Ahhh, it's was 09/09/09 yesterday and I missed marking it? Today it is 10/09/09 and that's not special at all, is it? Rubbish. Anyway, on to more Formula 1 shaped things:
- Thanks to Alex's plugging yesterday, we're going great guns on the Sidepodradio submissions, but there's always room for more. Don't forget to have a glance at the guest posts to see where you can get involved, and as ever, make sure you visit the wiki for an overview.
- It's officially time to start talking about Monza, as the F1 Digest preview was released yesterday, and all the news is starting to come from within the paddock itself. For example, FOTA have accepted Williams and Force India back into their fold again, saying they want to keep to their mission statement of having all current teams enrolled.
- It's time to give Jon's new podcast a plug in the daily. We mentioned previously he might be thinking of starting one up, and the first episode is up and waiting for you to have a listen. Jon's also done a special episode for Sidepodradio, so if you like it, you'll want to tune in for that as well.
That's all for now. It's Thursday today, which is usually a bad day for a lot of us in the comments. Watch out for pictures of cute pandas as we try and cheer ourselves up. I'll see you in the comments.
That's another day gone. Where do they go to?
The great day-heaven in the sky!
Ahhh, it’s was 09/09/09 yesterday and I missed marking it? {Original entry}
I'll remember it for the day one of my company's clients got thrown off the programme in dramatic fashion for failing to observe the most fundamental rule there is:
"If you want to achieve anything, it helps if you turn up occasionally".
I fear they still haven't quite got the Orange-tint right...
http://cdn.images.autosport.com/editorial/1252512624.jpg
His head is glowing
good news, that was an automated pingback.
onwards...
Ping.... Pong?
I had something to ask you Mr C i have no idea what it was though...
I thought you had an automatic headping there. I thought my reedom had ended
freedom not reedom
sidepoddictionary?
you have plenty of time to think about it, i'm not here.
sidepodcast now tells itself when a post is published. in theory this will be a pseudo comments notification system until the proper one is ready.
some say that he actually isnt there and is just a computer program christine wrote.....and when he's 'sleeping' it actually means Mrs C's switched 'him' off
Are we to be ousted in favor of SPC commenting with itself? Cruel, but a little less spooky than this head-ping business.
Some say, he is really just a hand on a stick.
Some say, he is really an experimental Apple text-to-speech voice.
Oooo, I could go on for hours :D
:D
Some people already have
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/me
Well of course they have. I should have checked first.
wikiwikiwiki
I gotta sleep, night all
Night Jon
night Jon
Night Jon
not sure if this is new. but in itunes you can right-click a song you've purchased and convert to mp3. i think someone was burning to CD before? anyhow, the option is there.
Interesting. Isn't that getting around the DRM, or maybe it's only for the unprotected AAC
there's no drm on itunes music anymore. the only issue were the files being in AAC format, which can't be read by that many devices.
This is great. iTunes has a lot of tricky little features.
I was able to be the Good Uncle, when I was able to just drag MP3s straight from iTunes to my niece's non-ipod MP3 player. She didn't know how to get songs on there.
(of course I should probably have just bought her and ipod.....)
most absurd thing i've found in the update. you can now sync photos to your ipod based on who's in them.
so i could say, sync all pics of christine and it'll match any pics where it recognises her face.
i cannot imagine that i'd ever use such functionality?
But that's SOOOO cool. and isn't that what matters?
Is that feature only if you have iphoto to tag the photos? In which case - Mac only?
ahh yeah could be. you don't tag them though, you pick one and it finds the rest.
You could say: only sync photos with a face - in which case, you would never get a photo of yourself!
hahaahah!
Amamzing. I so want a Mac with iLife 09
i so want the time to play with ilife 09 :)
The other day a friend showed me the screen saver that makes a photo mosaic out of all your other photos. Fantastic
apple tv is crazier though, alex has his pointing at flickr archives.
anyone's archive that is, so his tv is a like a massive morphing picture frame... and then it plays music.
OK, I now have three (3!) versions of perl on the server. I fear, the CGI will now never work.
cgi works?
That's cool.
Although I never saw the point of an Apple TV when you can get a Mac Mini
Not in this case. Stupid vendors writing perl.
yup there is that ;)
hi there! this is my first comment from my brand new netbook :D :D
hey guille, what did ya get?
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA, the V version I think
nice one. how is it?
really pretty, really light. other than that, I've been using it for only 2 hours, I'll need more mileage, specially with the touchpad (I've never used a notebook before). but until now it does the job and I'm happy
don't tell christine, but there's a we will rock you iphone app available.
perfect. is it running windows or linux?
Is that a game, or does it just play the song over and over? ;-)
windows XP home edition pre-installed :-( . I'd like to try it under linux, but I'm travelling on friday and I need it working without unexpected problems for now. maybe when I'm back...
hehehe. thus far i put on a show and lost £40. it's going well.
you wanna speak to kathi about that.
righto, must sleep.
Night Mr C. Head pinger off?
good night!
*click*
Night
Gené and Badoer retained by Ferrari for 2010? They must have an infinite supply of funds and a penchant for geriatric drivers. Confirmed for next year: Massa, Raikkonen, Fisichella, Badoer, Gené and most likely Alsonso with occasional turns by the big Schu. How many testers do you need when you can't test?
As an aside, heavens forbid Badoer had a hand in sorting out the 458 Italia.
i am bored. How dare you all be asleep at 3.45am
How can i entertain you?
One of my friends called his new puppy Rafa if that helps! :)
aww how sweet! I need 2 of you here to have a continuous conversation i can read but not contribute to :D
I could try talking to myself...
But then the people reading later will think i am nuts
No they wont!
Its a risk though...
Ok, better not
Hows work going? Any risk of being attacked by falling trees as you walk the streets?
no risk, i am inside! Working til half an hour before prac tomorrow so working out how i can get kfc and get home in time. Sad i cant see a tv from my desk so i cant see roger. Following bbc text but its not the same. Might have to sit at another desk until tournament ends.
here I am :-)
now we need a conversation topic...
Maybe you should save the KFC untill saturday? It always tastes better at the weekend! :P
You need to demand more TV's!
Can you secret in your laptop and watch a stream?
Hehe... brilliant!
Have you seen the film Evita? I am watching it now...
no... but I can invent if needed to talk ;-)
the Evita with Madonna?
kfc is my practice food! no that wouldnt be advisable :( there are 3 tvs and i sit at what is probably the only desk that cant see one. Must rectify because the final is on at 9am monday morn.
Yes! It has awesome songs!
I am a complete sucker for musicals, even though my public policy is to hate them.
Dont give me any of this Disney HSM stuff though, i havent seen it and dont want to!
You could have it for FP3?
Trust me... it will be nicer on Saturday ;)
you just put the 'don't cry for me argentina' chorus in my mind, thanks :-)
i don't even understand how on earth people will go to see that movie...
(as you can see, I also don't like musicals, and even less the teenager's ones)
I correct myself, I quite liked Mama Mia...
I havent even seen that!
(my love of musicals may be related to alcohol;) )
This is the best song :P
I go to see that kind of movies with a couple of friends just to have a good laugh. sometimes you find something better than you've expected...
The fact there are 3 of us all posting from 3 different continents a long way apart does amuse me... :D
Internet is awesome: FACT!
Aha! I knew someone was doing that.
make it 4 :-) I am not sure if I am incereasing the number of continents here though :-)
:D
I am secret fan, but don't tell anyone. I grew up with that sort of stuff
Yes!
Now we just need someone in Africa and a North American and we are covered...
Unless there is someone on an Antarctic base catching up with the F1 news too?
I have a similar policy... Good job no one can see this ;)
No, but it was quite cold outside when I went for a walk
But its supposed to be spring!
The weather is being quite schitzophrenic. It's 13 today, but expected to be 24 on Saturday.
That sounds about the same as here!
The whole birthday-present giving thing is wrong.
I went out looking for a present for my mum. I found nothing to get her, but about 20 things for me.
homero comes to my mind...
Ah.
I seem to have a knck for present shopping (but dont tell anyone because they insist on taking you along) ;)
What on earth is that?
Homero Simpson? :D
So does my sister. She is one of these people already buying Christmas presents.
homero simpson. buying a bowling ball to marge for her birthday...
Oh that. Yep.
Doesn't quite work with your mother. ;-)
I thing Antonio does a good job as a singer for an actor, check out The Mambo Kings or Desperado for a little more of his singing
Make it 5 continents now
Ah... present shopping i can do... planning... not so much!
I still have the fathers card for my dad here because i forgot to look up Australian fathers day and i missed it :(
Awesome... where is letting us down?
So did/do I. I am hoping to make it up this weekend. Who ever planned fathers day the weekend before my mothers birthday?!
someone who wanted that you buy a trip to a nice place for them. probably a travels agency ;-)
It used to be convenient, my dads birthday was notmaly within 2-3 days of fathers day, so i could ignore it!... then he moved to Aus and you guys have it on a different day!
Yes, there is that.
I have enough guilt of my own thankyou.
Well I'm in Canada so I guess that just leaves Africa and Antarctica
:-)
Pesky Antarts! They just cant be relied on....
Have we ever had people from those two? I should check the map I guess
somebody in a cruise, maybe?
boo lunch break in time to see the end of the match but i am outnumbered 7-1 by those watching south park
Outrageous!
Have you tried stamping your feet? ;)
A few in Africa, none in Antarctica
Scott Woodwiss is tagged as Burkina Fasso
I had no idea!
Neither did I. Not sure if it's correct
It must be! If its on the internet it is a FACT!
Well it's not on Wikipedia, so I am a little skeptical.
Oh my god look at the time!
I have been up for a silly amount of hours! Must sleep... night all!
Night Nick.
I think Mr C needs to put hourly chimes on LCLT and Doohickey to remind people of the time and the need to sleep
night
actually, I'm also going to bed. night all!
roger! Woo!
Winner?
noooooooo we're losing Europe
and now South America, good night to those leaving
Was he just being generous in the third set?
WoooHooo!!!! A successful Thursday. I got some stupid code to work!
In your face stupid code!
Morning all ;)
Yeah, that's what I said.
Which was a little brave, considering how easily it's been breaking
You've got to let the stupid code know who's boss!
I now seems to be fighting back with" "The upgrade has created an incompatible combination"
I'll show you an incompatible combination in a minute if you're not careful!
Has anyone here seen the film "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?
I got it the other day, but haven't watched it yet.
It's quite a good film I reckon...
might watch it this evening
#sidepodspace article about the Hubble Telescope - wow, some really cool pics here!
Yup I have seen it... The guy playing Steve (Noah Wyle) was so accurate that he actually gave a speech as Steve and got in big trouble.
If you liked a lot of material seemed to have come from the really fascianting and excellent tv series called "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" The whole thing is about 4 hours but because it was made for PBS it was the first program to ever have Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in it. And it addresses what was good and bad about both. The presenter had worked previously for both companies. He had access to tons of people to tell their stories several of whom are sadly dead now. It's well worth a watch if you can get hold of it.
Thanks - I'll look out for that one!
The best thing about it is that it doesn't take itself too seriously as a program... And it really is history it ends just before Steve comes back to Apple and just as Windows 95 is coming back....
*thinks about watching it again* :)
And so, beaten down, finally I head home.
Damn you Thursday, you win again!!
Luckily today is my last day at work for the week - long weekend! - woohoo - ahem - but this means that today is officially Friday.
That sounds like cheating, but I like your thinking.
Whatever gets you through the night as they say :)
I've seen it thrice! Was required viewing in college. Yes, Noah Wyle was spot-on as Steve Jobs. :D I think it's worth a sequel now, especially with Steve Jobs.
AMY!!!!
Big interview with Heikki in Autosport!
(behind paywall)
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2371
I say big... decent sized... lets say
So... pieces falling into place...
Alonso to Ferrari... Check...
Where does Kimi go? McLaren.
But what about Rosberg he was going to McLaren.
No he's going to Brawn.
Has that been confirmed yet?
Sounds good
Boo.
Nothing confirmed... But that's what will play out I reckon. It all sounds pretty good...
But where does Heikki go?
I don't mean good as in I'm happy but good as in solidly reliable.
Keke will have bitten their hand off when they suggested Nico to Brawn. Can't beat Lewis but he can be Jenson will be his thinking - even if he's wrong.
*beat
So nobody has been able to test their low downforce setups for Monza. This could mean Friday is especially important.
In theory it should go a bit like Spa that's the thinking but with zero testing there's a chance the McLaren's might be back up the front what with their super dooper simulator
Back to Ren-Alt if they are still around?
I don't think he can. Goldilocks is really overrated and I think a better driver in that Williams will have won a race by now...
There has been a few doing straight line testing hasn't there? And that's what counts at Monza
Hello, good morning, new blog post: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/10/sidepodradio-the-nostradamus-effect/
He'll have to fight with Kubica and di Grassi to get the other seat.
But yeah, it all looks reasonable. But here's what I'm thinking - Alonso to Ferrari, Kimi off to WRC, Heikki stays at McLaren, Rosberg off to Brawn, Hulkenberg debuts with Williams, Kubica to Renault, Kovalainen moves to Lotus alongside Heidfeld.
That doesn't look right! :D
With Heikki staying at McLaren, Lotus will have Heidfeld and maybe Fisichella? Bortolotti is also an option.
One team drivers are always trouble I think... Jenson changed very early on in his career and so in some ways he suffers from the same problem... They arrive and don't know anything and have to get told what to do, and somehow they then have to make the transition to telling the team what to do. It's much easier if you change teams after you've had a bit of experience.
Lewis neatly sidestepped this phenomenon by sheer force of will somehow.
So I think Rosberg might do better just by changing teams at this point. It would be mutually beneficial for all.
Morning Christine... As I am not working tomorrow today is Friday - I have decided!
Excellent! Sadly, it is definitely Thursday here!
I don't know why all of you people are going to work on a Saturday tomorrow.
booooooooooo!
Morning all! Greetings from denmark :)
I tried so hard to make Thursday work for me
Hiya!
Hold on, there's no GP in Denmark
Yay! How's Denmark?
I didn't know you were going to Denmark!
Are you there to pick up a coffee and a danish?
It's fine as usual. Where are you, Alison?
:D
my resistance to subscribe....crumbling....
I'm going to legoland tomorrow! I wish i could say there was another reason for me coming over here but erm... It's nice and sunny here atm. Off for an explore today so that should be fun.
Boooo.
Who's to say he'll be a McLaren man for life? There is a unique possibility that he may decide to tie his boat to Mercedes rather than McLaren. We shall see.
:D
LEGOLAND? *jealous* pictures please! :D
It's not that good an interview don't be alarmed.
I'm just outside arhus. I'm gonna go now. Doohickey confuses me enough without getting my phone involved... Have a nice day!
What?
phew. I blame SPC for putting me on a serious budget.
Doesn't matter.
But you should still subscribe!
Ah Århus is lovely - you will have a great time!
Try and visit the Royal Palace just outside of town - the gardens are fantastic!
There are some lovely cafe's by the waterfront in town too!
Have fun and tell us all later!
Danish lesson for the day - Å is actually 'Aa' which is pronounced like 'Oar'. 'hus' is pronounced 'hoos'.
So the city name is pronounced 'Oar-hoos'.
See? it's much easier than Finnish! :D #sorryamy
And then you can use it in a sentence if you are a very rich posh person...
"Listen Jeeves, I haven't got a dashed place to keep all of my boating equipment, alert the men they must begin work on my Oar hoos immediately".
is the oar hoos next to the boat hoos?
"What colour is the boat hoos in Heerford?"
Only lowly rich people have one oar hoos, I think you'd ideally want one on each side of your boat hoos so you can keep the left hand oars in one hoos and the right hand oars in the other.
heh!
Maybe Prince Joachim says stuff like that, I dunno.
He's not the Crown Prince, but he races classic cars, is an organic farmer and talks English posher than the Queen!
Sometimes even I, when reading what I am writing, think Alex what on earth are you talking about :)
Possibly the best film ever. Christine has to see that one!
yet only one of us here has a book available on amazon for the new low low price of nine pound fifty.
Blimey it's happened... People are plugging it for me :)
What is it?
Ronin
I am plugging it yet haven't bought a copy!
Who needs a subscription to Autosport when you can buy a copy of my book :)
By the way, you know the cruise liner from Speed 2? Well, it's parked outside our office today! It's called the 'Seabourn Legend'...
you need to tell amazon to stop making shipping dearer than the book itself.
Is it cheaper from here?
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-book-with-the-missing-first-page/1346185
ooh almost $10 cheaper :D
Now at the low low price of $10 cheaper :)
I do think we should be taking commission on these sales, you know. :)
and quicker shipping. Shall be here in 2-7 days :D
They print it in Australia.
:)
I'll start paying you commission when I start making money from it :)
That seems fair.
ahh. makes sense.
i made a pinger to do that for you :)
Oh.
In the interests of full disclosure I am happy to admit that if you buy my book for £10 I get £2.12
I may have blown this years profits on the domain names I bought yesterday idiot that I am :)
well, same model as budget airlines used to have, almost nothing for ticket, but than the fees and charges appeared :-)
I am currently making copious notes about Sidepodradio - what we've got and what we need to do, etc.
Has anyone heard anything about the PF quiz show? I don't recall it being mentioned recently.
oh! I have a top 5 and a travels voice mail to do!
Me too- I have two travels voicemails to do tonight!
Morning Mr C,
I had a thought... I wondered if there was a non-ad version of ustream...
There is https://watershed.ustream.tv/product/pricing
It is, however, a little expensive at $1 per viewer per hour!!!!!!!!!!!
So perhaps not then! :)
i thought that would make you happy :(
Otherwise you'll never get off that naughty step!
I might call the skype testing service and practice first :D
but I heart the 'thank you for buying a copy of my book' email!
less that we're pay for sidepodserver right?
however, still doesn't do widescreen :(
I suspect my voicemails may have put me on the naugthy step!
It does! But you didn't tell me, so I went on and did it anyway. I wasted typing at least six words!!
*hello*
All you need now is for a plug in the parade lap and debrief :D
WOOHOO!
Are you kidding? I got FIVE top 5's out of you! Awesomeness.
YAY :)
The Skype lady is very nice, just ask Mr C.
only started working at 1am :)
"Hello, I'm an uneccesarily posh English lady. If you'd like to test out our call testing service, then please make sure you have practiced your best Queen's English first, or your message may not be understood" :D
*hullo*
noooooooooooooooooo.
christine, sent him to the naughty step.
Five Pints of Five Awesome Top Fives? Cool... that makes me very happy :)
What? I like her voice - it's just I don't normally hear anybody speak like that!
It has been mentioned at least twice on the parade lap
Despite the rumours to the contrary about me falling off of my chair during the Sidepodpannel. The only time I have ever actually fallen off my chair was during Sidepodcast broadcasts was when Christine had a copy of my book in the studio in the first series of the Parade Lap! It was an amazing moment for me!
I failed because everytime she stops talking I always start my message with DING. I can't help it, it's just so loud and over the top. DING.
i speak to her a lot. many times a weekend. sometimes i have her call herself...
Try that with earphones on!
It's like the lady who does the announcements on the Tube or the guys that do car adverts... don't you really want to meet them and ask to read out your favourite passages?
hold on... that's per viewer, per hour? i misread that. what an insane cost!
that's $100 a parade lap.
Yes that's what I was saying... Insane!
Assuming nobody ever watches again etc.
Wow!
you need to sell more books.
:)
#sidepodradio
Is Sim Racers Weekly live or pre-recorded?
There was a very strange thing that happened when Humphry Littleton died. They did a documentary about him but they had one of the continuity announcers for Radio 4 do the voice over and so I constantly expected her to break into the news or the shipping forecast!
It was Charlotte Green who does have a very strange voice when you think about it... In a good way... Hard to describe.
Good question. I'm still game for this - not sure if Mav or Salti have anything ready for this, though...
If it doesn't work out, a Sidepodquiz revival is long overdue... ;) :D
I have no problem doing another Sidepodquiz but I refuse to write any questions.
KFC is definitely off the menu tomorrow - 'twas looking at the wrong roster. I only have 15 minutes to get home!
live.
any [more] questions :)
Cool. I update the wiki.
Exactly. One of the worst things I have ever had to do for SPC.
#sorrychristine
hang on... Mr C, you put her up to this? :P
#blamesteven
Today i am wearing this t-shirt
:D
tis quite fitting
Christine would you like to do a top 5 worst thing you've had to do for Sidepodcast entry... All you have to do is ;)
what's happened today? (have only just woken up)
Ha. I don't think there are five things.
Phew :)
It's not today specifically....but it's a collective-monthly-"aaah its all gone wrong" kinda thing ;)
And on that i shall depart, my dad wants me to help him make a promotional video for a charity he runs. W00t. Ciao
#sidepodradio
Is RG's show live or pre-recorded?
#sidepodradio
Anyone know what's happening with the Sidepodmelodrama?
I think it's live. He was worried yesterday about him having to predict responses to what I asked live. So I think he's going to be scripted live. You play the question he responds. Which is why he's asked for the question to be sent to him in text rather than the audio which he's asked to send to you.
Do these words make sense?
They do to me.
Cool...
Has iTunes 9 got a slightly different look (on windows) or am I imaging it?
It does. Most notably switching the background from black to white. The graphics also look slightly different in look and feel.
Between the mac and windows versions or between the 8 and 9?
Ah right. I thought I might have been going crazy for a second.
I like that I can put the browser down the left hand side :)
8 and 9 ;)
did you see that the itunes store is now plain old html?
http://files.willnorris.com/misc/iTunes9/response.html
#mediafuturechange fail: Carrier Pigeon beats ADSL in Data Transfer race.
Really? Hey Rich, is the internet that slow down there?
Except for the App Store for some random reason.
P.S. interesting info on Kindle etc from Steve: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/in-qa-steve-jobs-snipes-at-amazon-and-praises-ice-cream/
hmmm...
"But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day. Because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device."
just with the itouch i still have to buy a dedicated camera? well done steve.
No, you buy an iPhone?
I think he did it to punish everyone who called it an iTouch ;)
Hehe I wanted a camera on the iTouch as well but I guess if I want that I need the iPhone.
:D
which is exactly why they did it.
Yep. The cost of the iPhone is beyond what I want to spending so I guess I'm stuck with my phone, iTouch and camera :D
me too! :)
Me three!
i'm thinking steve's cunning plan isn't working. instead of selling three new devices he's not sold any.
Do you guys remember the story posted a few months ago about the Victor Bomber that was to do a demonstration run down the taxiway and accidentally took off? Well here is an interview with the 'pilot'.... As usual he was quick to act and saved a very nasty accident - glad that no charges were laid either!
I refuse to pay that much for a phone I won't use. I have wifi at home, in the office and on the train for about £25 per month so I have internet access pretty much the whole time I have the iTouch on me...
I don't have access everywhere but for now I don't need it, I can wait to get online. I might look again if more providers other than O2 become available.
iTunes 9 and Windows 7 ;) http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/itunes9-png
oh no! don't show christine...
For £25 a month you could practically be paying for a phone contract... Is your phone tarrif cheaper than £10 a month?
Oooh!
Not in Denmark you can't - the iPhone contract is £250 for 6 months + £250 to buy the phone ... plus the wifi deal extends to my netbook too and I much prefer using that!
blast!
Oh dear :D
I have the doohickey on the taskbar and I was listening to sidepodcast :D
Okay! People seem to get the prices wrong here quite often somehow...
Say you look at the 16 Gb iPod Touch Amazon says £215.99
16 Gb 3Gs iPhone costs £87.11 + £34.26 per month for 24 months big scary numbers right!
Basically you can take £5.37 a month off the cost of the mobile phone contract over the 24 months because of £87.11 being that much cheaper than £215.99.
So £28.89 a month is the actual mobile phone contract price.
Previously for me I was on a £30 a month mobile contract so upgrading to an iPhone was actually cheaper than buying an iPod Touch. Your mileage may vary and Mr C is excluded from this for obvious reasons :)
And to make that slightly clearer in English obviously what I'm saying doesn't apply in Denmark
That is a good deal. My phone usage is something daft like less than £10 a month, and I don't like browsing the web on the iTouch. However, some of the otehr goodies like GPS and the camera would have been nice, so hopefully by the time this iTouch breaks the price will have come down and I can afford an iPhobe...
Yay! Caroline got to the semis!
She's been doing pretty well lately...
You have given me something to think about Alex. Maybe when I get my student loan that will be my first purchase as my current phone contract runs out soon :D
"Hello, this is John speaking with his voice"
I wish I was in my 20s in the 60s just so I could be in the Beatles fan club.
How many testers do you need when you can’t test? {Comment #57
Depends on how much road car development Ferrari decides it needs doing, plus how many demos they plan to perform around the world. The recession has to end at some time and people will want new models, I suppose...
:)
are your number screwed now due to the itouch price reductions?
They may be... I don't know... I just picked up whatever price was on amazon right now...
Ah there isn't a 16Gb one anymore... Whoops. But yeah... Um... It's a bit more complicated now...
oh no, maths!
If the rumours about the iPhone coming other networks in the UK are true then I don't think it will matter what the cost of the iTouch it ;)
in what sense?
Contracts should be cheaper I guess. Or thats what I hope anyway :)
Don't panic!
The price reduction means that if you go for a 32Gb comparison then it now would mean your actual cost of your phone contract would be £32 per month. And you could still get a 16Gb instead if you wanted such a thing :)
Why get rid of the 16GB?
well the 8gb itouch is now really cheap.
So based on my old phone contract of £30 a month that means what I am doing is buying a 30Gb iPod Touch, carrying on with my phone contract and paying a one off charge of £48 for a camera, video, GPS, compass, and data without wifi. That's still a steal in my book.
can't argue with that.
i might suggest that your original phone contract was a bit pricey mind you. it depends on what you think it's worth. 3g pay-as-you-go topup for a tenner when i need it still seems cheaper to me.
doesn't work for me because I'd have to buy a phone outright because none of the contracts here include international minutes, which is what I use the most.
32gb iphone outright = $1040
32gb ipod touch = $399
woah!
Sure... Depends on how much you use your phone I guess... I regularly get close to my 600 minutes of talk time a month.
ouch!
does it sound less painful if i say £540? ;)
I'd have kept the 16GB and scrapped the 8GB, there is now a big gap between the two models.
My colleague just paid £500 for a jailbroken 32Gb...
he couldn't jailbreak it himself?
The thing is £150 brings it down to impulse level (for these kinds of things, I'm not mad, I'm not saying I think like that). It's the price point where people think... Yeah okay.
Jailbreaking isn't the problem... getting a phone without a contract is the problem.
Anando says "I know nuffink"
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78451
Exactly, he bought it on eBay or something...
i'd have done what they did, but have the 8gb sans video camera and the bigger models more pricey but with an iphone camera.
8gb itouch is tempting to get christine. we can share apps now. which means she gets the official iphone app for free. and free again next season.
agreed. and cheaper than the psp.
still on for a ferrari annoucement then>
Do you work for Apple Alex? :p Anyway you've given me something to consider when my phone contract runs out :)
Yeah I see that and the 8GB can compete with the other ipod models as well.
Maybe I shouldn't I have blogged that it was the Piquets idea. I'm starting to have doubts about that.
You thought that was plausable 8O
ohh, i didn't read it. do you has a link?
I've come to learn anything is possible in F1 ;)
Sure :)
good post.
why does the new info about alonso change your view though?
Beatles haters? Who knew they existed?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8246313.stm
Very interesting article. Interesting that I see this around the time of Beatles Rock Band...
My mum doesn't like them. She blames the fact they were "overplayed" in her youth.
She hates that my brother and I inherited my dads love of them :D
The bit about Symonds saying everything would be ok. He or Flav are lying about something from what we know so far. Or Flav can't remember having a meeting with Piquet before the GP.
But what AUTOSPORT says about Alonso backs up what I said about his strategy so I'm happy :)
So she doecn't hate them - just dislikes hearing them all the time.
I get the impression the guys in the article are just doing it to get noticed - it seems to be considered 'cool' to go against the grain and hate on something everyone else likes, it seems...
ahh right. i think piquet's story should still be considered though. he didn't get where he is with talent that's for certain
she threw out my dads cds when they moved house in the hope he wouldn't notice :D
Uh-oh... FTA:
Is he going to be another Dave Ryan? It's starting to look an awful lot like it... That would be a darn shame.
Very true. Maybe it was the Piquet's and Symonds...
I could make guesses all day long :D
Now I know where you get your behaviour from!
From JA: Fisichella: Monza is the perfect place to debut
Apparently, Fisi and Rob worked together when they were both still at Jordan. Interesting! Their relationship will be much better than the Rob-Badoer one ever was...
there were pics on the drop the other day.
very yellow.
At least Rob has a driver he can get on with now. It seemed that Badoer wasn't intrested in his advice, from what we heard.
I like this one the best
they look happy together :D
what do you think they're watching on the laptop? ricky bobby?
Maybe celebrating their win in Brazil? That was a brilliant day for Fisi, but some credit must go to Rob for the winning strategy, no matter how lucky. :D
I (hearts) rubens:
http://twitpic.com/h6kx0
i don't think they were looking at the laptop? ;) i don't think ricky bobby was out yet by then! :P days of thunder, maybe? :D
Aw. Monza. Doesn't it just make you want to go there next year?
them new kerbs are HUGE! and... they're ugly! :O
...
no.
:( Where is Alison when you need her? (Denmark, I know)
I thought the curbs a little higher this year? doesn't look much different.
But at least Rubens shares his photos :D
I looked at the video on formula1.com and they are different. My mistake :)
The outer edge (nearest the track) seem the same height, but the inner kerbs look a lot higher.
...Should have gone with Android...;)
Yep.
Curbs last year
To be honest i dont especially like them... although i wouldnt go as far as hate, i do enjoy some of there songs...
I can see how all the current hype does make people hate them though, they do seem to treat their fans with so much contempt...
Lt Gavin of the thought police!
well if people will keep going around claiming they're dead...
yeah all that being dead is pretty rude when people want a reunion!
Not really, I just get sick of people hating for the sake of it just to get some publicity...
Looks like they used to be in This video (UK) when senna got stranded atop a kerb with all 4 wheels off the ground...
If that is highlights of 1988 - it is crazy how high Murray's voice goes when he spins!
:P
£170 for 20 cds?
Of music people already own?
The fans must love them!
He did get a bit excited... He called it fantastic then felt bad about it :D
It was fantastic - McLaren finally were not going to win that year, and Ferrari were going to win in Italy just after Enzo had just died...
My dad got really upset when George died because with 3 of them still alive he'd always hoped they'd do something together again but with only 2 left his dream disappeared.
I haven't had the heart to tell him of Ringo's passing.
It wasnt fantastic, peoples lives were in danger...
I never knew the first chicane was different at one point at Monza. The things you learn.
Wha? Monza 1988? How so?
They also used to do a lap of the oval before the road course!
If you look at the startline in that video you can see the double start/finish straight
There was a driver stranded and marshalls pushing a car about a meter away from where people were racing.
I know it was different back then, but it seems like absolute madness.
It was one lap of the road circuit, and then you hugged the inside line and did the oval before returning to the start/finish straight. It's used in the finale of the movie "Grand Prix" and it's awesome - so difficult on the sims as well...
OK fair enough - but Murray's reaction was to the spin, hence my comment.
It was amazing how they just left the car there!
What game is it in? I haven't seen it before!
I am not here.
rFactor ships with a version of Monza which combines the modern road course with the oval, skipping the 1st chicane. Bumpy. The other thing rFactor can do is run multiple types of cars at once. Fake multi-class racing for nerds! Wonder how the replays are saved.. will check later.
Hmm. Nice sunny warm-ish day out. I should've gone into town instead of spending lunch reading the internet.. now my eyes hurt and I have to go back to work!
It does it, but it's buggy and slow to load... you can also make custom series which is cool...
As Pat says, it's in rFactor but the best version is in GPL IMO...
If it makes you feel any better, I went outside for lunch and it was so bright that my eyes hurt and I have to go back to work! :)
If it makes you guys feel better, it's cold and cloudy here today :(
Piquet's FIA Statement
Intresting read.
Wait... he was born at Hockenheim? Was his mum following dad around while he raced?
Is this for real? Why has this not come from the FIA and why is it not on FIA letterhead?
I don't know, even its faked. There is a lot of detail in there.
I found it funny for some reason that Alonso was refered to as Mr Alonso.
Maybe it hasn't been leaked by the FIA ;)
If it was PK's statement, the original shouldnt have any FIA letterheads of the like...
Lets see what the Journo's make of it...
OMG My mate from Trinidad tried to justify what Renault did!
He reckons that the team is well within their rights to do it because he's only ruining his own race ... yet he disapproves of Hamilton lying to the stewards, reckons it's different!
Point 8 sounds soooo fake - it's paraphrasing Flavio!
The whole thing looks like it was written based on the Autosport article and not the other way around
Perhaps it's Piquet's camp who released it.
He's pointing to Symonds! My word...
If this is true (and it's a sworn statement, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be), then it's adios to Symonds, perhaps Briatore, probably Renault. Interesting, though, that Piquet's statement never made any mention of Alonso knowing of the strategy.
i guess the argument is lewis ruined trulli's race?
what about nelson ruining massa's championship though?
I won't comment until I am assured this is real - look at the source of other articles on the site...
Point out that all the drivers who were ahead of Alonso before the crash (18 of them) all finished behind him
That's what I said - he reckons it's fair game, else they should only have one car per team...
are there any other sources. f1sa have been very unreliable in the past. very.
I did that.
Sorry to drop this after we discussed itunes earlier but its something worth knowing if you don't yet.
Shopping cart gone in iTunes 9
That said, I do remember Piquet's face on the pitwall when Alonso won. He was absolutely forlorn. I thought nothing of it at the time...
I think it is plausible that Alonso knew nothing of this too... at least I hope so...
Can we take bets on how long I will spend adding things to my wishlist when I install the new version? :)
From Mr. Noble:
I think di Grassi should hold off on talking to Renault for now...
4 hours.
I have noticed since I updated my iTouch that it no longer smoothly scrolls when I flick through my podcast list quickly...
A quick Google search points to this:
http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2009/09/nelson-piquet-jrs-full-fia-statement/
Still not enough for me...
:D
and Mr C you could create MP3 files in the previous version of iTunes. You could change it using the import settings on the general tab of preferances :)
Let's wait for Autosport or BBC.
Massa didnt win the championship because he wasnt good enough, not because of what happened in singapore
Hello, just watching the classic GPs on the BBC site, amazing when Warwick has that crash and runs back to get in the spare car!
Anyway, I am on a half day and should be out enjoying the sun really, hows everyone today?
I disagree with that statement - an equal argument could have been applied to Lewis...
Singapore didn't help things though.
Rational thought does escape some people, i have seen this before! :P
I noticed his absence from Renault's celebration photos.
Plausible and hard to prove otherwise unless Flav/Symonds suddenly start squealing
But is Alonso tarred with the 2007 brush?
He would probably have been good enough if the hose hadn't been attached
Yeah he's unbelievable.
JrobertsF1 says its trustworthy
Imagine where we'd be right now had Massa won the championship. They'd want Alonso DSQed and everyone moved up a place.
And he's from F1 Racing. That's good enough for me.
Probably, there's a lot of tar in F1 though.
You would have thought banning the tobacco advertising would have helped.
Without the FIAssistance it would never have gone down to the last race.
He made too many mistakes, he seems like a nice enough guy, but he blew it.
I think its highly unlikely, practically impossible....
But he wont be banned, he makes too many people too much money.
He also bought PK off by giving him a helmet at silverstone...
its Catherine! She lives!
Where are you getting all this from? You're not wearing a tinfoil hat, perchance?
agreed.
But when even Piquet didn't bring him up as someone who knew, it'll take someone else squealing for him to be implicated. I don't see anyone doing that.
Why would he not question being put on such a ridiculous strategy?
He had to have done. even if it was just a nod and a wink, he would have to have known what was happening...
all good neil, how come a half day?
she looks more posh than usual, doesn't she? :D
They dont look too happy...
james pointed out earlier. he's always on crazy strategies.
she looks like she's lost weight. Must be hard to be a "normal" F1 WAG when your boyfriends team mate has a pussy cat doll ;)
In other news, heres a Fisi helmet
OK then - my comment is that I think it's funny he whines about his emotional state... awww, poor Nelson!
Also, he names and shames everyone except Anando. Why is he not mentioned? Surely he would have had to know about it somehow as it's too crazy a strategy to justify?
w00t!
But it's just too crazy? Surely?
i think alonso lacks motivation in a rubbish car, so fancies a gamble. frequently.
more crazy than his strategy in hungary?
How long do you think he's been planning that?
There are unusual strategies, and then there is what he was on in singapore...
Starting 15th with 12 laps of fuel makes absoloutly no sense. Maybe on the back row it might be worth a gamble, but still.... its way out of left field.
Working Saturday, so get the time off in the week, but will miss the quali live this week, dammit!
oh, about 37 years? :D
his whole life.
I think the strategy went 'heeeey lets throw an Italian flag at my old one!'
it's the best bit of the weekend!
Yeah I dunno, it just all falls into place too easily.
I know! I will have to catch up in the evening on the iplayer, so frustrating!
Thats tactical...
He isn essentially saying his mind was clouded, he was stresses... he knows it was the wrong thing to do now, but at the time he couldn't think straight.
Classic defence
I know.. but it's funny because he always whined a lot anyway!
Have just had word from Sean that he is still up for the All Sports show, so, can we dream up some questions about sports other than F1? I know there must be other sports out there...
Ah... I may have a small problem next sunday... i am working on it though!
i know there's darts.
These are the questions we have so far, which... eh-hem, are all from me:
Which is better, rugby or football?
How does the scoring work in cricket?
Why does England always do badly when I watch them?
Which F1 drivers would do well at other sports?
Is darts a sport?
How on earth did curling come about?
How would you try and convince someone to join a synchronised swimming team?
What kind of problem?
We also have two questions from Alex via voicemail, which is a great way of contributing - 0121 28 87225.
Jeez, I am not as good at this as he is.
Why is Roger Federer so awesome? ;)
plugging is hard.
Ooh, that's a good one. Noted.
I kinda have to go down to deepest darkest dorset next weekend to see some relatives... I am pretty confident i can make it back in time...
Is fishing a sport, and if so what really is the point?
Afternoon all, just come back from my driving lesson! Last one was 18 months ago...i've still got it :D
How are we all?
Goood, lovely, keep 'em coming.
I can answer that, the point is dinner :D
i'll try...
friends, romain, commenters. lend us your sporting questions.
via skype (sidepodcast), phone (0121 28 87225) or ye olde email ([email protected]).
we don't take no for an answer. we'll harass you more than badoer if you don't.
Romain?
grosjean
hehe the fools here just put em back in!
Ah! I see...
Or add to the wiki, or tell me now and I'll add it to the wiki.
Perfect.
Why do so many people in australia love the AFL when the rest of the world thinks its a stoopid game?
I don't even know what that means but I like it.
:D
"It Rhymes, they're both verbs. Awesome!"
Aussie Rules Football....
Known to some as 'madness' or 'ariel ping pong'
18 players a side and 6 refferees!
Hehehe.
6!!
and they wear sleeveless vests!
What form is your show taking now, by the way? I think I have missed out on some conversations.
How many FIA clubs are there? I.e how many votes total are cast in the election? and is there a golden number they need (i.e in America is 270) or is it just a majority?
Sorry... I think it may be 9!
So there are 4 players for every ref...how violent is this!?!
What on earth do they all do?
hehehe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpire_(Australian_rules_football)
To be fair it is played on a massive field
I want to be the one who stands behind the goal posts and makes a funny pointing motion when one is scored. easiest job ever.
Live "Whos start line is it anyway..."
MrC, Steven, Bassano, Alex, Lukeh, (Gavin?) WIll be the contestents...
I will think up scenarios which will involve 2 or 3 of them at a time and assign them all f1 characters. they will then improvise the scene and i will make up some points...
I will write a post about it this evening ;)
I thin k you need to go to a game and report back to us... possibly do some qik-ing as well ;)
Oooh, sounds good. I'll update the wiki.
P.S. If you can get Mr C to do an impression of an F1 car, that'd be great. :)
I have warned him to get all his gigling done in advance of the show... :P
what a pity its semi finals week and tickets are impossible to get for the rest of the season. such a shame. ;)
Hey. Hows the world.
That's a very deep question Mr RG, i'm not sure i could do it justice with an answer ;)
Struggling through Thursday.
Has this been mentioned? From Mr. Noble:
What a surprise... But 'main' sponsor? What happens to Philip Morris?
Ah, that explains why its been such a rubbish day.
Ah, tis on Autosport, I better make a breakout thread. Hold your thoughts everyone.
It's Friday here! Just pretend you are in Australia ;)
go christine, go christine.
Noooooooooooo
Oh well, its only a few months to the pre-season games.
You can get properly prepared for a full report ;)
But i cant!
Oh no! I have about 30 tabs open and one of them is auto playing music. MUST FIND AND DESTROY.
it'll take 15mins to log into wordpress...
I have done it. Where's the autoping?
erm...
there it is!
Ah! you need Windows Live Writer! Oh wait ;)
Slooooow!
I heart Live Writer!
me tooooo
harsh but fair :)
Is there a prize for beating the ping?
might have to be.
i've triggered 2 breakout threads! NICE. :D
Much quicker pinging this time.
odd.
Ganna gan then to the match, why I am bothering. I predict he will play poorly (I also prayed that)
awww :(
Flav: "Besides that, there are the audio recordings where I express disappointment when I see on the screens that Piquet had crashed."
BWAHAHAHA! That is a classic defense right there.
"Well, I LOOKED surprised, didn't I? I MUST have been, then."
'...when I walked out of that bank with all that money, I looked surprised - see, right there, on the security footage, I'm astonished I've got a handful of cash. I was just as shocked I'd robbed the bank as the teller was...'
This interview says to me that even though they look bored in pictures, Heikki really likes his girlfriend.
FTA:
WIN! :D
"What is the worst present you have ever received? I’m not sure. I don’t get a lot of presents."
you're not trying hard enough amy.
:D
They are obsessed with pizza. the questioner must have been hungry or something... what a bizzare interview!
"I have a company car from Norbert."
...at least until jenson takes it.
I want to know what it was! I like his "funniest" Grand Prix moment because everytime I come across the picture I have a giggle.
:D
What is the one thing you could not live without?
My friends, family, and my girlfriend. If it was a materialistic thing, I couldn’t live without my laptop and my Blackberry storm.
What part of one does he not understand?! :P
I reckon I could write the answer to any possible question as:
"Does Catherine like it? I like what she likes. She's great"
:D
Fisi is loving it!
What is it with racing drivers and radio control planes!?
how is she not deaf?
i am so glad he has a proper cap.
maybe she is? :D Then it doesn't matter if he talks to her in Finnish all day ;)
he wants to be on sky news?
He can't even remember her hair colour though - unless she likes to wear his helmet.
Which is Catherine? Brunette maybe? Yes Brunette.
:D
heya :) how has everyone's thursday been?
hey lou. it's thursday? ahh, i'm so confused.
Terrible.
Awful.
Worse.
sometimes brown, sometimes blonde, right now its somewhere in the middle ;)
I feel like a stalker but I swear I only found this website about 2 minutes ago
sadly it really is thursday, i've felt every second of it so far :( ... and filled it with either coughing, running, in meetings or covered in paint... it's been one of those days.
ah noes :( i'm off to check christine's blog for some pandas...
I have a spare ticket to the cricket at lords on saturday, England Vs Australia... so far i have been unable to give this away...
Its insane, its a sold out game and its worth £75!
I would take it but I'm a little far away!
booo...
but if you left right now...
I've had a great Thursday!
The trick, apparently, is to not bother going to work.
Hey Mr. C,
I was just thinking about Alonso. Yes, he did try a "crazy strategy" in China 2009, Hungary 2009 and Spain 2008, but there was one crucial difference - he was starting from the front. This is a gamble worth taking as if you are faster you can build up a lead before your first pitstop.
But in Singapore he started 15th ... and you would get no advantage with a light car because the track was difficult to overtake on. So the speed you gain is negated by the time you lose stuck behind another car, and all you might get is a bit of clear air and a couple of spots after your first pitstop.
In the Singapore Scenario, is it not better to fuel for a one stopper?
I said yes to it too...
I remember the commentators applauding the go-light strategy because it was trying something different, and they were gambling on a safety car.
Who knows if they/Piquet were planning to have Piquet crash at those races too?
Looks like Apple has annoyed the gamer fanboi's by claiming the PSP and DSI are useless compared to the itouch
They certainly have achieved something, not even microsoft has been able to annoy both Nintendo and Sony fanboi's at the same time...
thing is. if you're in a car and you know how utterly useless your teammate is. there's a good chance he might bin it early. cause he's beyond hopeless and it's a twisty street track, at night.
that's gotta be worth a gamble.
Itsone thing to gamble... its quite another to fix the race.
true - but remember, the mere thought of it was inconceivable at the time to all bar the conspiracy theorists.
Massa was convinced enough to hunt down flav after the race though and confront him over it...
Could both Renault and BMW have to close down their facories? Certainly interesting times...
Hi all
Trying again. Just read Piquets apparent FIA statement and this stuck out for me
"engineer of my car questioned the nature of the incident because he found it unusual, and I replied that I had lost control of the car. I believe that a clever engineer would notice from the car’s telemetry that I caused the incident on purpose"
Is that a dig at his engineer? What do you think?
I think so - an unneccessary one at that. But I think what he wants to happen is for the investigators to interrogate his engineer and see what he says.
Sounds like one. Whether it's Piquet having the dig is still debatable. Sounds more like someone (Piquet?) is suggesting his engineer must have also known.
I am still leaning towards PK is utterly useless and it is a good bet to gamble on a safety car. PK proved he could barely handle the Renault at that corner on less than parade lap speeds as he was coming up to start position. All you people really expect PK to last an entire race there ?
That's more of a fantasy than Renault fixing a race !
Great minds... :D
Also he states that he constantly asked for what lap he was on as not to get it wrong - I take it his telementary will show that and why didnt they pick it up a t the time as he says that he doesnt usually do this?
So your theorey is:
He was able to get through the corner ine in practice
He was able to get through that corner at the limit perfectly during qualifying,
He was able to get through the corner fine on his way to the grid
He then forgot how to take the corner on the parade lap and spun
He was able to drive around 12 laps at racing speed going through the corner perfectluy
He then remembered that he had forgotten to take the corner and spun off for the seccond time in an extremely bizzare way.
Now thats a fantasy!
ergo the cover-up.
but surely the FIA or the race stewards see this as well
Mind you, Alonso nearly wrecked his car on the warm-up lap in Spain. It can happen.
Also, Piquet's 'practice' spin was at another corner, right?
Alonso gambled on a 3 lap window in a 61 lap race, it's very slim. Most likely time for a safety car was after the first lap and we saw what damage a vey early safety car did to a light fuelled Alonso in China.
you'd only find it if you were looking for it. otherwise, why would you look at it? piquet shunting is nothing new...
It was.
Which corner?
Frankly, I would not mind having information like that over the radio instead of me looking at teh pit board....I would suggest PK used that method more often then...
Between the penultimate and last corner.
There was video footage. I used it on my blog but FOM have take it down.
but there were people who thought it suspicious
it came from their dvd.
indeed, but other than the conspiracy theorists, was there anyone else? no one made a formal complaint...
Turn 21?
If so it appears to be the same angle as 17
Really? looked more like fan captured footage.
Bernie trying to cover up for flav?
It will be interesting if he gets dragged into it...
The plug for Jon's new podcast in the Daily does not include a link.
Could anyone be kind enough to provide the link?
ahhh, maybe it was. but it was also shown on the DVD.
Nope, Turn 22.
Rubens is so cute, he talks about himself in third person.
http://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/ita09_conference_thurs.pdf
Q: (Will Buxton – Australasian Motor Sport News) To everyone, apart from Rubens, but it kind of includes Rubens. There are five races left: who do you think is going to wind up as champion?
JT: It’s so difficult to predict.
RB: I think it will be Rubens.
Ooops, I'll fix that.
http://www.feederseries.tk
Doesnt the grid go back to turn 22?
It doesn't go that far. The last row is just after Turn 23.
Thank you.
Incidently, it is not linked on Jon's blog either.
We have a new gap in the schedule if anyone has a last minute idea: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodradio
Aww!!! :) how could anyone replace him with Rosberg? (am in a much happier mood today btw :) )
You called ;)
What do you mean?
nope...
I'm making sure I'm not in contention I have no ideas good or otherwise ever ;)
ooh 4am is about to happen and thats my (tenth) cue to leave.
I hope Thursday ends soon for you all :D
oh wait, my blog, i really should read what you say should it :D
i'll be doing a post about it later this week, im having an uber busy week!!
How do you stay up that late!?!
Ciao!
Night!
I would say see you for FP1, although its quite likely i will still be here when you get bored at work... ;)
ouch! that's so late/early in the morning! night Amy!
Hello everyone. Am really excited, Alex's book has arrived, really looking forward to reading it this weekend :-)
She's Amy. I just leave it at that. :D
And on that bombshell, I'll go off to bed too. Night, everyone!
w00t! Good to hear!
Google video search for 'Piquet Parade lap'...
3rd result is a pic of alex :P
not GPWeek?
Operates on Finnish time?
Hey all
hey scott, jon and janna, bye amy and journeyer.
*waves*
hullo.
evening all.
Had Goulash for dinner - how about you guys?
steak pie, potatoes, yorkshires and gravy...and... of course.... mint sauce <3
Know what I'm really tempted to do tomorrow morning? Buy DiRT 2 :D
With steak???
I has mint sauce with any meat if it's a proper cooked meal like that. It causes serious upset to Alex mind you :P
Lukeh thinks mint sauce is the only condiment :-) I am having pork chops, apple sauce, potatoes & peas
And me too. Mint sauce with lamb!!!!
Mmmmmmmm :)
I feel the need to point out Horseradish on spaghetti Bolognise is so amazing i now consider it essential
Ugh. Keep that one to yourself!
It is utterly amazing... i was skeptical, but it is incredible!
Lovely F1 Big Pic today - the two sort of new boys together.
aw! Fisi looks like he belongs in that ferrari outfit :) it suits him
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If you haven't, you should, it's awesome. If you have, the questions are now on the wiki. Please can you either send me the mp3s christine at sidepodcast dot com, or leave us a voicemail 0121 28 87225.
I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine we will also extrapolate them to Sidepodchat as well, as we did with Gavin's and Lukeh's. Listen to those two excellent examples if you're not sure what I'm on about.
eeeek i forgot about that! erm.. can i record it over the weekend? i have no time this evening :(
That is acceptable :)
yay, my memory is like a sieve.. i'll write a post it note to remind myself come saturday.
I will try and remind you but I also have the sieve problem.
thank you :) i never used to be like this.. but it seems to have crept up on me a little.
Guys,
A little OT but if you like in-car footage you will love this - It's from a BMW M3 GT2 going round Long Beach. It's really really awesome, but in parts it's a little shaky so you might want to be careful if you are sensitive to that sort of thing!
You do have a lot on your plate at the moment...
omg! just don't get me started :( on the plus side my cold is clearing and i don't feel so much like death today
Well that's a good start ;)
Have you decided what to do for your 18th?
no... have decided it is a whole month away and will do something during the half term after my birthday, life is just way to hectic to be planning a month in advance atm :)
#sidepodradio
Don't forget everyone, we need your submissions for Travels in Sidepodland. If you've signed up to be a travel guide, then please either send your mp3s to christine at sidepodcast dot com, or call the voicemail 0121 28 87225.
Thank you!
RG's new favourite quote ever: "I don't use the linesman to rule the line."
The referee from todays game. Who needs to play when you can complain at the uselessness of the ref.
How long should they be?
The trend seems to be ranging from two to six minutes.
OK ... will call now!
And disaster, missing the Italian GP this weekend. Good news, I'm starting (who's laughing now other keeper)
Wonderful :)
Just said to Mrs Goat:
Me: "I'm just going to leave a voice mail"
Mrs. Goat: "Pardon?"
Me "Um, I'm just going to talk to myself"
Mrs. Goat: "Ah, OK!"
:D Should I be laughing or worried?
aww man. christine just played me stuart's #sidepodradio voicemail. it's brilliant!
you cannot miss a moment of sidepodradio. miss it, miss out.
ummm. I'll tell my manager that
i really hope i have enough bandwidth.... sounds like it's going to be awesome!
does this mean I will be tired when I go back to uni the next day? :p
I thought I heard a head ping about an hour ago but I was driving. Probably not though. Getting mixed signals here on the M6!
Voicemails for Wellington and Copenhagen are done!
Evening all
Why do we have a gap on sidepodradio? I had the scheduled all filled up yesterday.
You in north London tonight?
Dan has had to give up his spot, sadly. I figured if we couldn't fill it, we could just make you talk about space a bit more.
aww dan :(
he had a cool desk full of technical mixers and stuff.
Looks like Alex is-a-trucking!
you hope you have enough bandwidth? we're totally going to get cut-off for unfair usage by monday :)
hahaha :)
anyone thinking, what i'm thinking?
Um? Has he become a minicab driver?
hehe... why isnt he qik streaming from the M6? I did it!
There is lots of space to talk about and people keep asking questions. I have also had a couple of people in the comments show an interest in being on the show though neither has confirmed. I am sure we wil fill it somehow.
You heard it people. Come up with an idea for a show or you get more of me. It's your own fault this time and I can take no blame. Either come up with something better or the last resort is me waffling more about space or whatever takes my fancy at the time. You may end up with half an hour on Neil Armstrong's middle name.
And send voicemails to all the shows that are looking for feedback. Lots of voicemails. And that includes me as I have been negligent in not doing any yet. I will do some tonight if I can get through the crowd waiting to leave messages.
You'll be proud of me today, Steven, I have done my very best plugging and organising and annoying people :)
I used Mr C's very good filter device to check sidepodspace and sidepodradio before I posted my first comment. You have been plugging like Alex today. it was because of your comment that I knew we had a gap on the schedule
Sorry to repeat guys, but who verified that the Nelson Piquet statement was genuine?
chappie from f1r.
#sidepodspace
Gavin mentioned some of the photos from BBC article on the Hubble Space Telescope earlier today. Some of you will remember we covered the shuttle mission to Hubble a few months ago. These are some of the first pictures with the new instruments that were fitted and they are stunning.
http://www.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25/image/a/format/web_print/
I just tried using LCLT to find a post with the filter and it froze up completely, i repeated and it did it again
Cheers....
That is a pretty damning statement. I assume Piquet has negotiated a free pass for himself before he said anything.
you've lost me?
Night everybody!
Quick q. Is there a way to link two songs on iTunes at all? For example, to set a song so that when that song finishes, it's automatically followed by another set song everytime? Hope that makes sense...
Isnt he guaranteed one under max's whistleblower rules?
Night Gavin
in a very small playlist?
who's going to want him though? but yeah i think he should be.
....damnit. The obvious answer never gets to my mind that quickly :P
you mean it froze as you typed?
#sidepodspace
The shuttel Discovery is due to land at 7:05pm Eastern/midnight05 UK time. Assuming the weather is co-operative the de-orbit burn will be made at 5:59 pm Easter/ 10:59pm UK so we will get plenty of warning if the landing is going to happen.
There are two landing windows both of which show a chance of thunderstorms in the area. I assume the second opportunity is 1 orbit after the first which is roughly and ahour and a half later.
Night Gavin
I was typing in start.
The s leter appeared in the filter then the whole thing locked up, i couldnt scroll, type anymore or delete in the filter, change threads e.t.c..
Night gavin
Who knows with Max. Piquet senior contacted Max and he is a smart enough operator to make sure he got a good deal for his boy.
in today's thread?
If as has always been suggested he brings sponsorship and has a famous name that can be used there may be some teams who will be interested.
I had switched to yesterdays thread as i was loking for what i said about my show yesterday...
Who's Startline is it anyway starting at 10:30pm starring Nick, Mr C, Bassano, Lukeh and others.
tis okay for me. a tad slow due to the 1,801 comments it has to search, but othewise fine.
The very same......
That is a lot!
I just tried it again and got to type st before it locked up.... (using chrome)
Not to worry i have found what i was after in ye olde.
try pasting the whole word in?
It didnt like that!
Any chance you could delete that pic too?
ooh dear. the filter is processed client side, so the faster your machine the better chance it has. with think about how to optimise.
done.
Thanks, forgot to blur the text box!
I really do not think any sponsor or team would want young PK now. The youngest's career is all but over no matter whether he is allowed to keep a super-license. No wonder Ferrari did not get in touch with him over their spare seat.
Even if they had got in touch, there is no way he could have raced with this investigation ongoing...
I doubt he will be able to get another drive, but all the information which as come out goes some way to explain how such a talented GP2 driver stuggled so much in F1
The statement is interesting in that it really shows how he was emotionally broken by Flavio. I am not really sure how I feel towards Renault F1. I do not like the way Pat Symonds evaded direct questions that relate to Nelson's statement. I can say that if we never see Flavio in the Pitlane again I will not be grieving - in my book he is a very nasty individual indeed (even worse than Max).
Will any established driver be willing to drive for Renault after this?
Why does sidepodcast voicemail hate me. I have just been kicked off voicemail twice like I was Scott
is it full?
how long before you were kicked off?
Frankly I would not consider the team all the while Flavio and probably Pat are around if I were say Kubes of Kovy. It seems even Fernando's and Nelson's race engineers were not fully in the picture so I feel sorry for the team itself.
Did it use the words 'end' 'reset' or 'stop' followed by a pause during your recording?
I dont know... it seems to me the whole place is tainted, if not in reality, that will be the perception.
Unless the 2 genius's at the top go and renault sells up it has a bleak looking future...
I just left 4 or 5 voicemails. Mostly they are for different shows but the first two need to be editted together for the travels show. If that is a problem let me know and I will try to record it again.
A minute or 2 max
you seem to have found them all guilty already. are we not seeing a one sided picture right now?
thus far autosport have found some things out and joe has found out something different and piquet has made a statement.
with all due respect, i am very glad you're not sitting on the wmsc next week.
I barely breathed during it let alonse paused. I don't think I used any of the words that may trigger it to stop either
Although I believe no-one will touch PK now, I cannot help but feel sorry for the guy, he has clearly been manipulated by his manager. I cannot believe the statement made was not done with full knowledge of his father?
Piquet and Symonds both agree the crash was discussed in advance and it happened as discussed. That is all we know
joe said the other day that flav was denying it? we literally know nothing.
When accusations are leaked and the only retort Renault can come up with is Flav claiming to know nothing, the oher man in the meeting claiming it was discussed but it was all PK's idea, they do start top look very guilty.
If they had said nothing i would still be considering the possibility it wasnt as PK described, but the headless chicken approach gives a very bad impression.
The WMSC is largely irrelevant. They dont have a record which gives me any confidence the right decision will be made or the right punishment dished out.
Perception is key, and unless Renault are keeping amazingly quiet whilst the allegations damage the company name, i cant see that changing
Fro what I have read Flav is saying there was a meeting between the three of them but a crash wasn't discussed. Two of the three people at the meeting say it was so we can assume Flav is lying. Symonds and Piquet say the crash was discussed but disagree about how the topic was brought up and how it was left. There is no reasons for Symonds to say it was discussed if it wasn't so you have to assume it was. Therefore even if he had told Piquet not to do it and he went ahead and did it Symonds and Flav knew it was deliberate.
as far as i know renault are yet to respond officially?
Sources are saying that Symonds evaded answering certain questions but he appears to have confirm discussions that should never have taken place. What concerns me more is that there is clearly mind-games going on with the youngster. It was not the first race he had to sacrifice towards the shrine of Alonso. I cannot remember which race but the team deliberately put young PK on the wrong tyres to determine if there was any possible gain for Alonso to switch to them. He crashed as a consequence. Elements in the team are actually increasing the risk of injury with such strategies. Renault F1 is history no matter what the outcome of WMSC.
monaco '08.
They are not going to say anything official until the hearing
In the absence of an official statement, people pay closer attention to the unofficial.
But he is the head of their f1 team and he spoke to a journalist... it might not be an 'official' statement, by the team, but in the absence of one, isnt that what it effectivly stands as unnofficialy?
I wanted to say Monaco but was not sure where to find the info. I just think think Flavio screwed the kids so much to the benefit of Alonso. This is no longer a sport. That the team cannot even muster the courage to make a statement is damming in the extreme.
@RG
I have sent you a PM with a question that I have left a voicemail of.
Thanks sir.
#sidepodradio
Have edited together the fabulous Top 5's I got this week. So far it comes in at about 22 minutes.
If anyone has any others (I'm looking at you, Amy) then 0121 28 87225.
Thank you :)
ron said they did they same to heikki, although he denied it.
The lack of a denial suggests they are going to go in there and plead guilty and beg for fogiveness.
Hopefully they will be punished, but i could see them getting away from it...
i don't see why they should have to?
Awesome!
Can't what wait for that.
Hi
#sidepodspace
Looks like NASA think they are going to have a try at the first landing window. The shuttle has closed the payload bay doors which is one of the first things they have to do before landing. The doors are not closed until the last minutes becaus the inside of the doors are radiators that moderate the temperature of the inside of the shuttle. With the doors closed they have to use a lot of water to maintain the temperature.
Where has Joe found a contrary evidence to the PK statement? Cannot see it on his website based on the Autosport revelation.
possibly, but i don't see them having a "bleak looking future...".
lewis was busted flat out lying early this year and he's doing just fine.
Mr C, did you catch the audio of Ted interviewing Alonso?
I will leave a super message tomorrow...
top 5 (havent thought of anything to do yet!) sidepodtravels (no idea what i am going to say!) anything else?
Working on the show description right now ;)
Um, yeah. Killing myself for saying something now.
he hasn't. your confusing comments. or i am. one second.
Did you want to do the Interview with Bloggers?
nope. when/where?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8249179.stm
A question for the Nostradamus Effect, 18:30, Sunday 20th September, only on Sidepodcast
@ Christine
Did you get the voicemails I left earlier? I kept being kicked off. Can you edit the travels in sidepodland comment which is spread over two voicemails or do I need to send it again?
Will let you know shortly.
If I were a sponsor I would take a dim view, sure they cannot say too much before the meeting but the two head figures in the team have been reported to have said contradictory statements - this should be cleared up as a PR job. FIA gave Lewis full access to making his statements known as part of the process.
I spent ages trying to thik of something and decided the only way I could come up with something was to call the voicemail number and come up with something 'live'. It seemed to work
Thanks
I don't see why he couldn't say he wouldn't want to win a race by dishonest means, for most drivers saying that would be more important than team policy :(
I want to know what Joe has found wrt "some other things"?
He's either following the team line or know something we don't.
tis ok. i think i misread autosport. i thought flav and pat agreed that the pre-race convo happened and it was piquet's idea to crash? but i can't find the sentence now, and have a million things to sort.
ignore i said that bit. am gonna shut off doohickey again until fp1 because another evening has gone by and mr.c. has achieved sweet fa again :(
Sounds to me like Alonso is just following instructions. If he makes any kind of comment he will be hounded all weekend by the media so the best thing he can do is just repeat that he will say nothing
aww bye Mr C. :(
hehe, see you in an hour or 2 ;)
awwwwwww :(
FOUND IT! sheesh:
"Piquet's claims have, however, been denied by both Briatore and Symonds in documents that are believed to have been submitted with the FIA. Although they confirm that the meeting between the three of them took place, both suggest that it was Piquet's own suggestion to cause an accident."
that disagrees with joe's finding's right?
i am going now though.
He could just have said it and then said this has no bearing on any ongoing investigation...
If he is leaving anyway then he should feel like he can do that.
Unless Ferrari have gotten cold feet?
Sure - I am think of blogging this one, just so in my own mind I can work out what is really going on.
Just to mention, I've not been online since lunchtime... I like how the big news of the day is just a drop-down away on the LCLT now :-) I don't have to go looking for it on Autosport or wherever.
Everything I have read so far says that Briatore said that the meeting took place but the crash wasn't discussed while Symonds said it was discussed but Piquet suggested it
Ah-ha! That is good news :) Thanks Pat!
You could also look at f1rundown... although i havent been updating enough... ;)
Nice plug :)
7/10 from me - he forgot the link :-)
I am no alex :D
But the only way to keep up with up to date Liuzzi news is the Tonio Luizzi Appreciation Society. Though, also needs a bit more updates...
Good point. What I should have said was: kinda useless plug :)
Have you seen this?
umm, at http://www.liuzziappreciationsociety.wordpress.com or click my name.
Is it a jinx to get exciting about moving to a new flat when you haven't even seen it yet, and even if you agree, someone else might get it first?
Thank you.
Thats one nice helmet, bias or not.
Hehehe.
*excited
Thanks for this sentence
I am hiding my embaressement at not updating it :P... If people realy want to see it, click my name ;)
And ruined it for liking rnb
Steven, I appear to only have voicemails from Gavin. However, have emptied the account of clutter. Can you try again? Apologies if you did loads already :(
Your name links to Racing Politics.
oooopz
I did 4 or 5 but kept getting kicked off
Evening all,
Busy day, eh?
Found myself on the same Ryanair flight as Joe. Both of us were told by Hertz that we'd been 'upgraded' to what sounded like a 'turbo'. Having booked a Fiat Panda, I was quite excited. Sadly, the vehicle in question turned out to be a Qubo. Bubo, more like.
As an interesting aside, John Booth (Manor boss) is staying in the same hotel and I ended up giving him a lift. I've never stayed there before and it turns out that it isn't where Google says it is. Cue much driving around in circles and some embarrassment.
I went to the Alonso press conference and it was quite a tense affair. It was held in what was originally the Jordan motorhome (subsequently Super Aguri). It was very crowded, and as he walked past to enter via the rear door he glanced in and looked suitably displeased. Fleet Street set upon him in a pincer movement (wanting to elicit some juice about Singapore and/or Ferrari) and it got quite heated. He looked very uncomfortable while being grilled. After the PR lady read the riot act they changed tack and prompted a little slip, the nuances of which have gone largely unreported.
Asked if the Singapore situation had affected his plans for next year, he said:
“No. No change.”
Next question:
“Even if Renault aren’t in F1 next year?”
His response (mumbled):
“No.”
There followed a short and slightly awkward silence. Regrettably, some goon who had taken up station next to him felt compelled to break the silence by asking him a totally different question that led the topic away. What a plonker.
Grrrrrr!
How can a journalist not know how to listen? Some poeple are just too keen to get their planned question in I suppose.
Nice to have a fan of the site, come again soon :D
Not a Liuzzi fan then?
Scoop!
Very interesting!
Is the general feeling that this will be Pat and Flavs last GP for a while?
think about it. grr!
I thought you were going?
grr. i've got nothing done. grr.
how do people actually get anything done in f1? there must be a secret.
flav bought the ex-aguri motorhome? he coulda got the posh force india one if he'd waited :)
Sorry I am clueless
i'm not here. really and trulli.
Great stuff, thanks Stuart :-)
2nd voicemail:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/09/28/tremayning/
Bad news for Amazon, they've just run out of Alex's book again. Good news for me, I just bought the last copy!
sorry, 1st one. doh.
:-) This possibility hadn't crossed my mind!
hehehehe
"Since when did you become an expert, Codders?"
Hehehe. Makes me giggle every time.
Make sure to wave, I'll wave back really hard so you should see it.
I will try to find the hill and wave from there ;)
DT is sitting about two metres away from me in the press room (not right now, of course; am making use of free hotel wifi rather than being skanked to the tune of 120euros in the press room) so plenty of GRRRRRRRRRs have been flung my way already.
Or terrified of silence. He did it twice in all. After the first one I assumed he was part of Ferd's management team, such was the fervency with which he swept away the awkward pause.
We probably haven't heard the last of it - or seen the half of it - yet. Lots of very disillusioned people around. General feeling is that the new teams coming in next year will be essential in sweeping away the malaise.
I keep getting kicked out of voicemail after about 2 minutes
That's bizarre. Are you doing it Skype to Skype?
Reprint!
Right. Off to bed now. Been up since 3am and no doubt more ordure will be impacting the air oscillation device tomorrow.
or bring their own :-)
night sir :)
Yes. I watched the time that time and it is dead on 2 minutes that I get kicked out. That is 90% of the way through my first voicemail
i'll try it, one second.
(amy thinking or doing an amy and skipping sleep until fp1)
*of not or.
I'll translate: (am thinking of doing an amy and skipping...)
typing fail
comment fail
productivity fail
laughter win
:P
Bless you. Blame Thursday.
and a lack of sleep will improve this?
GAH!!! can someone do my psychology for me... i'm falling asleep as i talk.. :(
not talk... i mean type..
can anyone type tonight? really?
@ Christine
Can you check and see if you got a voicemail. I stopped at 1 minute 40 before it could cut me off.
no. maybe i'll sleep now.
i think voicemail may be broken :(
Sleep
i'm tired and need sleep! :( but have work to do...
Are you really falling asleep or do you want to fall asleep to avoid psychology? Discuss
It answers and does everything right until it kicks me off at two minutes. So I talked faster and missed some words
i love psychology... i've just been discussing the nature nurture debate for ages now and i'm just tired.
all i got was feedback?
heartbeat says all is well though: http://heartbeat.skype.com/
#sidepodsapce update
no go for the first landing slot of the day so everything resets and they try to land at 8:40pm Eastern/ 1:40am UK time.
The weather people seem to have given up giving us percentages so no clues on the odds of it happeneing
I will try leaving a few more now and keep them under two minutes. If I have to do them again tomorrow I will. At least it will put some ideas in my head.
don't these people know that we need to sleep! :(
Hi!
I put my name down some while ago. Didn't know the q's though.
If there is time I'm hoping to have a voicemail session tomorrow night for various shows, so will see what I can do, assuming voicemail works by then..
why don't you record it as an mp3 and send them to christine? that way you know she definitely will get them.
(about memory)
I think it happens to everyone after you reach a certain level of things to do. I was never like it until the accountancy course, then I had to retain far more info than ever before with studies, work things, and lots of racing and other info.
I don't mind if there is actually going to be a landing but they will probably postpone in and have to do it all again tomorrow
I have just left another set of voicemails and kept them all short so that I hung up on the voicemail. If those haven't worked I may try and find some recording software and do that.
Been more of a lurker tonight but still ganning. lotsa love.
Evening all!
adios
Night RG
Hi Jon
I really like that! Thing is, on the TV the GT2s look incredibly slow because they are compared to the prototypes... it is easy to forget they are fast cars in their own right.
I slightly regret leaving audacity recording for 5.5 hours....
It's now VERY slow...oops
am not happy this evening... my bandwidth seems to be rubbish :( it's not even playing something i want to watch on iplayer :( bad times.
?????
i was recording the hour of highlights of muse, but i had to go out so i set it to cut off an 1.5 hours in, because the highlights were only an hour....but it didnt stop....and i've only got back in...
same here strangely enough. Nothing seems to be working properly internet wise. even my xbox is being throttled by slow internet... Bleh.
ooooh dear..
it keeps crashing. i would convert it to an mp3 so i can edit it tomorrow, but i fear that may take up my hard drive...however, i do have a 65GB partition on my lappy that i havent used, i think ill save it to that!
#sidepodradio
Is there a deadline for this. I'm suddenly rather keen to leave a voicemail/mp3 (for the first time I might add) :D
Mine was doing that yesterday but is fine now. Try a router reset, and by that I mean unplug the power from the back of it.
The sooner the better. Christine has to edit things together so if you have an idea call in as soon as possible
I've done allsorts. I think Virgin are just throttling us.
ooh, extended 1988 Monza highlights on BBC Sport website, 34m20s, yes please
Roll up, roll up, what we 'ave 'ere is a rare signed photograph of the 'face of F1' himself. You know it makes sense: Ebay
It must be topic of the week or something. It was Autosport's historic race in today's issue and they were plugginf youtube coverage of it
Turns out it takes over half an hour to convert a 3 hour mp3 file. Who-da-thunk-it
What have we all been up to this evening?
Bah. Unable to maximise their player on one screen and click/type on another, like you can with VLC.
they had cameras in 1988? ya learn something new every day
I thought you had a picture of Mr C's face. It's not, is it?
Looking at a Guardian website link and knowing deep inside how much I want to click it
What behind the link?
It could be? Who knows Mr C's REAL identity... :-D
I have sent MrsC the post for my show, hope she gets it!
Went to Mum's for food and catch-up, then a F1/SPC catch-up, now a classic F1 catch-up.
The first legal complete stream of a certain new album.
came home, collapsed in a heap.. did some work... had food, did more work... then a little more... and am trying to do some more as i fall asleep..
MWM fans....do i listen to the forum? or MWM episode first?
You are scared of it?
How is legal and a stream?
I'm not gonna listen to The Resistance until I have it in my hands, on Monday or hopefully Saturday as it should come early. I've said it for months and months and it emans more to me to wait until I have it.
But to know it's all there, on a webpage, waiting to be heard.... I must resist the resistance :P
I respect this greatly
In what form are you getting it? LP, CD, MP3?
LP, CD and high quality MP3. I'm paying £60 for this beast.
Yes I am that sad. But it was a special edition... and I couldn't help myself... :P
Oh Lordy!
Can you answer me the following question...
Do you have a record player?
I have one. I can rent it out for, say, 40 pound?
I don't have one, but if you give me 1000 pounds, i'll give you one for free!
You cant answer a question with a question!
Certainly not the same question!
It ate my reply...
No, I don't have a record player. I just need that edition. I haven't looked forward to an album like this... ever. Even Muse's other albums I looked forward to but nothing like this. everything I've heard off it so far is just so far beyond anything they've done inj the past in my personal opinion and I need something special to match the special hopes I have for it...
It probably sounds ridicukous, and it seems a waste of money to some people I'm sure, but I can't explain it very well. I just have to have this edition.
I understand, it is an amazing albumn
Cool, hope it lives up to expectation. They're playing the whole thing live on radio here from 12pm. Won't be listening as I am stuck at work.
Did I really type "live" on the radio?
Silly me.
So, Sliver Brawns next year eh? No more fluro boys.
There could be... just replace mclarens red stripe with a yellow brawn one...
:(
http://twitpic.com/h8r4d
Drayson LMP1 car
mmmmm
That would look a bit bleah
I'm heading off anyways, night folks :)
It could look good... at least the team will be funded to the hilt and fighting at the front for the foreseeable future...
Night!
Ciao!!
If anyone knows how to write a programme for android i have a great idea which will make lots of CA$H. (maybe)
night
Night Lukeh
I like :-)
night
If you click on full size (my favourite feature) its a full hi-res image!!
Background much?
I have just e-mailed Christine my voicemails
wow, I just saw a picture of the new monza curbs with rubino next to one...it's taller than the ones on my street!
Gonna see some suspension failures, betcha.
does that new daily thread make itself or what?
hey musta been picking up my brainwaves there.
The thread doesn't but there is now an automated pingback that tells us the new thread is there.
and it seems to be chatting to itself
ohh joy. spend a week away and new stuff pops up. neat. liking SPC more and more (is it possible?)
No I am not. I mean no IT is not. OOPS
Yes. and emailing voice mails. First head pings, now this......
if only :)
Ha! I've been around about 8 months and I'm still finding new stuff.
And new old stuff.
how's your java?
I once programmed a Lego car to do laps around a track.
But that was in Dubai, not Indonesia... ;)
nice!
I'm disappointed with Apple. I felt no urge to rush out and buy anything yesterday.
#sorrypaul
I get my new 16GB Nano in a few hours :)
Is ciao hello and arrivederci goodbye?
WooHoo!
Excellent. How many you sold now?
Wooohooo!
Howdey Alex! did your good egg of a friend fourstar want to go to the cricket? i still have no takers!
He went last Sunday so his wife she said no :(
I cant give this thing away :(
Is it for Londinium?
Yes!
Lords! the home of cricket!
England vs Australia! The oldest Rivalry!
Ebay?
Too late for that really!
And its so much better to have somone to talk to, even if you dont know them...
Apparently, Fisi and Rob worked together when they were both still at Jordan. {Comment #347}
2002 and 2003. Giancarlo was the first driver Rob race engineered and the only one other than Felipe he has race engineered for more than two races. They got on well apart from a slight argument over strategy in Brazil 2003 (suffice to say Rob won that particular dispute...)
Is this for real? Why has this not come from the FIA and why is it not on FIA letterhead? {Comment #391}
It's not come from the FIA because according to their procedure this document should not have been posted on the internet except as part of the post-verdict judgement document. There's no way the FIA would permit themselves to appear to condone a breach of their own procedure without a big reason. More likely this is a leak.
How long do you think he’s been planning that? {Comment #445}
Probably since he first found out what a Ferrari was. Hopefully this helmet will bring him better luck than his last one-off "lid" in Monaco 2008...
how has everyone’s thursday been? {Comment #542}
It was fine until I went swimming. Now I feel rather bruised because everyone in my lane collided with each other more times than the average British Touring Cars racers do in their races. You'd never have thought it was a friendly training session with everyone involved on the same team...
Is that a dig at his engineer? What do you think? {Comment #561}
I think it might not be (but it could be). It could be as simple as giving a reason to call up his race engineer, who would presumably have to explain his actions. Depending on what he says, that could help Nelson - and there's no guarantee that he'd be called up without such a paragraph being inserted.
Also he states that he constantly asked for what lap he was on as not to get it wrong – I take it his telementary will show that and why didnt they pick it up a t the time as he says that he doesnt usually do this? {Comment #556}
The radio transmissions certainly would. Which is odd because didn't Renault have its radio transmissions wide open to everyone at that point (including the internet via its own site)?
Isnt he guaranteed one under max’s whistleblower rules? {Comment #671}
He's guaranteed anonymity and $1m. He's not automatically guaranteed a free pass.
Of course, leaks tend to mean no anonymity either, but it's the thought that counts (according to wishful thinking...)
Evening all,
Busy day, eh? {Comment #777}
Sounds like it. One of my Twitter friends has reported that he went to Milan today and it took ages to find his hotel, so either both of you are staying in the same place or Google needs to update its North Italian mapping service...
Asked if the Singapore situation had affected his plans for next year, he said:
“No. No change.”
Next question:
“Even if Renault aren’t in F1 next year?”
His response (mumbled):
“No.” {Comment #777}
Well, I suppose it shows Fernando and Renault won't be together in 2010. Not that this will have gone down well with the PR staff. The more I think about it the less chance there is of Renault being there next year. Who will take its place?
flav bought the ex-aguri motorhome? he coulda got the posh force india one if he’d waited {Comment #785}
Not likely - the posh Force India one has appeared in the Monza paddock. Now they're claiming the back-to-back races are responsible for the appearance of the tin shed.