Friday at last, and it is the final F1 free weekend of the summer break. I know a lot of you are missing the racing, but make the most of the time off and do something exciting. Maybe even go outside? But make sure you stay in touch, it's scary out there. Meanwhil, here's what we're talking about:
- There's plenty of circuit news, as Bernie confirms that Malaysia will be starting an hour earlier, after the race had to be halted this year due to inclement weather. There also seems to be a possibility that Canada will be returning to the calendar soon, which can only be described in one word - woohoo!
- Ari Vatanen has announced his cabinet for the upcoming elections. I don't really know what it means or whether it's good or not, but it is nice to hear from him. He's been a bit on the quiet side recently, with Jean Todt taking all of the headlines. Come on Ari, you can do it!
- Piquet has hit out at Briatore again, suggesting that the Renault boss has no idea about F1. I think this is a bit on the harsh side, but I guess Nelson isn't in the mood for making friends and influencing people. If his future lies in building his own teams, I guess he doesn't need to.
That'll do it for now, I reckon. Let us know if you're doing anything exciting this weekend, and if you're not, let us know what you would want to do if you could do anything over the next two days. I'll see you in the comments.
Does Mr C have an ebook reader yet? If not what is he planning on getting?
Didn't Thiessen earlier this year suggest Flavio knows nothing about F1?
Ooooh, two days in a row Thiessen has been my first post of the day. Intresting.
And apparantly, Herbert will be at Team Dynamics for the BTCC for the rest of the year.
no and a kindle when it's available in the uk. but christine wants one first.
I'm strugling with this one myself. Have you tried iphone reader software? I'm not sure the Kindle will ever be available in Oz
new day in the UK! that means that I have to leave... see you
Night!!
Night guille
I'm not sure the Kindle is the answer anyway. It seems too restrictive. Why can't it be colour, have 8GB and an SD cars slot, and be $99?
colour requires a backlight. that burns battery.
it's expensive because there's not enough competition in this space.
do we know how big the average book is going to be?
Books are tiny, but graphics are less so.
I get Mr C's point on backlighting though.
ads say it holds over 1,500 books?
ah ok, so no problems on the hdd front
But I want something to hold my Autosports etc.
watch the video top left. i'm sold :)
true. but i'm betting kindle storage will outstrip the availability of said content.
Damn. Work calls. Later people.
see ya sir, and everyone you went whilst i was blogging :(
*who, not you.
wow!!!!! thats amazing. now even im sold!!
:P
there's a reader for the iphone too. but not available in the uk. it's official, they hate us.
It is verry good, but its the sort of thing i need to be given free.. its too pricey.
What are the odds This is the version they bring to the UK
blimey, that's huge!
you mean the super duper but incredibly pricey version?
It also says there are over 1000 blogs available... Is sidepodcast Kindle compatible?
how come the bigger version can view 2,000 blogs and the smaller only 1,000?
ummm..... am guessing they have to select you? otherwise, no idea.
as its 3G, maybe its just RSS feed compatible?
ooh, you have to sign up:
"Please provide us with your contact and payment information so we may pay you for your blog subscription sales."
they're going to pay us? so people have to pay to read blogs?
oooh.
"Blog subscriptions will be priced between $0.99 and $1.99."
wha?
You could be on to a winner...
in a few weeks time you could be posting from the sidepodendlesspool on the sidepodboat!
"Amazon keeps 70% of the subscription fee and gives the blogger 30%."
or not.
hmmm
better than a kick in the teeth i guess
true. that's a crazy business model though. pay for free stuff and get it in black and white too.
It cant hurt to be on it though?
Can it do audio too?
i'll christine to do it tomorrow. if there's money to be made it ought to go to her.
it has a speaker. no idea if it'll play a podcast though.
this may make alex's day:
Qik for iPhone 3GS - now live and free from the App Store!
"Qik is the only iPhone 3GS mobile video app that lets you share your location while streaming video from your phone."
however, it's still not live streaming, just record and publish (probably due to at&t being dumb).
I'm thinking of taking a gap year and don't want to waste it, am looking at internships for either a year or shorter, anyone know of anything half decent that dosent involve me just pushing paper around? (you don't want to know the type of jobs ive seen on gap year sites...some are vile)
Any help is welcome :D
How is it that I didn't know Christine did audio books?
Awesome. I'm sure at least one of my brother's girls will like this one.
She has mentioned it before but more on her personal blog.
Any more developments on the Montreal front, beside both Bernie and and the Mayor of Montreal saying there could be a race in 2010?
What a talented girl. I am impressed.
Nothing concrete
go sell cars and/or electronics for a year. It's a great way to learn about people and money. F1 is about being an entrepreneur...
Most people will think you're mad but it will make you street smart and earn lots of money if you get it right
Oh My Goodness, i've just watched
http://www.apple.com/jobs/uk/retail.html
video on the right hand side.
I'm now in love with apple. And i want everyone to know it :D
Also, the whole new media thing has just clicked. I knew it was great before, but now it makes real sense :)
Makes sense to me. The other option is to go to one of the major European cities and use the opportunity to learn the language and experience a different way of life. I spent a year in Paris and their were lots of people there either as students or travelling and they were making money doing bar work and the like. They were also having a ball.
careful Jon. I'm pretty sure you're safe here with us apple employees, but you risk being branded as smug if you say that too much :P
aha, i've reached my point of enlightenment, so thought i'd share it :D
first rule of Apple club: don't call it iTouch (you can talk about Apple club as much as you want)
I'm not sure I understand.
I am also starting to hate Apple more. Yep, I love their hardware, but they have to be the most arrogant tech company around. One day people will wake up and realize the evil one is no longer Microsoft.
I got incredibly close to being an apple convert, but i saw that as well. Android all the way!
Listen to the TWiT network shows over the last week. The fanboys have turned.
Its pretty ironic that many apple fans were saying that microsoft couldnt be trusted and they would come to dictate over what software was allowed to run on its platform e.t.c... Take a look at the App store.
Some have. You may not listen to Macbreak, which is a bit sickening at times.
Got a link to the best one?>
The App store is a total joke for lots of reasons.
I haven't heard it for a couple of weeks but all the people who regularly appear on TWiT seem to have had their eyes opened.
Hmm. Do i touch this? :-)
Yes.
All companies are evil because they are about making as much money as they can. There are certainly a lot of companies that don't have Al Gore on the board of directors helping us become more environmentally friendly.
I can do this all day if I had time
pour exemplé?
It's just a general trend. Jason Calicanus (sp?) had a rant but he's a bit of a **** anyway.
I listen to so many shows that I can't remember which ones have taken the view.
Ever tried to find something? It's very badly designed and completely full of junk. No web front end - I can only access it though iTunes or the iPhone......
what happened?
was watching a video about the apple stores, the concept is awesome
Morning!
I for one dont think al gore is promoting enviromentalism for anything other than his own financial gain, and he is responsible for massivly distorting the science around climate change.
But i should probably leave that one to lie. It tends to wind people up more than a certain ex f1 driver
Morning!! How are you Sean?
Coming soon to a microsoft store near you :P
heheh :P
The fact that Apple won't upen up access to it and put out insane statements like jailbreaking an iphone would allow terrorists to taken down cell phone towers. Terrorists jailbreaking their iphone may have that effect but anyone else doing it is not going to help terrorists. Besides anyone with a pair of wire cutters can take down a mast.
Tired. You?
Complete with Seinfeld adds. Gah!
Wow, that is heavy! I wish I had more time today, I'd like to hear why.
It's 2:11am but still awake, not sure how!!
ahh, you should visit one. free internets for all.
mmmmmm
Yay, sounds like my work. ;-)
You hand out free internets?
Has anyone told Amy?
i see why alex always goes in there and buys lots
If only they had F1 themed nights...
I went in the one in sydney for an hour or 2 a day. I think i might have been taking the micky a little
No, I just use our internets for my own evil plans (sidepodchat)
ah... evil
I need to go to Italy now. They have a lottery jackpot of $194 million which hasn't been won since January. It's waiting for me.
it's now a story. getting banned from the app store is a great pitch to plug your company. even if you broke every rule and had no chance of being accepted anyhow (spotify). it's also impossoble to know how much at&t are pulling rank.
having said that i wouldn't write for the app store right now. more learning required on apples front methinks.
Riiiiight, i really do need some sleep, but i'm not tired. How odd, i shall try anyway :D
Have a good day/sleep (when you go)
Someone described it earlier as 'the pilgrimage for those who cant do math'
night
They need to open up a bit but I guess being closed has worked for them this far so changing is going to be hard. It will be interesting to see if they can adapt while they still have a massively popular phone.
Night Jon
I don't mind Apple having rules (if anyone knew what they were). I just think the App store is a total mess. How would anyone every find your app, other than by word of mouth?
Do you think android could end up being bigger?
I think only if the hardware is as good or better than the iPhone, and that is doubtful
The problem anyone else has is that so many people have bought Apple apps and until someone can do a phone that can run them it will be very difficult.
ot really, they are barely out of the early adopter phase, if you consider how many people have smart phones compared to regular ones. the real battle wont begin for another year or so
Well, lots of us moved from Palm. But there are probably many more Apple phones/touches around now.
they need to manage bad publicity a lot better. but they've never been this popular before. they don't have the people to deal with it all. they're tiny compared to microsoft.
I think if the major handset manufactures start using it it could get really big, but its unlikely as Nokia and the like will want to be the next apple.
The advantages is that google could open up their platform and store to others whereas apple are corporately incapable of doing anything of the sort.
just hooked up with microsoft yesterday.
I hadn't heard that
Nokia? wow that was quicker than i thought... they seemed to be 'symbian till i die'
it is. i think it's the beginning of the end of windows mobile.
"Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices"
Or - we are going to make an iphone
Sony will be interesting, i cant see them getting involved with microsoft. will be interesting to see if they develop there own system. they are supposed to be brining out a unified network and shopping experience across everything they sell including tv's. based upon the playstation store
exactly that. but that's of the web too. how do you discover new blogs?
bingo :)
the xperia is android based, isn't it?
No its windows with a massive add on from SE.
It is infact made by HTC i belive though
maybe not for much longer:
"Sony Ericsson confirmed plans to launch several phones based on Android 2.0 – aka Donut - in May. The firm never said which of its devices would be the first to feature Android, but the new Xperia – now listed by online retailer Expansys – looks set to become one of the first."
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07/22/android_expansys/
I am half thinking i should hold on for that, but i just know it will never be afordable
:)
i think the break has gone really quickly this year. I plan to celebrate next weeks return with kfc for free practice again :D
WIll old devices upgrade to android 2.0?
christine's cupcake was a free update, so you'd assume so.
You just missed me making a comment about your ideal job. You need to work in the Apple store. They provide free internet for everyone.
so, writing for windows mobile is a dead end street, palm pre isn't available in this country and i wouldn't want to go near symbian.
android, i think is java which isn't so bad, or there's the easy to program iphone, and its dodgy app store.
no fun being a mobile developer, is it?
however, you're beholden to the network. you get it when their ready, not when google release it.
Since i am planning to use mine on 3 this could prove to be interesting!
ahhh!
There must be another way to download it right?
if there is, we never found one.
i guess you could become an android developer and compile from source? but the g1 update came over 3g.
I am sure there will be a way, otherwise why would they sell them unbundled?
fair point.
The G1 was not sold unbundled anywhere though so its perhaps likely t-mobile controlled its distribution. The newr phones will be available globably which wouldnt have been the case before
But the web is not closed with only one method of access. Apple says "this is how you get apps", and there method of distribution is very poor.
makes sense.
t-mobile are a bit at&t about their network too!
true. i found the qik app earlier, from a tweet the developers sent out.
otherwise, i'd have no idea it was there.
My biggest issue is if I am just looking for something, not knowing if it is available or not. For instance, any time-tracking apps. The store is such a mess. I get games mixed up with business applications. It's useless.
agreed. the same problem exists for podcasts, although there's less of them.
if you're not on the homepage, you may as well not be in there.
Yep, good point. It can be even worse with podcasts. Sidpodcast, for instance, appears twice on my iPhone list when I search for it. Strangely Apple seem to drop the ball when it comes to web applications and all that back-end stuff. Mobile Me was another example.
asked them to sort it months ago... any reply... ha!
must sleeps now. see in a couple of hours.
Night
Night Mr C.
Night
Night MrC and everyone, im going too...
Night Nick
Why is microsoft word so frustrating? When I set the language to default to Aussie English, it switches back to US English all the time, then when I set it to Spanish, it switches back to Aussie English!
Night.
That's clever. I can't work out the new ribbon bar. It took me two days to find out where "print" had gone.
ahh the apple store in melbourne is no where near me and hard to get to without a car so i have never been, even for free internet. They are rumoured to be building one in the city though.
All this talk of free internet, doesn't Mcdonalds have free wifi at all their stores? They do here...
they do, as do a lot of pubs and a couple of shopping malls near me
At our last state election we were promised free wifi in and around all CBDs in Sydney. Then the premier quit...
Mmm. Chicken pie...
It's a bit intimidating at first. But once you get the hang of it, it's easy as (chicken) pie. :D
Morning, everyone.
:D
Hello.
I'm sick of microsoft word. I'm off to watch dvds.
Who would have guessed that the Apple guy would play the Apple advocate today? :)
Its not about the hardware! When will people understand this?
Its all about the user experience! We make great hardware. But what we do is focus on the user, and this is why people swear by our products.
How do you find apps for your computer? I don't know about you, but Google works for me when I want to find 'stuff'.
I am not a robot, I have a mind of my own, and I am open to constructive criticism of myself, and the company I work for. Please don't take my answers as company drivel.
What seems to be missed is that the App store products are just like any other product I'm looking for. I research the things I am going to buy, and I don't just look in one place. There are podcasts and blogs out there that review iPhone Apps.
Developers need to realise as well that they're free to do their own marketing. Yes, Apple takes a cut for handling the transaction when someone buys your product, but why would you expect them to do everything for you? How many developers don't have a web page that tells you about their product? Not many is my guess.
I'm hearing of companies that claim to have spent nearly 1 million dollars developing an app for iPhone. Wouldn't you put aside some of the budget for an ad campaign?
I would. Its a great place for a small operator to make money without huge costs. Especially with the current culture of purchasers happy to spend (small) money on less polished apps.
Yes, we have a lot of learning to do. But that's the great thing about Apple that most people don't know. We are all about learning and improving ourselves. We are perceived as arrogant, and I know why, but we are incredibly humble on the inside. We have learned a lot of lessons over the years.
These are all good point Jeremy, especially about the advertising.
However, Apple restrict very much how an application is delivered and how it can be found. A post on a web site does not mean it is available in the App Store. The only way I can find that out is from the iPhone or through iTunes. Why on earth can't the have a web site, with proper categories of application to search. Apple want us all corralled into their little world, and provide, in this case, a rubbish experience.
Advertising might be fine if you have a million dollar budget. What about the single developer who creates some fantastic app. He is almost immediately lost in silly games and light sabre apps.
That's kind of what I meant. The Apple "experience" wouldn't work without all that multi-touch magic, the lack of buttons etc. Whether you cann that teh hardware, design or whatever I'm not sure.
Back.
So get creative! It has been mentioned here already that one of the ways to get yourself known is to deliberately create an app that wont be allowed and then inform (complain to?) various forms of media when it is rejected.
How it is delivered, yes.
How it can be found, not so much. As I said earlier, Google is your friend. While trying to come up with an analogy, I googled:
"how many items are sold in a supermarket?" and came up with approx 50,000. Similar to Apple's App store.
How do I find something in a supermarket? I go to the aisle and search through all the rubbish that is there until I find what I want.
I know the analogy falls down because we are talking real world versus lovely searchable internet, but I'm sure you get my point.
Perhaps during your searching you will find a product you didn't know existed and wouldn't have found without going through the manual process?
How do you discover new music? Do you like the iTunes store for the media it sells/rents?
MS Office training DVDs? :P
Which came first? The chicken, the egg or the skit about who's on first?
I can imagine a design group sitting down and asking "what can we do with this cool new technology?", and another asking "we want to do this, does the technology exist?"
I vote that we all do it! Maybe SPC could get sponsorship monies from KFC?
As a group, lets set a record for eating KFC while watching F1. I have a hazy memory of someone here linking to to a podcast about anybody being able to set a record?
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/exploding-iphone-shattered-in-my-face-20090814-ekg4.html
Like I said, it's all about the user experience... :P
LMAO! :D
This is their network provider being annoying. That money goes to pay for the wispernet downloads. You don't sign a phone contract with a kindle so any time they can they are going to have to charge you for internet downloads. And this thing pings to check for new items and downloads them to the kindle. So say you were on the tube and you checked your sidepodcast feed it would have the articles there from when it downloaded them.
Yay!
Grrrr!
The Jason Calcanus thing was insane. I mean there are lots of valid things to complain about but puuuurrrllleeeaseee... When he started talking about having mutliple sim cards in the iPhone you realise that he has simply totally failed to understand a) power consumption, b) the size of the device he's talking about, c) none of the sites he was talking to have multiplexing options.
I wish he hadn't gone off of the deep end there because there are some genuine valid things to complain about. But he did a total nutty.
And I agree with you Jeremy. I use google to find apps on the app store.
(I do sometimes use iTunes but not as often)
Here's a company doing it properly... Type skype iphone into google and you get this page which has a link right on the page which makes iTunes download the software.
This page:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/iphone/
I am up for that one! Won't be able to type without getting the keyboard nice and greasy though.
Morning guys. :)
Too tired to work, plus im using new phone to post this. I finally have caught up to the 21st centuey phonewise! ;)
what did you get? I'm ever so excited for you! Congrats
I feel it starting to happen! Cmon people, we can do it!
its a Nokia 5800. For me its like going from a morris miner to a muecielago or something!
its a Nokia 5800. For me its like going from a morris miner to a murcielago or something!
Oops.. Apologies for double post.
I hope that wasn't the new phone ;-)
Grrr. I just know i am going to be forced to get a 3GS before the 3g contract is up.
Alex - you publish through lulu? Is that the on-demand thingy?
Morning all.
Morning.
Today is awesome :D
I agree. Why is it awesome for you?
Danish Pastry Day, Friday Beers, big change at work and I have Jelly Beans :D
That does sound pretty awesome!
It is yes, a print on demand service.
And why is it awesome for you?
I have just had some toast in honour of Lukeh's new phone ;)
Look who's birthday it is today
Last day before a week off. Which actually means it probably isn't awesome because I have a feeling today will drag.
WooHoo!
We shall just have to keep you entertained then.
Okay... I'll start us off...
Did you know that Pandas do handstands?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4043105.stm
#amusechristine
Blimey! I wouldn't have thought they had the energy!
Sounds like we're off to a good start... Keep 'em coming people!
#amusechristine
I am still convinced most pandas are people dressed up in panda suits
Good morning, Sidepodcult
Happy birthday Mr Ørsted
:)
I wonder if Scott's still around?
Google is celebrating:
I like that.
If I had a baby panda, I could train it to do all kinds of gymnastics, and it could put on shows.
Just spotted another red panda:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2z5rs5g.jpg
See Mr C is bound to approve a money spinning idea like that. I thing you probably don't even need his approval now.
I wonder if your panda could actually spin
:)
I don't think you've got the hang of this panda business ;)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=11008177
The internet is awesome.
Is this better? http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/img/nature/bears/panda-ani.gif
Aww, yay!
An animated gif! Excellent... Mr C could incorporate that into the sidepodcast logo :)
Lets add it to the playground :)
I don't think I'm allowed near the playground :(
I am not cool enough to hang out with the other kids!
Awww...
Quick...
Um...
http://www.pandafgolf.com/
But you have super awesome book reading talents
It doesn't seem to have much to do with pandas :(
Hehe, do I?
And people know what you look like.
I was most impressed. Not sure If my brother's girls are into that sort of book, but I may try. They prefered 'arry potter last I checked
This doesn't either, but is still fun: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8200434.stm
I solved the mystery of the chemically-tainted coffee, I just made a chemically-tainted hot chocolate and on asking, learned that my flatmate though it would be a smart idea to try and clean the inside of the kettle with some sort of spray-and-wipe like substance :(
Yuck! New kettle?
I think so. For a girl who grew up with servants and thus never set foot in a kitchen, sometimes she does some silly things when shes trying to be domestic :(
Don't tell Mr C that or he'll think it's a grand excuse to keep staying out the kitchen.
Awww, poor Ralph!
Did Mr C have servants growing up?
Erm, no. Unless you count my mother-in-law, I guess.
ooh the BTCC is on TV here tonight for the first time ever. I might have to give it a watch since you all seem to talk about it when its on over there :D
I like this though:
David Schofield, head keeper for the penguins, said: "At first the other penguins were curious but it wasn't long before they recognised and accepted Ralph again.
I can imagine Ralph saying: "Guys, don't worry, it's just a coat. I'm still me."
And then after a while some of the other penguins getting jealous of his cool biker coat :)
Morning all. :)
Plus this bit:
"It was quite easy to fit and we were able to customise it by creating the extra openings for his flippers once he was in it."
Do you think you can put as a job on your passport 'penguin tailor'?
Hi Lou! How are you?
I once made a nesting box for a penguin. I would like to think I could put on mine something to do with helping the penguin population increase.
Penguin enabler?
Maybe Christine meant herself?
Happy Feet: The Sequel? :D
ooh yes. I am going to lay claim to the nest in this picture even though there is hundreds of them in that hillside.
You built the penguins a bunker?
im good thanks Christine. Just sitting here waiting for my driving lesson :) today is ping to be a very busy day I think.
A small wooden box buried in a hill, thats where they like to make the next generation :D
Morning all :D
Ooh, driving. I followed a learner this morning. They were a bit slow. I think maybe it was one of their first lessons.
Morning Jon.
morning :)
first lessons are sooo scary :) but sooo fun :D I don't tend to have problems with going too slowly... I may or may not like speed a bit too much. I'm getting better though :) yesterday I was fine :)
Is there any JON news today?
HI JON!!!
My instructor always used to say to me: "You know this is a 30mph area right? Your speed is creeping again."
Always with the creeping!
I only ever got 'your right foot is very heavy' 20 times a lesson.
aha morning Amy
:)
And now you have V-POWER!
'tis my evening ;)
I fear for when Katherine learns to drive. I have seen the way she drives a shopping trolly. She will be told off for creeping up the speed limit.
hehe :) I either get 'remind me what's the limit here again?' or 'we're not going too fast here are we?' my instructor always makes me laugh when he call postman vans 'posty vans' hehe :)
*JON news*
Jon is very sleepy today and is going to be doing such jobs as; wedding, making an ipod work, backing up filrd.
*JON news*
You are going to marry somebody?
Hello you lovable lot
oops, too many d's and not enough e's
*weeding
Goooooooooood Morning
*waves*
morning :)
That's exactly how I ended up married...
In Amy news, ANOTHER one of my favourite bands is coming to Melbourne in 2010. I love living here.
eheheheh
oooh and in otther JON news, today im going to clingfilm someones car
:)
Morning RG. How's RGland today?
:)
What?
Its raining, and the Sky man is coming.
wrap their car in clingfilm :D
ooooh.
Is this one of your Nostradamus moments? Sound ominous.
That will take a lot of clingfilm won't it?
for what reason?
lotttss
it's his birthday tomorrow :D
I hope not, I just want my Sky+ to work.
I would be scared if god came and serviced it.
Do they know this is going to happen?
noooope
I guess not
Now don't get me wrong. But can't you sort of guess what sort of present it is?
I think I would cry if I found my car wrapped in clingfilm.
:D
the most annoying car prank ever done on me was when I used to take my mini to school and people would pick it up and move it to a different parking space. My dad was furious when he found out because apparently it can bend the axles.
i've been threatening to do it for a couple of years.....he'll find it amusing
I know someone who deliberately made up some big metal spikes to put under someone's tyres - that's going a little too far
I would only cry because, you know, I run from the house to the car to minimise outside exposure. A clingfilmed car would prolong that!
mmm, i can understand that. we promise not to clingfilm your car :)
Phew. :)
Franck News!
http://www.infineonraceway.com/multimedia/news/552516.html
Other times posted during the test included:
Justin Wilson (Dale Coyne Racing, 1:18.25);
Robert Doornbos (HVM Racing, 1:18.26);
Raphael Matos (Luczo Dragon Racing, 1:18.34);
Ryan Hunter-Reay (A.J. Foyt Racing, 1:18.37);
Frank Montagny (Andretti Green Racing, 1:18.91);
Nelson Philippe (Conquest Racing, 1:19.32);
and Milka Duno (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, 1:23.3).
All times were reported by Honda.
Slooooow.
I have avoided the need for this by not owning a car
not as slow as the WOMAN
No, Mario? Damn.
She's not WOMAN. I guess she could be OTHER WOMAN.
Keeping up with #amusechristine
Here's a video of a panda making a prison break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIVRJE4v6o8&feature=related
That's just Helio Castroneves in a panda suit, nobody is fooling me
aw :( poor Franck...
on the other hand Mike Conway led the session! go ex-honda guy! :)
OMG! I must use that in a BPT soon!
BPFP1
yay! my instructor is early! see you all in just over 2 hours! :)
have fun!
haave fun :D
Watch out for the bikes.
Oh yea. Rebranding required!
AHHHH ITS RALF
why am I watching DTM?
Time to be Joe's RSS feed again. :D
Todt talks about his campaign
I find these two bits from Todt interesting:
A fair point, but Max also used the current system (of favoring the many poor countries) to perpetuate his stay in power. I guess we shouldn't criticize the system - whatever system is there, a corrupt man would find a way to abuse it. Rather, we should criticize the man in power.
Interesting that Todt has mentioned this. Would FOTA do the same?
ooh but the F1 ad for next weekend tells me qualifying is live for once. Hooray. That must be why I'm watching DTM.
:D Is it live now because Webber is now 2nd in the championship and closing on Button?
heh probably, the ad is all THE HUNTED *shot of Jenson*.....dramatic pause......THE HUNTER *shot of Mark*
oooh, a nice concept. i wonder if someone uploaded that - i wanna see. :D
I find it amusing that Ralf's 3 letter abbreviation is still RSC. It's not like his brother is there.
It's not a fair point.
Max's excuse is that it's more democratic to have more clubs to give automobile clubs more power.
These clubs exist to serve their members. The clubs with the most members should get the most votes. That's the most democratic system.
oh I take it back, theres a due named Schneider.
Ralf just never catches a break ;)
i.e. Ari's system is more democratic than Todt's.
he's not getting shown on TV at all because hes rubbish :D
Kind of like the Eurovision Song Contest.
I'M IN LOOOOVE WITH A FAIRYTAAAAAAALE
3 months. It was out of my head for three months.
Ooops.
I agree with both of them,
Max's system is very UK politics i.e each constiuency gets 1 seat for an MP, but ARI's is more USA politics where each state gets a different amount of electoral votes. I'm not sure which i prefer.
muhaha. I still find myself singing the Azerbaijan song at random times for no reason.
Absolutely.
To be fair to Max... And you know how much it pains me to do this... But most democracies have a check on the powers to avoid gerrymandering* (not something that's likely to happen as we're talking about countries)
So for example in America they have the electoral college system. Everyone votes for the president but based on population each state gets a certain number of representatives who vote the way the people in their state voted. This is to stop small states from feeling disenfranchised.
In the UK we don't vote for our prime minister at all but instead vote for our local MP, and our MPs decide who their leader is.
*redrawing borders to get more votes
We were clearly on the same wavelength.
I think that as there isn't the same problem because gerrymandering is impossible here.
But you could also say that Germany, for example, will never have as many members as India, because of their natural population. Would you take that against Germany? You could also argue, for example - say a Papua New Guinea had a significant concern where it was supported by other small countries. But the bigger countries don't want it - they can block it during the vote because of their sheer size.
Perhaps what's needed here is a 2-house solution - one where the number of representatives is based on the sizes of the federations, and one where everyone has the same number of representatives regardless of size.
Democracy is very confusing.
I think if we didn't have Max around at the moment then i'd stick with his system, but i think some of the clubs are too biased at the moment, so prefer Ari's.....but i'm still not 100%
Hahahahaha! :D
yeeyyy, i found it on spotify, now i can listen to it all day :D
As Churchill said, it's the worst form of government... except for all the others.
That sounds ideal really.
I still think there is a point to be made that a small country that has no racing history's vote should have less importance than say America.
However I can see the other side which I suppose says that if the smaller countries want to get races they could be permanently disenfranchised.
Going home soon - came in at 10 this morning. But I still have to work when I get home - until 10 this evening.
Arrrrgh. I hate doing double-shifts.
I see that silly Herbert man has taken Franck's place on the Autosport homepage.
Francks more important, Herbert's news isn't even a story, we new it was going to happen, it was just a case of when. Silly man :P
I'm not sure what 'backing up filrd' is? Wake up Jon!
oooh, im not sure what backing up filrd is either, i think it should be backing up files! whoopppss
I think I'm tired too. I looked at the keys on the keyboard and still couldn't work out that you meant files. Brain fail!
jon was typing a bit to the right, I think. ;)
i think so :D
to be fair, i was typing with one hand and not paying too much attention, laptop on bin + jon in bed = words that dont make sense!!
So, I don't read this blog normally, but I see they have the predecessor of the Sidepodhappyplace/daily post idea.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/08/the_beach_121.shtml
Beaches. Hmm. That sounds like a good plan!
I think twitter is confused, my tweet "just made it onto the Baltimore Cournal" which is fine, but when i looked for what exactly that meant it said "The Cournal shows you interesting tweets written by people in your city, about your city."....
a) it thinks im in Baltimore
and more importantly..
b) how on earth is "I need to buy aloooooooooooot of cling film today :)" an interesting tweet about balitmore?!?!?
Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c
tis quite genius :D
:)
Perhaps Baltimore is the cling film capital of the world?
potentially...
Will your daily post have pictures of beaches now? :D
There's a vote!
http://cournal.com/baltimore/
Might have to! Never thought of putting pictures in the daily really, except for those special occasions.
As I'm sure you know they don't even call it cling film in the states but instead plastic wrap.
http://www.industrialwrap.com/
Is based in Baltimore.
The defence rests your honour.
There have even been occasions when Franck has been mentioned in the daily and still no pictures!
I call it glad wrap :D
well then, wadya know :D
however, it does beg the question.....why do they think im in Baltmore...im very far from there...
I'm hungry. Is it time to start talking about food yet?
I'm glad.
I am slightly scared that this sentence makes sense to you:
"I am going to glad wrap some happy cheese"
Oh dang, I'd just been putting that thought off!
You may have overestimated me. What on earth is happy cheese?
I was just thinking about food, so i think so :)
I thought you said it. What is it? Yummy cheese?
We'll have had two meals and Mr C isn't even up yet!
ohhh tasty cheese?
That's it!
Quick glad wrap the tasty cheese.
Madness :)
Haha. Just one for me. But then it's always like that :)
whoever said we speak the same language :D
No breakfast?
Nah. I can't eat before 10, and by then it's almost lunchtime.
I used to be like that, and then I started getting up for work at 5:30 in the morning and so breakfast was then a sensible option. I'm not sure it's been a good thing for me.
I have the opposite problem, I ate my tea too early and now I'm hungry again.
Lukeh would advise toast, probably.
Sky man has arrived, so far, he doesn't look like god.
ooh sounds good. Although I have no butter and I can hear four people currently in my kitchen so I couldn't get away with smuggling someone elses.
You will probably change your opinion if he manages to fix it though :)
If people are looking for something interesting to read - totally not F1 related, this is fun:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8200022.stm
He's changing the dish. Sooo, he has to go high up, but if he was god, he wouldn't be using ladders.
Good point.
Or have had to turn up probably.
Bad thing is I can't watch tv. Good thing is I get to see Wallace and Gromit enjoying a nice cuppa tea.
I like the idea of measuring things in terms of elephants.
My favourite thing about having time off work is people realising just how much you actually do.
hehe. I will never be able to take tasty cheese seriously again
It's good.
Wasn't there a genius suggestion about a guy who wanted have a standard set of things to compare things to. I think for size of area he wanted to use the country wales.
Why is the BTCC full of tiny little mini-cars?
You took it seriously before?
Its a crazy name.
Like what?
He's awake!
I think it's short for aged cheddar
Seat somethings, BMW could not get smallers. Vaxhaul never heard of thems
Seat Leon's are smallish
BMW 320i's are normal saloon size, as are Vauxhall's.
they look smaller than they are
How is tasty short for that?
Good to see they still smash each other out of the way though
RIght. I am going out for lunch. Thank you, everyone, for keeping me entertained so the morning flew by.
More of the same later, pls.
Um. It's quicker to say?
there's still time.
That is very good isn't it.
:)
:D D:
wha??
apparently it's just tasty cheddar. As opposed to that other cheddar with no taste I guess
*waves*
I see. I suggest you ask for Yummy Cheddar next time and see if it works :)
hi
(again)
it's paaaaancake time :D
Great, now find out it was nothing to do with the ariel, but it was a dodgy cable.
I think that's a great idea
damn you guys talk a lot.
there's important things to discuss
so i see!
things that, strangely, never seem to get mentioned on Christine's daily post
And Wallace and Gromit leaves, that was a scary 45 minutes.
We wanted to keep Christine entertained.
This is how I feel when I catch up on your overnight conversations! There can be an awful lot of comments.
i know we don't do numbers any more, but stats say we passed 350,000 this week. anyone for half a million by new year?
we all talk too much!
oh wow! i remember when we reached 100,000. aah, memories
It's awesome. Much better than WTCC!
#sidepodnostalgia
alex, do you have a live stream for the multi-cam page yet?
doesn't have to be qik, can be ustream, or justin if you're using your webcam.
Duck from the canteen for lunch! Full of Win!
Morning everyone... Trip to the doctor today methinks... :(
you duck had wind?
when christine returns, can she explain what makes the g2 desirable, when it doesn't even have a real keyboard? thanx.
I think thats the phone i am getting!
hello :)
do you require a real keyboard though?
I hope not! :D
I wasnt planning on using it to write a novel, no :P
howdy.
is this the one
how are you this morning mr c?
If you want that, try a blackberry
morning... sort of went missing...
fair enough, mine seems to have disapeared too, my driving lesson flew by so quickly today
I wrote a lot of my novel on my iPhone and it doesn't have a real keyboard. The lack of a real keyboard at first made typing slower for me, and in the end made it faster.
I can touch type with the keyboard in the portrait mode for example.
you survived again? this is going far too well.
Yes although the rest of the world is calling it the HTC touch.
I dont know how they are calling it the G2 as it is supposed to be the first Android phone without google branding, due to the 'htc sense' which has been added on to it
orange are calling it the 'hero'. am so confused.
Thats what i meant HTC HERO
g1 is a big brand, i guess.
Really? thats quite supprising. I find the iphone keyboard hard to use
lies!!
Is there a way to combine all the different services? I mean can I qik onto justin?
:)
no.
I struggle to have my typing keep up with my thoughts when i write big things. I think i would really struggle to write on a laptop let alone a pda!
hehe i know, yesterday's went well too. only problem today was with traffic lights, silly things. i was alright till the town ring road when i just got a little spooked. best thing was when my instructor was chatting to me and mentioned how when some people learn to drive they need something like a blow torch when parking... i just giggled :D
hehe. ahem.
:P
you can sort of connect the two, although i can't see why you'd want to?
This js a quick message
:D :D :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/touchtypinggiggles-wmv
It's not a lie... here's the proof! :)
amazing.
Well I might not want to use qik the whole time. Maybe I should have both?
i don't see how though? there's no tactile feedback?
couldn't hurt. both free to set up.
you've clearly given this a lot of thought...
hahaha, love how easy it is to prove a point these days!
Very clever. Unless there were monkeys down there typing for you
wow!
It's a practice thing. Honestly.
A lot of people get discouraged and choose the landscape one. And then do half their typing in one and half in the other.
Annoyingly I find that landscape often works better for doohicky because of a larger font, but then I have to change back to portrait to type more quickly.
The most annoying thing is I have to remember to switch before I press "Post Comment", because once the comment box is open it's locked in whatever mode you're in.
I can type faster than I can handwrite.
only takes 4 men to lift a mini!
This means your handwriting is A) Too Neat B) Legible :P
i'm off out into the real world. i'm going to have lunch with a friend, have a hair cut, and then i should be home... then again i'm not sure if i'm off to the cinema after... so i suppose i'll be back when i'm back, providing the outside doesn't get me first...
I didn't manage to smuggle butter but instead I got force fed (force drank?) some rose (I still don't like wine) and had a boogie to some 90s music because it appears my flatmate is on her way out.
You don't need the tactile feedback really. You know where all the keys are and when you hold it you are keeping your thumbs in the same position.
Normally of course I don't not look at the screen although I can if I'm copying something down, or walking. But it leaves me free to look at the text area so I can see the sense of what I'm writing. This is why I touchtype on a keyboard anyway.
c) I type really fast
Dancer
Boogie is such an underused word... Your not going out? Thats not very Finnish!
:D I've started calling her James because we got a letter adressed to James instead of Jamee today. I think she was too drunk to notice. (We are Jamee + Amy. Rhyming names are FUN)
I was in my PJs at 6pm :(
Its not too late, I think you said the bars have free internet, you could live comment your night out :P
ahh the difference is the bars don't have free internet, the pubs do. I am a pub person, not a bar person, and they are going to bars so I am not going :D I hate bars. Hate. Haaaaate.
Are these super trendy bars? I am not a fan really either, but after a pint or 2 Alcohol is alcohol and anywhere serving it must be visited
they are the sort of places where you have to dress up and pile on a pound of makeup to be let in, then you have to pay the $20 cover charge, you can't move inside for the sheer number of people, the music is doof doof awful, and the drinks are $20 each (hi my name is Amy and I am a 50 year old inside a 23 year olds body)
I dont understand asking if you can pay to go in to pay more for drinks that should be half the price
:D
which is why I like to go to the pub up the road where I can wear the same clothes I've worn all day, get in for free, sit on a nice comfy couch by a fireplace, listen to some good classic rock music, buy a jug of beer for $8 or so, and chat to some friends :D
Hehe, i can just picture a bouncer going 'thats not enough make up luv, try again' :P
I am familiar with such places, There are a lot of them in Dubai, yuppies love them. Its all about being seen to be there... I am definatly a pub person too, i dont even mind a loud pub like a walkabout... but pretencious bars are ridiculous. they seem to have a massive fascination with what shoes you are wearing despite the fact they are ususaly so packed there is 0% of anyone catching a fleeting glance of what you are wearing
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Beeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Sadly at work :(
Sounds like a better option to me
Mr C - Justin or ustream?
good question...
ustream - their live nasa footage is amazing.
Blast I just signed up to justin!
You are going to live stream yourself at your desk?
If I manage to get out of bed/can be bothered leaving the house tomorrow I'm going to do a qik stream from Albert Park :D
Sounds great, do the 'save albert park' people still hang around there all year round?
nah, I didn't even see them during the race weekend. They stuck a few stickers and signs up on some of the fences a few weeks prior, but that was all I saw.
It looks nicer.
That is the extent of my research.
I like real keyboards but I think they are falling by the wayside, so I gots to come to terms with that.
hehe there website trys to be all 'we are not anti f1' but there press relases pretty much begin and end 'f1 sucks'
Ah MrsC have you tried the skype app on android, or doesnt it work in this country?
I like that they use this photo to justify why its a waste of money. Obviously no one has told them that there isn't on track action all the time ;)
I have no idea. You think I use my phone to make calls?
Clear evidence the the governement have put up all these seats and this is the busiest it got!
Also to take that photo wouldn't one of their members had to have bought a ticket and endorse the event?
Hello?
:P
especially since those photos were taken in the only part of the circuit that is grandstand access only so they couldn't even get in there on a cheap ticket. I just learned they have a radio show every Monday. I should listen to it, because I'm not sure exactly how they'd have enough news to cover every week of the year.
Hahahaha, they are hardcore! I wonder if they Hvae a SAPSpanel show?
Okay I'm ready...
http://www.justin.tv/alexandronov
http://www.qik.com/alexandronov
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/alexandronov
I will do something live at 2 pm.
Oooooh. But you gotta give Mr C a chance to update the playground!
Okay I will do something live after Mr C has updated the playground :)
Well this news has clearly scared everyone :)
I am ready and waiting. Although it tells me your justin channel doesn't exist
Here's something to keep us going:
http://sln2.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/apr99/quiz/quiz4.htm
A panda quiz
If you refresh it should be there
I ONLY GOT 3!!!
Oh noes!
That was harder than it should have been!
The quiz is wrong, though, cos pandas are bears and not raccoons. They used to be raccoons but then they changed.
Ooooh, Wikipedia has a list of pandas in zoos. This will help Mr C and his iPhone app.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Panda#Pandas_in_zoos
It says neither
Scary wrong way round ladybird just attacked my sofa...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bug2-jpg
How about a snowboarding panda game?
http://www.fupa.com/play/Sports-free-games/panda-fun.html
Its actually asking what are they, but it says, what are they like
Weird!
I'll just say I did as well as Kazuki Nakajima this season...
Stupid wrong quiz. I just changed all my answers until it was right and then checked my score - to spite it!
Thing is, it tells you the answers as you go along, and then asks you to check your score. So not only is it wrong, but it also thinks you can't count as well!
Boo!
How come? It tells you the answer!!!
When does gigles tv stat?
Now seems like a good time for Panda Cam.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/GiantPandas/
Or this one as well:
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html
understood.
Because I'm honest?
Anyone good, or is this Backstreetesque?
wait...
not ready!
exactly. who live streams straight after lunch??
Giggles has been up since 5am. He probably had his lunch at about 10 :)
Is this like not getting in the pool straight after lunch?
True story!
yes. i move slower after
lunchbreakfast.Playground... Pool... the same principles apply!
Did you have nachos?
No bombing, ducking or petting.
Actually not an actual true story, Lunch was at 12 though.
on a friday?
i find waking up at noon is an effective weightloss technique. You save a lot of calories by combining lunch and breakfast!
yeah, as a special treat, for umm, being alive!
I don't know the rules.
:D
I've been up since 5am - that's my usual routine!
Surey it no buffering, swearing or technical glitches
Are you live streaming too?
so, alex has a lot of television channels...
are we embedding al of them?
hehehe.
Well I was going to try and go for all three at once and see how that worked... as a test.
Firefox was very slow when i posted that, thats what im blaming the mistakes on.
Obviously qik won't work live.
gimmie 5 mins then.
Main cam, side on cam and for qik later, making of...?
:)
Awesomeness!
Heck no! But I didn't have lunch at 10am either!
That's the idea :)
Ah. I thought you were agreeing that 10am was your normal routine. Got confused.
http://sidepodcast.com/playground/livestreaming.php
And cue Alex...
Ah cool Sony have announced they are going to the open standard for ebooks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8201093.stm
Okay...
Almost ready...
i have no audio, but i'll be tuning in :)
Whoah!
Going for it!
I hear audio!
Oooh, UStream is working!
I have no audio! Still I love it.
Add a comment :)
woah. 2 videos from different angles. Alex is seriously challenging SPCtowers ;)
haha brilliant, they arent quite synched
Woooow
I bet Mr C has died of excitement.
I like that I don't want to mute either of them so I am getting the audio twice and slightly out of sync :D
wooooooooooooooooooooow
can we do a parade lap yet?
I don't think firefox likes two videos going at the same time.
no buffering for me!
don't stop!
Did he just do a 1 more thing? :)
this is especially for Christine who can't hear him say that anyway :D
Theres 2 cameras!!! WOW, i didnt know that.
i think so.
we need an hour!
My word!
Nothing short of extraordinary. :O
Imagine what's going to happen when Katherine gets home..
"so....what have you done today?"
noooooooooooo,
Alex has just blown my mind. :O
he stopped.
i went with audio, the office is perplexed.
I may now never use qik, I will never top that, ever :D
:)
Oh my goodness :)
that is just awesomeness!
Sorry for stopping. I had run out of material :)
Firefox sorta died halfway through there.
you have to. we want people live streaming listening to the parade lap.
a big wall of video!
I want multi angle live shows and I want them NOW.
Christine hasn't responded since the shorts came into play
That was beyond awesomeness.
AlexTV, anyone? :D
I can live stream my KFC?
hehe. we can't do that, how would you ever sync up replays?
yes.
your bandwidth will manage that?
oooh sounds good!
I have no idea what was happening. I saw shorts from two different angles.
YES!
no. everybody streams their own.
alex didn't use our connection there.
They were the pin stripe shorts!
twas a bit dark :(
but would you be able to watch it all at the same time, i mean? can your bandwidth handle loading all that?
Ahh! They exist!
oh. no idea. downstream is much better than upstream, so yeah.
Mr C can't manage to talk and type at the same time. He is not watching a wall of video. I don't think it is for our benefit.
Sorry about that!
NO.
oh :)
Is the behind the scenes up yet? cant get it to work...
Heheh. Very good point. ;)
:D
Coming now... Have found a bug with Qik
live streaming needs movable boxes.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bug2-jpg ?
If your phone locks then it drops the wifi connection. When you unlock the wifi comes back. But qik doesn't realise the wifi has come back and so it sits there waiting. You have to quit and come back in.
It's up now
well, its your pool :P
:)
hehehe
wow its like I suddenly can picture so much more of your house! A picture of Flav, noooooo!
again. again.
alex, you sooo need an android phone.
Alex, your desk is so tidy, it's ridiculous.
hahaha, awesome... i always assumed you were downstairs for some reason...
There is a revolution starting!
Should I go again?
Perhaps... Right... I don't know what exciting thing I can do though?
how cool would the the next meetup be with a couple of live phones and wall of tv's?
You should see it during the parade lap.
content is not important when the package it comes in is so awesome ;)
yes please :)
Thursday week?
♥
We need to gatecrash one of their Sidepodlondonpubmeetups with our live streaming.
i'll be tuning in!
we will... next week.
But I don't want to wait till Italy.
:)
Okay I'm going to go again now...
i have no audio (it's my end), but that's ok, because i have no mind left. you have blown it away :D
i see you.
yay!
a message in a box?
I demand another stream.
i'm sending out an sos to sidepodworld...
Message were F1 Minute suggestions
OK, now I have another stream. I was getting no justin but a refresh helped :D
don't cross the streams!!!
woah!
AHH OUTSIDE
how high are you??
your glass is missing a credit card readout?
was thinking the same thing
Apple and Dell side by side. Ebony and Ivory, live together in perfect harmony...
1st floor, seems higher!
Only on the first floor
This is the strangeest moment of my life
I suggest super glue?
i (hearts) alex.
OH NO WE'VE MADE HIM BREAK THE CAMERA
hehehehehe
hahaha drunk camera!
Im loving the camera falling
ahahahaha
I would quite happily watch giggles just typing all day :D
me tooo!
can we see the polar bear?
heeeh!
It blows my mind that its light out your window and I'm on the other side of the world and its midnight. :D
we donations for alex's fan.
I had a disaster, but I'm back. What have I missed?
you washed him?
how much does a polar bear weigh?
polar bear.
Oh no!
Magic trick?
oh phew. they can't swim, you know...
put him in a pillow case then wash him. :D
HIGHER!!!!
Ive just gotten myself all ready to go to the doctors and i think the process of doing that has made me feel much better, almost normal... Should i go?
ooh had buffering. go jon1
Wooooooo :D :D
BEAR!
If you're watching gigles then you're not normal! You should go ;)
no!
awwww.
thank you alex :)
agreed :D fannkks,
thats make my day
Genius! I hope this is a weekly event! :D
if you went for another 2 minutes it would have made two of my days ;)
Oh Lawks!
I'm just amazed that I didn't get a phone call that entire time!
ooopps:
#sorryamy
I hope it wasn't a serious disaster
on a techie front, the ustream video was better quality and ahead. but it had ads at the bottom.
Beer O' clock at work ... today we have Hungarian sausage and Palinka!
Gah there should be a health warning on the comments... i have been forced into watching bad Norwegian eurovision pop!
I preferred justin because ustream was so dark I couldn't see most of what was happening.
The ustream camera is the built in MacBook one rather than the logitech one...
I started the ustream one both times
However the ustream was coming over wifi to the router so it's impressive it was ahead.
I need to sort out the light. There is so much light coming in the window at the moment that it's really an unfair comparison that was going on.
There were some lurkers even for that 27 views apparently according to JustinTV
what you need are studio lights and close the curtains.
sadly you can't control the sun.
hahaha
add it to the playground.
:P
:)
I can't seem to get the channels to show me back what I inflicted on you.
Ah I have Justin working for that
I'm having great fun watching Made-Up Media struggle to find their promised 10-20 stories a day this week. Yesterday they scraped home with the "news" that Le Seb was sacked by text and today they're doing their bit for the environment by recycling old news. They still need to find six more "stories" from somewhere.
"F1 cars to have a wheel on each corner again in 2010"?
http://www.justin.tv/alexandronov/archive
not sure about ustream?
"Ralf Schumacher places 9th at Ralf Schumacher lookalike contest. Once again not in the points."
this photo of Katherine's makes me think that polar bear spilt coffee on him too.
I am getting annoyed with gmail that i havent got my dispatch conformiation for my Hero...
Android isnt here yet and i am already addicted... now just need to get wifi
That's true they all have coffee on them! Phew!
Are you telling me that global warming is a hoax and that the real reason the arctic ice sheet is retreating is because of careless hot beverage management by the indigenous wildlife?
I have been ordered to go to the doctor...
This should be fun... I have about 30 different symptoms and know how to google..
true story
inside twit
I wish I was Leo.
i want to live there.
He doesn't have any owls!
How does he run a show like that?
i'm not saying we couldn't improve it...
I think he's got, like, proper air conditioning stuff as well. Pssh. Massive fans that sound like aircraft FTW!
:o
Doesn't everyone?
That is one monster of a techno house
Couldn't have put it better myself :)
Course it's not actually his house. It's the cottage.
I think he might even have more sockets than I do...
sob ;)
The difference being? Apart from it being made out of gingerbread of course
LOOK AT THE MUGS!!! THEY'RE HUGE!
Mmm, gingerbread.
He doesn't live there.
aah ok, i didnae know that
Looks like the ustream videos aren't available... Odd...
Are they gone forever?
boo. i hope not, although we maybe only used it once.
i'm sure we were able to download it though?
I mean it was hardly earth shattering entertainment but I'd like to see about the light and quality etc.
Nothing should ever be lost on the internets. That's not how it works.
Looks like ustream also have a jailbroken iPhone app
Exactly... That's why I didn't even check beforehand
ours are still there, maybe they take a while?
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/454139
Gosh I remember that
I am so not flying all the way back to Alert just to unplug the "Mr. Coffee" vendor machine that someone not mentioning any names (probably Gavin) forgot to turn off !
my sole remaining laptop hinge just gave way :(
oh dear :(
Look how scared I am!
Just as long as you do not become unhinged about it....
Pretty scared you were too.
I still can't quite believe that the video recorded show was the first one you went live for.
I really can't afford a replacement right now but I think it is inevitable :( I will miss you, computer made of carbon fibre!
how come?
Well I assumed that they were more difficult.
A lot more has to be done in one take and so on.
much easier. as we now know christine is excellent at reading out loud.
filming videos are simple compared to debriefs. all i do is stand and watch.
I was about to say... "for whom".
But yes maybe that's true.
I am thinking I shall use the 'put something behind the screen to hold it up method' because theres not a lot of point in buying a new Vista-using computer when Windows 7 is coming out soon?
agreed.
wont the windows 7 lappy's be alot more expensive at first though? or a bit more atleast?
Most of the videos I make all feature the signature "ARE YOU FILMING?" shout from my Wife. She thinks it's amusing, I think revenge is a dish best served cold.
A stick with rubbery ends.
I got my current one just after Vista came out and the prices didn't seem any different to when XP was around. I need to make this one last me until February when it will officially be three years old because my first laptop made it to three years as well :D
Am currently using my knees and the other day at my table it was a coffee cup :D
we have one of these for holding the itouch during f1 sessions:
http://joby.com/gorillamobile/
not sure if it's strong enough for a screen though?
its carbon fibre, its very light ;)
String a few together, that may work, but how much for one? Wire coathangers, very versatile.
worth a shot.
Do they only fit iPhone/iTouch?
in the uk, about £21 i think.
anything that's light and has a flat bit.
how do they connect? is it magnetic?
probably worth a shot then, without hinges there appears to be a lot of stress on the wires between the body and the screen, i'd hate for them to break :(
£21? For a bendy bit of plastic that looks posh?
Pfff.
you lick them and then it's a sucker.
or there are two with sticky tape on the back but can only be used once.
ah ok, sounds cool
works a treat. no better way of positioning an ipod during an f1 session, so we can see it and live video at the same time.
quick q for mr c, sorry to be a nuisance.. Any plans to bring the legendary read more button to the mobile doohickey? I know your list is ever growing but just thought id ask :)
tis tricky, but am thinking about it.
does proper doohickey not work on your phone?
...thats a good question i have no answer to as, well, i havent tried it, only mobile one.
I promise you ill get some common sense one day. :)
Okay shhh... Don't tell anyone but there might be a quick live thing in a second on the qik thing....
how?
! :D :D
It lives!
Oh come on. My internet hates that page.
yay!
we want THREE cameras!
no. come baaack.
No flash here. Work PC, Administrated. For my own good. *cough*youtube*cough*
oh.. It does work. Whoops.. Nevermind :)
okay
haha. as you were.
which phone, lukeh?
he's back!!!!!
lying down...
can any of you see the three
only qik is working.
ustream now working.
QIK works, when you clicked go for the other 2 i got supreme buffering
Just in case he's gone, sure he said it was a Nokia 5800 this morning.
qik may have died?
ahh cool, we keep this up to date:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Supported+Devices
I'm having an Alex overload, i may explode
keep trying
QIK is the video of hte bit you did before you clicked go on the others
i have no qik.
mr c, can i make a suggestion for mobile doohickey? its just that when i was ill and using it, at the time there was two threads going on and I had no idea. So say I was posting something that was related in one thread say 'BMW Leave' thread but the discussion was happening in the daily, I wouldn't know. So is it possible to like have with each comment which thread they have been posted from?
if any of that makes sense.
I HAS THREE
woah!
don't stop now.
I HAS THREE TOO!!!
audio on the mac is the best.
qik audio is tinny.
you need to do this again, this evening. i have to record this.
audio on pc has more background noise.
live stream from ikea?
ikea! I am going there tomorrow. I hate going on Saturdays :(
use the mac!
Look for something that props up laptop screens. :)
I am using the PC audio because I am watching the PC stream more since the other one is dark.
it could be justin audio, compressing it more than ustream.
I wonder if lots and lots of sellotape would work :D
the mac is from the dark side?
clearly GIggles needs to buy some curtains or blinds at Ikea tonight :D
i have to record three screens at once, it has to happen.
feel free to buy me the chair I need :D
its called the 'skruvsta' :D
luckily it's friday and less people are around :)
:)
bye alex!
How will you record them?
I have the Lurgy: FACT
screen capture program on the mac.. umm...
http://store.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html
I hope Jeremy or Andy don't shop me to anyone ;)
:)
i saw nothing.
#sorrynick
Sorry that was meant to be :(
Is that the technical term the doctor gave you?
I hadn't been planning to get it in shot, but then when there was the three way camera stuff going on it was hard not to.
He was all Blahblablahblablahing... I just wanted to leave now
hehehe
Did you get a pregnancy test? My doctor is obsessed with them.
No but he did tell me smoking was bad. Who would have thought it?
Apparently i have conjunctivitis... and it isnt all that impressive.
As a long time watcher of house... I'll tell you what it isn't:
Lupus.
all the things you must learn at med school!
Evening all! Sorry to hear about Nick
:D hehe, i havent passed away!
you know what I mean!
Right I'm off out, but I'll be back, and then go out again.
See yous.
Hope your filming all this!
Interesting. I took a look at F1 rejects web site, and back in September 2001 they had a pole asking which test driver most deserved a race drive.
The test drivers where: Badoer, Gene, Wurz, and Zonta. Seems like after 8 years, race fans finally got their wish.
http://www.f1rejects.com/polls/index.html
See ya
haha, i love the snappy board film thing MrC has... I need one!
Evening all. Anything exciting happening?
Much fun to be had with that. Gotta watch your fingers though.
It must be very tempting to use it all the time...
I am about to brush my teeth *snap*
I am about to eat my cornflakes *snap*
I am doing the washing up, take one!
Hi.
I was out yesterday (work-related thing), am here briefly now, then I'm off again, then I'm back tomorrow.. maybe.
yup. there is a reason for it not being there, but i can't for the life of me remember what.
shall take a look and see if it can be fixed.
you missed all the fun!
howdy chris.
Again?
you could even do it with numbers, numbering all the threads on the drop down list and putting a number in the corner of each post displayed if that saves bandwidth
I forgot to say!
This thing almost ran me over on the way back from the doc's...
he's done two broadcasts. hoping he might do a third later :)
I assume this is on the playground
alex has made it his own private television station!
You should get all your outakes together to make a DVD of Sidepodcast Bloopers to sell.... Not only would you be rich, but you would also be able to pay your employuees at Relentless Sidepodcast Panda-Cosworth Racing ....... Especially the Race Engineers... :D ...
There are no outtakes, sadly.
Giggles.tv?
No doubt he will be live 24/7 now
gotta be.
hehe, you must try to be more unprofesional :D
we're hoping for some ikea action.
Haha, not that! Limited storage space is all.
wow! really?
That a shame, Burt Reynolds was really on to something once he added the bloopers to the ending credits of his films...
Interesting camera angles. He has an incredible sense of balance
:)
Burt Reynolds had a bigger budget than us :)
Boo Amazon, the hero hasnt been dispatched yet...
Well, why not ship bootlegged beer from say, Dallas to Atlanta and use a black Trans-Am to run interfence for the cops to make your budget - or has that already been done before ? :P ...
I was a bit late getting there but Alianora has posted answers to the questions she asked for to celebrate the 3 anniversary of her blog. As you would expect from her the research is incredible.
http://formula1home.com/forum/weblog_entry.php?e=812&sid=d5b90a2cdcbeef2c53bd942446ed81a6
ace i check it out.
i musta missed the bit where she asked for questions?
No RSS feed!
just discovered a rather embarrassing bbc f1 fail.
darren heaths f1 big picture from hungary can bee seen here, and his explanation reads (emphasis/linkage mine):
"When framing such a shot it is of paramount importance to have in mind the rule of thirds... With the rule etched in my mind from an early age, I see almost everything through an imaginary grid. This study of Lewis Hamilton perfectly illustrating the rule's fundamentals."
so i'm looking at the picture thinking... lewis doesn't hit any of the intersecting points as darren suggests. he of all people cannot have got that wrong. maybe i have?
then i checked out the same picture on darren's site, and it's a completely different aspect ratio (16:9, not 4:3) and lewis does hit the expected top right intersection (just).
so the bbc must have cropped the image after darren gave it to them, to the point that his entire explanation looks completely inaccurate, and makes him look a little clueless.
a right royal bbc fail.
I posted a comment at the time which generated a couple of questions for her. I just noticed a post that I haf missed before that said the day before the third anniversary she received her 30,000 th visit.
What kind of moron would post an explanation about the geometry of a photo then crop the picture? Another AUTOSPORT fail
I had thought that too when I saw it on their site, I didn't think of looking on Darren's site :D
*cough* BBC *cough*
;)
someone who's paid too little money to care i guess?
why hasn't darren checked and got it corrected though?
When I click your link to Darren Heath's blog I get a whole load of ascii characters.
odd, christine has the same issue. i'll dropio instead.
Same, you'll have to go on Darrens site, click Formula 1, then Hungary, then its hte 3rd page i believe
I went though his navigation system and found it
It still doest really line up to his explanation.
To be honest i dont think its all that great a photo
Found it.
Darrens blog from Hungary is interesting too, I hadn't read it until just now. I didn't realise Vettel was behaving like that!
Hes probably annoyed he cant answer the people who want to know why he cant overtake
:D
I know a lot of you are missing the racing, but make the most of the time off and do something exciting. Maybe even go outside? {Original entry}
Have done. This afternoon I completed the revalidation of my First Aid at Work certificate. Funnily enough, the examiner was one of the people who trained me in First Aid at Work three years ago...
It might be a good question for the next aside...
So Joe, Is Vettel becoming an Ass?
:)
by all means add it to the page.
Bernie confirms that Malaysia will be starting an hour earlier, {Original entry}
You mean Bernie did something that made sense? If we tip a lake's worth of water on his bank account, do you think he'll start acting sensibly towards that?
to refer to someone as "previously likeable" is quite harsh!
he's absolutely going to ferrari :P
Are we going to have another Bish moment soon?
with all the drivers they have lined up, maybe this is more truth than satire ;)
From Hugary to be exact
Have done, new sub heading for the next race, only 1 question so far!
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Questions+for+Joe
watch the video top left. i’m sold {Comment #15}
I'll wait and hope the real thing isn't as blurry. To be honest, I don't think I'll have a use for it even then, but if the clarity is the same level as the video it'll be completely unusable to me. This is where a backlight - or real ink - helps. Backlights can compensate for small fonts and iffy screens and ink tends to blue in more natural ways, which at least enables guesswork as to what was written.
When i think of Joe i think Joe the Plummer (last US presidential campaign anyone?) and then i think of 'our' Joe wondering around america slightly lost, doing some plumming :D
Ahaha I'd never seen Scotts question on there before.
I have never seen that blog before. Looks like one worth wathcing.
hehe, this one?
One more - did Joe know I was at Silverstone?
the one about does he have anything to be sorry to me for :D
I need to do my satire blog again.. i keep having ideas then loosing them. I need some sort of device which will let me blog on the move.
they tweet as well, some of them are quite funny
hahaha I shouldnt have missed that!(sorry Amy)
Note to Vettel:
You current number of wins would suggest that you are acting like the wrong Schumacher... Please wait until you get into the high single digits before you start demanding number one status...
Wait... there is a right Schumacher?
ummm….. am guessing they have to select you? otherwise, no idea. {Comment #27}
My guess is they'll be subscription blogs or blogs with Kindle-only content because any internet-equipped device can access any free blog, as long as the web address is known. Sidepodcast, being a free blog that for the most part isn't fussy about the device used to view it, would not be a reason to select a Kindle over another internet-equipped device.
Hugarian
wow.
:)
I dont think it has a web browser though, just a news reader, and they charge you for everything which goes into it
Wait… there is a right Schumacher? {Comment #910}
It's a common name in Germany, so I imagine there are a lot of right Schumachers. We might struggle to name any "right Schumachers" but that doesn't mean they don't exist...
I need to do my satire blog again.. i keep having ideas then loosing them. I need some sort of device which will let me blog on the move. {omment #906
An iPaq?
Ralf
oooh 4am.night all!
looks like it's a cut down web browser:
http://therawfeed.com/pix/the_raw_feed_on_kindle-BIG.jpg
night amy.
night!
I dont think it has a web browser though, just a news reader, and they charge you for everything which goes into it {Comment #914
It claimed deep in the Kindle DX Amazon advert that it could read HTML by conversion, implying there's a full browser (however well-hidden) in the device.
#910 - Nick said:
You current number of wins would suggest that you are acting like the wrong Schumacher… Please wait until you get into the high single digits before you start demanding number one status…
Wait… there is a right Schumacher?
In the sense that I would be more willing to put up with that kind of crap from driver with more than 50 wins to his credit than one with what 6? 7? 8 wins? ==> yes....
Night I look foward to the live videos from albert park in 5 hours or so!
Wrong one in this case. The real "right" one was this goalie on the German World Cup team from back in the late 80's. Did an awesome job stopping Argentina...
:P
Night Amy
Wasn't it France?
I have returned from training, i love the rain, and no, i wasn't being sarcastic.
they’re going to pay us? so people have to pay to read blogs? {Comment #29}
Some blogs have always charged for access. Couldn't name any off the top of my head, though.
Did an awesome job on Patrick Battiston of France too. Put him in hospital for months. Another Schumacher who behaved like a thug.
I love rain too, its totally amazing :D
Can it [the Kindle] do audio too? {Comment #37}
Yes. However, it can only convert MP3, not other formats.
I had noticed that about the Darren Heath image of Lewis the other day. I put it down to me not fully understanding what he was saying but when you look at the image on Darren's site you can understand what he means! :)
Glad I havent gone completely mad yet then! :)
I have Pizza-Garlic Bread and Salad, its AMAZING. ilovemydinner :D
Thinking about ordering pizza. Not sure whether to or not.
What is the non-ordering option?
When you play in it. It is awesome.
I need to go to Italy now. They have a lottery jackpot of $194 million which hasn’t been won since January. It’s waiting for me. {Comment #88}
Wow! That's an awful lot of money, and that's from someone used to Euro Millions lotteries approaching £50m quite frequently...
Wait for the shopping delivery to arrive.
Me too... it is a dilema...
I would say order in ,but then if the shopping arrives then the pizzas gonna get cold...its a toughy
The shopping's not coming until late.
Rain is very, very awesome.
You want pizza. Easy
Nah, it was Argentina. Still cannot figure out how Argentina got more goals than they had kicks at the german net, although... Harald's protection had more holes than a chain-link fence...!
I was thinking more of the outstretched arm etc, etc
The hand of God
No, I was thinking out of Schumacher's arm which he clattered someone with.
How do I find something in a supermarket? I go to the aisle and search through all the rubbish that is there until I find what I want. {Comment #160}
That method doesn't work for me. If the overhead signage isn't clear enough, I generally have to resort to finding someone to ask or getting my shopping elsewhere.
I don't know how well the analogy translates to Apple's Apps Store because I've never had the inclination to look for anything there (my PDA serves me well at the moment).
It wasn't his arm it was his hip. Put Patrick Battiston in hospital
Ah yes, thats right.
How do you discover new music? {Comment #160}
A combination of last.fm, local radio and the music channels on Freeview.
News to me. The only match I saw was the '86 Final between Germany vs. Argentina....
Evening all. How are we today?
Hungry. You?
Hello all
Hi Jackie and Scott
I'm OK thanks. Something personal's playing on my mind but apart from that I'm all good :)
Hi Jackie.
I believe it happend in 1982.
I'm knackered .. so to chill with friends will be nice
I can't remember which world cup it was. it is just one of those incidents that I can still see to this day.
Tough day at work?
Just not sure I like my new job
Are you still looking ?
I haven't been. Maybe 2 months inst long enough to know how I feel. The people are very nice though.
I shouldn't moan, at least I have a job. Anyway .. how's everyone else?
I am officialy sick... i have eye drops and everything!
It was '86 because it was Germany vs. Argentina nad the host country was Mexico. I can also date it based on which grade I was attending in School and the Girl I was chasing then. Based on I was chasing a brunette, it was 1986 as she did not show up in my school until 1984.
Conjunctivitis isn't very pleasant .. you have my sympathy
In the eye? Same as I had a few weeks back.
This internet, very contagious. Get well soon my good man
Its silly, my eyes are fine 99% of the time, its the rest of me thats sick!
So now it's your eyes turn to be the focus of attention
The Battiston incident was 1982. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGq7VcaHoqo
Argentina / Germany was the 1986 final.
:D
The fact i am hungry and it hurts to eat is a very bad comination though...
Footy?
That is what I meant.
Germany have been in too many finals.
We need to make sure our anti-virus is up to date.
Milkshake?
Yep
:(
I want pizzzzzzaaaaaaaa....
Might try some spaghetti later...
Oh that reminds me I have some fudge..yummy
How is fudge connected to spaghetti?
Spaghetti reminds you of fudge?
Things you want to eat .. spaghetti made me think of having a yoghurt (which is sweet) and that reminded me of the fudge
Germany may have been in too many finals but I only saw the 1986 final. And it was not by choice. My homeroom teacher had a German name. Think it was Schaefer or soemthing like that...
See, this is why Michael Schumacher is bad. Football starts to get discussed :)
It was really 'the previously likeable" Vettel's fault..
How does one travell from spaghetti to yoghurt without going thru movies ?
Spaghetti ==> Spaghetti Western ==> Western ==> Movies like Westerns in different places ==> Star Wars ==> Star Wars Spoofs ==> Spaceballs ==> Yogurt !
Have I just unlocked the female mind?
That makes a lot more sense. :D
Lock it and throw away the key.
How is a western like star wars?
Darth Vader and co were the Indians and Luke Skywalker and his mates were the cowboys. So obvious.
I shall never forgive Giggles for posting panda golf. It took me years to forget it after a long addiction and then he posts it here. At least I can still play it.
The premise. A Farm boy hooks up with a Gunslinger to rescue the girl from the bad guys.
Star Wars is just a Western type movie that just set in space. Just like great westerns are copies of Great Samurai movies which take their plots from Shakespeare's plays believe or not.
i musta missed the bit where she asked for questions? {Comment #874}
I asked on August 3.
Haha that's excellent. Sorry for the delay in replying, my pc crashed, I'm not having a good day
No RSS feed! {Comment #875}
It's got two RSS feeds - the trouble is that neither of them works properly and therefore they only work on some readers.
I think I've narrowed down the coding problem with the built-in RSS feed (a missing /channel tag), but there doesn't seem to be any way of getting into the HTML to manually fix it. The third-party feed got bought out by Google's inaccessible empire.
When Twitter works, I use that to announce blog entries, but half the time that doesn't load either.
Switching blogging software will only become an option when someone devises a free blogging platform which is accessible to me from the admin side as well as the commenting one. Bizarrely enough, the only one I've found like that is the one I currently use.
The search for an effective solution continues...
Don't all the usual Wordpress and Blogger platforms have commenting?
Here's a thought I had over training.
With 24 cars (possibly 26 if BMW are taken over) next year, will qualifying change? As in say an extra session added or will more cars be knocked out in the first two rounds. Its something I haven't heard about yet.
Probably an extra 2 off each session? Have the 2010 regs been put on the FIA site? that would tell you
Yep here we are...
Q1 - Bottom 8 are knocked out
Q2 - Bottom 8 are knocked out
Q3 - Top 10
Q1+Q2 = 8 cars drop out
whoops, sorry for the double comment, it didnt appear
Tech regs
Sporting regs
Right, cheers Jon and Jackie.
I'm starting my review of Mutemath's self-titled debut album for my general blog :)
Don’t all the usual Wordpress and Blogger platforms have commenting? {Comment #1000}
Blogger's system is such that I frequently can't even comment, let alone admin a blog, because the CAPTCHA is virtually unreadable to me and the audio version is worse.
Wordpress's admin side is something I can't get my head around. Especially since the help files don't even stay in place long enough for me to read them (they go back to the top of the page approximately every 10 seconds and I have no idea why).
Fair enough. I agree with you on Blogger, but would recommend Wordpress to anyone.
Even MrC? :P
Mr C will agree. Wordpress is good at what it does. When you try and write a doohickey to go with it, then you start having problems.
evening everyone
evening, good day?
good evening!
Hi Lou.
yeah, lovely day. have a nice new hair cut too. feeling a little sad atm though... i hate the anticipation of going on holiday :( always makes me nervous.
how was your day?
twas ok ta :)
I agree with you on Blogger, but would recommend Wordpress to anyone. {Comment #1011}
Even if it's been set up in such a way that I can't make head or tail of it and the help stuff doesn't work? Sorry, that isn't a situation that allows me to blog. It's probably OK (or more than OK) for most people, but I'd rather have no RSS feed than no blog, even if that effectively makes my updates invisible to certain types of user.
I understand. There are plenty of other places you can ask for help, but it's your blog and I respect that.
Hi Lou
Did any pavements die during your driving lesson today?
What cant you do? I had never blogged before using it, but it seemed pretty straight forward to create a new post and approve comments? The spam filter seems to be really effective as well...
Good evening!
nope! none at all :) all was fine, except i got a little flustered at traffic lights today, not had a real problem with them till now.
Hey lou
Tweet from Carlos Iaconelli, F2 driver, part of the Henry Surtees tribute
http://twitpic.com/dvzn0
Sounds good. You will get used to dealing with traffic lights and the like.
while out in the real world today i saw loads of photos of Jenson and Jessica on holiday... i mean, it's good they are having a nice time... but can't they have a holiday without the press? poor them.
:D
Dont they take the photos for people like you? :P
Learn to drive in New York City. "In NYC, Traffic Lights are generally considered to be rough guidelines" - David Letterman.
Ha! If you think NYC is bad try Cairo! :D
i'm not usually into celeb magazines, its only usually f1 drivers and people i pay attention to, and they aren't usually in celeb magazines
Yes, but in NYC, they go thru the PRETENSE of having traffic lights to lure you into a false sense of security....
You can not obey the non-existant Taffic Lights in Cairo....
Never tried Cairo, probably never will but NYC is bad enough thank you.
I was only joking around...
People don't believe me when i say i am not the slightest bit interested in heat...
I think Twitter will replace those mags eventually. Would you rather see a photo taken from 4 miles away or one taken by the person themselves and posted with a description
Twitter, really?
There are traffic lights... they are just ignored. they normaly have a cop on the corner to keep order. If you do something wrong, you have to pay him $5-10 to avoid getting a ticket.
Crossing the street I used to use this technique back in Dubai before it all changed
Junction supposedly with traffic lights
That's nuts.
Where else can you get pics Like this!
really good point.
i guess it's hard to take a decent pic of yourself though?
Photoshop. Just kidding, who's that guy with Rubens?
Self timer or order a minion to do it?>
Some say its Nelson PK...
did you see that squirrel pic? :)
Hehehe
Hahaha... Loved it!
Is Rubens or Felipe with a squirrel?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6018173/Squirrel-is-surprise-star-of-holiday-photo.html
:D
i think LAT are safe for a while yet.
Jon, have a read here. Some fun was had with the squirrel.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30491
The fun starts around post 17
I know what I'm doing now then.
I was about to say, dont let lukeh see that or giggles will have a sidekick! :P
you should do what others do and leave a comment here whenever you update. or get journeyer to be your unofficial
joe feedrss feed.without some form of rss though, i fear that long term, you'll struggle to get the audience you deserve. to me that's worth finding an alternate platform, whatever the effort invloved.
haha, those ones are clearly photoshopped, im not so convinced about the original
The first isn't at all. I'll look for the story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6018173/Squirrel-is-surprise-star-of-holiday-photo.html
:D
Oh, yeah, was Letterman successful in getting the speed limits bumped up in CT when Hillary Clinton was on the show?
NatGeo
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/squirrel-portrait-banff-pod.html
I scored 6 on the panda quiz
I don't know. I don't run in their crowd. I just sleep here, I am a Texan at heart.
Too late...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/gigglesuhoh-jpg
Your the panda expert. Mr C is never going to let you have a panda if you fail the panda exam.
HAAAA
:P :P
I wish I had PhotoShop.
:D
Hehe... Awesome!
I thought gigles promised a 7 hour live streaming show this evening? :P
aha, he said it may happen, but he was busy so no promises
Can we get the squirrel for sidepodradio?
What about this one?
http://www.deviantart.com/download/91386931/Army_Squirrel_by_Neijman.jpg
can't we get a lemur? they are like a squirrel in every way, only cuter.
Clearly from the photo Giggles has a squirrel and not a lemur. But if you can " borrow " a lemur I see no problem having it on a show.
Lou loves lemurs!
That damned squirrel really does get in the way...
is that a yes? :)
realistically i love all animals, but i just want a lemur, they are just awesome :D
If we extend the cuteness scale to 11, then we can fit an otter on there.
I WANT PHOTOSHOP!
what on earth is going on with his eyes?
Have you never seen the original of that picture?
Distracted by squirrelness.
That's wierd - my iPhone keeps turning on the iPod by itself...
yeah but they just look a bit different than normal, have you not touched them?
they look different to the original photo though?
how are they connected?
The iPod app on the iPhone?
Would you not look at a squirrel that suddenly stood in front of you? ;)
just checked, they do look the same :D
carry on :)
they just looked a bit different to how i remember them...apparently im wrong
Nikki tweeted about this video a couple of days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno
No, you were right. I did mess that about very subtley :)
I know about that one
mwhahahaha
cuuuuuute
awwwwwwww
I'm gonna head off early tonight.. absolutely knackered. I mentioned it on my blog a few days back, tonight I'm gonna watch Yes Man in bed with a large amount of hesistancy about it but who knows... maybe it'll be better than the bookahaha ah... who am I kidding. :P
Night all.
Nighty night.
Niiiiiiight lukeh
Night Lukeh
night :)
I need to hunt down dinner at the local restaurant. See everyone later.
Have fun!
Bye Jordan
Byeleavers...
Whats spotify and do i need it?
the future of the music industry.
or
the next big thing until the next big thing.
Program to stream music on internet, like itunes but you can only listen to it on your computer, not download it.
what he said!
Great? I hear apple doesnt like it, but it works on android and gives you free music?
at least, that's what the music industry wants.
christine loves it and is trying to convince me it's better than last.fm.
Apple dont like it because if you want to buy the songs on spotify it links you to 7digital and not itunes
not sure if its better, but i find it easier to use
What is last.fm? i signed up to it once as someone told me it would let me listen for free but it wouldnt let me play any music...
i'm not sure that's true? i know that their iphone app breaks apples TOS, but i don't think apple have said they're evil?
it's a bit like spotify...
last.fm is similar to spotify but i think it has some more unknown songs on it..
Doesnt... not allowed in our app store = Evil company hates you?
Shameless plug alert:
http://smarterthanyouraverage.com/2009/05/16/spotify-vs-lastfm/
Last.fm is sending me in circles, it wont actualy let me listen to anything, but it does seem to want me to read about the band... so i will try spotify
sadly not.
if said developer doesn't read the TOS before starting development, it's their own tough luck if they never get approved. even i know spotify won't get through and i didn't take the time to write it.
i suspect they only did it for the PR, and sadly it's worked a treat (bbc fell for it hook line and sinker).
Spotify will let you read about the band :) tis easyyyy
Apple don't like it?
Well, might as well give it a whirl.
Their recent redesign is a bit tricky.
Apple dont like it because when you click on "buy song" it sends you to 7digital download store, not itunes. Which is fair enough because not everyone has an ipod/touch/phone
Surely its a matter of time untill the EU get involved in the App store and tell Apple to separate their platform and hardware like it did with microsoft and IE?
i prefer last.fm, because i don't have to download anything... and it's an approved app and works on the itouch (and on android).
spotify is more high maintenance.
depends. apple aren't putting anyone out of business will illegal practices.
they say "you wanna play ball, here are the rules". kinda like us and this blog. we say "you wanna comment, here are the rules". if people don't agree other app stores / f1 blogs are available.
does spotify work on a mac?
It does.
But how do you actually listen to anything? It is incredibly un-user friendly.. the help site is just plain confusing! It sent me to hunt for tiny symbols which just dont exist!
songs bought on the itunes store can be played elsewhere. there is no DRM. they will play on any device that supports m4a, and even dropio will convert them.
type in an artist and click play?
I might as well see first. I like last.fm, but you can't go wrong with tryin something new out.
But surely have just said Explorer is an extension of windows, if you dont like it buy a mac?
Surely microsoft could have just...
I can vouch for Spotify. While I still use iTunes for buying music for the iPhone, I like to use Spotify for music on my laptop. Simple interface and it's very easy to build playlists.
microsoft did say that. sadly it was a lie and proved to be a lie in court.
thats fair enough, but some people don't have ones that will accept itunes store songs, me for example, my creative zen wont take them, so i have to burn them onto a cd, then burn them off using real player to make them mp3's
I have it working!
They put the play button in the silliest place!
I dont see how thats different to apple preventing any software which competes with their own on the iphone though?
m4a is audio within an mp4 container. it's an open standard, apple didn't invent it and any manufacturer can choose to support it. i don't have a zen, but won't itunes convert it to mp3 for you without going via CD?
UI fail?
it may do, that would be helpful if it does, i had a quick look but couldnt find anything, but that was a while back.
microsoft changed the game when it suited them, they moved the goalposts to screw over netscape and others. the app store has been upfront about what's allowed from the off.
no-one has to invest time into developing apps if they don't want to. i haven't for example. netscape built the web browser and then microsoft screwed them.
haven't tried it myself tbh. it may be different on a mac anyhow. m4a is just a file format, you need the right decoder to listen, that's all.
"Except for iTunes Plus songs, you can't convert iTunes Store purchases."
I think this means i can't?
ahh yeah. i'd put money on the record execs insisting, but who knows?
to be honest, its not hard to burn on and off a cd, its a faff but i dont mind it. i'll go where ever's cheapest.
Fair enough i guess... But i think its just a matter of time untill the EU call it anti competitive...
amazon has a great mp3 store. recommended by me :)
possibly. worse, i just think developers will steer clear, or go elsewhere.
yeah agreed, and generally its cheaper. who can resist? :D
Tesco also do pretty good mp3's as well. 2p cheaper than iTunes as well.
i've spent far to much there already!
Am i supposed to be hearing ads on spotify?
I love it so far :D
aha yeah, they are annoying at first but it's fine after a while
Yeah, I just accept 'em and carry on :P
I havent heard any!
hahaha, lucky. they may not put any on for a while as you're new, get you liking it before you run off and decide you like sometihng else ;)
This might be because i am discovering Richard Marx thanks to mrs c :P
And no one else what music you've just listened to?
I'd say you get one every half hour to an hour.
HE DID IT!
I like Richard Marx. Well, "Angelia" anyway. :P
framed!
Oh if thats all then why would i ever buy music again!
Oh if thats all then why would i ever buy music again!
Oh... if thats all then why would i ever buy music again!
And thus spotify wins ;)
Don't know it. I only know Hazard. That's all I need to know.
:D
oops... :(
Sorry!
I kinda want to listen to the ahem, golf, but yeah spotify is sorta ruining that.
I think you put your point across ;)
mediatemple fail. carry on.
He didnt! Even the corrupt sheriff couldn't get him convicted!
social experiment if you're interesting in taking part...
we're going to watch a film, and you're welcome to suggest something to watch. only caveat is the film must be available to rent from the itunes store.
if you're interested, throw your suggestions in the comments.
lemme have a look
cool runnings?
He said she went walking out alone, then he said he left her by the river. The word he misses off the end of the lyric (presumably because it doesn't rhyme) is...
I swear I left her by the river... dead.
Is there a link?
you need itunes...
#sorrynick
The Sting
Blues Brothers
The Producers
Well, we can still take suggestions. We are capable of looking.
Have you seen Three Kings?
The Sting is only available to buy, sadly. Although I am tempted to do that because I love it!
yup. not sure if it's christine's kind of film though?
Pink Panther 2
Bride Wars
Confessions of a Shopaholic
It is one of my all time favourites. I have lost count of how often I have seen it.
If you want a comedy... Ratrace is amazing
I've just spotted that Die Hard is available.
It might ruin Mr C's social experiment if I make suggestions though.
In fact i may have to rent it tomorrow
Why? You are part of the community/
OI!
I'm back baby!
I'm also going to say St Trinians....
That's true. It's my credit card, though, so I'm not sure if my vote counts.
No live Ikea?
ooooh, Alice Upside Down?
Old Scottish saying. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Lawrence of Arabia
:)
50 First Dates?
Talladega Nights...
I need to work something out about that... I did have a picture I think for drop.io
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-184
That's weird... why did the coffee one appear again?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Squirrel
aha, why dont you take a look...
:P
Yum!
hehehehe
:)
I have just read back! Hahahahahaha
I don't think Mr C has thought this through at all. Now we have a whole list of suggestions... none of which includes Die Hard.
Evening All, my film suggestion is Australia, it's epic, sad but beautifully filmed.
So are we going to try this three way live thing then Mr C?
I already suggested Die Hard the other week
It also includes a sequal after you think the main feature has finished :P
oooh. that might mess up my social experiment...
but yes, lets!
Were we supposed to suggest Die Hard?
Are you suggesting my suggestions are not good enough?
Ooh, that's a good idea! Well done Steven.
grrrr!
Blame me
I would like to suggest die hard again..
I watched it the other week and it was great.
Maybe I go watch Die Hard while you mess about with Alex.
i'm not sure how to answer that.
Mr C even said the other week that you had to put Die Hard 1 and 2 on your list but not 3 or 4. Which is wrong but what he said (from memory)
:)
Mr C is often wrong.
Surely this one is more difficult to answer?
go ahead, pick on the little guy.
:)
I am live now I think!
Question to Christine....do you call Mr C by his "actual" name (bearing in mind that we know he dosent have a 'real' name, he was born called Mr C, but the question remains)...
little guy!
what????
not ready
I'm just practicing to get things right
Very rarely. I actually did today and it felt odd. Mr C works much better.
I'm sure Heidfeld gets it a lot, but you on the other hand, by eye witness accounts...
Spotify has music from musicals...this could get embarrasing!
Awesome, that makes Jon happy :D
It also has a lot of stuff from U... the band i kinda like.
See, on last.fm we could see what you're listening too, but on spotify, we cant, its a win win
Hehehe. I have that same problem!
2?
You can, there's a setting.
I have it activated and all
What?
what's your last.fm account url?
So I have stopped practicing now...
Let me know when / if you are ready.
In preferences, you can link Spotify and Last.fm, so it lets everyone know what you're listening to.
go!
Lets just leave it as it is I reckon.
Okay :)
hahaha... you might need a detective!
Is there a wiki page for last.fm accounts?
I am commenting on Mr C's behalf. He says he has both streams working.
Do it!
Using your twitter name, well, your finnish.
Audio in perfect alignment!
Oops, no caps!
Mr C - "mac audio still better. picture much improved."
I have Gigles on ustream on the playground
Mr C says - "you broke the whole world!"
I'm interupting Barack Obama for you lot ;) this better be good :P
Ace.
Mr C - "three screens but you are sideways."
Its different... my twitter name was set up by my friend.
Cool. Lemme just do it then.
Ustream and Qik
Mr C - "can you close the playground, it's causing an echo."
Mr C - "your third stream has died."
Qik isnt live for me :(
Can I ask you your gender, age range, country and music tastes please.
Mr C - "is it your iphone going to sleep?"
Sideways on Qik
Rotate the camera?
Ustream feed is much more consistent. Qik constantly buffering
it's deleyed by 35 secs it says
justin is a long way ahead of qk
Rotation success
Mr C - "technical issues aside, this is fantastic."
now
NOW!
Now
NOW!
I type NOW ages ago but I have NO bandwidth!!
Justin
same
Qik NOW
Hello Alex, seeing you on Qik
Ustream by far the best
Justin picture looks good but frame rate slow
Qik lots of buffering
My Qik is SOOO delayed, its still going
Mine too
seconded. we had no bandwidth left after that.
we need better internets
Weird... As I said earlier ustream is coming over the wifi.
As a quick test if anyone can stoumach it how about I do it again swapping justin and ustream?
Justin was ahead of Ustream for me, went a bit unstable at the end.
Qik Useless... but it is more practical in real world
Qik is really slow in comparison to the other two, I found Justin the fastest but Ustream was not far behind
go for it.
Kathi !
There is a ustream app for the iphone... I shall download in a mo
Go for it
Film Suggestion: Moulin Rouge *hides*
designed for 3g usage.
Justin still ahead for me
Ooh ustream comin atcha
Brilliant music, beautifully staged, but really sad
It has started again
i agree. my experiment may have gone out the window this week though :(
next friday.
Going slightly mad over here, Heeeeeelp!
Alex needs to sing the elephant love meledy to make up for it!
A lot of buffering on ustream
ustream still has better audio.
All 3 are working here
:P
correct. justin compression is bad.
you needs you a joby.
(wishing i was recording this for one of my podcasts)
give that a try :)
justin settings. soz.
picture from the mac is stunning.
Justin is doing absolutely nothing for me. I just have a paused picture.
Qik is repeating the previous broadcast. I only have ustream live
Same here, am getting Ustream on IE & Safari, Qik on Safari only & no justin on either. Great echo trying to run 6 streams!
ustream just closed. I now have no feeds working
I dont like the way the Qik player doesnt have a stop button
i has qik
ustream most stable here
things are almost back in sync now?
ustream back now
boo, justin, boo.
mmmm beer!
i love it. don't stop. is learning.
This needs to go 24/7
aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh. still watching though. hooked!
agreed. the man may never work again.
(hearts) ustream.
Is it possible for somone else to go on Qik and try to have a conversation?
y'all were doing this when i went sleep last night!
morning all
Mr C is laughing at your geeky jokes, Alex.
That is where this is going to end up. Massive sidepodargument on multiple feeds.
Qik is ahead of ustream for me now?
What cant you do? I had never blogged before using it, but it seemed pretty straight forward to create a new post and approve comments? The spam filter seems to be really effective as well… {Comment #1024}
I struggle to find anything whatsoever on the Wordpress site. When I eventually found the "Help" pages, they jumped back to the top of the page every 10 seconds. That means I can't even use the site well enough to sign up for a blog, let alone attempt to do anything with it.
My current blog was largely set up by my co-admin (and had to be because he hosts the space on which it lives) and the final part of set-up required one form filling in. There is a limit as to how much complexity I can handle in things like form-filling (I got given a two-page course evaluation form this afternoon and ended up leaving half of it blank because I couldn't see how to answer the questions).
Entry production is a question of logging in, going to my blog, pressing "New Entry", typing the entry and pressing "Submit". There is no messing around with comments approval (because it doesn't even have that function). I could do with a spam clearance tool, though.
ustream ads are really annoying though.
Hi Jeremy
USTREAM AHEAD HERE, with less tinny sound
really good syncing. both feeds within 1/4 second.
Qik is now showing me sideways Giggles.
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/last.fm
I'll have forgot someone and most likely, that someone will be you. So check.
my qik was ok. now sideways?
My brain is melting.
Ustream is only delayed about 3 seconds from Alex to me.
Alex turn iphone 90 deg clockwise
all good in the hood
Qik is giving me about 1 frame per second
hahah.. i hope this is recorded... Its amazingly watchable!
I told you to switch because it was sideways before
qik is good. things go bad with justin.
i recorded earlier. not this bit though :(
hey all, something tells me i'm missing something?
:D :D :D :D
http://www.sidepodcast.com/playground/livestreaming.php
Giggles is playing 52 card pickup!
http://www.sidepodcast.com/playground/livestreaming.php
Live Giggles
I'm now recording sound, I think!
5 hearts
is that a 5 hearts?
higher
higher and higher.
Higher
omg this is awesome :) looks like this is just the thing to cheer me up :)
LOWER.
higher bruce
J spades
it'll be lower bruce
Rats.
Win :D
Higher
=
6 clubs
higher
anything up?
lower
Lower.
you should do what others do and leave a comment here whenever you update. or get journeyer to be your unofficial joe feed rss feed.
without some form of rss though, i fear that long term, you’ll struggle to get the audience you deserve. to me that’s worth finding an alternate platform, whatever the effort invloved. {Comment #1056}
I usually do leave a comment here, and when it loads for me I Twitter as well. The response is hit-and-miss.
When someone devises an alternate blogging platform I can actually use, then I can consider using it. Until then I'm pretty much stuck with what I've got, unless a way can be found to bypass the CMS and manually repair the built-in RSS feed.
muted qik, well delayed.
it could still be a good night if you play your cards right
5 clubs
crashed and burned
we've had a lovely time bruce
what do points make?
My one and only guess, and I was right.
and here's what you could have won...
An argument
Prizes
bye alex.
Wasn't that Jim instead of Bruce and on Bullseye! ?
byeee
soeedboat?
just mainly nervous about my holiday, silly know :(
bye!
the FIA taking them away?
bye giggles, i may have only caught the end of it but it seemed very funny :)
Sidepodboat
Yep. Super smashing great
A stewards enquiry.
Bruce was Play Your Cards Right, Jim was Bullseye
:D
:)
:)
Indeed.
spooky
I have some serious bandwidth issues tonight :(
I had that problem early, I just gave up on it.
More More More More More More.
Should be uploading a podcast, want to watch giggles.
Do I sense the rumblings of a Giggles Fanclub?
you should plug you podcast startledbunny. give us a link?
http://startledbunny.net
http://weheartalex.tumblr.com
cheers, i saw it the other day but haven't listened yet. will do though.
I (hearts) Spotify
Hello, Hello, something or other
yeah, its good.
http://www.last.fm/user/Dubaish
You can see my lack of taste :P
I can't seem to find the ustream app.
However I have discovered something annoying in that even if I was, somehow, to get a data connection on that phone both apps stop you from broadcasting on Edge and only support 3G. I know that makes sense really, but I only wanted to try it out. Grrr!
btw, think this got missed in all the Giggles Mania (new craze, me likey)
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/last.fm
Check in case i've missed ya
Want to set it up, but not had the inclination yet.
Can you do searches?
Yeah, its really simple... Far more user friendly than last.fm in my experience
Have plugged it in the new daily.
Gosh it's being updated as we speak :)
Gosh it's midnight! I don't think I have ever seen the daily tick over...
I #blamesteven
Im not there :P
you should be first to comment?
I may add that anything my Wife plays on Apple TV(mainly R&B, Michael Jackson) goes on there too.
Too late!
Embarrasing moment, was just about to complain that time time has went all funny, going from 00:13 to ahem, 1:30. Until I realised those were the minutes and seconds bit.
Yeah, Yeah.
:(
(bottom lip out)
Was joking, you should see what's on my iPod. My excuse is I have small children.
Ahh, so was I.