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am i still ill? Archive for March, 2004
March 29, 2004 at 23:29 · Filed under Uncategorised
We’re off now.
Have a 3 hour drive ahead of us to London Heathrow Airport, then a further 4 hours waiting around there until the flight departs at 09:30am GMT.
We’re scheduled to land at New York JFK at 12:30 EST (16:30 GMT) and then have half a day in NYC, by that time I would have gone without sleep for almost 40 hours.
I can’t sleep on planes, I can’t sleep in cars, I can’t sleep whilst in waiting areas, it’s just great. Bah.
I have a lot lined up, but I’ll try to blog as much as I can.
I’m taking my laptop, so I should be able to post pictures too.
See Ya’ll in a week!
March 29, 2004 at 18:37 · Filed under Uncategorised
It’s decided, going again this year.
Because of one man.
Yes.
Morrissey is playing the Saturday night. Headlining.
YES!
“Morrissey is playing his first UK festival dates in over a decade.
Morrissey, who has had an intermittent solo career since the break up of The Smiths in 1987, is releasing a new album in May.
The singer, best known since The Smiths for solo tracks such as Everyday is Like Sunday and The More You Ignore, The Closer I Get, recently signed a new deal with Sanctuary Records.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3579559.stm
March 26, 2004 at 11:20 · Filed under Uncategorised
Well, I’ve found some pictures of our hotel in New York, and bloody hell was I shocked and surprised at the location of it. See the below pictures, we’re staying at the “Ramada New Yorker” hotel.
Yes, that is the Empire State building just 2 blocks behind.
And Madison Sq Garden is just 2 blocks in front too (can’t see that in the picture)
But it does look like a nice hotel, and has internet access in the rooms (Yes, I did call them to check) so I’ll be taking my laptop and posting pictures as I take them during the week 
March 25, 2004 at 10:28 · Filed under Uncategorised
Wahey, I got on to the BBC News website, again (2nd time) 
See picture 6.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3561173.stm
(First time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3069869.stm , see picture 13)
March 22, 2004 at 15:40 · Filed under Uncategorised
Ok, my trip to NY has definately been cursed.
I took my camera out this morning to check that my new high power batteries worked alright in it.
Camera wouldn’t turn on.
Damn, the batteries are duff, was my initial thought.
Took them out, put in ones that I bought the other day, knowing they were working.
Dead.
No lights, no noise.
Other than a slight rattle inside the camera.
Fuck. Great, my good camera is fucked, with just 8 days until I fly out to New York.
I have a plan though.
I’ve bought a camera from eBay, exactly the same as mine.
I’ll get that one in time to take to NYC, then when I come back, I’ll have this one repaired (Fuji say it’ll take them 2 weeks to fix it) and sell the other one on eBay.
I hope this doesn’t go pear shaped.
March 22, 2004 at 12:42 · Filed under Uncategorised
Branille has put up pictures from her visit to NYC.
Not long now and I’ll be there, just over a week in fact!
So many pictures to take..I’ve already got most of my trip planned.
I plan to visit the Soup Nazi (you’ll understand if you watch Seinfeld), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Times’ Square, Central Park, The Empire State Building and loads more, but I do still need ideas.
If you think theres a great place to go in NYC that I have mentioned, mail me.
nychereicome@hintofsarcasm.com
March 21, 2004 at 04:09 · Filed under Uncategorised
For Laura: I could so have written this song about you and I.
I was going down for the third time
My heart was broken, I was not open to your suggestion
I had so many questions
That you just kissed away
Tell me, I guess that cupid was in disguise
That day you walked in and changed my life
I think it’s amazing
The way that love can set you free
March 17, 2004 at 12:50 · Filed under Uncategorised
Well, I was just about to take the plunge, and download my first legal music file.
But that all went kaput into thin air.
You see, the great new George Michael single, Amazing, has been deliberately corrupted all over Kazaa by Sony (or contractors of Sony, GM’s record label) so you cannot get a good download.
They do this by downloading the song you are downloading, then modifying it slightly so that it plays a few seconds, then just spits out 5 minutes of garbage through your speakers.
They then release this file back into the wilds of the Kazaa (or FastTrack) network by loading that modified file onto many computers, and then sharing the file.
More and more people download this dead file, and share it. So what we end up with, it hundreds of people sharing a file that is corrupted and un-listenable. Nice One.
Well, this obviously prompted to me to give in.
I really want this song. But don’t want to buy the entire album just yet.
Everyone has heard the hype of “MyCokeMusic.com” I’m sure, run by Coca-Cola, managed by a company called OD2 (owned by Pete Waterman).
OD2 provide music sites for a lot of different internet companies.
All have the same songs, just the layout (and prices) are changed by the particular company (Freeserve, Tiscali, MSN UK, Virgin, HMV all have an OD2 online download site).
I was at the checkout, all ready to hand over the vast sum of 99p for my first ever legal download when…..
OD2 seem to have overlooked one particular thing.
Not everyone has a Visa or Mastercard.
MyCokeMusic, being marketed to the young, 16-22 I’d say.
What do you think is the majority of people, ages 16-22, that own a credit card?
Not a very high one.
Most have Switch/Solo or other debit cards, which cannot be used on this site, or any of the other OD2 sites. Great.
And just to make it worse, Sony struck a deal exclusively with OD2, so you can’t get it from any other legal download site. Nice one.
And this, children, is why legal downloading of music, will never work.
March 16, 2004 at 20:06 · Filed under Uncategorised
Yes, I still have them!
If you don’t know what photographers eye is, it’s basically where you look around you, and notice things that you would not normally notice, and look at them as if you were looking through a viewfinder, or as though they were on a photograph in front of you. You know what would make a good photograph.
Making what you invisage onto the film (or memory card) is the hard part.
I went out shooting today in Cardiff, Bute Park.
The prominance of the daffodils is evident; they were absolutely everywhere.
There were only two types of tree which had any colour whatsovever; the conifers (which are green all year anyways), and one ppink blossom tree, which was very pretty, although starting to lose it blossoms and I suppose will look a little dead before long.
The pink tree, I manipulated in Photoshop a little bit, obviously the photo didn’t look like that when I took it, but I thought it made for good effect.
March 16, 2004 at 04:47 · Filed under Uncategorised
Not long now before I jet off to New York City for a week away from it all.
I can’t wait to set foot in Manhattan.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to go to New York.
I’ve been to Florida twice before, but Florida isn’t quite the same as the rest of America, especially in Orlando.
It’s too touristy.
I’ve bought two sets of high-powered, extra output (2200mAh) rechargable batteries, so that I hopefully never run out of oppotunities to shoot photos.
I really want to come back with some great shots.
I just hope I don’t lose my eye, it hasnt been around the last few months.
I may go out tomorrow in to Cardiff shooting to get some practice, I haven’t shot a (real) photograph since last November.
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