My weekend started minutes after I got out of my car and was heading out of Newbury. In fact, I had yet to the hit the infamous (and now under further construction) Robin Hood Roundabout. I switched over to Radio One. Scott Mills had already kicked off the Wonder Years and the next track was absolute classic. I put the volume up, my weekend was bang on. Later as I got onto the M4, Scott played Brimful of Asha by Cornershop, and I knew my birthday weekend had arrived. Been a busy week, with the main ‘line in the sand’ of Thursday evening. I was heading back home, but only for a pit stop. I had to collect some home cooked samosas and onion bhajis to bring into work for my birthday. Some people had suggested it would have been more appropriate on Monday but I was adamant, that you do not celebrate something after the event. It meant a bit of a mission for Friday morning, I left at 8am, but did not head directly to Newbury as you would expect. I headed to Slough, to Krispy Kreme store before then heading back down the M4 to West Berkshire. However, as I approached the exit off the A34, I found the road closed. I would later find out that someone had thrown themselves off the bridge. I was stuck in stop-start traffic for a while, so called my manager to let him know. I got off at the next exit, as did most people. It is times like this I am so glad that I have TomTom on my E65. I was able to plot a course for my office and take a short cut out of the busy traffic and then rush to my final destination. Not the office, as you might expect but home. I wanted to setup my PC and queue a few torrents before leaving for the day. My working week has not been too bad, life is settling into some kind of routine. The gym takes up a chunk of my time, keeps me busy and gives me something to do. Hussein (AKA MightyMouse) spammed my wall on Facebook with two links. The second was a link to download the latest version of Xbox Media Centre Atlantis. I loaded that onto the XBox last night and can confirm the latest BBC iPlayer scripts works a treat! It is fantastic that there are a gang of geeks out there that have been working night and day (well almost) to bring RTMP streaming to the original Microsoft console. However, it is the first link he spammed me with earlier in the week that was much more interesting. I have been wondering for a way of placing my gym programmes online in a Web 2.0 approach. So people could comment, make suggestions and monitor my progress. Someone has answered this call with the well named, Gyminee. You can view my Public Profile. If you are an gym addict (like I am slowly becoming) or just starting out, it is a great web site to track your progress and find friends on similar programmes or even going to your gym. I have asked Pav to join up but doubt he will. I have put on my programmes but just need to get into the habit of updating them every night I get back from the gym. Plus on Thursday night I need to remember to note down distance traveled and calories burned. Home for my birthday and been rather lazy if I am honest. I watched Football Focus, and then realised that I had missed the first episode of series three of The IT Crowd. So, I downloaded it on my laptop and watched it after the BBC flagship football show. I had burnt myself my very own care package (Pav would be extremely proud) on Friday evening, before I left Newbury. The DVD contained music videos, music for my sister plus Knight Rider episode eight. I watched that with my sister Julie on Friday night after Eastenders. I also have Tropical Thunder and The Dark Knight loaded onto the XBox to watch but doubt I will have time today or tomorrow. I had a feeling they would be in the bottom two and for sure, they are. JLS, my tip to win had a shaking performance with A Million Love Songs. While I had been listening to The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio One yesterday morning, Louis Walsh had confirmed that the song for the group was Back For Good. Easy pass through to next week I thought. However, when they appeared on this evenings show and performed a different song, I was shocked and disappointed. Particularly with their performance, but somehow I knew from the opening bar they were in trouble. Shame really because they should have breezed through the “Take That” boyband week. Having said that, they have performed a fantastic mix of Stand By Me into Beautiful Girl. Fantastic! I think they have done enough but how will the judges play their cards? Or will it go to deadlock? JLS were safe in the end, it was the right decision in my opinion. I am sure that most of the X Factor viewing public agree. My birthday tomorrow, the big 27! Will upload some photographs from the day. Aim to be back in Newbury early evening and then sort out, all my luggage and food. I also have to put up a shelving unit, my sister used to have in her room.