Boy there are some selfish people out there. I’m talking about helicopter pilots who aimlessly hover or circle around above, nothing better to do than annoy people. When you get a break from work, you need some peace and quiet, not some selfish git with a helicopter pilots licence who wants to disturb everybody’s right to peace.

I’ve got no problem with helicopters or planes which are actually going somewhere, they fly overhead on the way to their destination and that’s it. At the weekend we were over Glastonbury way and it was amazing to hear a never ending stream of helicopters or light planes circling around and around, or hovering slowly overhead, one after another, all day. The noise could be heard for miles, it obliterated any calm, and these pilots, who must know they are disturbing the peace, just carry on regardless. At times there were 3 or 4 in the air overhead at the same time, and think some people on the ground were hoping for a collision. It must be hell living in Glastonbury with this constant racket going on every day.

Me, I just wish these selfish helicopter pilots would just use their machines to go somewhere useful, and not annoy the hell out of others by causing noise nuisance.

Mobile Phones, that’s cell phones to the Americans, are now considered by some health experts to be more dangerous to the health than smoking cigarettes. Now that’s quite a claim considering that all 6 billion of us are subjected to a battering of cosmic radiation every day and not all use cell phones.

Who do these health experts work for? Landline phone companies? The mobile phone has become so necessary in today’s third wave, thanks to Alvin Toffler for the three waves, that we couldn’t do without it anyway. Hold it a foot away from the head when speaking maybe? 

Perhaps loudspeakers inside the phones would enable users to communicate with their mobile phones from a distance. You may now shout into your phone from a distance, but keep it away from your ears, it’s dangerous!

Of course after buying himself a smart little third of a million pound runaround, an old banger if you will, Wayne Rooney will have other things on his mind than football and winning the champions league.

First, how fast will his new car go? What is the point on so ostentatiously spending out on another motor when Wayne already probably has a garage full of them. It would be so nice to see footballers eschewing the ‘loads of money’ lifestyle so brilliantly portrayed by Harry Enfield back in the Thatcher years, and showing a little bit more grace and style.

Now Rooney has a hernia to worry about and may miss the champions league final at the end of May. However club sources predict he could still play through the pain barrier and help Man Utd to win their second major trophy in ten years. Me, I’m hoping Chelsea win it, not only for Avram Grant, who always looks like such a lone battler, but for Michael Ballack who looks more and more, as each game goes past, like a second world war tank commander, only missing the peaked cap.

Well it looks very good does the Yahoo Hosting. For small business Yahoo offers a package costing around $12 (approx 6GBP) per month to host a domain. And to make you feel comfortable there is the 30 day satisfaction guarantee. So I thought this would be a good hosting review to put on the blog.

I signed up for yahoo hosting, only to discover in the small print after having paid the 3 months in advance, it is not shown in the blurb until after you sign up to yahoo small business hosting, that they do not support, unlike every other hosting service I have used, .htaccess for rewriting urls. This means that for any site using a database, including wordpress or sites where you make the pages by drawing data from a database, that you cannot have easy to read url’s. You are left with the unreadable php long url’s.

So that would not work for me, particularly as Yahoo charge premium rates for their hosting service, and I cancelled Yahoo hosting 2 hours later, confident that I would receive a refund under the 30 day satisfaction guarantee.

I received a cancellation email from Yahoo the same day, within stating that ‘you will not receive a refund’. What? When it is advertised so clearly in Yahoo Hosting adverts and in writing that you can have a refund within 30 days? After several lengthy phone calls to the USA I have finally been promised a refund, however as yet Yahoo have not refunded the money. Trying to contact Yahoo Small Business hosting by email is impossible, there are no email links, you have to phone and go through a long procedure.

This is not a good business by Yahoo, it amounts to deception in my eyes. So be warned, be very careful before using Yahoo for your hosting!!

Well making a trackback seemed a weird subject to me, but actually if done properly can be a perfectly legitimate way to expand the readership of your blog.

So thanks to How to Make a Trackback on a Blog: Simple Instructions for a readable and useful introduction on how to do a trackback. Now I can test it myself!

The latest tax introduced by Gordon Brown’s anti entrepreneur and anti small business government, that is the introduction of HIPS, or home information packs has further served to dampen the housing market in the UK.

Brown, feted by the IMF as a great chancellor, really has it in for small businesses and independent minded people. He wants one big socialist state, with everyone working for the government, or big companies only, forgetting that big companies were once small business.

Home information packs are a tax on people wanting to sell their houses, nothing more. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a house solely based on a mandatory HIPS report from the seller. The government was told this at the time, and as usual, with their impaired judgement, ignored the advice.

The short term boom of housing prices in the UK, which fuelled the so called great chancellor’s spending spree is ending. Chickens are coming home to roost, and the time of bust is coming.

No more boom and bust, those words from Gordon Brown when he was chancellor, will come to stick in his throat, while we all pay the bill.

HIPS must go, but Brown doesn’t have the judgement to make the right calls.