I may get in trouble for this, but I think you'll agree, it's worth it. You may remember me referring to mrBen possibly needing to hide. Well, look below, and you'll perhaps see what I'm talking about!

Please note, mrBen warned he would kill anyone who shows this to his daughter in the year 2023...so I'm safe for a few years yet.

I just can't stop laughing. I was asked if I wanted to take mrBen's place last week. I'm glad I didn't. He looks so much better.

*Picture licensed by schwuk under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Licence

As if it wasn't enough that Gordon Brown is more unpopular possibly even George Bush, that Labour came fifth in Henley, behind the BNP, and that there is now a by-election is Glasgow East, it now transipres that the expected candidate for the Glasgow East by-election didn't turn up to his selection meeting.

It says a lot, doesn't it? Labour now have only until Wednesday to declare another candidate. Somehow, I'm not seeing that the selection is going to be particularly transparent or democratic given the timeframe they now need to work to, but that's their problem, I guess.

Wouldn't it be greast poetic justice that, following Labour's blatant attempt at avoiding debate on the issue of 42-days in the East Yorkshire by-election next week, Labour then are unable to stand a candidate in what is almost their very safest seat in Parliament! That would be pretty hilarious. Given that such a situation is not going to happen, Stephen Purcell (leader of Glasgow City Council) would be a great choice.

The real question, however, will be just how close the SNP can come to taking the seat. The current majority is 13,507. What will it become? I'll leave that for another day...

Many of you will be aware that I do some work for the Baptist Union of Scotland with regards to their youth website, and occasionally their main website too. However, I am working on their Step Out mission teams over the summer.

About 50 people take part in Step Out mission teams over the summer, but there are 5 of us who are on the team for the whole summer. On the far left at the front of picture is Laura Hart, with Cindy Nelson in the middle and Rachel Findlay on the far right. There is, for the observant, myself at the back on the right, and on the left at the back, Jillian Annan, and both of us were on the summer team last year.

However, unlike last year, where the summer team were together all summer, we are split up this year. In fact, I am not on the same team as Jillian at all this year! This week, Jillian and Laura were working with children in Alva, whilst the other three of us were in Thurso, where Rachel is from, working with both children and youth. The week has gone very well, with 15 children choosing to become Christians during the week in Thurso. I even got a wonderful photograph of the sun setting over Thurso and Scrabster on Tuesday, for your enjoyment.

That is, quite frankly, a wonderful picture. Oh, and don't you just think that the first photograph looks like a Christmas card picture?

Having taken a little break from working on Sassenach CMS recently, I've cracked on with it again over the past few days since LUGRadio Live. I have been working on a few other projects recently, and so progress has stalled. However, having spent a couple of days working on different bits of the system, I think I'm happy for the world to see it. I'm labelling it an 0.9a (for alpha) release.

Basically, it is feature-complete, give or take a couple of exceptions. All of the files within the system work now, and, providing you don't do anything wrong, won't throw up a hissy-fit. However, if you do something wrong, they won't necessarily play ball, as my focus over the past couple of days has been finishing the system and not polishing it.

The project is registered at Launchpad, along with the code for the project which is there in its completeness. I using the system on a few websites, including this one, the BUSY website and the Sassenach CMS website, although at the time of writing, the Sassenach CMS website still diverts to another page while I prepare the website!

There are still a few things to do: I need to make a logo for the project, for intance. I need to review all the code, file by file, to make sure it is reasonably secure. I need to alter some of the backend appearnce, but this is just a cosmetic change.

There are, however, three things that are probably most important for me to get finished and polished. The first is to properly implement pluggable themes. These can be changed from the backend, but I want a more complete system where you just click on the theme you want and it works. It probably isn't a great deal of work, it just hasn't been finished quite yet. Secondly, I still need to move some of the code to functions, which I have started to do, but haven't finished quite yet. This is mainly for themes.

Finally, however, I need to write some documentation and create some screencasts, or something similar. This is the most important thing for me to work on.

There are a couple of other things I want to do, like finish my WordPress importer. I have now finished writing the installer. It isn't the prettiest thing you've ever seen, but I have tested it about 25 times now and it works. If the datbase has already been created and files have the correct write access, installation takes about 3 minutes. I think I can settle for that!

I expect I will post more about this during the week, but I think that's all for now!

I am very blessed in living in Sheffield. Although there are other places I would rather live if I were choosing where to live, Sheffield is still a lovely, beautiful place. It is also next to the site of Britain's first national park, the Peak District. It is a wonderful place, stretching most of the way between Sheffield in South Yorkshire and Manchester in Lancashire, taking in parts of Derbyshire and incorporating the Derbyshire Dales too. If you go a little further north, there's the Yorkshire Moors, the Lake District to the west and the North Yorkshire Moors to the east. It is a beautiful place and one that I really should take more time to explore.

Yesterday I went with a few other people from my University for an evening barbeque on the Longshaw Estate, near Grindleford in Derbyshire. It was rather cold when the sun wasn't out, but thankfully the sun was out most of the time we were there. It's wonderful to be able to go out and to just enjoy places without having to worry about writing 20,000 words of research, of the five exams you have to take the next week, or the essay that you understand absolutely nothing about, or the group presentation that your group are showing no interest in. No, I can just relax - for now.

Yesterday was an interesting and great day for Formula 1. Sadly, I missed the race, but it is worthy of writing about here anyway.

Yesterday was the Canadian Grand Prix. The Canadian Grand Prix is well known for being unpredictable and full of incident, and this year was no different. Last year, the race was won by Lewis Hamilton, with his first Grand Prix victory. This year would feature another first-time winner, but with a little more drama along the way. Usually, the drama is to be found in the picture above - the exit to the main straight, known as "Champions' Wall", because it is famous for taking out so many previous champions who have brushed the wall in the past. Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve have all crashed there, and Fernando Alonso has crashed at another corner before now, so it is a track that has pedigree.

However, yesterday was not a day for incident at Champions' Wall. Yesterday, all the main action was in the pit lane. The safety car was called out following an incident on the track - not unusual in Canada - and so most of the leaders came into the pits for a fresh set of rubber and for tyres. Lewis Hamilton did have a sizeable lead before the safety car came out, but it was wiped out as they pitted. Hamilton pitted from first, Kubica from second and Raikkonen from third. Kubica exited his pit box marginally ahead of Raikkonen, but the red light was on in the pit lane, so he had to stop and wait. So did Raikkonen. The two sat at the end of the pit lane, waiting. Hamilton, meanwhile, took on enough fuel to finish the race, and so exited his pit box last. He didn't see the red light. He didn't stop. As he approached the end of the pit lane, he suddenly faced two stationary cars. He darted left, trying to avoid them, but couldn't, and ploughed straight into the back of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari. He looked like a bit of a prat, and he probably felt it too, since he'd just taken himself and Kimi Raikkonen out of the race. Crashing out on track is one thing, crashing in the pit lane - that's another.

So, with Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen both out of the race, the Grand Prix was now wide open, and potentially, the championship too. Felipe Massa in the sister Ferrari and Heikki Kovalainen in the sister McLaren were both down the field, so the BMW-Sauber of Nivk Heidfeld led the race, having not come into the pits for fuel. Once the safety car came in, however, Kubica set a searing pace, was allowed to pass Heidfeld and then made the gap he needed in order to make the extra pit stop he needed to make in order to beat his team mate, meaning the BMW-Sauber team came home with their first, Kubica's first win, and the first win for a Polish driver in Formula 1.

With that win, Robert Kubica also became the leader of the Formula 1 world championship. This is quite a feat. There is no doubt that the BMW-Sauber car is not quite as fast as the Ferrari or the McLaren. It isn't far behind, but it is just that little bit slower. However, at the hands of Robert Kubica this year, the BMW-Sauber car has been scintillating to watch. He has consistently been at the front and was close to winning in Monaco. His pace has been absolutely stunning this year, but more than that, he has been consistent and error-free. I'm sure the errors will come, and there is very little pressure on him, but his form has been great to see nevertheless. Massa made mistakes in Australia, Malaysia and Monaco; Raikkonen made a serious error in Monaco; Hamilton in Canada; Kovalainen has just plain had wretched luck, and been slightly off-pace at a couple of tracks. Kubica, however, has been superb. He is a future champion in the making. I just hope he stays with BMW-Sauber and provides them with their first world champion - that is, if his consistency doosn't bring it to him this year. I don't believe it will, as I think the Ferrari will prove too strong over the course of the season, but if he does win it, it will be thoroughly deserved and hard-earned.