As it's the weekend, it's time to share the love and see what people have been blogging about. In fact, there are a lot of good posts doing the rounds at the moment, so here's just a few of them:
- I particularly enjoyed reading F1 Wolf's post about how the records have changed now that Webber is a race winner. Heidfeld is really starting to stack up those finishes without a win, isn't he? Will he ever manage to score that elusive victory?
- Two drivers have captured the imaginations of Scott and RG respectively. Scott's written about Le Seb - a popular subject at the moment - particularly focusing in on the aspect of drivers moving from America. Meanwhile, RG has made the case (and an excellent one) for Liuzzi getting a seat in F1.
- Some photographs have surfaced of Heikki and Lewis taking part in a Marks & Spencer's photoshoot for a new kidswear range called "Living the Dream." This is beyond the most peculiar F1 story of the year, and I can't quite form words to describe this picture of Heikki on a very small bike.
That's it for now. I hope you're enjoying the start to the weekend, and have good plans for the weekend. Let us know what you're up to if you haven't already. I'll see you in the comments.
Hello new daily post. Today I have stayed up to see you arrive.
It's a new day already?
Were in a new daily, so i assume so.
Adapted from the west wing:
The FIA is being looked at by an optimist annd a pesimist.
The Pessimist says "This organisation is being run so badly, doing all the wrong things for the sport, it cant get any worse..."
The Optimist says "Oh yes it can!"
:D
Christine,
the Heikki link takes you to RG's post
oooh, that needs fixing. it's the best pic ever!
It's worth reading twice :D
Tis fixed now. Blame Getty, they have weird URLs.
Awww, thanks Jackie
I think Amy's going to be sending alot of Sidepodlove your way
I listened to the podcast Pat was on http://www.planet-irl.com/podcasts/episode1.mp3 and he said he got some criticism in the forums for it. The problem is the host. He sounds like he has a list infront of him and he is killing any flow. He has to let people speak and go with the flow but he keeps changing subject as soon as anyone gets a sentence out.
It also sounds like he needs an editing lesson from Christine.
I know it was the first podcast on that site and if it was his first podcast then the mistakes are perfectly understandable but no guest is going to sound good on the show as it is.
hahaha! brilliant!
Strange they are advertising clothes for M&S whilst wearing Hugo Boss logos!
I read it once and left a comment. That should be enough.
I did that for sidepodcast... and then...
I think we need video of that
Me too
i think a 3-way skype with one of the MWM crew is biting off more you can chew for your first every show.
walk. then run.
I don't think my blog is going to take over the world.
nik kershaw is underrated as a songwriter.
Having a pro on makes things more difficult than necessary. I noticed the host let him flow a bit but at one point Pat asked for a second to clear his thoughts and then started talking sensibly and barely got his first sentence finished before th host butted in and changed the subject.
I didn't even know what Skype was on our first show.
pat actually went on there with more podcasting experience than the host... and i think he's one, maybe two podcasts?
That was you on the first show?
Let me have another listen :P
I am already very sorry
Pat needs to do more sidepodcast shows where his efforts will be appreciated.
i'll speak to the boss.
We heart you Pat :D
Do you get pingbacks if its linked to a forum article?
Are you back in her good books again?
Me's not been on the very naughty step again?
I got incredibly excited when i got a pingback from a music website after a post i'd written :D
might be :)
I.don't.know...
I would suggest 0121 28 TRACK until the Sidepodpanels come back and then sounds like we got ourselves a host :)
try it and see.
Have mentioned your blog on an article about driver contracts for nrxt year .. I just wondered
I get the one from SPC Daily but not yours
have done so .. awaiting RG's verdict
I just watched ep 1 of 5 of last week's Torchwood - very good :-)
so it needs to be a blog post .. pah!
I'll have to get writing on the bloggy woggy then
How did that happen? Milky Bar buttons?
I am glad he volunteered
Cool. I thought the same but I didn't want to discourage the guy with too much negative comment off the bat. I do think he's biting off more than he can chew but he's only 16 (sorry RG) and eager.
It wasn't that I had too much criticism in the comments there, I think it was more me being self-critical although the host did say on Twitter that I was too quiet and he had to edit a lot of gaps. That's just par for the course though.
He had 5 pages of notes so that may be why he sounded the way he did. I had no notes and felt lost.
I didn't like the idea of 5 consecutive nights up front but it worked and worked really well.
I thought you started one?
To be fair to him, his booked co-host failed to show. Kohl (host) put a desparate call out on Twitter and Dex responded to step in at the last minute and made it very clear he could only stay 10 mins tops. I think we did okay under the circumstances.
if it helps (and it may not), i'm subbed to your blog feed and read everything. will likely never get me head around forums though :(
I don't mind, I do similar.
i think nick painted himself into a corner and provided me a handy exit.
I've done the Panel in the Park and one normal Panel. I did make the point somewhere, can't remember where - it may have been my blog post and it may have been the para I deleted - that a panel show is very different to a conversation show.
Cor I go away for an hour and get lots of Sidepodlove, I like this. :-)
He sounds older. I don't think there is anything wrong with you offering him some constructive criticism. To me he needs to cover fewer points and go with the flow on them.
I think that is the problem. He was trying to get through all his points in a fixed time.
a) his job to turn you up
b) editing comes with the job. if he doesn't enjoy that... blog more.
As you'll have seen I'm still trying to find my way with the blog whereas Mav and duck to water spring to mind. Maybe that's why I'm not so keen on writing on it.
If I get time tomorrow I'll be watching 2 or 3 more, depends what the weather is because I may be golfing, which means I'll be at Dads for a long while after.
Yay Nick
I knew i shouldnt have posted that....
sorrrrrry...... :(
Thanks guys :-)
I think it was appreciated... just in a different way. He's invited me back anyway.
I ain't hostin' nuthin.
Some folk do it natuarally and others don't. I can talk all day on F1 whether it is comments here and elsewhere or on one of the shows but putting together a blog post or guest article is hard work. Other people like Christine just seem to be able to produce blog posts on any subject with ease.
is it tricky then?
:)
Shh, don't say that when Steven's around :D
much...
I believe he's learning this. He is already planning the next two.
It isn't difficult when you get started, the hard part is getting started.
That's good. I am sure it will come together with practise.
All you have to do is ask a few questions and its fun. I am sure you will enjoy it.
I have some stuff that I start then if I don't finish it quickly I can't find a way to make myself do it. The best stuff I have ever written has been the stuff that flowed from start to finish. I could probably write a lot if I could type as fast as my brain goes but when I slow my brain down to my typing speed I lose the flow.
It's not tricky, it's more down to lack of confidence on my part. When I started that blog in my own name about 2 months ago that was easier as it was all mine, if that makes sense.
I'm not so keen on writing something when it's not such a high standard as his posts. I should say that Mav tries to encourage me but I have kinda got myself stuck into a negative spiral with blog posts.
He's started already. Can we get some straps for Mr. Roy so was can restrain him?
We need people to host the next series and now that Pat has volunteered we need one less.
Isn't that why we heart Steven too?
Sounds like you need to post some stuff on your own blog to get some confidence.
It's why I do.
I find the same. Up until the early part of this year I wrote some fairly good pieces in one hit. I lost the flow due to studies and never got back into it.
An example: The first Goodwood report was done this way, straight out, no worries. The second one was a bit of effort which is why it is peppered with photos and not much text. The third one hasn't been written because I can't get myself to sit and write it.
The thing is, the more you write the better you'll get. Presumably you've been writing long-ish posts on the forums for a while now. Posts like that are ideal for a blog. I've got a decade of newsgroup experience so I slotted straight in, a web forum is no different, a blog is no different.
I like to set things up and let people squabble over it (this is why I post links and then sit back) so I might prefer asking the questions to answering them.
I agree.
The silly thing is that writing forum articles isn't a problem .. I must be weird
Apparently I also type quickly
transcript?
depends. i can write a thousand comments, but posts are tougher.
Haha touche, you are quick of mind.
I wrote a pice on Gilles Villeneuve that appeared as a guest post here and it is by far the longest thing I ever wrote and could have been 5 or 10 times longer and it just came so easily. I did it all in one siittng.
At other times I have struggled to put 500 words together.
sod off? :-)
that was quicker :D
well it works for steven!
That's what a sidepodpanel host does. I knew you would be a natural
Why not? You can start by writing a forum article and then copying your favourite ones into the blog.
With these tools you are spoiling us
I promise I will do something tomorrow
500 is fine. Blog posts can be any size.
I'm not being roped into two things in as many minutes :-)
Have you been roped into either?
Not at all. Everyone finds some stuff easier than other. Mr C has discussed the problems he has writing stuff an only last week he was telling us how he spent all day trying to record an F1 minute when Christine was ill. Now he can talk. I know that because I have heard him do it but putting together one minute of scripted speech just isn't his thing.
I might be easily led.
I am special
No I mean I have been completely unable to get anywhere near 500 cohesive words on a subject I could discuss all day.
I take that as confirmation that you will host a panel. Congratualtions. You won't regret it.
gotta rewrite wordpress.
I thought you were re-writing the internet
working on it.
Its probably on the list somewhere
What I'm saying is I was willing to come on maybe one panel next series. If that's as host and I can set people up and then shut up and not say anything controversial or do silly voices, that suits me fine :-)
sidepress?
I have reached the point in the evening where I either go to bed or listen to music, so what shall I play?
dookie
I have volunteered to transcribe a podpanel .. I think it may take me hours as I'll laugh too much :D
What kinda mood you in .. relaxing music or upbeat stuff?
yay. thanks jackie.
Good choice.
What's that?
Not sure but the loud rock is working at the moment. I thought I was in a sort of obscure club/dance/mindless beats mood but I'm not sure now. Don't have much of that.
we're marveling at the drumming here.
That part is mandatory I'm afraid, as in you actually do it. :P
Anything Alex can do, I can do too
Nah, as host you get the people to do the amusing stuff :D
I'm really very boring
:)
You could get lucky and only have to do the sound of a car engine.
You seem not to be scrobbling
As host i get to choose, so something topical nearer the time.
I'm worried that I'm not putting up much of a fight here
Before I go, I've managed to knock out another blog post, this time on Loeb
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/07/ere-loebs-coming.html
Toptcal is always good so is unexpected
Wonder if I can stay up till 4.30 and I could head off to the next sale
Of course you can.
I don't know if I'm that fussed actually.
Is there any decent motorsport on at the weekend .. or failing that, any space shuttle news?
what sort of sale?
twas on youtube. best way to see it.
Next .. clothes/household stuff you can usually get some bargains
MotoGP on Sunday. The rest is a bit so-so.
Ah
I may have a look at that
Who starts a sale at 4:30am anyway?
Well it's at 5 but yes they start at 5
The sort of thing most of us would get on Saturday afternoon?
Space shuttle docked today. I think the first spacewalk is on Sunday. Let me check the thing I wrote last night if I can find it.
5 o'clock in the morning really exists? I always thought that was a myth.
I don't see it happening actually, I've started yawning
Great Post, Ive never seen that video of Loeb in Hekki's Renault before, very interesting!
*hides back under the sofa
Why you hiding?
Just found my original comment and it all looks wrong to me. Think I got a few days screwed up. Need to dig out the press kit
I love Pat's reply to RG on twitter about "the wind" haha
NASA just confuse me. I am sure they changed the schedule on me.
Saturday is now spacewalk 1 day. Not sure when it starts but should last 6.5 hours. The crew are due to wake at noon UK so the spacewalk will start a couple of hours after that I guess.
The next three spacewalks are Monday, Wednesday and Friday and th final one for this mission is on the following Monday.
:-)
So on my original comment on the 16th that detailed everything that was going to happen on this mission pretty much everything is now a day out.
NASA also do sidepodtime?
golf sale?
I think they invented it although to be fair they do it with times ending in odd minutes. So the crew wake up tomorrow is not scheduled for 7am eastern but 7:03am.
The two spacewalkers begin their camp out at 9:28pm eastern tonight.
I think the times create the impression of precision whereas we all know it is in chaos most of the time.
Christine did threaten to copy this and start scheduling shows for 7:01pm
Oh god, I've lost the plot, I'm still laughing at RG's wind comment .. haha I can't stop laughing, it's so childish
have let christine know!
watch this space.
or that space.
I am not sure if I got it wrong or they shuffled the schedule again. I know they are undocking a day earlier than planned to make room for a Russian Progress module which has been planned for a while.
Howdy boys....Oh and Mr. C and a good day to you, Sir!
Hi Joe
Hi Joe.
How are you?
doin good., you?
Watching the Rays vs. Royals....come on Rays
I am good too
Hi Mr Joe
Now cut that out! Just kidding. Any good news in F1 today, a blah weekend here, no Indycar or F1
I haven't checked the baseball tonight. Yankees losing against Detroit.
Good, the Rays are 3.5 games back from the Yankees and the wildcard slot
I read recently that Kimi is done at the end of the year? True or not
The rumours have been around for ever but he has a contract for next year and I would b surprised if he and Massa were not at Ferrari next year.
I am scared...
gonna sleep under here i think... oh look a stray polo
Sorry again Mrs C, Night all
What did you do Nick?
Good night night .. don't have nightmares now :)
:D :D
Is this about last night?
Night Nick.
Didn't we all? :)
Not yet, anyway. Has SPC taken over the world already? :D
Steven, if I recall you are a Yankees fan, I am thinking of going to a Yankees vs Rays game. I'll take pictures
i guess she has a longer memory than i give her credit for.
it's taken over our world. yours?
I didn't see anything mentioned today but I only skimmed the comments.
I guess that would be 'yesterday', now..
I look forward to seeing them. Posada came so close to a home run. Ended up with a ground rule double and hit a fan in the gut with the ball. I guess the fan never caught a ball in his lfe judging by his technique.
When opening the doohickey is the FIRST thing you do everyday, you know it has. :D
oops.
Windows Live Writer really does produce some terrible HTML
really? damn, it used to be quite good :(
Doesn't everyone do that?
It looks okay in Live Writer. You go and edit it within Blogger and it is just a mass of text, you can't find anything.
Good point. :D
As Steven Roy said, everyone does it. :D
Good night / morning all
that's a shame. i wonder if google changed something, or they just didn't work on that bit hard enough.
night jackie.
i've just lost a key, presumably due to the wine/keyboard incident.
i have a no worky question mark key.
Night
I had that happen on Saturday. Did you throw your battery-eating wireless keyboard at a wall?
i threw the wine at it.
Not as durable as they used to be?
back in my day...
Night Jackie
morning all.
I am soon to go outside and do something productive. I can't remember the last time I did either of these things on a Saturday. I'm scared I've forgotten how.
Give it some hangover cure next and itwill be fine
Morning. Have you read the daily post with added Heiikipics?
I haven't left the doohickey BUT NOW I SHALL
Morning.
aaaaaaaaaahahaahaha. I want that bike.
It's a child's bike. You are way too old for it.
he looks absurd.
Also, I like when you search for Heikki on Getty Images and you get two results in the set: 7 Jan 2010
Youngest Ever Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton Turns 25 (2)
Getty has a time machine.
:)
I was playing around formatting a new blog post to finish tomororw, and have ended up posting it.
http://toomuchracing.blogspot.com/2009/07/goodwood-fos-pt3.html
ooh, nice layout.
I like it :-)
A few spacing gaps need taking out.. I don't like the way Blogger messes up the lower bar when you have lots of tags though.
or labels, as they prefer :)
That looks good Pat.
I blame Feedburner. I added an email the author link and it positioned it funny.
Thanks.
Just took out the Email link from Feedburner. Can't find where to edit that part in Blogger, I think it must be in the HTML template.
Cup of tea and a bowl of cereal with plenty of milk.
so I go to the link to lee's blog that was posted at some stage back, and the first thing I see is "MY main roll on a race weekend is driver interviews"
Oh Lee.
:D
Gonna call it a night, quite happy to stay up more but the hurting eyes suggest not a good plan. Hopefully if the rain holds off I will be golfing, for the first time in a month! Could defer it a day though.
You're gonna find this hilarious.
Force India + MTV India = reality show!
The Fast & The Gorgeous
heard about it, haven't seen the show though.
interesting concept, actually. but mtv reality shows tend to be rubbish sometimes.
i like it. i mean i'd rather they were battling to be pit mechanics or something useful, but it still looks like a well put together program.
how come they have bbc graphics>
night pat.
singapore put together a similar reality show for their grid girls this year. i'll see if youtube has anything about it.
hehehe. i was wondering the same thing! i do hope they asked for permission. :D
nice one. i check in the morning.
for now i must sleeps.
night mr c and pat. :D
good morning, europe!
Unfair. THe Yankees finally get a lead and then there is a rain delay.
Time for bed then I think. Good night all.
hehe. what can you do.
g'night.
I suppose bottom of the 8th with a two run lead is better than bottom of the 7th with a one run deficit
Indeed. :D
phew, 4 tram rides and 3 shops later, outside is conquered.
Hahaha! The outside isn't something you... conquer. :P
I has conquered me! I have to go back out in it. Why can't my friends birthday party be in my living room?
It. It has. Not I has. Also, when I click-to-quote it doesn't like smileys. I can't win!
:P You're not on doohickey, are you? :D
Sure am. When I click on a quote it comes up with IMG class=smiley alt=:P src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif rather than actually showing up.
Eh? That's rather weird. That doesn't happen to me...
I blame Microsoft. Stopped using Doohickey on Chrome since the new comments tab was always wrong. Stopped using Firefox because after opening it I could make a cup of tea in the time it takes to load. So I am using IE for it. I'm currently updating to FF 3.5 in the hope of an improvement though, I'm not enjoying my IE time.
FF is now at 3.5.1 - they said they fixed an issue where it opened slowly for certain users. Might've fixed it for you?
Hopefully. I gave up on it completely because when I used to close it, the program firefox.exe would keep running so if I tried to open a new window I would get "Firefox is already running" so I would have to ctrl alt delete and close it from Task Manager. Drove me nuts.
It tends to do that with me when I've opened too many tabs or kept it open for too long. I think they had a memory issue. Hopefully, they've dealt with it.
Hmm. Still is a bit laggy for me but it'll be fine for doohickeying.
Moooooooorning!
How are we all?
I have a monster sore throat
Yay! :D Try quoting this smiley?
Bedrest solves that just fine. :)
And lots of water, too.
booya!
this i can do, hoping its not going to last long as i want to go out tonight
w00t! :D
if that's the case, take some meds.
Good morning all! Hope all is well in the land of SPC :)
#sidepodspace
A long but excellent roundup of all the good Apollo 11 stuff on the web: http://www.kottke.org/09/07/the-giant-apollo-11-post
Presents for Steven when he wakes up :)
Journeyer - Mr C and I had a conversation about your innovation stuff yesterday where we probably got the wrong end of the stick but I thought you might be interested...
It started from here: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/07/17/daily-17th-july-2009/#comment-399043
Very interesting thoughts there. There have been spurts of innovation in small corners of the firm, but they die out pretty quickly. I have to figure out some way to spark that again, and then sustain it. Had a very interesting discussion with Steven about it a few nights ago - he's familiar with all the improvement/innovation initiatives out there.
Are you, from memory, in the business of software development?
Why yes, yes I am. :)
If you are managing people in Software I would strongly recommend this book:
Managing Humans
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/159059844X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247905236&sr=8-1
and
Peopleware
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247905326&sr=8-9
And read anything by Joel Spolsky his site: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
Here's an article of his on innovation:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080201/how-hard-could-it-be-inspired-misfires.html?partner=fogcreek
Oh dear... It would appear that I killed Sidepodcast :(
*insert funeral music here*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUx4t4W4eVY&feature=fvw
She makes me sick
morning.
Oh.MY.goodness. :O Absolutely incredible.
yup, she's 6, bah.
morning, how art thou?
i'm alright i think. slept over at a friends last night and have had 2 hours sleep, so i'm a little tired and stuff otherwise i'm alright though :) how are you?
Comparisons with Mozart are appropriate to make at this point. She's even written a piece of her own - at 6!
She's 8 now, apparently.
i'm ok thanks, woke up with a monster sore throat but after some hot ribena it seems to have gone! woot.
yay! :) i hate waking up with a sore throat. I see the F1 world hasn't exploded or anything while i was away, which is comforting news :)
Here's her latest performance, on a US breakfast show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUalwY-TsJk
it's cool that some people are amazing like that, god given talent et all.
but....(insert moan here)....i spent yeaaaaaaaaaaaars practicing clarinet and various saxophones, and i'm still rubbish ;)
Ah good ol sleepovers, never end up going to sleep
Hi everybody.
hmm, although i kinda wish we had got some.... due to the fact some people may have had too much to drink and said stuff to me they may regret/ i wish they hadn't said. ah well :)
Quote of the day goes to Torro Rosso's Giorgio Ascanelli,
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Ascanelli says Toro Rosso missing Vettel
By Pablo Elizalde Friday, July 17th 2009, 09:16 GMT
Sebastian VettelScuderia Toro Rosso's technical director Giorgio Ascanelli says Sebastian Vettel's absence this year has been felt at the Italian squad.
Vettel gave Toro Ross its maiden victory last season at the Italian Grand Prix, as he helped the Faenza-based squad beat sister team Red Bull Racing in the championship.
This season, however, Toro Rosso has managed just five points while Red Bull is fighting for both championships.
Toro Rosso will introduce a major upgrade at next week's Hungarian Grand Prix, hoping that it will lift its performance significantly.
But Ascanelli concedes the team has been missing Vettel, who he reckons was making a big difference last year.
"That depends how far forward the other teams have gone, because nothing stays still in this sport," said Ascanelli when asked if the upgrade will put the team in a point-scoring position.
"It's not as simple as saying 'last year we made a technical step forward for the second half of the year and performed well so the same thing will happen again.'
"Last year, the Italian media was keen for me to puff out my chest and say ‘oh yes, I am very clever and I have managed to outperform our Red Bull cousins,' but the simple answer about the end of last year is that Vettel is a great driver."
:D
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77008
interesting, interesting. hahahahaha!
WOAH! Sorry about that, didnt mean to quote that much
But thats the fun bit :)
I'd also bet money on the fact someone said "ooowww my head, i'll never drink again"
yeah... i suppose... not as much fun when you are the sober one though ;)
she seemed alright this morning actually, not sure how she is though :)
okay... sorry if this has been mentioned, but is - http://twitter.com/The_Real_JB - actually Jenson or a fake?
i heard hes now on twitter, but not sure if thats him
Yeah, says so on his website.
he is?...wow... Brawn gp had this link in their follow friday thing, so i'm assuming it is actually him?
blimey i go away for 24hours... ;)
oh i just scrolled down through brawn tweets... it is him. never mind.
almost 2,000 followers, and the account's only been up 24 hours or so - not bad!
Good morning Sidepodworld.
Mornin'
How is Christine today?
Pretty good, as it goes. Yourself?
Hi from a beautiful (sunny) Cape Town
Not bad Not bad
:)
Morning!
:D it may have made my morning a little bit :)
morning :)
Anyone know who won the quiz on wednesday?
Pitmonster and I on a tie. :D
Awesome, is Kathi going to send an extra extra extra large t-shirt so you can both get in it?
Hahaha! No, she'll send t-shirts to us both! Apparently, she has 2 shirts to spare. :D
I think she has alot of spares ;)
Those are all her spares, actually. I think she gave the rest as gifts to others. ;)
That said, we still have 8 races to go. :D
Morning all :)
Morning!
I've decided making smoothies is fun...but messy
did you forget to put the lid on the blender?
It's a hand blender :D
aaahhh.
I've just seen a headline "Ferrari may eventually contact Vettel".
Sometimes, you don't even need to look for the credit at the end of the news item to know where a news item has come from. Three guesses as to where it came from, and the first two don't count...
Giggles Made-up Media?
:)
that doesn't count. :P
We are off to the Country Show today :)
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/Environment/ParksGreenSpaces/EventsInParks/LambethCountryShow2009Programme.htm
Just been checking out the wiki page, some of the stuff on there is quite genius...my favourite 2...
"Rachel - stewards to disqualify all drivers who fail to complete a single overtaking manouvre."
and
"Maverick - FIA Ban Corners from 2010 to “Increase Overtaking”
There are some really good ones :)
BTW, is there a Debrief tomorrow?
Yup.
125cc Quali on at the mo for anyone that's interested....it's VERY wet.....
Oooh.
Any links?
The heading I saw went like...
"Stefano Domenicali has refused to rule out the possibility that Sebastian Vettel will one day reside a Ferrari cockpit."
This is like saying I refuse to say that I will not have a Magnum ice cream in the undefined foreseeable world. It says absolutely nothing. Possibly I will now go out and get a Magnum to celebrate that we have some sun today!
BBC Moto GP site is what i'm watching it on, but not sure if you could use that...
The silly thing is that writing forum articles isn’t a problem .. I must be weird {Comment #78}
I don't think you are weird. I came into blogging from a similar background and it was tricky for me at first too.
I think it helped that I had no real pressure in the beginning because for the first eight months there were only about four people who knew I had a blog. Three of the four were attempting to start blogs at the same time (having only had forum experience themselves), so we kind of learned together. (In the beginning, for example, it didn't occur to any of us that three weeks might be a bit too long a gap between entries!).
Eventually, when I was happy with the content I was producing, I started getting curious about what else was out there, which led me to the rest of the F1 blogosphere and to getting a lot of new readers. I think I might have inadvertently killed off the other people's blogs at that point because despite my advice, none of the others could match me for views and therefore gave up.
Perhaps it would help if you did some guest entries in my blog. Since there are people reading it who still don't do anything else in the blogosphere, you will discover that your blogging style suits them as much as your forum posts suit your fellow forumites - or your Sidepodcast comments suit us :) And, of course, any guest entry you did would feature a link to your blog so that people who like your writing can read your other work.
I'm going to try and get my SMBLA Trail Leader Award (basically a mountain biking leadership award) and i have to be able to do this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9TBTtwGqM&feature=related
he's not moving and not using his brakes!! HOWW!!!
I think the times create the impression of precision whereas we all know it is in chaos most of the time. {Comment #150}
I think it's a tradition inherited from the military. Orders are never set to the hour or half-hour because people are so used to them in everyday life that they tend to be a bit lax about being on time (try setting up a meeting for 11am sharp and notice the same effect!)
People tend to remember odd times better and are more likely to stick to them. NASA's schedule is an attempt to reduce chaos, and let's face it, they get enough chaos without adding more with something so trivial as schedule times.
Doesn’t everyone do that? {Comment #185}
No. I still haven't been converted to Doohickey, and I like to make sure I know something more about F1 than last time before I wander into Sidepodcast's realm...
Also, I like when you search for Heikki on Getty Images and you get two results in the set: 7 Jan 2010
Youngest Ever Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton Turns 25 (2)
Getty has a time machine. {Comment #207}
They're also not very good at using said machine. They're three days early...
You’re gonna find this hilarious.
Force India + MTV India = reality show!
The Fast & The Gorgeous {Comment #221}
It's been going on since May. As methods of finding paddock girls go, it seems a bit over-the-top...
It gets funnier, though. The team sent me an e-mail this morning offering me the show's soundtrack as a competition prize. This would be somewhat more attractive if I received MTV at home. As it stands, I had the foggiest idea what music was on the show and thus don't know if I'd like it...
i was wondering the same thing! i do hope they asked for permission. {Comment #226}
Considering how much crossover content Force India and the BBC seem to have, I suspect the team probably asked on MTV's behalf...
And this is MTV India we're talking about. :D
Hi. Strangest dream in a while... I got up earlier to check the weather for golf reasons, tomorrow looks better so went back to bed - where I dreamed of IRL on an oval which had a very steep downhill backstraight with a footbridge over it, they stopped the race for a formal dinner (I wasn't invited) which everyone thought was normal, and where I was chased for money.
I've never heard of a Country Show with hiphop on a music stage.
Well this is South London! We don't do anything without Hip Hop! :)
time to catch up on Tour de France, I'm a few days behind..
Hey guys,
Managed to pop home for 5 minutes so I can post the driver consistencies for the German GP on my blog.
Enjoy your weekend!
I'm MC Giggles and I'm here to say,
I like basket weaving in a big big way!
Yo Yo Yo ma homies and so on ;)
You too Gavin!
:D :D
What rhymes with sheep shearing?
And you! Hope you've got supplies for the Outpost.. magazines, podcasts...
Home made earrings?
you too! :)
Perfect!
:-)
It's my hip hop song so it's required to gloat,
I'm da fastest guy at milking a goat!
We're from the country, we got nothin' to lose,
we spend our days milkin' the coos
I'm eatin' hot dogs and wearin' my shorts,
and comparison shopping some new pitch forks
Hehehe, these are great :)
Don't hate on us 'cos we like chewin' straw,
when you work on a farm it's kinda the law.
There's a hiphop group from my town :-)
I'm just checking for swears before I post a link to their MySpace
Hmm.. anyway the chorus goes..
Dorset born and bred, strong in the arm thick in the head,
Drink cider on the farm keep our wellies in the shed
So walk in our field, drink some beer and have some fun,
'cos the rest of the year you'd be facing our shotgun.
Just 'cos we have country accents don't think we're all whack,
Just drink ten pints of cider and you'll soon get the knack.
Anyway, enough of all of this hippity hoppity music. I better actually go. I'll attempt to live comment if possible.
Keep an eye on the drop :)
Go to the track called 'Jurassic Coast', there are some minor instances of getting drunk with a p-word. I haven't vetted the other tracks.
have a lovely time!!
Have a good one, hope it doesn't rain!
Thanks
Me too!
Okay one last one....
That's the end of this song, who knew there much mileage,
in a hip hop song, on the subject of silage.
Back to watching Le Tour highlights from the week. Bit more Saturday afternoon-like than rap music, IMO. It has started to spit with rain here so the golf deferral tactic appears to be working, fingers crossed tomorrow
this would be awesome as another giggle's song/ rap ;)
And this is MTV India we’re talking about. {Comment #330}
Um, yes... ...I have enough trouble getting British channels, thank you very much!
I just tried to rub out a mole with white spirit as i thought it was wood vanish...
I think we all just missed the Formula 2 race.
Where is it?
Brands Hatch at 2pm. Another one tomorrow at 12.45.
ah rubbish
I can't imagine why you would use either?
was it any good?
No idea. We missed it.
ahhh yes. i'll think before i type next time ;)
If its any consolation, the tour de france stage I watched instead was pretty good.
ahhh. i don't know much about the tour de france, except the leader wears a jumper of some colour, and last year it went right past my house.
In the F2 page the video is at 21 laps of 28.
Yellow jersey for the leader. There's a green one and a polka dot one as well.
Just having a quick check of the Open now. I suppose I should do some ironing.
And, hi all
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/
JA has a new article on Toro Rosso's raison d'etre.
I think that article does more than most to explain Toro Rosso's reasons for booting LeSeb and get the Spanish teanager- which of course are mostly financial.
morning all. if anyone fancies testing a bit of sidepodcode for us, please give the doohickey a refresh.
I see the filter has gotten a makeover. Anything interesting to test there?
I like that :-)
Ooooh - read more at the bottom of the page to fetch older comments - me likey!
afternoon :) have refreshed.. what am i meant to be seeing? the 'more' button at the bottom as well as the change to the filter?
doohickey changes of note:
- new "more" button for loading older comments (goes back about 500 or so comments if you press it enough times).
- filter box contains a description.
- shortcut keys remapped: ctrl+alt+a = disable audio, ctrl+alt+c = stop chasing comments
- new shortcut key: ctrl+alt+p = display pending comments.
oooooh amazing
You have missed the most important bit.
awesome! i love the 'more' button!!!
:o
thats amazing
oh yeah... the more button was christine's idea!
and thanks to alex for helping test on the iphone.
brilliant stuff! especially the more button. :D
:D
Seems to work a lot better than the Twitter one :-)
Can the next version make a note of these? I didn't know they existed.
christine is a genius! :D nice work Mr C.
Pictures on drop. The owl is called Bart :)
alex with beer
drop.io pics are now scrollable (as requested by steven), so if they don't fit on screen at first, move the page down a bit.
also, if you click the drop.io image it will now take you to the page on dropio so you can read comments etc.
can do, yup.
bart owl?
a WHOLE lot of sidepodlovin' coming your way!!!!! This is amazing!!!!!
ta!
works for the 'active thread' link at the top of the page, which should solve issues reading long posts.
hats off to alex for the pending comments shortcut idea too.
Excellent work! :-)
Afternoon.
How are we all? I'm not sure if I'm enjoying my new position among the officially unemployed or not....
we're good and alex appears to be having beer outside.
are you addicted to fern and phil yet?
Jeremy Kyle?
But she's gone!
Haha no. I have spent most of my time in the jobcentre though. That's not so fun.
I'm taking Saturday slowly after a long week at work
ahh. that's why she was on the radio instead.
Not far enough....
I saw your tweet the other day, sounded busy
Mantovani's German GP video - love it! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mrKDGdXmg
i think i've decided one of the most dangerous things you can do while outside is go to london and shop! the crowds yesterday were horrible :( i prefer inside to big busy crowds of london shoppers. Specially when those shoppers are pushing you out of the way to see john barrowman.
booo. am guessing there's not much stuff around?
who's selling him then?
Erm not TOO bad to be honest. I've got 4 interviews coming up over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get one of those.
I had a 19hs long lab-day on Wednesday, it was long. I'm loosing my touch, I was used to do that a couple of years back... ;-)
Hehehehe :-)
BBC, he's in everything, they just cant cope anymore
niiiiiiiiiice
I like it a lot - especially Nelsinho stopping for Twitter. Brilliant! :D
he was at the other end of the store (HMV) with a load of torchwood people apparently. He was signing books and stuff. i kinda walked in the opposite direction to the crowds... i don't like shopping at the best of times, but in london it's manic!
Ouch... lots of coffee / unnamed energy drink?
No, I don't drink coffee or anything... Just very loud music after after everybody else left.
I have eaten too much... i have not drunk enough, how is everyone's sunday going even though its only saturday apparently?
I was thinking that earlier, it definitely feels like a lazy Sunday.
Agreed. :D
I was arguing it was sunday earlier. she won :(
ahh, le seb is the best!!
:D He even passed Piquet there!
Has doohicky changed? I have to click the number in the corner to load comments?
hmm, we had this issue yesterday, thought it was fixed. can you check "follow comments" is enabled and all reply boxes are shut, pls?
yup, i did that then refreshed, still doing it.
I actually dont mind that much
didn't noticed it before! excellent...
which browser?
The beautifull chrome... I do like the more comments button though, although that brings up a 20 pending box
it was chrome we had the issue with yesterday. hmm, may have to break out the windows machine for this one.
oddly a refresh did fix the issue though.
Wait - Le Seb was reading a book? Hahaha!
I have opened up a new tab and... it works now
try a hard refresh?
oddly journeyers comment loaded by itself, mine still went to the pending box
that's gotta be a chrome thing. will play around a bit.
Chrome has broken Doohickey a lot lately, it seems.
Have just finished off James' transcript and published it which brings us up to a grand total of five completed transcripts! That is a-maz-ing! Thanks to all who have, are, or will contribute(d).
there is something very wrong with how it handles updates to the window/tab title. not sure what's causing this though.
It seems to be loading properly when i have a reply box open, but not when they arent.
Its all reversed!
yeah. alex found the same thing.
ah, not to worry then, ill just leave a reply box open.
more comments button is very useful though, thanks!
My idea! That was me! I did it! You're very welcome :)
Christine, you're so funny. :D Twas a very good idea. :)
Hehe, it was a very good idea, i no longer need to load up LCLT to go though the comments :D
for some reason this theory is not working...
i like that Jenson is using twitter :D
'@rubarrichello bom dia fella! Hope your having fun back home before we kick some butt in Hungary! ;-)'
:D ehehehe
should i point out that it's you're, not your? :D
still, nice to see they're good pals on Twitter. :)
yeah i had noticed that... i hoped others wouldn't if i didn't point it out... lol.
Hi all. Hope you're all having a good day.
I thought I would pop in and mention that the spacewalk is scheduled to start in around an hour at 2 minutes to the hour.
I love Christine's modification of the doohickey. Great idea.
Hi Steven
Boo hiss. Rubbish internet sucks
What's up?
Nothing. My internet just cuts out every 20 minutes here. It's driving me mad
I have just called sky customer services and they are incomparably helpfull compared to virgin... I am ver impressed. (their software is rubbish but at least they can fix it for you ;) )
Yeah, nice and relaxed day. Even the ironing isn't spoiling it too much, stupid wrinkles.
When i first got broadband in dubai, you had to re login to it every 2 hours, drove me mental...
My computer has decided recently that it needs a rest regularly so locks everything up for a minute. It's a real pain.
Thats great. i was woried all his tweets would just be something like:
Eaten 1400 calories, burned 11000. sweated 350ml. good day.
he might die if he did that, i think an extra 0 crept in!
nah, he's just losing some weight... :P
I have to head out now. See ya all later.
I assume you have tried the usual things... checked cables, turned the router off for a rest to cool down..
See you
bye steven
have a good day!
Yeah. It's just the countryside...
I have sent a parade lap trailer video to the drop...
should i point out that it’s you’re, not your? :D {Comment #453}
Jens was probably being mindful of his character count...
which I believe sets a new benchmark for live commenting!
wow! :)
I thought about rapping at the same time but I wanted to leave something in reserve ;)
Awesomeness!
heikki's getting around a bit today. now in moscow:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89086876/
Hehehe... scary?
Nice job :-)
speaking of heikki, hi! here i am!
you may recall earlier today I was complaining about the fact my friends birthday party was not in my living room and thus I would have to go outside. Turns out my flatmate was hosting a dinner party tonight. So I got invited to that, and plan was to have dinner, then go to birthday. But dinner has only just finished and its 2am and birthday party is over. I had a great great night and I didn't even have to leave my house. Inside wins!
On the downside, your friendship is over.
it was good fun. Not too scary at all but when it went really fast about half way through there was a big crack noise that did make me a bit nervy!
You are Hekki :P
ah, its just someone I work with. She was expecting over 250 people and I would've only known 4 of them, and she probably was too drunk to notice I wasn't there. I will apologise on Monday though, I'm sure she'll be fine :D
Hahaha, i was questioning your description of that ride as scary!
But malfunctioning fairground equipment is defiantly scary!
Hey man, I've seen Final Destination 3. I know how that stuff goes down.
i hear milky bars are good for apologies ;)
Ah that's good. Is it possible to know that many people?
It was her 21st, from previous 21sts I have been to, it appears you are supposed to invite everyone you have ever met. I didn't have one, because I couldn't even fill an elevator with people I know.
i havent seen any of them...
If you have seen it does that mean its another bad film ;)
Started the transcript, realised Mrs C says quite quite a lot.
Just cheat and invite your family
I have seen the first two. They are awesome but I can't drive near lorries with logs on them.
Well the parade lap isn't really scary. But you try ad-libbing on a rollercoaster ;)
I couldn't read my shownotes ;)
Is this affecting the v-power experiment? :D
Oh right. I and people I know only really did family stuff.
haha, will it be there next week? You could do the whole show... :D
I wouldn't describe it as a rollercoaster
The fourth one is coming out soon and it's in 3D. Awesome. And someone drowns in a carwash!
Ooooh!
Me too, I ended up having dinner with my parents and one random flatmate who was supposed to be out of town but turned up as the meal was being cooked. I did have an amazing white chocolate and raspberry gateau too. I still dream about that cake.
yeah I was thinking that at the time. What is it called?
he says 'erm' or 'er' alot too :) transcribing is fun :)
I think that conclusively answers any questions about quality! :D
um.. I'm not really sure.
sadly not. That was recorded at the slow bit talking after that would have been tricky ;)
for who??
Yeah, there is a lot of that by everyone.
The practice session is intresting, its like a whole page of Christine.
for me... i like listening to the shows and typing it up, am 1/2 way through mine atm :)
I think we went for a curry.
that and the fact I bought all three on DVD for $10. So cheap. So bad. So good.
Here is a trailer for the next one that pretty much gives away all the death scenes.
Oh and it has race cars!
I had dinner with my family on the night and got this massive crystal encrusted champagne bottle which i still have on my shelf.
I then had a big party once everyone got back to uni... which i cant really remember too much...
less so for me though, eh?
;)
tilt-a-whirl?
oh.
twas just an observation....;)
I was excited by the race cars bit... but by the end, I think I might not watch it. I'd never walk on an escalator again!
I get the feeling they're really going to milk the 3D thing and 90% of the film will be objects flying towards the screen so they appear to be coming out at you.
Hahaha, i just watched it, that looks hilarious... definite popcorn movie!
Jens and Rub are chatting on twit, apparently the big guy converted him
twitter :P
eeeekk! i can't cope with Jenson and Rubens chatting on twitter... it's not much but it's still too exciting!
*explodes with absolute amazement*
god converted jenson to twitter? woah.
what would you do if he ever replied to one of your tweets?
Pk is trying to join in too.... :D
Nelson Piquet is getting involved
Nick, do you have a Flickr account?
Hehehe... He is good but I dont think he is that good :D
just kinda... sit and stare at the screen....
autosport can be heard sharpening their pencils.
twitter has just become a whole lot more interesting! :D
if heikki ever got on twitter and tweeted me I'm thinking print screen + print and frame it ;)
Yup, i started one for goodwood woodward
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40163651@N05/sets/
i'm excited enough just seeing the three f1 drivers chatting to each other, it's kinda worrying really....
i wonder if they'll ever manage to talk Felipe in to it :D
:D we could get tweets from Rob and everything!!
Jens says twitter is addictive! wohoo! :) i'm so pleased :P
I like it because I was watching an interview with Ralf (ugh) where he was all 'DTM is great because the drivers are friendly, in F1 the drivers never communicate with each other' I like that twitter makes me think they are actually all friends, even though they probably aren't :D
Have we added these drivers and their Twitter accounts to the wiki?
Earlier I was seeing the FIA clip for Germany; did you notice the 'good boy, that was beautiful!' ? (words may vary depending on memory...)
Which other drivers have genuine twitter accounts? I know Rubens and Jenson. What are their twitter accounts.
will do straight away.
Hehe... "good boy...I liked that"
They have to be the best radio combo in F1:D
Excellent, thank you :)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/sidepodpanel-the-first
(it opens fine if you dl it, no idea why it won't preview :( )
lou is right, transcribing is fun :)
afternoon all!
I heard that!
How was Harry Potter? I am being dragged to see it tomorrow.
I was going to shout 'don't tell me the end' until I realized that I read the books... :-)
I believe it's only 3 drivers that have twitter accounts atm
Nelson Piquet - http://twitter.com/NelsonPiquet_
Jenson Button - http://twitter.com/The_Real_JB
Rubens Barrichello - http://twitter.com/rubarrichello
I thought the first half was really really good. I thought the second half was a big let down, and they left some really big bits out, whilst leaving some things in (and adding things) that didn't really have to be there.
i added them here - http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Driver+Links
is that okay? or did you want them on a separate page?
Nope, that's perfect!
yay!
i wonder how many other drivers we will see sign up to twitter in the near future?
Is this actually Nico?
http://twitter.com/nicorosberg
though to be fair, hardly inspiring.
hehe :) (actually, some of the end of the book didn't even make it into the film :( )
speaking of which, anyone know what on earth nico rosberg site is doing?
that account is following all the fake f1 people so I don't think so
hey rachel. unless you're the one being transcribed ;)
thank you again :)
Thanks Lou,
Other drivers have twitter account, but actually use them to say what they are doing (rather than just links to media and websites). I know the F2 Driver Karun Chandhok really used it with photos - it really makes the accessible to the fans!
hasn't changed since last year has it?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/05/31/sites-for-sore-eyes-part-2/
best not tell you i decided to experiment with different ways to transcribe and thought putting it into slow motion may give me more time... it was a bit of a disaster cause i found myself giggling and not typing :D
To be fair, I wasn't on sidepodcast then.
Do we sound drunk again?
*cries*
give it a read. comments are great too.
hehe, you must be used to that by now.
kinda... it's really kinda funny :) in a good way.
...
should i buy some milky bars?...
blame radio one. they gave me the idea....
i never, ever expect anyone to pay attention to anything i say :)
but you have a podcast, of course we listen to what you say!
btw, you say 'alrighty' a lot (in that panel, anyway)
Hahaha. I am really enjoying that we have found something he doesn't like. This is akin to my dislike of the archives :)
Evening all. Been away for a week due to moving into a flat with no internet or mobile phone signal (it's been hell!). I'm getting my internet on Tuesday, but have gone to my parents house for the weekend.
Been keeping an eye of F1 news at work, but what have I missed this week on SPC?
hi chris
Hey mate, everyone is transcribing.
Just looked at the weather for the speedway, looks like Poland has done a Malaysia.
Cool. Might see if I can do one once I have the internet back properly.
Randomly flicking through these since I haven't for a while, and noticed Webber has uploaded his celebration as an .mp3 on his website :) http://www.markwebber.com/audio/webber.mp3
Didn't someone say its a hit ring tone in Brazil the other day? :lol:
awww!! radio one were playing it constantly on monday morning because they found it so sweet :) so lovely to see him finally get a win.
lol people use some weird things as ringtones!
the only time someone has rung me since I put mine as HEY DUDE PICK UP YOUR PHONE my phone was on silent.
Just thinking, Since Mclarens twitter is called 'the fifth driver'
Would lewis go on as 'The first driver'?
Would that then mean Heikki would have to be 'the second driver'? (sorry Amy)
next time you're on a panel, we'll call it :)
He was asking for you to do an advert for the archives the other week that you could drop into debriefs. How about an advert for transcripts? ;)
ooh er the 2010 Australian GP page has changed. Question is do I book yet or not? I want my 4-corners package again that I stupidly didn't get this year.
That sounds like you get a pizza...
..again i stop making sense
shooosh you!
btw. google chrome is the most annoying browser in the world. it may be wrose than ie8. maybe.
:D Pizza at the Grand Prix would be fantastic. I do like that the packages include the very-good Jones stand next year, I don't like that the Fangio package I'd get (I like to be opposite the pits on race day) includes Jones on Thursday. ie, the day you spend no time in your seat.
oh noes! :( are you having problems with it cause of doohickey stuff?
Boo MrC, Boo!
I heard about you and that... The other problem with it is knowing which version people are on things are changing all the time and people say, "I didn't change anything", it doesn't ask you if you want to upgrade it just happens.
mm. without getting geeky. it runs commands in exactly the opposite order to every other browser.
oh. that's... rubbish. :(
i gave up on ff 3.5.1 and ie8 and have gone back to chrome for my doohickeying. All 3 of them gave me problems but the Chrome ones are the least annoying.
FF does that too. Or at least mine did, this morning it suddenly it told me had to restart it because it had just installed an update.
Was it made by Australians?
Can you reverse the polarity or does that only work on Voyager?
doohickey can't be working for you on chrome now, can it?
Australians made google maps and google wave but I don't know about Chrome.
You dont have to restart chrome... Its Magical ;)
At least you can disable it...
3.5.1 works fine here
i did exactly that. and then doohickey stopped working in ff, ie, safari and opera.
Chrome doens't need a restart or at least it doesn't tell you that it does so you don't know.
oooh wow we just got in and it started raining!
You can turn that off
thing is. did they do an update recently, or has i broken something? i just can't tell.
I seem to remember an article about it, i think it was a weird guy that lives in the middle of nowhere in Scandinavia.
Maybe if Gavin shouts he can get his attention and help us...
We had torrential shower earlier.
Day has been better than yesterday, never stopped raining all day.
I can? I should really read instructions for things.
mine constantly stopped responding and was using 90% of my system resources
I need to make my lunch. See you later
It rained here earlier, now it has got colder... the shorts enable me to know this. I should shut the window...
I used Chrome during the testing yesterday - it worked except the reversed polarity after you had pressed more didn't it?
nope, its giving me the 'pending' thing but thats OK. It's better than freezing and non quotable smileys :D
Tools > Options > Advanced > Update
change it to "Ask me what to do"
still does :(
sorry no.
it's always reversed. more, or no more.
Oh, not good then
Right but it can't have been Chrome updating because the oldhicky worked.
i'll give it the pending thing!
;)
I wasn't expecting that to be possible :-)
I'm on a mac, there is no tools > options. :(
true. but you have chrome and can tell me this. i only use it when someone spots an issue.
There must be options somewhere
Firefox -> Preferences on a mac
firefox>preferences
edit > preferences in linux, maybe the same on mac
Yes - that's a problem...
found it! (it was firefox > preferences > advanced > update)
I have also just noticed 2010 Australian prices are actually cheaper than 2009. Bernie must be rolling in his grave.
wishful thinking.
How much? I have been told there are some ridiculously cheap flights to Oz from the UK.
Now i am being tempted to do a degree in Australia....
Tickets I paid $430 for this year are $399 next year. That's about 196 pounds.
But i thought you said they were cheap! :(
I think monza is cheaper.. Anyone up for a sidepodadventure?
am guessing bassano.
just a hunch.
thats for 4 days in a grandstand though, you can get general admission for 4 days for about 60 pounds. It's not cheeeeap but its a lot cheaper than Singapore :D
hehe, is he still in canadaland?
What do you get for that, the stand on the main straight?
I'm thinking Turkey 2010, but I think a lot of things.
Ah that sounds better, i take it the extra day is V8's?
One thing about Australian Grand Prix tv coverage is that channel ten showed everything on race day.. even the celebrity fiat 500 race!
umm. 4 days for a gp? umm. confused
Sounds cheaper than Silverstone too. I wonder what prices Donington will charge.
I wanna go to Nurburgring at some point. First corner looks like a good place to be.
yep. for that price you can also get the grandstand on turn 16.
More. and you will have to pay extra if you want to breathe their oxygen
Well, I would like to go to one big race next year, probably F1, so just a question of affordability.
Freshly polluted with aviation fumes!
Thursday this year had a historic demonstration, practice and qualifying for mini challenge, formula ford, formula 5000 revival, aussie racing cars, aussie gt, v8s and practice and the first demonstration for the speed comparison between road car/v8/f1. In 2008 I didn't watch anything on Thursday, I hung around the autograph stage all day. This year I watched quite a bit. Formula 5000 was great, they had a retro McLaren.
What other series would class as "a big race" ??
Lemans.
I think sidepodradio is covering it?
where? when?
I started transcribing just to wind up Mr C ;) (not really I felt I should do my bit).
Observations:
I need a quarter speed option on the iPhone - half isn't slow enough
I know why stenographers use a foot pedal to pause moving your hand away from the keyboards slows you down
When Christine goes into a prepared bit of speech she goes much faster!
Damn, speedway has been called off for tonight.
Till tomorrow morning?
Well I lived up to my promise and did publish something on the blog :D
Le Mans or the Indy 500
Why, what if some people forgot the link to your blog. You may need to plug it (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
I didn't say I'd plug it ;)
I guess at the race track, when the 24 Heures du Le Mans is on?
:P :P :P
What I may have been saying is, I didn't bookmark your blog last time out.
oooh right, sorry, got a bit confused there ;)
ah. ok. http://www.pitlanefanatic.com/blog/index.php/227/an-alternative-take-on-engine-performance/
just testing chrome's weirdness. do ignore.
Interesting that Ferrari and Mercedes have improved their engine reliability yet other don't seem to have. Those other teams will surely run the risk of penalties somewhere near Monza?
That surprised me too
Interesting reading. The only thing is that in some of those cases (probably Trulli and Alonso) we don't know the state of the engines they have already used, and they could re-use them - in line with the new rules - to avoid grid place penalties. But which would be better, an older, less efficient, less powerful, possibly more likely to fail engine, or a ten place grid penalty, but a shiny new engine?
good stuff jackie. big fan of your writing.
Oh thank you .. I feel I don't "flow" .. hopefully that will come with practice
and your graphs, obviously ;)
test
All ok in the Rachel household?
sorry, ignore, just testing something. It worked, btw :)
Tom Watson just became the oldest man to lead a Major golf tournament going into the final day.
Switching over to the cricket to see us stuff the Aussies.
Sport rocks.
yayy, my new dsi can use mobile doohicky :)
aww wow.
really need to start a list of supported devices. one second.
Whats a dsi?
A shiny new one unless you are a BMW? .. in which case it's likely to make little difference to the final result.
newer model of the Nintendo DS
not sure if i've missed any, but feel free to add:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Supported+Devices
and you can use it as a phone?
cant edit wiki well on chrome so i'll just say PS3!
You can go on the internet, like the psp
I think RG used PSP too
^^
What for, doohickey or mobile?
It's well seen I'm not a gamer ;)
Only mobile works
Phew, good guess.
I like the cool audio alert when someone posts
It was really useful today when it was quiet. It does get annoying at busier times.
;)
can't do without it. christine hates it.
Should i mention that on chrome i get nothing, or will mr c start throwing things at google?
RadioLeMans are live at the mo i believe if anyones interested
i love it, i keep thinking its a camera shutter :)
hehe. google have promised to support it very shortly, so no worries there.
firefox is the problem child on this one, as its audio file is about 6 times bigger than the one that safari can play. chrome will likely do the sensible thing and support .mp3 playback too. firefox not so much.
btw nick, chrome might be sorted now.
more like a typewriter for me
I'm not a gamer either, I was quite happy with my ancient (early 90s yellow brick of a) gameboy, but that gave up the ghost, so I asked for (and got) a new one (for turning older on thursday)
It seems to be :D
havent refreshed though so that is super clever
Thanks I will listen - having to rethink how to manage my computer labs (Windows ones)- they all crashed during my lass last week because McAfee AV is useless.
when it's busy my mind just assumes it's a camera shutter :) when it's not so busy it sounds like scissors.
oh yes i did about 10 mins ago
:)
It is still super clever though! :P
woo chrome! how is it 4.50am? Why did I just start reading a 53 page forum thread?
Is it the Mark Webber forum?
I had a look at it the other day, and its very funny!
...strange people though!
I used to go there a lot, they were a very friendly bunch but recently it's got quite snarky and they fight a lot so I stay out of it.
No, its a thread about development in + pictures of my hometown. I am kind of ridiculously excited about going home in 87 days and plan on being all touristy and taking photos of my pretty city. I never appreciated it until I left :D
Hehe, im the same when i go back to Dubai,
Drop some pics! my experience of new zealand was limited to 3 and a half hours in Aukland Airport... It looked very nice though..
Haha, they have ashes 606 on 5live...
Dizzie 'Guilespie' sounds like his voice is being slowed down and is really drunk... Its just his accent though... :D
have a listen when they come back from the news
I have dropped what I had in my old school photobucket from 2003.
This is what I don't miss about New Zealand :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc05729-jpg
This is the view from my parents old crib (linked for definitions sake ;) ). They have since sold that one and their actual house in town and built a new house on the water about 2km closer to town, but I liked this view better. The tide goes out too far in front of their new house so you spend most of the day looking at mud.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc05482-jpg
This is our train station, apparently it's the prettiest building in town.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc04806-jpg
Blimey the telly is pants this evening
If you trust Spanish daily AS Pedalo gets a two-year F1 seat at Campos
Source: http://tinyurl.com/m88rae
You dont miss the snow? Snow is amazing!
Wow, thats huge, really nice building, even though it looks nothing like it, it reminds me of Victoria terminus in Bombayhttp://www.indika.it/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/victoria_terminus_1.jpg
oops, fixed
Thats because we get it once every millenium
Now i have made a link a word, i have been wondering how to do that for a while!
another minor change to note about doohickey. christine objected to it going to sleep in the middle of typing a new comment. it shouldn't do that any more.
in the past the timer was reset by posting a comment. now typing, changing threads, filtering comments or requesting more will reset it instead.
have lowered the timeout for the rest of the day to five minutes, yell if you spot anything wrong.
I grew up in Dubai, it only occurs there indoors!
link button, bottom right.
good stuff. :)
hahaha, i am a fool!
we try to help. honest.
now that is a huge building!
I like snow when I can sit inside with a cup of tea and watch it. I do not like snow when I have to go out in it because I hate hate hate driving on it and used to walk an hour in the snow to get to work/uni rather than risk taking my car out in it.
WOW! how longs that been there?!
since the new year.
am I going crazy or does clicking link now come up with "enter url here" rather than "[enter url here]"
haha :D
oh man, i'm so not observant
ah yes. forgot we fixed that.
think it confused someone a couple of times and they left brackets in. yell if you'd rather they came back though.
tis ok. i keep meaning to add a
strikethoughtoo.no no, sometimes I accidentally left a bracket in. No brackets is good.
mind = blown
i still can't remember how you do the strike through thing :(
Big PVR / iPlayer catch-up night I think.
oops. should really carry a health warning that one :)
type the following, and try previewing to see the result:
<del>test</del>
Mr C is
uselessworld class in the field of coding:P
I think that this years world champion will be
Sebastien BourdaisAdrian Sutilthanks :-)
something is causing Firefox to use a lot of memory, I am trying to identify culprit, will let you know if it is doohicky. think it might be because it has been open six hours
fantastic :)
I agree with all of this.
Ooh it's not just me then. I've been having real probs with Firefox and have been switching between that and Safari
thank you! :)
will add a button next time we do an update, i swear.
My boat is going to
sinkfloat:) would be much appreciated ;)
Never mind, it looks like FF generally doesn't like being open for so long.
I may have problems trusting people. When i see 'i swear at the end of a statement i read it more like this... :P
heheh, with the short timout, I just saw the new sleepie pic :-)
gah! we had money on lou spotting it first.
;)
Oh wow I love the sleepy pic .. how cool is that
hmm? oh damn! must.try.harder. to be fair i was/ am writing a blog post atm... so was a little pre occupied.
you're blogging?
i might be :P ... we chose a name the other day and everything... you didn't see my comment? :( will link when i've finished these posts ;)
i think i did. it was photo related... i think?
It is an issue for Windows users that I have noted. Cannot say I have had the same problems in Linux or OS X. Opera it was also an issue.
Personalisation is the way forward. Fall asleep, a pic of Timo or Jenson or God for when you come back.
yay! you did! scott had came up with a great name. :)
i like your thinking.
i cannot for the life of me remember what it was though :cry:
at least you read the convo ;) will be a nice surprise when my posts are done then wont it ;)
Its not going to sleep!
also true. hurry up then!
its not is it. boo
Don't comment. Its hard, but you'll live without doing so.
give it a refresh, the don't touch it for about 5 minutes. no typing or nothing.
I waited 18 mins!
ahhhhhhh....
This man, He knows things!
oh goodness that is cute...will lclt have a similar piccy?
ok, now we can be mean to nick and he can't reply...
oh yes!
hehe :P i'll finish my strawberries and then get right back to it! :P
yay :)
can he do what im doing and use the LCLT whilst leaving the doohickey alone?
mwahahahahahaha.
Nick, well, what can I say...
damnit!
boooo ya!
Eeek, u posted that a bit to late
hehehehehe.
Good idea, i tried using IE, but it just plain doesnt work, you're idea is much better.
haha, all is well. however, the doohickey is making the sound when comments come in, and i want to turn it off!
not
justonly a pretty faceRG and MrC
If i made lists i would put your names on one, but i dont. so i guess you are safe:P
Phew.
I'll make a note of not writing you in my black book.
Nice pic!
Back to doohicky goodness...
I have to say.....whilst the picture is a tad cute, i did see it coming ;)
Good work chaps!
ctrl+alt+a
I dont think you are using your black book correctly!
ah but would that class as touching it whilst trying to make it sleep?
I have one name in there, its a big book too.
People, annoy me.
yes indeedy :)
pretty sleepy picture :) jooi, is there a reason doohicky's a she and lclt's a he?
More worried if they fall in love and have a child. What will it be called? doolt? lckey?
it already has a mobile to play with :)
christine says, it's because doohickey can multi-task.
hehe :D
Oh no, more SPC devices. They are taking over the world. Were doomed. dooooooomed.
*runs*
Excellent :-)
quick question. anyone out there have themselves an iphone to hand pls? could do with help testing something for us.
i have an ipod touch...
that'll do.
could you browse to spc homepage for us please?
Is the Doohickey going to sleep quicker now? I've been back home for less than an hour and I have had to wake it up three times.
yep. what next?..
because the iphone/tounch doesn't support flash, you usually get big question marks appearing when we embed audio/video. in theory, you should now be able to listen to lukeh's voicemail by clicking on the grey square in the first post.
in theory...
if you can hear lukeh, could you also try browsing to:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/video/
and seeing if the videos also work pls?
just testing aitch. normal service will resume tomorrow.
awesome! can hear lukeh loud and clear :)
YAY!
i think we're getting somewhere :)
videos work too :)
ooh testing, more goodies in store?
My deepest apologies
;)
cheers lou. the f1 minute player on the right sidebar still doesn't work, but will hopefully sort that at some point.
there's a new "more" button near the bottom of the page.
and, umm, there were others but i've forgotten. one second.
no problem :)
You really should put these updates somewhere other than the comments. Like a version thing.
ooooooooooooooooh. That'll be mega helpful, really appreciate that.
can i haz wiki page pls christine?
Walked right into that one, didn't I?
or rg...
;)
Well, as long as your good.
Evening all. Nice to see the words ipod and touch in use here :)
:D Evening Andy :)
Been working no something on photoshop tonight that's gotten so detailed that I really want it to happen now. :(
Tis f1 related so will show you guys later...
Is it supposed to be called an ipod phone too?
*hides under desk*
ut oh... what have i done?
no. that is all.
Sounds like a civil war going on outside, or possibly a lot of fireworks
for aitch:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Website+Changelog
have i missed anything?
doosleepy pic?
ah yes. shall add.
Did you say lclt also has a sleepy pic?
The Electric -Internal Combustion hybrid Ginnetta-Zytec makes podium in American LeMans Series at Lime Rock. A first in autoracing history. I think this is great!
Awesome!
lclt updates later this week methinks.
Cheers boss
Is 'the gaurdian' a good film?
Just realised i have been watching it for 15 mins
Hmm.
I think last.fm is trying to tell me something.
Evening all
Evening, good day?
Evening Mr Roy.
You survived 'outside'?
Just catching up with the spacewalk and Christine will be pleased to know they are an hour behind schedule already.
They are trying to install the porch now.
I ran from house to car and the same at the other end to minimise exposure to outside and didn't breathe any of that fresh air stuff.
wow, im watching now, hypnotising...
It's fresh now?!
..better safe than sorry!
Now I am really confused. They were an hour behind schedule on the spacewalk so they have finished an hour early and left the porch dangling on the end of the shuttle robotic arm. THe next spacewalk is not till Monday.
It has the Kasabian song! :D
Never heard of it
Its about rescue swimmers in the US coastgaurd.
So far so good.
oh lord :)
christine's been busy:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodsite
Just been looking at the updates over the last few days. Looks like a lot of work has been done.
Thanks Alex.
I haven't just woken up btw.
Looks like they are not going to leave the porch dangling off the shuttle arm till Monday. The arm is moving it in and it looks like it connects by a gigantic 20 pin DIN plug
ooh. can we get a drop of that?
I wish you had said that a couple of minutes ago. The tow sides are just about connected now so there is not much to see and NASA TV has switched to a view of a map. I think their director used to do F1.
:)
This film makes me think epic swim training is fun again for some reason. I know it isnt.
OK in work today I was thinking about f1 as ever and how it would work as general enetrtainment sources via games, boardgames and the like and I got myself...
...what would F1 Monopoly be like? As ever, I decided I needed to make it.
So.... here it is. :) I want it to actually happen now though!!
ooh my actual goodness man. thats genius. you are amazing!
You rate Jarno higher than Timo. You disgust me :D
Brilliant, love it. Wanna play it
:o am.so amazed... this has to be created! awesome job as usual Lukeh... just incredible...
You need to pitch that to FOM or whoever owns Monopoly.
that is brilliant!
It was actually annoying to get the prices in an order that made sense. Took this year into consideration but then the history of the drivers... hence why you have lewis and whatnot with pricey prices despite their dismal season, and lots of other stuff that realy shouldn't have gone into consideration considering it's just photoshopping.
Once you get going though...
Well, cheaper to get a Timo I suppose.
I'm sitting here staring at it, i'm just amazed, its amazing. Just. Wow
if it's any consolation, I made the example card in the middle in thought of a mr RG.
It is very good, but I can see some difficulties with regard to copyright and trademark infringements.
I did just notice that. You sir, are a marvelous chap
We shall fight to see who makes the best toast. Winner gets the rights.
well... yes... but it's amazing... i want to play it...
We need an online version so we can all play against each other in a totally non-competitive way.
Just a thought Mr Lukeh. Ever played The Game of Life? Not wanting you to run back to photoshop, how good would a The Game of F1 Life be?
:o that would be brilliant... not that we are competitive...
Well there's a dissertation idea...
I have not I'm afraid. I've played games, and am currently playing Life (difficult keeping with all that breathing and keeping alive business) but the game of life? No sir.
Sorry for not checking the posts - but there are 800...
Has anyone else seen the onboard laps available at formula1.com now?
Under video on the top menu.
Its all about the disseratations that you enjoy doing
http://www.mymonopoly.com/home.php
Awesome Design Lukeh
Thanks for that mod Mr C
Oh you've got to be kidding me
That is incredible. Now all we need to do is get an online version.
Anyone good at making online games?
Does Amy have a new twitter account?
http://twitter.com/Mrs_Kovalainen
heehehe thats been around for a while
You lost them again?
That was just cruel Amy. You get my hopes up then I realise he is still alive.
:D
Drunk warning!
Mr C: I may be a bad influence!
Hehe, Canadian beer?
Not anymore, good ol' Guinness from Dublin
Though the shipping may have taken the edge off ;)