update, I know I'm just lazy when it comes to keeping my own site active.

Anyway what have I been up to? I guess the first thing that comes to mind is I've got a new job. I finally left the Co-op as my department was getting rid of all contractors. They offered us all permanent jobs within the team (on less money / possibility of 24 hour work / etc) however I felt it a good time to leave.

I admit with the credit crunch in full swing at that time I did feel slight intrepidation, however 3 days later I was offered an interview for a job just a few miles from my house and was employed again.

Read on for more...

So I decided after enjoying playing with the PS2 at Christmas I would splash out and buy a PS3, and I have to say I've been impressed.

The graphics are very good (which you would expect from a next gen platform) but it's the extra abilities that really swayed me in forking out the money.

Rather than just a gaming device, which the PS1/2 were, the PS3 is more justly defined as a computer. You can install an OS on it (Various Linux distro's) and it allow you to do so much more.

Click on full article for more info on additional features it has / can have.

So last weekend I finally bought a car.

Peugeot 206

Hopefully soon you'll be able to click on the link above and view pictures of it, but for now you'll have to make do with the description.

Metallic Green, 1.4 LX, 5 Door.

Well it's been some time since the last update, so where have I been?

Prague - Click for pictures.

Yes away on another holiday, 2nd one in three weeks (well contractor so take them when you can). Lots of fun times and, somewhat unsurprisingly, drunk times. I may do a more in depth write-up on some nights out, but for now we'll leave it unsaid.

Pictures will be up soon(ish), hoping to get all of them from the others who accompanied me. So they'll go up in the relevant section...

Does searching for car insurance drive you crazy?.... Well no, but I do find it tediously dull.

Yes that's right, car hunting time. Having spent far too long looking at different insurance rates / companies for various cars I'm almost ready to shell out the cash on a car.

My problem has always been a complete indifference to cars. What make / model / engine size / etc are largely irrelevant issues, just having a car is the end goal. Which admittedly makes it very easy to ensure is the eventual outcome....

I was recently sent a reactivation trial for my old EVE Online account, after much musing I decided it'd be a waste not to have a look at how it's changed in the 1.5ish years since I last played, so I reinstalled it and away I went.

Big Mistake. It has now suckered me back into the world of MMORPGs that I had bravely escaped from but 11 months ago, previously being a World of Warcraft addict, lured by it's new features and due to the economy having crashed a bit.

When I left I was a non-poor (but by no means rich) player, hunting pirates as it was pretty much that or the monotonous mining game. When I returned however the meagre amount of ISK (Currency of EVE) allowed me to almost straight away buy a nice big Brutix Battle Cruiser.

Alas poor social life I knew him well.....

So after having been told by over 20 different people that I should join Facebook 'to keep in touch', clearly not noticing the huge site here for just that purpose, I finally relented and (repressing the giddy feeling that I was a 13 year old kid again) set up an account.

Immediately upon 'inviting' friends to accept me into their exclusive groups I was asked why I only had 1 photo up. Yet the mere suggestion that it is pointless to put them up again, on facebook, when they are hosted here just fell on deaf ears....