With the Liberal Democrats still in second place, this promises to be a fairly historic election - so I'm glad to say my polling card finally arrived today. Can't wait 'til the 6th of May.

However, I'd like to look a bit beyond that, to the 23rd. That's when I'll be running an 8-mile section of the Edinburgh Marathon. Three friends and I are hoping to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust. Please give what you can here.

Of course, if you prefer your running to be more virtual, there's another option. You can now run through the bonus levels of OpenJazz, as promised.

Two weeks in, and the general election campaign has taken a turn for the weird - perennial third party the Liberal Democrats are now polling in second place (apart from two polls where they're actually in first)!

Of course, that's not the only weird thing going on at the moment. There's also a gigantic cloud of volcanic ash hovering over northern Europe.

These things are happening, right? I'm not losing my grip on reality, right? Right?

I've now been living in London for two months. So, what's new?

I've made a film for the EMPS 24-hour film competition, which you can see on the new films page. Not long afterwards I went up to Edinburgh for this year's Golden Video Awards. No prize this year, but I did get to present the award for best soundtrack.

I have yet to find anyone who'll employ me, so OpenJazz has been receiving an unusual amount of attention of late. Expect bonus levels in the not-too-distant future!

Doctor Who got going again on Saturday. As has been established, I have a certain amount of affection for the show. I'm glad to say I do rather like the relaunch, despite (and perhaps, because of) it being a bit more of a kid's show now.

As for today, I've applied for a provisional driving licence. This involved relinquishing my passport. The general election has just been announced, so I hope I'll have it back come polling day. That said, I live in the 22nd safest Labour seat, so I doubt my vote will be missed.

These little updates pre-date the term "blog", so it never really occurred to me that this was a blog until someone referred to it as such. So, it's about time I embraced the blogginess of it. Above you will now find a link to an RSS feed, which I have been meaning to add for years. To the left you will now find links to friends' blogs.

I've made it to London, safe and sound. Huge thanks to all the people who helped on Saturday and Sunday!

I am now technically a Londoner, though I do still feel like a bit of a tourist. Except for a moment today when two actual tourists asked me the way to Greenwich Park.

Once again, a new year is with us (and has been for some time). We've entered not only the 2010s, but also the second quarter-century of my life. With my Amazon contract finished, what better time to move on to pastures new?

So, this time next week I'll be living in London. Okay, it's not exactly pastoral, but you get the idea.

In other news, OpenJazz has been undergoing development on sourceforge, and I've been working on another film with EMPS.

Sometime between 7pm and 9pm GMT today, GeoCities finally closed down. Many of us have fond/embarassing memories of the service that provided us with our first web presence. In commemoration, I've put up a reconstruction of one of the earliest incarnations of my GeoCities site. It's cobbled together from files scattered around my hard disk, so it may not be a perfect snapshot. Apart from some minor changes to get them to work, though, each page is entirely original.

As you may be able to guess, I was a little bit of a Doctor Who fan.

Retro clichés to look out for: animated GIFs, embedded MIDI, web rings, "best viewed with netscape navigator 3.0 or better," and JavaScript gimmicks. Watch out for an actual example of the Millennium Bug (which, interestingly, Firefox and Internet Explorer deal with differently). For the web developers among you, check out the source code and stare in a disbelieving manner at the funky JavaScript.

In my defence, I was 13 at the time. And, who knows? Maybe a decade from now, the current site will seem appallingly ill-conceived.

Returning to the present for a moment, I feel compelled by GeoCities-esque "neighbourly" duty to mention a few of my friends' websites. First up is Spotify.fm, a service which tells you when music by your last.fm artists is released on Spotify. After that, there's Very Top Five, which is amusing.

As of today, I've been working for 3 months. Yay! I've also got a new kitchen, and the flat has just been painted. Also yay! Furthermore, EMPS got going again last week. More yay!

Now for the sad part. Today I received an e-mail from Yahoo entitled "Final notice: GeoCities is closing". GeoCities was this site's first ever host, way back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Last year I brought back some of the site's original content. Stay tuned for more.

Still, out with the old, in with the new. After much indecision, I've joined Twitter, and you can see the results in the box above.

I now have a job! I start on Monday at a company called Amazon. I think they sell books on the Internet or something.

I've also been elected EMPS Webmaster, and I've been working on a new website.

I've been with 5quidhost for a year now. They provide me with statistics! Among other things, I know that 25.6% of visitors arrive via this Wikipedia page. It was 37.7% last year.

Speaking of Wikipedia, I came across this recently.