Throwing shrimps left right and centre

So I got myself a new toy.
 
BBQ, chair and a view

You know, something for when the evenings are a little warmer, which shouldn’t be too long now.

I’m sure not only I’ll get plenty of use out of my new toy but all visitors that we have will too. Which seems to be an awful LOT in May.

After visiting the UK for a brief stop, there will be visits from a friend (my first since arriving a year ago!) and two different groups of families all in a few weeks. It will be busy.
(Which reminds me, I need to get round to posting highlights of last weeks events)

The only problem with the new toy is, it’s about 2 foot high.
Sorry for wonky photo. I think the missus was drunk!

It looks like I bought this thing from a toy store. “Fisher-Price My First BBQ set.”

I’m hoping that hobbit’s come and visit to show me how to use this thing safely.

Also I’ve never BBQed before solo.
I mean I’ve been to a BBQ. And I’ve helped stick some burgers and sausages on and off a BBQ. Heck, even last week I helped start up a BBQ last week (except I but too much fire in to it and we had to wait a bit longer then had planned to eat)
But never got from start to finish on my own.

This should be fun.

And relax

so my family are now back safe in the england
the missus friends too
the feria is over
i think?
today is a bank holiday* here in spain although that hasn't stopped me--or the beach--from taking a day off

things can start to get back to normal
i can kick that holiday feeling--eating in a lot of the times is nicer then eating out

so what's next?

halloween

like i mentioned in a previous blog--which can i add no one guessed i was a member of "Baywatch"--i need help in for my next role

here goes

my costume is luchadores, mexican wrestler

"Grrrrrr"
i need, from you, ideas on a name--something like nacho libre--and if you're really down with your wwfs a wrestling move/pose
also if you want to put in more input, should i 1)wear a pair of metallic gold/siver/other colour leggings with a painted or unpainted chest
or a all in one olympic style suit
?

*i'm not sure it is a real bank holiday
it just seems to be a day when the the police all have a day off

Tips for posing on the Beach

Here is my list of tips for all you due a vacation to the beach this summer.


Always try to look like you are looking at something REALLY far away. (Bonus casually points if you bite your nails)


Try not to let your camera person drink too much and collapse


Drinking beer on the Beach is pretty mansculine. Do it!


Standing this camp inbetween swigs is not advised.


Flexing muscles is good not just for passerbys but for those photos to hang on the walls too.

Finally, Big Warning now. Here is the one pose you should never, NEVER, adopt while on the Beach.
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I call this 'The Lost-Camp-Duck.'
And I totally meant to do this pose just to prove a point....ahem.

OpenID's

I was recently asked about openID's after one user had thought that it was not secure and quite frankly seemed pointless.
I also thought the same when I first seen openID support on my blogger comments. I figured if I could just write in any url then I could be anyone. I wanted to how is that secure?

Well ladies and gentleman, openID is a little bit of a magician and works in mysterous ways.

(Here is my reply to the above blog entry)
The way open ID works is, say you comment on a blogger blog with your wordpress URL, the first instant you submit your comment, openID checks your computers cookies to see if you are already logged on to wordpress with that URL username. If you are logged on under the correct URL/username then your comment gets posted. If you are not logged on to wordpress then your comment is rejected.

The simpliest way to try this out is to log out of wordpress, find a blogger blog to comment on - say this one. Submit your comment and your wordpress URL. What will happen is openID will check your cookies, and if you remembered to log out of your wordpress account, you will be asked to log in to wordpress first.

So unless you know the password to the url you submit you cannot post under that url.
Which is great now, as all those people with wordpress blogs but blogger accounts to post comments on blogger friends, no longer need to worry about logging in to blogger. Just carry on using your wordpress openID.

You could also try it out by submitting a comment under a url that doesnt belong to you, say a friends. OpenID will see you are not logged on under that username and reject your comment.
Cool eh! And safe.

The reason you may not have noticed anything at present will be because you have “keep me signed on all times” ticked on your blog.

So unless someone can log on to your account with your own password they cannot post under your url. Very secure and no way of fake posters.
So now anyone who comments with openID I will know is genuine.

The power of cookies. It all seems fancy and magical.

Now I want a cookie.

Visit http://openid.net/ for more info, which sites already support openID (you might already have an openID) or how to get one.

Time to get going

Seeing as I spent ALL NIGHT last night trying to figure out how to chop down a video I taken with my digital camera and then work arounds involving converting, I have forgotten to upload the rest of my weekends photos.
I'll do that soon, promise and I know that flickr won't stop me this time as I have just upgraded to a Pro account. Check me.
And I never did figure out how to chop the .mov file or converter, stupid videora and it's non compatabilty with digital camcorder sound files.
If anyone knows how to use Avidemux2, convert .mov files from digital camcorders (specifically audio with pcm_u8 format) or can advise on which paying software I should get out of ulead, Pinnacle or Serif Movieplus please email me; itsmoirob [at] gmail [dot] com, or leave a comment.
Thank you!

But what this means now is that I will have to write about something rather then just posting 100 pictures.
Now there's a problem.
I have just recently joined 20something bloggers, (and no, not just in an attempt to make me feel younger then I am) and have found some very well written bloggers through there, Marggot to bed, Rage and Biscuits, Apollocreed and J-Money to name a few. So I feel like I should really up the ante now.

So here goes....

Upping the ante...

A great blog post....

A great blog post to up the Ante
I recently bought some insoles for my shoes. The inside leather had been worn down and was starting to make my feet uncomfortable. So I bought some insoles. I followed the dotted line cutting for size 11's put them in my shoes and thought that was the end of that.

A few days later I have started to find that the size 11 dotted line wasn't quite so perfect. The insoles keep slipping about in my shoe meaning that alot of the times my heel or the tips of my toes are annoyingly hanging over the edge of these insoles.
Which most importantly annoys the crap outta me, but also gives me a funny lobsided walk.

No, not me walking lobsided but a photo of the insides of my shoe.

So there you have it. Possibly the greatest work I have ever done.

I should just give up now.