Apparently, according to Wikipedia, there was a great storm on this day in 1703. It was called the Great Storm of 1703. Catchy. The wind got up to 120mph and thousands of people died. I don't think things are that bad yet, but I would certainly suggest the weather is commemorating this day in a similar fashion. Meanwhile, on to the F1 news:
- Two more teams confirmed their young drivers for the upcoming test at Jerez. I mentioned them all in yesterday's F1 Minute and we even feature one of the youngsters on the Big Picture. BMW are doing the very honourable thing and giving their Formula BMW winners a chance in the F1 car, even though they don't know what the future holds. Very good stuff from Mr Theissen.
- Talking of F1 Minute, I noticed that around about this time last year we were all discussing the fallout from Mark Webber's accident. As Steven said in the comments yesterday, it doesn't seem that long ago. Who would have thought that you could fast forward nine months or so and find the man fighting for the world championship?
- In completely unrelated news, there's talk that Canada has secured it's place back on the calendar now with plans on the table to raise the funding required to host the event. The immediate reaction is one of joy, but Mr C is a little concerned about how they are going to raise the taxes in the space of one weekend. It does seem like a tall ask, but I'm sure they have contingency plans in place. Right?
That will be all for now. We are halfway through the week, and I've just noticed that it's only a month until Christmas. Bad times indeed! Nevertheless, I'll see you in the comments.
beat ya pinger!
Poor poor Pinger!
I still love you :(
hmmm
are you going to throw me off a balcony too?
dont think i dont watch the comments waiting for Mr and Mrs C to kick me into action
you're excused, identi.ca's bridging is all broken.
Would anyone like to raise me from my utterly foul mood?
sidepodcast (hearts) jon.
I have no idea what you're talking about!
will has some insight on the empty mercedes seat. but first this is interesting:
"My sources tell me Chandhok was quickest, followed by Jani, and Hildebrand was plum last, by a fair margin. Jani (half Indian) and Chandhok (properly Indian) have both been passed over for the slower man. I’d wager it had something to do with finance. So much for your promise, Vijay."
anyhow, the important bit:
"...with Hildebrand and his finances looking good for the third driver seat at Force India or possibly even USF1, what are the chances that it is di Resta that ends up at Mercedes alongside Rosberg in 2010?"
linkage: http://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/mercs-big-surprise/
Mega podcast download-session done. A month's worth. I'll start listening next week.
I have decided not to study tonight but to do a massive session tomorrow. I was going to do some tonight and have a lie-in, now I'm going to get up at normal work time, drop off the car to be looked at, then come back and hit it.
anything in there that might cheer jon up?
I'm not sure... His are among them but really I ought to have listened to those already...
I thought everything f1 had *everything* to do with finance. As for cheering Jon up we should give him the second seat at Merc. Problem solved.
yes, yes you should have ;)
Depends what's foul about it.
I am surprised Chandhok was faster than Jani.
excellent!
How odd.
Being next to Nico rosberg at an old Brawn?
not sure that does cheer me up to be fair.
#BringBackBrawn
It won't be an old Brawn, it'll be a nice shiny new Merc.
Dull Grey you mean? ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8376250.stm?ls
Strangely...theres something quite amusing about a scottish woman being mobed by americans
okay what's say we build a time machine (stay with me) go back 12 months and go halves with Ross in the Honda team. 50 cents. We could have bought an f1 team. Then we'll give you a drive in that team, which now has to lose jenson or Rubens. Clearly my plan needs a bit more work. So go back in the time machine to before this comment and don't read it. Another problem solved.
So i get rid of Jenson and lou hates me, or Rubens and lukeh hates me...
not sure thats a route i want to go down ;)
I listened to yours even though I have to confess I'm not even slightly interested.... We decided I don't even really like F1.
rather than choose, you take one seat and I'll take the other. Is this fixed yet?
But you own a chunk of an F1 team and can get them paddock passes
we did?
When did you decide you don't like F1?
Alex decided it for me. I concur :P
oh...
thanks, i think ;)
my friend started listening and i looked over at his computer 5 minutes later and he wasnt litsening to it anymore, so i asked what was up and he told me that he found the swedish accent annoying hehe
hehe. i see.
can i get into the support races paddock with an f1 pass?
You don't want to listen to Alex
So am I. I thought Chandhok would be 2nd but not too far behind Jani.
Why?? He's a very sensible chap!
If you own an F1 team you can buy a support race team.
Depends on the circuit I suppose. Since you own a chunk of an F1 team I am sure someone would give you the necessary pass
That's how I saw it
how about, we travel back in time, we buy honda for a pound, then we travel forward in time and sell brawn for looooots, and then i buy a feeder team.
sorted
Mark Webber you cannot be in my team.
more ppl in spc land have ever listened to my radio thing than ppl I used to work with. Don't worry about it. You're friends like you for other reasons :)
How long have you spent here discussing F1? You must like something about it
right glad we got there.
But why no webber?
I talk about my job and my dinner and masterchef.... :P
I think im with Alison on this one.
F1 is rubbish generally. I am still here because SPC RULES! Plus sometimes F1 is good.
Sometimes
He's part of Horners GP3 team.
We do not speak of the webber
#ihavenoideawhatimtalkingabout/goingwiththis
You are addicted to the real time commenting.
Who needs an unlucky racing driver?
So if Michel drove you would like F1 more?
Twitter news from Hinch:
- Quote of the day: "After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF"
only if he did them both at once
I like F1 when it's on. I do enjoy watching the racing. I'm just not fanatical about it and I don't really care about the backstory....
I like the human story aspect of it. I'm not into the cars though.
Oh my god. Then I would put the fan into fanatical!!
You want him to drive and cook at the same time?
#thesamedirectionasthetimemachine
Can I assume you've not seen them in person? Moving, I mean, rather than static display
It must be a good thing that there is a liot of the human story still to be sorted for nect year then
I have seen. I can't say I was that interested at the time though....
#sorryeveryone
i find this very odd.
we go through stages of disliking f1, and when the two of us do at the same time, we have a problem. but if i properly didn't like f1, you wouldn't see me for dust.
fair point. I wonder how many side mirrors he broke in his first race?
but they are REALLY LOUD
I get bored if it drags on though. I don't really care about the driver rumours milling about at the moment. I've just paid absolutely no attention to them. I don't care about the people involved.
i saw one race and my life was worse off for it. I blame heatstroke and Ferrari winning. The sport is better than those few hours. But Im still a fan of f1
but you like the human story?!
So you like the human stuff during the season?
I saw LewHam win at Silverstone. I'd love to go again now. I might actually enjoy it. At the time, I had no idea what on earth was going on.....
i had periods of liking it and not. there are bits i like, but from a racing perspective, i find it quite boring
Yeah that part can be difficult and headache-inducing.
Do I have to care about every human?? Does anyone really care what happens to Robert Kubica....?
It makes a difference if you know what is going on
No-one, yes NO-ONE cannot smile at this.
FACT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_n1SMTF3P8
Hehehe I was like Lewis who??
I think I wondered why no-one had mentioned Michael Shumacher.....
no and yes. Alison I think it's great you hang out in here without a major passion for the sport.
I think you will be slightly better informned for the next one
Hehehe I do like it. I care about Sebastian Vettel and errrrrm....
I'd not seen that before, that is quite epic
i looooooooove it
Well by Spa you'll know a lot more. You are coming to Spa?
it's a genius concept with a major failing.
it doesn't work on radio.
That came on the radio in my office at work the other night and I nearly threw the thing across the room to make it stop....
see what i mean :)
it's not meant to?
they sold it as a dvd, single
I can certainly see why it would be annoying! Most of the fun is in watching the video to see who you can see..
love it! Especially lewis's girlfriend;)
PING AMERICANS
Aussie V8 Supercars are coming to SpeedTV for the next 3 seasons:
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/content/hero_news/november_2009/v8_supercars_massive_us_coup/
(link via @MidwkMotorsport via @Britek)
well. terry is the driving force behind the charity, and he has a premiere slot on british radio. seems like a bit of a flaw to me, in marketing terms. doesn't stop radio 2 from trying mind you.
Has Chris Evans not replaced him yet?
he hadn't last friday.
things change quickly mind you.
Ah I have to say that I'm liking it a lot more watching it. Mr C is right. It was really unbearable on the radio though!!!
of course. i think it was just something different for this year for their "single", i'd be more inclined to buy this than any other single
But it won't be good to listen to once you've bought it....
we bought one each i think. on itunes the day before it hit the shops #mfc
it's a video, so it's ok. i wouldn't put it on an ipod though.
its a dvd
Hmmm I was at definitely. I'm pretty unsure about everything at the moment. I'm going to let the dust settle and decide rationally.
I hope he does soon. Can't stick Wogan or Moyles and there isn't a viable local option, and sometimes you just don't want to listen to MP3s or CDs going to work.
unless your all #mfc like mr + mrs c
I shall take this as a yes.
I am sober when i tells you that next year i'm going to organise 1000+ people to sing hey jude
that is all
It depends. If I'm going back to uni in September, it's probably a no. I'm horrified at the level of money wastage I'm managing at the moment.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
...okay then
I'll take that as a "i wont be there"
;)
this i can relate to
1000?
atleast
You'd be missing out. I'm an amazing singer. Fact.
then come :D
we're gonna need a bigger bus...
Go for it! Any reason in particular?
i've watched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-sD0prudqk&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYHfEJYEzbg
oh and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8
and along time ago decided that it's number one on my list of things to do before i die.
:D :D
@me. On iPhone in the realtime doohickey sometimes all the boxes below where I'm writing say reply. All of them. Instead of preview and the other things...
Can you not choose a non Beatles song.... That was what I was GRRRing at. Too many years in Liverpool.
2 of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
okay and now to understand Jon better I'm off watch these links.
we'll do other songs too, but it's on my list. therefore it must happen
don't worry, have seen that. it's a refresh issue. will fix soonish.
Where are you going to do it?
i have absolutely no idea, but in reality, this is a positive towards going to a different uni...
Town campuses make that make people gathered together hard...
The halls I was at in 1st year were opposite Penny Lane. My room was round the back thank god but my bf had a room that looked right out onto it. Basically every 20 minutes from dawn until dusk bus tours would drive along there blasting out Beatles classics. Enough to drive you crazy.....
just reviewing photos trying to find a new twitter pic, and have come to the conclusion I was better at it before digital cameras were invented with their stupid slowdown...
LOOK!
Alisons on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison
cool.
Did you just try to google me??
7 nation army would go well with a thousand people doing that bass line
He should at least buy you dinner before that
maaaaaaaybe. i discovered that not knowing your surname is an issue.
unless your surname is moyet
:P:P
but dont worry, i googled mr c too
heheh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._C
I know she said she was a good singer but that is wildly optimistic
tart.
I was really impressed last time I googled myself. An article about actual real life me came up on the first page. I think the surname might be useful though.....
haha. too true
i'd also like to point out that if i have foiled your secret identity then a) that was a fluke, and b) applogies
His identity is blown
we do now know where mr c gets his influences though...
gutted i didn't make this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._C_(disambiguation)
:D
Mr C sang Ebeneezer Good? Awesome....
"Needing an MC name as a rapper, he modified Chelsea Boy into Mr. C."
aaah, it all makes sense
happy days?
eezer is a geezer, he likes to muscle in.
I may have just fainted...
http://lyrics.wikia.com/Christine_Blachford:Felipe_Baby
also
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/felipe-baby-song-makes-the-hitlist-6215.html
WHAT?
You can get Christine as a ringtone?
who did that?
tell me someone has a mobile phone and can try out that ringtone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gj0sph32i8&feature=player_embedded
yeeeeeey. i forgot about this
go amy :)
it's been a long year...
for £4.50. am ok ta ;)
understood.
I have a last.fm and it is available in full there...
http://www.last.fm/music/Christine+Blachford/_/Felipe+Baby
now that one i did. the others, not so much.
"Play Christine Blachford Radio"
epic
righty ho
you all want to!
with pictures.
Strangely disapointed that it's not on Spotify
hehe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXZkKcm9jx8
She's actually better than Jeremy Clarkson. FACT
i've seen her with a hammer...
Swoon.
I am officially in love.
"it's all about the fun....and the racing...aswell *nods*"
heehe
with christine?
She is awesome but no.
I have decided this guy is going to marry me http://www.facebook.com/jamielidell?ref=ts
right...
...
why?
His voice is amazing. I've never heard electric soul before but I've decided I like! His appearance is perhaps a bit of a let down but meh. His voice is something else!
Can he cook like Michel?
I'm sure Michel cooks amazing food for the wife he has already :(
I'm heading off now to multitask between the computer for work and the computer for tv. Hmmm. Should be a good battle for a second. Night all:)
Night Scott
Adios!
I'm off too!
I'm watching Mr C *whispers* killing off that guy *shhhh*
goodnight sir...
(waits for others to follow)
i knew it!
:)
boooo
night jon.
i was only staying up to watch Christine face as you killed off my favourite childrens tv character EVER. boo
heheh. was only joking, hope you're feeling more cheery.
Leave Thomas alone!!!
Night Jon
am rather :)
fankooo all
Night Jon :D
Bye people going
Hmmm how am I going to stay awake now... You've all gone to bed!
We have not all gone to bed
Steeeeeeeven.
Yes?
I'm going to. See ya tomorrow.
Night Pat
Just making sure you're still awake.
Alison,
When did you decide you were going to matty this singer?
Still here and just started a poker tournament
About 20 minutes ago. Why?
I had never heard you mention him and now you are getting married
I listened to his electronic soul and my mind was made up!
Easy as that? You will probably find out he is 4 foot nothing
Is that not how it always works?
Everyone you fancy is 4 foot nothing? Michel?
He is quite a small man yes....
Sometimes I hate poker
I always hate poker. Luckily I'm quite good at it and now no-one asks me to play....
I do deadpan too well.
That doesn't really matter online. It's difficult to get a machine to deal you decent cards once in a while
It's hard to guilt me into doing things online though.... I really hate poker.
I am not trying to guilt you into anything. Just whingeing about the stupid cards I am getting
No no no not you. Many of my friends are obsessed with poker parties. I find it tedious.
It seems to be the in thing now. There is a sidepodpoker online game scheduled sometime. Gavin was organising.
alison, will you be mad if i go to sleep?
I will forgive you Mr C! Nighty night
You need her permission now?
cheers, will finish fixing the poll thing in the morning.
i don't want to upset anyone.
So considerate
I'd say it should be an example to all!
Are you listening Nick?
I always lose out to people who have no idea what they are doing
what if i say no one on the other side of the world can sleep while im at work. It upsets me.
Seems reasonable
good. How else am I supposed to remain entertained? I still have 3 hours to go!
I have changed my mind. It is reasonable for me to go to bed even if it means Amy doesn't get entertained.
Good night
steven is on my naughty step. How dare you sleep! I still have 85 minutes of worktime to fill!
Good morning ;)
oh deary
Morning.
Boo. I love Christmas!
I like christmas in the sun.
Winter Christmas is rrrrrrrubish
I disagree.
You can't have a winter festival which is associated with snow, reindeer and a giant roast in summer - just totally wrong!
Do you know, I've never wanted to tell Shir Sean Connery to Eff off until I read the BBC news website!
I fell asleep too early and have now woken up stupidly early too. I'm never going to make it right through my shift now :(
Aww... can you go back to sleep?
Its the way it should be
The snow is clearly ironic.
Nooooooo!! I might have a nap later I guess.
I disagree. Christmas never felt right in NZ, but here in Denmark, it seems better!
go back to bed!
I had my first cold christmas i can remember last year, it is so not the same as proper christmas
Yes mum? Get back to work......
But then you have a winter with nothing to do but be miserable. It's all wrong I tell ya!
I was in town yesterday and it was so super christmassy with the cold and the lights.... I don't see how you get the benefit of christmas lights if it's still light in the evening!
Christmas is stressfull, having it to cold to go outside and everyone on top of each other inside sounds silly... everyone relaxing in the garden is much better!
Sure thing, but you should try and sleep at least
Hehe it'll be a waste of time right now. I can't get back to sleep.... I'll have a nap later on before work. Promise :P
Christmas is only stressful if you let it be - personally I really love the whole season...
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming, holidays are coming, holidays are coming :D
I guess it depends on the people involved, last year wasnt all that stressfull, it was just cold!
Perfect!! :D
booo... to bed with you!
By the way, as RG mentioned, David Croft was on Fighting Talk this week. Not only that, it was absolutely brilliant this week - I am still in tears of laughter!
You're really trying to get rid of me....?
no, i just dont want you to be tired and blame me!
Would I do a thing like that....
#balcony
#neveractuallyhappened
It was like sidepodcast does shakespear :P
I think you're supposed to climb.....
Morning all.
Moooorning :D
Hello :) Any calendar worthy news?
No. Today I am grumpy cos the stoopid weather kept me awake.
Mm. It wasn't necessarily about the Christmas thing and more about the fact that it's almost the end of the year already. I could have phrased it better, I suppose, but... I don't like Christmas either.
Then you said it right then. But still, Boo!
Hehe. As someone who doesn't like presents, or turkey, Christmas isn't exactly my ideal time of year. Still, I'm much better than I used to be. A few years ago I would have declared this a #christmasfreezone.
Morning all. Have started to get back into the PC game Grand Prix World again. I was trying to take charge of McLaren, but I found some hints and tips posted on the game creator's site. He says to get commercial deals, forget about any hospitality and focus on getting the deals done. I guess that one thing which in some ways isn't true to life.
Also, I still would like to know how to play a PC game in windowed mode. That way it would be easier to let you guys keep track of what and how I'm doing :)
Stupid weather!
If it helps todays weather here is:
Sunny
You surprise me!
It was raining all the way to work and now the sun has come out. British weather.
Sun is out here in Wymondham, but it was rather cold when I went to put the bin out. Still, I can't see any clouds in the sky :P
I don't know the answer to that. Have you googled it?
:D
Im trying to give everyone a daily update ;)
G'morning everyone.
Right click on launch?
Alt+Enter?
Should I try these when the game is starting up?
right click it to launch, also try looking for an option in the start menu or folders
Doesn't work on all games but pressing Alt+enter at any time when playing the game forces games to go into a window. Not sure if it worked on GPW though. I'm sure there's a way to get it to work though.
OK, I'll try it now. Back in a sec.
There's no windowed mode in the properties for shortcuts. You might be able to force it into a windowed mode though on the command line in the properties if you gimme a sec...
Morning Lukeh. Did your windows get fixed?
-window?
Doctor Who has a lot to answer for!
This is the answer after launch
Yeah try adding -windowed or -window after the path for the shortcut. Again it doesn';t work for everything but it works sometimes for some games
Reboot?
They've done the upstairs ones, now they're doing the downstairs ones. And I reeeeeally need to go into Uni to see a lecturer so it's not the best of things :(
Lukeh > Google.
:P
I haven't played that game for years... Vista absolutely *hated* me trying to play it. I should try it on Windows 7 but everytime I tried to start it up before everything went slightly embarassing. Lots of flashing windows.
Even with the XP patch?
Yup. I dunno what happened, it worked for others on Vista but for me it was just not happening.
Eurgh window replacement is the loudest thing in the world.... I remember they did it in my halls at uni. They were HUUUUGE windows. It was horrendous....
Damned people setting off fireworks in the block!
British weather update: The sky turned yellow and now it's raining.
yellow?
My thoughts exactly!
Yellow; -noun
1. a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
2. the yolk of an egg.
3. a yellow pigment or dye.
4. a Coldplay song ("And it was all Yellow...")
:)
You must have seen a yellow sky before. Where it clouds over but it's not grey, it's yellow.
Yeah that's a bit of a personal stumbling block....
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKNZgDbLwGY
I have a need to shout this.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOORNING SIIIIIIIIIDEPODCAST
Morning Jon.
Gooood morning Christine. How are you today?
Apart from yellow?
Grumpy. You?
I am. umm. not sure.
It's D-Day today. We are meeting with the course "leadership" so by the end of today either i'll be really encouraged and definitely want to stay, or know that I should get out there as quickly as possible!
Awwww I've just had the happiest news ever. One of my family friends that I've not spoken to in a few years has just got back in touch with me.
When we were more in touch, she was desperate for a baby. Been through IVF a few times with no joy. Pretty much gave up. I've just been sent this photo http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs042.snc3/12961_203118082081_603922081_3897296_1269702_n.jpg
It makes me smile so much!
aww yay!
What a cute doggie!
soooooooo cute
Oooh big day. Are you prepared for either outcome?
You like Pebbles? He is very cute. Even I like him, which is a huge statement....
The dog looks surprised!
Cool for your friend though!
What are your options Jon?
ha. i shall let you know afterwards ;) ehehe
I think that there wont be *that* much of an improvement, and i've already started applying elsewhere, so i guess part of me hopes it's not going to be good news, but i hope that they make it enjoyable enough this year
It was just such a surprise to me! It really wasn't what I was expecting, to find her with a 6 month old baby.
Stay - 3 years
Stay - 1 year - then move to a different uni to do teaching (applied to Oxford Brookes, Winchester and Canterbury Christ Church)
Stay - 1 year - move to Swansea met - they'll take us into the second year of their motorsport course
I gotta run! We're having a meeting before the meeting to discuss our agenda
(we sound like politicians...oh man)
Byeee
Hey... I studied politics... we never did that!
We had our meeting, then had a meeting to discuss the outcomes of the meeting (aka getting smashed in the pub)
Good luck!
Seconded. I hope you get a chance to actually study rather than get distracted more...
Hehehehehe. I love watching Literal Music Videos. :)
hooray, kindle has had a software update. Now I can rotate the screen and read with it upside down! Just what I've always wanted!
You antipodeans!
Ive always wanted to read a book upside down!
the other updates are useful, now it has native pdf support and a battery life that is twice as long! Apparently the rotationy thing is so big pdfs can be viewed properly :D
The pdf thing is very good.
I shall have to re-test the transcript pdfs
I'm sorry to report you can't ever come back to New Zealand. #badkiwi
That's OK, I don't really want to ... and I never really enjoyed Christmas down there as much anyway!
weirdo!
You've never had a proper cold Christmas to compare it to!!
I had one of those the other day... i think i left it in the fridge too long..
and you've never had a proper hot one :D
Having Christmas Day in baking hot sunshine and a hot summers day makes my mind implode of fear. It sounds so odd to me!
Cold Christmas = madness
Gracious me.... Are you just pretending to have a job? :P
I prefer Christmas to be in the cold months because it suits ALL the traditions better. And you cut winter in half.
If Xmas is so good in summer, why do loads of Kiwi's have a midwinter Christmas in July?
I would like to have a white christmas just once, because the song tells me I should. But there is something so lovely about sitting around in the sunshine in deck chairs with the family after a giant lunch then going for a splash in the sea before dinner, when its still light, at 9pm :D
any reason to get boozed, really.
Hehehe.
White Christmas is a myth *grumbles*
You've reminded me of Anchorman again now :P
so I am not dreaming of one? Just like the ones I used to know?
You must miss out on the best bits about Christmas though! Being all wrapped up when you can see your own breath. Christmas lights twinkling in the dark sky. Holding hands with mittens on.....
you'll find a summer Christmas is best accompanied by the soundtrack of jazz flute.
Seeing your own breath sucks. It still gets dark in summer time. I hate mittens.
My idea of Christmas day is morning with the presents and seeing parents taking AGES to open theirs, all the family coming over and being wrapped around the dinner table for a yummg Christmas lunch with the windows steamed up, then chocolates and yummy food and snacks, getting dark at 4pm outside then all wrapped around the TV for all the awesome evening entertainment that Christmas Day usually provides with drinks and more chocolates interwined into these
:( Fine. Shatter my romantic dream why don't you!
Of course I say awesome entertainment on TV, I watch Dr Who anf by that time of day I've eaten so much and whatnot that I can't be bothered to move and am happy to watch whatever is on :)
thats pretty much exactly what my idea is too, except for the dark at 4pm bit, which is good because now that I'm a bit older the nighttime bit is my favourite. Our windows steam up from all the cooking. Om nom nom roast dinner.
You dont wear mittens!
This is the real reason you cancelled/postponed your trip to New Zealand, you are unwilling to experience the things I love!
I do... my clicky finger hurts :(
Don't lie, you totally watch the Queen.
Her queens speech is the highlight of my year
Every year I tune in and then she goes on for too long so I stop listening
I do at Christmas!!!
Personally, I feel they should just have a Brian Blessed's Christmas Speech.
I've never seen any of it. Ever. I don't think I'm missing out.
Gloves I understand, mittens restrict being able to pick anything up/type/do anything of use
But it's romantic! I have a wide selection. At any rate, you're not supposed to do anything. You should hold hands and skip.... Preferably through snow.
#badcommonwealthperson
British weather update: The rain has stopped, the sun is out and the sky is blue. From the kitchen window I can see a rainbow.
#replacethequeenwithbrianblessed
Imagine having this welcoming you to Christmas and what it stands for. it would be marvellous.
my brother is a copycat and has bought the same phone as me. I wonder if he'd notice if I subtly swapped them since my camera no longer works which is really ruining my drop.io/qik streaming life.
Brian Blessed is wonderful. I will get behind your campaign, Lukeh. Should we start a petition?
#replacethequeenwithbrianblessed
It's beautiful!
"This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."
Totally sums up Christmas ;)
Noooooo :(
#uhohrainbowcontroversy
We should!
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/new
Your distress tells me I should fire up the ol' VPN.
"Before creating a new petition, please use this box to check whether a petition already exists which calls for the same or similar action."
Oooh, do you think there will be?
"Your search for Brian Blessed in Open found 0 hits."
:(
Thank you for creating your petition
It has been entered on our system and will now go to the Number 10 team for approval.
Yessss
Wooohooo!
I think we have a good chance :)
Oh my God. What have I done.... I can feel the foundations of our democracy crumbling as we speak!
If this doesn't work we might be able to get Channel 4 to do it for the alternative speech
Oh hahaha I just clicked the rejected tab. There are quite a few rejected petitons about Brian Blessed :P
http://search.petitions.number10.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1159&sr=0&sf=&qt=brian+blessed&sc=number10
:D
All this Christmas talk makes me want to pull out my Christmas DVD collection. I have a sick love for bad Christmas movies and I try buy at least one new one every year. I am overcome with desire to watch Jingle All The Way.
What can I say, the british public are being denied despite their constant demands for more brian blessed!!
Elf???
Best film EVER. It has Troy McClure.
I need Tuhbomahn!!!
I love Elf!
Alf?
:(
Love Actually is my Christmas guilty pleasure
#shameful
call that proof? you can get that from commenting and commenting on SPC doesn't count as a real job.
have you managed to convince yourself that you do a lot of work for charity, keeping the lonely people entertained, or something?
:I actually watched it in the summer. not sure what that says about me. :)
what colour is it?
my brother is mean.
do you still want a finnish flag now theres no kimmi?
yes
you could get a union jack.
1) spelt kimi wrong. 2) NOT FUNNY!
He read my comment definitely!
Between last Christmas and today I have watched Muppet Christmas Carol 4 times. #bestmovieever
Oh no, I'm not falling for that one.
Housework is boring :(
I want to watch Elf!
Oh I have to watch that soon definitely
Come in and know me better man!
#madeupfact: The Pearl Jam song Better Man was inspired by this line of the film/book. But definitely the film.
Dubai weather update: Sunny
following the whole discussion i missed this morning, i tried to find a summery and sunny christmas song.
i figured there must be something out there to prove bing was in fact dreaming the wrong dream... and i found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMgzkzQR_8
if that's what christmas in the sun is like, amy and nick you are welcome to it ;)
Boring.
Alison's boiler update: Kicked
I used to know the guy who was Rolf Harris drummer. I have always felt that this is pretty much the weakest claim to fame out there.
Poor Rolf, and Australia. Having a non cold christmas :P
*watches rolf harris doing a cover of stairway to heaven*
he didn't even make the video.
To be honest, we have equally awful offerings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asq7TW4bRBU
Nooooooooooooooooo
You had to unleash the Cliff!
Mr C... I have found the solution to the downtime problems we've had...
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y200905CAC006
It's google's guide to Warehouse-Scale computing :)
i like that he squeezed some christmas bells in at the end anyways :)
Noooooooo.... Now i'm wired for sound!
we had the discussion on sunday. post '79 songs don't count.
however, i can't find any pre '79 christmas songs that are summery.
what in blazes are you planning?
I meant for the Parade Lap ;)
#sorryeveryone
I feel I shall take a photo diary of my day to show you all why I love my Christmases (how on earth do you make Christmas a plural?) so much.
Although, since my last family Christmas, both of my grandparents have died and we were a pretty small family anyway so considering there will only be me, my brother, my parents and my aunty, we are not quite a big enough group to fill a photo :D
:D
Amy have you ever seen the Nostalgia Critic's review of Jingle All the Way?
She is the anti-me!!
This is a trick question!
heres an awful one that is also post '79
http://folksong.org.nz/nzchristmas/kiwiana_xmas.html
It might be better if the woman on the auto-play song wasn't so terrible.
nooo?
2) All Kiwis are required at some point to return to the motherland...
Oooh look I can do it too.... I've never managed that before :P
Yay!
jandals?
Oh boo, looking at it now, it's backwards :(
I shall twitter it. It has lots of bad language and stuff but it makes me laugh so much how much the dude hates Jingle All The Way :)
if you call them something different, you're doing it wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandals
Why 1979?
That means you exclude some very well known songs!
heres another NZ Christmas song. Who on earth keeps writing/singing these things?
http://folksong.org.nz/nzchristmas/christmas_in_new_zealand.html
I am glad they weren't around when I was at school otherwise I bet I'd have to sing them too. The only one I did at school was http://folksong.org.nz/nzchristmas/te_harinui.html
ok, and "hokey-pokey icecream"?
Vanilla icecream with butterscotch in it.
Amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_pokey_(ice_cream)
"vanilla and butterscotch" was already taken?
its not butterscotch. It's like the stuff inside a crunchie bar.
ahh, ok.
Which is similar...
Honeycomb?
is this kai ebel's feet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toesocks.jpg
wiki calls it sponge toffee. Apparently known as "cinder toffee" in Britain.
Ah yes. That's the word. I couldn't think of it :D
oh, and honeycomb or honeycomb toffee. Silly Brits, why have three names for one thing?
Don't know but toesocks and jandals freak me out!
Oh okay so I can call it honeycomb. Cool.... It's strange because honeycomb could also mean an actual honeycomb....
Ah, because the UK doesn't use a homogenised version of English like the colonials do!
Apparently there is a place in London with hokey pokey ice cream. All those who are coming with me in August to the Speights bar, I may have just added a stop to our itinerary!
I was going to call it honeycomb but I thought it would be wrong.
Although it tastes like crunchie bar the consistency is different...
:)
I cannot hear that word without getting the song by Bob Merrill in my head.
You don't have it in Aussie?
the only place I can find it is at the NZ Natural ice cream shop, and it's not quite the same as the sort you'd get in a Tip Top tub.
Well... That excludes Fairytale of New York. Which means it's wrong clearly.
I think she wants us to appreciate the joy....
And the Wham song!
And Do they know it's Christmas?
It turns out, when I am on the phone, I say "perfect" quite a lot.
tip... top... are you just making words up?
Perfect.
is that the polite form of rrrrrrrubish?
Maybe the commenters didn't know it was Christmas
best icecream ever.
http://www.tiptop.co.nz/tiptop-landing.html
Australia doesn't have orange chocolate chip which I miss terribly.
I suppose it is the opposite of rrrrrubbish. I should use more rrrrubbish on the phone, I think.
No - this is why many Brits get confused in NZ. Amy, are we going to have to wiki a phrasebook or something?
So does my boss!
twas ruined by band aid II.
Apparently not!
To me "tip-top" sounds like it belongs with "pip pip"
Actually it was. Still, in Denmark, older music is embraced with a warm fuzzy hug...
What's an eskimo pie?
And ever so slightly unruined by Band Aid 20.
Take 3 eskimos...
Christine is your boss?
vanilla icecream covered in chocolate.
To be fair it's still pretty rub. But you can belt it out and that's the main thing.
it was, but featured justin hawkins, which is about as bad as cliff.
And dizzy rascal!!
I think thats his name. I'm not down with it.
for me Christmas doesn't officially start until I hear Snoopys Christmas for the first time.
is he the one who name dropped Lewis Hamilton in a song?
you missed sunday's conversation. but i think i said there hasn't been a decent xmas number one since '79:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_number_one_singles_(UK)
fairytale wasn't number one.
You ain't gotta feel guilt just selfless
Give a little help to the helpless
Classic.
I just found it on youtube so I guess Christmas has now started.
aha! well it's a tragedy because it is the best Christmas song I think
i agree. rolf is a close second though.
SNOOPY WINS.
I think Dizzy Rascall isn't that great. I'm not particularly a fan of Calvin Harris. However... Put them together and you get this... Which I liked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibLntdLiJA
(it may have strong language I have no idea)
Whereas I know who Dizzy Rascal is I haven't a bleedin' clue who Calvin harris is. I assume he's in Twilight because I found out who Edward Cullen is today and I hadn't a clue who he was for months and months until this morning
:D
Isn't he the pineapple guy?
I don't think Adie is in a relationship with this Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris is a pop star who looks like he might work in IT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calv_Purple_Hoodie1.jpg
Yes.
Grand Prix World update - started as McLaren, managed to get a full roster of sponsors on board and now into 1999 with:
Drivers: Hakkinen, Coulthard, Moreira (made up Brazilian driver, picked him for test driver because he had the better stats than the other made up non-f1 drivers)
Main Sponsor: East (basically West cigarettes but changed because of tobacco laws)
Engine: Mercedes-Benz (works deal)
Tyres: Bridgestone (works deal)
Fuel: Shell (works deal)
Commercial manager: Stefano Domenicali
Chief Designer: Neil Oatley
Technical Director: Adrian Newey
Chief Mechanic: M Ainsley-Cowlinshaw
Stefano! At Mclaren!
*faints*
You haven't heard of "tip-top", as in "getting it into tip-top shape"? Or "The Tip-Top Bar"? Perhaps it's an American thing, but I've heard Stirling Moss say it once or twice as well...
Hello to all. Just dropping by. ;)
Hehehe, he is the best commercial manager in the game. In terms of technical directors, I like to offer deals to Newey, John Barnard, Pat Symonds and Ross Brawn, just so it covers all the bases. Patrick Head's in there too, but he's too much to start off with.
Also, I would put in the 2009 update but it never seems to install properly :(
I am buying some books for my brother from amazon.co.uk for Christmas (books made of paper? who would want such a thing!).
Anything else I should buy while I'm there?
Presents for nick are always a good idea :D
Buy him a Kindle?
Can you buy Milky Bars on Amazon?
heheh after shipping came to almost the same price as the books I scratched that idea, and will try and find a cheaper way of obtaining them :D
he's not a reader at all. I am shocked he asked for books. They might be the only books he has read since he finished school 10 years ago.
"Unfortunately, we are currently unable to ship Kindles or offer Kindle content in New Zealand. " might be a problem too. I could ask him to move?
That sounds acceptable to me. "I bought you a Kindle so you're going to have to move." He would be ungrateful if he said no.
Closer inspection has also told me that the books he has asked for are comics. So reading total since 10 years ago is still zero.
F1-Live is reporting the Kobayashi-Renault story. And yes, the source is GMM.
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/091125094141.shtml
someone needs to chop chop and tell me where I'll find Heikki next year.
Don't know why but I'm thinking - DTM.
#sorryAmy
unacceptable! I will not go to four races and see no Finns!
Erkki Mustakari the commentator at MTV3 said it's 100% certain that Kova will be in F1 next season. Either with Renault or Sauber Ferrari. Now you only need to find somebody who can tell you it's 100% certain that those will be in F1 and all is well ... #sorryAmy
top gear fans: I have been given another gift idea.
"i doubt theyre cheap enough for a present but i want some goggles like clarkson wears in the top gear episode where he buys the white austin healey"
who can tell me what episode this is so I may have some idea of what he is talking about :D
Hey, Not sure where to put this but I thought the sidepod community might be interested, I don´t know wherether you´ve commented on this already this week - and I imagine being podcast lovers you might have - but incase you haven´t did you know David Croft was on Radio 5s fighting talk this weekend? He appeared with Henning Wehn, Eleanor Oldroyd, and Greg Brady, 3 of my favourite panalists on the show and gave as good as he got, even if he was a bit cheesy at times. Definately worth a listen, even if just for his "Danke Danke" comment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ft
hmm, had better get back to work now...
Hi Ed! A couple of people have mentioned it but you have me intrigued now. Will have to have a listen later :)
i was intrigued by the mention of Greg Brady but I have since learned that the one who goes on Fighting Talk is not the fictional 1970s character. Shame.
http://thebookwiththemissingfirstpage.co.uk ?
zing! I was waiting for that :D
You set 'em up... I'll plug my book :)
Hi. I am supposed to be studying.
I'm not supposed to like that.. but I do.
This is the only Tip Top I know, looks like they changed the packaging, how dare they...
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/sainsburys-price-comparison/Cream/Nestle_Tip_Top_Dessert_Topping_165g.html
(apart from the bar in Monaco)
non-gmm source stating the same was linked to yesterday.
For those with Autosport.com sub, Jim Bamber:
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2517
heeeeh!
I took my car to be looked at. Apparently the alternator is generating too much charge.. I've never heard of that before. To be investigated next Tuesday so I suppose that's more time off...
As part of AUTOSPORT's 2009 Formula 1 season review, this is a collection of the most popular images - based on star rating.
worth a look, if only to see ron sat in his pod.
linkage: http://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/1917
he looks as bored as we were
love it: http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1322422
what the?
still the best caption ever:
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1322430
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1322480
Was this Lukeh?
Is there a PF quiz later?
Right I've got to get to my revision. I divided today into two halves. Morning: get car seen to, get stuff for flat. Afternoon: revision. Car was seen to. I came home and slept until an hour ago. oops.
Will leave you with this one from @SparxNet on Twitter:
A Higgs-Boson enters a church. Priest says "We don't allow Higgs-Bosons in here." The Higgs-Boson says "without me how can you have mass?"
Just managed to get addresses for both Litespeed and Team Lotus F1 to send my CV and covering letter to. Team Lotus are apparently recruiting a lot of people at this time.
That's how I felt.
A neutron walks into a bar, orders a drink, and doesn't pay. Another customer asks, "hey why doesn't he have to pay"? The bartender replies, "for him there's no charge".
Good luck!
As I said yesterday, it's just to try and get some unpaid work experience, whatever it may be. :)
Sounds like a good plan!
#MFC
Katherine went to a shop today to buy a handbag. They only had one left but shock horror it didn't have any price or labels on it. So she took it to the counter and the person behind the till couldn't work out what to do, so Katherine looked the handbag up on the companies own website on her iPhone and read out the product code to the person on the till who entered it into her machine and bingo she could buy the handbag.
If you read this and wondered... I wonder which handbag it was... It was this one: http://www.monsoon.co.uk/invt/58956328
I've got quite a list of race teams and so on. It reads:
Advent Motorsport
iSport
Comtec
P1
Lotus Sport
Team Lotus F1
Classic Team Lotus
Litespeed F3
ace!
You really should - I was in tears of laughter and Crofty was indeed on fine form!
I heart this story.
Thats pretty cool... did she get a discount?
I like the story, and I like the bag. I need a new bag for Europe. I would like one in black please.
I once went through the initial process of contract stuff with Advent, and will leave that story there ;)
Hi by the way :)
She should have done... She was technically working for them!
exactly! and no labels!
have you fixed her laces yet? :)
I am just having a debate with one of my developers who thinks it is okay that his ajax application breaks the back button behavior.
Am I being unreasonable?
I don't think that would go down very well. Christine tried to argue with her about it...
There's no reasoning with the woman!!
I wouldnt think so...
Is it for customers or internal use? if its the latter then its probably a question of if its worth the trouble of fixing...
:)
i think he is wrong.
Good :) I thought I was going mad!
If it is an app that is like the internet, not having a back button should be illegal.
Exactly. It's a web page with a series of tabs in it. Depending on which tab you select a different set of data is shown within the tab. I think that if you switch from tab a to tab b and press back you should be back on tab a.
agreed. although flash has been breaking the back button since 1996, and it's still legal in most continents.
In other news coincidentally as we were just talking about Katherine's shoes I have just had an e-mail from the collegue who had the upside down smiley.
He's never mentioned my e-mail in which I called him out about his smiley being upside down (Christine told me to tell him). He's never said anything to me and I didn't want to drive the point home. However he just e-mailed me and his smiley is the right way up... Phew.
ooh, actually, that isn't breaking the back button. if you're still on the same page. hmmm.
Yes... It is bad. I hate flash. I hate breaking the back button. And... you can even fix it in flash.
Oooh, phew. I was worried we had hurt his feelings.
If you have tabs, that's maybe not so bad.
That is the same as the flash thing. You're thinking like a developer.
:D
send him one back with an upside down one to realy confuse him (;
e.g. say your page is "personal details", and the tabs are "profile" and "address".
that could easily be content related to the same page, but instead of appearing beneath one and other, they are simply tabbed.
I stood behind a user who three times in a row pressed the back button to switch back to the previous tab. Each time then going back to his bookmark to find the page.
I mean it may have been a particularly useless user - we do have them.
it's not. my objection in flash is going from say the hompage, to the archive page, and not being able to go back.
if the content is related, but just displayed differently i think that's ok. no?
If you have a back button, you should be able to use it. But if there is another way to return to the content, then I will reduce the sentencing and say it is not illegal.
question for christine, alex and nick. does the bbc homepage break the back button?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
click the coloured content buttons (top right). would you expect to flip between tabs using the back button?
Haha, just listening to fighting talk and crofty referred to nico as Britney... brilliant :D
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. im not there yet
tremayne started that last year didn't he.
although it could've been more, grr britney.
Right got you... Yes... For example the data on the page also can be sorted by clicking the top of the table. I don't think the back button needs to "undo" that action.
But this is basically a workflow. You have a list of things that are at stage 1, stage 2, etc. I think that's a good place for the back button to work.
in that case, broken.
you can fix it in ajax, just like flash. add items to the browser history.
"You can watch socks in a dryer and thats Nascar"
genius
shush!
:D
8-)
will has some insight on the empty mercedes seat. but first this is interesting:
"My sources tell me Chandhok was quickest, followed by Jani, and Hildebrand was plum last, by a fair margin. Jani (half Indian) and Chandhok (properly Indian) have both been passed over for the slower man. I’d wager it had something to do with finance. So much for your promise, Vijay." {Comment #8}
Eek! I thought Hildebrand/di Resta was a sensible test combo, but if the sim times are what Will (or even Aleya in Will's comments section) says they are, then I begin to wonder.
That said, if Hildebrand's main attraction is financial, why haven't USF1 grabbed him?
I think thats not especially bad.
It's quite weirdly inconsistently implemented. On google calendar if you are on week view and you click on a day then pressing back throws you out of the calendar. However if you are in google maps they do some magic voodoo if you search for 3 different places you aren't actually moving page but it is actually stuffing things into the history.
Same thing that twitter does actually using the #home #personal trick to make the history change without the browser navigating (my guess is that it polls for the browser address and then says "aha time to load some different content)
No. Although if it was the whole page, it might.
agreed.
I am surprised Chandhok was faster than Jani. {Comment #15}
Depends who's version you believe. The consistent thing is that Hildebrand was apparently slower than Jani and the half-Indian with Swiss nationality has more claim to Indian loyalties than the American.
I think my version is slightly different...
there is a big banner ad and no content buttons ;)
:)
ahh. still sunny?
Which is exactly what we have here. Which means I am right.
I thought I heard him say that!
On this Joe post:
There are likely to be a number of announcements after December 1 as old contracts come to an end and new arrangements can then be announced.
Boo.
Goodo. I am lost in this conversation now, but I am capable of answering specific BBC shaped questions :)
Well the programme is 5 days old...
Dark :D
although we did have orange sky which i forgot to mention ;)
Well it was Yellow where Christine was earlier! So nerr :P
Tis a bit unfair to hush up spoilers and then do the same thing yourself though!
Only briefly. We haz blue skies again.
I loved is rant on "Who came to Abu Dhabi?" ...:D
:D
mmmm, did realise what i did. ooops. sorry
Ah fair enough!
hence the comparison ;)
I was lurking/working/skyping
#malemultitaskerFTW
give him a clip round the ear and tell him to read some jakob:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
Oh my, that is a horrible webpage!
I meant... The page that started this all with tabs across the top does constitute the whole page.
but usable by everybody.
Absolutely. He is the man when it comes to usability.
However I am certain he's wrong about unmasked passwords.
haven't read. what does he say?
this one: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html
i think i agree with him.
Password boxes shouldn't cover up what you write with a dot anymore he thinks. He thinks it is hard for people to deal with and that nobody is ever lurking over your shoulder. He thinks they are particularly difficult to use on mobile phones (they are because of having to press the key 3 times to get a 'c' for example).
However:
a) people do lurk behind you
b) I really especially want to mask my password if I am on a train
and
c) The real usability solution is to have a proper keyboard.
Best solution is to have the option. Masked by default, tick the checkbox to reveal it.
but he says:
"It's therefore worth offering them a checkbox to have their passwords masked"
so the point is really masks should be off by default.
mine shows the character for a split second then masks it...
that works too.
Which is what he suggests... It needs to be done in the web standards though... because phone software pretty much universally turns off auto predict in the password box.
For those who are following along... the developer in question is now implementing back button support.
Thanks guys :)
I showed him the BBC page as a example of when it is okay.
Did you show him the comments? :P
No way!
Christmas is only stressful if you let it be - personally I really love the whole season...
Christmas 2007 was stressful because Grandma wasn't well (she got better during January, but it did take the shine off the holiday). Christmas 2008 was fine apart from karting-organisation-induced-stress moments.
I anticipate Christmas 2009 to be more like pre-2007 Christmases - i.e. fun and feeling semi-magical. It helps that the people who want presents this year are relatively easy to buy for. For example, my friends will either accept a bar of posh chocolate or an online message wishing them "Merry Christmas" (depending on how I know them). Dad's already said he doesn't want a present and isn't giving me one and Mum's present usually suggests itself. If I can find a suitable present for my brother and his family, that'll be all my Christmas shopping done.
As someone who doesn't like presents, or turkey, Christmas isn't exactly my ideal time of year. Still, I'm much better than I used to be. A few years ago I would have declared this a #christmasfreezone. {Comment #263}
How about having a nut roast (like a number of vegetarians do for their Christmas lunches)? Would that help, at least in providing some novelty value?
Seriously, we'll try to keep your spirits up over Christmas. The seasons may change but Sidepodders don't :)
When we were more in touch, she was desperate for a baby. Been through IVF a few times with no joy. Pretty much gave up. I've just been sent this photo http://photos-...3897296_1269702_n.jpg
It makes me smile so much! {Comment #304}
Congratulations to Alison's friend!
Have added days and deadlines to the Daily Post Guest Writers page. I added them in the order of volunteers. Please feel free to switch them about etc.
I quite like that there is exactly one week's worth.
ace. are you planning on staying up that late? 10pm right be a better deadline.
Good point. I overestimate myself.
I will expect yours at some point on Tuesday :)
awesome. :D
ouch.
for me Christmas doesn't officially start until I hear Snoopys Christmas for the first time. {Comment #476}
I define the Christmas season when I've had my last class or last day of work. So this year I'll start the Christmas season at 8pm on 15 December.
It ends on January 6 or my first day or work/class after the holidays, which I believe means it'll finish on January 4 for me.
you know what you need to do Mr C. you need to prove her wrong ;)
start writing it now.
And finish it before the deadline... That's an often forgotten second step ;)
Oh my, that is a horrible webpage!
but usable by everybody. {Comment #608}
I can't find anything on that page, so not usable for everybody.
His coding may be brilliant, but his layout and use of white space leaves a lot to be desired!
try ctrl+F ;)
Rally people weighing in on Kimi:
"Kimi is a really talented driver. No other F1 driver has been driving a rally at that level. Rallying, however, requires so much experience that I basically cannot see him having any chance in the first year. Rallying is such a difficult sport and experience counts."
he's not a coder, he's an expert in the field of web usability.
[Jakob] holds a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. He is considered a foremost expert on usability.
more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consultant)
why does his site look so bad, its not unusable, but its a long way from user friendly...
Or the search box on the top right?
http://www.useit.com/about/nographics.html
the page is accessible for everyone. it's not meant to be pretty.
or http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/09/guardianweeklytechnologysection.interviews
from the article:
try ctrl+F ;) {Comment #636}
That only works if I know what terms Jakob's likely to have used to refer to stuff. If I'm browsing to see if there's anything interesting there, I'm stuck :(
All of the articles are there on the page no? That's the titles of the articles right there.
well...
http://scripting.com/
doesn't annoy me in the slightest.
he's not a coder, he's an expert in the field of web usability. {Comment #638}
I studied him as part of my degree course, but technically HTML is a code. Therefore his correct implementation of HTML means he's a good coder (if only using one quasi-language in this particular page).
However, I was led to believe web usability was more than HTML, but also encompassed such subjects as white space...
I also like the incredible lack of wizz bang on Eric Meyer's site: http://meyerweb.com/
Or the search box on the top right? {Comment #640}
I can't find it!
eh?
Yellow section... top of screen... on the right of it
It doesnt have to be pretty, it needs spacing, space is very important when browsing for infomation as it lets the mind sort the data.
even if he doesnt want to use double spacing, using short form dates would still help. I dont think he can seriously be as good at usability as he thinks
his use of white-space is fine though?
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1322610
love this photo
And one of the running jokes of the community is that Neilson breaks this rule massively. He is always talking about white space too.
All of the articles are there on the page no? That's the titles of the articles right there {Comment #646}
Unfortunately they all come across as one scrunched-up mass of virtually-unreadable text on my computer, so I have to squint to see what the article titles are. One reason why I detested the fact that my tutors kept holding him up as an example of a usable website design - he couldn't even make a usable website for himself!
Universally-usable websites do not exist. All a website owner can do is make their site as accessible as possible to as many people as possible and do what he/she can to aid those who still can't get what they want from their site.
Interesting.
Yet still, if his site makes me go 'meh' then its probably not my problem
Wait... wait... wait... This means your computer is broken.
There is basically no formatting on his site at all.
his use of white-space is fine though? {Comment #654}
Since he uses so little that I can't read the titles, I can't possibly agree with you! The point of white space is to make the text easy and pleasant to read while still making effective use of the screen real estate...
agreed.
Wait... wait... wait... This means your computer is broken.
There is basically no formatting on his site at all. {Comment #659}
It only recently got reinstalled...
What it really means is that I have a disabilty which means some small concessions need to be made by website designers to enable me to access the site, and unlike most webmasters Jakob doesn't.
IM not even sure its all that usable.
What if you were very dislexic, it is hard to process things written like that
be honest, you're not exactly his target audience.
Obviously drop.io will have shrunk this image but is this about the same amount of spacing as you are seeing?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/alertbox-gif
ooh i might be now with my new job :D
i'm confused. the reason sidepodcast.com is usable, is because of jakob. he taught me pretty much everything i know on the subject.
if you can comment on sidepodcast but you struggle elsewhere, it's only because of the work jakob has done.
you may be in the wrong job.
I agree that that page should be laid out differently, it's actually tabular data it should be in a table. And he should explain why some articles are bold which means it is mystery meat navigation. And so yes... He should fix it.
Perhaps... but they gave me a nice new vaio so im loving it for the moment :D
Tables are evil though. I don't blame him.
I fancy going for a swim tonight, would this be a stupid idea seeing as i havent swam for many many years? Do you forget how to swim? or is it like riding a bike?
Like riding a bike.
Afternoon all.
it's not tabular data is it?
I am worried i may soon have an excel grid permanently burned into my vision!
ah, but i also only have my tri suit to swim in, so would likely be expected to know what im doing...
Excel isn't evil. That's different.
html tables = grrr
Ahh. Now thats the problem. Really no other options?
I found some swim shorts, but it appears i have got thinner.....
It's a list so he has made it a list. One of the problems is that the dates run into the titles as you look down the list. So it would be better if that was fixed.
I have just looked at the css for the site and as I suspected the gap between bullet points is not being set by him at all. So if your bullet points are too close together blame your browser not Jackob. His web page is telling your browser, "here is a list of things".
aha! the pull strings are long! result!
You dont forget, but you can loose all your techniqe, i used to race with times of a county standard when i was younger, but going back in the pool recently i was flapping about like a whale. I am teaching my self the techniques i have forgotten, to have a more efficient stroke.
One of the guys near me wont hear a bad word said about it...
I heart being able to sort by colour though :D
Neither will I. Love Excel.
Except the thing that is particularly annoying me with it at the moment.
Now thats a relief. No humiliation there.
ahh, fair point.
lets just hope they dont come undone!
I know what I would do which is go for 02 Nov 2009 at the beginning
so it would look more like this:
# 24 Nov 2009 - Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web
# 04 Nov 2009 - Agile User Experience Projects
# 12 Oct 2009 - Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and RSS
But Jakob would probably tell me that the title is more important than the date.
to me, the date is more important. so i'd agree with you.
If you don't want Jakob then may I recommend Steve Krug who is also fantastic: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758
http://www.sensible.com/
And it's out the way when you don't need to read it... It allows you to quick scan down the dates or the titles.
Hello All
ooh, i'll take a look.
afternoon (ish).
Evening all.
Have written one and a half posts for the blog, which is now waiting only for
a) Paypal to sort itself out, from which will follow
b) Me sorting host out, and
c) Getting the rather nice theme I've chosen, and finally
d) The ugly process of getting to grips with Wordpress...
Hello!
It's a fast read. And will confirm a lot of things for you. It even has a chapter to give your boss to read when they disagree with you about design.
yay.
does paypal think you're money laundering too?
Hurrah! Evening!
Have I mentioned how much I hate C++?
my boss is christine. if she doesn't agree, i'll tell her to ask you.
wassup sir?
:)
At what point do we say evening? after sunset?
Also I have been accepted for the Googke Wave trial and have some invites available....do i need to put this on the wiki some place?
we,re trying to implement heuristic values into a text adventure type of game thing , but withot the text. Like, we have 9 squares in all with directions (north, northeast, etc) and it's getting the successor states to work with the heuristics but it ain't happening :( tis rubbish stuff
#include
main()
{
cout << "Lukeh hates this";
return 0;
}
Well, I signed up on Saturday morning and am still awaiting the 'two tiny transactions' that I then have to register in order to proceed.
Then, on Saturday afternoon – 20mins after KO in the rugby, to be exact – my bank rang me to say that somebody was trying to take 200 Malaysian ringits out of my account at a cashpoint. Very odd. I memory serves, 200 ringits isn't very much at all.
In other news, I was casting around on Amazon for a book about Wordpress, and in the 'customers who viewed this also looked at' box appeared a book entitled 'ProBlogger: Secrets For Blogging Your Way To A Six-Figure Income'. I fully intend to lampoon this in a subsequent post.
alex speaks the troof :(
ooops I meant of course:
Couldn't do it without good old iostream.h
(I did preview but didn't look properly)
it would print
Lukeh hates this
ahh, yeah. we were mentioned on that site a while ago:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/09/11/tips-on-live-blogging-an-event/
not sold on wave at all personally. how have you found it?
What's wrong with
10 Print "Lukeh hates this"
20 Goto 10
Good grief. There I was thinking that I might write some stuff that some people might like to read. Then these wretched Americans come along and want me to 'monetize' it. Ugh.
They described us a tool!
Lukeh would like that though probably
Hello Humans!!
It reminded me of the time, some years ago, when a twit in the F1R ad dept brought the entire company's email system down by setting up his account to forward all incoming messages to his hotmail – which also happened to be configured to forward all incoming messages to his work email.
Good evening, visitor to our planet.
I hear the F1 on this planet lacks overtaking... Join me on planet Kimi, where the vodka is rich, the overtaking is sweet and the conversations are meaningful, on planet Kimi!!
:D
Clicked the link in my email and there it was!!
:P:P
Haven't got anyone to share a wave with so its a bit pants at the moment!
:)
we need a wiki page.
There is a wiki page
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/SPC+Regulars
What we need is a filled in wiki page :)
hehehe. will do in 5.
I'm trying to get a computer free in Norwich Library and they all seem to be taken. What's annoying is, half of the people using em aren't even working on them. They're just messing around on Youtube or facebook! Grrrrr.
Pretend to be a Technician and kick them off. Just mess with the wires till they go away
Hehe, it's alright now. I've got a computer now.
Evening :)
It is! :D
hows it going?
you have Wave?
I still havent worked out what you do with it... i am sure something will happen at some point.
Evening
Aye I do
will that work? or has what I've been taught totally wrong? :)
In what way?
I was taught it should go something like this:
same bar the namespace right? namespaces aren't essential, just recommended.
updated.
and the iostream, we didn't use iostream.h. I guess the way we were taught wasn't great :D
iostream is correct. alex is old :)
Just noticed that I'm doing the daily on Saturday. Good job I checked that.
ah right. ;) still i wasn't taught the difference :P
hehe. i just saw nick's facebook update.
awwwww.
I am now in mum's office at Aviva. There is pizza coming. :D
But your not on facebook!
He posts under the Sidepodcast group. ;)
i admin christine's because she hates everything about it, but i think it's important for SPC to have the group/fan pages.
i can't create a login of my own because it says "mr. c. is not a real name".
christine may be on to something.
true story.
aha! sneaky ;)
Do any other drivers?
Mr C =
humandancerDRIVER :Di'm not a driver?
:D
still #blamesidepodcast :P
of course.
Right people have a great evening and......
see ya mojoker
jake's been to lotus:
http://twitpic.com/qw436
...and?
Night!
http://twitpic.com/qw3ld
I am disappointed by the size of their office. And it's visitor. :P
:D
You know he is saying... "Hello...whats happened here?"
BBCF1 got an award for their opening sequence from before the Australian GP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2009/11/award_for_bbc_f1_tv_coverage.html
It was an awesome way to get into the mood for the new season, but it's not really original.
http://twitpic.com/qvq63 can we fit scott in there?
I think its more, "So you want me to commentate from here next season?"
"...Graphic Design - Programme Content Sequences category"
it's also nominated in the "best opening sequence to the 2009 formula 1 season by a british broadcaster" category.
Is there any way to tell google to stop giving me results in arabic by default when i seach in chrome?
they are all down the wrong side of the mage and its really irking me!
:D
The competition is gonna be fierce.
you should google it.
i did... i couldnt read the results :P
i have come to a compromise with it by having google.ae results in english
whats the best theme on wordpress? I want a change. :)
Use Google.co.uk
There are other search engines
did you see p2?
http://sidepodcast.wordpress.com/
It doesnt seem to want to let me do that
indeed. but i thought i might confuse people as some posts are quite long.
Steven does a space elevator need to be near the equator? if so why?
ahh, true. that's the extent of my wordpress knowledge.
Try Bing or Yahoo but Yahoo use Google search so you may get the same program. There is a language option in Google advanced search that may help
hehe thanks though :)
Erm... It can't be too near the poles because the reason it stays in place is because the heavy bit on the end is in orbit so needs to be rotating fairly quickly. Like launching a space vehicle the closer to the equator the better.
could you have one in manchester?
I've changed my mind, Mr C I love it! :D
blimey. how come?
i found the page where I can modify it ;)
ahh :)
In principal yes assuming you could make one at all. Right now we have no way of making one as the materials required do not exist yet.
I like that I can toggle comments. I'm easily impressed :)
ah cool, its for my architect friend...
now he wants to build one to the moon...
oww oww oww oww oww oww oww oww
hello
me too!
you stood on a plug, right?
How did you manage to injure yourself swimming?
oooooh.
#sameperson
;)
yowch!
well.....i was swimming....and then got cramp in one leg...stopped for a bit, then kept going....then got cramp in the other leg....stopped for a bit...then kept going, then thought "shall i get out?" and then worked out i was near to my 400m, all i had to do was there and back twice.....so i started.....annnnnnnnnd......
Cramp in BOTH legs.
Stuck in the middle of hte swimming pool, doing the most painful doggy paddle EVER.
owwwwww. still hurts
Good job you found something other than the tri suit then.
He wants to build an elevator to the moon? That is going to be ever so slightly problematic because the moon orbits the Earth. It is not permanently above Manchester. An elevator is just a way of getting into orbit not to travel quarter of a million miles.
i meant to say earlier, you want to start slowly.
very much so
meant? ta ;)
Well he is an architect... they do tend to go off on tangents.
Anyhow, i think i have sold him on a virtual tourism gallery so there is no danger of the moon crashing into salford quays ;)
So will his space elevator.
Remember all the stuff about space rocks? 250,000 miles of space elevator is going to attract a lot of hits. He also has the slght technical problem that the moon's orbit is not round so the distance between it and us is constantly changing.
Looks like a quiet day in F1-land....
Unless you're delusional and your goal is to ruin Donington of course. :P
I can't believe gillett honestly thinks that he still has a chance with the British GP next year. Unbelievable.
I love the bit where he says 'if we can get the funding'
thats like saying 'if hell freezes over'
Is that Mr Leggard i see?
http://twitpic.com/qwjpa
Look at that!!!
oi oi
evening sire
Be honest now y'all...just how painful are massages?
"I can't believe gillett honestly thinks that he still has a chance with the British GP next year. Unbelievable."
Two points:-
Firstly perhaps Bernie is putting him up to it to help him bump Silverstone up a bit more..
or
This may be Mr Gillett's only way out of personal bankruptcy and ruin so he's hanging onto his last hope however fragile...
Or he could just be completely certifiable...
Or all three....
I doubt personal bankrutcy is a possibility but the other options are possible.
I love that he keeps saying we only have to raise finance. He has had months to raise finance and failed miserably so how does he expect it to happen in the next couple of weeks
Hello again. Time flies doesn't it.
PF Quiz tonight, don't forget.
That's why I'm back at the computer :-)
i'm confused. the reason sidepodcast.com is usable, is because of jakob. he taught me pretty much everything i know on the subject.
if you can comment on sidepodcast but you struggle elsewhere, it's only because of the work jakob has done. {Comment #668}
It is possible for the student to improve on the master and clearly you have. Not many people could put the number of mods onto Wordpress and still have a functional, usable website at the end of the process ;)
And I do struggle in some other places. I just don't understand why a usability expert has a less usable website than most others I've encountered and doesn't even have the excuse of bad use of advanced technology...
depends who's doing them. i'm told that they shouldn't be painful, but never had a pain free massage,
Never heard of them. Who are they?
the link says twitpic, but i think they are a vowel out
If you don't want Jakob then may I recommend Steve Krug who is also fantastic: http://www.ama...ability/dp/0321344758
http://www.sensible.com/ {Comment #693}
That's better! Steve's site is one I actually find readable...
The BMW Sauber saga seems to be getting wider coverage.
It is reported that BMW which has continued the development of the 2010 car is becoming increasingly alarmed at the lack of solid funding behind the deal it sold to Qadbak. It seems all they actually wanted was access to commercial rights associated with BMW Sauber's sixth position.
What can BMW do now, having realised they were duped in the sale of their team?
"Qadbak is in fact merely a front for Dubai-based, convicted British fraudster Russell King, who it is claimed is bidding to fund the team off the back of the commercial rights revenue that BMW-Sauber will have benefitted from for finishing sixth in the constructors' title chase in the 2009 F1 World Championship"
Evening all.
Have written one and a half posts for the blog, which is now waiting only for
a) Paypal to sort itself out, from which will follow
b) Me sorting host out, and
c) Getting the rather nice theme I've chosen, and finally
d) The ugly process of getting to grips with Wordpress... {Comment #698}
Best of luck with the blog!
Have I mentioned how much I hate C++? {Comment #703}
Maybe once or twice...
That's why I'm awake, no? ;) Last quiz of this series, from the looks of it.
Source?
That said, there is a reason why Stuart isn't too excited about Russell King.
If Notts County are fine, we will be fine.
If anyone has a mobile number or knows his watering hole i could ask him and clear it all up?
Hi Journeyer.
This story comes from the Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung.
So it ha been around since Sunday?
This is simply another source translating the original Swiss Newspaper report. That fact that it is not dying suggests there may be issues. The FIA is meant to be announcing the final list any day now.
Saturday to be exact.
Story is in my opinion some kind of Swiss GMM story.
I don't believe a word of it.
That is a relief
I think it would be best for your own safety not to ask any questions. How long are you going to be in Dubai?
Hello all. I'm Currently sitting in bed feeling very ill. Think it's the dreaded Swine flu. Through my drugged-up haze I thought I saw the real-time page update itself on my iPhone. Am I seeing things?
Toyota havent quit yet.
According to dieter they could wait all the way up to thursday evening before bahrain http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2518 (paywalled)
Im not sure yet
wait, hang on - the FIA will let them onto the 2010 entry list even if they've announced they're withdrawing??
Looking for a business idea? Sell bikes to Tesco.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091125/tuk-tesco-in-1m-cycles-payment-blunder-6323e80.html
You have to wonder why Tesco were buying 6 bikes. That is a ridiculously small number for them
Rest of the story was that Mr.King wanted to get to the prize money and pay for the team that way. Nonsense methinks.
Strange fact is that BMW got into contact with Qadbak via Investmentbank Rothschild.
They have not withdrawn from the championship so there is nothing the FIA can do till they don't turn up for the first race.
JIT website fulfilment probably
Thats not very honourable!
Not honorable at all. If these stories of Toyota rejecting an MBO are true, and they're not talking to any buyers, then they should well and truly pull out now.
They have to, they are concorde signutaries
They want to sell their slot rather than give it away. I am sure a deal will be done in plenty time
I thought their factory was in the middle of a Toyota site, though?
The team is based in part of their European corporate headquarters so anyone buying the team would also need new premises
A deal to sell their slot not the team
I dont think the structure of toyota would encourage an MB
Its an internal division, it wasnt aquired like hondas f1 division
In other words - this won't be a cheap buy. Effectively, Toyota are just selling their spot, then? I would think someone needs to seal the deal ASAP, as they'd need time to start building their 2010 car.
my understanding is they would have to spin off a company to actually sell it - you can buy the design of their 2010 car though.
Unless you have been building the car there is no ways to get onto the grid. I get the impression Lola really wants to be on the grid.
Yawnsers... well past my bedtime, night all!
while i think buying that now would be a relative bargain (as it would be more advanced compared to those of the new teams), they need time to build the chassis then test it. if a deal isn't concluded by year's end, i don't see how they'll make it onto the grid.
Quadbike already have a car as do Lola. Quadbike are first reserve if a deal to buy the team can be done
They can sell everything apart from the factory building but moving would be massively expensive and impossible in the timescale
So do you think someone will buy it, and when will Toyota decide to give up?
Hope you get better soon..
But the FIA is demanding a bank guarantee from Qadbak. If they can't give that, there will be no place on the grid for them.
Awwww. It's Spinal Tap as lego characters! :)
No-one is going to buy a team with no factory. It would be impossible to move it in less than 6 months and by then the season has started
I think Sauber and Theisssen will pull together some kind of deal if Quadbike disappear in a puff of hype
I am sure the FIA would give them some space in which to re-organise themselves.
I do like that idea.
It reminded me of the time, some years ago, when a twit in the F1R ad dept brought the entire company's email system down by setting up his account to forward all incoming messages to his hotmail - which also happened to be configured to forward all incoming messages to his work email. {Comment #722}
Oops! I bet he wasn't very popular...
Maybe this is happening in the background at the moment and that's why there is no news on this issue from the FIA.
Do any other drivers? {Comment #760}
I'm not sure. I've seen Markus Winklehock or someone claiming to be him put up a Facebook page, but I don't think it would be terribly difficult to make a fake page provided nobody saw through it.
fair point.
Try Bing or Yahoo but Yahoo use Google search so you may get the same program. {Comment #789}
Yahoo! stopped using Google search for its base back in 2004. However, I think it may soon start using Microsoft's, or else Microsoft will start using Yahoo!'s.
I forgot about the Bing deal
huh?
From JRHildebrand on Twitter, who has been visiting Force India:
I like that he has Steve McQueen on his twitter page.
For the Spot the Difference fans:
http://i48.tinypic.com/30u4oj6.png
Very hard this week, though 5 is possible
I only saw three
I saw four.
I was just about to post that when you did
Me too
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/25/karting-in-las-vegas/
How about the tweet before that? :D
OH CHRISTINE!!! I have some very funny news to tell you...
F1BigPicture from Turkey a couple years when Kas and Fisi had a crash....is on an MSA presentation about scrutineers!!
Love it
Oooh, big stealers :)
I saw the picture and thought "ooh, i recognise that picture" then looked down and saw F1Minute and laughed alot
:P :P
If spot the difference was too easy for you name these 5
http://i48.tinypic.com/2ntxya.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/3spol.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/ra29md.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/ibi33d.png
http://i46.tinypic.com/4lna5j.png
not so much...ooooh i got hte last one!
well.....i was swimming....and then got cramp in one leg...stopped for a bit, then kept going....then got cramp in the other leg....stopped for a bit...then kept going, then thought "shall i get out?" and then worked out i was near to my 400m, all i had to do was there and back twice.....so i started.....annnnnnnnnd......
Cramp in BOTH legs.
Stuck in the middle of hte swimming pool, doing the most painful doggy paddle EVER.
owwwwww. still hurts {Comment #807}
Oh no! That happened to me once (alongside several occasions when I've had it in one leg, which is bad enough in itself). Don't let it put you off swimming, though.
What I can advise is that if you get cramp at all, it's best to get out of the pool straight away and stretch that leg until the cramp goes away. This gives you chance to get oxygen into your system as well as move some of the lactic acid away from the area and get the affected muscle more relaxed again (making it less likely to get cramp again).
I would suggest taking a drink onto poolside as well (I take a litre of orange/lemon drink with me for each hour-long session I do) but lifeguards in regular sessions often take exception to this. All you can do is hydrate yourself fully before getting in.
Oooh yes, i saw some other people doing that, tis a good idea.
Alas even if i wanted to i wouldnt, i'm not sure my local Tri club would have the same perspective as me if i said "can i just miss out the swimming bit? do a dualathlon instead? no? what do you mean get out?"
Be honest now y'all...just how painful are massages? {Comment #822}
Less painful than cramp, if that's what you're trying to fix. However, it does depend on the masseur. Personally I avoid cramps because I'm hypersensitive to touch, but for you it would probably be useful to have a massage given you've just had double cramp.
I thought it was bad enough when my freshly-installed Norton Internet Security kept crashing Firefox. Now it appears to be crashing Twitter with a "503 Service Unavailable".
#sorryeveryone
I fear it's something that i'm going to have to get used too as I do more and more exercise, my body's not used to it so will take some time. It probably got me worse today because I did a mammoth run yesterday
Evening everyone...
I love that he keeps saying we only have to raise finance. He has had months to raise finance and failed miserably so how does he expect it to happen in the next couple of weeks {Comment #824}
Some dreams are just really, really hard to let go...
My advice is to get rid of Norton. Nothing but trouble.
I am very old...
evening
i'm blind though.
the link says twitpic, but i think they are a vowel out {Comment #831}
"Twit" is also an insult, generally meaning "stupid", if that's the direction you're taking this, startledbunny ;)
Hi Alex
in what way?
Reet, time for me to be chucked off here. night all. lotsa love.
I shall be soon. Night Mr G
Night
night RG, thanks for not swearing on twitter this week :)
Night!
i couldn't see the difference between your code and james'
No problem at all :D
see ya buddy.
Toyota havent quit yet.
According to dieter they could wait all the way up to thursday evening before bahrain {Comment #847}
They can't.
For one thing, they have to put in a driver list by close of (Paris) office hours on the Tuesday preceding Bahrain.
For another, the sea freight leaves for Bahrain about two weeks before the race, possibly earlier. If Toyota misses the boat, then it's missed the boat!
It is, however, true that they could theoretically wait a few weeks longer, assuming they get a car under development within the next two weeks should they decide to remain in F1.
My life has taken a turn for the worse....
I'm listening to Tutu
Desmond?
It could be worse. You could be wearing one
They have not withdrawn from the championship so there is nothing the FIA can do till they don't turn up for the first race. {Comment #852}
They've announced their withdrawal though, so the FIA could legitimately take that as indication of intent to leave even if Toyota never bothers to cancel in writing. If Toyota changes its mind, some fraught discussion would take place before a decision either way is possible because of the conflicting interpretations possible.
Anyone else think this picture is plain wrong, but also amusing?
http://pageslap.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/obama_palin_dancing_stars.jpg?w=430&h=576
Tutu? what do they play/sing?
I feel like listening to TATU now. Damn you Jon.
mwahahahahah
You are even older than me... (not by much)
I should have known better... I was only making a joke program though.
night
Are you near some fencing? Are you in school uniform?
There are a lot of things running through my head... All the things Jon said.... Running through my head...
I feel absolutely criminal following up the Beatles with TATU. I honestly do.
:D :D just LOL
Quiz results are coming in and I'm last :-(
dont worry, i did it too
I feel fine.
When I worked in a warehouse a few years ago the radio station played that very frequently indeed...
Get back!!!
Ask me wh
*why
OH CHRISTINE!!! I have some very funny news to tell you...
F1BigPicture from Turkey a couple years when Kas and Fisi had a crash....is on an MSA presentation about scrutineers!! {Comment #893}
:D Pleased to know I'm not the only one who likes that picture - pity the presentation creator's citations skills were not as good as their aesthetic sense...
It's All too Much
:P
How do you do it?
With a little help from my friends :D
Lovely Rita (?)
I fear it's something that i'm going to have to get used too as I do more and more exercise, my body's not used to it so will take some time. It probably got me worse today because I did a mammoth run yesterday {Comment #903}
I meant to write "Personally I avoid massages" rather than "Personally I avoid cramps" (though I suppose what I originally wrote is also true). Massages are optional; it just so happens that with pushing your body that far beyond its limits, it may need that little bit of help recovering. F1 drivers get lots of massages for a reason, and it's not just because they can afford them...
The mammoth run definitely won't have helped. If you work yourself really hard one day, it's good to be gentler on yourself the next.
Looks like an outbreak of Beatles lyrics
My advice is to get rid of Norton. Nothing but trouble. {Comment #906}
I would, but it got rid of a virus my previous anti-virus software (AVG) missed and my computer's running better because of it. I'm reluctant to go onto my third anti-virus program of the month when I have no guarantees the alternatives will work any better than the current set-up...
take a crap song, and make it better. (presses mute)
Makes me want to play Beatles Rock Band! :D
But I must get back to bed. Night, folks.
Night J
all the things she said, all the things she said... :D
hey hey sidepodpeople!
Wait
I feel like listening to TATU now. {Comment #928}
I quite like TATU, but can't blame Jon for that (my brother introduced me to their music back in 2003 because he played "All The Things She Said" continuously for about two weeks...)
In all fairness, it is a ridiculously addictive song. I can't get it out of my head now!
it's not completely my fault, i just had the words "all the things she said" in my head, and so i put it into spotify, and woaaaala
hi everyone.
I'm using the free version of Avast and it seems to be okay - in fact it just detected a trojan on the wiki, I think from an ad..
Head head running running through through
Running through my head
evening :)
LOU!
"cause your love is all i think about"
aaarrrgghh now i've got kylie in my head :(
I've been using the free version of Avast for the last few years and never got any problem (but also viruses are rare at the office...)
all the things she said, all the things she said... :D
Wait {Comment #955}
Not gonna get us (if you wait ;))
Hi Guille and Lou
hi.
everyone alright?
I'm so tired
they're quoting tatu lyrics, what do you think? :)
thanks. it will be in my head until I'll get to bed :P
I agree with all, it's damn addictive...
now it's ozzy osbourne, pah
tatu! TATU!
just just.
Get back
Jon has corrupted my mind with russian pop.
That is one of the strangest sentence I've said for a while.
:D
i'm currently working on about 4 hours sleep and ALOT of caffeine.. i was hoping i was hallucinating those comments...
I've been using the free version of Avast for the last few years and never got any problem (but also viruses are rare at the office...) {Comment #965}
I've just downloaded Avast, but won't be installing until tomorrow.
if we're at Russian pop, it is only a small step to Ukraine, and you know where that leads...
Evening all
rrrrrrright....
I've just arrived from Buenos Aires after a 20h bus trip. All I'll say is that I really don't like that city...
Ah I can't wait for the Eurovision to return.
4 hours is better than no hours. but not much better.
i blame the 2000 word essay and my evil teacher.. am shattered...
(STOP.)
Shout.
Slow Down.
2000 at A-level? blimey.
eins zwei drei
yes... history coursework is evil... but not as evil as the preparation for it... 2000 words in about 4 days.. is...not.fun.
nil pwoi
IndyCar's mysterious Brazilian venue has turned out to be Sau Paulo. No word if that's Interlagos or a street course...
actually I'm running a 60 days trial of Norton (with all the antivirus/real time thing deactivated, just for the firewall) and Avast side by side in the netbook. I've not tested it for long though (1 day).
you sure they didn't say you had to use Word 2000?
Booooooo. :(
*shakes fist at stupid coursework*
:D that's even worse
:-)
hahaha :)
thats the caffine laughing ;)
Theres Word 2000, but then there's google docs. hmm but which one is the worst? there's only one way to find out......(etc)
*closes Spotify*
It's for the best.
I hope you didn't have lastfm integration turned on
...uh oh.
*runs to check*
hehe you don't want to know how much caffine i've had to have today so i've been able to learn in all 6 of my lessons, conduct x2 meetings and paint/clean a huge room thing... i got home at 7pm :s
yes, yes you did
mmm just read about the announcement on Paris of the Dakar 2010. I can't wait to see it again :D
(and it remember me that I should upload my photos from last year edition...)
http://www.last.fm/user/LukeofCydonia
You may now pelt tomatoes at me :(
Or 'Tatumatoes' if you wish...
#damnitjon
woop
anything r&b/michael jackson related on my lastfm list, is down to my wife. no reeeeeally.
Has anyone ever seen this?
http://www.googlegooglegooglegoogle.com/
It's oddly useful.
No.More.Painting.
how odd-ly useful
Something has to give and that is the thing
this room thing. was it a "room"?
it's okay... i have one wall to go and the furninshings come soon :) will be finished for monday (because that' my deadline). there is a new estates manager and he is having the floor done properly. 1 more day and it's out of my hair...literally :)
yes.. with connecting rooms too.
i know... you'd be so proud of me.. yesterday was the second time in less than a week i've spoken to someone i've been ssoooooo nervous to talk to, he is kinda famous too. And by famous i mean i've heard of him, but my friends hadn't..
Good
Good evening :)
hii
Who?
lastfm says alianora is listening to beyonce. at least its not TATU.
whereas Lukeh is trying to balance things by playing.... no surprises who.
Evening. Are you not meant to be at work for hours yet?
:D
http://mungothecameraman.com/
He is incredible, he did a talk at our school yesterday... and guess what! he's worked in f1 briefly too!! and i went to speak to him to say a personal thank you (his talk was so encouraging and amazing!) and he said i can always contact him etc.. eeek :)
GMM says Schumacher could come back and win. Niki Lauda on the other hand thinks his comback is not going to happen. Niki Lauda or GMM? Who should I believe?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8378258.stm
Crofty agrees with GMM
Yes. The beauty of being the boss.... I was tired, it was quiet. I've more than got my hours in this week so I came home.
ah good
who was the other person? *ducks* ;)
hi
:-)
hi alison
At first I thought "who??" but on seeing the site I'm sure I recognise him from Long Way Round or Down or something..
This has reminded me to install last.fm on my pc again...
You are always talkin to your celebrity friends now. Give it a few days and send him an e-mail asking for advice about how to improve some of your pictures or something. Nothing like a regular dialogue to open up opportunities later on
You mean I stayed up half the night to keep you company and you didn't need to be awake at all?
right it is the 11th hour and i am going now. good night all
night
he did alot of work for charlie's 'by any means' he was the camera man who went with them. he hurt his knee while he was out there though and had to fly back for a few weeks to have an operation. but he is actually awesome :)
night
Night last.fm stalker ;)
hehe he seemed really thrilled i was hoping to study photography and study photography at uni. my school actualy did something really good for me :) i shall write a blog entry about him soon i think.
night :)
night
how about a new blog?
i heart mungo.wordpress.com?
Is he not the cameraman on Long Way Round who had to fly home because someone died at home and then he went back a couple of weeks later?
ah yes I remember that, and he always flew back from India because his granddad died..
I was called in to start early though too. I've had an appropriate amount of sleep for the shift I did. Thank god I went home though. I'm dead on my feet....
I should be doing something
is that a beatles song that i dont know?
yeah, although it was 'by any means' he damaged the cartilage in his knee the same week his grandfather died.
plus, his father was at the talk too.. supporting his son! :) it was an aww moment.
heh
Me too. To avoid the guilty feeling I'll go home. See you in half an hour :P
So you got to meet jenson, who is well known for his good relationship with his dad, now mungo who was there being supported by his dad...
I see a pattern emerging :P
:-)
I have decided to watch the cheap tacky sci-fi that is Andromeda
it made me laugh.. :D
byeeee
You off Jon Jon Jon?
I'm surprised you resisted making a comment....
hehehe i am very very tempted.. he is an extremely awesome person, and one of the most amazing speakers we have had come to our talks. his story, and how he got to where he is, and what he does and everything is incredible. plus he worked in f1 for 10 races and is a fan.. he is really loved throughout the media world.. :D hehe
am confused.
doubly so
Gracious. Don't tell me Mr C is capable of being discrete....
In that case, absolutely nothing to see here.....
i am so confused
Hah. Move along.... Genuinely nothing to see :P
I would be so disappointed ifthat was true
*reads back to when Alison arrived*
always.
oops.
You alright there? :)
That's not gonna help you.....
Does this have something to do with you being dead on your feet?
just peachy.
hi Mr C :) haven't spoken to you in a while.. realistically it was probably 2 days ago.. but yeah.. hi :)
Hah yes. That's entirely what it's regarding.
hey lou ;)
am still confused as to what the joke is. you're going to have to spell it out
i.t.
thank you mr c and the entire year 6 class :P
happy to help.
lou, Mungo also did the x factor camera-ing a while back..
do you still love him?
can I have my juice box nowwwww
fruit shoot?
you got juice? lucky. we got milk
luxury.
oh no.
in my day ;)
lets not start that again :P although its not 3am, which counts for something
Simon Cowell says Mungo is ace on his site
If you really must know Jon....
I saw this when I came home and presumed you all knew. I'll just keep my mouth shut in the future :P
Who'd have thought Mr C could keep quiet about anything.... :D
Durrring the War....
yep i know. he didn't do the live stuff tho. However he's just finished filming for the apprentice :D ehehe
He worked in F1! he takes both stills and video in the most amazing places in the world, FOR A JOB! and his friends on facebook include Holly Samos and Charley Boorman...
....
...
..
.
that will be a yes :)
hahahahahaha. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i hadnt.
oooooooooohh. that was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig mistake.
ERROR
erm...
http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/25/daily-25th-november-2009/#comment-605164
i may.. or may not have his book... but when we were chatting to him he said he's good friends with him. Plus he's met Jenson several times...
Congratulations
lastfm says alianora is listening to beyonce. at least its not TATU. {Comment #1019}
I have the grand total of two Beyoncé songs (Sweet Dreams and Broken-Hearted Girl - maybe I should get the album they're from?) so it was a stroke of luck that it was playing her music when you looked at my status...
Well, facebook knows. It's hardly a secret.
aww!! :) congrats! :)
you missed the best bit though. nick's profile says something like:
12:01: nick added alison as a friend
12:16: nick and alison are in a relationship
holy smokes he doesn't hang around.
:D
true. it was never a secret on here either.
i am happy for you, honest.
am now also past the mocking stage....potentially
ok so maybe not quite
blimey
Hahaha okay that's fine. Glad to see I hadn't misjudged you :P
was how we announced our marriage. still took the comments a couple of hours to catch on though.
never.
aahhh good man
Was to me!
huh?
I thought you didn't like long distance relationships
shhhhhhhhhh
That didn't quite come out right... What I mean is that obvious as it may have been to you. It wasn't that obvious to me!
It'sOK. I typed it quietly
Oops?
:D
bless ya
wow. you should totally read back the past 3 months of daily posts.
So Nick knew, we suspected but no-one told you?
:D :D :D
hehe :)
All they needed was Cilla Black and I'd be suspicious this was actually SidepodBlinddate
I didn't know relationships worked like that. Does getting married work like that too?
Oh no don't!! This is some kind of cruel joke right....
question is...
who are hte other 2 people behind the curtain
Once facebook says it, it must be true. There's no arguing about it now....
must.resist.tempation.to.make.jokes.out.of.that ^
so when did Nick tell you?
Boooooo!!
Well Alex was on the balcony with them but I don't know if that makes him contestant number two or Cilla
Tell me what?
totally Cilla
LUKEH
On facebook by it seems
we all knew you were together, when did he tell you ;)
If it's any consolation I can do an excellent Cilla Black impresonation
True story.
there are so many jokes im resisting making right now, my resist-o-meter is working overtime
Don't resist you will just get more cramp
So you're resisting? Does that make you part of The Resistance?
... i think my lack of sleep has got to me.. i had to read that several times and it still says the same thing... you can do a Cilla Black impersonation? ... i suppose you learn new things every day :P
ha.
well that one was going to be about bulley. i'll leave the rest to your imagination
I must show you/terrify you with it sometime
I don't understand. What's bulley?
awesome. she has no idea
He is a friend of Jim Bowen
aha... i look forward to it.. i think...
and Resistance is fultile or Finnish
neither do i?
neither do i to be fair...
i think jon should just do the jokes. we're all friends, and i have no idea what he's talking about now?
I would give permission for this. I do however retain the right to get annoyed afterwards!
Jon's been messing with our minds all night I reckon, it all started with TATU...
always.
Slowly but surely working my way into your subconcious
tis the way it should be :)
#blamenick
Anyways all this excitement, palava and cilla black has gone to my head so i'm retiring for the night.
Night all *waves*
bye bud.
Night!
Byeeeeeeee lukeh
What is? All the things she said?
see ya :)
Running through your head running through your head?
Night Lukeh
Something like that yes. I haven't heard that song in years. Have you been listening to it or something???
Night Lukeh
All things Jon said all the things Jon said running through your head, through your head
#stolenfromalex
Aaargh now I have you all facebook stalking me.... Make it stop!!
#blamenick
it's alllllllllllll his fault
by the way, christine totally has a hat picked out.
Blimey :-) I sorta never thought we might be right...
i can't imagine christine in hats.
oh wait, yes i can
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Christine
:D
ehehe *opens facebook* eheh ;)
oh yeah that too :-)
aw that's not fair.. hats don't suit me..
Is pootle invited too?
I have never been on facebook ever
seriously. it totally rules to be a guy in such situations.
oh no its really hard to pick a shirt out oh and a tie. its tough being a guy :P
Wouldn't it all have been really embarrassing if you weren't?
umm.
no
no chance.
hmmm..
Awesome! Got to love a good hat.
oh, someone should tell Jackie, she'll love it
:)
sidepodhats! *finally understands what jackie said a while ago...*
can you alter the daily before it goes out?
everyone must know this news ;)
Not in the slightest.
sorry. not my job until next week.
;)
ah well. next week it is then
i have no idea what anyone is on about
Dude I've done enough spelling out for you today ;)
hehe.
Wow. I got called dude by alison. Not sure why thats a moment to..umm..you know...remember, but it must be
:D
i would find the comment but it must have been a few months ago..
i'm a bit slow sometimes :P
dw am finding it
OI! I think?
have fun!
oh i've got it. bless ya. that really is slow
http://www.sidepodcast.com/playground/search.php?s=sidepodhats
hush.. i'd forgotten about it until now though, i had no idea what she meant at the time..
really? bless ya :P
*starts jokes up again*
Alison do you like Mint cake?
not you n'all?
hm?
http://sidepodcast.com/2009/11/01/daily-1st-november-2009/#comment-570653
but I think she first mentioned it in the PF quiz a few days before..
Haha awww leave Lou alone!!
<3's Alison
yes, she's under enough pressure.
so is this where we're suppose to ask details?
like what?
About what??
was it that he ran across a bridge for you?
I dunno. I'm not very good at this.
I would say that means back off a little but I am not good at subtle signals
he didnt do that for me, which im still quite let down by, but clearly there was an alteria motive with you :P
He denied running at the time!! Vehemently.
:D
I assumed that once something had been announced/discovered/whatever, those concerned had to explain that "we met and just clicked" and "I nearly threw him over a balcony" and other such stuff.
clearly I am not friends on facebook with enough spc folk. I miss all the (foreseeable) news.
dont worry, its not just you
same!
pinger?
yes boss?
Neither am I. I added a few people but since I hardly use Facebook I gave up doing that. Now and then I add a few more but then I ignore it again.
I was friends with no-one until Nick made me be friends with him. Now Gavin and Jon and someone else have stalked me.
Me neither, worried about crossing the streams ;)
Evening all
why are you talking to amy. know your place.
:D
yo!
(sorry)
I am not talking to you as long as I am on your naughty step
sorry boss
evening
Wow!
I can tell things got off to a great start!
Evening :D
Poor Pinger!
You forgot to change your name back didn't you.
oh right, the no talking thing. i'll just go back into my wordpress cave
Yeah, that so isn't your thing :D
:)
sorry.
Apparently it's not even news to anyone else. It's very nice of you to ask though!
shhhh
so, i'm trying to work out how far the gossip traveled around the world, before you found out?
europe knew, australia knew, manilla knows. do we have anyone in the usa/canada who knew before you did?
Mr C: iTunes is telling me SPC "does not seem to be a valid URL"
[scratches head]
It's up to date with last Sunday's debrief too
Scott?
he was still in europe back in the summer.
what's the url sir, i check it out.
Shush!! Nasty people. It's not my fault I'm stupid!!
oh you love us really.
well, one of us.
:-)
he's in usa now, therefore it's travelled to europe?
http://feeds.sidepodcast.com/sidepodcast/
ooooh, a guessing game.
it's christine isnt it...oooooh no, no, she said she loves the pinger yesterday
ahh. i broked something.
Your memory is shockingly good! I'm a little worried by it....
Yup, noticed it last night or this morning
ha.ha.ha.
My memory is shocking good because i can remember yesterday?
#sorryalison
I'm alarmed that you remember offhand comments I made several days ago yes!!
No-one like a show off
This is true if we are comparing you to Mr C
His memory is notoriously shocking ;)
like what? my memory for stuff i said is appauling, for other people...quite hte opposite
Amazingly it may even be worse than mine, and that's saying something. Close run thing though.
Lies.
I heard Mr C was just a computer program hosted by Media Temple...which explains the memory issues....
*best joke i've made all week*
steven ill let you off the naughty step if you promise not to sleep. I Still have 6 hours of work to go you see.
use of this line voids any line it is attached to
fixed. thanks again.
(do you want multiple badges, or bigger ones?)
:D
#SorryMrC
:lol:
How do I end up on the naughty step when I stayed up later than anyone else? Surely the others should be there before me.
I think staying awake for another 6 hours is pushing it
The pesky exclamation mark is still giving the same message in iTunes
I concur
#sorryJon
odd. mine went away
Has now
Odder
Inside Track 2009 season preview video is in FBFB cos....?
journeyer suggested it, and no-one came up with a better idea.
OK
#FRANCKNEWS
Peugeot are running a 30 hour test at the new track at Aragon this week. Amongst the drivers are Franck and Sebastien Loeb
http://www.l-equipe.fr/Formule1/breves2009/20091124_112253_la-908-en-roulage-en-espagne.html
ooh, yay!