With all the blog shenanigans over the past couple of days, it has dawned on me that I never updated you with the results of my gastroscopy. Firstly the procedure is not too bad if you don't object to a feeling of trying to throw up Nelson's Column. I was well disappointed with the valium. I was put in a room post-procedure and my mother (you are not meant to drive, sign legal documents or be left alone for 24 hours after the tiny squirt of valium they give you so I had to be accompanied) was told that I would be out for about a further 30 minutes. Cue Kenny metabolism. Precisely one minute after that statement had been made, I was awake and raring to get the hell out for a good old Silk Cut Ultra. Sedative, my ass. I didn't even get any residual la-la-land. I was duped. I did have a rather ace dream that night involving a certain Ms Gordon -- no, not a pervy dream -- just a verbal waltz followed by a stroll through a park. Just think if they'd hit me with a couple more milligrams...

And they found...

Absolutely bugger all squared apart from a 4cm Hiatal Hernia which is a) to be expected given my advancing years, b) about a serious as a paper cut.

What they didn't find is any evidence of utter idiocy which is almost certainly a condition I suffer from. I have just been scammed for £50. I am not going to tell you how. I am so embarrassed. It's really one of those \"f*ck me, I'm clueless\" moments.

Here's to more somnambulistic roving with Ms Gordon.

Okay -- I owe the guys at my hosting company a partial apology. They must have upgraded PHP and/or switched on some kind of strict mode. Where I had been passing things using:

http://www.gorners.com/permalink.php?id=1278007335

and then assuming I could reference them in permalink.php as $id without any work, I was obviously being sloppy. I've had to change everything that uses a URL argument to do the following:

$id = $_GET['id'];

before I try to use $id.

It took me quite a while to suss that one out.

I'm sure you're all very interested (sic) n'est ce pas? Ignore me.

Look at the time -- Lordy, Lordy, time does not half fly when you get in the zone. Schlaft gut meine kleine igels.

There is something going on with my hosting company at the moment and I'm buggered if I know what. They appear to be performing an upgrade of some kind.

Initially I thought I'd just lost a post and some comments due to some payment gubbins (they had the wrong card details and I hadn't checked my gmail to see the warnings) -- I sorted that yesterday. The account was not suspended at all. When Dr W informed me of the loss of a post and comments, I thought they might have done a restore or some such so I have manually re-added the post I lost (the comments are gone).

On further investigation, it appears that all my blog code ist gebrochen too so I have had to write a query by hand to insert this little update (the things I do for you all). On even deeper rummaging, I discover that all sorts of things are not working (control panel etc) so I'm assuming that there is some kind of issue or an upgrade problem that is not of my doing. I will sit on it for a while and see if they fix it -- I can't even submit a trouble ticket since that interface is gershafted.

Ah well. It's not the first time I've been baffled and it won't be the last.