A slightly late Weekly Rewind this time but it’s the big “three oh”; that’s 30, in case you didn’t pick up the phonetics. It’s been an odd week really, I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to, but interesting stuff still happened somehow. So let’s get into it…

On Monday it was Linux Outlaws as usual, with a great audience packed into the IRC channel for the live show. It’s really good to interact with people in the chat room as the show goes on. Mainly because they can correct us when we’re talking rubbish but shhh On Tuesday I began editing the show and also took my car to the garage to replace the blown out tire from last week. I ended up editing some of the podcast while sat in the waiting room with my laptop. I got strange looks from the mechanics and other people wandering past the window as I sat there with my HUGE headphones on, but I got a fair bit done and it was worth it. I also managed to drop well over £100 on 2 new tires. I’m useless when I go to garages, I always get fleeced. I know nothing about cars and engines, nothing, nada. They might as well be talking Greek, but like a typical bloke I’m not about to admit to that. “It’s your grubnuts mate, ooh that’s gonna be expensive”, “I was thinking it was the grubnuts yeah”. After spending a load of money I didn’t really have on some of the finest tires known to man, complete with lifetime guarentee, I remembered that the car’s going on the scrapage scheme in a month or so. The tires are probably worth more than the bloody car now!! I’ll be taking them off before it goes to the scrap heap, that’s for sure. Read the rest of this entry »