I have actually finished the php book (well, skim read a fair part of the last few chapters). But more importantly I have actually done something useful with it. Although the entire point of me learning php was to be able to modify my guestbook and I haven't even looked at it yet.

This afternoon I need to go into Poole to do some Australian shopping. I like being able to come back and shop in Poole because of all the cheap/independent shops that you just don't get in Oxford or Reading. Plus they have an MVC, which may or may not be a good thing.

I have managed to spend lots of money this morning though. On the one hand, ABE Books is a great site. Except for the part where it's very good at parting you with your money.

The other thing I did was book myself into a hostel in London - which my dad found by reading a Canadian Warwick students blog, and she stayed there and liked it. I've stayed in hostels before in Eastern Europe but not on my own, so this'll be a chance to see what it's like before I do it in Australia. Plus I'm going open-air ice-skating on the Sunday, and it's a bugger to get to London (or anywhere) on a Sunday because there are so few buses. So if anyone's around in London on 8th Jan, I'll be about. No idea what I'll be doing, but a pub sounds like a good idea.

Although having established getting to London on Sunday is a bugger, I'm doing that the following weekend instead, because I'm going to the B7 DVDs launch. Although not actually buying the DVDs, because much as I'd like to, I can't afford them.