For the benefit of anybody who wants to buy me a present for my birthday, and for the interest of anyone who cares what kinds of things I like, here is my list of things I would not be displeased to receive on my birthday:

• An Xbox 360 ;)
• Amazon.com gift certificates
• X-Men : The Last Stand (DVD)
• Oblivion (PC Game)
• Lego Star Wars 2 (PC Game)
• A bowling ball.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. I am sat here watching the film United 93 on DVD, and wanted to put my thoughts on the tragedy up here.

I remember where I was when I first heard something was happening - I was walking through the high street in Melton Mowbray when I saw the World Trade Center on TV. It must have been soon after the first plane hit, because the ticker at the bottom of the page just said something like "'LIGHT AIRCRAFT' CRASHES INTO WORLD TRADE CENTER". I, as everyone else did, either sensed something big was happening, or just had that strange fascination with seeing disaster on such a large scale - and I rushed home to watch the coverage on TV. By the time I got home the second plane had just crashed and they were starting to call it an attack.

Those of you who read my childhood epic The Longest Day, might enjoy this blast from my past: Bunking Off is a script that my friends and I wrote for a drama class when I was 15.

It tells the story of 5 men who are trapped together in a nuclear bunker when war breaks out. It is a harrowing tale of survival and... ah, bollocks - it was our attempt at a Red Dwarf style sitcom, complete with ripped off jokes. We didn't take drama classes very seriously - we had signed up for "radio/video production" and a teacher left so we got shifted to a drama class. We even added a scene where they play football so that we could play during rehearsals...

Here's some wallpapers from my old site that I hadn't got round to posting on here yet. Amazing how good I thought some of these were at the time...

In order to start trying to get more traffic again, I'm starting to use the various blog tracking sites out there. Technorati is one, and they need me to put this link here for it to work correctly. So here it is:

Technorati Profile

So my wife goes away for the week leaving me with 3 days off work in which I intend to work on my websites and play games with my new graphics card. So what happens? Both my computers start having problems preventing me from getting anything done.

My work laptop, which I tend to use to do my website stuff sat on the couch has started giving me the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (TM), and I can't reimage the HD until Tuesday when I'm back at work. Strike one.

Meanwhile, my desktop PC has come down with a virus, which (probably coincidentally) happened around the time I installed Internet Explorer 7. The virus started off just closing internet windows but now it's stopping all internet access and limiting my access to admin features. I'm in the middle of backing up my media and documents from it, and will be reinstalling it soon after 4 different antivirus programs failed to clean the infection. You'd think these days that if the software can detect a virus it could clean it, but all of them kept saying it couldn't be cleaned! AARRRGHHHHHHH....

Having just upgraded my graphics, I was looking for a cheap game that was a bit of a change from all the (admittedly excellent) first-person shooters on the PC. While browsing for bargain games, I came across Path of Neo. While I haven't played it much yet, I was surprised to find it rekindling memories of how awesome I used to think The Matrix was.

The two (progressively worse) sequels tainted the memory of it, but the first film is still probably one of my top 10 films of all time - it's pretty much a perfect action film. I also remember how excited I was when I saw the trailers for Matrix Reloaded and how disappointed I was when it finally came out. Reloaded and Revolutions were so bad that it dampened mine, and everyone else's enthusiasm for the franchise. What could have been timeless and even maybe the next Star Wars is instead a joke.

After yet another friend recommended World of Warcraft to me this weekend, I was about to cave and pay for the full game to try it out. Luckily, the same buddy told me about a free 10-day trial that is available.

Some things to note that aren't immediately clear from the trial offer:

Technically, it's only for the European servers and it does require a credit card (but that can be a US one and the subscription is not automatically charged after the trial period).

Other drawbacks are a huge download (3Gb+ with all the patches/updates), which could take a long time depending on your connection speed.

So, this is my new Drupal-powered site. I am in the process of taking it "live", so you may get some strange behaviour in the next day or so as I figure out how to get my domain-forwarding etc to work out properly... I also haven't made my mind up whether to keep the site as JonMason.NET or make it part of Vojax.com - I will definitely keep the domain name but I might just forward it to my vojax hosting account which will be simpler and easier for me.

Also, most of my content has been copied over to the new site, but my links, files and most of the imag

The site's being neglected at the moment as I am busy experimenting with Drupal with a view to moving all my sites over to this free Content Management System, which will hopefully in the long run let me concentrate on the actual look and content of the site more without pissing about in PHP all the time...