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This time next week, Myke and I will be in Perranporth. Our "home" will be a little caravan and we will be spending our days doing Nothing. Right now, that totally deserves a capital letter.

The sad little thing that I am, I have been writing lists for the past two weeks.
There's the List Of Things To Take. Then there's the List Of Things I Would Like To Take But Probably Shouldn't and the List Of Things I Would Like To Take But Probably Won't Fit In My Little Suitcase With Wheels. And let's not forget the List Of Things I Don't Have To Take But Probably Should.
I love lists.

I've got the necessities together, like all the stuff people use when they're naked. Like soap, shampoo, shower gel and a towel. And some other stuff.
Saturday will be spent washing all of my clothes. Yes, I will be bringing along my entire wardrobe. Unfortunately, my Entire Wardrobe consists of three pairs of jeans and about ten tops, including my hoodies. I think I will also be spending my Saturday buying a few more items to put in my wardrobe.

Also. I need to buy some Wellington Boots^{^}, for when I go to the beach. I need something to protect my feet from that nasty orangey-yellow grainy stuff on the beach. (What's the name of that stuff again? It begins with S, I know that. I'm thinking SATAN but I know it's not.)
Last year, I ruined a perfectly good pair of black Uggs (not the proper ones, a cheap pair, thankfully) and I STILL managed to get that stuff stuck all over my toes and - oh, I feel dirty and gross just thinking about it.

I've already bought myself a tripod for Montgomery II and a case. Not the £25 case I ordered last week, though! The site I ordered it off said that they were "awaiting stock", so I had doubts over whether I would get the spiffy made-for-Montgomery-II case. Myke suggested just going without a case and I swear, I damn near had a heart attack. My precious baby, out in that nasty sea-salty air, all unprotected? No.
So, I went and bought a "cheap" £10 one from Tesco yesterday.
When I went to check my emails earlier, guess what the first one said?!

So yes. So excited. Can't wait. Will have no internet connection. You lot get a holiday too.

I actually got up off my arse for once and updated the site.

• A new brush set - Sun Burst
• Display Last.fm Scrobbles on your site - script & tutorial
• Install MagpieRSS - tutorial
• Stylesheet Switcher - tutorial
• ClearDownloadsCounter is back up (very minor updates to it as well)
• RightNow is back up
• LittleWallO'Buttons is back up

LWOB got quite a big update.
In June 2007, LWOB had a security scare, where it would have been possible for someone to exploit your user accounts, using a hole in the script. Unfortunately, the problem wasn't limited to my script; most button / image linking scripts (including topsite scripts and ad rotations) could also be a risk. It's up to you to use the scripts but you really must know what you could be letting yourself in for. The type of attack is called a CSRF attack^{^}.

The good news is that I've removed the part of the script which automatically shows the user's chosen image. Instead, they give you the URL to their page full of link buttons to choose and you choose one. You can also upload the button/s within the script, as you're approving the request.

The upload script checks that the file type is an accepted type (jpg or gif - NO pngs!) and is less than 350kb. It also checks that the image is a valid image. If any or all of these are untrue, the image is deleted from the server.

Anyway, if anyone finds any errors, please let me know. My email address is mail @ lirae.net - I should be back online on Wednesday (although it'll be brief).

Recently, (or years ago. I forget.) the Government raised the age of being able to legally buy cigarettes from 16 to 18. This was done in the hopes that young people will find it more difficult to obtain cigarettes and thus, prevent them from smoking.

Not only did they raise the age of buying cigarettes, they raised the age to buy any nicotine containing products and smoking paraphernalia (lighters, cigarette papers, filtres / tips, etc).

Now that 16 / 17 year old who was quitting The Satan Sticks without putting themselves through the horror that is "cold turkey" can't...unless they talk their parent/s into buying their choice of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for them.
I'm sure that request will go down just as well as "Could you buy me some cigarettes, mum?"!

They [the Government] want us all to quit smoking. A few months ago, they were considering making it illegal to display cigarettes behind the counter of shops; the packets would be held under the counter.

They're all for England to stop smoking but don't seem to be helping.

The price of Nicotine Replacement Therapy products is disgusting. Britain, you really want to help your people to quit smoking? Lower the price. Remove the VAT from the NRT products and raise the VAT of cigarettes to something MUCH higher. How about almost £10 for a pack of ten (currently between £4 and £6, depending on your chosen brand)?

And, please God please, make it easier to get hold of NRT products. This is the best thing you could do! My chosen method of NRT is the Inhalator, which I can buy in a whole of three shops in Plymouth. None of which are near me.
And I'm running out.