It's Saturday, and that means the weekend is officially here! Woohoo! As ever, we're going to be around during the weekend, fiddling with bits and pieces on the site and gradually making Sidepodcast a better place to be. Starting with:
- Mr C has been busy at the coding grindstone and has put the awesome comment filter box on every single page. So, if you are using Ye Olde Comments, you can now filter those as you would be able to on the LCLT or the Doohickey. If this means nothing to you, we'll probably be explaining in more detail soon, but why not test it out and let us know how it goes?
- We created another breakout thread yesterday with the news that Jaime Alguersuari has finally been confirmed at Toro Rosso. It seemed like an obvious signing, and everyone involved seem to think that he was all set for the drive, so we're not sure why the delay occurred. Either way, we are now down to just four unclaimed seats for the upcoming season.
- Massa finished up his return to the F1 cockpit, albeit an F2008 with GP2 tyres on. He took over the reigns from Valentino Rossi at Barcelona, and said he feels 100% fit and isn't worried about returning to the grid at all. Yay for the return of Massa!
That should do it for now. Let us know how your weekend is going and what you're up to, and I'll see you in the comments.
lopez has signed for USF1 according to reuters.
Argentine Jose Maria Lopez was confirmed as a driver for the new Formula One team USF1 on Friday, his spokesman Miguel Mattos said.
"Everything has been agreed and the official announcement will be made on Monday," Mattos told Reuters.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE60L2CL20100123
hello weekend, btw.
it's all go now. i have serious doubts over the quality of his talent, but we shall see in due course.
down to 3 open seats, then - 1 each at Campos, USF1, and Renault.
Why can I see this being worse than Badoer?
hello everyone, btw. ;)
"Confirmed as a driver" could still mean test driver, that would be amusing
:D
Odd. I am already 1.5 hours into my weekend already as I define if as being time after work on a friday afternoon....
Good point.
Hello weekend and journeyer.
But he's got all the $$$ so he's not going to want to be a test driver.
it would be amusing if he were a tester, but almost certainly he'll be the number #2 driver.
If 2 drivers stump up more cash....
Not looking forward to more pay drivers this season.
Yeah. But more interestingly, who's gonna be the other driver?
Pay drivers are the downside to having independent teams again..
Well, we knew they were gonna be likely when they asked for 3 new teams. Especially in this economy.
monday is an odd day to make the announcement.
won't all the coverage be about mclaren?
If only Racing Drivers were like football teams. The best ones promoted, the worst ones relegated.
Morning/evening.*
*delete as applicable, doesn't matter really.
I was thinking that Sauber launching their car on a Sunday is odder.
seriously this place still confuses me. it's basically silent for most of the night and then all of a sudden everyone turns up :D
What was your last twitter post about? Is it a film quote?
we're both off to sleeps now :(
will catch ya all tomorrow.
*today
It's a line from a Muse song. I just like it.
see ya sir
no watching of the concert that starts in 10 mins?
I liked it
I was gonna say. Night folks.
And mornin Tom
erm... i forgot. might take laptop to bed then.
(soo close to an early night)
large amount of lurking going on
sorry.
You wait ages for a bus, then they all come at once, as the saying goes!
My Wife is watching Antiques Roadshow. Nothing interesting there, except it's the second one from Brooklands (now I have 2 eps to watch)
who's in it?
It works.
http://www.toomuchracing.com/
:-)
alot of people...
http://www.youtube.com/hopeforhaitinow
secretly only watching it for coldplay.. *ehem.* :)
Too true. Plus Amy is distracted in Melbourne. ;)
Quicker than 48 hours.
Going to change link on my blog now.
yay
Only audio recording I made at ASI, of First Interview by the Brundles on Saturday. Missed first bit, and recording quality isn't great.
http://drop.io/startledbunny/asset/mandabrundle-mp3
that youtube player is amazing. it does replays too.
ooh, will listen tomorrow, ta.
hehe. too true. i love the "Go Live" option for slow connections.
really? you mean now i've watched coldplay i can go to sleep and watch the rest tomorrow?
yes. :D
not sure. i think so.
yay to the fact i don't have to stay up till 3am. i shall watch some more before sleeping though.
it's live buffering to HD(ish) quality!
me too
The steps are fairly easy, I didn't realise wordpress charged you for it though.
and now it stopped working. so i'll leave it overnight and see what happens
it's rather stunning, i've just seen what you mean by replay... that's amazing. hats off to youtube it's a lovely player.
F1 take note.
Oh who am I kidding. Bernie probably thinks HD is only the Postcode for Huddersfield (which it is).
It's still working here.
:)
famous people! i forgotten all their names :(
Right, the thought of contemplating sleep has crossed my mind so I'm off. Night all, enjoy the Haiti concert, those who are watching.
Night Tom.
bye sir.
Night mate
Night Tom.
Shakira covering my favourite Pretenders track ever.
fab tune, and you don't see a headbanging tuba player everyday.
right, time for me to sleep. night everyone! xx
night lou
g'night.
tuba man banging that head again
:)
sting appears to require every musician working in america on stage at the same time.
always,
when I hear this beyonce track I think of Jenson thanks to BBC
is that chris martin on piano?
yes, I'm sure of it. had to check if it was written by him (it wasn't)
was it beyonce's song?
my favourite so far.
yes.
that kind of stuff is not my thing normally, but there have been a few tracks of hers that i really liked.
could listen to morgan freeman all day.
i'm exhausted, but this is fantastic.
is that kid rock and s.crow?
yep, and i think the other fellow is keith urban, nicole kidmans other half.
ahhhhhh!
i think they are going to get a lot of money from itunes sales of the performances.
am buying them all so far.
a clinton/bush haiti fund? whatever next.
pre-ordered here
i feel old, but, umm, who are these likely lads?
I'm thinking formula1blog may have read RG's post earlier. They've announced that Richard Petty will be USF1's other driver! ;)
spotted timberlake at the piano. really don't know who the other guy is.
:D
hmm, a rival for michael.
twitter people say the other guy was matt martin.
still none the wiser :)
same here
morning boys and girls
*raises hand*
i don't know who this is either?
#notdownwiththekids
hullo tennisamy.
even google is no help. I get results for Mark Martin's son and a comedian.
'course I'm not watching the thingamabobber.
I spent most of last night trying to decide whether to watch Rogelio at home or go to the city and watch on the big screen. But I only just woke up so my decision has been made for me :D
tuba man seeing a lot of action tonight.
hehe :)
guessing its jennifer hudson
#pluckedoutofthinair
what about the mclaren launch? you flying over? ;)
that I will stream online and pretend I wasn't invited.
brad. pitt's. beard.
*mind blown*
no words.
oooh, people i know.
its like a jools holland show without jools holland.
:D :D
asking about "the f1"
I am going to so enjoy this album when it becomes available.
ahh, that is my new favourite. although i think bono is shrinking.
oh boy. Couple folks had their cars broken into in my offices parking garage. one had their airbag stolen, don't know what happened with the other one (or if there were any more)
Glad they didn't get to my car, though, had just exchanged some currency for a friend and it was sitting in the center console of my car.
who steals an airbag??
I didn't even realise that was possible!
What a line to walk in on!
Helllllloooooo Saturday!
It's easy to sell, especially from a Toyota (the most popular brand over here)
:)
ok. who needs stolen airbags?
Who leaves cash in their car these days, puh-lease. Don't do that
There is a lot of money to be made. They sell the bags for 200-300-400$ to accident repair shops. The shop install them (sometimes) in smashed cars and bill insurance companies for the full dealer price.
yeah, it was pretty dumb of me.
beyond me.
was in keighley, west yorkshire once (google earth it) took a machine into a customer. left the car keys hanging in the car door. were still there 20 minutes later. It was a Peugeot 106.
Growing up in inner-London. I've had that behaviour robbed out of me
i would never have imagined.
Wyclef Jean, singing Boney M. I knew it was too good to be true
In my Grandma's town in Ireland, they leave the key in the door so visitors can let themselves in and keep the draught out
it would have been cool with me, however, if they had stolen my dented passenger side front door. Gotta get it fixed anyway :)
How are we all?
good thanks, and you? Still alcohol's best friend?
good. knackered but addicted to this show.
Oh yes!
Aren't we all! :)
I feel like a leper, it appears all my skin is falling off. Sunburn is bad, kids.
was doing fine until I heard about the car related thievery. But it's happened to me before.
There's a reason why they call it 'sunbaking' in Aus, Amy!
I wasn't though! I was just sitting minding my own business watching tennis!
oooh audio FAIL!
I made contact with an old flame from TEN YEARS AGO, on Facebook
Let's see what happens
#SPCknowstoomuch
That's how it happens, being outside
Renault World Series Silverstone 2008. Extreme sunburn. Took over a week for skin to recover. Blisters the size of an egg on my neck. Sunburn is indeed bad.
Been there, swap 'neck', for 'head'
Muchos ouchos!
Learnt my lesson
outside is awesome (for two weeks of the year)
done that as well. The perils of cutting my hair really short. Now I never forget to put lotion on my head.
If it's anything like Sydney at the moment, I know it's near 30 dgrees outside, Celsius - not Andronov
Protection is awesomer
tis 21 at the moment, not too bad. It was 36 yesterday but it wasn't sunny at all. Odd. Last Saturday when I got burned it was only 25 and I didn't feel like it was hot enough to burn :(
The day after, my Wife would look at me, then at the blister on my neck. Every time. Was in one of the silverstone shops looking at the suncream, thinking that I wouldn't need it. Major D'oh
Famous last words
How many live events are You Tube going to cover this year? World Cup maybe?
What was that, editing?
i hope more. this is fantastic.
switch to backstage, the mics were too hot. woke christine.
FIFA won't allow it, surely?
They're quite Bernie-esque in that way
A lot of broadcasters should take note.
Are you watching antipodean tennis right now?
Le Mans organisers should get in touch.
They are too scared for shorthand these days
speaking of tennis, and live streaming, they don't quite have the right idea yet. The Australian Open do have it, but....
"Live access is NOT available in the following territories: Australia, Canada, Europe, Puerto Rica, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States"
That reeeeeally doesn't leave much of the world.
hope for haiti. just finished: http://www.youtube.com/youtube
Ah ok
We had 50 volunteers fly out to Santo Domingo with Aid Relief last Saturday, 3 of the guys I know
Quite a humbling experience, it seems
This whole thing is like Live Aid in the modern era. That took months to get together. This has taken less than a week.
Progress.
i'm staggered twitter stayed up. but technology really does rock.
The sad thing is how long it STILL takes to mobilise that help at grassroots these days
Agreed, Ethiopia took weeks before Live Aid kicked in
in what way?
We can ship/fly medince/first aid/water to the island but getting aid to those that need it - in an organised way - leaves something to be desired
Hurrican Katrina, for example
agreed
ahh, yes. major problem.
We're organised enough to have UN warehouses in Denmark to pick up hundreds of tonnes of aid but [in my eyes] 4 or 5 Range Rovers, would go a long way in addition to actually delivering it anywhere
I accept that it's logistically not as simple as that that but...
We're ok at raising money for this, but not so ok at what the money is spent on, and how to distribute it properly.
agreed. but every year we take massive steps forward.
I think we can spend it well [avoiding a political issue on a local level] but delivery is key in these scenarios
true enough.
Abosultely
More power to social media for raising awareness on the spot
An odd example but Peaches Geldof lost her passport in the street and got it back cos someone savvy found it and tweeted her
[apparently]
from the sounds of it, twitter is having a bigger impact even than that. i'm stunned that people on the ground can tweet for help and get some kind of response. it boggles my mind.
It aids communication so well but isolates us all from face to face contact in so many ways
Such a dichotomy
Twitter can be really annoying sometimes, but when it works, well, it's impact is pretty awesome.
You see, this is how one gets into the Top Ten commenters of the year
agreed. i feel the same about youtube. by far the worst day-to-day experience of any video sharing site, but they didn't falter this morning.
similarly i do dispair at the people running twitter, but the people using it can be fantastic.
that sounds like a good place to call it a night.
On a lighter note
Steve Balmer [Microsoft CEO] autographs a MacBook
G'night Sir
night Mr C.
In fact, that's me too
I'm gonna fall asleep in front of Transformers 2, if the fighting robots will allow
I'm waaay behind on my Buzz Out Loud episodes. Have Apple announced a Tablet yet?
night Bassano.
I should have gone to bed ages ago.
#blameyoutube
Wednesday 27th [we all expect]
"Come see our new creation" invites are out there now
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/18/that-touchable-sensation-apple-sends-invites-for-january-27-eve/
[am gone now]
night doohickey / lclt / lurkers
Hello again.
Fell asleep again this morning. Hehe. Who's still around?
Oh no! I am offically suffering from my re-occuring yearly F1 withdraw. I just checked the NASCAR web site to find out when is the Daytona Shootout (Pre-Race for the 500). Must be late January....
Must. Find. DVD. Of. Grand Prix.
Amazon?
No. The Gal misplaced her DVD of "Shakespeare in Love" on top of my DVD of "Grand Prix". I fear my DVD may be contanimated.... I have turned off the Light in the room where the DVD of Grand Prix is and it does not glow in the dark, but you never know about these things....
:D
Then again, it just might be the thing I need to get the DeLoran up to 88 mph...
Still no confirmation of a name change for BMW Sauber team despite the cars having a Ferrari engine, a Toyota Junior driver in the form of Kamui Kobayashi, and team will be using Renault trucks.
Night Everyone. I have worn out the contact on my telegraph key.....
Re earlier discussion of Keith Urban. I met him around Xmas when he came into the shop (sans Nicole)
Must be morning again.
I don't think so, Tim
Oh, that's alright then :)
I am having issues as I have realised the final season of Lost starts in a little under two weeks and I can't for the life of me remember what happened in the last season.
She fell down a hole at the end.
I read something about them going back to the island via another plane crash and I had completely forgotten about that. I think I am glad its finally ending.
Ah. If you don't remember that bit, you might need to watch it again!
oh and Locke was not!Locke. I remember now. I think. If only I still had them on my PVR.
This might help a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWC7px3or8
ooh I wish all my memories could be bought back with handy 1 minute videos.
I know!!
Morning everyone :)
Hello!
someone should totally do that for me for the tennis. My friend says 'remember when he played such-and-such in the third round last year?' and I say 'no, all I remember is Roger lost to Rafa in the final' but then she also says things like 'remember the first round in 2006' and surely that's not even possible to do, I think my brain can only retain one year of each tournament before being wiped.
And how are we all this morning? My stubbed two still hurts a couple of days on and is bruised. I think I may have to be signed off games!
What happened? Is it broken?
I don't think it's broken. In the night I decided to get a refill of water. On my way back to bed myself and the door didn't see eye to eye.
ouchy
I kind of kicked the door end on if that makes sense.
Ow ow ow. OW!
I think that's what I said!
Words to that effect, anyway. Stupid objects getting in the way of toes.
The proof that I don't really swear, except in reported speech, is that I don't even swear when that happens.
That's good. Ow pretty much sums it up anyway!
You don't have to look... but here's the inevitable drop.io picture:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-401
eek!
So anyway enough about my toe. What's everyone else up to.
Having seen your tweet Christine I might try an episode of Glee. I've been edging towards trying it for the last few days.
Mm, I'm not sure about it yet, although have been told it gets better. It seems like the kind of thing that either appeals to you or it doesn't and can't really be recommended on, if you know what I mean.
I'll give you one guess. You'll never, ever get it.
Commenting on Sidepodcast?
apart from that.
I get you. That's what I'd been hoping for from a review. A lot of the reviews I'd seen were a bit too gushing.
Watching Tennis?
I have so far watched 13 episodes, but I'm not sure about better. I still feel no attachment to the characters, most of them I find quite annoying, but I feel I have to keep watching it just because so many people find it the best!thing!ever! and I want to work out why.
ding ding ding!
Red Bull info request.
Read this (sorry it is 'The Sun')
"They let Sebastien Buemi loose on an ice-covered lake in Quebec."
I thought it was cancelled?
He just stuck to the circuit, didn't he?
I'm getting horribly confused. The race thingy was cancelled as the ice was too thin, but I thought this picture was just snow. Not ice?
Mm, well, I don't know cos I wasn't there, but I read that the ice was cancelled and he ran round the snow covered track instead. It wouldn't be inconceivable for The Sun to get it wrong.
I'm siding with you on this one!
Are you doing Giggles Radio this week, Alex?
I was so sad to read that I missed some backstreet boys on the inaugural broadcast
I really don't know... I am out tonight and tomorrow is earmarked for creative work (which this would count for) but I need to help Katherine get springboarded on some stuff. So it depends, is I guess the answer.
I haven't yet worked out any fix for the buzz / crackle thingamebob.
#sorryamy
Understood.
Any particular reason? Trying to think of exciting songs to request?
I will carry this pain until 41 days from now when I get to see them live. I can't think of anything else in my whole life I have wanted this long :D
Nope. Just pondering when to fit in our show.
Ah I see... Well you go whenever you like of course... My show is only filler for when sidepodcast isn't happening!
I vote for this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8jkkrlWew ;) ;)
I don't think we'll be live again this week, and I wouldn't want to miss learning about old records and roller skates and stuff.
:) The best description of my radio show ever :)
I would also like to request http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xT74EJ8vbw :D :D
Amy a lot of your songs seem... how can I say... Tennis related?
you're kidding? they write songs about sport these days? ;) *cough* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx0J_ZLfvvI
I have just watched a bit of Popstar to Operastar from last night. My stepbrother was in the show. He was one of the background guys in one of the shots. I believe he may have been on screen, in total, for 10 seconds!
But proud he got the call up.
Best.song.ever
Morning all
all good songs involve Andy Murray rapping
Can I request this please:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPTA4syooI
In a way, I've always related it to F1 :P
i thought you were the warm up act?
;)
I have to get the valves warmed up somehow :)
you have valves? luxury.
I have to let of steam somehow!
He has pistons and a crankshaft as well, you know. Alex Andronov IS an engine!
doh!
Invented by Bob Bell!
I am actually cranking out articles today. So that I have time to do the third edit of my book in February I am trying to get as far ahead with Gamboling articles as I can.
me too!
Afternoon all.
*nods*
Hello folks. I've found myself mysteriously still here....
Oooohh... really?
Nick didn't tell you how to get to the airport?
Yeah, I'm flying home very early Monday morning though. Thought I might as well stay another weekend. They don't need me at work particularly urgently.
Hehe he still has my passport.... I'm not sure he's willing to return it :P
This is just like your work. You need to learn to stop giving it to people :D
:D
I've been swimming in the sea today. Very pleasant!
I am not a fan. Haaaate salt water.
We spent most of the day in a water park sitting in a rubber ring. I was quite reluctant to go in the actual sea. First time I've been cold since I got here!
We went down a slide through a Shark Tank!
Anyway, Dinner Times! Ive just seen james's latest photoshop disaster! :D
oh.my.christ
Who's foot is on the drop?
Giggles has been kicking doors
ah man
Of all the cars...
that solid rear wing is gonna slow them down.
I have tried 3 browsers and all of them are showing me the same one he has had for the last few weeks. I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.
It might be for Nico's car.
:D
I am very confused, what have i missed?
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/wp-content/uploads/2010ban2.jpg
oh, thats the one. That's been there for a bit.
WOAH
ahh. haven't looked for weeks.
Have you seen this one aswell?
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/wp-content/uploads/2010ban1.jpg
new one is so much worse
probably very wise :D
totally agree
I only seem to go there when there is a bad photoshopped header.
#resistsmakingthe"isntthatallofthetime"joke
ooh I must be away to the land of nod, I have some tennis to watch tomorrow!
i'd have put money on that. night amy.
adios!
:D
night amy, enjoy the tennis
Night Amy!
Did we know this? (not sure how reliable it is)
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/formula-1-news/226578/heidfeld-adds-to-team-germany-at-mercedes/
Afternoon all
The possibility of that move was discussed last night. I think at that time it was a Bild story
ah ok. say no more
Links pages on websites: worth producing one?
I notice Sidepodcast doesn't since it was given a lick of paint and I think I might follow suit.
You could do a links widget or something. I've been asked by F3 and GP2 to put a link on my site as im using their images, but not sure i'd go fully-link page
I have too much widgety-ness going on as it is!
it became a hassle for us to keep it up to date. people have a habit of changing names, creating and dropping blogs at a rapid pace, so we leave it all to the wiki where people can manage their own.
i'd probably argue that links within posts are more valuable. if only because it says "i've read this post and you should read it too". that's just the way i see it though.
I can't remember the last time I looked at a links page anywhere
My thoughts as well.
True dat.
#204 - Amy said: This might help a bit: http://www.you...m/watch?v=sgWC7px3or8
ooh I wish all my memories could be bought back with handy 1 minute videos.
Amy, if ALL you memories can come back in 1 minute video(s) then something is wrong.... My mential checklists to make sure I got all my dive gear packed takes longer than two minutes...
Hello everyone. What did I miss? :D
Listening to the Motor Sport Magazine podcast for January. ;)
Afternoon.
You could always have a ridiculously long list in the sidebar, like me :-)
I don't know about anyone else but with most blogs I only read the latest items and rarely think to look at any other tab/page.
23/01/2010 at 11:36:31#230 - Dank said: Red Bull info request.
Read this (sorry it is 'The Sun')
"They let Sebastien Buemi loose on an ice-covered lake in Quebec."
I thought it was cancelled?
Did he get a speeding ticket? The Circuit is actually on public roads in Montreal.
23/01/2010 at 11:39:14#232 - Dank said: He just stuck to the circuit, didn't he?
I'm getting horribly confused. The race thingy was cancelled as the ice was too thin, but I thought this picture was just snow. Not ice?
The pciture is actually of snow on top of ice on a lake somewhere in I would assume North ot Montreal. (Maybe a little north of Mont-Tremblant, for all the skier/F1 geeks out there....)
Sorry for being a nuisance, but I'd like to make a request of anyone who's got a link to my blog that was made more than about three months ago (newer links should be unaffected for reasons that will become clear below).
This week, La Canta Magnifico Blog's original blog location (which went down towards the end of October) went down. The forum on which is hosted is now called www.formula1home.com.au/forum rather than www . formula1home . com / forum. The reason I've stuck spaces round the old address is because it's been taken over by a Ukrainian website which my co-admin informs me is not only not a copy of my blog, but potentially dangerous to browsing experience and/or computer (he and I have a theory as to why this happened, but it's a long story).
I'm currently trying to fix the internal links in my blog so that it's safe to follow links pointing from one of my entries to another (only ones I typed in manually are affected; the blog template ones work fine and you can safely read and comment). However, if anyone with another blog linked to my blog some time ago, there is a danger that they may inadvertently point people to the Ukrainian site instead of mine.
As a result, if you have a link to my blog, please can you check that it either contains "lacantablog" in the URL (I fixed the links from those domain names before I knew this problem had arisen) or that it starts with www.formula1home.com.au/forum ? The dangerous links are the ones that have .com without .au immediately afterwards.
If you linked to a specific item in La Canta Magnifico Blog more than three months ago, sticking .au just before the /forum will fix the link.
Heheh, I like that.
Much better than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzDa6IC7z4
hmmm ;)
He did I have put up on drop.io a video http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/buemi-y-red-bull-sobre-el-hielo-en-canad-mp4
Looked as if he was having more problem than when Nick was driving on ice in Switzerland a couple of years back - but this is probably because there was no traction control on the Red Bull.
23/01/2010 at 13:45:31
#254 - me said: Ah I see... Well you go whenever you like of course... My show is only filler for when sidepodcast isn't happening!
i thought you were the warm up act?
;)
#255 - Alex Andronov said:
I have to get the valves warmed up somehow :)
23/01/2010 at 13:50:05#256 - me said:
you have valves? luxury.
23/01/2010 at 13:50:44#257 - Alex Andronov said:
I have to let of steam somehow!
23/01/2010 at 13:51:15#258 - Scott Woodwiss said:
He has pistons and a crankshaft as well, you know. Alex Andronov IS an engine!
23/01/2010 at 13:52:16#259 - me said:
doh!
Alex, in honour of these wisecracks, My I now request that you use Peter Gabriel's "Steam" as your intro or lead-in song.... :P
What's going on with all this bold?
Quoting, I think?
When quote to be precise you use the exact formatting! Looks horrible!
JordanF1 I think?
it's my fault for taking the blockquote button away. i am working on it though. the tags should be:
<blockquote> </blockquote>
Hey, it is not my fault if the webadmin removes the blockquote button. The Italics button would have been worse still. Mind you, the cornflower-blue highlighted links text was quite nice (and very BMW-ish, BTW) but people would have been trying to find the link that was being quoted....
shall do me best to sort it by tomorrow. the ie8 bug has been fixed, so it should be next on my list.
While they very publically released Valentino's times they did not release Massa's times. Even the Ferrari release had the following disconcerting phrases "Perfect weather conditions enabled Felipe Massa today to complete a special test session" and "to regain confidence behind the wheel on a track".
Rumours circulating are the times where nowhere near as fast but that could be the nature of the testing.
As long as the quoted text in the quote box is in Cornflower Blue. Like I said, It makes the enitre site very BMW-ish looking with the white, grey, black and cornflower blue colour scheme....
And for the love of god say away from a Brawn inspired colour scheme! Especially the highlighter green as the background colour !
That could be fun - any just wait to see silver and turquoise livery at the launch of MERCEDES GP PETRONAS!
Maybe Fisichella's being a Ferrari Test and reserve driver's move was inspired after all. Then again, I still say that keeping Massa when you could have had Alonso and Kimi on board was a very stupid move on Ferrari's part.
I think Massa's accidental go them into an emotional corner. Personally I think they should have got a better third driver if there are doubts.
Some people think that there are doubts about Schumacher hence why they [Mercedes] have hired Nick as the third driver.
This time last year they gave three junior drivers a run at Fiorano. Their official release claimed the fastest one set a new lap record. You would think someone who was faster than Massa, Raikkonen and Schumacher would thrive in F2 where all are equal. I think he finished 7th in the championship. They can claim anything they like about Rossi's test but none of us no if the car had the correct ballast etc. He is not going to get in a car again for at least a year so we are never going to know if their claims are true or not.
I don't think Massa will be miles off.
They still released the times that Michael did - although again the interpretation was difficult, in the context of a green track etc it seemed good times. In the case of Massa it was the combination of the phrases in the context of no times - as a PR exercise it was a shambles as now people are doubting Massa's comeback potential.
With the kind of injury he had there is always a possibility that he won't be what he was but it has to be unlikely he would be more than a few tenths off and with only one car running there would be no way to see that.
if i were massa, i wouldn't want alonso to know my times, let alone the whole world.
Although you have a point - it is supposed to be a "team sport" where information is shared. I am not sure how significant they actual times are - possibly it was more of a physical training. I hope in the case of Massa he is fully recovered.
Hullo all.
Hey sir.
Lunch Over. Heading to the big scary region called "outside". Christine's "Week of Activies" posting at www.smarterthanyouraverage.com got me thinking....
This shop has pens and pandas!!!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-402
I was quite restrained I only spent 25 pounds!
Did Katherine take that picture?
"Why can I see this being worse than Badoer?"
I think, that USF1 is a big pyramid thing, and will make Hesketh look like McLaren. With all the businesses in the US, they had to go to argentina for both driver and money. They could've at least gotten Amway, that fits the scheme.
BTW, they've had a press/media relations/PR sponsor type guy since early June, 09.
I think fail, USGP in future fail.
yes. Quite a few people were looking at us.
In terms of lap times I think you will be right.
I bet.
What level of competition between the "oooh lets go in there" (You) vs "no alex, you know you'll end up spending lots of money" (Her) was there ;) :P
well Katherine wanted to go in for some stuff for her. I kind of HAD to tag along!
ah ok, sounds like the perfect excuse ;)
*faints*
I knows!
Just listening to the latest Motor Sport podcast. Nigel Roebuck was talking about him and Mark Hughes were invited to go to speak to Max. Not to do an interview but to discuss the plans for the next formula 1 regs.
Max seriously asked them if the fans would miss the noise of the engines. How can anyone spend 40 years in the sport and not know that people like the noise?
Apparently Max thought the noise was a distraction because sometimes he couldn't hear the commentator for the engine noise.
I knew he was out of touch but that is unbelievable.
hughes and roebuck are the "voice of the fans" now? i keep meaning to list, will try tonight.
He invited them because Hughes is really clued up technically and according to Max, Roebuck is a keeper pf the flame- such a purist.
i like that these stories can come out now max has gone.
more please f1 people.
"Max reveals unused plan to make F1 split into 2 halfs and a referee car on track to hand out yellow and red flags"
There is an old saying. If F1 ran football the pitches would be round and the balls would be square.
Hi
http://sidepodcast.com/2008/01/25/fia-revise-f1-stewards-process/
:)
HI
ooh, uppercase fail.
evening all. everyone had a nice day?
very. yourself?
Evening :)
Not a day to remember for most of it personally...
I was karting last night and they had a safety kart. Tres cool. Un/fortunately they didn't use it!
Hey Pat and lou
Today, not good. #blamefootball
realllly lazy day
day has been reasonably rubbish tbh, i've had an awful headache and be doing revision. couple of weeks and revision will be over for a while though :) so i'm looking forward to that.
Last week in Birmingham they just killed the power. They were electric karts..
Was going to go to Avatar but the man with the plan neglected to tell us when/where to meet. I'm not surprised, he does this often and I've stopped bothering to chase him up (if it were a film I really wanted to see it would be different).
So I did some hoovering, watched Flight of the Conchords, tidied up a bit more, and spent ages on the draft process for a fantasy racing game..
Busted!
ahh boo :(
i had capslock on.
#shouldapreviewed
Look forward to the good times :) the exams will be over before you know it. Shame about headache though :(
aha. i can see how that would get annoying
methinks the headaches will go when the revision does
i'm not sure how to get ride of the headache (as we have no painkillers or anything in the house for some reason). on the plus side i've finished 2 essays and about 10 pages of revision notes.. so it's been reasonably productive.
i like the 'slidy' comments filter thing mr c..
you use capslock?
we just done recorded this weeks show. the only way to trigger audio samples is via capslock :cry:
#applemakemedoit
YES!
(hearts)(hearts) lou.
whats slidy comments filter?
You recorded a show on a Saturday? That sounds very organised
ahh i knew there'd be a perfectly reasonable explanation ;)
I thought you said you weren't doing a show
the castrol rankings man... "motivated" us.
ah :-)
:D i noticed the box looked slightly different (the text or something) so i tried typing random things in and now i can't stop, it looks great!! i take it i'm the first to notice?
*cough*
daily post
*cough*
Oh yeeeahhh!!
It's very weird. Like when Doctor Who was shown on a Sunday.
I mean, oh yes, of course, it says it in the daily
*awkward*
christine mentions it in the daily, was waiting for someone to say something.
it's now on ye olde comments too
I finally decided on the proper name for them. Thy should be called the castor oil rankings since they produced a lot of sh*t.
Rhod Gilbert @ the Apollo on BBC1 Lou
:D i read the daily... one day christine will include the count down and i will giggle and be very happy :) btw just 48 days! :P
It just isn't right
it won't be edited until tomorrow though.
hehe i saw, the daily tells me what day it is when i wake up.. cause sometimes i forget :(
i shall catch it on iplayer tomorrow, my eyes aren't up to watching tv.
ah cool. i didnae read todays daily, lappy was off before 12 and i didnt get up till 2pm :D
i like the idea of having a filter in the daily, it makes a lot of sense. does the filter in the lclt do the same slidy thing :P
that was actually a question.. #blametheheadache
oo it does! :) yay
it does. and in realtime the filter now catches thread names too. which has been an oft requested feature. so entering now:
-daily
hides all daily conversation.
(should point out there's a silly bug to be fixed tonight, because it doesn't catch new comments as they appear)
What slidy thing? I just tried a few things and there is no slidyness
blown = mind
wow!! that's amazing! :D
Uh oh. The pressure's on to get the day right.
If I can't remember the day, I tell myself it's a day I'm not at work and agree with myself.
it really is. it's more so in the holidays but i tend to read it on my ipod just before i go to school. the day hasn't started unless i've read the daily! :)
if you go here: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/23/daily-23rd-january-2010/#comments
and type text in the filter box, the comments will slide up and out of the way. sliding is the new fading.
I get a script error and when I click stop script the filtering just happens. No slidyness.
Script error is
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js:27
ooh. boo. i haven't had that even on internet explorer. what about on a less commented post?
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/22/toro-rosso-confirm-alguersuari-for-2010/#comments
Lots of slidyness
w00t!
although that means your browser is running out of memory chewing through 400+ comments. will see if i can make better, but the new slidy thing is maybe twice as responsive as the old one.
For some reason my computer has slowed in the last couple of weeks. No idea why but I am going to dump some unneeded stuff to try to get it back up to speed
i like the theory, but in reality for me it takes twice as long and means firefox goes unresponsive :(
twice as long as?
doohickey.
it dosent bother me really, because i dont use the filter a great deal, but thought id mension it
i'm still not sure what you mean, but i'm interested.
i assume that people type in the filter to exclude comments. is there a quicker way of doing it?
when i go on ye olde, i type in a word in the filter, firefox freezes for about 15-20 seconds as if its crashes (which, if i click it will do) and then just flicks up the comments like its meant too.
i dont usually exclude comments, usually i'll be looking for a specfic comment, so use the find button on ff ;)
got ya.
ooooh. with ya.
they're designed to do different things. i still use find too.
I use find for one thing, and filter for many things such as podcast guesses.
like i say, dosent bother me too much as doohickey search still works at same speed, rarely go on ye olde, but just thought i'd mension it incase it wasnt just me
it's a processor intensive task. technically firefox has one of the slowest javascript engines, so it always had a similar problem in lclt.
you may get more use from it once ye olde comments go "live", but we'll come back to that later.
I use it to find rather than to exclude although it can end up being the same thing
Greetings everyone. I am safety back from that dangerous netherregion known as "The Outside *"....
Fellow countrymen and fans of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas might also refer to it as "The Great White North....."
wohoo!! after hours of searching i have finally found pain killers! yay!
hey chap.
Scary place, that.
are they working though?
well i found them in a secret pocket in one of my hand bags.. and have just taken 2.. if i still have a headache in an hour i may explode :)
Please dont explode :(
i'll try ;)
It's quite messy.
*hides eyes*
Well, Head removal, while extremely drastic, is an effective way to cure a headache. No dead person has ever complained about a headache as far as I know.....
hehe you make a good point, i only tidied my room the other day so it would be foolish for me to make it messy so soon.
Greetings. During my journey though the land of "The Outisde" I saw a person paraglide and I thought that it might have been safer for Christine to try that as oppsed to what we call caving on this side of the pond, as Potholes here are damage done to roads by the various states of water underneath. it is the reason why the Montreal Track always needs to be repaved every year.....
Evening all, just joined fantasy racers in readyness for next season, any idea how I join the spc league/group
ooh, we're sorting that this weekend. i has to email danny.
i think if you join the sidepodcast league, it'll work, but the name will change to panda racing 2010 shortly.
just looking at some twitter stats, apparently i retweet lukeh more than christine.
That's cos I don't tweet!
yeah no prob but how do I join the spc team?
I don't make nice breakfasts, sorry.
And because I tweet too much!
as in the twitter web page retweets?
:)
i think search for sidepodcast?
sure you do, i've seen you tweeting today :P
http://tweetstats.com/graphs/sidepodcast
k I will take a look
yell if you can't find it, but it's an open league and no password.
nahhh, it's the awesome photoshops :P
It is a shame that the SIDEPODCAST league will not be able to defend its title against those darned upstarts in the PANDA RACING league, although. however, if the SIPEPODCAST league does decide to contest its crown, it would have in all likelyhood, have chased off those vile upstarts in the PANDA RACING league....
What is the reason for the name change? I'm expecting to have missed something here...
I retweet Mr Noble most, and i have retweeted myself 3 times :D
there be other bloggers in there, and i really don't want a season of comparisons. much better to be a non-descript entity, methinks.
they musta been some fine tweets!
or really bad and i wanted to point it out to everyone ;)
:D retweet yourself? hehe I retweet sidepodcast most.. then lukeh, Alex and then Brawn GP hehe
ahh, this might be the link:
http://www.fantasyracers.com/game/joinleague2.php?LeagueID=40011
And SLVPodcast Racing is up and running
i has done mine too.
good name mr c
My most replies are lou and my most retweets are muse and sidepodcast. I am very pleased with these results :P
:)
I am awake to ping the new daily: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/01/24/daily-24th-january-2010/
Back to Back Rock is in as well.
Gonna miss Longitudial Inthingy, Mr C.
oooh
Lukeh, you top my most replies and retweets (shared). I say well done.
i'm not! :)
Jordan F1 has had a busy offseason, getting Mercedes Engines and 7Up as a principal sponour. Could not change tyre companies although......
yay for keeping up with new years resolutions and for the daily :)
I should definitely rename myself to @TimoGlock to make you feel better
Does this mean that Nikki's going to take over both Longitudial Inerta teams, now Mr. C?
But thats reserved for when Lucas di Grassi shows Timo all about the wonders of twitter.
she'll not beat ringosnotdead. no way.
Last year i named my fantasy racing team after my dead f1 team... this year i have been able to continue the tradition. :)
Hehe! Aww i shouldnt laugh.... but it's true...
:D:D:D
name inspired by your comedic genius though ;) i wonder if the same will be true next year?
Apparently I have retweeted @sidepodcast twice as many times as the next few people
I don't see Mercedes leaving...
yikes
who says i'll be supporting mercedes....
Well I don't see [insert team name here] leaving...
everyone at Brackley and in the race crew are still awesome and amazing... but i dislike the drivers waaaay too much to support them that much. maybe i'll support just Jenson and Rubens.. and Shov and Bono... hang on, does that mean one of them may leave after this year?
unless that name is USF1 ;)
I think I may also cut down my race weekend tweets...
http://tweetstats.com/graphs/toomuchracing
Shov and Bono should definitely start up Team Jenson GP
^^ corrected.
that's good to know :) thank you for that prediction RG :D
I would also imagine that
"Team Jenson and Rubens and Shov and Bono I (heart) Brawn GP - Racing"
may be too long for a team name ;)
lou doesn't strike me as someone who is going to want to support USF1 to be fair.
Also, they can get the karter named after Jenson as the No. 2
the one who lives in Kent? he's like 15...
No worries.
(I'll not mention my accuracy rate)
Maybe she really likes toast
hey, McLaren signed a 6 year old!
you're getting me confused with Lukeh ;)
(he may actually be 14)
#tryingtogetinlukeh'sgoodbookseh?
;)
that's why i went for 'Brawnsomeness' much easier to say :)
i think i've missed something somewhere......
ooh okay. now i'm with you :)
:D
i just noticed i put Rubens and Jenson in my fantasy racers team without thinking what team they will be in.. but they shall stay there out of principle and respect for my team name. :) i suspect 9th is the highest i will be for a while.
Right, must be off, match in the morning and I really shoulda went to bed 27 minutes ago. Night all and lotsa love.
byeeee
Night RG
I hope Rubens and Jenson get on the same podium together for 1 race, it will be awesome.
Night RG.
night RG.