Midway through the week and we have ourselves another launch to pore over, this time Virgin will be revealing their new car to the world. It's an online launch which is different to everything we have experienced so far this year, and I don't know about anyone else but I'm hoping for more: "Are you ready?" from Glock. Anyway, here are some of the other things we're discussing:
- The first Aside with Joe of 2010 is edited and published and awaiting your consumption. I was present for this one which makes a nice change, and we covered all manner of topics, including how to write history books and the logistics of a meetup in London. There's some F1 stuff in there too, of course.
- Over on his blog, Paul has been looking through some of the old liveries, year by year. So far, he's up to 1997, which features a Jordan looking a little bit like the current Renault, plus a McLaren running the West sponsorship that I would like to see return. Love these livery posts, keep them coming Paul!
- Meanwhile, testing will continue today and we'll be covering it in a dedicated thread as usual. So far, testing has been a lot more popular than we expected, and that is brilliant. If you haven't managed to be around for any of it yet, then all I will do is recommend this Twitpic account. Mr C says it's his favourite page on the internets at the moment.
That's all for now. Let us know what you're up to and how you're liking the return of so much Formula 1 news and action. I will see you in the comments.
In the last 24 hours the same person has commented on TFS with comments that are english, but dont make any real sense....
http://www.feederseries.net/?p=538
http://www.feederseries.net/?p=356
very odd dont you think?
The Cyrilic says Katalog Staten so I guess they are pluggin a catalogue so its spam
thought as much, i emailed him after the first one because i wondered what he was on about, so i shall just mod it.
how exciting, my first moderated person ;)
must sleep. night all.
night mr c
Night Mr C
night
really gone now.
I'm going to head off, catch you tomorrow when once again I try and find some work to do in between spells of reading comments.. If only I wasn't being spied on and made to feel guilty for the last-minute alt-tabbing, it would be a perfect job.
Night Pat
Hold on. Someone else is called Paul? Unheard of. I might need to grow a surname.
Joe may have mentioned Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado as a possible name for the 2nd USF1 seat, but Marca has been reporting today that Spaniard Adrian Valles has secured the 2nd seat.
No confirmation yet from the driver or team.
off topic i know, but why did the FIA approve Campos META, and knock back pro-drive?
Are there, or were there divisions withion the FIA that just dont like Dave Richards. Seems that way, because they also pulled the rug out from under him when they learned he would be getting Macca backing.
Aftr what ive read and heard etc, (james allen blog says Stefan GP have already sent equipment to Bahrain in anticipation) i hope Campos lose out to Stefan, becasue it will be interesting to see what Toyota had planned for this year.
You raise a very good point there. And I agree with Dan: Epic. Fail.
yeah no kidding. epic to say the least.
Im really hoping USF1 show up.
Plus it has been agreed that the new teams can miss up to 3 GPs this year.
what the hell is going on?
they ask us to complete surveys etc and prertend they care what the fans want, and yet they make a mockery of the sport by doing stupid things like this.
Im sure Campos had a good application, but there a lot people in high places because they can write a good application, but cant do the job.
i work with several of them.
Let's not forget that Campos is a pretty well-structured team. They've run teams on many levels within the sport (up to and including GP2), and have been successful on those levels. They're not just some Johnny-come-lately.
First time I can remember being angry at the sport I live for.
They are a casualty of the time in a way. They and USF1 were hoping for the budget cap. It didn't happen. USF1 had the paid driver scheme to fall back on, Campos didn't have a net.
I realise that, but the FIA should have given entry to team that proved they already had the backing. Not to teams who "promised" they could get it.
Pity porr Senna if they do start. I bet he is hoping they fold so he getsa gig with USF1.
thats who they should have hired first before slowpez.
Senna name in F1 would surely get interest in Nth America back
Thanks for indulging my whinge guys.
I gotta go and play some poker.
No problem. That what blogs are for.
I do hope Campos make it. I want to see another Senna on the grid.
yeah me too. be good to see how he went
Senna doesn't want Campos to fold. If they fold now, he may never get a chance in F1.
Quick question... did Senna bring any money with him?
almost definitely. Not sure how much though.
If I was USF1, I would be on the phone with his agent. If the team doesn't come through, he gets the same deal with USF1.
A line-up of
Senna, Lopez, and say Alexander Rossi as a tester isn't that bad. It is no worse than Toro Rosso's.
No problem-o. ;) Shuffle up and deal! :D
True true.
It will cost you nearly nothing as well.
I believe he did not. As I understand he is driving without pay but can get his own sponsorship deals. And obviously the Senna effect Campos probably hoped for is not happening, yet
Ahhh. I see.
morning all.
afternoon
:)
ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/03/virgin-prepare-to-launch-brand-new-car-online/
dates for christine's calendar:
25-28 February - Stefan GP testing the Stefan S-01 in portugal.
Morning all.
I just got here and you have work for me to do already!
:)
Not sure I approve of you waking up so early.
no testing tomorrow. i sleeps.
Morning everyone. All this early wake up business is madness
Good morning all
Morning.
It's certainly crisp here too - snowing like mad and my commute took 4 hours instead of 2 this morning!
That is no fun at all, and I feel your pain mate.
My flight was sat on the runway for 45 minutes last night. Got home at 00:15.
Actually it's not too bad - I slept more on the train and I plan to move to Copenhagen in a few months...
Four hours!!
Right, best start working. I'll be sporadically in and out of here all day!.
Today's WulffMorgenthaler (a Danish Comic Strip duo) is very funny: http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip.aspx
Soooo distracting, now I have to look through the archives.. :)
Anybody trying to get the Virgin Launch? I keep drawing a blank
we're following it here: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/03/valencia-testing-day-three-february-2010/
the website is okay for me.
Or here ;)
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/03/virgin-prepare-to-launch-brand-new-car-online/
yikes! comment fail. sorry :(
Take it we just wait on the home page???
Just set up a twitter account and got the message "Launch is live in 10 mins"
Somebody let me know if they get the feed please?
So is there live video?
more twitter questions. anyone know if this account is james allens' too?
http://twitter.com/JAF1live/
From Twitter
@NobleF1 Force India will launch online on February 9
Just before Virgin (finally)
Yay!
Is it virtual though? If so...
Found one of Autosport.com's hacks on Twitter today, Pablo Elizalde: http://twitter.com/EliGP
good man. listed
ooh Singapore tickets go on sale March 1. My last big purchase of my trip!
Worked with him a lot when doing stuff on that site, but we've never actually met, what with him being located in 'foreign parts'. Just goes to show that some virtual things do work.
In other news, my booky wook is back from the printers. May get my mitts on a copy next week...
they came around quickly.
A bit like the deadline for the second book, which was last Monday. Erk!
like busses
nearly done?
Not quite. Have been stymied by the need to interview lots of old drivers, some of whom are difficult to track down or are guarded by rapacious commercial beasts! Oh, and one is working on his autobiography so he isn't doing interviews.
Who?
not for the first time in my life, virgin has made me late for work.
later all.
Alesis are the people to avoid right?
Any suggestions who to go for instead?
poor timing on my part!
cya :)
Branson!!!! *shakes fist*
Let's just say that I was expecting his response, so I didn't get in a flap...
I am not him, of course, but I know we started out with a little Edirol thing that was completely awesome.
Dan Gurney ;)
Somebody else mentioned he was hard to talk to at the moment because he was writing his booky wook. So your book has the Eagle-Weslake?
Yup. I remember Simon Taylor mentioning in Motor Sport that it took months for him to convince Dan to have lunch with him because he was doing his autobio.
Why did you stop using the awesome one?
We still use it for some things. You're asking me technical questions now, but I think it was just that we needed more inputs or something. What with Skype coming in and going out and two microphones and... stuff.
*note to self - leave this type of question for Mr C to answer.
Does anyone know what the sail is ontop of the ferrari air intake yet?
off topic i know, but why did the FIA approve Campos META, and knock back pro-drive?
Are there, or were there divisions withion the FIA that just dont like Dave Richards. Seems that way, because they also pulled the rug out from under him when they learned he would be getting Macca backing. {Comment #13}
Politics. Max wanted small, pliable teams or no teams at all. David Richards could have created a small team, but he's too independent-minded to be the pliable team boss Max would have wanted. At that point, the willingness or otherwise to take Cosworths would have been academic.
Quick question... did Senna bring any money with him? {Comment #25}
I believe Campos denied any money came directly with Bruno - he was partly signed on the hope sponsors would see his name and sponsor the team that gave him his F1 opportunity. It's proving a bit more complicated than that...
Fisi and Alesi confirmed at AF Corse in the Le Mans Series in a 430 (GT2 class).
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81233
In other news, my booky wook is back from the printers. May get my mitts on a copy next week.. {Comment #66}
Great news :)
Fisi and Alesi confirmed at AF Corse in the Le Mans Series in a 430 (GT2 class) {Comment #88}
Sounds like fun. Good luck to them... ...and I course I will now need to keep track of that series ;)
:) Cool. Don't worry... I've got a plan which might mean no crackle this weekend and then we'll see if there is a show this weekend. Which, if there is, means there is some work to do...
I think I've found a replacement for Legard! :)
If you do, I have a couple of suggestions for the letter D:
Obiligatory Queen Track - Death on Two Legs
Slow One The Eagles - Desperado
Police - De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
Apologies for any spelling errors ;)
what trouble are you getting yourself into?
Thanks for the suggestions :)
I think I could do this commentating thing, with a bit more practice and information.
I was pretending that I knew stuff.
I was asking what I should go for if I don't get an Alesis. But for the time being I think I might have worked something else out.
How have I missed out on this all my life? William Shatner and his legendary singing doing Common People by Pulp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKbt3wRsZYw
I mentioned it on the radio show this weekend. Nobody believed me.
Cor, even I know about that. Heart it.
Really?! Wow, I didn't realise. I just randomly found it on Youtube's homepage!
It's produced by Ben Folds.
#notetolukehdon'tmissgigglesradio
Steven Roy and Janna wouldn't let me play it but as you'd gone I didn't have anyone onside.
I had too much work to do sunday, am sorry :(
I played Pulp's version instead.
Boooooo. Shatner FTW.
Quite alright of course.
If I was listening there would of been huge support from my side for that version :D
You rang?
There's a whole album to catch up on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Has_Been
I pinged ;)
Not exactly how I remember it. You played Pulp's version THEN said there was a Shatner version and I said please don't play it and Janna agreed.
Oooh, it's getting stuck in my head now and I didn't even hear it :)
Well yes... that may be technically correct...
I feel like your the craig scarborough of my radio show ;)
You have never seen me draw anything then. Not an artist
I meant i make wild claims and then you analyse the situation.
Oooh excellent suggestion for the next Sidepodradio. Drawing with Steven Roy. Well volunteered :)
Drawing on radio should work really well.
i think we can figure it out
There must ba an online etch a sketch somewhere where we could get people on the show and give them a minute to produce a masterpiece.
I think I know how it could be done... Complicated, but doable... which is how I like my radio shows :)
So long as it creates the right conditions for there to be a 90% chance of technical problems I think we should do it.
Absolutely.
Drawing on sidepodradio.
Found an online etch a sketch. Now we just need a technical genius to find a way for everyone to watch someone using it.
http://mostplays.com/play/Flash_A_Sketch_8497
Drawing on radio should work really well. {Comment #120}
Have drawers commentate on the drawings as they do them?
I think we need to se them draw for it to work.
Like guessing the stuff I was showing the other day
BBC now have a video from the Paul di Resta announcement yesterday
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8495275.stm
Is this an appropriate point to mention that I have the album? Has many marvellous songs on it, including a collaboration with Henry Rollins which must be heard to be believed.
The classic Rolf Harris "Do you know what it is yet?" In my case people will stll be guessing what it was meant to be for weeks
I have it too. It's great.
Loving the fact that the Train company is being green by not putting the heaters on even in sub-zero conditions! Thanks guys ;)
Afternoon all!
GRR, what is it Spam and TFS at the moment?! GRRR
How are we all this afternoon?
what spam blocker are you using?
Am not, just hte normal WP one, i guess Askimet is doing it too.
It wont be picking it up because they're sentances, they just dont make any sense for the post....
ahh right.
ahh boo
Hey, Mr C, LOST is on today in the US, so get your anti-spoiler filter on.
righto. when will we get it?
one earlier was something along the lines of "I completely disagree with this point, please PM me to discuss", but it was on one of my back in time posts...there was nothing to disagree with :S
Afternoon all. It's actually suprising satisfying doing work that you don't need to do!
Christine, for tomorrow's Thursday Thoughts, do I just send it to you?
Erm, it's on Friday in the UK on Sky, so is it same day, next day on iTunes?
Yes please :)
It was on last night? I've seen loooads of people talk about it and what happened today on twitter
three days? blimey, i may as well disconnect the router and pretend the internets don't exist.
Oh. Time zones confuse me. Either way.
I know. We live in the wrong country.
i hate to say it, but if sky are that far behind we may have to torrent it :(
I will do no such thing. I will, however, watch it when it magically appears on your computer.
:P :D
I was waiting 3 years for new episodes of the us office until...
....it magically appeared on my computer too.
So today we had the owner of Racing Line come into talk to us, Racing Line run British Formula Ford and the VW Racing Cup. Very interesting!
region locking should be illegal anyhow.
when will producers learn, we WANT to pay you for your content? we just want it the same time as everyone else.
oddly enough, for some shows, we get it on the same day (or even ahead) of those in the US. probably because they want to beat the pirates, who are more prevalent here than there.
I feel an MFC post coming on.
i have about four to write.
I know, and Amy has one too.
Argh!
In that case, I'm not going to be able to look at the internet or talk to anyone until the series has finished. Good thing I own a hut at the north pole, eh?
I think by the time Amy has hers, Kindles will be a thing of the past and we will be able to download books into our heads.
*writes hers
I think you can already do that...
It's called reading ;)
Will we have to wear bluetooth things on our ears and be controlled by Trigger from Only Fools?
Downloading is reading?
So i bought these...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000KMCU2Y/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Because my mic's one magically lost itself at the Autosport show...
The "frequently bought together" section shows that normal big ended mics are bought with them, so i bought one annnnnd....
They're literally only big enough to fit on my thumb. GRR
Reading is downloading...kinda...
In your head...
Except clearly i have a faulty hard/head drive because stuff goes missing up there
I would have thought reading was uploading.
that explains a lot!
oh yeah. that too
:D
surely the arguments begin once it ends?
Have just seen rumours that Ralf Schumacher could sign for Stefan GP....?!
RALF!
RALF !!!!!
*unrolls poster*
A very minor #MFC thing not relevant for most but Blogger is ending support of FTP blogs moving everyone's content up into the cloud.
This is just the kick I need to migrate to wordpress I think. My problem is my legacy site. I still need to maintain that with the old permalinks. So I think I'll still have to have my own wordpress rather than hosted wordpress.
Now that's just... silly. Absolutely silly.
Would get them Merc engines, though. Maybe.
you use ftp?
For gamboling
Stefan are hilarious, they probably thought they were getting Michael.
noooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooo
#sidepodspace update
Shuttle launch still go for Sunday morning. Weather is 70% good which is better than some of the recent launches.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
They have been around since last year - and indeed I think it is possible - he wants to join big brother on the track and the schumacher name is worth a bit in sponsorship.
myself and fourstar are in the 0.5% of users affected :)
why?
Seen or started?
:D
Because when I joined blogger that was all there was I think?
And I have my legacy site with permalinks... Blogger want you to point the whole site at them.
i assumed everyone used live writer. what are they, text files?
noooo.
i prefer wp
It's driven me mad this past week, have gone off it completely
really, how come>
whats it done?
like Christine my blog started as a roll my own affair. So the first 2 years are hand coded html.
Then when I joined blogger I wanted the continuity.
you still hand code you own html entries?
respect!
To be clear the way I currently publish is that I go to blogger publish my files. Blogger FTP connects to my site and updates it. Blogger isn't database driven. It's a mad system hence them phasing it out.
When I was writing up the code for the F1 page yesterday, it absolutely *hated* wordpress. Directing links to the images I'd uploaded, when swapping from html to the visual editing, constantly kept changing the full image link to just the filename and random numbers. When I'd finished the page originally it did it to every single image, so basically I had to go through the entire html code and sort it out manually and hope it worked. Luckily when I c+p'd onto Wordpress it was fine but it's done it in the past before, just not to the scale where every single image in the code was being altered by live writer's visual editing
We said that about Toyota
Would he get out of bed for what they're offering him? Off they f-
never again
did it get worse or something? i would hand over plenty of cash for a mac equivalent.
No no no...
I had 2 years of hand coded html...
Then I wanted to use something with comments. So picked blogger because it was the dominant one at the time. Blogger had two choices host it on blogspot.com or your own domain. If you chose your own domain you had to use what they call FTP. You don't use the FTP at all they use FTP to squirt the created files to your site.
That's why on pretty much all blogger blogs it looks like you are in a different site when you can add the comments... You are on a different site!
I am spending a little bit of time copy pasting at the moment to rectify this problem.
for me, it was never good
But in your case you took those pages down and are now adding them again. Mine are all still there in the archive: http://www.gamboling.co.uk/archive.html
So if I move to a hosted solution I have to change all of my links. I refer back to all of my old stuff a lot. I'd like that to still work.
It might be wordpress though, I dunno? When I was on blogger it synced and sent stuff to my blog with no problems but the problems have been growing in occurance since moving over...
what the chuff is that theme?
Good afternoon
hand rolled html theme
don't look at the code...
Yea, I am going through each one looking for bad links. It's a pain but it's worth the convenience of import/export.
Blu tack is not called Blu tack in other countries? Are they insane?
That page, for example, gets quite a lot of hits.
As does the one explaining the difference between satsumas, clementines and tangerines. I guess because they have been live since 2004
*2003
Sent. Enjoy! ;)
Looks excellent, thanks.
Thank you too. :D
I dropped it before I moved to Wordpress. The formatting in the LW preview never came out the same on the actual blog, and whenever I realised I needed to edit something after it had posted I go to HTML-mode in Blogger and instead of nicely presented HTML it gave me one massive paragraph of continuous code that was impossible to edit because you couldn't find anything.
Also the program was slow and buggy, and it install other 'Windows Live' stuff I didn't want, like making Excel phone home and complain when it couldn't.
oh.
i think christine should show us her html from the same period for comparison.
So what's a boy to do... I don't want to lose the permalinks and I can't stay with blogger?
I think it has to be self-hosted wordpress.
Dare i ask what a permalink is?
At the moment if I link to the post I wrote about my Grandmother's solid toothpaste the link is: http://www.gamboling.co.uk/26-09-03.html
It's been that since I first uploaded that page in 2003.
If I move to a different host that will become... http://www.gamboling.co.uk/SomeOtherAddress
point being anyone who linked to the informative discussion of my grandmother's toothpaste is now thwarted. The page is gone.
ah i see, that is a bit annoying. very infact
And I can avoid that by moving to self-hosted wordpress... But Mr C will cry.
goood afternoon!! :) my exams are over! i survived! just got to get through coursework hell now :D
how is everyone? did Jenson do okay in the mclaren?
wooop
good, he didnt crash! hoorah
wohoo! :) Lukeh sent me a pic of Jenson in the car.. and i'm starting to think slightly more positively about the mclaren thing.. it's not ideal... but it could be worse....
No more exams for a while. That has to be good
Testing times
http://www.f1today.nl/live-update/2010/02/03/circuit-de-la-comunitat-valenciana/
Does anyone else know what the C stands for in the Car number for Sauber?
it's nice not to have that 'you should be revising' feeling when i'm doing something else tbh :) i've just been given a little project to do for falmouth university though, but it will be nice to have some photography back in my life :D
please don't.
C is for Car? Random guess.
Anyway, off to bed for me. Enjoy Thursday Thoughts when it goes up! :D
ahhh... 5th?... hmm not to bad. Nice to see Alonso back at the top though :)
Christine, Peter Sauber's Wife.
Night Journeyer
but google will re-index. we delete links to pages on spc, on a weekly basis. it's not like you're losing the content.
night!
Sorry for random comment. Waiting on a call at work.
No idea but they have used it since their earliest sportscars.
night chap.
adios!
The times don't mean a lot just now
you make a good point.
eeekkk i've just seen a photo of Jenson with the number 1 on his car!! eeeekk!! that may have just made my day :D
Which links do you delete?
various pages links. there is no longer:
/quiz
/feeds
/live
for example. all of them deleted recently. content merged or removed.
I see... I somehow just have this thing where no page should ever move.
I wish I could just write my own.
but why? i get you don't want to lose what you put effort into creatively. but why where it's located.
put it another way. i would be far more likely to read your archive if the content was nicely formatted and consistent across your site. than if it looked like it was frozen in time in 2003.
I get that... hmmm...
(although I'm not really sure the rest of the site counts as "nicely formatted"
although I'll give you "better formatted"
all the wordpress.com themes are.
you're not thinking ahead. i'm saying... when you move to wordpress.com and pick a nice design, i'll be more likely to read your archived content.
;)
Why isn't sidepodcast.com on hosted wordpress?
that was a joke by the way ;)
good question... i need to blog all of this, i shall try tonight. in short:
- i didn't have a mr. c to warn me not to
- i didn't care about the blog when we started, i was just happy the christine agreed to talk with me in the same room
- wordpress.com wasn't available(?) or at least good enough in 2007
- live commenting took on a life of it's own and now we can't go back
- but i am keeping an eye on p2 ( http://sidepodcast.wordpress.com/ )
there are many more reasons. it needs a post though.
it was a valid question.
Well the problem, it seems to me, is if you want to be able to build your own stuff.
I just want to mix. What I'd like to be able to do is have a part which is mine and a part which is theirs but on one domain.
For example I'd like to have the temperature converter hosted on my site not a different one, etc.
that is true. this is what i would do.
- have a domain name and point it to wordpress.com
- have a sub domain and point it at another server
the sub domain can do all the interesting stuff (but not blogging), and the main domain has posts. that way you have great blogging software and place for fiddling, but you don't have to install flaky, cr***y blogging software known as wordpress.org.
Maybe that's the answer... hmmm...
that may be the model for #mfc too.
hmmm
moving into the cloud
well, our spc images/photos have been hosted in the cloud for maybe a year, and the live server is cloud based turn-on-and-offable.
Today i learned that google likes wordpress...
?
They really do!
In terms of everything from SEO upwards!
I can probably find something somewhere. I can tell you that it would have minimal tables though, because even now I still can't get my head round them.
oh i see. wordpress is quite semantic like that. but it's not special in any way.
removing wordpress seems to have improved things for spc.
Adrian Sutil has other talents besides being a racing driver...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoILdYI5XzI
Does it not been Chassis type? Certainly been used since 1970 and their first racing car.
Good evening all.
Today's Big Picture: http://www.f1minute.com/2010/02/03/launched-for-the-very-first-time/
eeeheheheheh :)
Is there any way to get a bigger version of the big picture? I'd love to use one as a wallpaper :)
Love that title :)
I believe he is a classically trained pianist
the pics are only licensed for editorial content, so sadly not.
Ah well. Thanks.
Perfect size for Netbook Wallpaper though ;)
true story.
i didn't tell you this, but you could start an f1 blog, apply for media access and then you'd have the original.
#confidential
I do get some jealous looks on the train from time to time :D
I was actually thinking about starting a blog anyway! ;)
I've deleted your comment from my memory... I think.
What comment?
How much does that cost?
Nowt, getting one for Virgin right now.
When I can find my phone number that is.
nothing: http://media.virginracing.com/
Cool!
Might have to try that if I can get up and running.
By the way, I signed up for the gym today, it was really cool and a very nice gym. Ended up doing 10 muinutes rowing, a 3km run and 10 minutes on the walking paddle machine thingy. I'm knackered now and the cycle home was very slow indeed!
Before Adie's visit to McLaren it didn't even occur to me that a humble blogger could apply for such things. It's on my mental list of things to do. (So is writing down the list.)
Yep, I've got it for Lotus and McLaren (when I can get media credentials) so far.
quite a lot of big pics come from there i think. the rest we buy from: http://www.gettyimages.com/
Where it says media outlet, do you just put the name of your blog?
yup
I have a question, you know how Sauber don't have registration (at the moment), what would that require in terms of using the images? Does it mean I'd just have to credit them or is there more to it?
good question. am unclear on that myself. we're crediting them as (c) BMW Sauber. i do wonder if they can be used as wallpapers too? presumably yes.
Sod it, I'm doing it too! 'Bout time I did some more blog posts. Wouldn't hurt my uni interview portfolio either to include a few.
Flickr is also great for picture, aslong as they are creative commons appliant pictures you just have to put who took them in the caption, if you're into anything lower down, the gp2 and f3 gallerys are great, same process as the f1 teams
just awesome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/f1photos/
I so hope they can be used as wallpapers ... :)
Nice title
i dont know who he is, but i love him :D
Excellent stuff.
talking of getty... 244 photographs from testing today!
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=editorial&p=f1&assetType=image
every time i see his photos i almost burst into tears of jealousy :) they're so good. I'd love to be as good as him one day :)
Gotta admit, JB's helmet does look good with the McLaren sponsors on it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/f1photos/4326860847/in/set-72157623156400995/
i burst into tears of laugher at the honda traffic light system:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/f1photos/4327770172/
still in development!
its like someones got a boom mic and put the wrong end on
That pic is awesome!
Jenson's union jack helmet is always awesome. i'm not found of the huge mercedes logo on the top, it looks like an after thought. It's nice. but the photo as a whole is stunning!
is that stubble?
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/96349084/Getty-Images-Sport
is the real battle this year, the battle of the beard?
hehehehe awwwwww. i'm assuming that with only tyres to change at pitstops it's maybe quicker?...no.. actually i can't defend them. lol :)
It's just good to see that gorgeous helmet back, even if it is in the wrong car ;)
Evening all
Again?
That was sooooo 2009
true and vettel won that one.
I feel like not going to Sixth Form tomorrow and going to Silverstone instead. However, I have no way of getting there.
Instead of lights or a lollipop, why not just have a man in front and to the side holding his arm out, then wave the driver out when he's clear? In IndyCar the front tyre changer does it.
hahaha Jenson will win, that's a pathetic attempt ;) maybe it's lewis' turn to try and attempt to look like JB now that Nick Fry is busy with that Schumi guy. ;)
Someone needs to go and see how it looks like in person because I seem to be the only person who really dislikes the livery :)
It's just... yuck.
heya, how was work?
Red and black not to your taste like?
I'm with you. It's an Indy Car that they've made, right? Does this mean an Indy Car round at Silverstone?
Pointless but it went quickly which is good. I had to count a waist high tub of creme eggs. Like, individudal creme eggs.
There were 497, if anyone's wondering.
First time since 1978?
I'm actually impressed that Manor managed to sneak a Yorkshire Rose into the livery, it's hidden under the nose...
I usually love cars that look like that, and red cars to me are always nice. But that... maybe it's the tribal nonsense, the orange/red undecided colour or the Bette Midler nose, I dunno. Something about it really bugs me.
I'm hoping it looks a lot better on track!
They always have one.
Pardon?
Last time there was an Indy race at Silverstone
did you eat three?
More spam?
Ah OK ... I thought you meant an IndyCar competed in the British GP :D
Better watch those chips ... else you might get fat ;)
Ludicrous! :P
Although we do have 3 for £1... but they're definitely smaller than they were last year... #sadthatIknowthat
what??
I don't think that has ever happened. Only at Indy when it was in the championship
I think someone drive one in the USGP at Sebring.
Something for Christine - The Sims is 10 years old
Didn't know Sebring had been used for a GP
Oops, 10 years old the other day I meant to say before I accidentally sent the message. 100 million copies of the series have sold since...
Just found a piece about Champ Car coming to Brands Hatch and Silverstone in 1978. The fastest lap ended up 2.5 seconds faster than James Hunt's in his F1 car.
wow... that sounds... lovely :)
I WANT TO PLAY.
They used the short track at Brands which is why it is called the Indy circuit. I think the used the full Silverstone track.
1953 - I think
Then play or has Mr C banned you from other stuff now
Yep, they did. I like how most of the event had to be postponed because they 'don't do rain'.
i've banned window.
*windows
Boo :P
That explains why I didn't know. I need to spend time learning about the 50s. I should know all this stuff by now
And I haven't bought it for Mac... yet.
it's on the mac? oh no!
I thought Macs could do anything
The Sims is on eeeevveeryyyttthhiiinnngg.
(seriously)
After last nights kart outing, I have now done more (sanctioned) racing (2 races) in the past week than I've done in all of my previous 36 years on this earth (1). It's so much fun.
I'm still Luca Badoer slow, but I think I have a good excuse or two :)
Something cool I found while browsing Auto Trader the other day. I was having a search for Ford Escort RS Cosworths, and I found a Monte Carlo version. Why is this interesting? Well, the Monte is a super rare version of the Cossie, and only 9 of them were ever made apparently. It was in a special deep purple colour and has OZ rally-style wheels. Very cool find. :P
Except play games...
Damn you mr c and your hosted wordpress!!!! Damn you!!!!
Ahem... There are some customisations that are quite annoyingly absent...
However just because I literally will do whatever you tell me I have made the plunge and I am a site in transition.
Oh man is this going to be a lot of work!
So when is your next race?
...didn't he tell you not to or did I read it wrong?
in two weeks. This last week was an exception, normally they do every other tuesday.
There is a very confusing line. Hosted wordpress (hosted by them) self-hosted wordpress (hosted by you)
He told me not to do self-hosted wordpress
or as i prefer it... good and bad.
The lack of customisation is a bit of a nightmare by the way.
It was 1959 and it was Rodger Ward in a Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser who retired after 20 laps with a clutch failure.
http://forix.autosport.com/gp.php?l=0&r=19590009&c=2
I love Forix.
can't you buy add-ons?
ah right
Yes, but one of the things you can't buy is the ability to edit the template.
People who run sports confuse me. I am watching a football match on TV. Normally both teams play in blue but because it is a cup semi-final both have to change. Rangers are now wearing all white in a blizzard which is apparently OK but the officials decided that they would use a yellow ball rather than the normal white due to visibility.
http://twitpic.com/117zue Here, I've done some digging and found this picture of the Indy race at Silverstone in 1978.
pick a different one? and the tweak css.
Good ol' referees.
I think they use the yellow ball anyway in the winter months due to this, and switch to the normal one in the spring/summer time. The away kit issues baffle me, don't Rangers have a thrid kit?
Some details on the odd spec of his car on wikipedia. Two speed gearbox, small engine and a handbrake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_United_States_Grand_Prix
There isn't, it would seem, one which has exactly the set of things I would like.
I would really like the comments at the bottom of each post and the category at the top.
I remember a match between Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday where boh team's home and away strips were discovered to be too similar - so one team had to wear some training gear I think!
ps. I'm not saying it's the wrong solution. It's just that it's very close and misses by about 2mm.
so I'll obviously live with it as it's the direction to go in.
james allen says force india shook down at silverstone today:
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/02/alonso-pulls-crowd-as-ferrari-dominates-first-test-in-valencia/
no "spy" shots from autosport, or do their spies require an invite?
They had planned to use a white ball but changed because of the snow. Rangers have a red kit as well as blue and white. St Johnstone are wearing a maroon kit though so there may be some objection there but there has to be a more sensible solution.
i agree. but the trade off between not having to update plugins and handle security and deal with scalability issues, it's a fair compromise.
Why can't one wear blue?
I have seen a team forced to wear an opponent away kit because they brought the wrong colours
I remember my local team heading down to Blackpool only to realise they forgot to pack the kits, so another Blackpool team had to give them their kits to them.
So the di Resta announcement was a decoy manouevre?
Competition rules. It says it in the rules so common sense is not allowed.
Ah, indeed.
Not exactly James Bond are they?
maybe they were busy searching for the invisible VR-01?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8496690.stm
hah! Go RG!
Must admit, I'd have liked it to have been "Wooo, nice to see Spurs score 7 today." But, can't have everything.
Hey everyone.
Was wondering about how many engines teams can use during testing?
Can't believe you are slagging off Leeds. Shocking
Evening :)
Nick and I seem to have managed to resurrect the fridge argument! I'm pretty sure he's trying to poison me!
I can't remember but I know there is some kind of rule about it. Alianora will know
What fridge argument?
I know, it is just so untypical.
Jake fans should remember he will be presenting the Superbowl on BBC1 on Sunday night
Nick thinks it's okay to store raw meat on the top shelf of a fridge and let it drip onto all your cooked food so it can poison you!
Though my favourite bit of it all is the Leeds fans replying to me about it. Lets say some can't be repeated.
Ya know... I dont' think I've watched a single minute of an NFL game this year. Might on Sunday night, though, been invited to a neighbors super bowl party.
That is crazy.
I would watch if I understood a single part of American handball
who's the halftime act?
The Who.
Yeah!! I might just throw things in the bin until he learns to put meat on the bottom shelf....
ooooooh. Now Im tempted just for that
Ooooh, thats me hooked.
It is pretty easy to pick up.
you should ban him from the kitchen.
:)
we'll be live commenting that then :)
I watched the game in London in 2008 and it was quite entertaining. Like rugby with more pompoms and interruptions. Didn't understand much of it at all and I tried to watch another game and it didn't grab me...
Jake for me. No idea who is doing the singing
Hahahaha! You think I'm cooking?
I think it is on quite late here.
You need a lock for your fridge door
Seriously though you were trying ti get into a "who's on first" thread.
ooh, should say I watched on TV..
Good job I'm an expert then, isn't it?
3 or 4am surely?
Didn't we do the superbowl last year?
Went to both the 2007 and 8 games.
yup. bruuuuuuuuce!
All I know is that Sky are starting their coverage at 11pm
He's never been near my fridge! I have a lock on my house door.... :P
BBC has it from 11pm to 4am.
It finishes around then but BBC start 11ish I think.
"The game dubbed 'the greatest show on turf' has a potential global audience of one billion people"
radiotimes.com
last year, 1am:
http://sidepodcast.com/2009/02/01/daily-1st-february-2009/#comment-183813
even loosely f1 related
The champions league final had more viewers than the superbowl last year
I forgot it was Springsteen last year
For the most part, only one country really cares about the super bowl, no matter the global reach.
I don't know, there is a huge fan base here in Britain. I should know, I'm part of it!
ahh :)
just a week and a half before i came here (apparently)
There are bits of Europe wher it has a large following. NFL is big in Germany and UK
Oh how I wish F1 had this type of coverages (camera changes all the time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0RoE91-c8&feature=channel
Seriously?
So one in every 6 people watches the superbowl.....hmmm
#nothere
Italy has a decent following from what Scott said.
Yep, the NFL Europe league was hugely successful in its day, in both countries.
You will have to explain it to me... all I can understand is they throw it, and a guy runs and they stop, or jump on the floor and do a dance
I don't think it's that 1billion WATCH the superbowl, it's that 1billion people could watch the super bowl if they wanted.
Seriously?? Those shots are telling you nothing. That is like a slash cut movie. Too many F1 TV directors alreafy think they are Spielberg without letting them do that
A lot more to it than that. How much detail would you like? :D
Why do they do the haka when they start the throwing bit and shouting numbers?
heh, this could take awhile ;)
Potentially. To me that means it is broadcast to potentially a billion viewers but many of them won't be watching.
or in better terms, why do they go.. Hut hut 72 83 hut or whatever...
We will live comment it and then you will understand
It's all about 'pocket protection', the offencive line protect the QB while he has a chance to set up the pass. The numbers are code, the QB uses these to change the play as he sees fit, after looking at the Defence.
They are sorting out who is going to go where and when
I see...
Another racing connection - one of the teams in the Superbowl this year is the Indianapolis Colts.
The centre is the guy leaning on the ball an he has to give it to the quarterback but everyone has to move at the same time so the team that has the ball knows how many huts before that happens and tries to trick the other side into moving offside before the centre snaps the ball.
Yep. Otherwise it's a false start and a 5 yard penalty.
Who I want to win. Only because my uncle is a Saints fan. :)
The good thing with it is that there are plenty of gaps in play to answer questions and explain things
If the offense moves it's a false start. If a defender crosses the line of scrimmage and doesn't reset before the ball is hiked or he touches an offensive player it's offsides.
Yep.
I have watched the NFL since we first got it in the early 80s and I have never supported a particular team which I find very odd.
Is NFL the one with the Detroit Red Wings? If so, I support them
*only one I know*
My dad used to play the game, as a defensive lineman for the Lincoln Bombers and then the Southend Sabres, but had to give up a few years before I was born.
No.
And even then, that's because they're red.
....damn.
Urm...
*skittles into shadows*
That's ice hockey
Could be baseball though?
I know of the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay Packers. And thats it.
Detroit Lions - NFL
Detroit Tigers - Baseball
oh! The Dallas Cowboys from The Simpsons
Also, the one that Hank lieks on King of the Hill
I see. My mistake. Knew of the Lions, because they failed to win last year...
That would be perfect but neither of them made the superbowl.
Now your talking.
I'm a Miami Dolphins fan myself. Only team to go undefeated in the history of the NFL.
I remember now actually, but mostly from the NHL games. They used to have a fella called Steve Yzerman who was awesome on there
I know the 'Packers' made the playoffs or something.
And my dad used to support the 'Redskins' when he watched it.
I'm a life long Redskins fan.
Hence my pain.
(and "Redskin" is a very racist name/term, I wish they'd change it)
That is a stupid game. you can't even see the ball when it is whizzing around. I went a saw a game years ago and it is just as impossible live.
I love seeing hockey games live.
"I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out!"
I thought some team went 16-0 a couple of years ago. Patriots?
As a Newcastle Vipers fan, the puck is usually easily seen.
(in the opponents net)
Patriots did, but then lost the Superbowl, ending up 18-1, causing a fair bit of chuckling from me, mostly because of Patriots, Dolphins rivalry, and my dad's a Patriots fan.
The only time I ever went to one there was a guy in his teens who was the best player by a mile until someone embedded a stick in his forehead
Patriots went undefeated during the regular season, but they lost the super bowl.
But they won more games than the Dolphins because the regular season only had 14 games then
True, but I overlook that point. There were less games then, so it doesn't count! :P
they lost the super bowl, that's what counts to me :)
Oh yes. I was very smug about that to my dad for many weeks afterwards... :D
Reason #34 why self checkouts annoy me...
I HAD TO BE ID'D FOR A PG!!!!!
Ah, you only said PG.
*goes back to lurking.
Typical. Did you have an unrecognised item in the bagging area too?
They are getting a bit over-zealous these days.. I was ID'd for beer the other day. I am 30 next month. Stupid 'challenge 25'.
nah, that usually happens only when i bring my own bags or have bought a really light item
Is it wrong that the first thing I did when I received the first Mercedes GP Newsletter just now (I used to get the Brawn GP one, so they're just using the same mailling list) was to scroll to the end and unsubscribe? It didn't even mention MSC at all
i think that makes you an honorary sidepodcaster or something.
done the same with mine, delete them straight away....i cant do with corporate newsletters, the Brawn GP ones were nice
I am sure you won't be the only one
Wow.
Why thank you sir :)
Evening all!
Evening everyone :)
Let me tell you waiting for a domain to propagate takes for...ever...
what's your wp url?
squire.
Up to 48 hours. Now there's a plot line for a cop film...
You can't look directly at the sun... If it doesn't work via the old url for you then you can't see it yet..
so for some http://gamboling.co.uk is wordpress for some it's blogger
EVENING ALEX
Argh caps lock... must look at screen before quickly pressing comment...
i has wordpress.
Wordpress here
Look Andy, I don't wanna tell you again. But if yo skinny behind is in here one more time without secret photos of the McLaren... well then that don't bare thinking about.
It would appear I had a good day on Friday!
This Photo I took was used in an editorial feature of the Welwyn & Hatfield Time Herald.
They're sending me a clipping of the story.
Result.
Well upsettingly for me. I have blogger. Which is the most annoying thing in the world.
#sidepodspace
ITV news doing a space rock piece and showing Bruce
change your isp dns to google dns.
Mine is part of the Wordpress massive
Although it has nothing to do with anything, I'm just gonna quickly plug my ideal Muse setlist riiiight about here: http://toata.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/61-my-perfect-muse-setlist/
(Still, still learning from the Andronov School of Plugging)
needs an about page, i' like to leave a generic comment.
I went for the nuclear explosion method of migration. Burn all that I leave behind and hope for the best.
(hearts)
:)
No contingency plan or roll-back option? You'd never get that past ITIL and for that I applaud you.
ditto
Used to always be blogger for me. Now it's Wordpress
Nice one!
hmmm...
Weirdly the way that sometimes there are no comments for a while and suddenly there are lots put me in mind of a musical score for sidepodcast. Thinking about that made me realise that if anyone was going to write the perfect score for sidepodcast it would be muse. Interestinly Lukeh has recently written a post suggesting great muse songs for a playlist: http://toata.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/61-my-perfect-muse-setlist/
ITIL smitil that's what I say
wow!
My change management would have a proper spack. Where's the lead time?! How will you roll back, what is the impact to the user base? Hmm...WELL?
Me....It's a method I've used myself on various occasions. I learn hard from my mistakes. Took me a whole weekend to repair F1TailPipe when I upgraded the theme.
The master himself :)
ITIL be a cold day in Hell before I use it is what I say.
alex is the master?
#sidepodspace
What happens when two space rocks hit each other head on.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/07/
And the pictures
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/07/image/
Worse than ITIL is SOCKS. I just hope I never have to wear socks.
He's the good master. Like when patrick moore was the Games Master on Channel 4. Not the bad master, like that naughty John Simm fella.
Unless Alex wants to be everyone in the world. Now that's plugging!!
dun da da dah dun da da da dun...
Much better to use the J(F)DI method.
I used to issue all my Request For Change retrospectively.
In that case you would all go and buy a copy of my book instantly from http://www.thebookwiththemissingfirstpage.co.uk but I guess that is unlikely to happen
You would fit in well.
I thought we'd already done that. Have you finished the new one yet? ;-)
I told an auditer at one point in my career, "I informed all of the interested parties". This made them go away. Somehow they never twigged that only I was interested.
I know. I like to think I got maximum value from the day.
Unlike others who I'm very disappointed in.
I'm working on it... well sort of!
Ha! (nobody was interested) :D
Love it.
Woops. Just thinking about my own changes. Who cares what's going on with the servers??
Hmm one of the commenters surnames is not too dissimilar to a commenter who is partial to a bit of muse. conspiracy?
Is that mine or Adie?
yours.
Me?
adie has one already.
Okay..,
Mr C....you may be able to help with something. Can I pick your brains for 2 mins please.
It would appear I need to upgrade my laptop as it's dying a slow death. Now, I've heard good things about MACs but as a MCP and ex-server engineer I'm a dyed in the wool windoze man. I could be swayed with a Macbook if someone can convince me to part with that kind of money.
So....
Who, me?
*giggle*
I also have a lot of work to do tidying those top pages in time for the season. I have a plan for the blog I want to do this year, secret at the moment :p but it'll involve plugs for other sites if possible...
seeing as andy is here, i may defer the sales pitch...
honestly though, i'd suggest hanging on playing with the ipad first. it may change your perspective on... well everything.
Fair point, cheers!
Except real computing. If you want a computer, get a macbook.
I can answer this one - you'll wonder why you didn't switch before. That's what I thought after about half an hour with my Macbook Pro. The only thing that I couldn't work out was how to install programs and that was because I was trying to over complicate things.
I know I'm biased, but seriously, you won't regret it. No more Patch Tuesdays, no more virus scans....
You're going to need something to load your iPad from in any case.
They don't cross paths. An ipad is a single task appliance, nothing more.
maybe. i'll reserve judgement until i have one in my hand.
At the moment it is, the point I was making is that you still need a computer to put stuff on the iPad and to back it up.
I read there's no Flash support. That cuts out a fair few live streaming sites in one swoop if that is true.
Fair points.
Thing is, I'm leaning towards Apple. I've had such a good experience with the iPhone. Everything just, well....works. No messing about, bish bash whallop and I've heard a lot of good things about Macs...
"The cloud"?
Done
The great thing is, you don't have to give up your Windows if you get a Macbook. Either dual-boot, or run a VM with parallels. Perfect.
What real computing means is about to change real soon now
as alex pointed out recently. only for the moment.
we have 50 days to sort our live streaming to work on a flashless ipad. i promise you i am doing everything i can to make that happen.
and we don't make any money from this...
It is true and for a good reason, Flash is on the way out. HTML 5 will be the future of streaming video. I saw a demo yesterday that looked amazing.
For the Mac users out there - Click2Flash http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
Or VMware Fusion
Will Sidepodcast be live streaming in HTML5?
see the last point on this page:
http://sidepodcast.com/playground/html5multimedia.php
:)
Until I'm proven otherwise, I think if you plan to use it for blogging, you're better off with some kind of laptop/netbook. For now.
Gah, I just can't see it. That thing a purely a consumption device. You can drag and drop between apps. There's so much you can't do with it. It wont replace a laptop.
Again, biased opinion, but what other company would provide free technical support to anyone with one of their devices sometimes years after the warranty has expired? (Out of warranty repairs are chargeable of course)
Indeed. It's a big play but it's a reality. The reason everyone broadcasts in flash now is inertia. Once enough people don't have flash you'll have to use the open standard.
Seriously the flash advocate who suggested 10 sites that wouldn't load on an iPad didn't even notice that 8 out of 10 had an iPhone friendly version that loaded alternately automatically. Right now you can rely on PCs having flash and iPhones having something else. But shortly everything will have that same something else as the iPhone... and nobody will need flash.
i agree (even though i didn't before).
I read a comment the other day on another blog which was huge for me... We as techy people are all suffering from stockholm syndrome. We all love the pain. We all feel this is part of "working with computers". But actually it isn't. Work is work, all the other stuff needs to get out of the way. There are loads of things missing from the iPhone / iPad OS sure. But it is the first actually honest to goodness new OS in years. And that's what's scaring everyone.
When the iMac appeared in 1998 it had no floppy drive or parallel/serial ports. Everyone wondered what Apple were up to. Apple were ahead of the curve and have managed to stay there pretty much since then.
But the flash site is there for a richer experience. Phone friendly sites a stripped-down with no features. That's not what I want on a large screen.
You know what I'm gonna say, don't you? :)
I always take the view that when I was taught to read and write they didn't start off by teaching me how to make paper
Flash is not a richer experience than a native iPhone app... Same thing... What used to be Web + Flash for richer becomes Web + App for Richer.
I didn't mean to cause this level of debate - I apologise
I think you are going to think that stockholm syndrome is AWESOME!
html5 can do most that flash can and more.
in fact html5 advertising is going to be really annoying. but that's a problem for another day.
:)
I think you're the only here who's headping works by certain references rather than name..
That may be true now, but things will change fast. iPhone OS 1.x didn't support 3rd party Apps. Now there are over 100,000 in less than 2 years.
only one
it's good debate though, right? or are we just a bunch of zealots?
:D
Oh noes! more animation?!
I dont get what you're talking about, but it soooounds good :D
#nothere
:D :D :D
oh no..
It's true. It happens on facebook too, its odd.
gotta be a comment of the year, that.
Yeah, it's a very good debate. I just didn't mean to cause such a storm really! It's helpful for me as I don't want to part with a stack of cash needlessly.
Did you read the gruber post that was referenced the other day, "On Oranges": http://daringfireball.net/2006/06/and_oranges
It's really long and talking about a subject from a few years ago. But it's interesting because it talks about why we sometimes turn into zealots. What the difference between those who think and those who try are... etc... interesting.
really bad demo, but if you have a modern browser: http://html5demos.com/canvas-grad
imagine if the ads followed you around the page and you couldn't block them with flashblocker?
I'm not sure how that is relevant. I don't care how the paper is made. I do care that one type of paper only lets me do one thing at a time, and only with software that that company allows in.
nope shall do.
Is Stockholm Syndrome anything like the China Syndrome?
mine seems to work with doctor who references ;)
Eek!
I guess i'll come round here now :D
I think that last year Apple stuffs were really good but just not needed for me. Now...with stuff I'm doing, they seem more important.....
However they're still really expensive
Imagine the fuss that is (rightly) made in the Autosport forums about intrusive ads and multiply that by a factor of your choice.
It's one of those... Actual topics discussed that are relevant 0. Relevant readacross to now: 100
why do you think google are pushing html5 like crazy? html5 = ad profit, they're just wrapping it up in nice "youtube will be better" packaging.
I'm sure I have a copy of Netscape 3 around here somewhere........
alt+f4, reload browser, make mental note never to go to that site, ever.
I haven't - started to then saw the length, need to dash in a 'mo so have bookmarked for later. Cheers!
sold on the first paragraph alone.
If you compare like for like then the cost isn't that much more than a PC. If you're a student then the prices are lower too :)
i used a similar thing for ITVF1. I could install an adblocker, but why bother, just ignore those sites that want to ruin your browsing experience.
i was exactly the same until the autosport video player came along.
i can't live without autosport. i can't live with it's poxy video thingy.
note to self: write that mfc post. Speaking of which, Im quite sure Amazon is forcing me to get books in ways which I must not speak of #sorryandreagassi
It's truly horrible. I feel the same way.
That annoys me too. Over lunch at work I just open lots of Autosport tabs and the plough through the articles. I almost always forget to log-in (which removes videos) despite Firefox adding my details and my needing only to press Log In.
still £700+
If I a) get a sudden influx of money or b) my current laptop dies, then i imagine i will go onto a macbook of some sort, but until then....
for an ipda?
the other day it crashed everything i was doing. the script kept freezing, killed both chrome and firefox, so frustrating
not pda. pad.
although...
hehe. Slipup? :D
Mr C... I don't know if you have a iTouch near you... But look at the standard css that is presented for the iPhone from my blog if I turn off the special mobile version...
It forces a certain page width that doesn't work... So I basically have to use the rubbish mobile version as if my phone didn't have a proper browser :(
student discounted macbook
it's non-resizeable which must mean they are interfering with the control of it.
I had a Windows mobile phone for years. I got an iPhone on a whim and was blown away. It does everything my XDA's did, just better, faster and easier.
I'm sure apple have ideas for an ipda ;)
i have an iphone simulator right here on my desktop.
iPod.Touch.
oh yes sorry
I'm waiting for the iPed, iPid and iPud. It can only be a matter of time :)
Testing thoughts of the day is done, and although I wanted to do more blogging, Virgin picked a bad day to do their launch. So night all and lotsa love.
People, can we have a SidepodPub meetup at some point this month? I'm getting a lil desperate for drinking buddies around London or East Anglia (anywhere as far west as Peterborough's feasible). Interested?
Hi BTW, just stopping by. :)
niiight
Apology accepted :)
iped - shoes
ipid - ?
ipud - your online friend. Or is that ibud?
evening.
it's fine, what am i missing?
evening legend. :)
iPud must be an Apple pie.
;)
Go fetch that coat young man! :P
are you going to the joe meetup?
ipud - something to make sure Microsoft gets its just desserts.
#sorry
i say meetup, i mean evening: http://www.morienval.com/aneveningwithjoe.html
Again? Oh you missed the earlier ones.
The one this month? Glanced at it, will glance at it some more before making anywhere near a concrete decision about it. I'd probably need a place to crash if so. Nothing fancy, anywhere with a sofa'll do me!
LOL
sadly we don't have one of those, but we will be in london for that.
Was wondering about how many engines teams can use during testing?
I can't remember but I know there is some kind of rule about it. Alianora will know {Comment #398}
Four. That's shared between all cars a team runs, but anything not covered under the "testing" umbrella (such as promotional running) does not need to have their engines taken from this pool. The eight engines per car for the race weekends are also separate.
On my iphone it is wider than the window and cannnot be resized.
Oh crap, you just got me looking at hotels in the area....
odd. on the sim it's just a normal site, can pinch as usual.
Thanks Alia
Okay... it is now working... I will shut up and accept that dns propagation isn't 1 second long ;)
uh-huh ;)
well where's this about page comment I heard so much about?
(phew deflect attention ;) )
Right I must away... Night everyone!
night prof
Night Alex
Should I be seeing a page with an orange header on my iPhone ? On the Mac it's Blue with a thermometer graphic,
iPhone page seems OK though.
From a FlyBe twin-prop
One more thing before I go, I took this with my phone on Monday morning as we flew over where...
are you going to the joe meetup? {Comment #651}
Unfortunately, London is too far for me to travel at the moment :(
A blurry field
that would be silverstone :P
the blue is new...
I registered on Applause Store earlier tonight and put myself on the reserve list to get tickets to a future Top Gear recording :P
Silverstone is blurry? How do the drivers find their way around?
I *WAS* at 25,000 feet!
contract and compare
http://londonupdates.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the-silverstone-racing-track.jpg
Was so clear looking down though, you could see all the work they were doing (sadly that didn't come out) They're really ripping the place up.
....probably an iphone photo.
Sorry, I'm just teasing. Happens when I'm at work.
Too late, I'm going to sulk all weekend now. :D
On that note, night all. Early start tomorrow, in Farnborough. Big yawns all round.
night
Time for me to head off too. See you tomorrow for tes... oh wait.
...well, see you tomorrow for another laun...
......damn, not one of them either. Wierd. Anyways, goodnight :)
Mr C, are you staying within the capital for Joe's evening? As in, overnight staying?
niiight!
ooh. don't know. will ask christine and get back to you.
night sleepers.
good luck trying to get tickets :) they're soo hard to get. i keep trying and haven't managed anything yet. however it's a great site, without it i wouldn't have seen QI and i wouldn't be going to see Russell Howard's good news :)
how rude that I am here in the uk evening for the first time in WEEKS and everyone goes to sleep ;)
Honest Q 'cos I'm not sure... If I make Twitter lists of teams and drivers, is that completely ripping off SPC's/James Allen's ideas, given they'll cover more than F1? I'm wondering whether to or not.
How I'd love to see Russell Howard! He is a legend! :D His take on the bacon sandwich is brilliant "It's essentially bread giving a dead pig a cuddle" Genius :D
*waves frantically*
i'm taking the night off though, drinking beer and relaxing. f1 has been intense since sunday.
hi
I am not sleeping. I am still trying to beat Federer at stick tennis
I think I have discovered a huge floor in Instapaper...
I click "Read Later" on too many things, my list is huuuge
please, please do.
i want a twitter feature that says "take this list as a starting point, then make it my own".
I'd planned so much tonight. Check flights and tell my sister what days I have off, write a blog post, then either watch something or listen to a podcast. I got as far as the flights and the email.
Bookmarked.
This should be recommended reading. I'm not talking to anyone about an OS until they have read this.
I'm here.
Do what now? What's Instapaper?
Cool, will do... erm.. some time in the future. I think the most productive thing I can do now is write a list of the things I want to do, because I keep forgetting.
yay kathi. I am back because you wanted me to be. I felt loved :D
You know how you can keep endlessy opening tabs? Well i got to the stage where i had about 100 and it killed firefox and instapaper stops the need for that....you take a bit of code and put it in your bookmark bar, and when you want to read something later you click on the button. simple
http://www.instapaper.com/
So I can nick yours to save the effort of doing the F1 bit again? ;-)
To be honest I still don't really know what I'm doing with Twitter lists, how to use them and where. So I'm thinking teams, drivers and series in Tweedeck columns, linked on the blog in case anyone finds them useful.
steven you will never beat federer. You could probably beat murray though, that guy cant win anything ;)
Whoa! seriously.
yup. it totallyy rules, although i never get round to reading my list....
What a great idea
Tip of the week!
T'was lonely *clings*
there are lots of others here but i understand the place lacks those who understand the meaning of our Luxury motorhome.
Is there a Firefox plugin or something?
cheers for the update mr c. am now off to bed. sidepodcast mobile doohickey in a broken opera mini on a broken phone. only plus is the free internet. keep me company on the train tomorrow guys! night amy, sorry i'm leaving again!
:( I want! I want! :(
Never mind.
Brilliant.
not that i know of, its really simple, what you do is sign up for an account, then get the code it gives you, create a new button in firefox rright click "new bookmark" and add the code to the bookmark
I use http://readitlaterlist.com/firefox/
that would make me very happy. it's not like we make any money from the list. if it helps give people a starting point, then we contributed something back.
i want the night off! no fair.. :(
You will feel more loved when you find out about the Kimi game Kathi is organising in place of her pony
Oh no I don't need choice! One colour, one style. Otherwise I get confused
*cough* Instapaper *cough*
I am playing as Murray and Federer gets me ever single time. I haven't beaten him once.
hi amy, i have a question for you, when is the next tennis? cause atm i'm suffering from withdrawal from both tennis and formula 1 :)
granted.
enjoy ;)
Reason #34 why self checkouts annoy me...
I HAD TO BE ID'D FOR A PG!!!!!
It gets worse. Someone got ID'd in Tesco's in Coventry... ...for a slice of quiche! (Cheese and onion flavour, in case you're wondering). The spokesperson's comment is priceless...
I'm also very confused! I thought there was supposed to be winter olympics? Winter is nearly finished, where are they?
And that works between computers? I mean, I see links when I'm at work that I can't read there either due to time or whatever, or it's a video. If Ii add it there, I can come home and just go into that instead of trying to find it?
if only it were that easy! can you be my textiles teacher? :P then i could have the night off... i'll settle for someone writing my essay on minimalism though :P
ooo you make a good point, i forgot all about them
if you add the same code to any browser anywhere, then it adds it to one list
They are this month but there is no tennis
Canada - BC? I don't think winter ever arrived there though.
But there is Curling !!
Winter Olympics are 12th to 28th Feb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics
there goes the productivity of my half term then...
some of the stuff spouted at stupid hours is hilarious to read. Alianora has just made me laugh rather loudly.
Rob Curling?
Thanks! Let me know if there's anything I have/find that you want to use.
an essay on minimalism, must, if anything be... minimal.
that makes it a 10 second job in anyone's book?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
It's quite - different.
Not long now.
That's the button next to the 'close window' button.
15 winter sports events have been announced as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The eight sports categorized as ice sports are: bobsled, luge, skeleton, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short track speed skating and curling. The three sports categorized as alpine skiing and snowboarding events are: alpine, freestyle and snowboarding. The four sports categorized as Nordic events are: biathlon, cross country skiing, ski jumping and nordic combined.
* Alpine skiing
* Biathlon
* Bobsleigh
* Cross country skiing
* Curling
* Figure skating
* Freestyle skiing
* Ice hockey
* Luge
* Nordic combined
* Short track speed skating
* Skeleton
* Ski jumping
* Snowboarding
* Speed skating
there are lots of 250 and 500 point tournaments on all the time but I only watch ones with Roger or Rafa. Next big tournament with everyone is indian wells which is 8-15 march
Aren't they running low on snow in Vancouver too?
sweeeep
Who'd have thought that something a policeman got reprimanded for could be considered a sport
I'm not desperate to watch them or anything. I usually think I enjoy it until it starts. Whenever I'm in the house, I get stuck watching people do that crazy ice walking with the poles or something.....
i wish i could forget about the winter olympics :( my company has the tv rights and are on an epic sales push which is doing my head in :(
So many possible punchlines for that one
hehehe i wish! but i think she must have realised i could take that way out. word limit = 2,000 words.
:D
8th march!! that's ages away!!
I think it's rather interesting... the sweeping motion is used to heat up the surface of the ice, so that they can control the speed and direction.
ah see, you are limited to 2,000 words. MAX, but theres no minimum!
"How minimal is this?"
+/- 10% would be fairly standard :P
hahah :D she gave me an extra day because i had exams.. but it's no use.. minimalism is, surprisingly complex to talk about :D heheh anyway i should get back to doing it.
have a lovely evening everyone! i hope mr c enjoys his time off, night all! xx
"This essay will explore the question; 'what is minimalism?'
The Answer.
This is"
I see Danny has a site up for Kathi's competition now but is not ready to take entries
http://www.fantasywrc.com/
i know that! psshhh
i'm thinking a blank page is quite minimal.
think of it as reductive expressionism.
Psssssshhhh yourself!
or write your essay in UV pen.
!!
i dont know what that means but ok :P
um....ok?
He even used my favourite colour :)
and we now have 100 entries for the Panda thing league
Has he sent you the trophy yet?
That was quick
:D
:D
coool!
(hearts)
#nothere
Morning all :)