TV Turnoff Week 2007

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Just a quick reminder that this week is TV Turnoff week.

I don’t have a TV here anymore (I never thought I’d miss it but I do, go figure), but I do have a lot of shows stored on the PC. I also know I won’t be able to resist watching the new 24… We’ll see. I think this is something that’s easier to do if you’re by yourself. I used to go weeks without watching anything.

Anyway, good luck to you if you’re one of the brave ones switching off! Kudos. I need to get gone, busy day today!

Keyword Analysis – Amusing Procrastination

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I love my little stat tracker thing. It’s always amusing to see what search terms people use to get here, for example:

Mega Cheddar
Muse Wembley Preview (I’m second on googleuk for that, oddness)
Ghosts worst food (the best one!)
youtube simpsons “is it batman” scientist (haha, I blatantly need to watch this now)
foxy roxy by rob zombie on youtube
Bladerunner and the unicorn

Whoever you people are, I love you. You make me smile.

Happy Earth Day

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Happy Earth Day 2007. What are you going to do?

Future of Web Design 2007

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This Wednesday my Mister and I attended the Future of Web Design conference in Kensington, Londinium. I’d never been to anything like this before so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I found the experience really enjoyable, it was really interesting to be with so many people interested in that kind of thing, and the talks, whilst often things I knew or common sense, still helped bring my mind back to what I should be doing, and what the web’s about.

That said, I’m a student, I’ve worked in industry not even two years. From what I’ve read on other blogs the professionals weren’t as keen on the day as I was, but I do think that had a lot to do with the level of experience – I’m sure a lot of them have been to a lot of conferences. As it was there weren’t many students there at all, just our small crowd from Pompey and maybe one or two others. Definitely a professional day. I did enjoy it and I did find it interesting. I’m glad uni suggested it, and I think the experience was well worth the (hefty) 60 pounds…
I have some not so great photos I’ll probably stick on my flickr next time I’m at home.

These are some of my notes from the day. Made as coherent as possible, I was very tired that day :S

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My Hair – Four Year Extraveganza!

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In the four years I’ve been dying my hair, I’ve had it a huge variety of colours and styles. Because I was curious to see the change, I put together an album on facebook of most of the colours that I’ve had it. Check it out if you’re curious!

The latest colour is pink. Half of it’s pink and half of it’s black… :D

Brocolli Pops not as Popular as Expected

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Just a general blog about general things. I was thinking about what kind of focus this blog should have, maybe think about target audience, but I think I’d find that too hard. I like to talk about random things, things that go on in my life an so forth. Thus, I suppose my target audience is people with similar interests (I do need to update my profiley thing actually…), and my focus is just plain everything.

I’ve had a good week. Made my second trip to London since I’ve been ill, mostly to see my Mister, mostly :) It was good to have a day out. I’m not a fan of London but I did have a good day.

We had lunch down at St Paul’s – there’s a large Marks and Sparks food court there, they had this amazing vanilla and maple syrup smoothie thing – lush!

Then we hopped across the river to the Tate Modern. I’m not big on modern art, but I do love Cy Twombley’s ‘Four Seasons‘. Mostly because of the way he uses such a variety of materials, mostly. They’re just stunning pieces. I also really liked ‘Billingual’ by Juan Usle – however I can’t find a good photo of that online.

We were going to get the boat to the Tate Britain but missed the last one, so hung out on the grass outside the Modern for a while since the weather was so nice. Mosied back in a Waterloo direction and watched the sunset from the banks of the Thames over the Houses of Parliament.

We found dinner at a fancy Pizza Express restaurant, and ate far too much. It was so good though. I haven’t been out to dinner in ages, much less taken out to dinner, so I felt really spoilt :D We wandered down the river and looked at all the lights. All in all, a good day out.

Monday I did my first ever drive to Bognor to see Linz. J used to take me but we used to go the long way round, so going the proper way involved a lot of guesswork and following road numbers. We got some chips and wandered down the beach at dusky time. It was really good to see her.

I took my Mum to Brighton on Tuesday, we went shopping (picked up some guitar strings for the acoustic – my Mister appears to have got me back into playing), and then got ice creams and fell asleep on the beach.

Wednesday I drove up to see my Mister in Harpenden, got stuck in the most horrendous M1 traffic I’ve ever seen, and so came off at the first junction and guessed my way to his, and got quite lucky with my guesses really. Had a couple of nice meals with his family over the duration of my stay – tried some new food too which is unusual for me, it was good.

Friday we came back and went to Sainsbury’s in search of this easter egg I’ve wanted for about a month. They didn’t have it, which is very unfortunate as all their eggs were 75% off and as the one I wanted was a tenner originally, that would have been an amazing deal. I got a different egg that would have been equally expensive – a Lindt chocolate thing with a box of chocolates – and while the chocolates were amazing, there’s no way I would have paid a tenner for it! The Mister picked up a load of little Lindor eggs which were only 13p – if you wish to stock up on chocolate, head over to Sainsbury’s.

The past few days, when not working or doing other things, have been spent playing Sim City 3000. The Mister built up a city together and have actually done quite well so far. We got hold of a copy of SC4 Deluxe, and have developed a region as a starting point for both of us to see how we do things differently. I swore I’d never play Sims games again, but I guess I was mistaken. We’ll have to wait and see how City of Ghosthands does :)

Milky Way Crispy Rolls!

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Just a heads up in that I am making changes to the site template (damn you Kubrick template! – from what I’ve read and experienced thus far, it is NOT the easiest thing in the world…) so any weirdness is probably due to that. I still need to sort a fair few things out, but at least I’ve got the header changed, though that said I still want to tweak that.

The reason I’m blogging is because I checked my stats today, it tells you referring links and different things, and to my amazement, someone found the blog by searching for “buy milky way crispy rolls” on google! I guess they want to buy some, if they’re still interested I get mine from a vending machine in the Portsmouth University ;)

I’m also amused that I’m the 7th result for that. Google funny.

Oooh I just looked again, someone got here via Lindor Egg! Maybe I should just blog a lot about chocolate and have done with it…

If you want me, come on and break the door down…

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It does look like I have massively failed with tracking my food, I haven’t been paying attention whatsoever. Well, I have in that I KNOW I haven’t accidentally eaten a desk or something, but I can’t remember really.

I went to Tesco last night in a hunt for some sweetcorn, corn on the cob, for some reason I’m craving yellow food, but they had none, and therefore, we are now at war with Tesco until they provide me with some sweetcorn.

I have also consumed roughly 15 waffles in the last two days, I have a feeling I’m going to turn into one soon. (So I guess I did pay attention…)

My hair is now half pink, yes, pink. And I love it. It’s so me. Amazing how sometimes you can forget how crazy you are, all it takes is hitting some kind of bottom and then remembering, oh, wait a minute, yes, I’m insane and I enjoy every minute of it, everyone else can just deal with it. There’s a photo on my MySpace and there’s a not so clear one as my DA ID. I will try and get some better photos tomorrow, since I’m going to London or something. Hopefully.

Movie Revie: The Return

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Everyone knows I love terrible horror, but this went beyond terrible. I can’t name another horror film that I’ve wanted to turn off halfway through because I’ve cared so little about the plot. I guess Sarah Michelle Gellar fans might have liked it, but to us it was just a movie comprised of lots of minute long shots of people walking towards things, little tension, and very little to relate to.

I think their efforts to build tension were what damaged it, they gave little away about what was going on, they went too far with this at times I thought. The introduction to characters was also rushed, and didn’t give you an opportunity to relate to them or how they were feeling – resulting in nothing to engage with.

Also, it lacked in people dying. It got near the end, and both of us were asking why no one was dying. The fact that you didn’t know someone had made the first half of the film seem pointless – simply because you didn’t know.

I give it 3/10, just because I think I should give it something for trying.

Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango?

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Wouldn’t it be amazing if, one summer’s day, when there was gridlock on the M25 and countless people were sitting with their windows down, waiting for the traffic to move, if, someone put a song on that everyone knew the words too, some kind of cult legend, like Bohemian Rhapsody, loudly, and started this chain of singing that moved through the traffic like wildfire. I think that would be awesome.

That’s what I thought when I was in traffic on the M1 yesterday anyway, singing along with Freddy Mercury.

April 2nd

Sugar Puffs
Sandwich – houmous and celery
Jelly bugs
Chocolate eggs
Half a box of chocolates

Roasted carrot, parsnips, garlic potatoes and broccoli with a Quorn mushroom and garlic escallop thing.
A few glasses of peach schnapps and lemonade

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