Virgin Media has announced that they’re lowering the cost of their 50MB XXL Broadband Package - to £28 (inc. phone line) and £38 (exc. phone line).

But that’s not all - they’re also trialling upload speeds of 10MB! Considering my current 20MB XL Broadband reaches a little over 700KB and the XXL package currently hits 1.5MB - this is a vast improvement, something that many Virgin Media customers have been calling out for ages.

If they roll this out with the 50MB package soon, then we’ll definately be upgrading. A few months back I was considering BeThere who offer a Pro package with 24MB down/2.5MB up - but Virgin’s new plans dwarf the best that the ADSL providers offer.

Finally, I’ve got around to uploading the photographs from our Wedding, Lily’s Naming Ceremony and our Honeymoon - all of which can be found at ourwedding2009.co.uk

Thanks to our photographer Rachel, who put together the album. We’ve ordered prints of the best pictures, ready to frame and mount.

If you’d like a full-sized original copy of any of the images, then contact us.

Whichever way you look at it, Michael Jackson dying is sad news.

Anneka spotted it on BBC News online and a quick Google News search proved it was true - due to many reliable sources recently posting news stories.

All I can say is that I’m shocked.

For those of you regularly turning to Google for answers to your programming woes, you’ll find StackOverflow to be essential in day-to-day development. In fact, due to the popularity of the relatively new site, you’ve most likely come across many questions and corresponding answers within the Google results - often ranking very high.

The site itself is very clean and easy to use and after a few visits you’ll soon pickup how it all works. I’ve been a member for just over 4 months, but have only clocked up a reputation of 121 - as I’m more of a reader than contributor.

On the flipside, there is now ServerFault from the creators of StackOverflow - Joel and Jeff. It’s geared towards the system administrators out there, to discuss server memory configurations and connecting to SQL Server 2008. As I take a keen interest in the hardware side of things too, ServerFault is a great read for me too, but my reputation is even lower.

So, if you’re not already using StackOverflow and/or ServerFault then start navigating there now. If not, you’ll be seeing more of them both as the content from the community grows and is crawled by search engines more and more.

It’s the 14th May, which means I’m 25 today - but also it is only 2 days until Anneka and I are getting married.

We’ve been planning it for over a year now and everything is finally coming together. I’ve been writing my speech over the past few nights and picked up the suits today. In fact, all that’s left is for us to pick up the cup-cakes tomorrow morning, then to check-in to the hotel.

After we’re married/named, Anneka, Lily and I are heading to Heathrow early Sunday morning to fly out to Barcelona. From there, we’re catching a cruise around the Mediterranean, stopping at Malta, Italy (various) and then Cannes, France. We’ve realised that we’ll hit Cannes during the festival - but whether we’ll see anything or not is another question.

We’ll be posting pictures from the following days once we return. In the meantime, this place will be quiet. I’m hoping once the Wedding has passed and we’ve settled into our married life together, that I’ll be posting here more and continuing with several projects.

See you all soon!