on a cold and frosty morning

saw a little crocus in our garden the other morning and announced to all and sundry that spring was on it's way - we have now had three days of very cold mornings - i was maybe a bit previous in announcing spring - but i meant well

so i was up early and browsing around blogs - cathcing up with what various friends were doing - and decided that i should use this quiet time of the day to write a blog entry - and while i was pondering what to write i remebered something i wanted to do on my blog

i never get around to updating sidebars and links on this blog - partly because i always forget how to do things like that so i have to re-learn practically everytime - and partly because it is such a pain to get it all correct and working - there has to be someone out there who is developing or has already developed a blog type thing where muppets such as i can just drop things into nice GUI type thing and avoid me doing all this pseudo html stuff - there goes another marketing idea just thrown away :)

anyway my point - and i did have one
so i figured i would wrire a blog entry on all those little links and things which i have discovered and that have amused me in the last few weeks and months

maybe if we all did it we would add to each others enjoyment - i mean t'internet is a big place and you can't see everything (which doesn't explain why i get the same joke/funny page/check this out style email from nine people in one hour)

so here goes:
interesting links wot i have found recently:

http://www.filehippo.com
useful site to find all the latest updates for various iddy biddy bits of software that you never bother updating but you might find things work a little better if you did - better yet all the things you wish it did might actually have been added by now

http://www.118trades.com
useful for finding a plumber and other little persons who do

http://www.howies.co.uk
love their clothes - can't afford them - far too old to wear them - love their attitude/stance/the way they think - click on 'think' on the menu bar to see what i mean

http://www.freecycle.org
excellent idea - easy to participate - a yahoo emal group that enables you to give away stuff you don't want locally and avoid putting it in landfill

http://mftos.blogspot.com
well written amusing blog - my friend who went with his family to live in NY (very jealous of that)

http://www.radioblogclub.com
nice idea - type in a name of band and it streams music to you of a similiar ilk - nice painless way to discover new stuff

http://www.tv.cream.org
nostaglia gone mad - all those tv progs from your childhood - whenever that was

http://widgets.yahoo.com
if you don't have or can't afford a mac - this gives you widgets - if you don't know what widgets are you haven't kuisted after a mac enough


don't blame if you spend most of friday afternoon clicking and browsing