What a week!

Well I’m glad that week is over! It started off bad (with things I can’t really go into here), and gradually got worse. And to finish it off, my clutch (or rather my car’s clutch) went on Wednesday, and one of my PHP ‘contact me’ forms got hijacked by a spammer on Friday/Saturday.

Anyway, the car is now fixed so I have about three or four months to find a new one before the cam belt needs replacing. It’s not worth replacing it as the car has done nearly 250 thousand miles (yes, quarter of a million miles!), so I’ve got to start thinking about what to get next. The criteria are: cheap, air conditioning, heated wing mirrors, and diesel. Shouldn’t be too hard to suss.

The spam issue has been quite a pain. Looks like it’s quite easy to feed all sorts of rubbish into the PHP mail() function, so I’ve pulled them all out for the meantime. You may want to check your own forms if you use it.

I felt I needed a little cheering up so treated myself to some ’studio flashes’. Maybe slightly over the top for my needs, but I got myself an Elinchrom D-Lite 2 To Go set. This includes 2 x D-Lite 2 lights, 2 x stands, 2 x softboxes. I’ve never used this kind of light before, so should be fun having a play. No doubt I will write more about them once I’ve had a bit of a play…

Right, got to make dinner. Don’t forget the BritBlog Christmas Blogmeet next month. Should be a lot of fun!