Wow, a weekly round-up post. Let’s see if I can keep this up to beat the current record run of three weeks1.

🎦 The Apprentice: I was expecting this to be a Donald Trump hit-piece, which it was to some extent, but it was more of a Roy Cohn hit-piece.

🎸 Kevin Bloody Wilson/Jenny Talia: Good, clean family fun. I’ve been humming FOCUS for the rest of the week towards dickheads.

I was out in Leeds on Friday for Light Night, although I was more interested in the Indian restaurant that had been booked for tea beforehand. I suppose having lived in Blackpool for a decade makes me less impressed by light shows.

The site is now fully Automattic free, as I’ve replaced Akismet with an alternative anti-spam solution. The themes of the recent messages it has caught have been porn and bitcoins.

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As previously threatened, I have finally got around to making the desired changes to this humble hovel on the internet. Firstly, in keeping with the theme of unnecessary delusions of grandeur/large buildings, House of Deyes has become Anto Towers. This will also potentially allow me to make theme park related jokes. I’ve also fired up the new domain name anto.im, and I’ve even got the old domain redirecting through for the time being for the one person who needs to update their bookmarks.

I’ve also made a slight adjustment to the backend, which now uses the ClassicPress version of WordPress. Classic Editor or die! Thanks to Mark for alerting me to the existence of this version. Just in time for WordPress proper to implode under the idiots in charge.

Otherwise, it’s business as usual. All the old stuff has been imported over so my previous offerings to the void are now available here. I’ve got the colours looking the same. I haven’t bothered installing the IndieWeb and Fediverse related plugins, as I didn’t really make great use of them previously. I’ll see how I get on without them for now.

I’ll now spend an afternoon looking for broken links, of which there will likely be several, and updating references to HoD, deyes.im etc to the new format.

The slackness continues through the year. Mind you, I found some old webpages that I had made from 2004 on a USB drive that I was trying to find something else on. Those pages followed a similar pattern to this, so it’s good to see that I have retained some level of consistency over the past 20 years.

In other news, I’ll be making some changes to this webshite over the next few weeks. Included in this will be transfer over to a new domain name as I don’t really use the deyes moniker any more. It was more a thinly veiled disguise from the “professional” real life, but as I no longer require that cover I might as well go back to something more recognisable.

I had planned to accompany the last paragraph with an image of an exceedingly useless sign that was displayed on multiple shelves in the local Tesco Extra that read “We’ll be making some changes soon” and no further detail. Unfortunately, they had all disappeared before I got a chance to take a photo of one. I can’t tell what changes have been made either, as everything is still in the same place as it was before.

Exactly 30% of the way into the year and I haven’t taken the time to dump some words on this site. I didn’t even manage to take the opportunity to use my page numbering system to do a ‘post not found’ joke on week four.

Oh well, business as usual I suppose!

I’m on weekly leave next week so I might be able to muster up something interesting.

As usual, I’ve been rather slack in keeping up to date with events and happenings. I’ll try and remember what I’ve done since May.

The main change has been a change of employment, having gone from bus to train. Where I used to log various delays and cancellations, I can now be a cause of them. Also: better pay, benefits, conditions and such.

An earlier post was seeking suggestions for areas of outer London for pub based investigations. I managed two of those with calls at Penge and Eltham, plus Bromley and Stoke Newington as well.

This year’s Loony Party conference took place in Wales (specifically, let me check the spelling here, Llanwrtyd Wells). Beer options were a bit suspect and for the first time it rained during the cabinet reshuffle. Hopefully, that isn’t a bad omen. I was also roped in as an election agent in the Tamworth by-election. First count I’ve been to for a few years and completed relatively quickly too, as I was in bed by 3am.

Space idiot decided that not posting on Twitter was spamming, so that account got suspended. I got a Bluesky invite code around the same time though, so I have a new social network account to neglect instead. Mastodon continues to be my preferred waste of time, however a full range of options can be found in link-me-do corner.

That’s about everything of note, unless I remember something else later and add it into the small space above this paragraph. I’m off to the pub to celebrate one crap year ending and another beginning. Cheers/Sláinte/Iechyd da/Prost/As you are!

Slightly miffed. Atkinson’s car park in Sheffield used to be dirt cheap on evenings and Sundays – only 50p per hour. A new tariff started this weekend and it’s now £1 per hour!

They’re still cheaper than most of the other car parks in the city centre, so I’ll probably continue to park there.