Apparently, it is the International Day of Democracy today. I don't really know how you would go about celebrating something like that, but it certainly seems like the FIA should try and do something to observe it. At least then we'd know they understand what democracy is. Anyway, here are some things we're talking about:
- Multiple shows went up last night, so if you haven't already watched the F1 Debrief live replay, you can now catch up with the edited version. There is also the very concise F1 Digest available for your listening pleasure if you want to relive what happened in the race.
- Of course the big news of yesterday was the return of Canada to the 2010 calendar. We opened a breakout thread on this subject, but it was also featured in F1 Minute as well. How many different ways are there to write: w00t!
- As we are now in the countdown to Sidepodradio, and the voicemail is working again, I will plug a little something each day. You can still leave your shout outs to friends, family, messages to drivers (you never know, they might tune in!), birthday wishes, etc, etc. The number is 0121 28 87225, or find us under the username sidepodcast on Skype.
That's all for now. Let us know how you are spending your Tuesday, and whether you are getting up to anything exciting. I will see you in the comments.
Internet death! Come back wifi :(
Hello people, hello Tuesday
Today i have my theory test, another driving lesson and am meeting up with a good friend of mine. It may be a good day
Lots to do then, sounds good
Do many people fail that? In my day we had a few questions on the practical but it was a bit of a token effort. Is it taken seriously?
and to add to it all....
I want EVERYONE to play the lieing down game today!!!
Warning: If i see you i will jump on you...
Bah!
Hello! Have you heard, you are on Amy's naughty step! :P
Same here, I cannot see how anyone can fail - I've done the sample tests and only got one question wrong and that's because I didn't read it properly.
I expect it will sound like that, yes :P
:lol: :lol:
Five pints of nursery rhyme!
Everyone is I see
What did we do?
You shouldnt fail it, but i do know a few people who have first time. So im just hoping ive read up the right things
Maybe it's a secret, government literacy test ;)
I think you just doubled your stay by brining it to a new thread :P
You started it, no parole for you
It's easily done, some of the questions arent what you'd expect. They often have questions about first aid, evne though that isnt in the Highway code (i think). And the hazard perception is very hit and miss, you click every tme you see a hazard, but theres loads of hazards in each clip, so you just have to be luckt
5 secs in, he's not annoying in the slightest. Oh no
HA!
#Confidential: shall we go sidepodpubbing to the secret NZ bar?
she cant read this as long as we use the hash tag ;)
Is that the boat?
Why not, exactly?
Shall we see if Bassano still has his - #GP2 tag on..?
#Bassanos is actually yellow
Not wanting to see something that's #confidential!
Of course, that can't fail!
Question to Mr Bassano, did you live coment your date in the end?
#Confidential, they offloaded it and moved it to Holburn (i am yet to be convinced that holburn is an actual place and not a vague idea)... anyway apparently it now has a regular home in temple
Evening
This is actually true though
Plus, I can tell when you're mis-tagging
I caught Lukeh on Saturday ;)
It worked for Mr C and Alex? #Confidential
ooooh nooo, i mean #GP2 not #Bassano
When I took it you had to pass 30 out of 35 and the questions were fairly easy. They've toughened it up a little bit since.
No :)
And Alex's suggestion that I explain how I fill my days by taking blind installation requests over the internet with the aid of an Orange Drill never got a look in
I do like "Mr Bassano" though :)
Now its 43 out of 50 i believe, but theres some questions that arent in the high way code, that are more ones you have to interpret
That still would've worked, if you weren't mis-leading me ;)
Yeyyy!!
Wow! It did go well!
Morning everyone you all ok?
If it has a train or tube station, then it's a place
Apart from Cockfosters, that's just fields
For some of us the Highway Code is just a suggestion. Who wants a lift to Spa? ;-)
Im not sure that my convincing skills are good enough to convince you that you are yellow ;)
It did
Good times but no sparks, we shall most likely do it again soon though, so we shall see
We are proud of you Mr Bassano, and i am happy you didnt tell her about your orange drill!
Sleepy time for me! Night all
Hey Señor Bunny
Its not though... people who say they live in holburn actualy live in other places... I was told i was in holburn the other day, we wern't; we were in covent garden,
Not first date material :)
Night Jon
WOW!!! I WANT THAT N!!!
It's so easy on a Mac: ñ
ñight Jon
Easy oñ a PC :P
Dominicali on Massa "He's like a horse in a...i dont know what the english is"
And for that i depart
hola
@Alison @Steven Roy
Thanks for the 5 mins you gave us, (myself & nikki). in gratitude, I give you over a minute back :)
I shall have to investigate
It's enye! :D I want it too! :P
ño eñye for you mr jourñeyer :P
Get a Mac
Your Ñ's will be SO much better than before
sail away sail away sail away,
wait, that was enya. d'oh :(
a brief visit for me, cheerio peeps.
If I lie down in a car park in London I'll likely end up in intensive care
I predict this fella will be sued before the year is out
Hiñt: Copy añd paste :P
You can't quote Enya and go, we have to send you to the naughty step
Buenos Noches
Right, quick task to do - back soon
Nick: I take it you found a cricket partner then?
Yeah, yeah. :P
Yes i did! no thanks to tha intawebz :P
Sí Sí :P
Let's hope Amy's meeting isn't too long - Fed-delPo goes to 5!
Boooo! Still no internet. How do i make wifi work again?? I usually get really good signal where i'm sat.
Have you tried turning the box off and on?
Exciting Stuff :D
What? Go downstairs? Why would i want to do that? :P
Have you tried rebooting the router
[This is not the classic joke, reworded]
To make it work :D
The internet lives down there, you need to encourage it to come up ;)
Ooh, there goes the timer
Ciabatta is ready...
But but but. I like my bed. Mobile doohickey rocks.
You could wear the duvet down there? (mind the curtains)
Oh beggar. Jus realised i better go fix it before my bf tries to ring me. Booo!
No cricket today to report ;)
Yeah if probly won't bother ringing back now he doesn't need his fix ;)
The Tenis is epic!
Shouldn't that have been over on Sunday?
Sorry, that was worthy of a :lol:
Apparently, Holborn was referenced as far back as 959AD, which - in my eyes - qualifies it as "a place"
Place names and boundaries are often hard to quantify in London due to it's ever expanding nature.
Estate agents don't help by introducing terms such as triangle & village when they don't belong
Meh, its just an idea, not a place :P
Tennis is epic!
So I hear, why is on a Monday?
Same reason as Wimbledon before - rain delays.
delPo upsets Fed in 5!
Apparently it rained and they didnt have enough umbrellas!
Del Potro won... which is interesting, he is only 20
US Open?
Where's it held?
[Now Wilmbles can get smug about it's fancy roof]
Cliche climbing into the crowd looses him respect though...
Never heard of him, guess he's pretty good then
The US :P
NY NY i believe...
For god's sake. I went down. One of th speakers had fallen off th desk and pulled th plug out th router. I'v got it all back in and now i can connect to th network but it's jus local and there's an error with th internet. It says i need to register with an isp which is obv a lie!
Do you live in an earthquake zone?
Try re-booting it now
[Unless you've already done that twice already]
Aye, Queens, New York City, it seems
How long before they get a remote controlled roof then? ;)
Okaaay. Down i go again. Wish me luck!
I always assumed the US open was indoors, probably because of the hard courts
I dont see why they dont just get one built like a big zepplin and fly it around to all the tennis venues :D
Tap it with a spoon 7 times as well ;)
Now that, is worthy of Dragon's Den
STEVEN!!!!
You rang?
That is either super lurking, or very spooky ;)
Nick has a Dragon's Den idea, it may be a little costly
Head ping
Über lurking, I think
ahaha delpo got a slam before murray AHAHA
I knew you would be sad for poor old muzza
Hi Amy
It wasn't me
Maybe he has an auto RSS ping thing set up so that whenever anyone says "Steven" in the comments his pager vibrates.
Steven steven steven steven ...
:)
Although that imply's you expect him to win one :P
Do you think he set it up to catch "Stephen" as well?
I did something a bit dumb yesterday evening. I'm doing a course in medical/legal word processing/audiotyping two evenings per week and I thought it started yesterday.
I got to the reception and after lots of waiting was told to go up four flights up some stairs to get to what they thought was the classroom. It took two more trips up and down those stairs and over an hour of waiting and asking various people before I found out two key things:
1) Reception was right about it being the right classroom
2) They neglected to inform me that I'd got the wrong start date and the first class is not for another two weeks.
Oops...
I like the idea. I can see it is going to be a little complicated to do. Apart from anything else these tournaments are not just played on 1 or 2 courts. They have 20 ish courts
Breakout thread?!
...wait a minute :P
Head ping absolutely
That would be prudent. I used to call Steven "Stephen". :D
It only has to cover one, so long as we have something to show on tv.
The only downside would be that rain often comes with high wind so there would need to be an incredibly effective anchoring system..
Alex has had me fitted with a head ping. If you shout my name it goes off
Definitely not but it went off when someone was shouting STEVE for Steve Jobs
Some people are only programmed to answer the question they are asked and not add any relevant info
Gotta run; choir practice. Have a good evening, night, morning, afternoon, whatever, everyone!
Ps i can see your hashtag.
You are already in my bad books and Alison's too. We have to find another minute of content now.
Doh!
Lesson 1) RTFQ (or the appointment card ;) )
Maybe we just need inflatable roofs and sell them rather than complicating matters by flying them round the world. We could have them installed in every major sport stadium in the world
Like MacDonald's staff who can't give you half a dozen nuggets, only 6 or 12
Busted
[Sniff!] Steven-With-A-V ... forgive me! I have a song that we couldn't use ... would you like that?
:)
eeek
Night Nikki
That really doesn't sound right does it? ;)
If only your show was live we could have done a FJ handover to fill it
See ya Nikki
Bit late for Choir practice
FJ?
DJ
The middle row of this keyboard hates me
Are you have issues with your hosting company too?
Mo. Just the keyboard
NO!
:D
Not just the middle row then
The middle row sometimes throws me off on the other rows.
Max gave an interview and said whatever happens Piquet's immunity cannot be affected.
If someone wants to make a song about F1... can i reccomend this..
Err, no
Madonna and Banderas singing is a criminal offence under SiderpodLaw
Its a good song, clearly it needs new lyrics and singers
I only lasted about 3 secs
There is no Madonna if that helps
It doesn't
I hate musicals
I need to book Fri 25th Sep off
Thursday is Arthur's Day
http://www2.guinness.com/en-GB/Pages/250-arthurs_day.aspx
stop commenting so fast, mobile doohickey cant keep up.
It's our way of telling you to get a better phone ;)
You should read the links.. http://bit.ly/146IL2 http://bit.ly/81myU http://bit.ly/2x6gzG http://bit.ly/nrs3j
Link to front pages of tomorrows papers, times is number 4
Sky News links are punishable too
Murdoch is evil
I'll let you off as they were only pics ;)
What have you just been reading!!!
Doesnt Amy work for him too? :P
I tweeted this earlier:
@bassanoclapper Wants the UN to make a resolution to ban the use of "gate" in relation to all scandal discussions. Sloppy journalism is to blame
It's really getting on my wick! Grrrrrrr!
Poor Amy
more leaks? but gravitated-jeff linked to that last friday. its not new to me.
Nothing
But it's true
This is all new
cant open those links will have to catch up on the goss when i get home. Nice to see canada back, i need a confirmed calendar so i can go talk to a travel agent
Lucy, you mean ;)
How many races are you planning on doing next year?
ahahahahaha!
You won't get that for at least a couple of months
Amy is this true?
The second part, the first part is not news
i remember seeing on another forum that montreal was resurfaced this year. shud prevent a repeat of last yr.
Didn't look like it in July when I walked it
We need some global warming to make the Montreal winters less severe
They have underground shops to keep the economy going. True
Patrick Swayze died :(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8256033.stm
RIP
i might work for him i have no idea who owns this company haha. I am just planning the 3 races next year.
You need to research your employer, then leave if it's true
You'll stand a chance of getting to heaven then ;)
Melbourne
Spa
Monza
Canada
?
Only 3!? If they have back to backs you might be able to squeeze in a 4th?
What's the company called?
It won't be long before he blames you Steven ;)
I hope he does
i am not planning to go to canada! I can see how my comment implied that though.
Even if Heikki goes to NASCAR? :P
If you're Lurking:
Lee MacKenzie, you're really starting to bug me. Stop schmoozing, do something worthwhile
#Legard Out
He's not that bad!
Should probably add a #sorryAmy to be on the safe side...
Why would she be lurking? She didnt even reply to my tweet! :P
You're not famous
All the F1 peeps lurk here, it's a known fact
Ask LPG about st*rb*cks [also evil] and the Red Bull guys
What has Lee done?
At 3:15 on a tuesday morning? :P
St*rb*cks hang out here?
Nothing of any substance
Maybe it's the beebs fault for not utilising her but I don't see the point tbh
F1 people have night shifts too
I hope not
I'll have to be extra mean about them if they do
I am sure she would like to do more but she can only do what she is told
Quite possibly
Either way, she kinda irritates me. Which is a shame because I thought she would be good
I am heading off to bed.
Night all
Back from City Hall. Not bad, only took me an hour. Was expecting it to take 3.
Now... where is that thing on Symonds?
The US Open at Shea is famous for being close to one of the flight paths for one of the three major airports in the New York City area, so your Zepplin idea might not fly....
Night, Steven.
G'night Steven
We'll try not to ping you unless it's REALLY important
Good old Jaques has tweeted
Hi all..I'm here in Argentina for a Top Race( www.trv6.com )here's a pic of me on a local tv show 2nite JV http://yfrog.com/17996bj
Interesting...
The website doesnt work :lol:
Hope he wasn't singing
www.trv6.com.ar
Does he mean this:
http://www.trv6.com.ar/
Jinx! :P
Journeyer: Are your elections local or national?
For next year? Both. From president to the captain of our local barrio, and everything in between.
Are you running?
I could see Bassano captaining a Bar :P
Why'd you ask?
Go for the ones that back Ari ;)
I thought of running for the youth council some years back - I was offered if I was interested. But I don't wanna get involved in that type of thing.
Dunno
Nice to see folk care about who's in power, too much political apathy here
:D Motorsport is the farthest thing from everyone's minds here. ;)
I came pretty close to starting a bar a few years back
A year's travelling put the kybosh on that one
That would be thanks in part to Noynoy.
Would be interesting to see what happens now. His first survey results are promising, but can he keep the momentum ala Obama? Elections aren't for another 8 months!
That's where they're going wrong then
Power boats? :D
Ah so do you vote based on shoes? :P
Top sports here are boxing, billiards, and basketball.
Lots of people here vote based on patronage and money. Sad, but when many live day-to-day, that's what happens.
I have seen the billiards.... I cant belive its that popular, you guys need to take up cricket ;)
What I want to know is:
Why is Filipino not spelt with a 'Ph'?
Not another country to beat England, aren't there enough of those already?
Any good goals on Saturday, Nick?
meh
:P
The Spanish, of course. It was originally spelled Filipinas, in honor of King Felipe. The Americans come over and Americanize everything. Felipe in English is Philip, so Filipinas became the Philippine Islands. We'd drop the word Islands later, but the country name change was done.
For some reason, that didn't translate to the people. It stayed Filipinos. In the local dialect, it's Pilipino.
Sort of like PK at Singapore ?
I think it is one of the few nationalities with a gender disticintion...
Correct me if i am wrong, but isnt a Filipino male and Filipina female?
Or is this some crazy thing i have picked up?
After sitting down for that long, they need to dish out cream for everyone's chalfonts
Correct! :D How'd you know of this?
Typical
Standard latin gender thing
Hehe, I grew up in Dubai, I had a couple of Filipino/a friends
But it isnt used for any other countries i can think of...
I meant they 'o' and the 'a' thing but I see what you mean
Is it because 'Philipines' is a plural?
Or is that possessive?
This is too hard for this time of night
Too true. :)
It could be Filipinian, filipinish, filipinese filipine filipiner
guess its all just random what we get called, :P
OFWs, I presume?
Yes, it is. Plural because the Philippines is composed of many islands.
Folk here are Britons & British
OFWs?
If its a person i never met him!
"Overseas Filipino Workers"
That must just be the males ;)
*Avoids comment relating to tube shape
That's an understatement!
Correct again. :D
Ohno i dont think i qualified as one of them :D
Heheh. Filipinos can be generalized to mean both male and female. So if a group has males and females, you call them a group of Filipinos. :D
Nick, Thurs 24th
Arthur's Day celebrations, you free?
I'll ask Giggles tomorrow
I meant your friends. :P
But if you mean my friends....
Possibly, but i think their parents may have been entrepreneur's
Heheh. :D We're at 7,100+ islands.
Mind you, Indonesia has 13,000+, if I'm not mistaken.
Really? Interesting stuff. It's people like them that keep our economy nice and strong.
That's just greedy
They have dragons too
Wikipedia says 17,508 islands
I'll let you off
Blimey, 4 o'clock sneaked up on me!
Oh god, must sleep, night all!
Indeed, it has. :P
G'night Nick
Night Nick. :)
I suggest you get some zzz's too, Bassano. I'm off to watch some old races. :)
I'll try
See ya Journeyer
Funny. one section of Ontario, the Province of Canada where I am currently stationed, has 30 000 islands along the eastern shore of one bay and 1 000 more islands along a river. 31 000 Islands, and I am supposedly in the middle of my country.....
A number of years ago I was in Stanley Park in Vancouver, waiting for some friends to show up, I decided to go see what was going on where a bunch of people were and it turned out they were watching cricket so I sat down and started to watch and I tell you that is a 1/2 hour I will never see again, I'm glad I didn't have a knife or i'd have probably slashed my wrists.
Uh huh
Fun to play
Terrible to watch
I guess thats the main thing to have fun in whatever game you're playing
It wasn't so long ago that they wore jumpers (sweaters)
It's not a sport if you have to wear a jumper
Morning everyone :)
good afternoon
Morning all :)
How was the Tennis BTW?
GOAT lost
Oh dear. Is that why Amy isn't here?
What do you guys think to Google's "Fast Flip" Story (link to BBC article here)?
Looks promising, as long as the news it gets is accurate...
looks to me like RSS reader upgraded to next level (not sure what level would that be :-) ) hard to judge based on one article. all I know is that the I never really made myself to use the RSS readers that exist now
a certain book by a certain author arrived in my mailbox today, hooray
It sounds like the BBC have managed to introduce advertising by the back door - I can see that causing trouble.
I wasn't upset. I was laughing at the fact that now only one person in the top 6 is slamless. MUHAHAHA IN YOUR FACE ANDY MURRAY.
Morning all
Well I am surprised because I thought you really liked Federer. Wasn't it also you that said the points system in Tennis made sense because it rewarded consistency? Bit unfair to laugh at Murray - British stars always get unfair pressure put on them :(
New breakout thread: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/15/lotus-given-13th-grid-slot/
Morning!
Hi!
My dislike of Murray isn't exactly news.
I like Federer, he's my favourite player, but he's got 15 slams. It's nice to see some new people win. I lost $20 on it and I didn't even mind because Delpo is lovely.
Q. You earned a lot of money today. How are you gonna use this? Are you gonna buy something to treat yourself?
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No, maybe cheesecake for my birthday.
Lovely.
I like that - cheescake to go with his big cheesy grin :D
Who is your favourite then?
Federer is my favourite, Verdasco is my second favourite.
Another breakout thread: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/15/pat-symonds-offered-fia-immunity/
Pinger 2 - Christine 0
D'oh! Misread your comment. My apologies :(
I'm not sure you can beat something that takes a milliseconds....
I was yesterday. 3-1 by the end of the day.
Easy to do :D
my list of players to stalk at the Open next year is rather long anyway :D
Wow! Go you!
I think you should cheat and copy the URL into the comments before you hit publish.
Noo. I ain't no Renault. (allegedly)
I promise not to tell Mr C :D
I am sure Mr. C. would cry if you instructed the thread to crash too, given the problems over the weekend ;)
Keith Floys, Patrick Swazye and the dude from Hi-De-Hi all pass away on the same day? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :(
And a boxer as well. Terrible day yesterday.
Yeah I saw that too :(
My wife just saw Keith Floyd on TV for the first time a few months ago (his shows were doing re-runs on BBC food) and she thought he was great...
I like this week's Paddock Life, 'cept the end story. Nothing new in there, but this line makes me happy:
The Italian Grand Prix quietly marked the end of an era, when FIA president Max Mosley attended what could well be his last grand prix as the head of the governing body.
Well, that comforts me some, for sure. :)
I don't know. It's what he does away from the circuit that worries me.
As long as it has nothing to do with F1, I don't really care what he does away from the circuit. It's his own business. ;)
Bassano's words come back to haunt me...
Todt's cabinet has been released, and is on Autosport here.
FTA:
Mobility Vice Presidents
Gus Lagman, President, Automobile Association Philippines (Philippines)
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!
Link fixed.
Other key things to point out - Todt's cabinet has Craw (ACC-US) AND Boeri (ACM-Monaco) on it.
Bad news for Ari...
two breakouts threads already?
yep. big news for Lotus.
I have just discovered some COBOL programmers... Blimey I didn't know there still were any!
Hello again everyone!
You miss all the fun.
We have lots of them here - tried it out for a bit for my OJT, but I didn't like it and switched to a different track.
in high demand apparently.
banks still want them, from what i remember - they're hesitant to move away from their reliable legacy systems.
They can't find anyone under fifty who can code in it.
That's where I found them.
There are people over 50 who are still willing to code?
that's because it's a mental language. no-one would try these days.
it's procedural, right?
most of our COBOL programmers are in their late-20s to early-30s.
yup.
..and certified loonies?
nope. they're people who need the cash. COBOL knowledge gets big salaries here.
doesn't sound very media|future|change ;)
indeed it does not. :P
With all this talk about COBOL, is it Time for the CodeMonkey song?
Damn, I knew I should have learnt COBOL instead of PASCAL. Grrrr
The Sun, the authority on F1 and motorsport, is reporting today that Button is seeking a £5m payrise and that his slump could be down to Barrichello's side of the garage not sharing data recently: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/motorsport/2637464/Jenson-Buttons-double-trouble.html
why would you learn pascal?
is this daily thread for 15th September 2009 or 1985 ? :-)
They taught us java at university :(
:D
:D
why the non smiley face? java rocks. am coding bits of sidepodcast in java at the moment.
Because I am rubbish at coding. I passed first year and then avoided it :(
shades of lewis vs. alonso?
if that's the case though, why do they keep hugging?
Java? :0
mm, you no likey either?
Hehe never learnt it just been told constantly its not a good language.
OK, here it comes, 1985 :-)
1985 On January 4th at CES, Commodore introduces the Commodore 128 PC with 8502 processor 128 kB of RAM and ROM cartridge port.
1985 On January 4th at CES, Atari introduces the Atari 130XE, 130ST, 260ST, 520ST, 65XE, 65XEM, and 65XEP computers.
1985 The GNU manifesto is published by Dr. Dobb's Journal
1985 Software Arts assets are sold to Lotus. Software Arts is most well known for its VisiCalc program.
1985 The Amiga aka A1000 is introduced..
1985 PNY Technologies is founded.
1985 Dell releases its first computer, the "Turbo PC."
1985 Titus Interactive is founded.
1985 Microtek introduces the world's first 300-dpi black-and-white sheetfed scanner.
1985 Quantum Computer Services is founded, this company later becomes AOL.
1985 Microsoft and IBM begin collaboration on the next-generation operating system (OS/2).
1985 The computer company Gateway 2000 is founded in Siox City, Iowa on September 5, 1985.
1985 CAT1 wiring is introduced.
1985 Intel introduces the 80386 in October.
1985 Paul Brainard of Aldus Corporation introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh, a program that lets users mix type and graphics on the same page. The combination of this software and the new Apple LaserWriter laser printer helps create the desktop publishing field.
1985 The Mach Project begins at the Carnegie Mellon University.
1985 IBM develops NetBEUI.
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00.
1985 The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
1985 ATI is founded.
1985 Boca is established.
1985 Corel is founded.
1985 Gravis is founded.
Story on Autosport "Max says Retirement a big relief"
not sure if he means a relief for him or for us....
depends on it's usage.
on the desktop it's blimmin' awful. just look at f1 live timing for an example. but running on a server where no-one can see it, it's better than php and python, which are the two other languages SPC is currently built upon.
:D
Yeah - go Atari!
PHP must be really bad because even I can understand bits of it.
I guess it is one of those languges which I will learn...
someday :D
oh, I just found out the discussion here was about year 1980 :-)
what are you using atm?
:)
Apparently Barrichello's side stopped sharing data after Germany up until just recently. Though if the pair are now fighting for the title (seeing as Red Bull are more or less out of the running), you'd think they'd not share setups now?
I was on an electronics course, and the tutor was on holiday, so we had a week learning PASCAL. This is 1990 when this happened. Oh god that's almost 20 years ago. :(
Oh dear. I like PHP :P
if it's true, jenson's gone up in my estimation. i figured he's been riding rubens' experienced coat tails all season. the vibe from the paddock doesn't seem to say "keep your nose out of my business", does it?
oooooh. understood.
it's not awful. visual basic is awful. php is much better than that.
indeed it doesn't. but if that's true, interesting that the moment they begin to share setups again, jenson gets back on form (albeit still behind barrichello).
I had to learn Visual Basic on my uni course :(
Mr C I think you'll like this http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm
oops!
:)
It's a straight foward thing to learn I guess.
I taught myself PHP so my Uni education has been sort of pointless so far :D
aren't they all ;)
:D
I choose my course because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.
I still don't :D
It was a nice piece of paper to get my foot in the door.
I learned a lot more outside of class though.
i heard there are a couple of job going at renault. how's you race strategy?
Like his code - crashes upon request?
Yep I've learnt a language we were told briefly about and never taught and used it to build my own content managment system.
Oh well I graduate on Thursday and then start another course to better my degree,
unresponsive at key moments?
Only works well under light loads?
Erm pit when we don't have enough fuel and if all else fails crash and cause a safety car.
I've strangely been receiving emails from an individual wanting to write for my blog recently.
Thing is, I don't have the heart to tell him he's completely missed what my blog is about. He's suggest writing articles about Brawn etc.
Bad research, poor first impression and emails riddled with mistakes... but I can't knock him for trying.
The clue is in the title.
Apparently he can help me with my press releases, magazine articles as well. Hmm... :-)
Add Years to Age etc
And I think you have to write everything in upper case!
Who is Quadbak?
A Qatar funds group that is based in Switzerland. Nothing else is known about them except the bought my football team (Notts County)...
Java on server good on desktop bad - agree.
Python good
PHP... hmmm...
Visual basic is awful.
You know how I really like plugging things...
Well I've written a new gamboling post...
http://www.gamboling.co.uk/2009/09/go-to-bed.html
That wasn't very subtle was it?
2 takeovers in a couple of months? Hmmm... This is interesting.
prefer python to php, why? python bracketing is crazy.
really? good lord.
:D
ah yes. i knew i avoided it for some reason ;)
i think maybe you should charge the person for articles...
:D
Good afternoon, i have been without power at home since i got up and forgot to charge my phone so have made myself dizzy swimming in circles.
Dont suppose there has been any F1 news? ;)
Seriously? There's 2 breakout threads. :P
Only 2?
Slow news day, we had 2 yesterday :P
Not just any 2. :D The first one in particular is pretty huge for Lotus and Sauber.
Jon 1 - Theory Test 0
Woohoo!
Congrats... :)
Easy?
Gavin says well done sir!
Not easy easy, but mostly common sense ;)
Jon congratulates Gavin for his use of the third person
Pat says hi, and congrats to Jon
Howdy.
I am 9 minutes into the F1 forum and Christian Horner has mensioned "viscious circle" 3 times....
He's caught in a vicious circle of vicious circles?
Our holiday year at work runs from 1 Oct to 30 Sept. I've got next week booked off as well as the following Monday.. but still had a day to use up. Hence 2 x half days this week!
Wanted to take Friday off but I couldn't..
If I'd thought about it earlier I could have taken last Friday and watched FP1+2, grr
Is monza a vicious circle?
The old banking is!
You have a year off or you have negative one day off? :P
It has an oval which looks pretty nasty?
That is supposed to be vicious circle, right?
It could be a viscous circle which sounds like some of coupling component.
I think he meant vicious cycle. :D
Mav, did you get my email? Need your help for tomorrow. ;)
Will go have a look
It's just dawned on me that Torro Rosso are building their own car next year.....i was told by Buemi of all people
Will they really? Or will this be like the 2004 Sauber being a 2003 Ferrari lookalike?
Okay, so Red Bull haven't narrowed down their engine problems to the viscous circle coupling thingy-me-jig?
Its a bit much to get him to design, build and drive it. I am not sure thats what the cost cutting was all about...
He's a talented guy ;) it could happen
hold on a second... they already build their own car. you mean design, no?
guess so. :)
yeah :D
they've already recruited a bunch of people for the positions. i'm guessing they'll be fine. it's not like RBR's technical input has been of much use this year anyhow.
according to DC on the forum they have a common software interface which updates to tell both teams of any change which is made to the car and its setup
i'm sure it does. but they're still last.
All these driver changes have royally screwed up my teammate comparisons numbers.
Then the biggest change since last year is the drivers...
Why are so many celebrities dying?
i wasn't me!!
i got "Band on the Run" by Sir McCartney on Vinyl today, just incase you start knocking off the other beatles members...
Rubens Barrichello says he will use Felipe Massa's advice to try and win next weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.
I'll bet it was "DON'T LEAVE THE PITS BEFORE THE FUEL HOSE IS REMOVED!"
:D
Hehe, MrC's favourite listener is amused by the fact he is still 4th in GP2 ahead of the final race this weekend
:D
and looks like he wont get caught...
Mrs Goat is gutted about Swayze.
I am gutted about Keith Floyd - I thought he was 5 Courses of awesome and I can't stand a lot of new TV chefs - especially Nigella :(
I write a lot of perl Python seems righter to me...
drives me to distraction. i like tabs.
Nigella seems to have figured out something - a lot of people don't watch the cooking shows to learn how to cook. They watch to watch other people cook. For some, it's nothing more than a stimulating sensory experience.
Alex! I wanted you to know that I just read my first short story ever that was read of my own accord and not one I was forced to read for high school English. I believe you may know the author.
Amy! Are you happy now?
Aww look, he's scottish again ;)
hehe I thought the exact same thing when i started the book!
P.S. pls write more nanobot adventures
I like the way they went for a 'sad' picture :D
thats what the meter says!
:D
You have made my day!
i hearts that
WoooHooo! :)
:D Brilliant site, Amy. :D
I prefer Perl but then... Well not that many people believe me these days.
I am going to listen to the new Muse album now to keep Lukeh happy.
A pile of our old records were going to taken to the charity shop, so i had a rummage through and took one back that i wanted....i then get home...and listen to it on Spotify....go figure
And Morrie Chandler of New Zealand, he (does or did?) head the rallying side of things.
Then there's Mohamed ben Sulayem who crashed the Renault in Dubai earlier this year - he's quite powerful in the region isn't he?
On the sporting side it doesn't look good for Ari. I know nothing of the other parts.
I did a course a decade ago (ouch) learning first Pascal and then COBOL. We complained vehemently that we should be learning a variant of C like all the other colleges..
I should have stuck with it and moved to Manila.. Unfortunately it was far too boring to learn so I never got the hang of it. :-)
We were taught it because it was 'one of the easier ones to learn'.
:D
Not so much anymore... regional politics will have lost him influence
Eddie Izzard is a legend!
You mean crazy, right?
Can we compromise on crazy legend?
We can ;)
Hmm. I guess so.
Someone needs to tell him sport relief isn't until next year.
it doesn't count! he will have to do it all again!
Tweets coming in from the IndyCar team personnel on the flight to Japan for this weekend's race.. apparently the IRL puts on a flight for them.
Vision Racing:
Whats the best progamming language to start off learning? LOLCODE?
*waves to nick from the daily*
OOps, this is confusing me, i may have to swap to LCLT
Now the only problem is i dont know when people are posting in other threads.
Could there be a a function in the factbyte bactbox to have a blinking light when there are posts in other threads?
It might be complicated, i have no idea!
open multiple tabs?
isn't that called doohickey?
Have open 1 x Doohickey for monitoring purposes, and 1 x LCLT for posting?
I am reallty confused, i will go back to doohicky and then open up LCLT if i need to post in the breakaways i think
I think the doohicky still works best for the breakouts... Slightly annoying scrolling up and down for the tread you are replying to... But mostly it works good :)
That's good, because I refuse to let Mr C get distracted by anything other than the homepage.
I was just checking how many people have entered previous recent races at monaco (i know there is a new pitlane, but still)
The 93 GP amused me by a certain failure to qualify
26 seems the maximum though
Its more of a user failiure.Unless i am quoting i will end up posting in the wrong thread, but other that that it is awesome!
I just need to be careful (and comment less!)
well, i was looking into making commenting crash less and moving from mediatemple. but for some reason the web site has gotten faster again today after a very poor three or four weeks.
i don't know what they changed, but i haven't touched a thing. back to the homepage then!
Anything anti-Mediatemple is an acceptable distraction.
I did use the phrase mediatempleofdoom in a tweet last night when the site went down, maybe they got worried it would become a trending topic? :P
:D
Oooh, it so should
If anyone still wants to submit their Interviews with Bloggers answers, don't tell anyone, but you can have a deadline extension. More details on the wiki, and asap please.
#sidepodradio
I had planned to do this until computer death intervened
It was the best tweet ever. Fact
I am reinstalling Skype..
Hi. Just hi.
*Waves*
Hi
Hey Jon, hows you?
Made me think of the way Ross says Hi sometimes...
Today i've passed my Theory test and tried out my racing boots on my driving lesson which, when you've got size 13/14 feet, does make a huge difference!
W00t
Hows Mr RG?
Yaay, well done!
Confused mainly about BMW/Lotus stuff. And struggling to find my memory stick, which I'm sure I didn't leave at school.
Thems big feet!
I am willing to put money on the fact that you have left it at school, i used to do that. It's SOO annoying
I once did an emergency stop and pushed the brake and accelerator at the same time.....i didn't do much stopping...
Well I almost missed the bus asking my IT teacher, which turned into a waste of time.
When did google become so bad at search, i am looking for information on Qadback and it has just provided me with 700 versions of the same story about sauber.
They have let their core business go to pot
Qadbak
I have to sort out clothes...boo
Ciao
There has been so much F1 chat here this evening. It feels odd ;)
hehe, its been a pretty hectic day!
If only there was a separate website where odd things could be discussed ;)
I just woke up and caught up with the last few hours and I thought "ooh you can tell I was sleeping because not a single topic was irrelevant"
I bet that Rodd guy could help.
I am finally catching up on debrief
"Heikki was dumb" :(
Did you see Paddock life? He seems to get on really well with lewis so there may be hope for him...
I liked that story :)
I cant belive he is allowed a ridiculous console driving set up when he is married!
...Rollcage in the house? ...sure honey!
I need to find someone that understanding!
I think you need to make enough money that space isn't an issue!
I wonder how long I'd need to stake out Geneva before I find an F1 driver *adds it to the itinerary*
Maybe, but i can still myself being told to buy a second house for 'that rubbish' :P
:)
Its expensive!'
I would budget £10 an hour for breathing!
Oooh, a dilemma has occured. Unfortuantly, the local speedway team, Newcastle Diamonds, have decided to start winning. Ie, they are in the playoffs. I've been a few times and heck, I ain't gonna miss them being in the playoffs. Unfortuantly, they decided to pride well, the same time as Sidepodradio. And now I might have to do the show pre-record. Question 1, Mrs C, can the deadline be extended and Question 2, if you really have owt to predict to me. I'd suggest do it by tonight.
boo at my friend for living in Zurich!
Good timing, I just left a some small ideas on the wiki.
(this sentence is also available in English)
ahh... now... i didn't mean it like that...
what did i say again?
At least the predo question is in English ;) Thanks.
I recall a "sorry Amy" and a "she's not in the comments is she?" :D
I'm trying to think of Top 5s as well but I'm so terrible at remembering things I'm scared of missing something obvious. Also, I have no clue for a subject.
ahh yes. i checked first. i can't believe you're trawling the archives again ;)
Was the deadline extended for those?
How about Top 5 motorsports other than F1?
in good news, the whole debrief has loaded on site so I don't have to go to drop.io :D
She'll be back on the naughty step before you know it.
cool. mediatemple really have changed something then because i that's been an issue for weeks.
She started her own Naughty step last night!
I used top5 F1 people to invite to dinner and top5 reasons to like the off season
I have no idea. I missed a lot of comments.
I did top5 f1 drivers related to food and restaurants
Did that work by the way, if you have listened to them?
Heikki is not in an egg!
Heikki is not a sandwich... ;) ;) :D
wha?
It says 80% done on the wiki so I assumed 20% needed filling so thought I could help :-)
oh wait... i forgot...
oops!
that in should not have been there
now i is confused
you wrote a song about heikki. remember?
OH! Heikki!! EGG!!! :D
*collapses into chair* hello
i mean umm...yeah....i remember that....those horrible people...
I'm so deep in the naughty step is unholy
this lives in the botanical gardens in my home town. I spent many hours of my childhood hanging out on that wall with him.
I will never look at him the same again.
#Sidepodradio
Top 5 radio is all done now, so no more entries required - however, if you do have a burning Top 5, we can always use little snippets here and there.
RG, you can do your show pre-record as long as it is SOOON.
Soon being?
As soon as you can.
hehehehe
hey
That is just BEGGING for Lukeh's Photoshop touch... The mere thought of it is hilarious! I mean, what were the chances? :D
I saw a great point the other week which I really liked... Somebody pointed out, "what with all these people inviting their top 5 people to invite to dinner don't they always worry that they'll seem like a real loser".
Of course in your case Steven it would be fine :)
That Miss Amy was a mistake
LUKEH!!!!
Lukeh + This + This = :D
Right. Okay.
Second link is this
Great minds think alike :D
Surely we need a picture of Amy and the egg.
The egg looks like Heikki, for crying out loud! :D
Or Amy as the egg?
I really think I've missed something here...
I shall be in my home town for approximately 5 hours on Thursday October 15. I am hoping to be allowed to steal the car for a bit so I can go on a photography spree. I shall add the gardens to my list :D
Humpty has a neck like an F
F1 driver. Damn enter key!
Wait till you hear the 5 I have invited. I plan on being the referee
excellent :)
:)
A gracious Sidepodnation salutes you
We need a photo of you next to that egg so Lukeh can convert it
Ah ok, no probs. The only thing I can think of is a response to Steven's 'why the winter is good' one... but it would be a bit too negative :-)
I shall have to remember to ask dad to take the car that I am insured to drive otherwise I shall be trapped and no photos shall ensure!
am thinking Lukeh may need a hashtag so he can easily see what everyone wants him to do when he checks the comments ;)
#geniusrequired
Do i go and do my weekly shop now or should i just grab something from over the road and save the bigger adventure for tomorrow?
Depends if you can get a signal in the supermarket to show us what your doing? ;)
I has blogged. It has a map.
http://daydreamingoutloud.com/2009/09/16/where-im-going/
:D
hehehehe
I am not to sure about that :P
Hello everyone - lou did you get Saturday night sorted out or do you need some more travel information?
It might be possible, but i will look insane, do people realy want to see the inside of tescos?
How motivated are you? If it were me.. tomorrow.
it's a long story... during which i sorted everything out with Dad and all was well with the world, before my friend's parents decided they like their plan of driving all the way to Wembley better than my plan so they are going to take us home. So in answer to your question, yes :D
OMG!
yes :D
yeyyy
of course! Tescos = foreign to me.
i am 50/50
Although slightly more motivated than i was when i posted :p
qikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqikqik
Awesome! I am kind of jealous...
Grr... ok... i will get ready, but if i get sectioned i am going to do a flav on you all :P
You wouldn't be when you see the bill :(
And then we'll all get immunity.
Its just the way these things work
Glad you all sorted :lol:
Have you seen some of th stuff Alex has done?
love it, leaving a comment :-)
@Christine
I am sending you an e-mail assuming it ever leaves here. It contains a couple of mp3 I promised a while ago. They have been edited but I am sure you can make them sound better
I am off, will comment in when i get there if there is reception.
You will need http://qik.com/dubaish but you must promise not to watch the other videos whilst i am gone
Should be there in 15 depending on traffic and roadkill
later nick.
Take hte roadkill home, it'll make your bill cheeper
hi nice people. how are you?
We are nice, apparently ;)
yes. Oh the question wasn't for me ;)
well i've seen some plugging in my time...
;)
hey, how's hamburg?
Hiya .. have left a couple of voicemails re the questions for bloggers thing. Sorry for the coughing fit
How was my mp3 Christine? I don't want to record it again :D
#sidepodradio
It was a comment to Nick who thought live streaming from Tesco's would not be of interest
Haven't listened yet, it's on my to-do list for this evening.
cloudy and windy. but I spent the whole day in a classroom/lab, so it's not a big deal
(sleepy but with a big smile after yesterday's US Open final... ;-) )
Ah ok. :)
I am commenting on the train. I accidentally shook my iPhone which prompted it to ask me if I meant to undo (that's the gesture).
I tapped what I thought was the submit button but was now the confirm undo button and the train moved and I undid and submitted!
well i've heard some excuses in my time...
;)
he's a writer, you now. he has imagination. ;-)
Been watching back the live show from Sunday here on the train. Notice that Christine changed clothes during the day.
Now in my case that would mean I had spilled something on myself. But I can't believe that from Christine!
know, with K :-(
if only I had an excuses website to plug ;)
i didn't know that, does he have a book out or anything?
:D
:)
You need an excuse?
http://www.thenorthernwaffler.blogspot.com
I'm getting one from a writer that sounds like him, I'll tell you in a couple of weeks :P
:D
awesome :)
there's a lot of love in the room for all you book buyers :)
Evening all!
Quick question. I noticed Peter Winsor was back in the interview room this weekend, why was that? I believe James Allen replaced him after USF1 granted a slot in 2010
five live said on twitter that he didn't seem to be in the paddock this weekend..
heya :)
James was otherwise engaged....he'll be back next time
I'm going to london at the beginning of october, do you have a signing session :-)
Got it. Thanks
Here
I am offended I didn't get a mention in the thank yous.
I don't care that you didn't know me in 2007, it's not good enough.
am watching but nothings happening
Have you started streaming?
Sidepodmeetup?
hi lukeh
I'll go to find something to eat, with a probable night walking visit to Hamburg later. see you later!
The Alleninator
I'll be......... BAAAACK! GET IN THERE!
I'm perfectly ready
LOL :D
:D
#sorryamy :)
a large meet up? i'll come... plus if it's after the 12th October i'll be able to have a drink in the pub too! :P not that i'd probably drink anyway,it's just nice to know i could :D
My first outing after i turned 18 went like this...
"Your 18!! Now you can drink!! What do you want?"
"I'll have a coke please"
:D
:)
im sooo there too!!
ahhh, I'll go 10 and 11.
#sorrylou
(but I don't drink, so you're not going to be alone ;-) )
:D :D :D hehehe
10th and 11th is the weekend my friends have told me i'm not allowed to do anything... plus we have open day on that sat. :( ah never mind.
:-(
well, they'll be another occasions...
where abouts in the country do you currently precide?
'there will be'
the lack of sleep and food is affecting me
right now, I'm in Hamburg
more precisely, going to the kitchen to cook :P
bye!
aha, see ya!
Did that work?
Not at all :(
The implication that interests me, is what happens if they do not renew Rubens' contract? Seems to me that he is rather valuable to the team. It is common knowledge that Jenson uses a lot of information of Rubens setup.
Nothing yet. Is it still uploading?
I just saw this tweeted, has it been mentioned? http://bit.ly/V05mV
If it has then just ignore this :)
I've just discovered that it costs more to be a Trade visitor than it does a public visitor at Autosport Show.
BOO
for three days not two though.
In the Symonds immunity thread :-)
I have heard this theory a few tims and I don't buy it. Why would Ross Brawn allow that to happen?
I noticed now :D I didn't have the doohickey open so didn't see it.
oh really? didnt know that :D
ignore me.
you only get 1 day with a public one though?
i haven't looked this year. trade is usually fri/sat/sun right?
ummm....
If i do it as part of a college i get Thursday and Friday for my money, if i do it as a normal trade visitor i get 1 day....
you're doing a college / university group registration?
my uni will be going, so im just having a look which is the best option, and as the trade prices are only for 1 day i'll go for the group one i think
will they have a stand too, many do?
im not sure they do, but i'll bug them too, my course is the best of all uni motorsport courses that exist (and im really not being biased ;) ) and it would make sense for them too
Evening folks, I have just eaten a massive ploughmans, and and now settling down to watch 2 hours of food on C4... lovely!
What exciting is happening here today?
You've just missed Economy Gastronomy on BBC, twas gooood
I know, but we just had to watch "How I met your Mother". Oh my god, has my life come to this?
I'm watching something about big ships.
Go to more Hill climbs ;)
What kinds of ships?
If they are the best course in the country they may have a stand. If they don't have a stand, you might find they used to and it wasn't working..
James, if you're still about, your mp3 is perfect, thank you.
It's a brand new course, started last year, im not sure they've thought of it
worth suggesting. i know the course that williams support had a stand last year.
Passenger liners. Starting with Brunel's building of the first really big metal ship.
Stop me if I'm getting too technical.
If motorsport (other than speedway) happened in the evenings I would!
:D
western, eastern? one of them.
No container vessels then?
Pah, not interested ;)
Ah I get it. They are comparing it to a modern ship, and the features on the modern ship sound more like a sales brochure, whereas the historical stuff is interesting.
ooh, gavin i read something yesterday that may interest you. have you heard about the container ghost ships?
Great Western.
I've been watching so much DVR / online stuff I'm being spoiled - I keep wanting to rewind the TV to check and I can't.
apparently a chrome update is available. haven't checked it out, but it might support doohickey audio. will play later on.
Umm, no? Do tell!
Oooh good, I will have to have a look!
Testing now...
Will take a look for you now.
i'll find a link. in short a new webservice was released a week or two ago, that tracks the location of every container ship on the planet, and a couple of savvy people noticed there was a rather large number located off of some remote island, so went to check it out.
apparently ships have been "hidden" out of sight because they have no work and nobody wants to admit they've bought far too many of the damn things.
sadly you can't hide from google maps!
There are several hundred moored off Fujeirah, It is quite an impressive sight
Iam back, i understand qik didnt work so i looked mad for no reason :(
might be them. where's that?
that's madness! like that desert in the US with the hundreds of planes
East coast of the UAE
Nothing new appeared at all, it kept playing the cricket video. Is it still uploading?
not sure this was the one i was reading, but it'll do.
i'll try and find the mapping service, it' very cool.
There are one or two Scottish sea lochs full of the damn things. It's been on the news hear
no :(
Is this it? http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Googleearth.html
no. browser based. no download required.
That is an awesome service for hijackers. They can watch a ship coming at them
That's amazing!
Wow. Do we need a Sidepodship?
a bargain :)
Email isnt secure?
I dont really use it but i never knew...
If sidepodcast towers is on Rockall a sidepodship would be essential
honest?
email is wide open. unles you pgp your mails.
AH HA!
i thought i'd never find it again.
I guess nothing is really seccure
I still think they should just shout really loudly down the paddock. Although that is what EJ does...
I suddenly feel angry at the idea
But Malaysia isn't on that map? (funnily enough!)
how'd they find it then?
(i've really got to start bookmarking things)
Very cool. First thing I do is look for the nearest to where I am...
There is a ship in the middle of Saudi Arabia... I hope it has legs :P
:D
Went to Newcastle. Apparantly there is one in the middle of a golf course :)
you're saying it's flawed?
:(
hald on, i think it was just out of sync originally.
Wow .... it's brilliant!
I use a similar application at work to ring fence a data area on a map... cooool!
Its good, it doesnt have anywhere near as many ships on as i know are in that area though.
It has the Ferry I went to Norway on!
is vesseltracker any better?
:)
There isn't the Newcastle to Stavenger on it. Disaster!
I havent looked at it.
But my friend works in a port and there were seval boats there which arent according to this map
This looks interesting, i think i saw them at goodwood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorsport/6168607/Buy-your-own-Formula-One-car.html
Zoom in. I was looking at 2 ships in the Gareloch an by the time I zoomed in there were 5 including one anchored on land
It has a lot of the ferries that go from the Scottish mainland to the islands
Ah i will check later it was killing my skyplayer"!
It was at Autosport International
They should have a racing series of these!
*gets mad cravings for Grand Prix Legends*...
I have three complete shows for Sidepodradio now! Woohoo, it's very exciting!!
Is it Sunday yet?
Is that three of your own shows?
F1 Top 5
Travels in Sidepodland
All Sports with Sean
Awesome!
Whooo! 1.5 down 10.5 to go!
That's fantastic stuff!
Nice work!
Jut thinking... there will be a lot more lapping nest year with these new teams.
Especially as their engines are supposed to be off the pace...
Mercedes are buying into Brawn because McLaren want to build road cars.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78660
Their is a paper plug in there! :P
Sean has been very quiet about his show. I was planning on having a word with him tonight about it.
Don't forget Jon's show is on drop.io too
will they ever learn??????
it might end up being like LMP1 and LMP2 in sportscars...
Ooooh yes! I have that one too!
FOUR SHOWS!
I saw that it feels odd that come 2012 McLaren could possibly be in partnership with someone else.
That was quick.
Did you get the e-mail I sent you earlier?
It's only a matter of time isn't it?
Mercedes must be annoyed that nobody German is in that team too...
Yes. Haven't checked out the drop yet though.
I don't expect anything to happen with them until after sidepodradio. I just needed to practise reading out loud
i don't have enough space for another tab in my browser :( i'll have to read that once i sort unis out..
I would have thought that they would have wanted an American because that has to be thir biggest market
Joe speculated they could use their own engines, but i guess that wouldnt be untill 2013.
It could be interesting though as they seem to be more commited to lower capacity turbo's
You know exactly how many tabs you can open?
Paper Rules :D FACT
When does the current engine sorbet end?
don't they scroll?
although i got very close to a subscription last night, still thinking about it
I belive 2013. although they may do something this winter (bad source)
Basically McLaren were all like "We wanna build a special engine" and then Mercedes were like "Nah-ahh! You gotta use our AMG engine sister" and then McLaren went "GOSH! We're SOO gonna build our own engine" and Mercedes threw a tantrum and took their expensive designer handbags to Brawn, and I SO caught them behind the wind tunnel making out!
Are you on chrome?
:D Love it!
Well it is all very petty...
no, firefox.. i just have waaaay too many open atm.... it's hard to manage them all..
haha :D
be careful you don't run out of memory...
Petty, but worth millions of pounds.
Wow, must be a good computer ;)
well.. i have almost 20 open atm as i'm looking at uni stuff and i'm trying to watch something on iplayer and i have bad buffering :( so i take it as a hint that i should wait and open another tab later :)
that's the problem.. i has too many :(
I think Mclaren want to be like Ferrari, but Mercedes weren't prepared to be FIAT
haha i want a mac :(
20 is nothing. You are not even trying at that level
well 20 is way too many for me :(
I'd wager iPlayer is struggling because you have so many tabs open.
I had a friend who liked to click things when they froze ... when it cleared itself, there were something like 62 error boxes on screen. It was so funny that when I went to help her I made a wallpaper by spreading them out across the desktop and taking a screenshot :D
Try chrome, It loves more tabs, Its always begging me for more, and if they do die, they do it on their own
Chrome rocks! great features, and I use it 90% of the time. The minimal bar at the top is perfect for netbooks too!
Evening all :)
Evening!
yeah.... plus my bandwidth is rubbish too :(
I have 17 open and that is the fewest in weeks
You always seem excited to see me, Gavin ;)
I feel good with four.
yeah i love chrome but i don't use it for the reason that i always open so many tabs and everything..
Of course ;)
evening
I have odd-sized windows open (narrow for doohickey, wide for webpage) because I am running a widescreen monitor...
I am down o 10 as i am watching the football and dont want to overtax the old dear
i forget the exact number, but on the day itv streamed f1 live online for the very first time, christine's mother-in-law managed to open something like 64 streaming video tabs in firefox before the end of fp1.
apparently framerate was a bit "jumpy" on the only one she was actually watching.
I remember that being quoted in the comments and it was 50 or 60 something
Hahahaha whow!
hahahaha :D
Did you get a screen grab?
I've got 2 instances of Firefox.. normally I have 2 or 3 tabs in each. I like running different ones because I find Alt-Tab easier than Ctrl-PgUp
Good lord!!
And the internet didn't explode?!
i think itv had some issues.
wow
Sidepodcast, BBC Text of Cricket, BBC Text of Football, SkyPlayer of Football and now IMDB for my media, nothing.
That's um... yeah... ?
#sidepodradio
Thanks to a lot of hard work by Christine and the show hosts the ony pre-recorded shows stil to be completed are the interview with the bloggers, RG predictions show and Alex's 4 shows. Everything else is live.
Thats what happens when you employ Mark Blundell to pundit I suppose
If you have a prediction, you have 2 hours and 32 minutes.
Or if your really clever, another 16 hours after that.
ctrl + tab steps through the tabs
it would be really nice when sidepodradio is done and dusted, if i could maybe have christine back for a bit. you'd think i'd married a set of headphones :cry:
This is cool... gawker have a new system which lets you pick and choose their blogs to make hybrid sites...
It does remind me of a certain sidepod selecta' though ;)
aww :( wasn't it you that suggested a 12hr sidepodradio in the first place? i could be wrong?
Sorry. Next week is Petit Le Mans and Singapore.
Are you looking for people to phone in things for you to predict or do you want them to put them in the wiki on the show page?
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Nostradamus+Effect
It was Alex.
gah!! i forgot.
ah okay #sorrymrc
I thought you were too busy being productive to notice
Both. Don't mind, I assume at this late notice, the wiki would be better
I just discovered the ctrl + pgup/pg down, its great with this keyboard
awwww :(
I want to come give mr c a hug now
*hugs*
You are not wrong Lou. It is all his own fault with a little help from RG
Franck.
Hey, I just suggested the idea. Everyone else happend to expand on it.
Gavin, are you around Friday night? I was wondering if you fancied a runthrough of the show on Skype (with me via iPhone :P ).
sidepodhugs all round?
Works on chrome and Firefox...
Awww... maybe you need to engineer a direct line into them ;) hehe
Definitely!
*hugs sidepodcast*
I hugged a box of chicken today as well. A good hugging day in all.
tis very true.
#blamerg
Yeah sure... sounds great. Just call after dinner - I have a phone connected to skype 24/7...
a box of chicken?... any reason?
*hugs2all*
OK people time for a quick push to help RG. Go to http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Nostradamus+Effect and give him something to predict. Once you have left a message on the wiki you could leave your prediction request on skype so that it can be edited into the show.
I didn't do anything wrong? Did I?
Boxed Chicken! :D
Because I noticed it on our delivery cage, as we started selling it again in our shop with the new stock, and I was happy to see it back in stock! Someone said it looked like I was hugging it so I did. A reunion perhaps. It's really yummy food to be fair!
I reckon I'll be home just after 8, is that good for you?
The cold is killing your brain!
ah... okay....
I took photos of what I have to work with tomorrow in our little cold room, if my phone played ball with my laptop then I'd happily share!
i've not been idle. i have a demo of pubsubhubbub working. if you go here:
http://friendfeed.com/sidepodcastlive
all comments should now be syndicated live to friendfeed as well as spc. it's not perfect - permalinks don't work, blockquotes have to be replaced with little > signs, and some comments get missed completely, but it does at least have potential.
you might find some comments appear over there faster than here and this is the model that real-time commenting will be built upon. the geeky aspect of it is that it's all built on the standard RSS comment feed and google.
also you can't reply over there either, it's a one-way thing.
#praiserg
YES! Exactly. Don't fall for his sob story. If I took my headphones off we would have to do something stupid like have a conversation.
i thought you were busy?
productive! that's a good idea. i've been lazy this afternoon. apparently its evening now.
Oh no, and another argument would ensue.
oh i see.. well conversations are overrated anyways ;)
I like the way it says 'about 30 comments a day' :P
Can that out put to twitter? if so it might break it! :D
Isnt that what skype is for?
I think he wants you to cook or something but thinks the sob story will work better
i tried. twitter is limited to 150 message per hour. we break that limit during quiet periods and hit nearly 1,000 during races.
hehe, brilliant! Too big for twitter!
Woofer?
Sidepodcast: Even twitter can't handle us.
s'cuse me?
I'm editing another of my notes posts (why? I'm not sure). Just got to the bit in Valencia where Jake talked to MS. He said 'we all hope you get back in a car soon'. noooo!!!
woofer - tweeter/twitter ??
http://woofertime.com/
It's 1400 char minimum ;)
herhehe i remember that :D
He meant to say "We all hope you get back in a car soon so you can go back to the airport and fly home" :D
never heard of it. i didn't explain myself properly though.
twitter has a 140 character limit. which is obviously an issue with longer comments. but it also has a limit on the number of messages you can post an hour. currently 150 messages.
So you implement a macro that aggregates the messages into a woofer feed! Problem solved!
but then messages wouldn't be instant?
that's the issue i'm trying to solve here. the 20 second poll-time lag.
Well I'm just having a laugh really ;)
*steven... daily*
OOPS
To answer Steven's question:
http://woofertime.com/home/is-this-twitter
:-)
ha!
MrC will the new doohicky be incorporated into the new homepage?
Right, heading off for an early night. Remember those questions! Lotsa love.
night R.G
sort of. can't say for certain yet. the homepage receives a lot of load in terms of page hits, so it needs to be very light and efficient.
night sir.
Night RG
Ah cool.
Sidepodcastpro for the power users? :P
Night Reg
interesting idea.
quick test, pls ignore.
Okay will do :)
I cant, The reply button was just too tempting :D
Cached something?
night
memcached ideally. but the weight of the page also has to be small. doohickey just keeps getting bigger.
What? Did I? I don't think so
When you ask if there are more comments how does that work? Do you do a double request... Are there more comments? Yes there are more get them?
I have totaly fallen in love with this site... but i just had to share this gem
Without making it too insane... Could you put a timer in that lasts 5 seconds and then says... right now I'll load the doohicky code?
That site is fantastic - be warned, that is the only SFW pic though!
i would probably cache the latest 20 comments in an array, and then select from the array each time, rather than the database. reset the list of 20 with each new comment.
am only guessing though, haven't got that far yet and mediatemple doesn't even have memcached as an option.
could do, that'll delay the loading of doohickey by five seconds. so load homepage and wait... or load doohickey.
That's the thing... What we do in a system I manage is we only let everyone look at the cache. Then every x seconds we force clear the cache first user gets the load of the refresh everyone else sees the cache whenever they request.
That's what I was thinking... Plus my guess is a percentage of traffic is hits from non javascript running bots and stuff.
this hasn't come across as well as i'd hoped:
it's supposed to be demonstrating how we can now get new comment alerts inside of an instant messenger chat window. in theory the window could be any type of client - desktop doohickey, android/iphone app etc. still someway off but it is working in principle.
[download for a better view]
that would save us a huge amount to database loading problems. however, it does require the complete removal of wordpress.
have i mentioned i'm not a fan?
Once or thrice :)
Why would it? If it's only for retrieval?
Cool... Android wants you ;)
the database is actually being killed by people f5ing on ye olde comments.
lclt/doohickey causes almost no pain.
wordpress does 25+ database "select * from..." queries per reload. it's utter nonsense.
Ouchy...
So... Lets face facts...
I'll get into RG mode...
I see something in your future...
Your own CMS!
Good luck :)
am working on it. honest guv.
i could perhaps dispense some advice though... avoid wordpress.
I however need some bed.
Goodnight everyone... If only I had something to plug that was bedtime related...
Oh I do?
Yes that's right it was today's blog post: http://www.gamboling.co.uk/2009/09/go-to-bed.html
night alex.
This is like your version of plugging.
I have hosted wordpress on my new site... Maybe I should be customer number 2 for your CMS?
Thanks. Sorry about the plugs!
Night
media|future|change
you can be no #3 though.
Eh-hem.
sorry.
alex... #4?
:)
Is that f1minute or smarterthanyouraverage?
Better plug than earlier :P
damnit.
alex... #5?
I meant... Lets be careful...
You Mr C are in charge of wires and code and stuff of course... But Christine is in charge of blogs and domain names. Right? Right.
You - In charge of wires and code
Christine - Customer #1
Me (not you but me) Customer #2
(did that work ;) )
phew. i hope so :)
What about iheartfranck?
Agreed.
Maybe I should start an excuses blog ;)
gah! how many blogs does the girl have??
She does have a lot of blogs!
you may be stuck with wordpress a while.
I was going to mention weheartalex but i cant remember the name...
http://weheartalex.tumblr.com/
aha!
A red panda has escaped from London Zoo.
really???
Just saw it flash up on the TV news
i feel sorry for the other panda that is left there... there were only two. however i may pop up to london tomorrow and see if i can find the missing panda :D so i can take it home.
Was Mrs C last seen heading in that direction with some black and white paint, or has she still got the headphones on :P
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8255906.stm
Well if has returned then that is no fun at all :(
Silverstone LMS is on eurosport now BTW
i know. i had visions of the panda walking the streets of london, like the wild penguin what lives somewhere in america...
I so want a pet penguin.
twood be awesome!
someone sent me a link (it could have been lukeh) of a penguin that roams the streets with a little pingu back pack on, and people look after him..
apparently they it lives in Japan...
Ive seen that... its awesome :D
I just need a house with a pool and a penguin...
Hi there. Penguins ... at West Edmonton Mall they walk the penguins in the mall for exercise.
Right, I'm absolutely cream-crackered as I have spent all evening writing the Driver Consistency post for the Italian Grand Prix - but it's worth a read because as a bonus I compared Barrichello and Kovalainen's laptimes, analysed the championship standings (and what each driver has to do to win), and then looked at what would have happened if we used a medals system.
Hope you like it - and please leave comments!
Reading now ...
Awesome... Are you tempted to go and chase them?
Will read tomorrow as I'm quite tired having spent the last 90 mins editing my notes on the European Grand Prix and working out which parts of the unnecessary HTML header Open Office tables produces I can remove so as to not break my formatting...
Please, people, tell me - just how good does NFS Shift look? :D
http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/09/15/need-for-speed-shift-gt-gt-awd-icons.aspx
Nah, that would be mean. but funny. :D
Can anyone find me a clip of the feature BBC did on the Brawn and Red Bull strengths and weaknesses during the F1 coverage a couple of races back?
Guys,
This is unbelievable how bad the safety standards are - we are in 2009 for Pete's sake!
They should lose their track licence for this!
Not bad, tempted to get either that or DIRT... after autosport adspam i am leaning towards dirt...
Have you heard about the head tracking in GT5? You look to your mirrors and the view changes, look down at the dash and the screen moves to that...
might have to buy a PSeye :D
I was expecting to see a tyre barrier at the end of the gravel trap, I can't believe the car carried on!
But if you move your head down you won't be looking at the screen any more, unless your head looks down and your eyes are at the top of your head
No kidding! I certainly wasn't expecting track again.
I did see that. I thought the black stuff was a tyre wall, then we he was across the other side of the track I thought he'd vaulted it, but when I saw the other angle I was surprised there wasn't one!
This one's for Christine, and totally unrelated, but I had to share it 'cause it's Too. Cute.:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/trigpalin/panda-party-m80
#Panda
#
Have done :D
great post
That is utterley ridiculous. Whoever licensed that circuit for that class should be banned from licensing cicuits as they are clueless.
Thanks guys ;)
Good night!
And these guys say they want to host the Australian GP? Fat chance.
Night
Night!
I've never heard Philip Island say they want to host the AusGP
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63860
It was supposed to hold some pre-season testing a few years ago. It hodls the Moto GP race.
That was insane, i agree completly.The Authorities should lock that place up.
Dont the Moto GP guys go there soon?
has there even been an investigation launched?
Some people are only programmed to answer the question they are asked and not add any relevant info {Comment #117}
True, and I will admit it didn't occur to me until late on that I'd got the wrong start date (after all, most other courses appeared to start that week). However, this does not explain why the several members of staff who (at different times) wondered out loud what I was doing hovering around a deserted room after evening lessons were due to start didn't think of the idea - especially as most of them were from the department in question and the people who eventually told me what had happened didn't even know what my course was until the second time I re-phrased the question.
I can sort of see why reception didn't inform me I'd got the wrong start date. Discovering that most of the department staff didn't know either was a little disconcerting.
Doh!
Lesson 1) RTFQ (or the appointment card ;) ) {Comment #121}
If the appointment card had featured this particular item of information, it would have helped. Instead it was blank, so I assumed that due to most of the other courses starting this week that mine would too.
I have long since learned that phoning up to find out stuff (as opposed to going through the college support network, which has yet to be set up for this academic year) is completely pointless.
(In case you're wondering, another college provider is available except that I've found it to be about ten times worse).
I tweeted this earlier:
@bassanoclapper Wants the UN to make a resolution to ban the use of “gate” in relation to all scandal discussions. Sloppy journalism is to blame
It’s really getting on my wick! Grrrrrrr! {Comment #154}
I've taken to calling the Singapore 2008 stuff the "Nelsinho Defence" scandal. I object to naming it after a label that's been recycled from three years ago and completely misses why Watergate is called Watergate...
I cant belive Spingate didnt take off!
It used to annoy me too... but its sort of become a meme now which amuses me... Its sort of a journalistic joke
Q. You earned a lot of money today. How are you gonna use this? Are you gonna buy something to treat yourself?
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO: No, maybe cheesecake for my birthday.
Lovely. {Comment #279}
Juan Martin has the same taste in puddings as me and I also like his low-key but tasty way of celebrating :D
Evening folks
I prefer that, some thought has gone into it at least.
Recycled from 3 years ago? The gutter press have been using the term since Diana was causing scandals with her pen pals, if not before
I think that was meant to be 33 years since Watergate was in 1976
Jon 1 – Theory Test 0 {Comment #380}
Congratulations, Jon!
When did it start getting re-used, I wonder
Fairly soon after that
Recycled from 3 years ago? The gutter press have been using the term since Diana was causing scandals with her pen pals, if not before {Comment #947}
I meant "crashgate" was recycled from 3 years ago. The suffix has been recycled since Watergate!
ahh interesting, ta