Thursday, April 20, 2006
Go, put your records on, tell me your favourite song.
It's a kind of magic
Absolutely amazing, and when I went to the pub last night to see the Arsenal vs Villarreal game and also to celebrate Dan and Andy's birthday I had to tell everyone about it. Some were a bit dubious and some were trying to figure out why it happened involving various theories to do with sugar content, acid/alkali reactions ,etc.
People had to see it for themselves so at the end of the match I popped over to the 24 hour Budgens and picked up a 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos. A gang of us went out to the carpark and it was here that history would take place. If you've looked at the linked video you'll see what the reaction is, and there has to be some good timing to get all the mentos in the bottle without getting yourself covered in coke, so I fashioned a tube from a piece of paper and used a beermat as a release mechanism so that I could pull the beermat away, the methos would drop ,and the fun would commence.

Everything went to plan although the stream was only about 4 foot tall. Excellent fun and when I got home I had to find out why it happened, and found this page. It details how to do the experiment and the reasons behind it.
Have fun kids.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
What is game? Who got game ?
Quite a few of the teams wear fancy dress for the event and so I'd spent the Thursday finishing off the American football tops that the team were going to wear [T-shirts from Matalan and T-shirt transfers from Tesco], bought the beers and some snacks, and so on the Friday morning everything was ready......almost. I still needed some tight leggings to finish off the outfit. Ian and myself went up to TK Maxx and bought some fetching ladies leggings that were lovely and tight. Excellent.
A couple of other players turned up for the second game and we lost that one 10-5. Dammit! We didn't really mind losing as the actual playing is only a small part of the day and there was lots of it left. The girls had arrived with a picnic, and we had plenty of beers, and so the future looked bright.
I think I'd caught some kind of stomach bug and have not touched alcohol since, and it's not been too bad. There was meant to be a real ale festival on the Saturday but it was cancelled after they an out of beer of Friday night, so there was no temptation there, and on the other nights I just stuck to the squash. I feel better now.
Cool for cats
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Boom Boom!
'Swollen Danube threatens Balkans'
Cue lots of Carry On style jokes.
Thank you and goodnight
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Just one day out of life
Now to get all that stuff done that I've been holding off on. The main one being the Angryseahorse.com website. One annoying thing with the hosting I currently have is that the package doesn't include SQL which means I'm limited on the database front unless I upgrade. I currently pay £4.99 a month and the next one up is £8.45 a month... mmm what to do?
I've also managed to start reading again and am halfway through The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. A good read indeed.
I also managed to watch a few DVDs that I borrowed from Tim and started off with BASEketball and then War of the Worlds [the new Tom Cruise One]. It was nice to actually watch a film without having adverts spoil it. I wasn't really impressed with War of the Worlds. nuff said.
It's 12:15am now and as I don't have to get up in the morning I'm going to see how much of The Bourne Identity I can watch [on ITV2].
Night Night.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Wasps 26-10 Scarlets
I wasn't meant to be going but was a late replacement for Ian's girlfriend who had to drop out. I'd like to add that this was the only area that I filled in! So off we went on the 9:20am train to Twickenham [via Victoria and Clapham Junction] and we arrived there at midday. We'd had a few beers on the train, and so had a few beers in Codees Bar and went and got some lunch from Subway before heading to stadium at 2:30pm.
The match wasn't that brilliant, and I suppose this has something to do with only having a slight affinity with one of the teams, as opposed to being an ardent supporter, but it was still a good day out.
I'm thinking that I should decide on a rugby team to support properly [probably a London based one], so maybe the next time I go to a match I'll be more into it.
I took photos so if you're interested then click here.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
A UN Report out has detailed the life expectancies of peoples around the world and, no surprise, the top ten lowest life expectancies are all from countries in Africa. And the "winner" is Zimbabwe, a country which, 20 years ago, had a relatively high standard of living for Africa.

If you are a man you should not expect to live past 37, and if you are a woman, well, 35 is the best you can hope for.
The AIDS/HIV epidemic coursing through Africa has obviously had an effect, but the main reason behind Zimbabwe's downfall has been the dramatic fall in the standard of living due to an economy in crisis, and this lies at the feet on one man..... "President" Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe took charge in 1980, after fighting in the guerilla wars of the 1970s, fighting racist white minority rule for the freedom of his people, but it seems that he has done this at any cost, and now having removed the colonial oppressors, has now turned against his own people.
In 1989, Dennis Walker, a former minister, produced a paper on 'Land Reform in Zimbabwe'. In his last paragraph he stated "once the land has been redistributed, the commercial farms will be broken up, the remaining white farmers reduced by exile or imprisonment; Zimbabwe's government, already morally bankrupt, will decline towards economic collapse."
This has all come true and it seems that with Mugabe at the helm, Zimbabwe is doomed and so are its citizens.
Read more articles on Zimbabwe here.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Where are you going, with your fetlocks flowing in the ... wind?
Garvivonnian @ 20/1
Jack High @ 14/1
Innox @ 14/1

Nil Desperandum @ 40-1
Direct Access @ 25-1
Cornish Rebel @ 20/1
I don't really know much about horses, let alone horse racing, and find watching these races boring, and in some cases I feel sorry for the horses, but I will not go into all that as I'm sure there'll be quite a bit of ranting in the papers. I only really want to have a bit of fun and win some money!!
Good luck
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
I USED TO WORK IN CHICAGO AT AN OLD DEPARTMENT STORE
Great Fun!
Monday, April 03, 2006
Did I disappoint you or let you down? Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
crazy insane, got no brain!
Haveing these qualities can really help and will also inspire loyalty. You only need to look at companies like google and mozilla who have that image, and also 'open-source' software companies who I am more likely to deal with than companies that hide behind a corporate mask.
I have chosen not to use blogger for this as I wanted something that I could have more control over and that could be easily integrated into the actual site when it's up and running. I also wanted something that was opensource and free, and Greymatter fitted the bill.
It did involve downloading the relevant files [mostly *.cgi], uploading them to my server, chmoding some of the files, and then sorting out the configuration of the blog, but it was all pretty simple, and Greymatter seems to work well and have quite a bit of flexibility to it.
You can check out the blog here: angryseahorse.com/blog
I'll be fiddling a bit more with it and getting more of the main site done over the weekend [hopefully].
Night Night
Free love on the free love freeway
It's quite amusing and I heard a little of the show yesterday and today decided to check out his page on the BBC website. On Monday they were in Southampton and so I checked out the photos from there and I know someone who auditioned!!

It's James who I went to Uni with and still see when I pop down to Chichester! I was a little amazed but not actually too much as James would sell his own grandmother to become famous! There is a streaming video of the auditions here which is quite funny due to the lame entrants but James has won that heat so will be appearing later in the series. Well done mate.
They are in Nottingham today so maybe we'll see an audition from these men?
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
And pass your door, But you don't live there anymore
A while back we lost Tom of Badwolf, and now I can't find Alecya and just get a blogger message saying:
Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Please visit the Blogger homepage or the Blogger Knowledge Base for further assistance.
I hope it's just blogger mucking up and that we haven't lost another blogger. What is going on?!
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UPDATE: Found her!! See comments.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Me, I'd like to think, life is like a drink
Around 6 pints later, and with no prezzies for Mother's Day we headed back to Ramsgate for the start of Saturday night. We went to Churchills, the Royal Oak, and then finished off at the casino. I did slow up on the drinking as the evening went on as I didn't really fancy a hangover, and even treated myself to a cooked breakfast at the casino [around midnight!]. I may have told you that last time I was there I lost £50, which Iwasa not happy with. This time I was more restrained and only placed one bet on the roulette. £10 on 'evens'. It came up and I was happy that I'd actually come away with a profit. There was temptation to bet more but I left it at that.
It wasn't till 1am that I found out that the clocks here were going forward 1 hour, and realised I would have to, in theory, get up an hour earlier for Sunday league footy. doh!!
I got up today quite tired, went off to footy, lost 5-0 in a cup game, and then picked up some Mother's Day stuff. In the end I settled for a card, bunch of flowers, and a freeview box so that Mum could watch TV in bed. I normally spend less that that on Mother's Day but I thought it was the least I could do. Mum's eh? Brilliant.
So now I'm sitting down, aching a bit after getting a 'deadleg' at footy, and just chilling.
I hope you all had a good weekend too. Laters
Friday, March 24, 2006
I used to worry, thought I was goin' mad in a hurry
As I've not been blogging much recently I thought I share with you what's been going on in the world of Adem. Nothing too exciting really, just been as busy as ever although this week has started to calm down and I've got some holiday booked over Easter which will be nice.
I have been really busy for the past few weeks in all areas of my life with the Uni job, the Pub job, the logo/banner design job, and any other things that are going on in my life, and it was no surprise that when I had my blood pressure checked on Tuesday morning it was through the roof. I didn't specifically go out to have it tested but we had a 'Health Promotion Bus' at Uni, and I thought it'd be worth squeezing it in. They took my reading and came out with the figures 150/115. I never really know what these figures mean [find out here] but apparently those are very high.
Normal is less than 120 over 80
I explained that I thought they'd be high as I'd been quite stressed and had been rushing around that morning and she handed me some leaflets and recommended that I go see my doctor and have it checked again as my readout was well over the 140/90 which indicates high blood pressure. [High blood pressure is dangerous because it makes the heart work too hard and contributes to hardening of the arteries, increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, and can also result in other conditions, such as congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and blindness.]
Luckily I had a finance meeting in Canterbury on the Wednesday and I found out they were doing health tests there too. It was a nice sunny day and I was quite chilled, so I had my blood pressure tested again and explained that I'd had it tested yesterday too, and my readout this time was 134/82. I was quite relieved. It's still not as low as it should be and I should see it as a warning as it falls into the Prehypertension range, which means that I don't have high blood pressure now but am likely to develop it in the future. If I can adopt a more healthy lifestyle then I can prevent this.
I think certain things like high blood pressure and high cholesterol are things that we put to the back of our mind as they are invisible qualities with little effect on us in the present. I'm glad that I've been able to quantify my blood pressure as it gives me a record of my health and has shown that if I don't change a few things then I could be in big trouble.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Give me the song and I'll sing it like I mean it
The rules:
List 7 songs you're into right now. No matter the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening too.
and they are...
1. The Feeling - Sewn
2. Joey Negro - Make A Move On Me
3. Orson - No Tomorrow
4. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
5. Mary J Blige & U2 - One
6. Source Ft Candi Staton - You Got The Love
7. Jack Johnson - Better Together
Nothing greatly surprising there as I've only had the chance lately to hear music played on Radio One, as I've spent quite a bit of time in the car travelling back and forth to Canterbury. A sad state of affairs.
Now I should tag people but I'm not going to. If you fancy it then do it, if not then cool.
Friday, March 17, 2006
It's been a while...
I haven't even been able to check up on other blogs, so no comments from me. I'll try and get around to it but it may be a while, so check back here sometime in the future.
Big love to you all.
Adem
Monday, March 13, 2006
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Sunday, March 12, 2006
What a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours
2 weeks ago it was Hodders, Tom's and Chris' birthdays within the space of a week and their ladies wanted to do something special, a James Bond evening. This event got delayed till last night, but it all went well and I had a good time. The plan for the evening was for everyone to dress up as a James Bond character and then we'd have a starter at one house, a main at another, and a desert at the last house, where we'd stay to party away.
I will post the photos soon though!
We had footy today too against the team 2nd in the division, and we were 2-0 up after 10 minutes but lost 4-2 in the end. I was really proud with the way the team played as we are 2nd from bottom at the moment and involved in a relegation fight. I was on the bench and got 5 minutes at the end of the game in the central midfield, and I have to say I enjoyed it, getting in a few good tackles. I managed to sort out training on Thursdays on an astroturf pitch at my old school and hopefully I'll be able to regain some fitness which I've lost over the past year. The plan is to spend summer getting fit and then try and get into the team for some games.
As I mentioned I've got work at the pub as they needed staff because the England-France Rugby is on and also the Liverpool-Arsenal match is on too. I'm only working till 8pm and will have to eek out what I can from the rest of the evening before work at Uni tomorrow at 8:30am.
Laters all.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Working on a sex farm.
As you know Phil and I have been working on the new business and in the last post asked people if they wanted a free logo or baner design. Well we got 6 responses from Flash, Ginny, SwissToni, Tracy, Alecya, and Suburban Hen, and have started working on them. The main idea for doing this was to get the word out, practice our skills, and go through the process of designing and see what we will both exactly do when we get bona fide customers. So you guys are our guinea pigs this week.
It's been nice to get working on Photoshop and here's something I was fiddling with for Flash's blog [it's not in his final design though.]
One of the problems with setting up a new venture is that I'm still owrking in my other jobs and this week has been really busy for me with out of the house from 8am till 6pm and then working on things till around 12:30am/1am. This explains my lack of blogging and why the designs are taking a little longer than I would hope. Still this is what this grace-period if for.
We've also decided on a name ...................... [drum roll]........................ and we will now be known as AngrySeahorse.com and you can contact us at info@angryseahorse.com. We racked our brains and found that many of our preferred names were already registered, and so we now have a name.
The plan is to get these logos/jobs out of the way and then I'll be able to work on the website and hopefully get something sorted by the Easter Period [realistically]. From then we can start some serious promotion, will have ironed out faults, and will hopefully be making some money [fingers crossed].
I'm going to try and get an early night now and will have to be at work for 8:30am. Laters
p.s. The title lyric today if from Spinal Tap. I was thinking of a lyric for working hard and that one popped into my head. Very funny and here's the rest:
Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay
Scratching in your henhouse
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray
Sex farm woman, I'm gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I'll rake and hoe you down
Sex farm woman, don't you see my silo rising high?
Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
They know what I need
Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your beanfield
Planting my seed
Sex farm woman, I'll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I'll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don't you hear my tractor rumbling by?
Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay
Monday, March 06, 2006
Pressure pushing down on me
My input will have to wait till tomorrow evening as I've been out from 8am till 5:15pm doing a course and have work at the pub from 7pm till 11:30pm. I have got 5-aside footy tomorrow and squash after but I should be free from 10pm so I can get going then.
yawn......
And we're still struggling on a choice of name for the business. Several are on the shortlist but nothing has yet had that *WOW* feeling [although quite a few that we've fancied have already been taken by other businesses.]
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free
I am up for starting straight away but, dammit, I'm actually really busy at work this week, and am attending an IOSH course in Supervising Safely. Yes it is as interesting as it sounds, and is a 3 day course from 9am-4:30pm, starting tomorrow. The man is trying to keep me down.
The plan is to decide on a company name [very important], get a portfolio together, get a website, and then promote the ass off of it.
We want to get a collection of logos together and would like to offer this service to our fellow bloggers, so that we can have some examples to show to potential future customers. If you do have a business or alike and would like us to design you a logo for free then please email me at adem@ademweb.co.uk and we'll see what we can do.
This will obviously give us a chance to try out our skills, test the waters, and also see how the eventual process will actually work. You won't even have to actually use the designs if you don't want to, as you are doing us a favour in giving us something to work with.
Watch this space for more info.
Everyone i know, goes away in the end.

Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." The power of Cash's song didn't fully hit Reznor until he saw the video.
Reznor often refers to "Hurt" as "a song that isn't mine anymore." It belongs to Cash now.
Watch the video, feel for Cash, and I defy you not to feel tears and sadness.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Suck my kiss
| Link: The 100 Point Sexual Purity Test written by ocicat on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Moving, just keep moving
Well the good news is that I've managed to organise football training on an artificial pitch with floodlighting so that we can start training again during the week, and I also went to Rugby training for the for the time in a while yesterday. I haven't been able to do Rugby with the Uni team for a while because of either injury/sickness/or work commitments but was back in full swing yesterday and it did hurt. We concentrated on fitness and ball handling and boy did I ache after. But I feel better for it today. The aim is to get some fitness back between now and summer and feel good all the time.
Tomorrow I'm off to Bognor, so I'll catch you later.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I wanted to be ruthless and found an old rucksack, full of bits'n'bobs, which had obviously been rammed full of crap and put into the loft a long time ago. I got it down and thought I'd have a rummage through it before throwing it away. Of course a lot of it was rubbish but I did also find a few mementos which brought back some memories, and I thought I'd share them with you.
I started going out and drinking when I had just turned 16 [I think!], and there were several favourite haunts that we used to go to. First of all it was the Railway Tavern in Broadstairs [now called Cramptons] where they used to serve Toby Bitter for £1 a pint, and then over the next year I started going to the Louisa Bay ["Don't look for it, it's not there anymore"], where my maintippless used to be Stella and Southern Comfort [slightly richer tastes at that time]. These were of course just pubs and being young and full of life I wanted to go out for longer and this is where the next image comes in, scanned from the contents in my rucksack.
But how did I afford all of these shenanigans whilst I was still in full-time education?? Well that's where mySaturdayy job came in handy working for JC Rook & Sons, a butchers [also with a delicatessen and hot food counter]. I would workSaturdayss from 9am till 5pm, and for 8 hours of my life I would get......£20...which works out at £2.50 an hour!!! Don't believe me?? See the other scan below [this one is from when I was 18].
I don't quite know how I made £20 stretch for a whole evening, but I guess I usually managed to by skipping fares on trains, using vouchers to get into places for free, and drinking pints of bitter for £1....ah those were the days..... *starts babbling about kids nowadays*
Well, that's all from my archives for the moment, but if anything else of interest pops up then I'll be sure to share it.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I chose not to choose life: I chose something else
Watch this space.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning
I am probably in a bit of a rut and am a little depressed at the moment. I am usually very upbeat but today I feel a little down, although I never plunge to certain depths of despair that other do. After all I don't have anything too great to worry about, I have a job, a roof over my head, in fairly good health, and good friends around me, but I am in one of those 'what am I doing with my life?' moods. Can we be truly happy all the time? Is nothing good enough?
I am 25 now and for the past few years I haven't really accomplished anything. When I look back there was a scheme to life carefully guided by education and authority. I went to school, then did my A-levels, then went to University, then worked at the University for a few years, and then....then what?
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
But who would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
Ok I didn't choose Heroin, maybe a bit too far, but I am just as guilty of wallowing, having 'big ideas' and finding it easier to do nothing, and then moan about it. I have dreams of working for myself, running my own business, being the boss, and doing what I enjoy. I enjoy webdesign and graphic design, and a few years back I would say that I was pretty good and was always keeping ahead of the times, and educating myself in new things coming out. Over the years I've slipped and not pushed myself as far as I should. As I am still involved in this type of thing then it won't take much for me to get back into it, but it will take time and effort on my behalf, and there is obviously some element of risk involved in giving everything up and going for it, but I suppose you have to fight for your dreams.
I have blogged about this before, gone on about really doing it, and I have not. I have done nothing and I think that is rubbish. Something has got to give and I need to decide on my priorities.
Phil recently blogged about wanting to do something different, and questioned why he should carry on applying for jobs, just because he has experience. He too wants to choose something different and so I left a comment on his blog saying we should meet up soon to discuss things. He just text and emailed me, and we'll have a chat tonight. Watch this space.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Got no place that I can be, since I found Serenity
I love sci-fi too but have to admit that if it ain't on BBC2 or Channel 4 then I'm probably not going to see it, and so it happened that I missed out on the 'Firefly' series. I've heard Phil harping on about it and when I went and visited him last summer we even went and saw 'Serenity' the feature film follow up to the series. It was good, although I didn't really have any info on the background of the film, and maybe would've appreciated it more if I'd seen the series.
Well this week I felt I needed to buy something shiny and ventured onto Play.com and searched for the Firefly DVD just to check it out. Well up it popped, £13.99 for the whole series, a special edition no less, including 4 DVDs, on which there are all 14 episodes, along with special features such as audio commentries on all the episodes, 2 featurettes, deleted scenes, plus a load more stuff to mention. And so I bit the bullet ordered it, and so it arrived on my doorstep yesterday.
Five hundred years in the future there's a whole new frontier, and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They'll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime. Now they find themselves on the run, desperate to steer clear of Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers who live on the fringes of space.
I've watched 2 discs so far, and the first thing I noticed was the use of the word 'shiny' denoting something good, and one of Phil's favourite words had some new meaning as inow know where it came from...I should have known.
It's a good series and I'll probably finish it over the weekend [not including all the special features]. The storylines are good, the special effects are of good quality, but not overused so the storylines do not depend on them, and I shall enjoy watching the rest of the series. It is a very realistic view of the future, no robots or aliens, just a world when the frontier has been extended to as far as man can travel [echoing the Western themes throughout].
The quality of the DVD production pleases me greatly as it annoys me when the possibilities of DVDs are wasted on just putting a chapter selection on the DVD.....Although....here it comes...I won't be able to enjoy all the special features as my TV has gone funny!!! Calm down Phil, I'm not dissing 'Firefly'! When I put the DVD in I switched the TV to Cinema mode, which on a widescreen TV effectivly removes the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. When I finished watching the first DVD I went to use the remote control to change the aspect ratio, and it wouldn't work....something's wrong with it!!! Damn you Firefly DVD!!!!
OK I know it's not really the DVD's fault, but something did it!!!!! I'd say go and buy it as it's terrific value for money and a good series to boot. It is shiny.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
It's getting better all the time...
I'm feeling quite good in myself though too as it's been like having a detox as I've not touched alcohol for a week ,haven't been eating bad [plenty of fruit], and have been getting my sleep. It's nice, even though I had to go through a stage of feeling shit [not literally], I come out the other side feeling a lot better. Of course not being at work has been nice.
So here I am on a saturday afternoon, watching Liverpool versus Manchester United in the FA Cup on the BBC, just having a little blog, thinking that I should really give my hovel a tidy up as it's strewn with clothing, tissues, and whatever I've thrown around during the week.
I hope you all have a nice weekend and I'll speak later.
Adem
Friday, February 17, 2006
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
Very funny but also very wrong..I'm sure he'll have a laugh about it with his shrink.
On the sickness front I'm feeling quite a lot better except for feeling stiff [damned viagra, I thought they were aspirin], having a very runny nose and eyes, and a headache [I think it may implode]. I've got to work tonight at the pub and so will try and spread as many germs as possible and also try and stay alive too.
Speak soon.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the deceptions
Normal blogging will resume shortly...
It's been a wierd one....hot sweats, cold sweats, body aches, headaches, lightheadedness, and even a bit of throwing up [an isolated case], but luckily no stomach upsets [just so that you know].
Well that's the depressing bit over. What is has meant is that I've had time to myself and have got round to watching a few DVDs, some good some bad, and the pick of the bunch has to be 'Shaun of the Dead', which really cheered me up when I ws feeling crap.
That's all for now, and I'll post something a little more interesting next time [I hope.]
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoking is to be banned in all pubs and clubs in England.
Let me say that again... and emphasise the special word:
Smoking is to be banned in ALL pubs and clubs in England.
Previously MPs were going to ban smoking in all enclosed public places in England, except pubs which do not serve food, and private members' clubs. But this has now been overturned by a complete ban, and I am very happy about this, as it will help even more people. I work in a pub, so get my share of passive smoke, and I also socialise in pubs so I'm getting a lot of it. Now there are some who say that passive smoking has no effect but I know in myself that it is doing something, even if it's just a sore throat and stinky clothes. I also have a few friends who are 'social smokers', meaning that they only smoke when they are out and drinking. Hopefully they will cut down too.
I am also happy that MPs were given a 'free vote', which means that they did not have to follow party line and could vote with their conscience. When we vote for our MPs, we are voting for the party, but also for the individual, and if they are just going to vote for what their leader says then what's the point?? True democracy.
This should come into effect in Summer 2007.
Read the BBC article here
Read the Q&A here
Monday, February 13, 2006
Flashing blue lights, camera, action. Watching my life, main attraction.
It appears that he had just been surfing the web looking for photos of Ramsgate and stumbled upon my site, whereupon he saw a few photos, and recognised me as the person in them. It appears that he may know quite a bit more about me now. mmmm
Obviously I knew my blog would get read by good friends and complete strangers but didn't really think about the causal acquaintance. This is strange. I've put these writings on the web, and so can't be perplexed when someone reads them as they are there for all to see, but what if someone else was reading them, someone with alterior motives?? If you type in a few key phrases there are quite a few pages of info on me [not necessarily just from this blog] which means others can learn quite a bit about me. I guess that's the price of the digital age.
I may have to think a little more about what I say in future, but hopefully I can still be very honest. I have seen other blogs dissapear from existance when the risk of discovery had arisen, and I have seen many bloggers go to all lengths to keep their anonimity, but I think I will keep doing what I'm doing, although I may have to be careful in what I do say about people, as word does get around.
Laters
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Let's talk, let's ta-a-alk
You can find their site at reevoo.com and they are a review service for electrical goods, collecting reviews by email or from partner websites. But where they are changing is that they are getting involved in syndicating reviews from blogs. This is done by you visiting their site and dragging a bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. When you want to write a review on an item simply click on the bookmark, a new window will pop up where you can fill in the review details, giving the product name, a score, the actual review and also your name and location. Once you've done this click on I'm ready, create my review and it will automatically create html which you should insert into your blog for your review post. After you've done this follow a link, tell them where you've published the review, and they'll come along and collect it.
I believe the main reason for them to want to get reviews from blogs is that people who blog have an opinion, that's why they blog, because they've got something to share. We are a consumer society so it makes sense that people will blog about what they buy. And finally bloggers are very honest [usually] if something is rubbish they will say that, if it is good then they will comment on that too, not feeling pressured into giving a more favourable review than say if they were actually giving a review to a site such as Amazon. I will speak the truth on my blog, but might be a bit more gentle and forgiving elsewhere.
I will be trying out Reevoo sometime soon as Chris asked if I could, and he also wanted me to spread the word too, as it's still in beta mode and he'd like to assess it better which can only be done with more bloggers. I did mention that it was for electrical items, but I believe they are trying to branch out too, so you should be able to review anything that someone may buy. Just visit Reevoo.com and publish a review on your blog ,and just be honest.
The obvious aim is to link in reviews to where you can buy the actual products from and then I suppose the company will make money from them, but I think it could be a useful place to visit, as if they can get independent reviews on anything then I would be more willing to believe the reviews from a blogger than from a manufacturers website.
That's all for now, as I need to get showered, changed, and then try and squeeze in some fun this afternoon, before work this evening at 7pm. Laters
Friday, February 10, 2006
It's been one week....
So what have I been up to?? Well not much. As you know I was away for the weekend in Chichester, and I forgot to visit Phil!!! A bit silly of me but it just gives me an excuse to pop down pretty soon again. I did see TTP whilst I was there and got some good photos which I've now uploaded onto their site and this gave me a fresh impetus to spruce the site up a bit. Here's what I've done.
-Uploaded video using Youtube and placed on entry page.
-Upgraded forum from YaBB SP Gold 1.4 to YaBB 2.1
-Added photos from 4-2-06 gig
-Created new graphics for the 'links' page and added new links
-Ordered new business cards for the band
It's like having a spring clean. I've also created a blog for the site but am still trying to get the band into the blogging mindset, so that will remain on the back burner for the moment until I know that they will actually use it [we all hate it when blogs are left to rot and not updated.]
On Sunday I went to football, and we actually won a game!! The team is playing really well now and is very motivational now. I am happy about this as a few months back we were very negative and it wasn't fun anymore.
On Monday and Tuesday I had meetings in Canterbury
On Wednesday I was in the office for a few hours [left early as I had put in more hours over the previous week, and so I though I deserved it.]
Yesterday I was at a funeral for my next-door neighbour Ivor, who died last week aged 85. You may say that 85 is quite an old age but you wouldn't have thought he was that age as he seemed to act like a spritely 65 old, and the death was quite a shock as we have lived next door to him for the past 18 years. I will talk about this a bit more indepth in a future post.
I also went out in the evening as it way Ian's 23rd birthday. It was only a trip to the local as we will be going for a meal, drinks, casino affair tonight. [should be around 20 of us which is cool]. I got quite drunk on Rumpus [Ridley’s Rumpus, a 4.5% cask ale with roasted crystal malt creating a rich, ruby coloured ale, giving a sweet, nutty flavour perfectly complemented by a light bitter aftertaste], a very nice tipple.
Today....well I'm in the office, all alone, and sorting through things for next week when I know I'll be in my office all week and not driving around. More about the job in a later post too.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Get your motor running, head out on the highway
My weekend started on Friday when I finished work at 2pm and headed off to Chichester, my old stomping ground. 135 miles later and I had arrived at the city [it does have a University and a Cathedral!] where I had previously lived for 5 years. Those times are long gone now but I still have friends who live there and who I like to catch up with.
I was originally going to only head down for the Saturday but decided that I might as well spend the night there and have a good drink on the Friday. Which I did. I caught up with some old friends who had been in the same year of Uni as me, I got drunk, and then I staggered back to my 'home' [Dave's] at sometime in the early hours.
The Saturday was the real reason I was there as my friends band 'Ticklin the Pickle' were playing at the Uni, and I needed some live funk action. I also maintain their website [ticklinthepickle.co.uk] and was looking forward to getting some new photos to put on the site.
They played a brilliant set and I got quite a few good photos that I was happy with, and should be uploading to their site sometime over the week. I had football this morning and so had to travel back last night and left at 11:30pm and arrived back at 1:45am....hence the reason that I started this post with "I am tired."
I didn't get to see Phil as other things got in the way [England versus Wales...wahey!! + hangover recovery] but I'm sure he was too busy anyway with his big move.
By the way we won at footy 4:3 [still in the relegation zone though, but form is picking up]
Click here to see the photos
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Just can't wait to get on the road again, The life I love is makin' music with my friends
I should be catching up with a few friends and hopefully, if he's not to busy moving in, I could maybe catch up with this fellow.
See you all later.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Talk of the way they saw him last, Local boy in the photograph
Because of this I have just signed up for the Flickr Pro account which costs $24.95 (£14.45) per year which isn't really that much and it will mean I can back-up all my photos at high quality.
I've now got to go through the task of uploading ALL my photos......
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UPDATE:
After seeing the streaming fencing video over at the Ultimate Olympian's I signed up to YouTube.com but hadn't really used it.
Whilst scouring my desktop and giving it a bit of a clean up I have used Youtube.com to upload a few videos. Check 'em out.
[me breakdancing at Andy Q's stag weekend in Bournemouth June '05]
[Electric Six performing at Christ Church Summer Ball June '05]
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye. I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie.
Most relationships I've had have ended mutually, although there have been a couple that I've had to end, and I must admit I've felt like a complete c**t, as they haven't felt the same way. Invariably the cliched "It's not you, it's me" speech arises and I feel really bad, although I've felt it was for the best. In the case with V it was all very simple.
So there we go, I am now officially back on the market, although I think this experience has clarified several things that I am looking for in future endeavors. I have previously said that I don't have a 'type', but I'm sure there are certain aspects and qualities that are in my control.
They must live near me
They must be around my age [24-27]
They must like my friends
Not too specific, but still obviously challenging. I suppose quite a bit of this stems from my friends. I will always value my friends and they will always come first as they are like family to me. I am busy during the week with work and other commitments and so when it comes to the weekend I need to see my friends, and this is where the long distance thing doesn't work. If I have to spend the weekend away then I will not see them and this is not what I want. The ideal solution would be to meet someone who will enjoy socialising with me and my friends.
So there we go. That's what I'm looking for...easy eh?? I did enjoy chatting with the girl on Saturday in London, and did get her number, but I will not be following it up at the moment, as it's the whole distance thing again... women eh?? geography eh??
Night Night. Tomorrow is another day.

