Mid-way through the week already, and we have reached the twentieth day of this brand new year. It's Will Wright's birthday today and I'm only telling you that because he created The Sims, and The Sims is brilliant. Now, moving on to more Formula 1 related things, here are some of the items we're currently talking about:
- The BBC Olympics blog has an interesting post about how the GB cycling team relates to the McLaren Technology Centre. It's one of those: "F1 is useful to other technologies, honest" type posts, but it makes for good reading if you have a spare five minutes.
- We were intrigued by the news about Pedro de la Rosa yesterday, particularly his signing over the anticipated Heidfeld announcement. We talked about it in the breakout thread, there's a Pedalo shaped F1 Big Picture, and RG has written about the news, coming to the conclusion that it's not all bad.
- The official F1 site have a history piece up about Mercedes, and how they fit into the bigger motorsport picture. There's nothing new in there, but it's a great recap of how they've got where they are - which is basically taking over the grid. This piece reminded me of the mini series episode I did on the Safety Car and Medical Car, both powered by Mercedes.
Anyway, that should keep you going for now. As I said, we're mid-way through the week, so it's all downhill from here. I'll see you in the comments.
Plugging in this thread because I posted it late in the day - I have finished my review post about the Autosport show! You may want to put it somewhere for a rainy day because it is quite a bit longer than a usual blog post (sorry about that, next time I'll break it into pieces)
http://toomuchracing.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/report-2010-autosport-international/
Pretty neat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suhCBcKhbis&feature=youtu.be&a
wow! that is quality!
WOOOOOOOOOOW
thats mind blowingly awesome (comparitively)
Are there still no pictures of the karting around? Strange, I would have thought there'd be some up by now
what the HELL happened??
US F1 finally woke up?
i have no idea, but i love them. SO much.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
TAKE NOTE
there is no way they just happened to learn how to edit videos.
that's had proper money spent on it.
hear, hear.
Also, Campos have said their car has passed the final FIA crash test. So do we still think they won't make it despite this?
*notes US F1 as an inspiration for video editing*
maybe the US guy who commented around here took a trip to North Carolina? ;)
I keep forgetting Dallara make the car. They'll make it, but i dont know how good it will be
So it's a Spanish team which has a car made by Italians, a British engine and a Brazilian as lead driver. Certainly an international affair.
or if the team will be able to afford to run it.
that too
According to the Autosport article, they are close to agreeing terms with an investor.
Fair play to US F1 for listening to the feedback
Nothing amazing there but it was a 200% improvement on their previous offerings
I liked how they bothered to put the US F1 logo on the unpainted nose assembly, nice touch
I think that is the key point.
Oh... and paying Dallara. Could get messy if Dallara refuse to release the chassis!
Phone froze on Fri and I've got an appointment with an Apple Store Genius tomorrow.
A phone with many buttons really sucks when you get used to a touchscreen device. Who knew?
They should just keep the whole car in naked black carbon fiber.
Ooh good, tickets for Goodwood are available online now
http://ticketing.goodwood.com/GoodwoodTicketing/Admissions.aspx?webid=1
Maybe they'll go to the first races trying to find investor in the meantime, and they'll fold as Super Auguri by the time they get to Europe (or before if Bernie decides that 12 teams is better for his economics...)
it happens occationally in the lower formulae, they look loooooverly (sometimes)
I haven't seen you around Jim, so welcome! (unless you've been around for years and i'm really not good at noticing, which is also likely, but anyway, welcome!)
I love the naked carbon fiber look. It'd certainly stand out
It would be nice, but I would rather see it covered by Argentinean sponsors... ;-)
Not sure if it would need a lacquer for weather protection/moisture ingress but yeah, I'd go with that
Does anyone realistically think it's NOT gonna have a Red, White & Blue livery?
That would look SWEEEETTT...
Also I just tweeted the team, " I haven't seen a nose with that much work done to it since Michael Jackson was alive. "
:D
Depends who is sponsoring it. However, I think I heard Anderson say that they were going to go with the traditional American Racing Paint sceme which is either dark blue with two white racing stripes or white with two dark blue racing stripes.
I think it'll have the colours as the theme but it won't be made up like the A1GP car
:lol:
Our composite guys do a lot of stuff like that and with the impending 787, composite repairs are gonna boom
I found out the other day that the fuselage is just 3 pieces!
3 !!
Each join has 3,000 fasteners though
ohhh, like the Gurney Eagle? that was a brilliant livery
if you're bored, have just updated the site sidebar:
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/20/daily-20th-january-2010/
will blog details later, but the complicated bits are the code to figure out twitter/facebook counts and the calendar interactivity.
expect more tabs like that (hiding all sorts of functionality) in furture.
mmmmmmm.....eye candy.....
Pat, you asked where the Mansell LMP car was (i think it was you), if you look at your picture of the F1R stand and the le mans drivers, look on the far wall where it says Brooklands, and it was there!
mmmmmmm..... even more eye candy.
I would love the white with blue stripes scheme personally.
wow! really nice! :D
I like the 2010 Calendar link being prominent too
cheers, it's been a long time coming. the icons are temporary and we'll add to it when we get chance.
I really like em, what's to change?
well they work with the currently theme, but that itself is only temporary really (although growing on us). they might stay, we'll see.
oh wow! love it
Your paint is peeling away and revealing social networks.
yay. totals are cached for a couple of days. i best get and blog the details methinks.
we mights stole your calendar sidebar idea... ooops!
I realised that a couple of hours ago when I inserted the pic, I remember you said it was by the Brooklands truck! That was in the corner though and I never ventured there, and couldn't see the car for the people..
I think i only found it late on in the day, some thigns are completely hidden. As for the pistonheads, last year that took up a big hall and was alright, this year was rubbish!
Both look fantastic. All the best liveries are simple designs. Shame F1 doesn't allow one on each car.
Looks good. Should probably put @sidepodcast as a link too?
Mr C, Do the totals update themselves?
and two years ago was a whole separate show and was even better.
true dat
cached for 3-4 days, or we can manually force a refresh.
eventually they should do.
sounds good to me!
Heheh :-)
Since I can't embed the list-style calendar on the sidebar on Wordpress I may do it manually.
I notice this year almost everything had completely moved compared to my previous visit.
yeah, this year had less structure i felt.
The kart track used to be where the oval racing was this time, and oval racing was where pistonheads was this time.
F1 Racing was where the dodgems were this time.
Autosport Central was more in the middle a bit.
I couldnt find the oval bit, which was quite dissapointing. I think it was just for public
If you're stood next to the McRae Subarus, there's a big door nearby, it was through there.
Not that there was anything of note in there. F1 In Schools was there but were packing up by the time Chris and I found it. The oval bit was a selection of cars parked up, and some more stands selling parts and general racing photos (I'd be annoyed if I were one of those guys, because I'd imagine a lot of people would have skipped that hall)
Done. Consider this the replacement for the 'Weekend Preview' posts...
hehe, nice one. and on that note, i must sleeps. catch you all tomorrow.
night mr.c
adios!
G'night fella
Night, and goodnight all. This was supposed to be an early night... and it isn't :-)
night Pat
See ya Pat
night pat
Me too! Up in 8 hours. byeee
bye jon
T'ra
Hello all
DC = fool. I think Mr C will agree with me when he sees this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1A_hn6J0L8&feature=sub
hi joe (not here, making dinner...)
On the west coast are you?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :-(
a little bit more in the southern cone of america... ;-)
I just have bad habits for eating hours, and having light up to 9pm doesn't help.
Same here, usually associated
same here, usually associated with beer consumption.
:-)
time to go to bed (before midnight?). night!
we have sun up till 9pm in tassie too
So there was four seats left...
One to Toro Rosso
One to Renault
Two to USF1
Heidfeld has to go to one of those seats... right? He really can't go to Toro Rosso because of Red Bull's development driver program. Would he want to be a deputy to Kubica again? Errrr. Would he actually go to USF1? He would practically have to work for free since they want pay drivers.
Things to think about. I like Quick Nick but just don't know where he is going.
Morning :)
I'm not deaf!! :D
Not sure he was deputy at BMW Sauber to Kubica. One thing that seems to be being forgotten is how good he is at car set-up - something that Robert still has a long way to go. I think Nick and Robert worked well as team mates, very briefly they lead the constructor's championship in 2008. I do agree that going to Renault he will become the deputy. USF1 seemed to want Wurtz, well they would have had to pay him - with Nick you would get Wurtz on speed.
Mr C this was the thing I meant... I have no idea how you properly get there from the home page soz...
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare.asp
I was properly out and somebody showed me so I quickly wrote as much as I could in that comment.
hurrah!
We have lovely photos which I'd show you if I had the faintest idea how to work Nick's camera :P
Morning!
Moooorning :D
I might not be getting a lot done today but I have definitely learned that mango = messy!
in further proof the people who make the Open draws hate me, my two favourites are playing on different courts at the same time tomorrow.
there still should be one more left over at Campos
You eat mangoes in the morning?
Makes for a tasty breakfast! It is basically midday here now though :P
I think it's a mess to cook, have never tried it in breakfasts.
Cook? I just hacked at it with a knife over the draining board :P
ooh this match that is about to start is the first time I have ever watched tennis in HD. Looks goooooood. Silly Bernie.
Yeah your right.
Is it easy to say that the only one of those seats that will pay anything will be Renault possibly if that? I have the feeling that Renault will pick one of their development drivers. The same for Toro Rosso. Campos makes some sense because they need someone to compliment Bruno Senna. Not sure that USF1 would be interested.
You should bisect it, and make the fruit to be like a chessboard with a knife, then turn it, thus you could easily eat it.
Torro Rosa has not vacant seat - although the contract not finalised - it is for Tim.
Renault have said they wanted a driver to push Kubica. Bob Bell also said the following...
“The real target for us is to build for 2011 and a championship campaign. But we have realistic expectations for 2010. We are not going to produce a car that catapults us to the front because F1 is very competitive. But our 2010 expectations are to run towards the front and challenge for the top three.”
Given recent experience of Romain Grosjean their expectations seems widely optimistic. Whose going to develop the car - Kubica? Which two of the following teams are they going to be able to beat Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull to be in the top three?
The question really is how much capitol does the Renault new owners have to spend on the team? Not only that, do they still have any drivers coming up the Formula Renault pipeline? Remember, even when they were a factory team, they had a consistent track record of having one driver of experience (Trulli, Fischi, Alonso) and one from their development programs or other young drivers (Alonso, Kovi, Nelson Cheater Jr, and Roman Groz) on the team every year. Then again, that might of been a Fat Boy's policy when he ran the team.
Renault may want to go for experience for a change after their experiences with Heikki and Grosjean ...
Good morning all.
I think the lack of opportunity for test is a big influence here. I will argue that Heikki did reasonably in the second part of his Renault season, but it was a time of more generous testing.
Lotus have gone for two experienced drivers and I reckon that will give them the edge over the other new teams - just in set up alone.
Morning :)
Morning :P
How are we all? It is very miserable and grey outside today.
It's snowing here, it's a short day at work and I am making plans to go skiing at the weekend! :D
Oooh, skiing! Are you a good skier?
Just in case you were wondering... I am not a good skier. I tend to flail about... a lot!
Have you been on actual snow? I have only ever had one lesson on a dry ski slope. I didn't really like it, but was quite proud I didn't fall down.
That is why I cross country ski and mountaineer. The downhill stuff... not my suit.
Morning all.
Someone told me it was going to snow. Instead I had the worst night sleep EVER because of rain. boo
Going outside is giving me a headache! It's not hugely hot but the sun is too strong. I feel like it's burning a hole in my head!
By the way. Unless Mr Hulk has a special talent of talking about himself in the 3rd person, I don't think his twitter is actually him ;)
Do you have a hat?
Yes. It's not really helping! No-one really reminded me that even though it's winter here, it doesn't make me any further from the equator :(
Somehow as well as being baked alive, I also have a cold :P I think my body is very confused!
Oh yes on actual snow twice (2 occasions once for a one day thing, one for a 5 day holiday) I think. I fell over a lot. On the holiday I was with my brother and some cousins. We started on day 1 in the kind of introduction thing. By the end of the week my brother was bumped up two class levels, my other cousin finished the week course of lessons. I think I was doomed to repeat day 2 of the lessons for the rest of the week.
I don't blame it, coming directly from the snow-laden UK.
But I had good fun though :)
indeed. I'm confused just thinking about it!
Awwww. My friend's husband comes from Italy and goes skiing a lot. He thinks he's quite good because over the course of however many years, he's only broken his leg twice.
!!
The Nick Heidfeld one is done in a similar fashion. Poor effort really.
Grosjean hasn't updated in a while has he? Probably busy doing double-shifts in his bank to cover his overdraft after travelling around most of the globe last year.
I'm going to freeze to death when I come back!
I am a complete novice but I really enjoy it.
Just booked my skis - we are going here: http://www.vallasen.se/
Was the dry slope an actual slope or a conveyor belt?
Ooooh very nice :D I love skiing but I haven't been since I was at school
Oh god, those conveyors look like death machines!!!
Erm...
If you noticed Mrs. Goat limping at the pub after Sidepodmeetup last year, it's because she tore a knee ligament skiing in Jan :(
Did the ground move or stay still?
Like, was it you going down a hill or were you stationary on a moving belt?
Oh, no, it was a real slope. We had a go on the baby one at the bottom and then if you were good at that you got to have a go on the real one as well.
There are treadmills for skiing? The world is a very strange place.
It's quite nice but it's not a resort in any way. It's perfect for a day trip - we start in Copenhagen, go up to Helsingør and take the ferry across. About 2 hour's drive all up!
almost made a fatal mistake and agreed to moving the house on March 14
I found it very odd - I was fine until I looked up, got disorientated and then fell over!
Nooooo!
Not a resort is nice though. I went skiing for a long weekend up in Scotland once and it was really lovely. No Italian posers :P
lucky I never make a step without F1 calendar in hand :-)
Exactly - all we want is decent skiing and gear and you get that here!
Oh haha I was still sat here wondering what the problem with March was :D
I just accidentally told somebody to "pull their socks together".
Hehehe!
Also in an earlier meeting one of my bosses said that he couldn't have a meeting on Tuesday because he was "totally penciled out".
I want to go to the cinema tonight but they're very pencilled out! I don't think watching an IMAX from the front row sounds like super fun.....
Is he a cartoon?
I think he meant that he wanted to pencil us in, but he was blocked out.
Ah, much less exciting :)
Morning everyone
Howdy Lukeh. How are ya?
Its weird - not sure it is worth bothering with as your head keeps bobbing around to see everything.
Could be better, still not 100% and still have an assignment to hand in tomorrow. Although District 9 last night was excellent, but I didn't see Alex in it sadly :P
Ooh, Alex is a film star?
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/19/daily-19th-january-2010/#comment-658889
I had a good look but I was too distracted by all the aliens in the film
Stupid prawns!
Huh. Things I have learnt about Alex today:
1) Secret film star.
2) Has a cartoon boss.
I liked the prawns! Especially the child one, awww.
Oooh am I?
True story.
no worries. i still don't understand what i'm looking at though?
I love their ridiculous names :D Like that guy was called Christopher :P
Ah... It was suggested to me as a neat way of finding that camera that somebody had that you can't quite remember.
I was expecting them to have ridiculous names too, liek Uglar or Zugaloo or something. Christopher is a very... different alien name. :)
i think steve jobs would have a fit if he saw that page.
I guess it's part of the point they're making about the film. About how we look at outsiders, stripping away their own identities. It irritated me a lot tbh. It was all too obvious for my taste.
Well yes it ain't pretty.
My wife gets phrases like that wrong all the time and it's so funny!
i love this whole post: http://www.mikemake.com/#72772/Charting-the-Beatles
Woah! I have no idea how the hell any of that is worked out but... wow!
my friends friend caught Andy Murray's towel tonight. Ew.
Off out for a coffee maybe that'll make me feel more at home :)
a lot of hard work methinks.
I was just looking at that - the most interesting part is the songwriting contributions as it shows how they all fell out at the end!
What's the point of it though??
Did she chop off her hands before any damage was done? :D
its a dude! I met him on Sunday and he is kind of in love with Murray. Scary!
i find it interesting. maybe others do to?
You could ask the same of my blog really.
I guess it's fun to show a different side to the story that everyone knows - and it's fun to look at things from another angle. It's also great to get people thinking and discussing something in a way they would never had looked twice at it normally...
Must be the Scottish accent?
i think the "song keys" chart is most interesting to me.
It would be to me except I have no idea what song keys are ;9
I know I do. I'm not sure how it works but it's definitely interesting. Love how as their career goes on on the wheel of activity (sounds like a TV show) less and less seems to be going on
perhaps. Hes a scouser, he must not be able to look past the "British" thing :D
they worked really, really hard in the beginning.
that wheel made me really really want to watch Help!
They must have had a few Hard Day's Nights in order to Please Please Me ;)
not here
Interesting tha Lennon dominated at the start, McCartney in the middle and by the end it was all over the place
Morning all. twitter seems to have died. :)
I'm just sour. Lived in Liverpool far too long to appreciate the Beatles in any form :P
Twitter is a Zombie - always dead or undead!
Bloggy pluggy,just a few film reviews - http://toata.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/60-quick-film-reviews/
must be our new sidebar?
Is it true that the Ferry Across the Mersey always plays the songf?
can i bribe ya to turn off the "snap" previews?
Ooooooh. I love the calendar integration!
How I would happily do so but I'm a wordpress noob.
Must remember punctuation.
That's not the Beatles is it? I lived opposite Penny Lane in my first year in halls. Tour buses came round every 20 minutes dawn til dusk in summer blasting Penny Lane out of speakers for the benefit of Japanese tourists. Enough to make you jump out the window.....
whoa. love it :D
my mind has now been blown twice this morning now. i don't know how much more it can take.
christine instructed gavin last time. i just cheer from the sidelines.
i'm secretly glad twitter s down so i can test the cached followers still works when it goes awol.
admittedly i wasn't expecting to wait long.
I can't remember the exact place without looking, but I believe there is a bit called Tools or Options or something down the side.
It's under Extras, and is a simple checkbox. It shouldn't be an extra because it's stupid.
*quickly turns snap previews off on his blog before Mr C looks*
:)
aha! Done! Didn't realise they were causing issues, sorry
First three jobs when getting a new Wordpress blog:
1) Turn off snap previews
2) Replace the Hello World post and the first comment
3) Change the default theme.
hehe. its reminded me i have an F1 blog that i should get around to updating. last post was in november.
4) update the about page.
i deleted mine, saved me the job ;)
I think twitter is down because Bill Gates has joined.
Definitely.
ooh, didn't know rossi was testing the ferrari for two days:
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.php?photoID=143907&catID=4694
something else for your awesomedropdowncalendar, christine?
That's quite the helmet
Will do.
It's been all over the net for about three weeks.
Still not here but being dragged in
looks like he has a very runny nose.
That is one of his normal sun/moon helmets. He varies the design a lot but for him that is a reasonably standard helmet
i heard about it, but didn't know it was now. assumed it would be during testing.
i like that the f2008 is suddenly 2 years old and eligible for testing, yet last month was off limits!
There is a sidebar?
Is it supposed to be on doohicky or am i missing out.
Also will it get in fights with the horizontal Navbar?
It's not the beatles, no.
http://sidepodcast.com/blog/
best of friends.
I turned mine into an FAQ with subpages ;)
Ooooh that is awesome,
I like the cracked design... It's pretty.
Did Mr C do that?
It doesn't work so well in a car does it?
hehe awesome.
I just want to say, you actually make me want to do more web stuff. I realised how much I missed it last night by just playing with CSS.
gpupdate went to autosport intl. and spoke to stirling:
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/videos/interview-with-sir-stirling-moss_272/
like proper journalism and everything.
Rossi changes his helmet design so often that there is a website about it. The one he is wearing in the Ferrari is at the bottom of the page. He made a mistake in one race and turned up at the next race with a donkey design.
My favourite Rossi helmet is half way down page two where he had his face painted on top of the helmet. Whne he had his head down on the tank anyone in front of him looking over their shoulder saw him grinning at them.
http://rossihelmets.com/blog/
:)
gavin's right though, none of that works well in a car.
That looks really good
Bike helmet designs tend to be a lot more complex that car helmets which tend to be more blocky because of how the helmet is viewed.
nooo, it's part of a free icon set.
i'd link to them but that site died last night and is yet to come back. will do when it does though. not sure they'll stay like that forever, will have to see.
ahh, if only you could see what we has planned...
That pesky podcasting business keeps getting in the way :)
i know. we needs a new live server, we need more video content, we haven't done an audio show in ages...
it's all work, work, work around here ;)
it would probably blow my mind so much i might not recover ;)
we'll give fair warning.
i was going to credit andrew benson for not linking to gmm articles anymore, but twitter is down. this is the fourth or fifth gossip column quoting credible sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8467911.stm
go gavin!
oh good. :)
all of this makes me wish i had chosen a course with web related units.
you say that, but we're doing all of this after work and during weekends.
so you can still realistically achieve the same thing.
I learnt everything I know 'on the job' too, you know...
Thanks - but you should credit Joe a lot more than me - he has been very good at leading this particular charge!
this is true. but my mind has been turned to mush with things i'm not that intrested in. hopefully the web unit we start in a couple of weeks will bring out the best of me :D
go joe!
Hehehehehe!!
(Friends joke)
You should see what i did! I made a page and everything!
It even had a picture! I learned it all though doing blockquotes on sidepodcast :P
:) :) :)
alex?
Where is he when you need him, eh?
Busy filming District 10 I assume
My day so far: Had a job interview, signed the lease of my new flat, sniggered/snickered at Kubica, started packing my stuff (I'm only moving beginning of March but I loooove packing)
Very clever! :P Do I have time to go out before you come home?
You have a new flat the day after you lost your flatmate?
Or did you take over the lease from your flatmate?
sidepodteaching? ;)
Yes, Too much to do, too little time
I was trying to explain to my mother the concept of blockquotes for my personal blog. That was interesting.
Mr C... doohickey please :)
:)
you just moved to wp.com.
Cool cool. Off I go then :)
Byeeeee
Oh yea. Boo.
Nope. At the moment I live in a pretty new, furnished, quite small room very close to my faculty with two other people and I'm moving in a older, unfurnished, slightly bigger, slightly farer away flat with only one flatmate and hopefully less noisy. BUT on a hill. Which is nice in the mornings not so nice when you want to go home.
Cool. You'll get used to the hill bit ;)
I already know I will hate the hill. I won't be able to just put on my skates and go around the lake because I would die. :(
But the room is cheaper so maybe I can afford to watch F1/rally on my TV again.
I love a foreigner's take on the language. Farer should be a word. It is logical and sensible but English never is.
I am sure Kathi knows the correct word but just in case it should be farther or further. They have exactly the same meaning.
we have a dictionary for exactly that purpose.
I don't think you could call our dictionary logical and sensible!
Oh twitter has come back to life. I wonder how long for. :)
Time to introduce doublespeak?
Err sure :)
I don't like farther.
Job done
:D
Neither do I and I don't think I have ever used it.
:)
what's quite scary is your whole sense made perfect sense to me, and i didn't notice anything out of place.
sentence, not sense. your sense makes sense too though.
Should have posted a link for any lurkers who don't know where it is
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Dictionary
I do think we need some more stuff in the fabulous Sidepodcast Guide to Life.
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Sidepodcast+Guide+to+Life
There must be more to life than sleeping and doing laundry. I will have a think, but if anyone has five minutes for some words of wisdom, definitely the wiki is the place to put it.
4. Guide to Stapling Paper
I always wondered.
It's important stuff.
Thanks for volunteering
I am already writing one up! It's very important.
I am supposed to be going outside now but it is raining. I wonder if I can put it off long enough to miss my opportunity.
Yay! Well done Lukeh :)
Can I swap your rain for the stupid snow that is blizzarding outside here?
When will this end!
Deal. Snow is a good reason not to go outside. Rain just makes me a wimp :)
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Guide+To+Getting+A+Good+Lunch
Woohoo :)
Yay for Greggs, although one the shops was closed here yesterday I really wanted something from there as well :(
:)
:)
Hello everyone!
Lukeh will be pleased to hear I went to the new Greggs in town during my free period! :D
I read that as the guide to Stealing Paper...
I was supprised as i didnt realise there was a market for that! :D
Having looked at Lukeh's guide http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Guide+To+Getting+A+Good+Lunch I noticed he suggested selling your house. It reminded me of a great Billy Connelly joke... Thankfully clean...
He was talking about being in a pub near his home in Scotland and how there is a real mix in the pub of super rich toffs and working class blokes and everything in between. Apparently the super rich guys who's always been rich and didn't feel the need to show off were actually most pally with the working class guys. And this really put the middle class guys nose out of joint. They were always thinking, "why is lord so and so always talking to that guy, can't he see I drive a volvo".
Anyway apparently one day one of the middle class guys comes over and tries to strike up conversation by saying, "oh did you hear I just sold my house for 400,000 pounds and when I bought it it was only 200,000 pounds, what do you think to that?" And when nobody responded he turned and asked one of the working class guys, "what about you, what do you think you'd get if you sold your house?". The guy responded, "about 9 months."
(he lives in a council house... so it would be illegal...)
Guys, you just have to read this comment that someone left on my blog: http://f1numbers.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/2009-in-review-fuel-use/#comment-607
It's freaking awesome!
I think I've followed Lukeh's advice pretty closely. I couldn't find a greggs :(
I did find wifi though!
Woohoo! That's excellent.
Wah!!! I'm never going outside again! Not sure how I'm getting back to Nick's...
There's just been an almighty crash outside where I'm sat!
Pics or it didn't happen? (only if it's a fender bender mind...)
citizen journalism. or something.
I used to live in an apartment which had a direct view onto a merging lane of a motorway. Whenever traffic was busy there was always a fender bender. Much better than any reality TV ;)
Afternoon, decided to take afternoon of Sixth Form off, and do something more fun...
I don't have a camera :P
It involved a car cutting straight over a roundabout, driving through a fountain and smashing two cars that had stopped to let a pedestrian cross the road. The drivers in this city are INSANE
you skipped school to comment on spc?
do we have to moderate you?
Not technically, I've only had one lesson today, so signed out.
hmmmm.
Honest, I'll show you my timetable and everything if I have to!
Do you ever stay? I certainly never did :P
Waits for Mr C to say, "isn't there some homework you should be doing" ;)
Well, technically, us Year 12s should only be signed out for an hour a day at most, and not to go home and stay there. So I'm kinda breaking a rule, but they don't really care.
You minx!
A couple of weeks ago, last time I had only one lesson (we have a two week timetable), I went sledging.
:)
Nick has requested I go let him in his house... Wish me luck out there!
Yes, of course there is. But I'm doing my lazy student impression again.
I am self moderating, I am never here anymore! #blametennis
he needs someone to let him into his own house?
And that's not fair, cos I rely on you for my tennis news :)
Hehe, have stolen my parents Singstar Queen while nobody's about ;)
2 people + 1 key = not ideal :D
You mean he hasn't given you your own key yet?
Surely this requires live streaming?
You wish ;)
I like to think Freddie woulda wanted it that way :)
I'm currently acing Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, here I come!
Yay, the temperature scale of the weather forecast page starts at -5, instead of somewhere on the plus side, for this week. #lovesthecold
No new snow though :(
Shall I just use the excuse that I don't have a live stream set up/have no idea how to.
I will let you off this time.
Oh good. Even if I'm finding excuses that may not be true? ;)
It occurs to me that I couldn't watch right now even if you did stream, so I shouldn't push it :)
Ok, I won't bother then. ;)
Just had a moment encompassing two blogs:
It started as a Fork Handles Moment, as I overheard someone say "Oh, you can still say Happy New Year?"
Which got me thinking (and turned it into a Gamboling moment): "How far into the year do you get before it becomes unacceptable to say Happy New Year to somebody?"
Right, Singstar Queen going away now. Same time next week, I think... Or Saturday at my party, I think...
I say 5th Jan is the last acceptable day.
If people seriously want to do a live stream, I'll look into it for two weeks time, and sign out of school specifically for entertaining you lot. :)
I think the first day you are back in the office if it is in the first week of the year.
Noooo, don't do that. You'll face the wrath of Mr C.
Relax, I only have one lesson in the morning every two weeks. So really, I have nothing better to do!
af'noon.
On the one hand this is 'hooray for blogging!', but then I thought... Giggles and Fourstar have infiltrated your brain. Is that a good thing?
Oh yes :)
:)
btw.. if any of you work for British Gas.... do yourself a favour and never tell me that
I guess I don't mind too much - could have been brainwashed by a lot worse :P
What have they done?
True!
Stole the company's money via the medium of incompetence.
We had billing problems (their fault) for a few years when they changed the price of a fixed price contract, which we didn't pick up due to staff changes. After much wrangling leading to us threatening legal action and their refusal to let us switch supplier, they settled with a cheque for a big sum I can't mention. (Guess who had to do the donkey work).
So we eventually switched away but the company we changed to went bust after 18 months and we went on to an emergency supplier, guess which one.. who promptly mis-billed us and refused to acknowledge the error. That account is now with someone else but they still owe us. Grr.
We had a new stationery catalogue to replace the old one, and were pondering what to do with the old one. I said I'd take it home and everyone looked at me weirdly.
#surelyeveryonelovesstationery
To a point, I do, yes. But mostly no.
Maybe not with Stationary, but i do love a good catalogue
#cataloguehorder
heh what do you intend on doing with the catalogue?
Nothing better than getting lost in a stationery shop. Apart from getting lost in a Greggs warehouse.
Looking at it.
Ahhhh, the immortally wonderful feeling of knowing an assignment is done :D
Woo! Well done :)
it totally rules dosent it?!
i've written 500 word too many, so ive just gotta cut them out and i shall be happy
Just need to hand it in tomorrow and wha-la. Although I stubbed my toe going to the printer to get it.
#assignmentrelatedinjury
We might need a new wiki page for that!
then i can understand the weird looks ;) #sorrychristine
What else would I do with that?
*it?
hmm you raise a good point, buy things from it?
#oldone
erm....
i'm out of ideas now. ;)
#voila
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Assignment+Related+Injuries
:P
Table levelling device
Step Aerobics (dependant on thickness of Catalogue)
Weapon of Self Defense
Kidnapping Aid
Ooooh, you're on wiki-fire today!
RG would be proud
Did someone say wiki?
Afternoon all.
Talk of the devil, afternoon
I have a stationary catelogue at home :)
this fire is out of control, we're gonna burn this wiki, burn this wiki
#alternativefranzferdinand
When I go to other countries I have to go to the stationary shop to look around. When I was in Germany I got carried away and bought about 100 pounds worth. But everyone knows that I have the best pens. I loves my pens... And my pads, and those little cards, and post-it notes and markers and little tabs to mark things with in folders, and folders... and....
Katherine won't let me go to stationary shops in the UK any more only on holiday as a rationing device. And so I like to look at the catelogue and dream :)
I'm like that with demon tweeks catalogue. boo
it doesn't move?
arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... jumps off clifff...
Me too! Because really, we don't use physical stuff at all.
I have a notebook for Sidepodcast and a notebook for Film Watch, a bunch of pens and that's it.
I don't do much... But what I do I want to be absolutely the best thing for the job.
oops
Michael already up to his tricks - he has apparently requested to have number 3 rather than number 4. He claims he is superstitious and his best results were with # 1, 3 and 5.
Apparently "a car bearing the No.4 has never won the title, and in the last ten years has only recorded seven grand prix wins. "
Source: http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/7035.html
I think it is the start of his gamesmanship over Nico.
I bought a physical 2010 diary for SPC stuff, to try and be more organised. We used it for the month prior to it actually starting, making notes on the first few blank pages.
Now it is the correct year but has already started gathering dust.
I keep buying things. If I can't find something I'll just buy another so I now have lots of things I hardly use.. I'm a hoarder. Should sort it all into a tidy groups really..
"a tidy groups"?? what's that?
i'm clearly giving the guy too much credit. i thought i'd be a couple of races before he causes controversy, not a couple of days.
i think we need some "motivational" posters featuring schumi...
"cheating"
"do what comes naturally"
that kinda thing.
Ooh you do know how to tempt me.
Well I used to only ever write fiction by hand. It was the hardest habit to break. And still lots of writers I know swear by it. I just don't have the time to retype.
But I have some lovely pens... Did I mention my lovely pens? :)
am interested to see how he'll respond. i suspect that's probably the plan.
ahh. more pub meetings.
My to do list I don't seem to be able to digitise. I keep that on scraps of paper.
I'm sure it is everything to do with that, just as the man says. Nothing at all to do with being perceived as no.1
Now?
ooops.
if you like.
Awesome :)
"parking illegally"
"you'll get a fine for that"
Omnifocus is pretty good. You need to have the iPhone / Touch version... I did write a review of it... Once upon a time:
http://www.gamboling.co.uk/2009/01/finding-focus.html
I'm a Schumi fan, and even I think that's a bit of a... erm, stretch.
It'll be most interesting, for sure.
Hello, everyone, by the way. Hellish day today - 12 hours at work. :( And I ate dinner at midnight...
I have found a few good ones, and they're exciting for a while, but it's habit, isn't it.
welcome to my world :)
His old mate Ross has tipped him to be 2010 World Champion! Me thinks poor Nico.
You do it by choice, though! It sure wasn't mine. :P
true enough.
:D Sooo... How's everyone?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/motivatorae1c3e0a36afddad8c735c205fc2d98ab2e4dbb8-1-jpg
Good ol' DC
Yes... It's the habit... It's making sure that you don't have any "open loops"... I tend to use Katherine's Omnifocus ;)
"Rules are meant to be ignored"
Oh dear. This can't be right. I had an early night last night and now I'm tired...
Haha. :)
:D:D:D
happy, and less overworked than your good self.
:D
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80981
didnae know this! I hearts Eric. looks like a lovely guy
Schumacher fans are gonna hate me so much for this
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/motivator751ec899969477897d0e3a4eabb601023615088b-1-jpg
good for you! :) i don't know if i want time to go slower (so i don't need to work again for a bit longer) or shorter (so it's the weekend already).
Hey Mr J. I be tired, but good.
Doornbos has let slip that he could also have had a drive at either Campos or USf1 if he had five million dollars. For Ant - because for him to drive they want five million euros.
What I really like is Doornbos's statement...
"If I had that already I would rather be at the front in Indy Car then at the back in Formula One"
Too true.
:D
OMG!
I do worry about those 2 teams - clearly Campos got Senna because of sponsorship deals attached to the name.
autosport say it's a done deal:
Michael Schumacher has taken Nico Rosberg's #3 at Mercedes GP for the coming season.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80987
And so the year Rosberg needed to put his name into the hat of top drivers at the moment has already been thrown away.
i thought as much. if merc was gonna say no, i don't think it would've made the news in the first place.
looks like nico never got a say:
"Michael has a preference for odd numbers. He asked if he could be the odd number and we were happy to accept."
#ihatemercedesgp
Of course the drivers will have completely equal treatment like Michael claims has always been the case and he has never had a number 1 status.
that's a fair point.
"What's Mine is Mine, and What's Yours is Mine"
I love that one. Hehe. :D
we need a podium pic from austria:
"team orders"
"accept them or leave"
except Shov and Bono ....right?
hi all!
nope.
:D
Never thought I'd be feeling sorry for Nico.
you hate Andy Shovlin? he's amazing! you can't hate him... :(
I am NOT doing that :(
Keke must be fuming
More schumacher motivationalness
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/motivatorda990b1660834c36a7b34113577449157843b575-1-jpg
:( Brawn aren't Mercedes.. Brawn were amazing!!
ahhhhhhhhh. i may not have thought that one through!!
#sorrylukeh
still the first month of the year. it'll get worse.
he could leave. he's a respected engineer, who just took his driver to the top of the championship.
How about then: Schumacher - Always had awesome team mates....
That was more of a save than a good attempt to be fair.
:D:D:D:D
true dat
If Mercedes were given later numbers, such as 22 and 23, would he have still wanted the odd number?
He wouldn't have been able to go to Mercedes. But anywhere else would be okay.
*McLaren
where would he go? would you move from a championship winning team to a team that isn't as good, if you didn't mind schumi?
Cos he is supertisious, he woulda went with 22 cos the last two years have been won in that numbered car.
Good news for TBA in 2010 though.
strangely my thoughts - the changed number, Ross's prediction of schuey being champion- how many others really hope Nico kicks schuey's a--e
Both are amazing - how much I like Brawn and how much I dislike Mercedes.
^^ does not compute :)
it won't happen. they'll lose a wheel during a pitstop, or several.
I hope you are wrong but fear you are right!
Nico can lose to Schumi on his own without the pitcrew's help. ;)
:) hahaha, i'm not a fan of schumi but realistically for Shov the best options must have been to stay or go with Jenson (not sure he was given the chance).
probably true :)
even I agree !
It is always greener on the other hill - the same can be said for F1 McLaren and Ferrari appear to have swapped aerodynamics.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80988
One more motivational from me
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/motivator4caf43086351671ce527c88e57aab806313a29ac-1-jpg
if autosports stories get any shorter they may as well just tweet them :)
^^das my fav!
That was my thought - no attempt to even pad it slightly. GMM does at least waffle it up a bit even if the news was stolen vomit from someone else.
i assume they'll go back and add to it? maybe the snow means they're working with reduced levels of staffing. or it was 5pm and then wanted to go home.
Don't they post it quickly and then pad it out later?
they must do. i was jut looking at the site full screen and working out how much of it was content...
Right, someone please give me motivation to do this presentation on carbon fibre in F1 that is due Friday...
Ohh you should've come to the sidepodmeetup and seen the carbon fibre staircase. Now that is motivating stuff. ;)
if you don't do it we'll break your legs.
Erm, tad extreme, don't you think?
you put me under pressure.
I see.
Don't forget to say its just a friendly warning.
isn't that implicit by me never going outside?
oh wait... that went over me head.
#iwaslisteningsorrychristine
Hehehe. :D Oops.
And on that note, am off to bed. Night, everyone. :)
see ya sir.
Martin Whitmarsh on Pedro's drive for Sauber
"we wish him well. He's been a fantastic team player for the past seven years, has contributed a huge amount to our successes in that time, and will remembered by all at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes as not only an esteemed colleague but also as a good friend."
any info on the Ferrari engine would be useful but please no SMS messages!
Byee Mr J
G'night J
which reminds me - Pedalo can help his friend Fernando again with input on their Ferrari engines. ;)
really going now...
Well I for one am very concerned about the whole Schumacher - odd numbers business.
http://twitter.com/lukehmuse/statuses/7993110434
:D
Actually there is only one odd number that Schuey likes that is number 1!
It won't happen, but what if Rosberg was champion this season? Would Schumi try and force #1?
he'd hang his helmet in shame, wouldn't he?
"Ah my neck didn't have enough odd numbers over the season..."
http://twitter.com/ClaireVWilliams/statuses/7993441269
Rubens has clearly been telling Nico some fibs when it comes to F1 pitstops ;)
Also I really really like the background on her twitter :D
Good point - but it won't happen in this universe - another parallel universe possibly.
Right, I shall attempt to start making this presentation.
Good luck! Think of the satisfaction you'll feel when it's finished :)
You'd think I'd enjoy doing some work on F1, I thought that too. How wrong I was.
Hello again. Home now.
I notice Nelson Piquet Jr and Milka Duno are going to be in the same ARCA race, that'll be a larf.
Bet Milka beats PK!
"Oh no there's Rosberg pulling off track, Ted tells us there is a problem with the ECU.."
ah so now they are getting the aero data legally
These have been great and this is the best :-)
Snow? Is there still snow?
The BBC website just writes the same thing three times and puts the quote in the middle somewhere.
We had a flurry here today for an hour or so at least, but nothing settled.
I (heart) Claire.
Geeze, How much snow can one country take?
Hey guys, what's shaking? Feel like I've missed this place. Lots. That's bad, right?
Completely oblivious here. We had some that lasted about five days and that was only 1cm. without having watched the news for ages, it sounds like everyone is kicking up a fuss :-)
Also on Mobile Doohickey, in case I seem late or disjointed.
Grrr... why do I have to do much work for 1 presentation. Print off all drafts for your portfolio?!??!?!
pretty normal tbh
A local newspaper had a heading that F1 driver to race in South Africa - I got excited until I got to the part that said the driver was Nelson Piquet.
Have I mentioned that I hate Physics?
Have I mentioned that you suck for saying that? :P
I mean only the lesson, I enjoy it at any other time but now.
That's OK then ;)
I'm bored of carbon fibre now. Never again do I want to study a material in any detail whatsoever.
dare i ask what your presentaion is on?
Carbon Fibre in F1.
holy...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylaney/4290468059/
wow!
as i read that, my mind went completly blank. ;) are you allowed to include videos as i'm sure you can find some youtube videos to stick in.
That shot sums up why I love Rally cars :D
Evening
I have an iPhone again, yay!!
[lovely Apple Store people]
Beautiful! Any of the Quattro as well? :)
tweet from manipe:
Massa will get back behind the wheel of a 2008 Ferrari at Barcelona on Friday
http://twitter.com/ManipeF1/status/7995468082
Great shot, I love Ms Laney's work
OK, time to head home
Oooooh, I have just seen the daily (#sorrychristine) and I did not realise it was Will Wright's birthday. The man is a genius!! Always have admired his creativity and ideas in gaming.
So did he come up with SimCity as well?
Sim City, The Sims, Spore... he's the figurehead behind the Maxis brand that released so many of these Sim related games.
Ah excellent. I love the SimCity games, especially SC3000 and SC4. :P
They're definitely the best two out of the series, I prefer 3000. 4 is excellent but I find it so hard!
I played the original and SimCity2000 a lot, and 3000 quite a few times. Far too addictive, that game. Lost many a night with SC, a bottle of red and some music on!
Woohoo!
yeah but five more minutes, just gotta put this road in... just gotta get a few extra police stations...
The Sims has to be the most popular PC game/series ever made, surely. The only thing I can think of that even comes close to the popularity of the Sims is World of Warcraft... and that doesn't excatly have a wide range of appeal to different audiences...
...now I really want to play The Sims 2.
I've never played the Sims properly, but I do know that you could import any Sims you create into one of your cities in Sim City 4 and choose where they lived and what car they drove and everything :P
you could! :D
I've never played The Sims at all.. more into the city building thing..
Same here. I've only played a demo of the Sims on the PS2 but I prefer strategy and building games like Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Sim City, Caesar 3, etc. It forces you to think and get creative when it comes to how you lay out what you're building.
It's not bad but things get tedious very quickly and the game becomes stale after a couple weeks.
Oh by the way Lukeh, did I tell you I bought a black Rubens Brawn GP shirt at ASI? ;)
My shelf of pc games has a ridiculous amount of simulation/strategy games. I'm an absolute sucker for the city building thing, or generally building/ micro management stuff. Rollercoaster Tycoon, Evil Genius, Theme Hospital, Theme Park, The Movies, Zoo Tycoon, Football manager, etc etc just to name a few...
many hours wasted. :)
Woop! Awesome!
Theme Hospital! Man that was epic! :D
I'm wearing it right now, love it! :D Just something about white and flourescent yellow on black that just works!
Yeah... though I always struggled at managing money and always go into the red on whatever game it is.. a bit like real life ;-)
Only £20 as well. Well chuffed with that.
Very nice :)
Ctrl + Shift + C... motherlode... damnit it doesn't work in real life. Damn you will wright. ;)
See I was going to get my dad one of these from Silverstone but they'd run out at the stand I went to so I got him a white Jenson one, same as mine.
Got one of the new McLaren zip t-shirts as well in silver. Looks much better now they've taking away all that flaring around the shoulders. Much cleaner and tidier.
click it on large on black and it gets better :)
we'll do a post about this later, but just a heads up for the comments.
our drop will expire later this year, and it'll cost us $50 per month to keep it going at the current size. we can't afford to support that, so we've started introducing support for more services which do similar things.
flickr is one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylaney/4290468059/
and there others like twitpic and qik and youtube, all of which integrate nicely into doohickey and lclt.
starting soon, we'll begin to plug those services more as well as figure out what to do with the 41GB of rather fantastic existing content.
anyhow. just a quick heads-up. you have plenty of time if you'd like to download your content and locate it elsewhere. more soon and big cheers to dropio peoples for offering so much free space for so long.
Ferrari livery? http://www.marca.com/2010/01/20/motor/formula1/1264003356.html
woah!
Might just be a testing livery?
In which anycase, they shouldn't be testing?
Well it's certainly eye catching. I'd forgotten what a Ferrari livery was like with white.
Wow! I like! :D
Its the F60, my guess a photoshop much like the Mercedes one.
And do I spy Alonso back in his blue and yellow helmet colours as well?
much better quality though. very nice.
A very good photoshop to be fair.
An incredibly good one, at that.
i really like the look of it. i hope that's a close approximation.
Look at the picture next to the main one. Source is Ferrari. I say that's the real deal.
I hope so too. Ferrari were getting a bit boring with constant red and barcodes all the time.
Another image: http://www.f1revolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/santander.jpg
Its from a Santander promotion I believe.
Indeed. http://estaticos04.marca.com/albumes/2010/01/15/penultimo_dia/1263584287_extras_albumes_0.jpg
:)
It must be an image to show what the car will be like with the new sponsorship, as James said, a Santander promo.
Have to admit - that's is one good looking livery.
Its apparently not a photoshop, Alonso drove the F60 in Paul Ricard some days ago for a promotional event.
http://www.as.com/motor/articulo/alonso-piloto-ferrari-f1-hace/dasmot/20100120dasdasmot_5/Tes
yay!
Can't see it being the actual livery though.
Did think it looked too good to be a photoshop.
So can we now say that Mr C actually likes Ferrari now?
not enough red?
it matches their overalls.
i love that livery.
A great paintjob and his favourite driver all in one. I think we'll take that as a yes ;) :P
Was thinking sponsorship wise, I thought they had more than Santander?
ethiad are on the right wing, not sure about others.
i don't understand how the run was legal though?
I like the red and white, especially the back wing, but there are santander logos everywhere!
Maybe it will be those colours, just with a couple more sponsors come Bahrain.
i imagine some more stickers will appear. this was so santander could show off their deal with ferrari.
Similar one to when Badoer did that Shell promo run?
well considering we're only finding out now, maybe no one knew ;)
I was hinting at that earlier.
Looks... odd
I'm not keen on it, too much white on the wings.
I'd imagine the promo event was for Santander with that many logos!
They may be trying to see which logos shoe up best on TV or something like that. It's not unusual for a team to do a run to find that out. Then they can decide which logos they want where. Or they could just be pumping stupid amounts of money into Ferrari
It is a little OTT on the Santander logos. I imagine marketing types were sitting in a room with a laser pen, pointing at each one and giving a price.
"Rear wing - that'll be 2 million for the season. Wing mirror - you can have that for 50k."
To me it is just boring Ferrari with some white added. When it covers to livery there is only one team with any creative idea and that is Red Bull - Toro Rosso - which are gorgeous especially STR.
Stephen Fry just won a National Television Award. His first words - "O.M.G!" :D
I think the wing mirror is a bargain at 50k!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1649CSFPl3w
I have no memory of this moment from Villeneuve but... yeeeeeeesh!!!
Shall we have a whip round and get SPC put on it?
I'm trying to wipe all my memories of Villeneuve too ;)
looks like JB's 2010 helmet will be his union jack one (YAY!) this is the second time in two days i've seen the helmet livery in association with mclaren. i kinda like the tshirt too...
ooooh I hope it goes back to normal!
Who is she?
gotta be the sidepod, hasn't it? that might require a fundraiser though.
Perhaps a Scoop of Jelley might be more affordable..
http://www.scoopofjelley.com/packages.html
Would be great though, even if for just one race
a winner of a mclaren competition. they got to help at a photo shoot i believe.
What helmet do you think he will wear when he does the Dakar?
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19012010/58/button-reveals-dakar-ambition.html
a plug for rather fantastic guest post from RG:
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/20/pity-the-f1-fool/
he said at AI that it would be something he'd interested in doing for fun.. so either the union jack one (as he probably had loads of those :P ) or.. if he's still sponsored by monster then the black and green monster one i should image..
and with that i'm off to get some more revision done. just one more exam this week! - gahh! bye all! xx
Boo for the exam but at least it's just one more this week :) Byee!
Ooh, I like the Twitter/Facebook/RSS splodge thingy to the right of the page, when did that appear?
this morning, post coming soon. and more new stuff being added to it too (hopefully).
I have been thinking of how to explain how they appear since I saw them.
Splodge thingy. I like it.
I do like it, it's the coolest way of showing those services that I've seen.
Why is Piquet doing a #followWednesday on twitter? Everyone else does it on Friday?
Oh Piquet you rebel!!
Erm, because Piquet is, well, Piquet. He does things differently, as his F1 performance proved.
Maybe he's tring to crash [twitter] deliberately ;)
Yep, Twitter's hit the hypothetical distance marker boards of the internet now.
So, Renault are saying they may not announce a second driver until after testing. A little odd, Kubica will be busy. Do they have any reserve drivers/testers confirmed?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80981
To my knowledge only Robert is confirmed. Robert is on record as saying he wants an experienced second driver not a rookie. The main reason is they get more data on which to setup the car.
Guys, I'm up for Thursday Thoughts at some point, but I've no idea where to post a question. Hints?
Do you have a blog?
That I do. I'm guessing that's where to post it? ;)
Sorry, if I do do this, I'd have to do it now cos I can't do it at work.
Either post to your blog, or you can send it to us as a guest post if you'd rather.
Now's good, if you can
Blog's fine and I'll link to the daily thread. Lil clueless as to how to edit the Wiki in a way not to break it. :)
Hi guys BTW, bit tired mind but just about with it. :D
*Waves
I'll do the editing.
evening sidepodland!
*waves back*
Will let you know in here when I've posted it. :D
Hi Guille & TM
Hey mate.
Ooh, blimey, you surprised me with the sudden activity again! Hello to those who have arrived.
Evening all. I am still alive but swamped with work in my new job here. But loving it. How are we all?
Snap!
Hey mate! Currently blaming football for everything in life.
Hi Scott
Good thanks
evening scott.
editing a blog entry with several tables and many links on it, in HTML. feeling a little bit like in the Matrix...
See the game earlier on this evening? As a neutral supporter and lover of the game that was a cracker to watch. :D
so life is normal then? I've just been catchig up on f1 news during a meeting.
I assume you aren't talking about the Liverpool - Spurs game then.
I am the matrix ;)
Erm, yes it is.
No, I was talking about the only game available on terrestrial television, and that was FAR better than the dull Liverpool-scraping.
BTW Michael Schumacher has swapped his racing number from Four to Three
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/01/whats-in-a-number/
I'd say this should go in the daily post
We were in another thread.
Hi everyone coming in.
Right presentation literally not going anywhere, so I'm off to sleep, which is a far better use of my time.
glad to hear it. Hah my meetig is over now. Gotta run and talk to people now but I'll be back sometime. Hopefully!
Speaking of blogs, Ron Furious and Allen Wedge are hosting their 2nd Annual 24-Hour Blogathon next weekend at The Furious Wedge..
http://furiouswedge.blogspot.com/
night tom
See ya sir.
2 blog posts today to whet your appetites! First one is my exploits around the streets of Monte Carlo on Tuesday night, with *ahem* some success.
http://turkeymachine.co.uk/s18-historics-monaco/
Night dude. :)
Thursday Thoughts: http://turkeymachine.co.uk/thursday-thoughts/
And updated: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Thursday+Thoughts
Next week is currently vacant so if you are interested, just go and sign up.
I shall have a think.
Wonderful, cheers for that. On that note, I'm off to bed before I fall asleep at the keyboard. Again!!!
Night TM :)
night!
Updated this page: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Guest+Posts Quite a lot of Guest posts from November till now, I'll say.
And on that I'm off, night and lotsa love.
night rg
blimey, that's a lotta guest posting right there.
Guest posts rock!
i do most certainly agree.
I may one day regret saying this, but I promise to do a guest post on the 2009 and 2010 Dakar's... but first I'll have to scan the pictures from this year and upload them, which will take me an undefined amount of time ;-)
yay. thanking you!
BTW Michael Schumacher has swapped his racing number from Four to Three
http://www.jam...01/whats-in-a-number/ {Comment #78}
Clearly the FIA listened to special pleading - normally race numbers can't be changed at this stage.. Admittedly in this case Mercedes has a point...
that shumi should be above nico? :-)
Clearly the FIA listened to special pleading - normally race numbers can't be changed at this stage.. Admittedly in this case Mercedes has a point...
that shumi should be above nico? :-) {Comment #86}
Until indicated otherwise...
i easily him ending up in the same team with fellow monster endorser Robby Gordon. They'd be driving Hummers. :D