The past couple of weeks have been pretty intense - with a number of larger projects on the boil its been a case of buckling in and getting into some serious coding - something I don’t spend a lot of my time doing, but generally ends up being more enjoyable than I would imagine.

Because of this, I unintentionally and yet completely skipped any mention of the last Multipack meet. I also haven’t mentioned any of the social activity that’s been going on, or reviewed any of the new music I’ve been listening too (however I now have a last.fm account after a bit of pressure). Nor have I mentioned that I spent all of yesterday in meetings in London, and that my phone broke and I spent half a day doing the maths on how to best break out of my contract early (unfortunately my optimism has been dashed. I haven’t even had the opportunity to mention that another friend of mine is to become a Dad (congratulations Dan!).

Things don’t look like they are going to be quietening down either. The next few weeks are likely to be busy too, although I’m hoping I’ve found a solution (at least in part) and ultimately I’ve got a week away in Spain to be looking forward too. That said, I’m still pining for something slightly more exotic, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t make some rash travel arrangements before the year is out.

I’m really looking forward to seeing The Dark Knight.

Here’s another tip.

If you didn’t know already, you can now combine multiple Hotmail / Live email accounts into a single account (or pretty close to) - which means you only have to log in using one account to check the mail in all of the others.

For someone like me who rarely uses my Hotmail accounts these days, it’s handy to speed up the process by merging my hotmail.co.uk and hotmail.com addresses.

You can do this by:

1. Logging into Hotmail as usual
2. Click on your email address in the top right hand corner of the page (right above the Sign Out text link)
3. From the drop down, select Link other accounts
4. Follow the instructions to tie in your Microsoft Passport/Hotmail/Windows Live Mail

You will be asked to enter your password and email address for the other account, then once the process is complete, you will be able to click on the same menu as in step 2, and change to your other email account inboxes on-the-fly.

Maybe I’d missed this before, but I’ve just discovered a fantastic little app (that runs on Windows, Mac and ‘Nix) that allows you to watch all the UK channels for free, live.

Zattoo just requires an email address, and the funky little program allows you to watch the following useful and semi-useful channels:

• BBC One
• BBC Two
• BBC Three
• BBC Four
• ITV 1
• Channel 4
• five
• BBC News
• BBC Paliament
• Al Jazeera
• CBBC
• CBebbies

According to the website, it’s completely legal and I’ve been really impressed with the quality so far. It comes with an inbuilt schedule too.

My advice? Go try it.

If the rain had stayed away I’m sure Sunday would have been drier, but probably not as good as it was.

Even though I’ve been to Silverstone before, I’ve never gone for a Grand Prix, and being that it’s going to be the penultimate one for a little while at least made the opportunity to get in an amongst the action all that more special.

Will, Henry, Alan and myself managed to get ourselves some pretty decent tickets thanks to a contact of ours (to whom we’re really grateful) which meant we got access to the private BRDC car park, clubhouse, marquee, bar and grandstand. We also ended up with pit lane walkabout tickets thanks to Adam and the time in between races making the most of the very good coffee and muffins.

Despite the bad weather (which was inevitable) spirits were high, and by the time the race kicked off and Hamilton raced into first place the atmosphere was buzzing and the crowds were excitable. We had the use of a hill and grandstand with particularly good views (some might say the best on the circuit) and a corner that went from dry to wet to dry to wet during the course of the seventy-odd laps which meant there were plenty of retirements, spins, tussles and overtaking. There wasn’t a dull moment.

Also of note, I’ve never seen so many Aston Martins in my life - the car park was packed with interesting beasts; Ferraris, Lambos, Maseratis and the odd Veyron. On the walkabout we ended up on the right side of the line (also a couple of friends of ours managed to crash a certain Mclaren afterparty), the red arrows were impressive, for the morning races I was standing about six feet away from Tony Hamilton, and despite having to wait about an hour to escape the centre of the track at the end of the day, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Grand Prixes may become a regular feature of my calendar in the future.

Usually I’d just mention the big Grand Prix as the big event of the weekend, but I’ve been packing it in recently, but Saturday had also been busy. We took Aid clay pigeon shooting for his birthday, something I’ve not done for just over ten years, but had a great time doing that too, and surprised myself by being better than I thought I’d be (that’s not hard - I really believed I’d be as abysmal as I was last time).

Overall, a lot of photos and tiredness but above all, a really awesome weekend.