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The sun is out again this weekend, we've spent the day in the garden, tring to rejuvinate the lawn and putting in a few new plants including some clematis and a rather tasteful new grass. We decided to have a little walk down to the park late in the afternoon after we saw someone has posted a picture of some duckings on facebook.

Low and behold, there were a nice little huddle of them and I managed to get a few pictures - hope you're all enjoying the sunshine!

Well it's almost that time of year when the hosting account comes up for renewal. As always I had a look online to see how the prices weighed up. The renewal seemed a bit steep from GoDaddy so I had a look at how much they were charging for new customers. As seems to be the case everywhere nowadays (gas, electricity, insurance) customer loyalty counts for nothing and acquiring new customers is everything, so I was not entirely suprised to find the new hosting accounts with 1/3 off. I gave them a call to see if there was anything they could do, and they offered a small discount on the renewal but not anything close to the new customer discount. After a bit of deliberation I've decided to setup a new account and set about moving everything over. I have a couple of wordpress sites to move too so fingers crossed it all goes smoothly. So this is just a quick note to say, if you see the site disappear over the next few days, don't worry its only temporary and we'll be back online soon!

Just thought I'd add a quick note to wish everybody a happy bank holiday weekend. It's a shame the weather is cooler again after the past few weekes of warm sunshine but I'm sure we'll still make the most of it. Headed out last night to see the latest Avengers film - Age of Ultron. We both enjoyed it and were back quite late last night so had a slightly later morning. Not sure what to do with the rest of the day at the moment - it looks like the sun is having a go at coming out so might just go for a bit of a wander.

Added a couple more updates to the site although sadly nothing visible. I updated security and error handling (yawn) which hopefully should just make the site a bit more robust. Also added some inheritance to the code controlling much of the processing on the website which again just makes things a bit more secure and easier to maintain. Finally just updated the blog front page so that it will always load the most recent blogs even if I havent added anything in the last month.

I still need to finish off the album code so that I can finally add pictures again, although I haven't decided how I want this to work. I currently store images in a database rather than as files on the server and can't decide if I want to change this. I also haven't enabled any user accounts, so sadly unless you were a member way back when and can remember your login details, you won't be able to access anything apart from the public blogs and images. I suggest looking back at the 2007 blogs, which is where most of the content is. 

Maybe in the summer I'll get some of my raspberry pi content together and start putting that up here . . there's quite a few projects to write about from scalextric lap timers and control, to robot arms, IR tranceivers and autonomous video streaming tanks and cars.

Until then enjoy . .