As I was cycling into the office this morning I must have hit some glass in the road, as I managed to tear a 2cm hole through my front wheel an into the inner tube. Cue lots of hissing and a very annoyed Alex. Some of the hissing may have come from Alex.
I walked from Camberwell to my favourite bike shop - On Your Bike - to get it fixed. When I picked it up, the make/model on the reciept was simply marked as 'black'. Which made me smile.
For the record, this is my bike:
And yes, it is quite black. But then it did use to look like this:
Now you know.
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Welcome to the Aching Brain, version 3.
It's been somewhat neglected over the last year as, well, I moved in with most of the people who read it. But in a couple of months it'll be on to pastures new so it's time for a bit of a renaissance.
This is all very much still a work in progress, so expect stuff to be broken in pretty much any and all browsers. Don't expect links to go anywhere and any comments about pages not validating will be ignored.
Look at the calendar on the right - it's driven by AJAX, so you can quickly switch month without reloading the page, yet when you first load the page, it will always show you the month that the blog you are reading was posted in. What a lot of fun. It's all the rage this summer, don't you know. Of course, if you don't have JavaScript turned on you won't know what I'm talking about.
The more astute of you will notice that some of the comments that were previously missing have been restored. Thanks for this go to the <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#cached">Google Cache</a>. Unfortunately I could not find all of them after the Cube exploded, so feel free to repost any witicisms that didn't make it...
Anyway, <a href="http://www.topgear.com">Top Gear</a>'s on..
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