It's a question which I ask myself every year that the Eurovision song contest graces our screens, courtesy of the BBC. Every year it was on since I was about 8 or 9 my dad and I always watched it (Because the actual contest always falls on Saturday) and we will probably both end up watching it this year to. But we'd both admit that we watch it for a laugh, because I don't think anyone in UK takes it seriously anymore, and with good reason. Eurovision is no longer about talent, it's simply political and cheesy. Which is a shame because this year Jade Ewen is representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision and I have heard her sing, and while im not Simon Cowell or Andrew Lloyd Webber she has a very nice voice and I think she has real talent, but because Eurovision is so pathetic and the fact that every country thats in it will vote politically, we don't have a chance in hell.

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For the first time in History, As a webmaster I've managed to exceed my bandwidth limit causing James' Blog to go down for a bit. I think from around 12:10 AM this morning I'd gone over my bandwidth usage and if you we're unlucky enough to try and view the blog, you would have got a nice suspended message, saying that the hosting account of James' Blog is suspended. It wasn't exactly the best thing to wake up to this morning, but your now reading this message so you'll be happy to now that my hosting account is unsuspended. Thanks to the great people at LRC-Gaming (Who hosts James' Blog) they we're kind enough to let me purchase some more bandwidth without having to upgrade my hosting package.

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In the past month or so I have wrote three articles/tutorials on various CSS3 elements that the developers of CSS3 have been working on, I've shown you some of my favorite new features such as the border-radius attribute and box-shadow, but I have had to stress on each article that only certain browsers will allow to use CSS3 modules and elements. The main two browsers that have supported CSS3 along it's on going development path are Mozilla Firefox and Safari, both using there own frameworks the moz and webkit, with Mozilla constantly making revisions to there browser and currently working on Mozilla Firefox 3.1 (Currently in BETA) alot of CSS3 is supported and able to be displayed, similar with Safari, particularly the latest version of Safari (which is version 4 BETA) packs in more CSS3 into the webkit and like Mozilla people are able to use CSS3 and see the effects.

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Rolling out the next website development tool we bring you the Whois Domain Lookup tool. Which is simply a domain query tool. This tool allows you to enter either the domain or IP Address of a website and look at certain information such as where the domain is hosted, it's creation and expiry date and more. The tool gets this information from InterNIC Whois database which is updated daily. Information such as when the database for that domain was last updated is also avaliable to look at, however because we are using a standard whois database you will also see alot of random information such as terms/use of the database, we can't remove it as it's part of Internic's policy. But the information you want is at the top and easy to find!

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A few months ago in a random blog update post, I talked about providing some free website development tools for anyone to use, while I did mention this quite a while ago, I have started creating these tools, and today I finished the official image uploader for James' Blog. Using the script that was featured in this tutorial I have created a public image uploader, which is free for anyone to use. Yes there are alternative services which are dedicated image/file hosts, ImageShack being one of them, but I have the webspace for small uploads and im not going to completly visually rape you with silly advertisements so why the hell not!

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