Happy Tuesday. Only a few more days till the next F1 race in Turkey and, far more awesome, till my well deserved holidays. I am going to visit Baile Átha Cliath and in my thoughts I am already there, struggling to focus on my daily duties, however I shall concentrate now and find some news and links for you.
This was big news in here: Rosberg made a DTM debut as a chauffuer. Well, at least it wasn't Adrian Sutil, but I think they wanted to keep their car in one piece. Paul di Resta went to Hockenheim to visit his DTM friends. Bruno Spengler from Canada won this first race of the new season and made Norbi Haug happy.
Mark Webber said he's open to switch teams in the future if Vettel Racing Team Red Bull doesn't extend his contract. It's a bout time, Mark. They are no good for you.
Bahrain has been given an extension to 3 June to decide whether the country's postponed Formula One race can be rescheduled this year.
Perth has named a suburb after Sir Jack Brabham. More on this at Joe's. And since you're already there you might as well want to read the other stories too, 'cause Joe has been busy yesterday. :-)
Force India want more pints ... err ... points. Paul di Resta: definitely maybe. Adrian Sutil: definitely not. My short opinion on that.
After DC had done some show racing in Singapore, Mark and Jaime raced through the streets of Turin at the weekend.
This cute Jaime chap went to a game of football yesterday and had an very common problem ... I translate: "What a bad referee ...". Sounds familiar? A never ending story.
This is amazing! The Dutch football team, VVV Venlo signed an 1,5 year old boy (!!!) after the had seen this video. Yes, this is ridiculous, And yes, this signing won't help VVV Venlo to reach anything, neither in the near nor more distant future.
In the Barcelona-Madrid-UEFA-saga started after last week's Champions league match and Jose's rant (see above) UEFA has rejected both team's complaints. As an answer Real started a digital war against Barcelona. And Jose called-up 19 players before tonight's Champions League match at Camp Nou. It is not over yet, and this night is going to be a night to remember ...
In the second CL match tomorrow night Manchester United host Schalke 04, but let's be frank, United is as good as through into the final. Schalke won't stop them. *bad language*
In the meantime in the Premier League. We're fifth!! Thanks to Tottenham's 2:1 defeat at Stamford Bridge me were able to overtake them on goal difference. Who would have dreamt about this in December, when we were like 17th or something (I suppressed it)???? And after Arsenal's - like AS Jimbo said "historical 1:0 win (over United), as they got the lead, and kept the lead" - Chelsea now are only 3 points behind the red ones from Manchester and the title race is back on. Chelsea are now our last hope ...
Also, do not miss the tennis action in Madrid.
Before I leave you a quick not regarding Spanish Wednesday. Due to the amount of work I simply do not have as much time as I used to and I am not able to write the dailies regularly every week. I appologize.
Oh, and to end up in style: a postcard from Diego F. :-)
Have a super Tuesday!
Morning!
Morning everyone
Morning :)
I have an exam today.
I've also just heard I'm being transferred at work. My boss is in tears down the phone. I think this could be turning into a day to forget.
morning alison,
sorry to hear about the exam and the transfer
Hehe the exam will be over soon and I feel quite well prepared.
The transfer... hmmm the jury are still out.
good stuff
i see
I'm very used to being the king of a small castle at the moment and I'm being moved somewhere where I'm going to have a lot more input from a line manager basically all the time so it's gonna be a big adjustment.
aahhhh...
Not because I'm in trouble I should add. It is a big opportunity. I'm going to a mega busy site which is why there's more managers on site etc.
won't you be quitting when you go to uni anyway? Or are you going to work while you study?
I want to transfer down to work through my first year at least. I can't just quit. I'd go bankrupt :P
Foxtix have taken the first payment out of my account so my ticket purchase must have been successful.
I'm paying it off in 3 monthly payments simply because that was an option and I'm not mentally ready to hand over $840 yet when I feel like I just gave all my money to Malaysia :)
It's so early! I can't get over how early it is!
#affinity
Last year they planned to sell them this early but they kept extending the date back and back and back until it was about July before they were actually on sale.
I'm not sure what their tactic is, I guess locking people in early is good but I've been stalking a few forums where I know Australian fans hang out just for an idea of the reception and most of them are totally unable to buy them when its only just over a month since they were last here.
even I'm slightly mad at it! Not only is it early, they only give you a 5 day window!
Yeah it's a big expense. I'm still having palpitations over the potential Olympics tickets bill.
thats another reason I didn't want them to take all the money in one go, Olympics money will (hopefully) be going on my card in 3 weeks time!
What?? Is this for early perks? 5 days? What if you were on holiday that week or something...
you'd think it wasn't making them enough money :)
they sent the letters out a few weeks ago, there was plenty of warning.
They gave you one week to book if you wanted to keep the same seats (which we didn't) and then this second week is if you wanted different seats. They go on sale to the general public on Monday so even that is very very early.
Oh I see. Fair enough. Crazy early. I think you're only encouraging them by buying :P
It means I can spend the next 10 months being mean to them on Twitter :D #blametweetdeck
:)
Just been for a run. Thought I did terrible but ended up doing much better than last week! http://runkeeper.com/user/RubberGoat/activity/34008556
well done!
I did the same :) http://amysrunning.posterous.com/week-7-day-1
Thanks!
Not bad either!
Cripes. Really? I have to decide now?!
Far too many people going outside nowadays
I'm sure the general public sale won't go fast, you'll be right. Although, the 4 corners are very popular I guess, don't want to miss out twice :)
Bit too hot to do that where you are? ;)
I can't. Make a decision 10 months out!
But I want that 4 corners :-(
I'm sure it won't sell out for a couple of months at least, just don't wait as long as last year :)
Yeah, its just got like that in the last wek or so.
Just having my AC sooped up for the summer this afternoon :)
Oh dear oh dear. I don't even know what seats I want
spoiler and go faster stripes?
don't stress, plenty of time :)
Drs and kers
I can haz Turboz?
I'm more of a "buy the were before" type
Week even
Hi guys,
Keep reminding yourself that half of that is my expense, so not really that bad :D
Bigger air intake :)
Literally!
Woooo!! :D
What seats are you two getting?
that doesn't go hand in hand with the desire to get a 4 corners pass. I see from their Facebook page there is a few people complaining that the wait to get through to Foxtix yesterday was ridiculous. The Aus GP say they underestimated GP Advantage demand.
ah yes, I like it when you give me money :D
Brabham? I was really impressed with Brabham. But gotta have Fangio on Sunday :)
Four corners ending with Fangio on Sunday
I sat there this year. I think the other side is better
"Seats must be booked before July 31, 2011 to secure your Gold GP Advantage membership."
Plenty of time :)
Other side of the lake, or other side of the track?
Hmmmmmmm.
Gah! Ok.
Oh and my hotel is being knocked down. I need to look for a new one of those too
The track
hehe! Your repeat business didn't keep them going?
If you book before Sunday though you can win a trip to the Singapore GP.
I hope I don't win it :D
Apparently not. Looking elsewhere, they didn't charge enough
hehe
our hotel confirmation says in big letters NON CANCELLABLE RESERVATION :D
This is awesome, cricket radio commentators getting taken out by a huge 6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/13265109.stm
hotels are another thing that are much cheaper if you book them early ;) Singapore may still be almost 5 months away but our hotel is already $1236 dearer than when we booked it!
wow!
Holidays just aren't designed for people like me
Noted :D
Ohh masterchef time!
Hahahah love it.
Jealous :(
I think this season might finally have been the one thats hooked me.
Awesome!
Sell it to someone else, then. ;)
do you know how hard it is to make people come to races!
Love the quiet panic
I can almost hear them all thinking "MUST NOT SWEAR" to themselves :D
I definitely unlike Air Asia now. What is the point of a fuel surcharge and why don't you just increase the fare.
people would whine if they put up their "low cost" fares across the board. They can't win either way.
It's standard procedure for budget airlines. It just means fuel prices are too high and they can no longer cover it in their original price. Makes it easier to take out when prices go down again.
You might well but you're paying the same either way so it's ridiculous not to be able to see the full actual cost up front.
Ha! Someone has taken it out?!
No - it looks like they added surcharge, not removed it.
Dubai Airport has a fuel surcharge, explain that one! :D
If one airline does it, it'll look more expensive compared to others and less people will buy tickets from them.
Sorry, I meant the idea is they could take it back out, but that never happens ;-)
I guess it depends, in Australia the law says they have to include that in the cost so if you select a flight, ie, I just randomly chose Melbourne to KL on the 17th of May and it instantly tells you the flight is $439. It's the next page where it says:
331.00 AUD 1 Guest
35.00 AUD Fuel Surcharge
73.00 AUD Airport Tax and Fees
so it's not like they're initially telling you the flight is $331 then surprising you with the extra fees later. I guess thats not the law in every country though.
Air Asia have removed it in the past.
Hahaha! Good point. :D
Well I stand amazed.
Or sit amazed, anyway.
in 2008, they got a LOT of publicity for it. Apparently. I'd never heard of Air Asia in 2008 :D
:D
Your taxes are low! I got a breakdown of my fare for my next flight to Dubai. The flight cost £80 and the bill came to £300. Go figure.
Almost like a mobile phone contract
Woh -
I see what you mean, the same destination on the same day but from London:
148.00 GBP 1 Guest
20.00 GBP Fuel Surcharge
101.00 GBP Airport Tax and Fees
ouch!
blimus
And that's all it said
ooh if they stop sucking after they've gone it'll be telling!
Hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder who they have to design for 2012 then
Joe hinted at this at the interview he gave with that blogger (whose name I don't recall).
Not surprised here. They've really been in a rut lately.
Can I just say - they've REALLY sucked at aero since Newey left.
Mike Coughlan is joining them says Alan Baldwin.
I'm surprised anyone wants him.
Jon will still design it - that would be ongoing now. Question is - who will provide the updates to the car next year?
Now's a good time to change staff - give them time to bed in before they start designing cars for those new 2013 rules next year.
...WHAT?!
Yeah I'm actually surprised mclarn didn't fall into a hole after newey as well
@alanbaldwinf1 Sam Michael and Jon Tomlinson stepping down from their jobs with Williams at end of 2011, Mike Coughlan arriving in June as chief engineer
You have got to be kidding
He can fill the WIlliams full of Ferrari data :D
From 2007 :-)
They had a very good structure with Lowe and Fry. They seem to be very good in transition planning.
it'd probably still be more use than whatever path Williams is on at the moment :D
Is he THAT man? Blimey it's a small world.
it'd still be quicker than the FW33
:D
I don't get why this series of Masterchef is constantly being filmed in a room with a wet floor. They're all running, it looks dangerous!
Anyone think that they might have hired Coughlan to replace Tomlinson and Sam's quit in protest?
Well here's a freebie for GMM ;)
Nigel Stepney to Renault?
;)
I am amazed frank would accept coughlan
The world championship winning car... However will they cope :D
:D
Can I just say - it seems Williams really are short on money, if Coughlan's the best guy they can get. Unless they're thinking he's a... steal? ;)
If you're tight on money...
Well, if no one else is willing to hire him..?
Hehehehehe
I'm sure it won't be long before your appointment as King of the big castle :)
Are we sure it's the real Coughlan or is it a photocopy?
:D
Sent in by his wife
Left at the corner store?
with a Ferrari fan behind the counter...
They may as well bring Symonds on as well.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91085
From Coughlan (emphasis mine): "I am grateful to Williams for giving me this opportunity. My experience in 2007 was life-changing. Since then, I have endeavoured to put my skills to good use in the design of the Ocelot vehicle whose purpose is to transport soldiers in safety. I have also enjoyed my time with Michael Waltrip Racing: they are an excellent race team and I wish them well for the future.
"Now, I am looking forward to returning to a sport which I love and to joining a team that I have admired for many years. I will dedicate myself to the team and to ensuring that we return to competitiveness while respecting the ethical standards with which Williams has always been synonymous."
I do NOT want him tarnishing Williams' good name. That's the last thing they need.
Nope - he's lined up for Virgin, isn't he?
Which, admittedly, to this day, is one of the oddest coincidences I've ever heard of in the sport.
He's got a job already.
Oh.
Apparently you can get away with anything in f1
What are the odds, eh?
I wonder if Ferrari gave him a car or someother.
I think employing him is a bad start
I can think of 780 reasons why this disgusts me.
#nothere
Hmmm... interesting
Yep
that is a weird sounding sentence
evening
It never ceases to amaze me how fast for even relatively minor / niche news stories Wikipedia gets updated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Coughlan
twas ever thus
:D
reading the Coughlan news I think I should have stayed behing the great firewall of China, sometimes no news is good news ...
Someone on F1F made a good point though - we'll ALL be watching him. Makes it lot less likely he'll try any shenanigans again.
Bye Bye Williams then.
so, Baldwin says that Adam Parr tried to resign as well but his resignation was not accepted. obviously the team needs at least some continuity
You can probably blame me. I was hoping for news to F1 Minute today. Oops.
they surely will not have 100 mil to pay if Coughlan gets his photocopy business going again ...
In all fairness, how much time do they/he have left?
I wonder if his resignation attempt is connected to this shakeup or not.
:D
I think more than HRT and Virgin and LRGP in their current guises :-)
I think the fact that they have:
- not designed a decent car for so long,
- failed to attract sponsors,
- had to ask for TV Money in advance,
- had to dump a prodigious talent for a pay driver
- soiled their reputation by employing a highly visible cheat
Is very telling.
they did but other cars were more decent
they did not fail to attract sponsors, they attracted sponsors that failed (those Icelanders, RBS ...)
That's a contradiction in terms
And failed to replace them.
to be fair there haven't been that many significant brand new sponsor deals even at the sharp end of the F1 grid ... there are that many Bahars ...
there aren't that many Bahars
#blamechristine ;)
Hehehe
Somebody I follow on twitter who has nothing to do with F1 or follows it at all or anything has just, completely coincidentally, tweeted, "I hate photocopying, that is all".
Random :)
I'm surprised there are so few people in the world who can design an f1 car. It's almost as hard as finding a track designer
You sure that's not Coughlan's missus?
and here I declare working Tuesday officially over, three more days and then holidays
Six hours til I get to watch Senna
Can-not wait
I haven't been this excited in ages
:D
You will LOVE it. That's all I can say. :)
I'm off to my exam now :( BOOOO!!
good luck
Good luck.
oooh by the way the answer to question 17 is an anagram of the answer to question 3!
And good luck ;)
I meant :) not ;) It was a serious good luck not a jokey one
Hmmmm :D
I don't mean seriously good luck, like you really really need good luck, adequate luck?
#stopdigginggiggles
I'll accept anything better than actively bad luck I think
Woodies do a great range of shovels
;)
Excellent! Phew :)
Hehehe.
Fingers crossed (us, not you as you can't write with crossed fingers)!
#diggles
good luck
I did this as quick as I could... (where's Lukeh when you need him)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5682987065
I am so jealous!
haha!
Yeah that is true but most of the other teams seem to have done OK.
Thank God for that. Can you imagine???
none of them was really deserted by most of their sponsors while Williams livery lost all stickers after Iceland went belly up and RBS followed other banks. Yes, Renault lost ING but that is wehere the one and only Bahar steps in ...
Who needs two Lotus' when you can have 7?
Lotus 7 ? that is the Caterham, oh wait ...
F1 - soon to be renamed either Formula 7 or Formula C, whichever Bernie prefers
I loved the Description on Jalopnik the other day:
"Group Lotus, the luxury goods branding and image house with a sideline in cars overseen by Dany Bahar."
YES!
It still seems like a poor excuse when other teams have found sponsors and a team with the history and prestige of Williams cannot.
They made a huge mistake selling title sponsorship without them committing to anything on the car.
1- Loosing out reveune
2- Putting off other big sponsors
F1 Minute: http://www.f1minute.com/news/williams-f1-confirm-sam-michaels-departure-and-mike-coughlans-arrival
With fancy pants new audio player.
who found a big sponsor since the financial crisis, other than the PDSVA that is now on WIlliams car and Lotus that is on the cars formerly known as Renault ?
Which works perfectly on the iPad.
Why can't other web sites do this?
Well nobody really, but loads of teams have found more sponsors - heck, we even have 3 new teams!
OK, Petronas went to Mercedes who were defending champions at that time and lost their original team
Well, I can only say that it's taken Mr C four days of non-stop coding. Perhaps they are not all as
mentaldedicated.Red Bull got Infinity & LG
Ferrari got Santander
Mclaren picked up AON
Mercedees got Petronas
only one of the new teams is well funded (by its owner, like Force India), one got duped into Virgin branding without getting paid by Virgin, and one has "this can be you" all over the car ...
Well, consider it much appreciated.
Most other sites give me the *something*
oooh, pretty!
Is it any surprise, then, that they are 4 of the Top 5 teams on the grid?
you have made my day!
And the only other big money to come in was Group Lotus so its 5/5
There is a pretty solid sponsors/grid position ratio
That was easy ;-)
Honestly, it's great.
that Santander is part of Alonso package and it isn't really a new sponsor (although new for Ferrari). Red Bull fair enough but as Mercedes the year before they had the world title to show. below that pinacle nothing much is happening on the sponsor front ...
"You may remember Mike from such scandals as the Ferrari and McLaren espionage affair"
reminds me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps-xbo8wnA
Nice! :D
mmm, meat. Meat is conspiring against me tonight, turns out it doesn't cook if you don't turn the oven on #hungry
Wouldn't that be the oven's fault, then? :P
technically its my fault, but I'm going to blame the oven for having stupid dials with no indicators on them and for having 'off' directly opposite 'bake'
This clip from last year makes a lot more sense after brunos driving yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwq-86AF250
:D
i has a question for joe on the next aside -, why isn't he mad that mike is coming back to f1 proper, yet he hates it that flavio is only allowed to wander around the paddock?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/williams-announces-changes/
mike coming back must be consider much, much worse. right?
i thought it stemmed from a more general dislike of flavio?
depends on what you think is worse - cheating, or race-fixing by forcing someone to crash.
either way, let's see if joe will give us his 2 cents later.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 3rd May 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Looking for the next generation
- Daily: 2nd May 2011
- SENNA comes to Netflix
- DRS and Pirelli tires - I understand, but I don't agree
I think espionage is considered a part of F1 whereas trying to turn a race into a pantomime and gaming it is a bit less honerable
stealing someone else's designs is waay worse in my mind. piquet spun his own car, that's all.
MR C
Have a look at the Nico Rosberg link in Amanda's daily. It should not be going where it is going
on another note, he makes a good point with the job title. any ideas on the identity of the next Williams technical director?
am at work, but i'm sure christine can do. ta.
piquet spun his own car but he was asked to... and the other 19 or so cars on track were only lucky that piquet hit the wall not another car ...
so stealing may be very bad but at least in that case lives were not in danger ...
What about taking photos then plugging them into autocad? im sure they all do that
hahaha, piquet's spin didn't even endanger his own life, so weak was it. but okay.
hmm?
mike had a massive dossier containing ferrari's whole car. hardly the stuff of 'just autocad'.
Done.
well, one can never predict where what will fly once car crashes. and spectators are very very close to the track in Singapore
I am not saying that stealing right though ...
To play devils advocate...
It could have flicked a part onto the track, and if someone hit it before the saftey car was deployed then we could have had a similar incident to massa's
Hmmmmmmmmmm I always considered the piquet thing worse, but you mig be right. Either way, I think it's bad form to ask either coughlan or Symonds back into the fold in a elevated position.
True,
Its all the same line of work, but he definatly crossed the line
agree
so mike and pat are back in f1, where will stepney pop up?
Not to mention Windsor
Stepney is rather busy at the mo
hope so. can't wait to see we'll see how quickly he drops his video thing :)
Windsor never made it far enough to get banned. He did only marginally worse than Campos :-)
Yeah, true
didn't the wmsc ban everyone involved in usf1?
Hes hardly compareable, his team just didnt get going.
People get all emotional because it was an american team, but plenty of teams have tried to join in and not got as far as the grid.
He wasnt even on the technical side
Allo All,
lots of comments!!
I only re-read about all this the other week, i think Stepney is German Touring Cars now?
For what? The FIA selected them in the first place!
Did they? For being useless? At least they weren't deliberately cheating
He runs Sumo Racing in GT1
hm, there were some bans ...
:D
Wikipedia says the team was banned, i guess that was just the legal entity as they tried to come back as cypher group
they weren't useless, they simply weren't :-)
When Dave Richards did the same thing he wasnt banned
Ahh cool, sorry to misinform, i knew he was around somewhere.
So has anyone speculated the 2013 Willaims will look A LOT like a 2008 Ferrari?
well, who does not try anything can't fail. it is hard to kick start any business even on much smaller scale. one always takes risks, hopes for luck and for the right constellation of all the stars ... those who tried know. I know ... ( #lickingwoundsatthemoment )
I think it's more about the way they failed.
... and he was in similar situation - entered team under certain rules that changed ... (customer cars in his case, budget cap in USF1 case). although it never looked like USF1 would make even if the budget cap remained ...
You have to remember that Windsor wasnt on the technical side he was running the sporting.
Yes he owned part of the entry, but its like patrick head getting involved in strategy decsions
I think it is more about the way they were selected ... Windsor and his partner (I already forgot his name) had no money of their own to run the team, no funding in hand, not even within the proposed budget cap ... and yet they got the entry ...
Ken Anderson. Not sure how he convinced Bernie, but there ya go.
Wasn't Chad Hurley's name being hurled in the air (pun intended) for a while?
Well, yes. I do remember it all being a bit messy around the time they went under though.
I think it was pushed though by Max's american deputy. Everyone thought it was a great idea at the time, but there just didnt prove to be enough interest in F1 in corporate America
It would probably be a good rule if for a team to take part in F1 they had to have x-years motorsport competion under there belt.
Of the 4 new teams Virgin & Lotus did to an extent (Manor & Litespeed)
HRT & USF1 didnt, the difference was HRT got together with Kolles company and USF1 tried to go with Stefan
Name being mentioned is very different from cash on the table...
HRT did not get the entry, Campos did and he had the previous experience, just no money for the step up
I think there was cash (Hurley hung around to the very end), but it definitely wouldn't have been enough.
Not enough cash becomes no cash very quickly :-)
Flav?
Flav - he can never be far from trouble :-) #QPR
true.
never said he was.
"USF1 has been fined 309,000 Euros, a sum equivalent to the entry fee for the championship, disqualified them from the right to take part in any competition and claimed costs for execution of the disciplinary procedure."
maybe doesn't apply to individuals then.
I agree with what Rubens was saying about Sam Michael but at the same time, he's had so long to develop in that team and they are going backwards, so maybe a sweeping change is the right thing to do?
He was, always referred to as the sporting director with anderson the technical director.
With regard to Coughlan, Flav, Windsor et al...
Coughlan and Flav are cheats. Symonds too. They have been punished but for many reasons they were not life banned. They are perfectly welcome back to F1 in legal terms but in moral terms it cannot look good to be seen to employ such a person.
As for Peter Windsor, he made a big mistake which adversely affected many people. He escaped punishment but surely his actions "cheated" a lot of people? What seems odd is that his journalistic clout in terms of contacts is unaffected. I wouldn't want to see him trying to run an F1 team again because it was clear from the start he was way over his head.
I am amazed he gets all the blame for it being the sporting director.
Ken anderson was the one leading the build and the guy who was reported to be team principle:
Anderson as team principle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/feb/20/usf1-miss-four-grands-prix
http://multimedia.foxsports.com/m/video/26020254/wind-tunnel-usf1-team-players.htm
vs Windsor sporting director
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73413
Seems an interesting juxtaposition that he just got handed over 1% of the share capital in the company and now he is out. That seems very odd.
As i see it Anderson was going to run the team and Technical side with Windsor incharge of racing.
Much like Red Bull are now with horner and newey but the other way around.
Very odd indeed. Either that was a payoff, or the team will kindly ask it back from Sam now.
Windsor cheated himself as much as anyone else. The difference between him and the others is he was too stupid to see the problems the rest of us could tell existed from videos and photos.
He was so stupid he still hasn't launched a toaster
i want one!
Windsor was team principal.
You don't need to be technically qualified to realise that you have made no cars and very few car bits.
Both of them are equally to blame
the timing of the floatation was all a bit odd wasn't it? the must have know the car was hopeless and spent the whole of testing running it super-light.
They can't ask for it back. They may have a clause in his contract where the company has the right to buy back shares or they may have negotiated it as part of his package.
I still think had they made them at the time they would have sold tens of thousands
Not according to whenever they released a statement or did an interview. It was always Ken Anderson, Team Principle and Peter Windsor, Sporting Director.
I'm not saying he was without blame as he was an owner, but Ken Anderson seems to me to be more at fault, and get next to no criticism, whereas windsor gets it all
There is a very old saying in racing that when the green flag drops (to start a race) the bull**** stops. The modern version seems to be to throw out as much bull as possible in pre-season testing.
Anderson has no profile so doesn't get much grief. At the time both were blamed but most people have already forgotten his name. Regardless of jobs the thing to remember is Windsor was team manager at both Williams and Ferrari so he was the one who was supposed to know how to run a racing team.
anderson did the right thing and took his business elsewhere. if he turned up with an f1 talk show and declared 'i'm baaaack, so err, let's never mention usf1 again', i'd be berating him on twitter just as much.
...and then quickly float your company.
Doesn't the manager of a football team ultimately get the blame if the team keeps losing?
It would be more like blaming the team captain if the stadium got repossessed, when you should be looking at the finance director/CEO
want: http://www.apple.com/imac/
(i mean, need!)
Oh lord.
:)
Here's a bit from a comment from me back in January:
http://sidepodcast.com/post/f1-debrief-im-lovin-it/comments#comment-1010063
I may have got the "who" wrong. Perhaps they gave Sam a part of the company previously and to let him go they would have had to found the cash. So the float was to let that happen?
F1 where you can float your company in bull****
hehe
I think Giggles has it spot on
"Thanks for all your hard work Sam, here's 1% and a P45..."
Ooh looks like it has a wireless power supply too!
You got it spot on. The flotation was to let Patrick Head cash in his chips. I think the Sam Michael thing is monor.
For me that shows that windsor cares about the sport and wants to be involved in it whilst his business partner was just in it for the cash?
Oooohh Ooooohh Oooohhh...
Windsor got somewhat nudged on the show with a sly USF1 remark last week
it sounds to me like windsor has no skills useful in the real world, but whatever.
do tell.
Ken Anderson has spent his whole life in motor racing and I assume he still is. He just does not have a high profile and is not involved in F1 in any obvious capacity.
They were doing the "26 drivers that should have been in F1" episode, with the F1 circuit commentator and some other historian and they came to a story about a driver that didn't really race, but ended up with a team for a short while.
Windsor remarked that the team was short-lived and his guest countered with something along the lines of "they got slightly further than your team"
It was a moment that made me go "oooooooohhh..." and for a moment Windsor was taken aback before continuing as if nothing had happened.
:D
♥
That is fantastic. I'll bet he blocks him on twitter too!
hehe!
WIN! :D
Must admit, I haven't been listening to his show too much lately as it's too retrospective. I enjoyed it more when they talked about current F1.
For me he takes way to long to get started then he has a sort of grovelling manner with his guests. On one show he was 8 minutes in and still doing introductions. He only has an hour so that amount of wasted time is ridiculous.
Ping --> And Now For Something Completely Different…
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/and-now-for-something-completely-different/
I agree with that
Same here
Its is very slow, i only watch the race recaps. it also seems to work beter with people in the studio rater than on skype as both parties tend to go off on completly uneeded tangents
tangents can be good, but in the case of his show they tend to loose track of everything for the sake of them
A shame really. He started out so good but it seems to have petered out.
Ba-doom-chick
I think he needs to just have one guest per show. Many of the episodes get lost in multiple voices
Oh boy. That was unintentional!
Wow - didn't realise Kanaan's hand took such a whack during his crash on Sunday evening. His hand took a swipe from Danica's wing mid-crash
ouch.
exactly
They mentioned that in the commentary. It's very scary that his arm was outside the cockpit with all those cars flying around. Very lucky to have only bruised his thumb. He could easily have lost an arm
Jake blogs about the flypast fail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/royal-wedding-buckingham-palace-flypast.shtml
Despite delivering my lines three times, things conspired against us and we weren't able to deliver what would have been an epic part of the BBC's royal wedding coverage, much to my frustration and sadness.
Yet, at the same time, I was on the crest of a wave after being privileged to spend 24 hours in the company of some incredible people and some equally impressive feats of British engineering.
Great post.
Doctor Who River Song Timeline
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/05/keo7f.jpg
Might help explain some things
Oh wow!
My mind is still boggled but I like it anyway :)
Me three :)
What the..? From a comment just left of my blog...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=En1HxJIEGXM
Farmers!
Any word on the new Pirreli markings for this weekend?
for christine - xplane on the ipad, you can fly (and i assume land) the shuttle: http://www.x-plane.com/pg_X-Plane_for_iPad.html
it's like your very own krypton factor :)
also, for me - i do believe this is the app i've been waiting for: http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/nav
extended desktop!
Cooool. Although it looks far too good for Krypton Factor.
If that is new to people does that mean tractor pulling is too? I know you are all thinking low tech if you have never seen it but some of those 'tractors' have more engines than an F1 car gets through in a season and I have seen them fitted with multiple helicopter turbine engines.
That looks like a lot of fun
i reckon christine should try it out for us :)
I'd never seen it before to be honest
I could well imagine the power needed
It is downloading.
The instructions disappeared too quickly so I am just pressing randomly to see what happens.
Pull up!
I think I pulled too far up. Did the world's lowest 360, that was more like a 180. Doh.
It works for NASA
:)
Best way to learn to fly I guess. Keep an eye on the altitude and try to find out where the ejector seat button is
:D
:D sounds great, im gonna get it :D
If you ever decide to learn to fly, let me know if I'm on your flight path!
Without meaning to get all Rose about it... "I'm flying!"
I have also lost the runway though.
#sidepodspace
Delays, delays, delays
The earliest possible shuttle launch date is now Tuesday 10th
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Ooohh, I went down in flames. Stoopid app.
better hope you're good at the assault course then,
:)
They say you are only a proper racing driver once you have had a crash so I guess you are a proper pilot then
Good afternoon. Tea, chocolate orange biscuits a new iMacs to choose from
I like this Tuesday :D
Apparently they banned burnouts in aussie v8 supercars.
...http://jalopnik.com/motorsports/5797796 not so much.
If only the f1 drivers could have that sort of attitude
Jalopnok links don't work well in the UK :(
Nor Jalopnik ones ;)
can you set it to us somehow? i had the same issiue briefly, but now i always get the us site
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ovKnJXHLA&feature=player_embedded
I suppose so, I use it so rarely though
they have upped their motorsports coverage quite a lot recently.
Or are you judging it because its related to gizmodo :)
I didn't even know that, but now...
That link worked though
Odd
Right folks,
I'm off to the cinema - will report back in a while
:)
DRS zone for turkey is
a) round a corner
b) in the red bull crash patch
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91094
What's the reason behind the ban [which isn't working]?
Senna? Enjoy Leigh
Kotaku and Jalopnik are a lot more journalistic
A guy did it at the last race in NZ, apparently it set a bad example
Yes and fun shall be had I'm sure
And driving blisteringly fast is ok? Stoopid
The ban: http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sports/v8-supercars/v8-supercars-confirms-ban-on-post-race-celebrations/story-fn2ms9um-1226047494559
Looks like the protest worked: http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sports/v8-supercars/v8-supercars-australia-overturn-burnout-ban-following-whincup-bright-and-tander-incident/story-fn2ms9um-1226049164245
I wonder if the F1 drivers...never mind
Enjoy!
Fox AND Gawker?
Are you trying to upset me? ;)
SPEED :)
as recommended by will buxton :P
Evening all :D
Hello happy Lukeh.
Hi Lukeh, hi Christine
I am still eeking like an exciting badger, eek!
Rightly so!
Over Rubens' tweet?
My now that's an exciting badger :)
I should really say, sorry. Bit rude of me not to say... but in a few weeks I shall be working in my new job on an IT helpdesk for the prison service :D
Ooh, EA has agreed to buy Firement, the iOS games developer
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2011/05/03/ea-to-purchase-firemint-developer-of-flight-control-and-real-racing/
Cool, good for you sir. Is it local?
You'll need to re-watch The IT Crowd for tips :)
Don't show this to Mr C, 27" iMac AND two 30" monitors either side
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/03/apple-imac-hands-on-with-dual-30-inch-displays-video/
Yeah, in the posh side of newport :)
I think it's fate. It's out of the city centre in a technology park yet it still has a Greggs.
Woohoo, well done Lukeh.
Hello all
Hey people.
Sky News (shocker) reporting that: 'News Corp and Italian firm, Exor, working on joint bid for Formula 1'
Is that where the rappers are?
Fate
Wasn't this discounted last week?
Hey RG
Otherwise you wouldn't have taken the job, obviously.
Its being credited as breaking news on Sky News.
It was vital to the whole deal after all :)
Being part owner of FIAT, I can't see that being allowed
Evening.
That's fantastic. :) I presume you've quit the cold place in readiness, or are you double-stinting?
Ah, there news is often broken!
Hardly a new thing for the tabloid news channel
It'll take a few weeks to start because it's a government place and there's lots of checks so I can get in hours before I go, which I don't mind. Can get myself up and prepared for the job too.
Don't think station owned by News Corp would get that stuff wrong.
Well done!
How will you cope going to work dressed like a normal person & not a 70s zebra ;)?
I'm working on a bid too, I doubt I'll succeed either
I will have to take advice from giggles on how to dress normally in a shirt I think
D you have control of those electric cell doors?
you could open and slam them shut on a whim :)
Blimey, thats a surprising buy. Very smart though from EA, will be interesting to see what they do with the brand...
As long as it's blue and you avoid fish & chips, you should be good
One step at a time I think :)
Another F1 Podcast are at the Senna screening (so is Leigh).
Ok. Post Senna film Q&A with director, James Allen, Jackie Stewart and Martin brundle. Best question gets asked out loud
Im guessing:
Need For Speed: Real Racing
Sim ATC
is there only one screening?
CRB check etc, not trying to break out Fat Tony
Will James Allen apologise for spamming his commenters?
This is the James Allen one in London isn't it? I thought there was only one.
Yeah and it sold out in 45 minutes. I was going to go if I could have got a ticket.
giving everything af1p have called james allen, that should be an interesting conversation :)
ahhh, right. in no hurry to meet james :)
I must admit I hate the way the Senna film has been marketed.
They have marketing?
Apparently.
This drip feed limited release is a rubbish idea.
A question for James... why are you part of this panel exactly?
getting a new imac bassano?
Will there be a bleeper?
It has been so overhyped, dragging the release over 8 months to get publicity,
I am now half expecting to be dissapointed
Agreed. But that's distribution
Maybe it's a decision from the marketing department, either way, it's annoying
pretty sure they called james the 'c' word a dozen times in the last show i listened too. clearly he hasn't :)
I must catch up with their podcasts, haven't listened since the season recap
Yup, absofrigginlutely
Going over specs and forum benchmarks now
cool, which model, and more importantly... when?
The beatles are on iTunes?
The Malaysian one was pretty funny. Haven't heard the Chinese one yet.
i5 or i7 Quad Core, 27"
Hopefully will order by the end of the week, need to speak to a Genius ;)
Dual HDD + SSD I reckon too. This could well be my last desktop
???
It was a quiet launch :)
Haven't you heard? They're on iTunes, no one has mentioned it at all, ever!
#ignorantmarketing ;)
I either missed it or i have forgotten, oops
Wait, was it at the same time they released that 120 quid cd collection, i remember that! I don't really do itunes
Have you found a way to back-up your iPad yet?
I dont really bother. Last time i connected it to copy the f1timing app over it messed up the lock button on the side.
I think its better left disconected
I think it's you :)
I have a friend like that, I think electrons act funny around him
nah, it still has a dvd drive.
:)
I use mine
Lovefilm + Handbrake + External HD
I just think its a bit anarchic to go around having to plug things into sync them up. if it has wifi why on earth cant it do it itself. hopefully it will be resolved in the near future
Turned it into a mute button? That annoyed me so much. Apparently they've changed it back now. I'm not sure I trust them not to have screwed with something else. :)
Check out ivi pro... It's really neat... And inexpensive. It automatically adds the art work and the title etc from IMDB and puts it into iTunes for you automagically.
anarchic? that's the lamest form of anarchy i've ever heard.
I wonder if wireless synching will come with iOS 5
hehe
@Jamesallenonf1 has just spotted us and he doesn't look happy. Ejection imminent. yfrog.com/h0rwjrfj
anachronistic?
It would have been nice if it had said. "Do you want this important button to stop working"
But alas, lesson learned
he's going to stand there the entire evening staring at them
I don't rip to iTunes, I have a media player in the living room and bedroom with portable HDs connected
Shame you have to plug it in to give it power. The wire is still much faster than wifi. If they do bring out wireless syncing too soon people will only complain about how slow it is!
my Android phone doesn't need to be hooked up to any computer, ever. I just do it because so I can access the SD card as a removable drive.
Hand gestures?
oh... Apple TVs no HDDs... it's the future...
archaic?
Archaic?
Yes that was very annoying... It's an option now.
anaconda?
thats the one! :)
It's back now
Can choose between mute or orientation lock
You need iTunes to update it though :D
oh. that would make more sense.
unusually i agree with nick. it's not a post-pc era while you still have to plug it in. but then i don't believe it's a post-pc era anyhow.
I like to own my media. Hurry up iCloud
I also really want to not have to plug it in, because it would be the perfect machine for a lot of people I know who could then throw away their PCs.
PCs are still too big to put in the post
eh... Rip -> iTunes. Stream to Apple TV...
renting ftw. i love, love, love, love airplay. it's truly magical.
I dont mind doing that! nothing goes wrong when its just power!
I wouldnt mind them getting rid of scyncing all together. Have a way to wirelessly send stuff from your ipad to your iphone, download firmware and updates straight to the device would be great.
At the moment it thinks an ipad is the same as my mp3 player from 1999
eg. sit at Apple TV choose library select movie press play.
That is an option. Or I could plug a wireless dongle into the media player and stream over my network
Don't need two Apple TV boxes then
Full of boyzone?
I don't understand... Do you mean because you already have a media player?
ooh! :)
I have two and they are 1080p
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Live-Media-Player/dp/B002LZUHMI
*looks puzzled*
over to you alex :)
look pretty neat... But... how do you send the video you are watching from YouTube on your iPad to your television ;)
#cheapshot ;)
Apple tv is 720p isn't it. Plus, I don't have to replace the two boxes I already have
Eventually, maybe
m.a.g.i.c.a.l
I could use one of those
I can do that from my tv natively
#FiresBack :D
i don't really get the benefit of it. isn't it just a hard disk for your telly? apple tv is soooo much more.
Now, if they allow airplay mirroring from the iPad...
that would be neat!
I guess
Until TV has apps, I just don't need it
Apple TV, that is
fair enough, i coudn't be without it now. so much easier to find content on youtube on my desktop and just beam it to the telly. searching with a tv remote is dreadful.
I say we put together a Sidepodconsortium to fight off the News Corp/Fiat bid for F1. I have £4.63 in my wallet, that's a start!
i kinda want them to win, on the grounds they will at least bring f1 into this century.
I have 17 Dirhams
I don't use a lot of YouTube and when I do, it's usually a link from here
I combine the 2 with a dedicated desktop plugged into the telly :)
I know for a fact Amy has a Munter, as does Lou, that's worth at least £100 each
I was discussing SidepodFinance with Amy yesterday :D
it makes a difference that there's one of you i reckon. in the past we'd both have to follow the same link. now one does and we can both see it.
I don't understand why you would want to. I can see why you'd want to do that for iPlayer, 4OD, Eurosport, etc, etc... but not YouTube?
The sidepodconsortium will be so awesome it will take F1 into the NEXT century
#f1futurama
Fiat owning F1, how biased will they be then
a what?
needs to be seen to be believed. it's a game changer. it makes youtube very 'social' in that we both see content at the same time.
Me too and some marbles. I may even still have some volcanic rock
I have 20 Tenge from Kazakhstan on my desk...
Burb's amazing currency from Sidepodspa and the chalet camp. They are a currency like no other
True
Airplay mirroring it is then :D
given today's events with mike being re-hired, it's a ridiculous sport anyhow. how can this make it any worse?
aha!
So you can watch a low-quality 30sec clip of a cat on a 40in TV? Just hand over the iPad..
I also have some Kip, Dong, Baht, Riel, Rand and maybe some Euro
I want a gehaktbal!
Mike who?
I heard Sam Michaels is out on his ear at Williams
Euro? What strange currency is that? ;)
Photocopier Mike
'Flavio Briatore joins stewards'
Curried Wurst :D
Mmm Wurst Sausage, the best sausage.
Had plenty of them over Easter...
Ah, Coughlan
nah, you have to see it. i didn't get it until i saw it, so i understand where you're coming from.
we watched a software tutorial the other night and could discuss it and pause/rewind using the mouse, all while sitting at different desks. in the past i'd have to have got up and 'hovered' behind christine in an awkward fashion.
it works amazingly well for us.
yup
:lol:
i need that in a matte finish. *swoons*
Just short of 12 millions pixels
I see.
It's possible I have no use at all for that..
i would never get up again. i'd just sleep right there :)
it's a 'try it, don't think about it' thing, for sure.
@a_f1podcast:
Jackie tells us all it's ok to cry http://yfrog.com/hssihmmj
To all at #sennascreening who wants to join us in a "I'm Spartacus" declaration that we are all James Allen?
A demo of AirPlay that I just made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSJ0L4pPTxA
Austin have posted an aerial photo http://yfrog.com/z/h4iw6caj
mmm..mud
let me just beam that to the tv..... :)
:)
I recorded it on my phone which allowed me to upload it straight to YouTube and then watch it back on the TV :) or just watch it back on the tv without having to wait
Presumably somewhere along the way, they'll figure out how to get the full TV shows on the iPad too. I'm assuming it is the adverts that are restricting it now, but then we'll have all 4OD type stuff via Airplay too.
the future is now :)
Pretty sweet though
Alex, have you found the iPad 2 to be a significant upgrade?
I notice Safari still reloads when switching tabs :(
#NeedsMoreRAM
Virgin Media have just launched a TiVO box that lets you watch anything on in the last week, regardless of you remembering to record it
On the YouTube, I mean.
alex, you have to demo everything! that was a great explanation.
It'll be via apps i reckon. Like the Baseball thing in the states
Seems very.. flat. Need a closer shot. :)
that's handy, but sidepodcast isn't on virgin media, so you're restricted to 'big corp' content only.
that's on apple tv too ;)
Challenge TV is not 'big corp' but I see what you're saying and
Not yet... ;)
YouTube aren't just going to flick a switch and run the content they're already streaming? Better for them surely.
Verry clever :)
I was reading some speculation today about the new nintendo allowing you to do something similar with games
I wonder if the networks will hand over the power to YouTube and therefore, Google
I like it... The weight is a big difference for me and the ability to really easily remove the case.
Advertisers wouldnt allow it.
Google bought a company which was going to create an adwords style marketplace for radio ads, but it got blocked because google owned it
If I bought one, I'd get this wooden one
https://www.miniot.com/webshop/#
Now if you are thinking to yourself... Oh yes that's all very well and good... but I could just fast forward to the right point in the movie... then... Stick around for about 5 minutes and I'll demo something really cool
Cos when they said 'don't be evil', they weren't talking about themselves :D
I dunno. I mean, 4OD are on YouTube already with full shows + ads. http://www.youtube.com/user/4oDComedy
They also have an app, but does it hurt to have content in two places?
Choice is good
More places the better surely?
Hey look at us Christine! Having a MFC conversation with Mr C during the day :)
That's what I would think.
I know! I almost missed it because I was in the kitchen, but phew :)
we need a tv in the kitchen, i could beamed alex to you in there.
#notobsessed
Hehe.
That would have given Christine a start!
Andy Ihnatko was talking about an iPad bracket the other week
velcro is best, surely?
You wait years for a tv arrive...
That does look pretty good (and ta for letting us non-Appleheads know what AirPlay actually is..). I know people who would make very good use of that, if it had moving parts they'd wear 'em out. ;) If I didn't have an IPTV system already or a desire to put non-Apple-sourced stuff on it (as I assume you're still locked into their universe), would be worth considering, cost aside..
Awesome.
You have a kinder egg :)
I don't trust the adhesive that sticks the velco to the wall :D
my explanations suck. we need alex to explain sidepodcast to people too :)
ahh
I've got a BT Vision box with a whole heap of content available in their catch-up section, from the last week or so. I'd use it if I knew what was on telly and when...
You may not know this but kitchens get get a bit hot and sweaty ;)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 3rd May 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Looking for the next generation
- Daily: 2nd May 2011
- SENNA comes to Netflix
- DRS and Pirelli tires - I understand, but I don't agree
You aren't locked in handily. Which was what started this conversation. You can rip any dvd to iTunes and that will work that way. And anything you record yourself too...
was thinking christine needed a tv/appletv in there really. her ipad is always with her anyhow.
Not your explanation, more that there wasn't one from anyone, just use of product name only
I like this response to Joe's post about Fiat bidding for F1 [kinda]. Sums it up really
So that means Ferrari’s involved, indirectly?
Sky and Ferrari; I can’t think of a more unpleasant combination
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/news-corporation-and-exor-bid-for-f1/
Shoulda asked, then we could have laughed at Mr C's rubbish explanation :)
This is some ownership structure!
http://joesaward.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/f1-company-structure1.jpg
Indeed...
Also on the expense thing the AppleTV is £101
i DID explain. it was just THAT bad.
:(
up from £99 because of the VAT increase
Didn't realise CVC owned GP2 as well
I wasn't sure whether I was going to pitch in, often these chats go off into weird and wonderful technical topics I don't understand anyway so I often leave you all to it. :)
Ta
Odd that the two GP2 series are owned through different structures
No surprise considering Bernie's involved
That makes it affordable so some thinking to be done perhaps, whether to cancel BTV..
Can I just check, this works with the 1st iPad too or just the 2nd?
Definitely the 1st.
what is BTV?
AirPlay does work with the iPad V1 it's the iOS version that you need to watch for rather than a hardware thing?
Airplay does
So I recorded this new demo on my iPad I hadn't actually recorded any video with it until just now...
But this is a very very neat feature of AirPlay that goes way beyond having a second copy of your movies on a device attached to your tv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqrr7MUW9k
Change of pace, Donington piccies!
https://picasaweb.google.com/toomuchracing/2011DoningtonHistoric
BT Vision
have you not tried imovie yet?
Right, ok
kat has a bump!
I have been so very very busy :(
ooooh, we didn't know about beaming your photos. must try that in a second. cheers alex.
Has anyone used Blurb?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blurb-mobile/id430933688?mt=8
Filming for us? :D
Mmm, iMovie.
OK, Airplay is the killer feature
Mmm, windows moviahahahehe hehaha ahhaah.
Ah I tried sticking up for my laptop, I really did.
oh yes...
Loads of on-demand TV series and films for a flat monthly fee (dependent on choice of package).
Hehehehe.
i told you that 46 comments (ish) ago ;)
#wishicoulddemolikealex
Well today has been my first day off from chores and such like. Sounds like an exciting task for tomorrow.
Maybe I should make a Sidepodcast how to movie?
If you wanna switch, I know of a lovely iMac going up for sale soon :)
♥
I have a british flag with Pimms written on it!!!
It is the best flag I have ever seen
Ho-Pin Tung has been officially confirmed to Dragon Racing's No. 8 car for #indy500
- @CurtCavin, Indianapolis Star
Seeing is believing
I am home after my exam and appear to have survived although I think Alex must have wished me some bad luck at some point as I have completely lost my calculator....
For Goodwood?
See that's the thing... the content on AppleTV is slightly limited and so unless you can get the content somewhere else it might not be the replacement you need.
I'm loath to say that £101 is not very much money, because obviously it is, but I would feel better saying, "Get the Apple TV for these other really neat features and then work out if you can cancel your content subscription".
Mum found it on the weekend and it has landed in my possession and now nobody is having it :)
It shall be my new patriotic buddy
Hi Alison
Doesn't your phone have a calculator
We're all about device integration today
It went alright?
oh noes!
here's a response I made earlier: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5682987065/
There's no way they'd allow a phone in an exam.
am guessing the exam people don't allow calculators on phones or at least they never let anyone when I did my exams
Yes indeedy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5684037575/
That's some mighty fine photoshopping there sir
For an exam??? I couldn't find it, had to leave without it and buy one at WH Smiths on the way there....
omg!
What if it was in plain view and in Airplane Mode
Awww yay kat!
I did say when I made it earlier, "where's Lukeh when you need him"
scarily enough 10 weeks to go!
Ahh am sorry. I was busy getting a new job :D
(will stop smiling at one point I swear)
Perhaps the phrase should be, "time flies when you're having babies"?
you has a job?
Yeah, IT helpdesk with the prison service. start in a few weeks :)
It's just a blanket no means no. Saves them having to waste all day actually inspecting your phone. Also couldn't you just change the mode once they had and look up notes on the internet....
Woohoo!! :D
Right, and if it is linked to the iTunes store (?) there's things like the rental/purchase timings which many here dislike. The thing with BTV though is it also goes in cycles, your show might be up for 3 or 6 months but the next series may not appear for a while, or if you get delayed and it is removed, that's it.. you've got to wait 3 months again or it might've gone completely.
It is a lot less than I expected and only £22 over the WD device Bassano linked to (versions of which I'd been eyeing for some time). Being Apple I naturally assumed it would be double, or something. :)
:D
I hope you are charging your sleep battery, I hear it gets drained quite a bit in the first few months
been there, done that :)
photos on our tv!
brilliant! that'll be windows xp i'm guessing?
You expect an invigilator to know what that means? I don't even know what that means..
CAn you plug an external into the Apple TV?
not sure yet, but it'll be based around oracle which is all database related stuff which makes me feel fuzzy and warm
#ilikedatabases
I guess if I have to do any exams in the near future, I'll keep my phone in my bag or something
ooooooh, nice. oracle is a monster, but in a good way.
And IE6
Stop shuddering Mr C
Makes me realise how big my bosses bump is. She's 20 weeks pregnant and I swear her bump is at least as round as that. She was complaining about how big it was and I was a bit like yeah yeah yeah.... :P
If they are doing their job properly they'll insist on it, and bags at the front of the room, else phone on their desk. You could easily change to silent mode and text someone, they can't check 30 odd people at once.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg
in other MFC news, we can afford adobe software now (or some of it at least), thanks to their ace new rental model that started today.
When's Final Cut out, June?
#WWDC
Good grief, epic plugging opportunity missed: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/28/adobes-subscription-model-could-revolutionise-the-creative-process/
If you sit GCSEs or A Levels now, phones are not even allowed in the room. Not turned off, not in your bag, just not in the room. I mean they're not going to notice it switched off in your bag at the front but if they did, you could be disqualified.
(I'm sure disqualified isn't the word for that, it feels wrong)
oooooooooooops!
yup, epic creativity coming this summer.
DNF?
no, that is the word used.
4-6 weeks wait for iMacs with Solid Sate Drives, apparently :(
ouch.
Super quick though, the drives not the delivery :D
:)
The drives are fast I can confirm!
it'll be better (for the drive) when lion arrives with 'trim' support, but the speed is flat out amazing. thunderbolt is still the bigger game changer for me though.
nb: you won't believe me about this of course, until alex has demoed thunderbolt for you, so i'll just wait until you're ready ;) ;)
Did you get one in the MacBook Pro?
The iMac has an option to have the bootable drive as SSD and 1TB of regualr storage
he he cursor eating monster: http://lab.simurai.com/toy/monster/
Shall we just say 20 x faster USB2
:lol: :lol: :lol:
it's not that though. it's the ability to connect components across massive distances. your machine doesn't even need to be in the same neighbourhood, let alone the same room.
forget speed. the breakthrough is distance.
aaaaawwwwwwww!!!
And daisy chaining components. Monitor, extranaldrive, mixer, etc
Hi everyone. Spanish weather is crazy again...
imagine being able to use your office desktop at home. not dial-in across the internet and see the screen, but actually see the screen via a cable.
if everyone goes home at night, i could use all the office machines as a big old render farm. the distances are massive, it'll change desktop computing a lot i reckon.
Loving Doctor Who week: http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.com/2011/05/another-doctor-who-week-day-2.html
Today is Christine's Rankings day, so if anyone has spotted anything I need to know about, start yelling.
Turkish weather looks like being freakishly cold this weekend
Nice!
He doesn't need to do The silence, it's done for him by Matt groening
Heheh!
I've done something in the wiki... does this work or have I made a faux pas by just making a random page?
http://sidepodcastwiki.com/Sidepodcast_demo
The idea was to have a place to collect a list of things that need to be demoed about sidepodcast.
Ah-mazing, and just in time for my wiki highlight... which I had forgotten about :)
Looks ok
:)
Mr C about the iMovie on the iPad thing... Have you been using it too or are you still not sure about the finger size issue?
we don't have an ipad2 sadly. so not seen it yet, was curious what you thought.
aha... will let you know :)
I think there's a hack for it but it's not perfect
The biggest problem I have with the interface is a way of thinking about clip editing which is backwards. I was to move through the clip with the red line showing where I am and advance to exactly the right frame and then say split the clip here. But that doesn't seem to be the way to do it. You have to pull the end of the clip in to the point... But when you pull the clip end in it moves the red line to the end of the clip so you can see the final frame of the whole clip.
What they obviously want you to do is drag back to the right moment watching the video and if you've never edited video before that is probably more intuitive but it's still weird for me.
Was thinking of giving mine to my niece as a wedding present, she's keen on one, apparently
i hear ya. i think the iphone version might do something similar too. can you do multiple audio tracks (music + voice for example)?
Well this is why I need to do a demo of these things clearly :)
You can do it you just swipe down over the playhead and then on the divide you can fade between scenes... AWESOME!!!!
You can do audio and sound now
cooool!
that might've been the biggest issue. now you'll be able to do l-cuts and j-cuts etc.
Oh, wow
OWC [RAM supplier] are saying the new iMacs can handle up to 32GB of RAM
I'm maxed out on 4GB today :D
wowsers.
Though at today's prices, you'd be better off with a Mac Pro
RAM prices do drop fairly quickly
apple only goes up to 16gb?
j cuts you can do... i-cuts? match cuts? or like L cuts?
Yeah, I know. But as someone pointed out on MacRumors, the Mac Pro could support 64GB about a year before Apple announced it
sorry, that was an 'L'. silly typeface.
A capital!!!
oh ok... for a second there I thought I'd missed something important :)
it was bound to happen eventually :)
Let's hope we don't have to talk about T junctions
they never announced that the mac pro's have e-sata. even now.
#nopolitics
A friend of mine was asked today what his stance on AV was...
He replied, "I would tend to suggest Forefront instead of McAffee, but I don't have to worry as I use a mac".
I have added a iMovie edited movie to YouTube now...
There is a jump cut near the beginning and also audio and music... No I cut though or l cut ;)
A slice of life from Katherine's family... the only random video I had on my iPad :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUlxwi9f1aA
legend. thanks you.
Exam out the way, I've decided I'm more annoyed about being moved at work than I thought. It's all so sudden. I'm going in the morning....
I like the Coffee or Beer analogy :D
http://i56.tinypic.com/2w2lpq1.jpg
Moving on...
Huh, where too?
buzz cuts? cuts of meat? cut of your gib?
The cats video is awesome too...
that's very cool. music makes such a difference!
People don't say cut of your gib enough anymore.
I got a phonecall at 8am this morning from my pregnant boss crying her eyes out basically telling me my area manager was sending me to another site with immediate effect. I'm quite narked that it didn't seem I was asked, more that I've been told.
Ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/exor-and-news-corp-confirm-interest-in-f1-takeover-bid
Your work is really weird.
Death Star Canteen, obviously...
Can they do that? Move you the next day? Is it far?
busy day for news.
Jeff Vader plays hard ball if he doesn't get his Arrabiata
Bring back old sayings.
And none of it particularly good!
Did you rule out the airport thing?
It's about double the travel time. Not impossible for me to do or anything. Travel is going from 15 min to 25 min.
I've not spoken to my area manager yet as I was busy revising earlier and it's too late now but I've just realised how annoying it all is.
Tell Jeff to stock more Penne Arrabiata... and to make sure the trays are dry ;)
Say no, resign, ask for a better transfer. Are there options?
Yeah, I did my sums. My living costs are too low here for more or less anything to make it worth moving sooner than October.
i sooo read that as time travel. that would be an awesome job.
Double the time travel! Woo!
:)
Sounds like a Bill & Ted's sequel
Wait... she works in the Tardis?
I was thinking, go there until my holiday (next Friday) as a stop-gap. I've decided to ask for a pay rise and a travel allowance.
You sunk my battleship
Best 3 out of 5!
He doesn't want to do it, he can let me go back....
They can only say no. If you want to transfer to So'ton then you kind of need to stay in the good books
I don't mind working where they want me to go. Tbh I guess my main gripe is that he didn't phone me and actually ask before he told the new manager to expect me.
oooh, just remembered the daily... oops.
am soooo jealous of amanda going to dublin. need guinness!
Depends what your contract says but it would have been the polite thing to do
Boston Guinness > Dublin Guinness
Odd but true
Oh, and to end up in style: a postcard from Diego F
he needs a haircut.
lies.
I have a site named on my contract as a main place of work. They can require you to cover at another site but not change your main site without consent. I don't know, maybe my boss has the wrong end of the stick and it is just until my holiday.....
Same.
Why do they call it Dublin? Because it is always doublin'. #TimmyMallett #Wacaday #weirdchildhood
Paris Guinness has more alcohol in it than Dublin Guinness
From experience, they'd be very unlikely to make me stay anywhere if I made it clear I was very unhappy about it. I just think it's very rude and tbh no way to treat long-term staff.
Must be the Export stuff, I haven't tried that... yet
Guinness in the north of the republic [Donegal] was the best I've ever tried
Turn up at the other place and just ask what the deal is because they forgot to mention it.. might be just cover for someone else?
:lol:
Prove it ;)
Sidepodcast Guinness Challenge
Something to do with the French law that classifies different types of beer
you think a guinness made in dublin, stored, then shipped to boston and drunk in a pub... is better than a guinness that traveled a mere 300 yards up on to the roof of the brewery?
Maybe I went to the wrong pubs in Dublin :D
One of their staff has gone off on long-term sick yesterday. I knew about that. They were short staffed before that happened and are now very very short. They need bodies on the ground that can get on with things without needing their hand holding/training etc.
this is a brilliant idea: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/03/vodafone-lets-londoners-pay-for-taxis-via-text-message-charge-t/
Vodafone lets Londoners pay for taxis via text message and charge their phones in transit
Sounds temporary then
unless you have a memory like mine. in which case you last guinness was your best :)
My best one is the next
♥
i'll join then, one sec...
Well my current site needs to recruit immediately to replace me so I'm not sure I'll have room to go back. As I said, my manager was in tears telling me, it's going to leave us that short. She's pregnant and has gone down to part-time working and it was just me and her running the site so she really is in a mess now.
Pat, I tried that Gold something, cider stuff
Quite sweet but tasty
Sounds pretty unprofessional.
Why did I just open wine
You'll do well, I don't think we've got any in.
rats
Alex! Guinness on YouTube please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhxDR4lg8o
There's loads there
:D
Mr C, I guess you saw this Photoshop/iPad/CS5.5 thing
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/03/adobe-photoshop-update-ushers-in-new-era-of-ipad-compatibility/
Maybe... I guess we don't have a very professional relationship. I've been there basically a year now and since she's gone down to part-time, I've been doing large parts of her job.
A site being screwed by upper/middle mgmt suggests to me that it won't be around much longer. Maybe that's my bias having had it happen to me.
I really like it, not sure I could have more than a couple in one sitting though. Another one to look for is Olde English, not so sweet. Usually hiding amongst all the Strongbow / White Lightning rubbish.
Agreed. I'll look out for that one
yeah. it's how i always wanted the ipad to be (an extension to my desktop machine).
Makes sense
essentially i want ipad apps for all my software and for them to run as a touch surface to augment the mouse (like a massive trackpad). that way you use the mouse for detailed mousey things and fingers for anything else.
:)
there is a very strong one in Belgium!
Perhaps. I guess if it was that I should be flattered he doesn't want me to sink with the ship :P
Missing that and Plopsa Coo make it certain I will return to Belgium on eday
*One day
[though that was an interesting typo]
If the option arises during a rebel attack, don't believe the boss when he says the Death Star is indestructible - use the escape pods!!!
Sore subject, I nearly picked some up in the shop but bottled out of it because I thought we had plenty of other in the fridge
We didn't go short
I do think Belgian Guinness is a tad overrated.. just tastes like any other dark Belgian beer to me
Not that that's bad but it ain't proper :)
I wish they sold Kwak here, that was lovely
That was nice
@a_f1podcast have decided against asking silly questions at the Q&A
#Unlinkables
:)
Kinda glad they didn't do that.
I think that was a joke, they were never going to do it.
bah. all mouth and no trousers those two. spend years bitching about james allen and then they're bff's after two hours?
For those in the US not working turn to Versus now for a new one-hour show, IndyCar Open Wheel Weekly. And tell us what's on it because they've been teasing a big bit of news. :)
GRRRR #musttakemindoffjob
Alternatively, enjoy these Group C videos I took on Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/user/PatWotton80
Stopping commenting about it would help ;)
CAn't even have a proper flame war either ;)
weak :)
:D It's all Nick's fault! He asked me about it then went to bed. The cheek of it!! :D
At least they went to an event where they knew James Allen was there ;)
i consider leaving because i knew he was there "standing by my principles". but there ya go.
And your principles never get us into trouble.
Fair enough. Can't say I would be principled enough to do that for the Senna movie though!
I guess it's a bit more grown up than sitting across the table and pulling faces. Sounds less fun though!
depends how much you wanna watch it i guess.
Speaking of work, in my office they finished making the hole in the wall behind me and by tomorrow morning all of our desks will be moved around!
Let's put it this way. I am pretty sure I don't need 2 kidneys...
heheh. and i'll wait for it to appear on itunes.
I'm not even sure I want to see it. I don't do emotions well.
:lol:
Into the hole?
Blimey. I don't think I'd watch it unless Nick wanted to see it and I happened to be there.
i'm more interested in the 'now' than the 'then', but i'll watch it anyhow.
Oh boo.
"IndyCar Owners Reject Aero Kits For 2012"
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-owners-reject-aero-kits-for-2012/
Silly sausages!
that was the best bit!!
Actually I will be in front of the hole...
Was it just me that thought 'Airfix Kits?'
Veiled threat? Work harder or I'll push you in?
I thought that was the whole point of the new regs.
Are they putting in an exhaust? :)
I'm only joking. But I do really want to see it (I am gonna try when I am in the UK in July) - and I refuse to watch a pirate version until one comes out with proper subtitles.
Yup. We'll get the new cars and engines but the bodykits will have to wait. That's not good, part of the fun was going to be seeing the teams try and understand both car and kits at once. Now they'll know the cars in advance.
What's wrong with them? They're better than Time Outs or Boosts
it's a dividing wall between two parts of the office. We are now one. I will be near the separator, which is better than where I sit now - by a corridor with a glass wall which everyone bangs on...
:)
Subtitles are available. Allegedly. For some reason, the ones floating around are about an hour longer. Director's Cut?
Hehe!
Why does American Single Seater racing never learn from it's own history? The sport ripped itself to pieces twice because the team owners got too powerful and dictated the rules.
I hope Randy stands firm on this...
How very McLaren :)
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/rubens-barrichello-picks-up-the-most-points-in-this-weeks-christines-rankings
Apparently not properly translated though.
I don't think McLaren's office is all wood panels and glass with grey carpets, but there you go ;)
I'm happy to wait for a Kosher viewing. Sounds like this needs the support of fans
The article suggets it may be a Penske/Chevy thing but Roger says it isn't a power play.. Ganassi is in favour of going ahead and so is Honda.
Talking of work, this is my final week of pre-5am alarms
Not switching to 12hr shifts, I'm doing 8 till 4 like a normal human [ish]
Evening all, just returned from choir rehearsal which turned out to be a meeting and the choir is finishing :(. The good thing is that I don't now have to explain why I can't be at the summer concert which is the same day as Goodwood but I will miss singing with them.
I am consoling myself with toast. Some with Nutella & some with peanut butter #comfortfood
Who knows? I am in favour of body kits as it was a good idea to have a base car which could be modified.
Beats 6-3. I'm not bitter at all....
toast always helps :)
Hi Janna, that is a shame
Awwww :(
Thanks, will just have to spend my Tuesday evenings watching House ;)
Alison, I know you're changing job locations. Are you know not coming down south in the near future? Let me know if you need to come & stay to scout accommodation for Southampton.
Is it because they have sung all the songs?
If they have run out of hymns you could always try syncronised bodypopping or beatboxing
So kind! I'm almost certain I won't move until October now. I will definitely be in touch if the plan changes :D
Or Mashups...
Falling membership is making it not viable to continue. They will probably combine with another local choir with which we recently sang Messiah but it's difficult for me to get there.
Choirister's Got Talent
Beatboxing Messiah or a mashup of Verdi's and Faure's Requiems?
Now thinking about searching YouTube, someone must have done this
It was ok for William Orbit Barber's Adagio For Strings
I love this remix. Pieces in a Modern Style is a superb album anyway but I like this version.
Agreed
I don't know how much time to leave to get to new workplace. I don't have my own keys atm and I don't want to be waiting outside for ages. Might risk being late #rebel
aah shoot :(
Janna, Alison and Steven
Did you see Alex's cursor eating monster link? http://lab.simurai.com/toy/monster/
Stop thinking about it!
:). Off to bed now, thanks for the sympathy everyone, I can always rely on the comments to cheer me up. #keeppositive
It might help you if you switch off at some point. Once I had a dreadful day at work, but I was determined not to let it spoil my evening as I had a colleague come over for dinner. He knew nothing about it and we had a lovely evening. you can't solve these sorts of problems off the clock I am afraid.
Oh yes, that's what I meant :)
:)
I have to choose a time to set my alarm!
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/back-to-a-lotus-tie-in-the-team-rankings-this-week
http://tinyurl.com/eastendersdrums
bAt this rate I'll be surprised if you get to sleep ;)
Your timing is excellent as always!
i say 3am, anyone else?
That should cover all eventualities
I am officially sulking!
That always works
it's not official until you put out a press release.
*check email*
:lol:
You might get two or three headlines out of that too.
As predicted?
Karun is getting up at 3, so you'll be in good company:
i really should be going to bed now.... 3am wake up call to fly to istanbul !
http://twitter.com/#!/karunchandhok/status/65523916550045696
It's okay, the crisis is over. New rota gives me time for pre-holiday haircut :)
Another holiday! That's something to smile about
Phew
I'm flying next Friday (13th) :D
Anyway, time I was off to bed
Night all
I didn't think I could find Jack Sparrow any more awesome... then they make a PotC lego game!!
http://twitpic.com/4synw5
Sooo cool!