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am i still ill? Archive for July, 2005
July 20, 2005 at 17:24 · Filed under Uncategorised
I loved the tagline so much I just had to buy it :p
But seriously, I’ve had enough of always being without a real digital camera (since the battery cover broke on my Nikon, it still works, but the cover has to be held on by a piece of sellotape), 1.3mp phones just don’t cut it, no matter how much I’ve persevered, so I decided I would splash out on a new camera for myself and decided to go with the Fuji F10.
The latest addition to Fujifilms’ compact 6.3 megapixel range, it is the first to sport their new Super CCD HR sensor (oooh!) which means that the camera apparently works about 10x faster than any of their previous models. 0.01 second shutter reaction time and only 1 second turn on time too! Ooooh!
Should be arriving tomorrow, so hopefully will be able to play around with it and give you my expert opinion 
July 19, 2005 at 18:59 · Filed under Uncategorised
This just in, audioblog entry.
Use the player below to listen.
MP3 File
In today’s audiomoblog I talk about Podcasting, the horrible heat and just general totally unscripted crap.
I setup an account with Audioblog.com today and it’s pretty cool because after you have set it up on the website, you can either upload audio files to publish, or, the way that I have decided to go about it, is to phone in your entry. Call a number and it will record, when you’re done, it magically publishes it onto the site. Nice.
Links mentioned:
Podshow.com
Ipodder.org
Audioblog.com
July 19, 2005 at 12:29 · Filed under Uncategorised
July 14, 2005 at 15:27 · Filed under Uncategorised
Reading the (from the front page of today’s Guardian) really has shocked me quite a bit, Hasib Hussain, the person that was behind the Number 30 bus boming at Tavistock Square, London, really was “the boy next door”.
Born in Britain, raised in Britain, just a normal British person living a typical life.
He wasn’t at all like Bush/Blair etc made out the 9/11 attackers to be like, the type of people that we have been told to look out for, to be wary of. This boy had friends, had not long gotten out of high-school. Not at all like the “terrorists” that we have been drip-fed images of over the past 4 year, trained at Al-Qaeda camps in the dusty deserts of Afghanistan, gun-toting murderous Arabs.
Read the article here
July 13, 2005 at 13:40 · Filed under Uncategorised
Proof of what we all expected, that Charlotte Church has absolutely no talent at all.
July 12, 2005 at 23:45 · Filed under Uncategorised
I love these lyrics, from the Stereophonics - Doorman (from Language, Sex, Violence, Other..) as it really does describe every single doorman at every single bar, pub & club I’ve ever been to.. (especially Metros)
Doorman you got an attitude
Ya like immigration in a cheaper suit
You’d like nothing more than to break my face
No rhyme no reason no colour or race
You’d like to throw me out on the street
It aint my fault that you can’t read
You look like a monkey scowling at me
(ooh ooh aah aah)
Well suck my banana, suck it with cream
July 12, 2005 at 13:18 · Filed under Uncategorised
I felt that I had to do something about the state of affairs at BBC Wales, their news site is just getting out of control, they worship the ground that Charlotte Church walks on, and it’s not healthy.
From: Collins, Nathan
Sent: 12 July 2005 13:07
To: wales.southeast@bbc.co.uk
Subject: Charlotte Church
Why does BBC Wales feel it so necessary to give us almost blanket coverage of everything that is going on in the life of the not-quite-a-diva Charlotte Church?
Wales has far more interesting artists and bands, why not cover the up and coming bands rather than giving Miss Church the attention that should be left to the weekly celebrity glossies.
Regards,
Nathan Collins
If you read the ‘Wales’ section at news.bbc.co.uk you will no-doubt agree with me, anything that Church does is reported on.
Church remembers Irish roots, Church does gig in HMV, Church’s stepsister cleared of robbery, Church may hire bodyguard, Charlotte ‘offered cocaine at 13′, Charlotte’s big night out. And so on..
But seriously, who cares? This isn’t news. If I wanted to know about the life of a half-witted Z-list, so called “celebrity”, I would be in Tesco buying one of the 10,000 celebrity magazines that they have on offer, it’s not like they’re in short supply.
Also, to update an earlier post, the picture on the right is what Charlotte Church actually looks like, pre-photoshop. Go on, tell me I’m not right.
July 11, 2005 at 23:33 · Filed under Uncategorised
Ricky sent me this of him and Norman messing about with a bottle of cider, with dangerous (but hilarious) consequences. (Right click image, choose Save As.. to save)
July 11, 2005 at 10:17 · Filed under Uncategorised
The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and around and around and it has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud. And it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, and they say, “Hey, don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because… this is just a ride.”
-Bill Hicks
With all the current events going on in the world these words are truer now than ever. I can only begin to imagine if Bill were alive today, it would completely blow his mind.
July 8, 2005 at 15:56 · Filed under Uncategorised
Picture from Times Square, NY.
I thought this was in very good taste, supports the fact that I 
NY.
New York is easily the greatest city in the world (London running a close second, of course)
Reports now saying that death toll is likely to be over 50 as there are still bodies at Kings Cross tube station, but also I would imagine that the toll from the bus bomb will go up, 2 seems like a low figure considering the amount of damage that was done.
I hate having to post things like this, I really do.
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