Welcome to a daily post with a difference. You see, the rather wonderful Mrs Christine has spent the past four days being beyond fabulous in so many ways I thought I ought highlight some of her efforts, lest they pass unnoticed.
Before I continue though, a quick disclaimer - I have not broken anything, nor lost anything, or caused any damage for which I might need to grovel, apologise or otherwise write this post. I am not in any trouble at all (at least not yet).
What I have been this past week is busy doing non-Sidepodcast things, which left Christine to manage this and all our other sites, alone. Apart from lending a hand on Sunday afternoon during the Grand Prix, everything listed below - including solo live coverage of qualifying - came from one person.
F1 for all
Posts on Sidepodcast during a race weekend are usually consistent from one GP to the next, but the text doesn't write itself. The following were published between Friday morning and Monday evening.
- Free practice live thread
- Free practice 1 results
- Free practice 2 results
- Free practice 3 results
- Qualifying live thread
- Lap-by-lap live coverage of qualifying
- Qualifying press conference transcription
- Qualifying results
- Race live thread
- Lap-by-lap live coverage of the race
- Post race press conference transcription
- Post race interview transcription
- Race results
- Driver standings table
- Team standings table
- Rate the race discussion
- Tweets of the week
Note: The guide to reading Kindle books was half written in advance but tidied up yesterday. Breakout transcriptions contain content from the live text coverage. Tweets technically write themselves, but someone has to pick the best 10, out of the thousands published every week.
F1 in the news
There's more to Christine than just text. She records 60 second audio shows any time an F1 story breaks. The following stories were written, recorded and published during the past four days.
- Red Bull confirm five year engine deal with Renault
- Pirelli keen to tweak tyre regulations for 2012
- Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel lead Free Practice in Monza
- FIA to enforce camber limit for Monza
- Sebastian Vettel secures pole position for Italian Grand Prix
- Lotus confirm Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen for 2012
- Sebastian Vettel takes emotional Italian Grand Prix victory
- Rivals concede Vettel has 2011 title wrapped up
F1 in technicolor
More than just words and sounds, there are pictures too. Big pictures.
Almost all of the content linked above came from one person. I cannot even guess what the word count my be. There are 27(ish) posts in total and that doesn't include personal content published on MrsChristine.com. I rarely get a chance to look in on this from the outside, but I did this weekend and I am truly in awe.
That is how hard Christine works on F1 content, and all because she loves what she does.
In return, I erm... well I made a heart.
Christine Blachford, this was your weekend.
goooo Christine! That's epic output.
That is an incredible amount of work when you list it like that.
Are you sure?
Would this be what is technically known as a banker....for when you will be in trouble...surely its inevitable?
Christine, that is AMAZING. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
Mr C, I think you can do better than a JPEG of a heart. :D ;)
good plan!
i need a business card with this url printed on it, so i can hand it over like a get out of jail free card :)
animated gif?
These boys are going to be nakkered for Davis Cup this weekend. It makes me happy Rog is already here/is almost here.
no idea if this has been shared / discussed, but onboard of lewis v. schumi in monza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3le-WBlVKs
amazing there was no penalty for that.
I was amazed that Ross Brawn was warning him about his driving so clearly. Add getting away with this to his first lap and a half at Spa and you have to wonder how he gets away with it.
I can't see Lewis getting away with that lot
yaaaaay Nole! This year must have sucked if you hate him.
Did he win then?
Is it possible to hate a tennis player?
Time for bed I think.
Hopefully I will feel healthier in the morning
Yes, that would be good. :D
schumi was just following the racing line, though.
it was definitely upon Charlie's advice. can't see how it wasn't.
to be fair, had roles been reversed, i don't think Lewis should've been penalized, either.
Just as well I don't. :D Prefer him over Rafa, that's for sure.
ooohhhh yes. A lot of people hate players for stupid reasons like "he beat my favourite, once, 8 years ago"
Isn't that the reason all Massa fans have at least a bit of ongoing antipathy for Hamilton? I actively hated him for at least a full year after he overtook Glock on the last lap in Brazil.
I just got an email from Air Asia asking for some details on my friend Jason.
Poor Jeremy.
It looks like MotoGP will have a race in Argentina from 2013:
http://www.motomatters.com/news/2011/09/12/argentina_to_host_a_motogp_race_from_201.html
It means that MotoGP may also wind up having 20 rounds by then - following F1's lead. However, they will have 4 races in the Americas to F1's 3.
Erm... Oops? :D
Haha, did they want you to pick a different commenter? :D
Nice drag race! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7Pty8Qnw&feature=player_embedded
It's not the perfect lineup, but goodness gracious, it's still a darn good lineup. And for what it's worth, Dany Bahar's Lotus came in 11th... of 11.
Exactly. I think Lewis gets too hard a time compared to the others TBH
And Christine, that amount of content is staggering. I had no idea you had written so much.
Thank you for enriching my F1 experience :)
That is loads, Wow!
Well Done! Hope you are having a good rest after all that :)
Thanks peoples. It is a lot. I should probably get a hobby or someth... oh.
The heart looks like a cookie to me. Mmm, cookie.
You could ask Mr. C to bake one for you, but I'm afraid what might happen ;9
Morning all,
Red Bull cookie? :D
Oooohh... a cookie would go down well right about now, especially if it comes with a nice cup of tea - Darjeeling, of course.
:)
How well do you know your Formula 1 history?
The book That'll be the Day: 365 F1 Stories takes a look at significant moments or quirky happenings on this day in Grand Prix history. Can you guess what event the following describes?
Another Vettel Win?
I think the hyphen adequately describes my feelings after watching the 1999 Spanish GP
Can you guess what F1 event of note happened on this day? It's one of the most shocking moments in contemporary F1 history.
Did David Coulthard renew his commitment to winning the World Championship?
That was shocking, yes, but there's something even more shocking than that. :D
This is an amazing amount of work Christine.. the biggest thank you for all the effort you put into this site, it's truly amazing and it's posts that highlight this effort which really emphasise how much you do for us. Thank you, thank you thank you, *hugs - even though you don't like them ;) * I think we all owe you a drink...or ten :)
Ping --> http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/the-ethan-batchelor-fundraising-appeal/
:)
One for Amy, if she wants to be greedy with her air asia prizes http://www.airasia.com/singaporegp/
I saw that but then I remembered I have no desire to interview anyone #notareporter
Its just like sidepodpanel, ask questions & wait for people to answer :)
You don't want to talk to Heikki?
well that is odd. the question is on the homepage just fine. hmm.
try this:
I can do that in Korea
The battle for which team had the best motorhome food?
Well, well.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/formula1/proposed-f1-projects-in-other-nations-keep-hellmund-1849691.html
Tavo Hellmund is getting a lot of work, all of a sudden. He needs to make sure Austin succeeds first.
Joe defends Liuzzi: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/a-quick-catch-up-on-the-news/
Rumours were right:
Williams F1 today confirmed that Sam Michael will join McLaren as Sporting Director. The announcement follows Sam's resignation from his current post as AT&T Williams' Technical Director in May this year. Sam's last race with the team will be at the forthcoming Singapore Grand Prix.
Is that a gain for McLaren? Who is he replacing there?
Not sure who he's replacing now, but that was the position once held by Dave Ryan
Davey Davey Ryan?
:)
for the second race in a row, no decent camera angles. the heli-shot is too wide to make a call for me, but i'm inclined to believe heikki over tonio.
of note, this is a great example of why every driver needs twitter. heikki can accuse tonio of anything in a tweet, but how can he respond?
Same here. I saw a white car move over on Tonio, but there was no way he would have made it anyway. Considering Tonio's reputation for being a tad reckless, it's as hard to defend him as it would if it was Hamilton there.
Well Tonio used press releases to blame Heikki and Heikki responded using Twitter. Some of the IndyCar drivers have had some great cat fights on Twitter though ;)
another point of note, i think everything in that post was covered in gp+ on sunday. i like that idea. news first for paying subscribers, later for free on the blog.
Imagine if Lewis reacted like Tony Stewart on the BBC post race... (see mainly from 1:10 onward)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBBNRUYe5Ko
:)
yeah I just realised that myself. Was a good GP+ too, I thought.
I love that video. Smoke is a bit of an a** but so are reporters asking the dumb questions...
I think he's been doing that a while, but it's a nice feature.
I do have a soft spot for Stewart, but some of the questions he (and other drives) gets asked are brainless.
Seems like Adam Hay-Nicholls is now enjoying the company of both Lotuseseses: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/09/ciao-for-now-europe.html
I think he had a great point reacting the way he did and there is a big parallel with LEwis there.
this has been happening for quite a while and i am not sure i am exactly happy that i am paying for contents that I an read for free a day later ...
Think of it this way. If you didn't pay to read the articles, then you wouldn't see them for free either because he wouldn't be able to afford to attend the races ;)
Lee McKenzie is off to Caracas for 3 days: http://twitter.com/#!/LeeMcKenzieF1/status/112915556277035008
She had better take care!
I think Liuzzi must have something on him
In Bolivarian Venezuela, care takes you!
I have 3 friends from Caracas - none of whom want to go back if they can help it ;)
This photo shows LIU on the grass and KOV nowhere near him. Not conclusive or anything though...
F1M ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/sam-michael-set-move-williams-mclaren
According to @RedBullF1Spy, Seb's about to reveal his Infiniti FX here http://www.infiniti.co.uk/fx_vettel_livestreaming.html
And in an unexpected turn, "Sam Michael" is trending worldwide on Twitter...
It looks like a regular FX I see 10 times a week but with a rear wing and a bigger front splitter
shocking.
Well, that was disappointing. It's an SUV, and not a very good-looking one at that. Certainly nt an SUV I'd take off-road (since that is, after all, the purpose of an SUV). Now Seb's standing next to some big-wigs looking awkward.
I've never seen an Infiniti in the flesh before, but I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy one. I'll save my savings for a Morgan (what? They look classy and they have rallies just for them).
I give it a "Will Buxton" on the scale of BREAKING NEWS!!
:D
Its not really an SUV, just raised up a little. They have a car version of the base model http://www.infiniti.co.uk/ex37.html
For those on a slow day, here's the 1982 Italian GP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfoOj2_RclY&feature=related
:)
Davis Cup have sent me their transport information
Parking is strictly limited for this event, you are recommended to leave the cat at home and take public transport.
Poor cat.
Seven layers of genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZ_LCRdeOg&feature=player_embedded
:D
Still clunky and lacking the promised understated elegance. That said, I think the Zonda is prettier than the Veyron, if that tells you anything about my taste in high-performance cars.
Good afternoon :)
Lovely daily, MrC!
I think the FX & EX look like beached fishes...
Fishes? Try whales!
Hmmm. They did OK without Dave Ryan, IMO. But then again, the new role is not as highly technical, so may play to Sam's strengths more.
And McLaren are unlikely to be as stretched as Williams are currently
Good point here as well.
The new formula ford car looks amazing http://www.britishformulaford.co.uk/news/2011/120911.htm
Yes, it does!
The Frankfurt Motorshow has seen the launch of some very special cars. The new Formula Ford, some new DTM 2012 cars and a special edition of Lamborghini's Gallardo: http://www.caranddriverthef1.com/coches/novedades-pruebas/lamborghini-gallardo-lp-570-4-super-trofeo-stradale
Aye - writing the post for it now. It looks very sleek.
It's missing a couple of wings, isn't it? ;)
They may want young drivers to prove their talent only with mechanical grip...
It would defeat the point of the series otherwise
:)
I was just kidding.
I know.
I can't understand why Apple products cost in € is the same than in $.
It's unfair, I think.
iPod Touch's cost is 1/3 more than what I first thought it would be.
Next time you go to the UK, buy one there?
Or order from amazon uk?
because US prices don't include local taxes in online listings, while EU prices do.
A bit late, but...
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/all-new-formula-ford-revealed-in-frankfurt/
someone appears to have stolen the the rear half of it.
I wish F1 cars looked like that
That's where Williams got the idea for this year's gearbox...
;)
Give Liuzzi a fair go and most would
they do, every teams f1 simulator features just the front half of a car ;)
heheheh
I like the back http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/2012formulafordx-8.jpg
what back?
I supose they could have put something like an aeroplane tail on it like the delta wing :P
I don't think even FF's go fast enough to make the Delta Wing useful
:)
surprised the wheels are so exposed in this day and age. risky, no?
FF is not FF any more. Sequential gearboxes, side intrustion panels, huge sidepods, fuel injection
Way too high tech
I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw an FF race where a wheel came off and I watch these races a lot. It depends on the forces going through them I suppose.
:)
i mean for wheel-over-wheel accidents. the thing indycar are trying to solve.
Any open wheel is risky
i know. but the trend seems to be to cover them. if you're reinventing a chassis, why go in the opposite direction?
Like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DzysOZpfDA
hooooooooooooooly.
True, but how utterly rarely do you see any accident like that. Admittedly the height reached is a much bigger concern there.
Because the whole ethos of FFord is zero aero. As soon as you start covering wheels people will find ways to generate downforce. Even 50kg of downforce would be a huge advantage in these. Even just allowing the various chassis makers to reduce drag would push costs through the roof
even at the expense of safety? karts don't have aero (normally), but their wheels are much more enclosed by the frame.
they could at least add rollbars front and rear.
I have seen the odd one fly but I have been watching FFord an average of 10 race meetings a year for over 25 years and I don't think I am close to double figures yet. Generally the suspension collapses first.
I have had a few dozen spins/crashes in them and never once thought I was leaving the ground
F1 cars dont really protect the front wheels, other than the front wings which collapse off quite easily when exposed to vertical forces
That is NICE.
FFord drivers are known for being robust shall we say. Giving them bumpers of any kind would increase the problem.
I don't think the risk is that big. What they have down with side intrusion panels and the like are huge steps forward.
At almost any race meeting you can guarantee that there will be more crashes in the FFord races than everything else put together and I am struggling to think of a serious injury ever. And I have seen these cars totally destroyed. The year before he picked up his Marlboro deal McNish totally wiped out an old Mondiale through the Esses at Ingliston. It looked like the remains of a plane crash and the car was at least 5 years old so had been on the receiving end of a lot of abuse but he walked away
not at the moment, no.
I have argued for years that F1 should protect all the wheels properly
That looks like a proper crash structure on the rear too. Last time I looked it was still just the Hewland gearbox there
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/2012formulafordx-8.jpg
Interesting - someone asked Joe if Sam was taking over Dave Ryan's job, and he said:
"Not really. Davy did a slightly different job."
Which I find slightly odd, considering they will now have held the same job title. I wonder what the difference is?
I wonder if McLaren altered their structure slightly after Ryan "left"
Uh-huh
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/one-lotus-two-lotus-no-lotus/
Out of interest, I wonder if the BBC have an obligation to call the Renault team "Lotus Renault"?
Evening all, what a fabulous daily :) Christine is very awesome, and quite right too that she deserves every bit of praise. Such an awesome effort.
Although I thought at first that was a cookie baked by Mr C!
BAH!
although i guess that it must look vaguely realistic, so, err, go me!
It can only be a good thing if a photoshop is that good that you want to actually eat it
Are you insane? Christine would kill him if he baked without supervision
Before or after the cooker explodes..?
;)
heh!
Maybe Christine took Mr C to Greggs :)
Then it is not a surprise for her
This one for Amy :) http://youtu.be/6enbuVBuvO8
I'm going to call you out on that, because people have been killed driving FFords.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3522500
Almost certainly but I cannot think of a serious injury still after about an hour. THe only serious injury I can think of at an FFord race was when a helicopter dropped out of the sky but that had nothing to do with racing
I am not claiming that no-one ever got hurt or killed in them simply that I have been at hundreds of races and read about thousands more and I am struggling to come up with one serious injury
Christine's Rankings today, lovely people. All suggestions very welcome.
Pastorcito is doing some karting with kids. Williams is tweeting some pics. Would be cool for them to get some points :)
Sauber and Kobayashi are planning great tributes for the Japanese when they go to Suzuka. Not sure if that should be credited now or then, though.
60 people from Fukushima, I think I've read.
I thought this was quite sweet from Rubens a few days ago :)
http://t.co/y4vZ0wL
McLaren tests Red Bull on Jenson Button.
The results: http://youtu.be/8eWfzuOVR6g
Points for Petrov for his black helmet in tribute of the Yaroslavl crash.
Enjoy a little something from the Sidepodcast back catalogue.
- F1 Circuits Past and Present - Series 1 Omnibus
Originally published 25 August 2010.
how good is google plus? good enough for facebook to rip off the whole concept it would seem: https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150278932602131
if you're not on g+ you're missing out on the facebook of tomorrow :)
i remember when facebook was simple.
Happy times.
windows 8 preview video: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-tablet-photos-video-preview/
*hugs desktop*
Still not won over by metro ui. Worryingly gimmicky. Also they have ribbons in the explorer window. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
It's quite odd seeing a Windows based system so unMicrosofty.
ribbon is just... vile. everything about it, yuck. liking metro a lot. it really is a tablet world now though.
I don't see why the ribbon is needed in the explorer window, adding it for the sake of it.
I do like the metro UI's simplicity lots, just need to be properly won over by it away from tablet devices. I just can see if I used it on my laptop I would be impressed for 10 minutes then want my desktop back :)
Thumb keyboard is kinda cool though.
old school microsoft people fighting for relevance/appreciation maybe?
"don't forget usssss"
as much as we shout and moan, you take it away and we want it back :)
Bring back windows 95 and it's chunky grey and blue windows! Retro is so in right now.
Next you will be asking for 3.1
mmmm 16 bit.
No interney
Or even internet
there was on 3.1. it wasn't pretty, but my first foray into web development came via notepad and 3.1 for workgroups. #retro
touche mr steven.
I have a feeling it wasn't quite Finnish speeds :)
i would guess a whopping 28k, after almost a minute of dialup tone.
Really. I can'r imagine how awful that must have been. I saw bulletin boards on 3.1
I didn't realise Rubens was such a big fan of online racing
http://plus.autosport.com/free/feature/3868/behind-the-scenes-at-monza/
He's my hero :)
Faster than I expected. I thought it would be fax speed
it was fine once connected.
before animated gifs were invented, so the only images were static little icons. text and links with splashes of font colour.
I look forward to my children in the future getting history lessons on dialup and that noise :)
back in my day we used to have to pay for a web browser :)
Trying to think of my earliest memory of using a computer now, asides from things like commodore and megadrive. Hmmm.
first one i ever used looked like this: http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/expand.php?key=1266
the printer was awesome...ly small.
:D
The first time I saw a printer I remember getting ridiculously excited because it looked like the ones I saw on Grange Hill
The first PC I used was an HP Vectra in 1988. The company bought 8 of then at £8000 each
When I was in school there was a lunchtime club where we learned BASIC. We sent our stuff of to the technical college 20 miles away because they had a mainframe in the basement with 8 terminals on it. They sent us back punch cards with out 'code' and the print outs of the results we had generated. At the end of the year we got to visit it and see punch cards being made. Really high tech
that's how BT operate today.
I had one of those too. It had a great racing game that only had Silverstone as a track and the thing had so few colours they had to make the tyres red. THe games and anything else loaded from a cassette recorder
:D
at a guess: http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2009/08/zx-spectrum-games-formula-one-simulator.html
oooh I haven't seen the word 'cassette' in years
Looks like Twitter are introducing their own form of google analytics for websites linking from tweets and stuff
https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics
Not really that vital for small blogs like my own but imagine it might be interesting for you and christine to see how or where traffic comes from maybe mr c?
That is massively more sophisticated than the game I had. I had on track and no steering wheel. It was around the same time though
that is cool. we used to use bit.ly stats, until t.co came along. yay for more graphs.
Evening. That's an impressive level of work over a single weekend, how is the time found to do all that and actually watch the race? :)
as men, you and i cannot comprehend the concept of multitasking. it is beyond us :)
Which bit is the ribbon?
I don't like that they have 'Apps' now. Apps are what Apple has. PCs have Programs, dammit. :)
:)
debuted in office... something or other, recently.
You know like how in Word 2003 onwards you have that taskbar across the top?
That, but in Explorer windows. Yuck.
was it that long ago? yikes.
It might be 2007, actually. More likely anyways :)
The first I had at home was this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Amstrad_CPC464.jpg
Though of course the first computer I ever used was at school, the old BBC B: http://www.1000bit.it/lista/b/BBC/bbc_b.jpg
Some lucky people even had a BBC Micro.
Oh the annoying one nobody knows how to use..
a classic!
oooh I recognise that, although no one used it because Windows 95 was coming into trend at my time
I has been writing about how happy I am with my new headphones, PING
http://toata.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/225-stereophonic/
My school bought Acorns instead. That was really popular with the pupils who were buying Windows 95 PCs or Macs, and couldn't make their homework open (from floppy disc!) once they got to school.
heheh!
Ahh good old floppy disks. They once let me scare my nephew because i told him if you take off the springy silver bit all your work falls out and it freaked him out. To be 8 again.
:) Well I suppose that did make them unuseable.
The black 5.25" floppies looked so old fashioned when the shiny smaller blue ones came out.
I bet it still took ten minutes to load like all my Amstrad games. :)
I tried learning BASIC on BBC and whatever the Amstrad equivalent was, could only manage the basics ironically enough. A friend was a lot better at it.
At least. Fortunately the graphics were a bit low res or it would have taken all night
Yikes. Harsh but fair on Sam Michael? I didn't see that news coming..
there u go! SM is now at Mac. At least he cant mess up the car design, just the pit stops to ruin now. Good luck with him boys! - @f1spannerman
I didn't realise I was still following him.
Clearly there is a little animosity there
Derek Daly was the driver rep with the stewards in Monza, and he tweets @DerekDaly500. I don't follow him but I just saw this retweeted!:
Schumi should have had penalty for blocking in Monza - we blew it - Agh-
That is a lot of use to anyone. How was it not obvious at the time?
Spannerman probably works with Williams. I have a feeling we suspected as much before.
wow.
oooh. someone said charlie didn't send it up to them so they didn't get chance to look?
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/getting-kids-into-racing-is-pointsworthy-on-christines-rankings-this-week
(promise it won't disappear this week)
They must have the authority to request anything they need. They are there to observe
:D
It transpires Brawn's coded 'stop weaving' radio messages to Schumacher were prompted by race control. It's not supposed to work that way.
https://twitter.com/#!/byronf1/status/112944431283437569
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/competition-prizes-and-goodies-galore-on-team-rankings-this-week
Surely they can investigate whatever they like
Charlie's starting to wear two hats. We know how well that works in IndyCar.
oh wait, it was this tweet:
Interesting to hear that Stewards were not asked to look at Schumacher's defensive moves. It was addressed from race control to team/driver
https://twitter.com/#!/MBrundleF1/status/112941919553851392
Brundle said during the race that he thought that. Absolutely ridiculous. One rule for him and another for everyone else
Vettel's Infiniti is awful, but I think that the worst thing of it are the lights. Strange design. Wonder how much will he have earned...
Anyway, I wonder why Infiniti didn't design a sport-style car.
To create a Crossover with Vettel's name is something weird.
Awww, lovely daily Mr C. :)
Also, forgive me for not noticing, I've been outta the loop somewhat due to personal issues. When did the URL usurp sidepodcast.com/realtime?
making some changes. we have facebook comments on threads too. more to come soon.
Cool! If we can be of help buzz and ye shall come running! :D
no probs. do try out the fb comments. they need more work, but i like the potential.
*runs to Facebook*
*runs back to the sanctuary of SPC*
I have started using gmail as my android phone made me get an account and I've decided to run away and hide from all the spam in my other email... Does anyone know when I archive messags, how you get to see them again??
I rarely use Facebook. How do I find these SPC comments you speak of?
Lol I saw it now. I posted something then deleted it....
Wild guess http://www.facebook.com/sidepodcast
yeah, I went there, because I do have a brain, but are you just talking about the wall comments? What the hell. It's been a long day and I don't want to hunt around for stuff. *boo*
*puts feet up and takes a drink of ice water*
:) :)
At the bottom of blog posts here, under the site comments.
No if you go on the ye not so olde post page, if you scroll to the very bottom, you can post from facebook. It doesn't go into the main comments though, it sits in that section in the bottom. As I said, I made one then deleted it.
I haven't tried posting anything from facebook because my brain is still too mangled to even think about it. I have no information beyond that wild guess
Thanks. If I don't go on Facebook and I don't want to connect my FB account to this site because of lookie loo kids, then I won't be posting from FB.
To dovetail on your conversation from before, the first computer I used was at school, Apple II G and GS
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gEwQyxXuHYM/TTpcoRHu6aI/AAAAAAAAABE/KoJldcOEEwg/s1600/apple_II.jpg
they're not designed so much for people who already comment on spc, think of it as for people to discover new facebook friends with similar interests.
i naturally assume all regular commenters will instantly hate them, i expect no less.
i have high hopes for the new comments, the response to the pre-race facebook poll was astounding and there's a lot of hidden power in there that we simply can't do here. more integration will follow soon.
bootnote: facebook's comments have the added advantage that legal responsibility appears to rest with facebook, not christine, so you can go discuss politics to your hearts content and we won't moan or have to delete anything.
folder marked "all mail".
I usually just search for it.
I used to label stuff in gmail to make it easier to find, but gave up on that. Haven't done that in years.
Proper high tech
aha. Okie dokie.
That's great for you guys. :)
I have an auto-forward to sub-folders for Wordpress and Twitter emails, that's it.
Aaaaah thanks. I can't view that on my phone. I thought I had deleted it all... :P
I used one of those in a physics lab not so long ago. Still very cool!
was that lab in 1988? :)
I did manage to start some kind of instant chat with my work payroll department.... A little worrying.... Will they see that in the morning?!
ah-ha, i wondered why the alert showed nothing. interesting that you can't delete commets from spc without emailing us. another 'hands-off' win.
Nope. 2003 ;)
:)
I was nosy, so I posted it to see what it would do. But then decided I didn't like it so I took it away :P #fickle I didn't like seeing a picture of my face all alone on the page :D
Roger is finally in my timezone :)
Just two more days of work to go!
hehe, there's at least 10 faces staring back on the sidebar, but i know what you mean.
I'm in a Speed.com sportscar Q&A chat with some journos and insiders.. rumour has it that McLaren may build an LMP1 car in 2014. One of them said if/when they do it, it'll be a 'game changer'. But first they'll make a GTE/GT2 version of the GT3 car.
That would be fantastic
I wonder if now that F1 teams have more people than they can use and are sending them off to other teams the next stage is to put them to work on a sportscar program. If McLaren were successful in LMP! could Ferrari stay away or would they feel they had to get involved. Newey has often talked about doing other things so maybe a sportscar program on the side would be a way to keep him happy at Red Bull
Just a rumour, may not happen, we can dream. I hope they do. :)
Quite a bit of upheaval in the ACO series though. LMS running out of entries/support, Petit not part of WEC next year (unless something changes), and ACO hasn't agreed ALMS licensing renewal yet so it might have to change name..
Petit not being in the championship is ridiculous. It is such a great event considering it is so new
Interesting to see if they do sportscars or anything really. Would be fun for Ferrari to follow McLaren, I suppose it depends what the rule changes will be for energy recovery and all that stuff Ferrari generally doesn't like.
A Newey LMP would be fun to see.
I never thought McLaren would do LMP though, figured they'd do an Indy aero kit instead.
I think they would want a lot more input and control than just an aero kit
12 years old now I think, not so new any more. I agree though, it needs to be in there. They were saying the ACO wants to nab Sebring for itself and leave Petit for ALMS.. but IMSA wouldn't let the former happen in a million years.
I was thinking compared to Le Mans and the other classics