Mike's Random Muses

My Superhero Identity For Today Is:

Name: Grey Wolf
Secret Identity: coffdrop
Special Power: Invisibility
Transportation: Quantum Car
Weapon: Psionic Grenade
Costume: Silk Cowl
Sidekick: the Professor
Nemesis: John the Ugly
Tragic Flaw: Addicted to yogurt
Favorite Food: Cashews

To find out what which superhero you are click here.

I'm well aware that I have been neglecting the world of Blogging for far too long. Unfortunately my normal excuse will prevail; as usual work is taking far too much of my time,our product is undergoing user acceptance testing and myself and a couple of others are busily cleaning up all the bugs that we know about, in readiness for cleaning up the bugs that the customer finds.

Fun it is not as some of these things are darned obscure and hard to pin down, especially the one that asks for the 10th character of a 9 character password. It should be easy to find but it isn't. It only occurs under some very strange browser conditions that we haven't managed to pin down yet.

Ho Hum, I'll say back to work in a minute or so but I just want to leave you with a couple of things:

1. A link to some pictures that I took whilst we were in York just after Easter. I'm a bit disappointed with the way they turned out, but the short holiday break was great.

2. It seems that I'm linking to a blog run by a prospective Member of Parliament for the forthcoming election; go and give Alfie your messages of support. I can do better than that because I can give him my vote as he is standing in my constituency. Go on Alfie, give the lying labour scum and the rest of the mainstream parties a bloody nose.

Over Easter we had a pretty busy time in the garden, weeding, digging over the future area for our raised vegetable beds, pond cleaning and a bit of remedial landscaping. All hard work but completely worthwhile especially as we settled down to a celebratory glass of wine and found we had a couple of surprise visitors to our pond:






You can view a couple more photos of our visitors here. They have been back a couple of times since the first visit too.

The extended deadline for the quiz resulted in two readers sharing the badger award with 6 correct answers each. As I can't mange to link the image to both blogs at the same time, I'll just have to link via text. Please stand up and applaud Alfie and Dave.

Strangely no one got any of the music related questions correct, maybe they were too hard, you'll probably kick yourselves when you read the answers, which are:

OLD FARTS QUIZ ANSWERS

1. 1001. Did you know that the WD-40 company bought 1001 from Cussons, for a reported £6.2m, in 2003.
2. A Well Respected Man - by The Kinks.
3. Mackeson.
4. i. Lorraine,
4. ii. My Only Vice
4. iii. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
5. The bright red Georgia clay from "You and me and a dog named Boo" by Lobo
6. Steppenwolf
7. i. Golden Earring
7. ii. Radar Love
8. Leo Sayer
9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
10. The Turtles the words were from 'Happy Together'
11. Freedom
12. Three Little Birds - by Bob Marley.
13. David Bowie - the song was 'Uncle Arthur'
14. Esso
15. "The fruit gums". The phrase was quickly changed to "Don't forget the fruit gums Chum" following complaints that it put pressure on mum's to buy their kids sweets.
16. Gibbs S R Toothpaste, it was transmitted at 8.12 pm on Sept 22 1955 during a variety show hosted by Jack Jackson. The commercial owed its prime placing to chance. The Gibbs advertisement had come first in a lottery drawn with 23 other advertisements, including those for Guinness, Surf, National Benzole, Brown & Polson Custard and Summer County Margarine.
17. Melanie. - from the song 'Brand New Key'