Toms View of the World

A new version of the software this site runs on has been released - which should help with the memory errors the pages sometimes generate, as well as improve the anti-spam components.

Some sad news - Michael Park (co-driver to Markko Martin) in this years Wales Rally GB was sadly killed in an accident today when their car collided with a tree during one of the Margam Park stages.
News from wrc.com

A sad end to the event indeed - obviously thoughts go out to the family and friends of Michael. Fatalities in motorsport are fortunately farely rare, thanks in part to the amazing structural integrity of the cars.

From Weebls Stuff, the latest catchy yet annoying tune in the “Magical Trevor” series!

I don’t think it’s quite as good as the first and second ones - but it’s still “odd”

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Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the stadium stage of Wales Rally GB - and great fun it was seeing not only the famous names driving (like Sebastian Loeb and Colin McRae) but also the privateer drivers who you rarely see on the TV coverage.

Brilliant Fun… Full photo gallery is here.

(Alright, the flying car was a radio-controlled airship thing - from the folks at http://www.itflys.co.uk/)

Just a quick rant for the benefit of all the major store chains…

CHRISTMAS IS IN DECEMBER.

I do not particular want to be buying greetings cards with snowmen and happy scenes of carollers when it’s still arguably summer. Let’s at least get past Guy Fawkes night before you start pushing the Christmas stuff.

According to the Independant on Sunday - the UK government is drawing up plans to deal with the threatened Fuel Protests later this week…

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article311812.ece

Of course, it’s not just petrol that’s going up - Gas, Electricity and other Oil’s (like Heating Oil) are all rising in price too. This is a hit in the pocket that’s going to hurt, not just the individuals who face increased bills to heat their homes this winter, not just those who drive, but everyone, as the costs of transporting stuff hits everyone through the supermarket tills too.

Thanks to this post on the b2evo forums, I’m trying a new anti-spam method, so trackbacks are now enabled again. At least, they are until the next batch of trackback spam arrives.