Merry Christmas! I am in England with Cat who is lovely and we are about to eat Christmas lunch. I got a new phone, a Nokia 6500 Slide, and Cat got lots of stuff from me, including a Rick Astley Ultimate Collection CD!

My parents and siblings arrived in Arizona yesterday after a long flight from London. They were rather OMG about the heat. The Chapmans rented an enormous black SUV to take them all back from the airport, and it looks like a spy vehicle. Today we went to Slide Rock in Sedona, a big swimmy place where you can slide down the slippery rocks which form the riverbed. The water was very cold but I eventually got used to it.

My family is staying at the lodge at Cliff Castle Casino, so hopefully they don't go gambling and lose all our money!

OMG we're like so tOtaLlY eMo!!1!!

YoU CaN SeE ThEM aLL HerE

No, we haven't really gone eMo, we just wanted to make a new emo post to make fun of all the stupid commenters there who didn't get it.

Here are the photos of summer 2008 so far:
My photos

Cat's photos (part 1)
Cat's photos (part 2)

Overall there are 1368 photos!

I am now in Arizona at Cat's house. We had a good time in Spain together, we went to various beaches and swam, we went to the Terra Natura zoo and the Aqua Natura water park and we went SHOPPIIING!!!1!1! to buy Cat and I SHOES!!1! and she also got two bathing suits.

On the 16th we left Alicante and flew to Madrid, where we stayed the night in order to catch the flight to Atlanta. The hotel was fancy, it had Linux laptops in each room (which were locked down and running Debian, but we managed to get to an xterm and do stuff like play planet penguin racer). We walked around Madrid and ate at Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world, which had yummy food and Cat and Candi got tipsy on the Sangría and started talking about awkward things.

We got up early for the flight to Atlanta, and while we were sitting by the gate we heard our names being called out on the PA. We had been upgraded to business class! We had big comfy seats and posh food. Cat's grandfather Bruce, who used to be a pilot for Delta must have puled some strings. Cat also got to see the cockpit and take some photos while we were on the ground, the pilot made her sit in his seat while they took a photo of her. The flight was good, although the entertainment system kept going wrong and my console kept rebooting right in the middle of a video. They were running Red Hat Linux and you could see the little Tux penguin while it booted.

We arrived in Atlanta, went through customs and immigration (I had to go to the "Foreigners" line and get my fingerprints scanned and photo taken) then we rechecked our luggage, went through security and were free to roam the massive Atlanta airport. It has six terminals with a train between them, five runways and loads of shops.

We didn't get business class on the flight to Phoenix, but it wasn't too bad and I managed to sleep a bit. After we arrived and collected our luggage Cat's grandmother picked us up and took us back to her house. Afterwards we went to Jack in the Box, a fast food place, and got some tacos to eat. We then went to Cat's house in Camp Verde and went to sleep.

Cat has written a much longer and better post here:
Cat's much longer and better post

Our super fantastic amazing film Michael, No! has finally been completed and must be watched by you now

Cat arrived here on Thursday and we've been having a lovely time together. I graduated on Friday with an overall grade of 89%. At the graduation ceremony I received an unexpected prize of best overall grade in mathematics; the prize was a fancy Don Quijote book, which I'll probably never read.
Cat's writing this now, so if the grammar is exceptionally good, that's why.

Cat found the ceremony extremely boring, but she did shout out a declaration of love when I went up on the stage. I didn't hear it, sadly, but her mom does have it on camera.

Then there was a fancy meal, which was rather filling, and it made my tummy exploooode. But it was yummy.

After the dinner, Cat and I went on a bus with my class and we went partying in the barrio, in Pub La Antigua. It was smoky, very loud, and the toilets were disgusting. No toilet paper in the girls' bathroom, according to Cat, so they all had to use napkins.
We eventually made it home by catching a taxi at around 3 AM, mostly because Cat's feet hurt.

Today, we went to Alfaz and Cat and her mom met my kitty Ximo, who is fat and cuddly.

Now it's sleepy time.

It's my Birthday! I'm 18 so now I'm allowed to get drunk and be prosecuted as an adult, yay!

Cat has booked flights here for the 2nd of July, she and her mother will be staying until the 17th and then I'll go to America with them.

I have my final exams soon, written and then oral ones, scary!

Woohoo! One of my things was featured on Mashable again, my WikiFM Last.fm/Wikipedia mashup. And yes, I am planning on making it look prettier.

http://mashable.com/2008/04/10/learn-about-music/

UPDATE:

I've made it prettier and it's also been featured here:

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9917111-2.html
http://musically.com/blog/2008/04/11/wiki-fm-mashes-up-wikipedia-and-las...

And wired too:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/wiki-fm-mashes.html
Hehe, they got the person wrong:
"Wiki FM is a simple mashup between Last.fm and Wikipedia developed by self-described "geek girl" Cat Chapman, whose bio says she was born in 1992."

And Yahoo news (soon to be MSN?)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080411/ttc-wiki-fm-wikpedia-meets-...
Ah, looks like they got it from here http://techdigest.tv/2008/04/mashups_are_a_t.html

Y en español también:
http://wwwhatsnew.com/2008/04/12/wikifm-escucha-musica-mientras-lees-bio...
http://www.genbeta.com/2008/04/13-wiki-fm-informacion-de-los-artistas-qu...

And Italian!
http://www.italiasw.com/wikifm-per-tenersi-aggiornati-musicalmente/
http://www.geekissimo.com/2008/04/13/ascolta-lastfm-e-consulta-le-inform...

French:
http://blog.accessoweb.info/WikiFM-un-mashup-musical-plutot-complet_a315...

Ooh, Danish
http://www.t3danmark.dk/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=1&p...

A less positive review:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikifm_great_idea_poor_execution.ph...
Hardly my fault that last.fm doesn't play your own station unless you subscribe - it's only because I implemented a workaround that you're able to listen to it at all!
And the same in Russian: http://habrahabr.ru/blog/wiki/39940.html
I like how google translate says "In itself, the idea of cool (though not new), but its execution leaves forest berries taste"

Portuguese - at last somebody got my name right!
http://2.0.bloguite.com/mashups/wikifm-um-mashup-da-sua-musica.html

Japanese
http://terainfo.seesaa.net/article/93440298.html

I've uploaded videos of my holidays with Cat in Arizona and England to youtube, which has murdered the picture quality but oh well.

Arizona

England