If travelling away to some distant destination in the countryside or in the middle of nowhere I will

1. Always take 2 or more mobile phones with me because in the movies no one has a mobile phone when they are under attack in the abandoned building in the middle of the forest they decided to stay for the night.
2. I will ensure their batteries are charged scary movies have taught us that mobile phone batteries are always low on power.
3. I will check the mobile phone coverage before I go because scary movies have taught us that the one place you will get caught is a place where there is no mobile phone coverage.
4. Take a satellite phone with me because whatever demon or monster it is that will attack me according to the movies will take out the mobile phone masts for some odd reason.
5. Ensure I have a good gun
6. Ensure I have plenty of ammunition
7. Ensure I have plenty of silver bullets for ware wolves
8. Ensure I carry garlic for vampires
9. Ensure I carry stakes for vampires along with holy water and cross. One is bound to work ... right?
10. Take a hazmat suite with me the monsters that will attack me are bound to spread some sort of disease that will take control of its victims and use them as zombies
11. I will not dare play tricks on my fellow travel companions because if I really do get attacked by monsters they will think I'm crying wolf.
12. I won't split up from my travel companions.
13. If one of my travel companions starts acting weirdly I will shoot him (his obviously turned into a monster)
14. Take an ultra violet torch with me with plenty of batteries it will probably kill vampires?

I was disappointed when I started getting a 9006 error when downloading movies on iTunes on my new Vista machine. I looked all over the Internet and even on Apples website and couldn't find a solution to the problem.

But never mind I found the solution to the problem.

• Delete the failed download
• Shut down iTunes
• Go into C:\Users\[Username]\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads and find a folder with the name of the movie you were downloading and delete it.
• Start up iTunes again go to the Store menu and select "Check for purchases"
• Your download should now resume.

Hope the above helps. If you are still having problems I would suggest trying a download with Windows firewall turned off to see if it makes a difference.

I've decided to advertise my house for sale on my blog. Why? Well because in this day an age of the Internet why not?

I get a good readership on my blog and with a bit of syndication it should end up on a few blog feeds.

Anyway enough about blogging and more about the house I am selling.

We have lived in Egham for nearly 6 years now and love the place, we like it so much we will still be living in the area. The time has just come for a bigger property which can accommodate my wife's businesses and all the family we constantly have staying over.

Key Features

• ONE/TWO BEDROOM
• EXTENDED
• OFF STREET PARKING
• CUL DE SAC
• TWO RECEPTION ROOMS
• DOWNSTAIRS SHOWER ROOM
• DOUBLE GLAZED THROUGHOUT
• FIRST FLOOR BATHROOM
• VIEWINGS ADVISED

Living Room/Lounge

4.27m x 3.77m (14' x 12'4)

Side aspect double glazing patio doors, coved ceiling, stairs to first floor.

Dining Room

4.57m x 3.52m (15' x 11'7m)

Front aspect double glazed window, rear aspect double glazed door to garden and stairs to gallery area leading to mezzanine study area.

Rear Garden

Paved patio area leading to laid lawn, timber shed, shrub borders and pond.

If you are interested in a viewing, please get in touch with our estate agents Nevin and Wright on 01784 437 437

"You have a car that holds 20 litres of petrol, but it has a leak and is losing petrol at a rate of 10ml per minute. If I know I can get 20 miles on 10 litres how far can I travel before I must refuel?" teacher

"Well I'd only go 5 because there's a Halfords just near my house and my mate Dave is a whizz with fixing fuel tanks," student

"But what if you were not at home?" teacher

"I'd look up a station on my satnav," student

"Okay what if you couldn't find one?" teacher

"I'd call the AA," student

"What if your mobile phone didn't work," teacher

" I'd use my other mobile phone I always charge it at night," student

"Well what if there wasn't mobile phone coverage?" asked the teacher

"Well since my mobile phone operator has 98% coverage it means we must be in the Brecon Beacons where I went last year with my dad and the closest station is 7 miles and they even give you a free retest on your MOT there," student

"I give up..." teacher.

We have four cats Oliver, Oscar, Lucy and Owe. Owe isn't her real name, it's Willow but she's started doing some incredibly annoying things. You guessed it – she makes loud "owing" sounds all the time.

Now you would think this would be down to something she is unhappy about such as cat litter not being clean, not enough food or not enough attention. But "Owe" gets all of these things complete with generous servings of ham from the fridge from time to time Owes favourite treat. It's been particularly annoying for my wife who works from home and has to put up with "Owe" owing when she's on the phone. Eventually we decided enough was enough and took the annoying cat to the vet , who of course told us that nothing was wrong with the cat "maybe she's a little stressed?". The vet sold us a cat calming infuser you plug into the wall. It's supposed to calm your moggy down, a bit like camomile tea for cats.

The problem is Owe still continues to "owe" even when standing directly in front of the infuser. The only thing that seems to stop her and is a bit drastic is if you wet her coat a bit she's spends about an hour cleaning herself which gives us some rest.

Was annoyed by this problem for ages, for some reason Jquerys unblockUI method was not working in Internet Explorer. The solution to the problem was "code your HTML properly" I had placed a form tag inside a table when it should have been on the outside. Once I had corrected this problem like magic the unBlockUI worked.

Is it me or does the Russian Eurovision song contest song Believe by Dima Bilan sound a lot like Maxi Priests "Wild World" . Not the words but how its starts and the beat?

It's strange when you listen to a lot of the songs how they remind you of songs you have heard in the past, but can't quite put your finger on.

Having been off sick and confined to feeling sorry for myself on the sofa at home I decided to try out the delights of my recently installed Windows MCE 2005 PC via the Media Extender in my living room known as an Xbox 360. What that last sentence means and I know it sounds like complete gibberish is that Windows Media Centre (Microsoft's media'd version of Windows XP) can play its TV shows, DVD's and movies through something other than your computer screen but actually through your Xbox 360. Using your Xbox kind of like a conduit to your TV screen which you can control with your Xbox controller.

The idea behind it all is super, but my main goal was to watch some of the SkyAnytime shows I have on my Windows MCE machine. I selected "Online Spotlight" from the menu screen now displayed on my TV screen and selected the SkyAnytime feature from here. After that my whole love affair with being able to interactively select SkyAnytime shows from the comfort of the sofa of my living room disappeared. Some how the Microsoft spotlight service thought that SkyAnytime was available to use from within the Media Center. Sky's website on the other hand had other ideas, the Media Centre informed me that Sky's website was not compatible with Windows Media Centre browser. What was more annoying was there was no plugin to add it to my "more programs" section. While I could use the SkyAnytime service in a normal browser on the Windows MCE PC I couldn't use it in the MCE browser. What was the point of that! To top it all, a lot of the other items available in the spotlight menu also didn't work or their sites had long since changed to be incompatible with Windows MCE. The experience was shoddy to say the least, while I know I could download shows separately in BBC iPlayer, SkyAnytime or 4 On Demand and place them in a folder for MCE to pickup and display to me via the Xbox, it was a hassle and my Windows MCE machine was far from the sofa. Microsoft and these 3 players really haven't thought it out properly they could have made so much more out of this and in my mind the user interface is a real shambles. Annoyed by my experience I switched back to good old fashioned morning chat show TV complete with adverts by loan companies such as Ocean Finance which soon sent me back to the land of nod.