It was Eurovision night again last night. This year the contest was held in Kiev - the capital city of last years winners Ukraine. As usual most of the acts seemed a little crazy, with plenty of mad outfits and bizarre music, and of course the political voting at the end.
This year the UK came third from last with 18 points. Quite poor considering the song (Javine - Light My Fire) wasn't too bad.
It was a fun event though, something I watch every year, and Charlie came over for a beer too, but no Chinese this year.
It was Kate's birthday last Thursday, so I've had a long weekend taking both Thursday and Friday off from work. We went to London for the day and visited the London Dungeons. They were good but they were not scary, unless you're a 10 year old maybe. After that we spent the rest of the day mainly sightseeing, taking a visit to St Paul's Cathedral, the Cutty Sark at Maritime Greenwich, walking under the Thames and back just because we could, taking a boat to Embankment and taking a good look at the Palace of Westminster whilst peering in to all the cars coming in and out of the grounds to see if we could spot any famous politicians (we didn't).
We were going to go for dinner that evening when back in Chelmsford but considering we didn't get back until 9pm and the restaurant closed at 10pm, we postponed that until Friday when we went to Tucano's at about 7pm. It's a Brazilian style restaurant where you pay a set price of around £15 and you can eat all you can. There is a salad bar which you can visit as many times as you wish, and the waiters bring over meats on large skewers which you can either take or pass on. There are about 13 different meats and they will keep coming up until you tell them to stop. It's certainly not a restaurant you would visit if you're a vegetarian. I'm not though and neither is Kate so we both liked it. Although I do have one criticism about it - the music was too loud and bassy. It made the waiters quite difficult to understand some times.
I spent a lot of cash at E-Buyer and Quiet PC yesterday getting the following:
The motherboard, processor, cooler, RAM and DVD will all go into my new machine which will be fitted with the 60GB hard drive, 128Mb graphics card and the 3 sound cards from my current 1GHz Duron, which will receive an old 32Mb graphics card and the new 250Gb hard drive. The old machine will then be put to use as a server, holding all files and operating the web server, therefore replacing the AMD 400MHz PC which is currently fulfilling that role.
These parts should be with me by Tuesday so I will have lots of fun putting the computer together.
This year the UK came third from last with 18 points. Quite poor considering the song (Javine - Light My Fire) wasn't too bad.
It was a fun event though, something I watch every year, and Charlie came over for a beer too, but no Chinese this year.
It was Kate's birthday last Thursday, so I've had a long weekend taking both Thursday and Friday off from work. We went to London for the day and visited the London Dungeons. They were good but they were not scary, unless you're a 10 year old maybe. After that we spent the rest of the day mainly sightseeing, taking a visit to St Paul's Cathedral, the Cutty Sark at Maritime Greenwich, walking under the Thames and back just because we could, taking a boat to Embankment and taking a good look at the Palace of Westminster whilst peering in to all the cars coming in and out of the grounds to see if we could spot any famous politicians (we didn't).
We were going to go for dinner that evening when back in Chelmsford but considering we didn't get back until 9pm and the restaurant closed at 10pm, we postponed that until Friday when we went to Tucano's at about 7pm. It's a Brazilian style restaurant where you pay a set price of around £15 and you can eat all you can. There is a salad bar which you can visit as many times as you wish, and the waiters bring over meats on large skewers which you can either take or pass on. There are about 13 different meats and they will keep coming up until you tell them to stop. It's certainly not a restaurant you would visit if you're a vegetarian. I'm not though and neither is Kate so we both liked it. Although I do have one criticism about it - the music was too loud and bassy. It made the waiters quite difficult to understand some times.
I spent a lot of cash at E-Buyer and Quiet PC yesterday getting the following:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000g S478 I865PE ATX Sound GIG LAN USB 2.0 FSB800 SATA100 Retail Box
- Processor: Intel Celeron® D320 2.4GHz Skt478 FSB533 256KB Cache Retail Boxed CPU
- RAM: Crucial CT6464Z40B 512mb DDR 400MHz PC3200 CL=3 Memory Module
- DVD: LG 16x52 DVD-Rom Drive - OEM Biege
- Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache- OEM
- CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS6500B-ALCU Pentium 4 S478 Flower Cooler
The motherboard, processor, cooler, RAM and DVD will all go into my new machine which will be fitted with the 60GB hard drive, 128Mb graphics card and the 3 sound cards from my current 1GHz Duron, which will receive an old 32Mb graphics card and the new 250Gb hard drive. The old machine will then be put to use as a server, holding all files and operating the web server, therefore replacing the AMD 400MHz PC which is currently fulfilling that role.
These parts should be with me by Tuesday so I will have lots of fun putting the computer together.