Friday at long last, and even though we were lucky enough to have a bank holiday on Monday, it has still felt like a long week to me. For those returning to school, it is probably even longer, so let's talk about something else. It's Friday!
- Last night, Kathi uncovered some pictures of Fisichella in his new home with Ferrari, and oh my god, is it good to see Rob with an actually capable driver. I never thought I would be relieved to see Fisichella anywhere near Rob, but there you have it. That is what Luca will do for you.
- I spent some time updating the SPC Regulars page on the wiki recently, and have already blogged about what is new and improved, so I highly recommend you check out that post and then the wiki. Neil asked when one should consider oneself a regular, and I think that is an entirely personal decision. It could be when you start commenting every race, or if you show your face in each daily, or maybe when you sing songs about live show outtakes.
- Finally, Alguersuari was in the news yesterday, talking about the fact that he is happy to keep on racing in other sports because above all things, as a 19 year old racer, he sees himself as a karting driver. Even above Formula 1. An interesting perspective on things, and a refreshing one. He's doing Formula Renault and karting alongside his STR responsibilities - yay for drivers doing other things.
That's all for now. Thanks to everyone who has pointed out the Franck news - he has been emailing Peter Windsor but that doesn't mean anything and I'm not getting my hopes up just yet. I'll see you in the comments.
hello friday, you lovely, lovely thing. hoping friday will be just as awesome as thursday.
Can you do me a favour.
To your left or right, is there a glass?
isn't it just?
brimming.
thought as much :D
yeeeyyyy Friday!!
Is Mr C sloshed?
a little i think
*refreshes Doohickey*
Ahhh Friday. I like Fridays. I think I said the same thing last week.
I got my Fleetwood ticket :D :D :D :D
he had a good thursday. I think the idea of such an event has gone to his head!
Friday...
Makes me want a fry up
deliriously happy. i've been waiting six months for an update from google and it came the day fisi got the drive of his life and there was no bad news in f1 at all.
i knew it. brilliant start to friday.
We will find out if he loses the use of another key on his keyboard
hehehehe.
I've really got to stop listening to *that* song. It's going to be in my head. Booo!!
:D :D :D
I may or may not be doohickeying at work with my hidden laptop
Rebel!!!
this one?
It's a brilliant story! Fisi getting his drive at Ferrari, that is. Made my day when I saw it :D
hehehe
can you dropio or qik your supreme hiding skills?
how do you hide a laptop?
Now you have an idea what Christine felt like. You still haven't been on radio yet or had to face the person you were singing about. I would love to know what Ringo thinks of the song.
Looking forward to it being Friday night. I have pizza and a bottle of red. You have been warned.
hahaha, i love it. embedding it means i have to listen to it!
I don't think he'll be able to hear it
i chose a desk in an area no one comes to
Others won't, right Mr C? ;)
Nooooo! Why would you do that....
:)
must shut down now. will be back on mobile doohickey in 5 :D
Tactical!
Why are you awake? Am I confused about the time?
She is at work. This is when she is supposed to be awake
Remembered why I don't use LCLT much these days
hehehe brain fade...
It literaly took me over a miniute to work out where to pause that song!
Ah I see :P
hmmm
and yours is broke too?
yay. good news. no compatibility issues at all?
oh I don't know about that...
;)
shes at work....
:)
What happened?
None so far
Adblocker plugins don't work in Safari yet, I 'm sure it won't be for long
I don't understand how Amy's not been fired yet! I'd go mental if my staff were playing with electronic equipment in deserted corners of the office.
ah-ha. 64bit.
I think Jon's song sounds better on the second hearing. Maybe because I know the lyrics now and am not trying to listen for them
I think this is her first time doing it at work. It's when she's at home she has the problems
Aye
But you can run Safari in 32-bit only mode and they will, apparently
None for me!
Agreed, and the more I listen to it, the more i realise that its not *as* aweful as i thought it was
You can\t be fired from the collective
No clues for anyone... But it will be fun if everyone guesses...
All I'm asking is for you to guess who the top ten most famous people in the world are (probably) and pick one of them....
I've just been writing about Lucas Di Grassi, does this make you happy Steven?
By the way, is he still Renault third driver? I thought he was when piquet was around too
*confused face*
i need a spare mac to test this on.
RINGO STAR!?!?!!?
Grosjean was 3rd driver but when he got promoted, LDG took his place.
Is there a Mac mini in the house? ;)
Close...
ah ok, wikipedia was wrong *shocked*
Paul?
I suppose Madge would be one of them but I wish she weren't
that one's more important than mine!
brian mcfadden
good call
:) oh dear! :)
The most important Mac in the house is a mini used by someone who doesn't even like it? ;)
Right... I'm going to bed... fewer than 5 hours until I have to be up!
he's in london.
Is he?
That wasn't a confirmation!
G'night Mr Giggles
when you put it like that. fair game for snowy i say ;)
Night Prof
laterz.
Bono
1. Matt bellamy
2. Neil buchanan off art attack
3. Batman
4. Rodney trotter
5. Ted kravitz
6. Babe the Pig
7. Giggles
8. Bill Gates
9. Janet Street Porter
10. You saw your qik stream
It has to be one of them!!
You've seen the compatibility software list I take it?
Night
i love number 10!
Tom cruise?
David Beckham?
Timmy Mallet?
What about Tintin?
This better not be an ordered list, Ted Kravitz isn't nearly high enough
our audio hardware isn't listed. but i'm confident they won't work.
it took me a whie to get...but i like it :D
My mum saw timmy mallett at a non league football match last week! Good stuff.
Used to live down the road from me, when he was with Nicole
Never saw him in the boozer or kebab shop though
Rick Astley!
I say it again, only slightly prouder this time.
Someone from my town stole Timmy Mallets hat
:D
everyone time I read it, it gets better
He was on Cricket/Soccer am recently?
I quite like di Grassi as a driver but not as much as Christine does
John Lennon?
This wasnt a question..
I am just feeling quizical
Before you install, do yourself a Carbon Copy Clone of your hard drive & check it's bootable
Christine likes his driving?
Is that a first? ;)
show off.
good plan.
I don't think she likes his driving so much as him without a helmet
This is the best i can find, boo
108 GB took a couple of hours to clone via a USB external for me
Tis as I suspected
I needed an excuse!
Or did I?
I think it was revenge for that song
""All the people of Maldon rallied round and I'm very thankful."
A productive 6 minutes was had.
Oh how proud of my town i am....hmm
:D
What i don't get, is that it says one person found him some hats...but then "all the people...yada yada yada" is he calling said person multi-faced? hmm.
Holy. He almosts even sounds like one of the Buggles! I mean, there's spoof, but that's a little too scary ! :D .
I wonder if whoever made this spoof was on the first six minutes of the first ever MTV show ?
ARGH MY EYES
That's a bit mean of him. Could've at least called him multihat-ed or something
I sound like one of the Buggles? I'm not sure whether to take that as a complement or not...
Cricket am on the 11th of july
You need to go to 'more shows' then 'cricket am' and he is on page 4? ;)
USF1 News? Jonathan Summerton just tweeted that he's in NC (North Carolina).
Although it may mean he's going to a NASCAR team based there... I wonder if it is USF1? He races in junior open wheelers this season.
If EJ had full creative control of his role...
ooh, good find.
Link fail, try again:
@jsummerton
@jsummerton
ta :-) I followed him a few weeks ago when his name cropped up..
I'm gonna head off to sleep as im yawning worse than a valencian crowd. Night all!
good lord!
@jsummerton
oooh, epic fail on my part too
Night
ok stop!!
i give up
Night!
This one?
this is the link to jonathan summerton's twitter!
http://twitter.com/jsummerton
(preview button ftw)
Mr C mentioned Carl Edwards breaking his foot in yesterday's Daily. Turns out he's got his sponsor mentioned in his presser about it. He's sponsored by an insurance company!
“I guess you never know when something is going to happen,” Edwards said Thursday afternoon in a statement issued by Roush Fenway Racing. “This is obviously an unforeseen accident and even though I am not going to miss work, my Aflac policy has me covered. I’ve now seen first hand how Aflac works and it’s clear that no matter how big or small the accident is Aflac is there for their policyholders.”
:)
Not clicking that
Night Lukeh
Night Lukeh
night lukeh.
Its only an extract...
How will i know if its the right one?
Night
Ta. Keep forgetting about the preview. To be fair I assumed it would work first time.
I clicked and now all i can think of is....
Itsy Bitsy Tiny Weenie Hocky Cockey Linen
Full music video FTW
Oh my, i'm going to have to parody that one
I have had to expand my musical choice now i have replaced avril :(
I've decided that, on the basis of his website and the fact that he can spell his name right i.e An not On at the end, i shall support Jonathan Summerton if he comes to F1
even if he partners franck?
Other racing to watch on a non-F1 weekend
umm. yeah, but he'll obviously be my second favourite ;) clearly not all Jonathan's are great
;)
Aaaand on that bomb shell, i shall depart! Am gonna need all the sleep i can get!
Night all
I didn't realise there was a Moto GP race this weekend.
night jon.
Night Jon
Night!
Night Jon
Night.
Grrrr. What can I do tomorrow? :(
Awesome, i have really gotten into it this year, i still need to catch up withlast week though
What are the options?
I haven't either. I usually watch most races, not always all of them. This year I've caught perhaps two. I've got several stored on my freeview recorder, I guess the benefit to MotoGP is the races are quite short.
Hmmm not very plentiful. I mean I have a car, I can go somewhere but there's nowhere very interesting around here really :P
Move?
Where is 'here'?
are you near the sea?
haha!
Cumbria! It's pretty but the weather's gross.
Start a blog about your travels. Blogging is fun apparently
But I've not been anywhere.... Plus I need to develop some more active interests.
Go to the coast.
Even if the weather is rubbish it is always awesome to stand by the shore and look out...
Oh, I have no idea what's there..
Ultimate Frisbee?
North, North, North again, Left a bit...
You have sorted out flights. Lots of people (well Amy) spend ages trying to find flights at the right price. Plus you are planning stuff.
Get your bike out.
I will give you a clue. It's called the lake district.
No. It's waaaay south
I havent been any further north on this island, anything further is purely theoretical
Hehehehe!
:-)
I drove through it when I moved to Scotland, and back again 10 months later
So I am a figment of your imagination?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria
You could visit some lakes and get some Kendal mint cake. Other stereotypes are available.
I want to go DO something. There's nothing going on around here. It's deserted.
gosh catching up with comments took longer than i thought. Now i am going to get a croissant for breakfast.
I'm still confused about why you're not fired :P
Hohum. Knitting it is I suppose :(
With my employer, you pretty much have to kill someone to get fired
Did seem to take a while for me. Just did a timezone check and didn't realise it was 11.10am there, thought it was later. Still, shouldn't you be working?
This is a big philisophical issue, in theory the whole world i perceive could be a figment of my imagination..
But no, you exist, but i cant completely believe in the existence or location of a place until i have been there.
It is a bizare policy i know, but basicly i have faith in your location but not belief until i have been there...
Got to be more to do than that.
I bet croissant was hard to type :P
Hmmmm most stuff to do around here is mainly in the category of "romantic day out"
Simillar to how we all wish Valencia was, except Lou, of course. She's been there
It is an interesting view but must make it difficult to follow F1 when you haven't been to most of the tracks
I am afraid that I am one of the few people that does not confuse the word "famous" with the "popular" but for me famous implies that you are remembered tens/houndreds/thousands of years after your death for being useful to society. Here's my list:
I) Sir Winston S. Churchill
II) Thomas Eddsion
III) Alexander Graham Bell
IV) Socrates
V) Karl Marx
VI) Henry VIII
VII) James Watt
VIII) Michelangelo
IX)Thomas Hobbes
X) Neil Armstrong
its only just after 10 :D i am working but we are quiet today. They will no doubt send people home soon, then i shall be busy
There must be great places to go on your bike in Cumbria.
not good. most things to do where i am are for old people.
Again, in this weather? I'll get blown into a lake.... You just want that to happen so you can laugh at soggy photos.
stupid timezones and converters. can you get them to send you home?
Bedtime for me. Bit later than intended but Winamp on random kept playing upbeat songs. Got something more relaxing and bed-preparing so shall see ya after work and stuff tmrw. err today.
hey all :)
I havent even been to any! Even Abu Dhabi.
Not having complete beleif Abu Dhabi exists made it difficult when i was posting on a UAE development forum for 5 years...
Hola, all
A very wise decision on your part, BC.....
i left early yesterday so i had better stay today or ill never be able to afford spa!
You could live stream it to keep us entertained.
Evening...
Hows the sunshine state, any alligators?
Night Pat
So Spa was the decision?
hey, has anyone else got Jonathon Summerton on their Twitter accounts? he posted something interesting about half an hour ago about hopefully living in North Carolina in a few months! sounds like someone has a job with USF1~?????
Hey adsracer
Night
Hi Joe
I'd bet all have that Summerton is in the #2 seat at USF1
and how good is the Fisi news! its making me almost like the Red Empire again!
Hey, Thats interesting
I wonder if they have bought the plane they were thinking about? otherwide you would think he would live next to the european base?
yeah sounds like he would be a good fit there! i watched him in A1GP and he seems really talented, and he is a nice kid!
I am almost more pleased that he got it than PK.
Monza should be amazing. I would love it if he wins there!
spa was always the decision!
hell yeah! i like Kimi, dont get me wrong, but u cant suck all year and then all of a sudden decide u should drive for your future!
Is there anything to do there at night? I'd kind of like to go to Melbourne, but that is probably not the most exotic place for you
But turkey looks like fun ;)
Sidepodpubbing!
You wouldn't have to worry about someone sitting next to you
Yes, could be a blast
A noble past time, sport of kings
Hehehe by myself?
Well, I'm definetly going to Montreal, but I'll try and squeeze Spa in
Its live comments, but in the pub!
I'm sure there'll be others there
We need to do it again with Dr Giggles
bahahaha then u should definitely go to Melbourne! Pubs everywhere!
Drinking is our national sport in Oz
Indeed
Im good to go anytime!
Am on lates at the mo. Am thinking there shouldn't be a work day following. I had the day off last time, can't keep doing that ;)
cool, we will have to liase with alex but im not up to much apart from next saturday
Blimey how do any of you keep a job, it's a miracle!
I am yet to find out... :(
Easy, I'm at work right now
Toseland must watch F1, he used 'for sure'
I booked the day off in advance
This is what I mean.... How do you get away with this? What are you all supposed to be doing instead of commenting?? :P
:D
Waiting for a house fire or medical emergency. It's slow on our island right now and I'm at the slow station
"Slow station" does not mean where they put the dumber firefighters
Ah, I see what you mean.
Am currently at home, I was telling Nick, this week I am on a late shift
I don't get to comment from work, I just get to look a the odd bit of news during a meal break
:P
Well don't just sit there waiting. Go start a fire
:D
I was going to ask if you rode the short fire bus :)
Looking for a job....
But if it makes you feel better i have the tokoyo stock exchange open earlier. But it got scary so i closed it
:D :D :D
I prefer watching the Rays and commenting. Fires are 1o minutes of excitement followed by 3 hours of hot, dirty work.
hehehehe
Buy pork bellies
I just had a quick look, its like brick in a pond
Technically, yes. In North Fla, we had transport rescues, that were shorter than engines and referred to as Buses. I was on Rescues for about 3 yrs
Have you ever been called to get a cat out of a tree or is that just on tv?
I actually did once. It was at the top of a tree next to the tee on a golf course howling his head off. But the typical answer to this call is, "Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?"
Hehe great response!
When I was in Germany this summer, at one of the campsites we stayed at this convoy of trucks pulled up into the field next door
One of them was a fire engine, one had a yacht on it, the last one was a normal truck with a marquee in it, benches, camping equipment, enough beer to sink an oil tanker
The local fire station were out for a night of laughter....
(hearts)
I thought you just called the Police Department and they would shoot the cat out of the said tree...
Well It worked in the movie !....
I was pretty worried about what might happen if there was a fire! There were about 25 of them. I'm pretty sure it was the whole station.
I wonder what would have happened if you turned up with an axe and started felling?
No, can't do that. We are the good guys of public service
That would be great! But we would cut to the chase and use our chain saws
The golfers would have been happy that their handicapp has down down by at least two strokes...!
You guys seem to better kitted out than what i have seen over here!
I don't think anyone felt sorry for the cat, the golfers were pissed at being disturbed
You could not use the high pressure hose on either the cat, or better still, the golfers then ?
Our trucks are stuffed with gear. Some of it is ridiculous. We carry folding anchors on the trucks. I have asked WTF numerous times, with no straight answer
For the yacht?
Like I said, never got a straight answer. Our boat could hardly be called a yacht at 25 ft.
Hurricane to keep the truck from flying away too far? Heard the Dallas FD is looking for a new truck...
I suspect that the anchor might be for a boat fire, if the boat burns through its moorings and tries to float away, but it'll only get so far.
Did Dallas crash a truck?
A couple of years back the firefighters in the UK went on strike,
So we had the old 1950's Nuclear response military trucks out instead!
Ah Green Goddess!
Yikes!
http://www.sanibelfire.com/Equipment.htm
Our stuff
Not that I heard but I am sure they are not too proud to accept a free fire truck that falls on top of them.... I just had to think up of some US City that is to the west of you (Where the Hurricanes usually travel to make the joke work and somehow Nolan Ryan came to mind, so => Arlington ==> Dallas.
I get it. New Orleans would have been a little closer to the bullseye
I'm going to attempt a relatively early night
See ya folks
Looks so much more exciting, every fire engine here looks so similar...
something like this
Good luck and Night!
I do think those trucks look cool. Night Nick
talk to you later
Hehe i dont go that early!
Sorry. Well, I think it's time for brownies and ice cream....anyone?
Nite to those people going to bed...
I miss american food.
What i wouldnt do for a dennys or a taco bell!
just watching the moto gp from indy.
What have they done to the circuit! No banking!
Taco Hell totally kicks butt. I'll TB tomorrow on my way to the Rays game
No taco bell where you are?
Well if i was with you it would be 2 steak gorditas...
I loved the mini burgers and mushroom and swiss at denys though.
Especialy for breakfast :P
Grilled Stuffed Burrito
Having Tim Holton's Donuts myself... Currently one of the jelly ones or I think some of you Europeans call it, a Berliner....
Jam doughnut!
Never heard of them, but enjoy
I also loved the fact in new mexico you can get a green chilli cheeseburger at McDonalds.
I have been to branches all over the world and the only place i have been served by someone who didnt speak english was in Albuquerque, NM!
They are a Canadian chain, but i think they opened a couple of stores in NY recently
Jelly, Jam - same difference. It ends up in my stomach....
Jelly over here Wobbles!
I think you guys call it jello
Okay, so who's were, so I can figure out who has what and not what
Did that actually make sense? Who's where
Recently? Tim Holton's has been in Buffalo NY even before old Tim retired from the Sabres and that's like going back 20 years easy.
I am in the UK just outside of london at the moment, I grew up in dubai and my family live in australia.... but i have travelled quite a bit aswell
I can't believe there is no Taco Bell in London. There's also cool place in the US, Moe's Southwestern Grill. Very good
Its crazy, they just opened a branch in dubai, so thats 'my local' :P
Havent heard of Moes but i will give it a look.
There are so many fast food chains i miss. In Dubai we have hardees which i love. And i occasionally get cravings for Sabbaro's, but i think the 2 branches over here have both shut
Sabbaro's is good pizza. I can't believe Dubai has a Hardees, that's like on the lowest rung of the ladder for fast food in the US. I guess it's hard to find Hooters in the MIddle East
I am outside Toronto, Canada. Not a decent Tim's anywhere. Found one in a place called Richmond Hill....
I know this isn't fast food, but I had fish and chips at the Irish Embassy ( A Pub) in Montreal and tried it like the Brits, you know, with the vinegar. I didn't get it. I prefer ketchup
Hardees is awesome, i havent found one in the US, but they seem to be the same as Carls Jr.
Love the roast beef, love the 6 dollar burgers! Shame they dont have the purple and orange logo, but the big cookies are still amazing!
Did you go to the IRL race there this year?
They're here, in east Ft. Myers, kind of a redneck area. Don't make it there much
hehehe, we have both!
Dowse the chips in vinegar, add a layer of salt then you dip them in the ketchup as you eat them. YUM!
I hadn't heard of Carls Jr., until I saw the movie Idiocracy. I'm interested to try it.
Use mayo. It will taste better.
Hopefully in 2010, I'll have them again in Montreal
No. I never did once I learnt how to drive. I am Jealous that Paul Tracey takes seconds to cover teh backstraight, a same distnace that takes me 10 minutes in very good traffic and hours on a Friday after work....
Hohum. Does anyone know anything about accountancy training?
I was considering going, mainly because a band from Montreal, This Side Up were there. But IRL is cheap fun
If I can spare about $1000 CDN, I would love to go in 2010, the money is a little tied up....
I have a friend that did it
I have no idea. Thinking of a career change?
You changing careers again?
I have taken to putting mayo on pizza.
I didnt understand it for years then had it by accident and it was really good.
You need to come to spa to put it on chips though!
Hah no, not really. My sister was asking me about it. I can't work out if you need to do a degree or not or really how one goes about it. I get that the professional qualification is training alongside placement but i don't see how you get on it.
There are a variety of entry points, you can get on it without a degree
The Money's tight. Besides, I Christine might cancel the Spa trip as an offical Sidepodcast trip once she figures out that there are no marmots or otters in Spa.... And maybe the cute polar bear cub might excite her...
My brother is a chartered accountant and he did a BA straight from school then did something like 4 years with an accountacy firm to become chartered.
I have a friend who is a certified accountant and she left work at the age of 30ish and did a degree then got a job from there. I would imagine it is very difficult to get a decent accountany job without a degree if it is at all possible.
We need a rundown on the wildlife in Belgium
I think we can rule out Pandas
Do the locals count?
They must have some kind of cute animals
You'd have thought so, but everything I've looked up seems to be talking about the accountancy qualifications. Your degree doesn't have to be in accounting or finance does it?
So long as Christine thinks they are cute
There's a big strike against Spa!
Christine..... MARMOTS!
Montreal for Marmots. A plus for LH, as he drove wide at the hairpin to miss one in 2008
Could you bring one?
If joe could grab an alligator as well we would have all we need?
I've seen them, they're really not that cute...even the babies
No. I have no idea what my brother's degree was in but I know it wasn't accountancy. My friend who became a certified accountant did an accountancy degree. Both of those were a while ago though.
I know there are a few accountancy trade associations that you should be able to get info from.
Try http://uk.accaglobal.com/
Hmmm, how to convince Christine the beavers at my brother's place are Marmots ? I will say that KOVI ran over their tails and flattened them! That's it!
Er, no one heard that!
There is a separate Scottish association which may have different rules
http://scotland.accaglobal.com/
I doubt that she has ever noticed their tales
The Kovi thing would appease Amy, you should say Franck did it.
I hope it wasnt the same one ant picked up!
No, he had been dead for about a year, give or take a weekend
Unless you are great at mesuring distances, it might be pretty hard to tell the difference between a MARMOT (Groundhog) and a Beaver if they are crossing open ground unless you look at their tails. The Beaver has the flattened one so that It can spread the mud that glues its dam together.
Marmots burrow so their tails look like a normal animal tail.
I had no idea that marmots were groundhogs!
They should have called the film Marmot Day. It would have been way more popular
:lol:
ah, a cousin then!
Will they have to do any work on the circuit if it comes back next year? last time i saw it, it was literally falling apart!
I watched the NASCAR and Grand Am races from there last weekend and they said that the track had been resurfaced. I think they are good to go. I know the city is dying for F1 to return
The Anti-Borg "Sleep" command will take care of Amy, but I am not getting anywhere near the Naughty Chair. With you onboard after Christine reads this I am sure that chair's going to be overloaded. Now the question is "is that chair in the "engineer is protecting his backside" redzone or is it going to fail in five seconds ?"
Naughty Chair?
Thanks Steven. That's very confusing but I think it's the right place to look. I'll have a proper look once I'm awake properly.
Well, here is me thinking "What is a Marmot?" When I am whating McLarens dodge a groundhog....
I do remember from a Canadian Grand Prix that some commentator thought a Beaver got hit by a car too. Think it was the same Groundhog/Marmot - hence how easy it is to mis-id the two creatures...
sleep? never!
It shouldn't be too difficult to find information. I would ask my brother but he has been in Hong Kong for the last ten years so no doubt he is completely out of touch
Back on the secret laptop or have you been rumbled?
lunch break laptop time :D
If F1 are going back to IMS they will defiantly have to re surface the track!
Its less than 10 years old and it looks like weeds are about to pop though it!
Hello Amy! I didn't realise you were around.
its 12.27pm, I'll be around for the next 12 hours or so :D
Amy is always here. The collective never leave
Do you have the online video package for the US open like you had for Wimbledon or just taking advantage of your workplace's screens?
Yup. It is on the Sidepodcast Wiki. Here is the link
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/The+Naughty+Step
People how make fun of Christine get the bottom step. People who make fun of Franck get the top stool. With six people already onboard, not only is space pretty tight but I am sure it is close to its max. weight limit...
I must be off it by now surely!
I am sure there are plans for an extension to the naughty step.
the US Open don't have a pay stream available, they just have a free one you can access if you are in the US. So I watch what I can at work, otherwise I just use free atdhe.net
Oh okay. I really am losing it....
ooh Fleetwood have just announced a second Melbourne show. I cannot afford to see them twice but its good news for the others at work who only found out about it from me today.
Amy that was a cool video you did at Albert Park. What are the garage areas and such used for when there is no race there
Christine put me in charge during one of the live shows and I pardoned everyone. I think that got me put back on the naughty step though. I am sure others have been sent there since but not logged on the wiki. I think that is a permanent record so you can never wipe it clean
hehe, bragging much?
the top paddock club level is an indoor sports centre so they play indoor soccer and netball and stuff. One of the garages has a cafe and I think the rest are empty
psssh I never see anyone cool, let me enjoy this one :D
:D hehehe... they are cool? :P
yes. Classic Rock is the best genre in the world.
I had a big KISS phase, and i still like them now, so i concur ;)
*plays detroit rock city*
Cannot argue with that. I almost wore out my ipod listening to Clapton's live version of Cocaine
I wish I could say more other than I have submitted a tender to extend the base of the naughty step to Sidepodcast Towers.
It is not going to be extended all the way to Montreal.
I see your team had a better night than Joe's tonight
a tough loss. I'll be on the 1st base line tommorrow night for the Rays'- Tigers game
I hope you get a win
I hope so too. I dont want drive all the way up there to see them lose..especially to a team from Detriot
right, back to work.
It looks like Toronto are making sure the Yankees win tonight. It was 7-5 Yankees going into the ninth. Toronto gave two up home runs and very generously walked Matsui before the second.
have fun
Don't work too hard.
hope you still have internet iccess :P
I don't believe you :P
Will you believe her once she starts commenting from work?
Blah. Only 2 games in a 3 game series. Wining the Division give you the home field advangte during the ALCS, and frankly the Wild Card is a little dangerous as you have watch all the other teams in the League to see if they have developed better win/loss %ages than you.
Right, off to bed.
#sidepodspace.
The spacewalk has been going for 4 and a half hours and they have practically completed everything that was supposed to take 6 and a half hours. They do it just to annoy Christine. They are now looking for get ahead tasks that can be added to this spacewalk.
Night Joe
But i thought you were at work!
Ah, but you can sleep on the job?
Night!
Yankee game finished 10-5
Night Joe.
I guess that's it for me too. I'll root for the Jays but those guys simply can not come back from 5 runs with two outs...
Is it really bad that people in Florida who are 5 hours behind us are in bed before us?
Too late. It's all over.
Night Jordan
I am slighly worried about that....
I am going to join the departing throng.
Good night / morning all.
me too... night all
There where times at 4 am in the morning I would be getting up to do things like fire patrols and have a nice shower before the stupid bugle wakes everyone else up.
Sunrise at 5:00 am on the Flightline at CFB Bagotville is just beautiful.... Especially with "Top Gun Anthem" on the Walkman...
ooof!
Gosh... Been up for two hours and still no comments!
Up so early?! :P
Morning. :D
Morning!
Not very much sleep!
Indeed. But why? Work? Insomnia?
Work... It's Server Migration Day / Weekend.
We are moving from MS SQL Server 2000 to MS SQL 2008 and from IIS Windows Server 2000 to IIS Server 2008. Across a large number of servers for our core database. Should be fun!
And Intranet
And then I am taking out the knackered SQL Server and shooting it!
I sympathize and wish you the best of luck. You are a brave man
That. Is. HUGE.
I know people who do that for a living. Headaches galore...
Like me. Personally, I just ignore the old servers and pretend they aren't there. Works OK until daylight savings time comes around.
Yeah... Scary huh.
If I told you I was also managing the team, but not actually personally doing, a project that means this weekend we move the entire firm to IP Telephony then you'll probably understand why I was in so early :)
I'm not quite sure why you are still sane.
the real question is, when do we find out who this famous person is
Don't be so sure that I am :)
Good point!
I was going to write the gamboling article on my way in to the office (I got in for 6:30) but unfortunately I got a work call on the train on the way in... Madness!
Morning everyone.
Morning!
you lie
Ah yes, so I do!
It's a worry!
She does though, its dinner time :D
That's what I mean. Lying on such a grandiose scale is a worry ;)
I wish it was dinner time, I am already looking forward to going home for a nap.
Having said that, sleep scares me. I was dreaming last night that I was cycling home from work but in the sky. There are two things wrong with this:
1) I do not cycle.
2) I am not in ET.
Both valid points!
Sleep... Ah yes... I think you may be talking to the wrong people :)
I am trying to prevent falling asleep before dinner by sitting at my dinner table this evening rather than lying on my bed. I think its working because I'm still awake and dinner is 5 minute away.
afternoon, do you know it is Friday already ?
Who is making this dinner?
Just reading back through the comments, have updated The Naughty Step.
me! Friday with no free practice means no fast food :D
Yay for Friday!
I couldn't work out how you were making dinner and sitting at the table.
it was in the oven ;)
now its in my belly
looks like quiet F1 day today, what can we expect ? second Force driver announcement, new BAD job announcement, yet another F1 driver on Twitter announcement. anything else or I can go for beers in peace ?
I laugh that http://www.romaingrosjean.com has a "What's being said about Romain" section that has all his @ messages. And so many of them are bad!
interesting article at the PLUS section of autosport.com on the 2010 calendar. According to Rencken an insider close to FOM is suggesting that Bernie actually has problem to get 18 tracks on board and the 2010 season may end up with 15 races only.
Wow, just 15... Nick will be mad, he wants more races.
Is Bernie eventually going to have to give in and lower his prices?
can't imagine that, but 12 months ago I did not even think that 12 months later Honda will be out, BMW on the way out and Toyota and Renault far from committed to F1 for 2010 ...
Dear Christine.
Stop making me want a chocolate fountain.
Thanks.
Amy
Hehehe. But you can get a mini one!
Hey guys, I did it! I completed the 5km run!!!
I'll blog about it later, but needless to say, it was very difficult, because the course was too windy and didn't go anywhere so you felt like you weren't moving. But it was fun, I had a great time and I'm glad I did it because I really feel like I achieved something.
Pics or it didn't happen? Check out the drop.io links here: 1 2 3 4 5
Very well done!
Thanks! :D
sooo tempted
WooHoo! Cool
woooo I am so pleased that you run so I don't have to.
Are you going to keep running?
cant stop now Forest
everybody wanted Forest to stop and so he ran, when everybody wanted him to keep running, he stopped :-)
Anyone else have problems with the wiki editing and google chrome?
It keeps putting things in bold when I save which weren't in bold before
aye, chrome + wiki do not get on well at all
Google knows best
Morning :D
Theres a life lesson in that...somewhere.....
Just dipping in quickly to wish all my fellow F1 fans a fab weekend in spite of the fact there's no F1 racing.
I want a Chrome cake
OK thanks Amy. Did you get ll the rubbish off your new machine yet??
Aww thats nice :) You have a good weekend too
I am. I really enjoy it - very strange, because I used to hate it!
I think I need a few day's rest first though...
I'm sure you could bake one of those
Does anyone have a link to the chrome comic book they gave out on launch day?
sure did :D running like a dream :)
Cheers! Wish I had more time to comment on sidepodcast, but alas I have work to do. Adios.
Ciao!
Thanks dude. MotoGP is on, and it's a very interesting race. Lorenzo is only one race win behind Rossi in the points (as he fell at Indy), but it's Rossi's home race...
I was going to do Banana Muffins 2: Electric Boogaloo this weekend though. Muffins I can handle, cakes are too harrrrd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvasbwj_Lc&feature=related
Muffins have a sequel?
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
its my second attempt and the first attempt was awesome, so just like sequels, it can only go downhill from here.
Liiiies.
Weigh 3 eggs (lets call it x grams)
x grams of flower
x grams of sugar
x grams of butter
easy :)
It's actually, I think, that the wiki doesn't know what Chrome is... I think it has cool features for Firefox and Safari, and other features for IE, and then it has cut down mode for anything else... If it just pretended it was Safari it would probably work.
I have moved from the dinner table to my bed. I fear this can only result in sleep
Yay! Denmark makes fast VB code!
Woooohooooo!
This is a bad thing?
its only 7.30 and my eyes are heavy :(
IE is getting on with wiki fine so it must be just chrome it doesn't like
You do stay up very late every day though, its probably just catching up on you
the problem is if I sleep now I'm wide awake at night when I should be asleep, its what I did every day this week :(
Here's a geeky one for #funnyfriday: Bad use of math :D
Rubbbbish, Try and stay awake till 9-10 then let yourself fall asleeep?
I'll still wake up at 1ish :(
awwweasome
:(
What if you wake up but don't get up? Listen to the radio or some podcasts or something?
I generally do that, and then I stay awake for about 2 hours, then sleep till noon. Bad habits. Bad! But I shall be up at 5am on Sunday for movie night :D
Oops. We are such enablers.
muahaha I wouldn't have it any other way :D
Argh! Stupid song! Go away! Out of my head!! :(
Stupid Stupid iTouch!
I am trying to use WiFi on it - the sort where you connect to the server and then log on via a web page. The trouble is, the way it connects is that instead of loading the start page, it asks me on the first time only for the details, then the next time it tries to auto-connect.
The problem is that it doesn't - a greyed out screen saying 'connecting' appears and just stays there. However, if I leave it for a minute, disconnect to the wifi and reconnect, it seems to work. Any ideas on how to fix it?
What song? You know, they say that if you sing it, it will go away ;)
I did sing it, i was the first person to sing it, AND NOW IT WON'T GO AWAY!!
Anneka Rice didn't always fix things! I am crushed.
Noooooooo!!
That sounds like a problem I was having the other day. This is from the new way of doing things since OS 3.0...
Well, she should make a new episode where she fixes it! That would be cool!
Russell Crowe being nice for once!
Honestly, Anneka not helping, Russell being nice... HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD???
Google Calendar is down... How is this allowed?
Wasn't gmail down this week too? Google Fail.
Yo. Hows it goin?
(And thanks to Mrs C for reminding me I'm going back to school on Tuesday, the holiday was going so well ;))
ite! Good thanks! How are you? You back yet?
You're welcome.
Come back Sunday night, so will miss the debrief. Still got 1 and a half days by the pool left.
There isn't a debrief Sunday, but there is a SidepodFilmViewing
Have you started sharpening your pencils yet?
New blog post: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/04/sidepodradio-f1-phone-in-show/
Ahh, well I was going to send an email, but maybe not now.
You still can, just won't be until next week i'm guessing
Only really use pencils in Maths these days. Oh, and Science.
Still get a detention if you forget it though.
I'm such a nerd, in the 7 years of Secondary School, i never got a detention :D
I've had a few. Not a lot though.
Exactly that.
Probably seem out of date by then though.
I've found someone who's worse than Badoer!!
Franck Perera qualified 29.957 seconds off pole for the GP2 race....and because he was off the 107% he wasn't allowed to race!
That's up to you. We're more than happy to read stuff.
Tell me!? Who's mocking me by putting an amazon package on drop.io?!
Gah, where did that half an hour go? I'll see yas all laters. Lotsa love.
Ciao!!
hehe, that was me but it was no mockery sir,
Just a little tom foolery!
*sings doctoring the tardis* damn you jon..
Although pointing out where the show was filmed always rocks. Must find the cash machine that gave the doctor loads...
Is the rift active today?
Indeed. It's since I 'upgraded' to 3.0 :(
ahh, i see it was Alex's book. you are forgiven.
I want mine to arrive!!
Ickle baby panda. I don't know why they call it roly-poly. It is tiny! Poor little panda, they'll give it a complex.
Oh look what's arrived...
A book!
I had a tummyache earlier so yes. Maybe john barrowman will run after me.
It looks like george from rainbow!
I think mine got sucked into the rift
It does! Hehehehe.
Wow, this is going to be a heavy first episode....in GP2 alone there was a legal battle that caused one teams cars to be impounded, and just before the first race the gantry holding the hoses for the wheel guns was pulled down as a car caught it, it hit a mechanic. His injurys aren't life threatening but he was put into an enduced coma....
A barrel of laughs this ones going to be
Are you doing that feeder series podcast?
mmmhmmm
Wicked. Send us the link when ready ;)
I shall plug till my hearts content ;)
ummm... i swear she did that before? repaired a white horse.
they can't bring the tv series back and still have the same challenges, can they?
She repaired a white horse that she already broke?
good luck with that!
I was thinking a one-off special episode where she fixes it properly... a blast from the past and a chance at redemption, perhaps?
We could do with a TV show where someone makes a difference in the community right now...
they had a special a while back, it was quite intersting
She repaired a white horse that wasn't broken, and by doing that she broke it.
I think that she needs to make another TV program where she fixes the horse that she broke when she tried to fix it and it wasn't broken... :D
it was the big white man on the hill, holding a club, and displaying his whatists. they fixed him by sending white stones down the slope in red tubes. so technically not the same horse, but the same principle.
how can you do the same job twice and only get it so wrong the second time?
This might seem random, but they really need to bring back the big breakfast!
It was broken, it's just her solution caused more problems than it solved. Silly Anneka.
they axed the show after a one or maybe more challenges caused more damage than they solved.
looks like they're off to a flying start.
Yeah! Two minor databases have migrated...
We have been doing some telephone tests!
Is every male in France called Sebastian?
Franck?
FRANCK!
Oh there is his, true
if you're really honest with yourself, you should probably be doing some database tests too.
When i was leaning french everyone, male or female was called Claude.
Wowzers!
That's what I'm doing right now...
Actually right now I am not looking while the new intranet webserver is hit by 100x usual load while the ip telephony system is being used by every user at the same time.
I guess you can now know about that missing first page!
Shhh! don't spoil it for the rest of us!
Any links out of interest? Wikipedia isn't too helpful about this...
nope. just my own (fallible) memory.
I was hoping to highten the excitement for anyone who is waiting for the book... If however anyone still needs a copy of the book it is of course available from amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Missing-First-Page/dp/1847991211/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252062965&sr=8-1
It's now back in stock!
I dont know when i will get on it, currently trying to deal with a lack of customer service over the phone
Exciting cover though! :D
50p cheaper, i am outraged.
This is jsut weird. Every french driver I see on TV is called Sebastian, and has a Red Bull hat on.
Ogier
Loeb
.....that ex-F1 fellow
Glad you like it... I think lots of people like the cover... And I can say that pretty easily as I didn't design it Katherine did.
Aparentrly not yet in the US
Blimey they must have decided to... Weird!
I didn't do nuffink!
Bourdais?
So yes good point... Now available at the low low price of £9.50 ;)
I shall stop now!
Yes that one.
Server survived and didn't get above 30% on processor - phew.
SHould I now tell you how much easier things are with VMware?
Just been asked if i would like use Voice-Mali.
I know Mali is a country so the mind boggles
dumb question. why doesn't google search stretch all the way across the screen now? the [definition] link used to be top-right. and now it's middle-right.
We're also moving to HyperV in this move...
You're right. How strange
Brave. Very brave
This is the theory of... I hate migrations so lets do all of them at the same time. I'm starting to worry that this might not be a good theory!
Where are the adverts?
I hope it works. I am thinking of a very similar move shortly with a few of our Win2000 boxes
Sorry ignore that... very odd... They have changed something haven't they... odd?
Gone!
have you shot it yet?
i see them, they're kind of in the middle too.
Now back :-(
I see no ads and bad formatting. Bad week for Google?
Hehehe :D
No no... We are laying the groundwork at the moment for the move... We have live data going into the old database until the london stock exchange closes at 4:30. That's when we start... or rather we turn the old one off... Then we switch to the IP Phones which will distract us... We are hoping to get the market close data into the new databases. That feeds in at 7... So we can only really be down for two and a half hours.
Did you time all this for a non f1 weekend?
Oh yes!
This recknen guy cant read.
there will be 150 races next season ;)
Earlier on one of my team looked at the whiteboard and said, "what could possibly go wrong".
That was the only time I was really scared!
if it goes wrong we can cover you.
it couldn't have been alex your honour, he was plugging his book on sidepodcast at the time.
:D
Really, he didn't even knwo what they were doing!
:)
Although they might say I should have been concentrating on the project.... However at this point there is nothing we can do except wait for the market to close. And obviously the pub is out of the question... so now we wait.
Cant you get them to suspend trading for the day? Get creative!
Did I mention we're also moving from 1 webserver to 2 so session is out the window and to 2 database servers so replication is going live in this too...
What was I thinking?
I don't even understand what you're talking about but it sounds like a bad idea.
The Americans saw the truth emerging and forced a cover upWho does this newspaper remind you of ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8237558.stm
"We thought it was true so we printed it without checking," associate editor Hasanuzzuman Khan told the AFP news agency.
Oh dear.
it sounds like the man got hold of some new gear and simply had to try out everything.
;)
They didn't know the Onion was a satirical website? Seriously?
"We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site."
aahahahahaha
we're going to need some before an after pics. how grey did alex go this weekend...
Ah, I know that feeling. New stuff!
hehehe
:)
I hadn't seen he'd done that hahaha!
Well yes... But the thing is if you're going to do it and take the time to migrate everything you should really go for it. Migrating to a new instance of SQL 2008 and then doing the Hyper-V would be a bit silly no?
At least that's what I'm telling myself!
agreed. but... session to non-session at the same time? replication added to the mix? you shoulda gone the whole way and decided oracle was better.
having said that, i'd have done exactly the same...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-219
:)
The thing is we could get rid of session over the last 3 months on the old server. And replication is just... well you know... It wasn't like we had to rebuild everything!
And the new servers are so shiny :)
*cough*
Server Migration In ProgressIn the comments on sidepodcast
Makes sense to me. If the OS upgrade works, the rest should be plain sailing
I plan to change the twin banana clips over and re-install the hyperspace Whoopee drive once the badger twisters are implemented...
...Just saying ;)
I need one of them.
Doesn't work so well with open-plan seating though I guess
Oh, and I forgot that the Baby Pandatron needs an upgrade :D
oh we're built. We have both systems running in parrallel now. It's the changeover. The database is 32Gb. So we need to do a speedy backup and restore. And then hope all our testing was right.
true!
that's why the sign is up we're on the trading floor.
Planning. See that's the bit I always seem to forget.
32G? No sweat.
Major upgrades are fun when you aren't invloved!
i want to be on the trading floor!
it's not good if you're the kind of person who likes quiet. It's very noisy.
Oooh Oooh Oooh do you work in one of those places where you wear a bright jacket, hold a piece of paper and shout "SELL 500!!!" all day?
sounds awesome!
no bright jackets, although some traders fashion sense leaves a lot to be desired. Buy the rest is the same. Imagine being a programmer in that environment and you can see why I need headphones :)
Some good Bose Noise cancelling jobbies?
Hang on, your a programmer? WHy did they let you do the server upgrade?
Who's in charge here??!!
Short straw?
Cut backs?
Question for all you F1 bloggers:
Has anyone here noticed that in the off-weeks there is far less traffic than during GP weekends?
Right i am off on adventures!
Traffic was light on the drive in to work. A little heavier on the way home.
Not sure about the relation to F1.
(Can you tell it's Friday evening?)
Ciao!
:P to you!!!
I am :)
um used to be a programmer now I'm a manager. I at no point installed any software anywhere. I had somebody do that. But in terms of the upgrade of the systems it's my department's call - not traditional IT.
But I decided the architecture. And it's my fault if it goes wrong.
I still have sore legs because of you Mr Goat.
Think of it as self-improvement ;)
I was thinking of it as pain, but I might try your way
Oh, there was plenty of self-improvement for me yesterday then ;)
:D
You still need to learn blame-shifting then.
This is why I am leaving my upgrades until the underling comes on board.
#mediafuturechange story about Google maybe attempting to become the world's library
Interesting, do we want one company in charge of this and how do we digitise all the world's books? Surely there's a need for all this knowledge in the hands of all the world, so how do we do it?
heh.
I'm an annoying boss in that I'm a manager who still keeps a hand in the code. But I hopefully don't blame people who work for me. That will tend to lead you you running out of people to manage!
Not sure if Google is the company to trust with this. Apparently, once the book is scanned, they own the copyright to that reproduction. (not sure exactly how that happens). So Google then "own" that reproduction.
What's wrong with project Guttenberg?
Just kidding ;-)
Me too actually.
we've seen video evidence from inside your office. there was no-one in sight.
Afternoon all :)
Is this important news? I know none of those people.
The iTunes library file cannot be saved. You do not have enough access privilages for this operation.
Why is my computer saying this to me? :( I was only trying to update my podcasts. I'm not doing anything unreasonable or out of the ordinary.
well it was Friday lunchtime in the city...
Woohoo! The President just declared today that we have bank holidays on the 7th and the 21st. Perfect timing, as I'm heading out of the city this weekend - so I get an extra day to recover. :D That's 3 long weekends in 4 weeks!
Life is good. ;)
Bank Holidays can just be created?
Oooh, this is good news:
Toyota has no plans to leave F1
why weren't we informed?
hehe.
that was fun, albeit windy. Tried qik but it was being mega fussy so no cardiff walkabout sadly. Heading home :)
reboot?
me neither :(
I think I've had that when I've disconnected the hard disk that the podcasts are saved on. Have you changed anything recently?
In this country, they can.
The 7th is a day of mourning for a key (non-Catholic) church figure.
The 21st is a day of commemoration for the end of Ramadan, an Islamic holiday. A bit odd, considering we're a Catholic country, but who's complaining? ;)
At least he has a good number of supporters.
Thing is, does he have enough?
Ah, so public holiday more than bank holiday.
I would quite like two days off please.
The president of the ADAC is called Peter Meyer.
Sidepodcast bank holiday sounds good to me
that's all I know
:D I hear Germany has a lot of holidays...
How would we decide what day?
alex's hat definitely :p
Is this like football where they have the backing of the chairman just before getting fired?
Hey Christine, isn't it a little early for Italian GP preview quotes (from McLaren)
Grrr, stoopid teams.
on the plus side. it's not bad news, so i'm still happy :)
But I hear it's the chairman Toyoda-san who's the F1 fan?
I didn't just fall asleep for 3 hours. Nope. Not me. Never.
Noooooo. We tried our bestest.
#sorrychristine :(
Yeah you mentioned that last time. I really don't think it matters if when it comes to the crunch, the decision will be axe F1 or something roadcar related...
even my shrieky flatmate and her shrieky friends couldn't keep me awake :(
The problem is miraculously solved :)
We fixed it!
if you go back to sleep now, you will be able to get up at 5am (GMT+10)???
no need, that is on Sunday :D
Afternoon all.
Apparently the press release from Haynes announcing the release of DT's book The Lost Generation (cracking good read, by the way) repeatedly refers to Tom Pryce as Tom Price.
What do you imagine the author's reaction will be? Grrrr!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... They don't know the first thing about copy-editing, don't they know that I put out my own magazine every fortnight by myself and it never has any mistakes in it... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
:D
he has a new book? he needs to have a word with alex about getting a quick plug in.
Before I sleep, did anyone mention the protesters in northern NSW who are upset about the World Rally Championship in Australia freezing dead koalas and threatening to put them in the path of the rally cars?
AUTOSPORT has the info. I sleep now. Have fun talking about this if you haven't already :)
Plugging books... I'm your man!
I have a book... etc :)
do you have one with a title as long as this one?
I saw today they had to stop part of the rally because they were throwing rocks. Stay classy, Australia.
I mentioned it yesterday. They cancelled a special stage because rocks and a fence were found blocking the road. Also on the road sections, the drivers have been complaining about being held up by protesters...
Rotten stuff really :(
I just thought - didn't that happen to Dick Johnson at Bathurst one year?
Whoopsie, I missed out a crucial piece of info: it's the paperback version of an existing title.
Hardback version contains a picture of Alan Henry wearing a ghastly pair of tartan trousers...
As manifestations of psychosis go, that's quite an inventive one.
grrr.
good news. ruben's engine will be fine. my question is, what about his gearbox...
christine?
Hi. I don't know anything about gearboxes.
I'm just thinking about USF1 being sponsored by YouTube - do you think considering who owns them that they might use the opportunity to brand the rear end the google gearbox? :D
and the airspeed sensor on the front, the pitot youtube?
I'm not sure any brand would want to sponsor anything that only really gets a mention when it breaks... Not good for the image.
The charm and smile of rubens will cheer the gearbox up and fix it. Thats my predicition anyways.
There is something in the water I think. One person has just returned from a camping holiday. Another person has just gone on a camping holiday.
Don't they know how dangerous it is??
Afternoon all, Just come back from letter posting and cheque-banking. Uber funn....not so much.
Are we having a fun Friday?
do they realise theres no walls? someone should warn them!
OK, maybe this is old news, but have you seen this picture of Fisichella?
http://colunistas.ig.com.br/victormartins/2009/09/03/fisico-il-spagnol/
Pay attention to the flag on Fisi's overalls. Is this suit waiting for someone else? :)
(Probably it's just Gené's suit, but it is funny to imagine that it could be Alonso's)
I tried! There's no telling them. It's almost like they want to sleep outside.
thats amusing :D hehehe
does not compute.
The best bit about sleeping outside is that you get to phone Sidepodcast whilst half asleep and make Zip noises with the tent :D
Haha! Silly Ferrari. They might as well just gone one of those sticky-on-things you see in retail shops to put on his overalls saying
'Hi! My name is
FernGiancarloAnd I'm here to help!'
Why did I not think of this??
Well that's true. That is about the ONLY good thing though.
Could be that they just gave him one of Gene's because it was short notice?
Nah. Twas all done to create a conspiracy. My tin foiled hat told me so.
It's almost certainly what happened, but it's fun to speculate :D
Nico after comparing driving his Dad's FW08 to his FW31:
This after admitting that he had trouble changing gears and that he could not 'heel-and-toe' properly. GRRR! :( As if I needed another reason to dislike Goldilocks!
Yo, again.
Sup'
Entering the last few days of boredom stage now.
I've decided to go swimming! I've even managed to rope in some reluctant soul to come with me.
I want to go swimming!
Ah i don't like that bit. Tis...boring
Yes you are in ET, Christine. It only looks like you are not in ET because you are credited under your Stage Name of "Drew Barrymore"...
Though, just heard the good news that the team now has some sponsorship.
Come! (or probably more practically, GO!)
Swimming that is....
Unless you live in Wales....so as you say, i'm not sure thats going to be practical for Lukeh....
lukeh didn't sound reluctant enough ;)
I would! But the problem is I can't see what I'm doing when I'm swimming which may sound wierd but it's really annoying and horrible!. Stupid eyes and deependance on glasses :(
Goggles with lenses?
Awww. You can get prescription goggles :P
i phoned our opticians before and they don't do them. :(
Shoudl've gone to specsavers
Other glasses providers are avaliable....
....but they're probably not as good
You can go somewhere else though. Just take your prescription with you and you won't even need them to test your eyes again.
Ross Brawn's lawyer gives amusing speeches
'He does accept that on the issue of culpability he drove intentionally at speed. He is aware that he can expect to be disqualified. The traffic was light. He fully co-operated with the police. He apologises.''
He has a team. He is happy when they win. He thinks He-man was a good super hero. He has forgotten his name.
renault are flogging alonso's racing suit.
i guess no-one told them about fisi getting the job?
:D
:D
When people get a minute, can they tell me if this works: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Rural+Racer
I don't think it's a very good game, but the concept of embedding them is brillo!
Maybe he realised that Force India was quicker than the Renault. And Tonio hasn't been confirmed yet...
Works fine here!
heeeh!
Aww man, i used to play this, i'm so rubbish, but it's so addictive.
My browser doesn't like the idea of that game.
Is your browser still on holiday though?
Can i remind Christine of this game
Addictive much?
Yes.
Wait till Sunday night folks, prepare to see new levels.
Won't say which way the new levels will be, look stupid if I say new levels of greatness and it ends up being new levels of uselessness.
And with new levels, I shall leave this one and go back to the room. Lotsa love.
Hehehe. I love that game. Didn't like the rubbish pretend one that came later with added pedestrians.
Apologies if my comments are annoying on MFC... I end up writing one thing to reply with, then going into a bit of extra context and everything resulting in a paragragh or two... :(
I haven't read them fully yet, but they look like excellent comments to me.
I just sent Joe from my laptop to my desktop via UbuntuOne. I find this very exciting *squees*
Hopefully! I just always end up worrying whether they end up being something wayyy too long for a comment!
Oh man. I suck at that game!
You sent Joe? What does Mr Saward have to think of this?
I'm happy because I've finished my first covering letter for the day. Now I just need to figure out how to get it printed off when the printer has no cartridge in it (probably not as difficult as it sounds because there's another printer in a different part of the home network).
Anything to keep mr c losing him down the couch again ;)
Me too, i prefer this one
Man i love blowing stuff up
Boo for games that aren't embeddable.
He is now stored safely in my account and I might be willing to share him (after I figured out how to do that)
♥
Who would put traffic lights so far away from the junction :(
Hehehe! I love it.
I can't!
according to @JRobertsF1 it is on September 21
go, go, go: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/09/04/fia-call-extraordinary-meeting-of-the-wmsc/
I like the go go gos for these :)
Anyhow. SWIMTIME!!
i’ve been waiting six months for an update from google and it came the day fisi got the drive of his life and there was no bad news in f1 at all. {Comment #12}
I found out that Toyota is slashing its budget by 40% for 2010 yesterday evening (the Portuguese Auto Sport, which seems like a different entity altogether, is less ambiguous), which could be viewed as bad news, but I prefer to view as a sign that they're staying in F1.
You found something active to do then?
ciao
ServerWatch...
...IP Telephony is going live now...
I've just been linked this and I had to share :D http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1802740
Cups of coffee count is very high!
ServerWatch
All of the jobs have stopped on the old SQL Server...
I don’t understand how Amy’s not been fired yet! I’d go mental if my staff were playing with electronic equipment in deserted corners of the office. {Comment #46}
The only "deserted corner" in my office is the job room - which is so full of electronic equipment that nobody would feel the least bit tempted to play with equipment they've brought in. Sidepodcast, not being a site relevant to the company in any way, shape or form, is theoretically forbidden, but isn't blocked on the grounds that it could hypothetically have a vacancy on it for somewhere.
Hmmm... How many smints is too many?
I don't usually eat smints
I'm in HMV and I feel like buying a game for the 360 that isn't a driving game. Can anyone recommend something good to me before 6 which is when it closes?!
Infamous apparently... I am being told in my ear.
Duff info apparently not available for 360
I bought the new Batman Arkham Asylum game last week and it's up there with the best games this year. I'm not even a big Batman fan, it's just immensely fun!
Depends what type of game you wanna play though. Mass Effect and Fallout 3 both stand out as very cheap but utterly superb standout titles on the console, probably my favourite 2 on the system.
I think that's a Ps3 only title?
im looking at arkham aslyum now. Does look quite good. Also had a look at Fallout 3 as well. What to choose?!
soz
Fallout 3 if you want a HUUUUUGE game but takes a while to get into, yet it is absolutely staggeringly fantastic. Arkham Asylum if you wanna just kick mental people in slow mo whilst being insulted by a man in a green suit and facepaint. ;)
Hohum. Does anyone know anything about accountancy training? {Comment #318}
There was a bookkeeping class next door to my word processing class last year. This is the sum total of my direct experience. Unfortunately I found the sector too confusing to be able to tell you how the training system works.
If F1 are going back to IMS they will defiantly have to re surface the track!
Its less than 10 years old and it looks like weeds are about to pop though it! {Comment #361}
So much for the 5-year-old much-vaunted diamond-cut surfacing...
I sometimes think this whole site exists to generate photoshop ideas for Lukeh
Uh oh
IMS? Do you mean Indy?
Moto GP raced on there last weekend?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bernieno-jpg
#blamejon
Terrifying stuff...
I'm confused, link fail?
Drop.io is broke.
#blamedropio
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Went for Fallout 3. :P
will take a look in a bit. soz.
I laugh that http://www.romaingrosjean.com has a “What’s being said about Romain” section that has all his @ messages. And so many of them are bad! {Comment #442}
It's even funnier now because what's being said about Romain Grosjean at the moment appears to consist entirely of lists of Twitter accounts that happen to feature his Twitter username. So most of what is being said about Romain isn't even about him..
Awesome! Best game on the 360.
follow friday :)
He kinda looks like Jennifer Saunders...
Essentially it's oblivion set in the future. With guns :P
Noo don't say that. :(
I know why people say that because they seem similar but they're world apart. The combat system on Fallout 3 is absolutely immense, ocne you've played both for vast amounts of times you notice how diffferent they really are. I won't even begin to admit how many hours I have spent playing both, according to my save files.... ;)
I’m such a nerd, in the 7 years of Secondary School, i never got a detention :D {Comment #517}
I had loads of detentions in secondary school, ranging from the sensible (I wasn't much good at handing in homework during weeks when the bullying was overwhelming) to the daft (I once got one for handing homework in when everyone else "forgot" and another for asking for help from a teacher on an assignment because the teacher couldn't be bothered to make his meaning clear). At least twice I got detention for no discernable reason.
Happily, I never received any in sixth form (though I did net a few scoldings).
I’ve found someone who’s worse than Badoer!!
Franck Perera qualified 29.957 seconds off pole for the GP2 race….and because he was off the 107% he wasn’t allowed to race! {Comment #521}
I thought Franck was a better driver than that?!? (Or have I confused him with Monsieur Montagny?) Even Ricardo Texieira wasn't that slow...
I used to like it when all the others were here with me. No doubt I won't have long to wait for company
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bernieno-jpg-2
:)
Question for all you F1 bloggers:
Has anyone here noticed that in the off-weeks there is far less traffic than during GP weekends? {Comment #635}
Mine doesn't (the only thing that seems to make any serious effect on my page views is frequency of blogging). Oddly, my worst week for views in the last few (apart from the week when I forgot to put up any new writing) was the Hungarian GP weekend! But it's very much the exception rather than the rule - most places have huge problems getting people interested in reading their work on non-GP weekends.
It lives!
*cries*
Evening Folks!
Everyone having a good Friday or isn't it living up to Thursdays highs?
Traffic was light on the drive in to work. A little heavier on the way home.
Not sure about the relation to F1.
(Can you tell it’s Friday evening?) {Comment #637}
If you meant the other sort of traffic, the traffic seems heaviest during summer weekends, when the football team is playing at home and any time during December (when it's practically gridlocked all month).
my good mood may have soured slightly.
Afternoon all.
Renault look like they're in the poopy don't they!
Hey Christine, isn’t it a little early for Italian GP preview quotes (from McLaren) {Comment #675}
It is. Then again, McLaren (Kovalainen apart) probably wants to forget Spa as soon as possible!
You can't really have expected two days of good news in a row. Asking a lot, I reckon.
Apparently the press release from Haynes announcing the release of DT’s book The Lost Generation (cracking good read, by the way) repeatedly refers to Tom Pryce as Tom Price. {Comment #688}
While I'm doing covering letters (that's my productive task for the day), do you think I should send one to Haynes to ask about proofreading and copy-editing vacancies?
and yesterday was amazingly good, so today was going to be a let down whatever happened
Have you guys seen this?
Seriously Uncool :(
Oh dear, But look for the silver lining...
Sour Cream is good with Nachos...
Mini Kaz took his first F3 pole at Silverstone. Bless
OK, maybe this is old news, but have you seen this picture of Fisichella?
http://colunistas.ig.com.br/victormartins/2009/09/03/fisico-il-spagnol/
Pay attention to the flag on Fisi’s overalls. Is this suit waiting for someone else? :)
(Probably it’s just Gené’s suit, but it is funny to imagine that it could be Alonso’s) {Comment #710}
I suspect it is Gené's. Marc is only 1cm taller and last time I saw a figure for his weight (which was admittedly in 2000), he wasn't much heavier...
(What surprised me is that although Fernando is 1cm shorter than Giancarlo, he's also 3kg heavier).
Whats wrong with it?
Ireally like it...
Kinda make me want to see an F1 car on the Circuit de la Sarthe
Can I just point out, I have just come home and caught up on the daily... it was quite hard to see the breakout thread and it did not make sense or flow on from the daily very well...
Lewis is not cooler than Steve McQueen... and the cheesy voiceover sucks!
*moved to daily*
:)
how could we make it better? i said "go, go, go" and everything?
I’ve decided to go swimming! I’ve even managed to rope in some reluctant soul to come with me. {Comment #725}
I went yesterday (as part of my 2x-a-week regimen). It was a lot of fun (even if, due to excessive happiness, my technique was lousy).
I'm not sure, but if you look at the daily, there's just a comment that says "We need a Breakout Thread" and then that's it. Doesn't seem to flow very well?
I like it. Lewis is a half decent actor. At least McLaren and its sponsors are trying to put stuff on the net.
it's followed almost immediately with a link to the breakout thread?
Surely you'd just jump over to the extra thread then if you read back and saw that. It's not like there wasn't anything linking to the thread?
Me no likey.
I love that GT40 though, and the Monaco Tag??! One day....
That GT40 is a Porsche 917
That's what I ment.
It's Friday and I've had a busy week.
Shall I sit in the corner?
On a side note the GT40 is lovely though...
:)
Why didn't Giggles Made-up Media have that story?
Evening.
Evening sir
follow friday :) {Comment #802}
True. Still funny though :D
I'm not sure I like ISDN anymore :(
not gone well?
Well... One ISDN connection is causing a bit of heartache. It's in the IP Telephony side of things.
Isn't that really old, really slow technology? Or am i confused?
words, they are just words....;)
drop.io seems to be endlessly preparing my photo of screens...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-220
Everyone having a good Friday or isn’t it living up to Thursdays highs? {Comment #812}
Parts of my brain seems to think it's still Thursday for some reason, even though I'm doing a Mini NaBloPoMo and should therefore know that today is a different day to yesterday.
it's having issues, soz.
Ah... No worries... It's the place for you all to do your Grand Prix watching from. Three desks in a row with 5 screens each.
Damn :-(
that sounded like an invite to me...
Sidepodmeetup!
uh oh!
ummmm...
It's working now...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-220
Thought i'd put this in the daily, as its losely connected to lots of things, but also not...
ehehehehe wikipedia is ALWAYS right ;)
ahh, i see you've saved a spot for andy taylor already.
now i look like a fool, they literally just took out what i was linking too. boo
!
Piquet is German?
I wonder if Piquet will be in f1 next year.
If we asume fisi retires and massa returns, there are 6 spots on the grid next year and a space at force india now.
Who can fill those spots?
Liuzzi, Hulkenberg, Ant... Pedro/Genewho else?
I am not sure Jonathon qualifies for a superlicence. the FIA rules say you have to finish in the top 6 of the IRL
If you dont auto-qualify for one then you have to do x hundred km in testing over a couple of days, that wouldnt be an issue
I'll drop.io what it said,
I do, a little bit.
Ah so he could get in then, but who else do we expect to see?
It would help if he raced in the IRL, but he doesn't.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/piquetfail-jpg
Wishfull thinking? ;)
proof wikipedia is always righ....oh wait ;)
Does anyone know a good place to send e-cards from?
Congrats!!
e greetings?
How have we got to a stage where F1 drivers can't heel and toe? That is a basic technique any club racer can do with no effort
I'm sure they can, they just don't need too
Perfect... Thanks!
That's what I thought ... and this guy is supposed to be the next best thing? pfft!
hello :)
DNSs migrated... I am looking at my new server... Ah all the data is out of date.
All I need to do is remember what the name of the old server's backup driver is so that I can begin the server migration ;)
quick Q, anyone know of a film called District 9? have literally just been asked if i want to see it and i've never heard of it. it starts in one hour and is one hour's drive away...
New film out in the cinema. Done by Peter Jackson.
(Obviously thats all I know... ;))
I am going to the forbiden un-inside place, will be back in a bit!
just found the trailer... looks weirdly interesting. have decided to go, which means rushing my pizza...
I saw it last week... terrible.
ah, go for it. Cinema's always good :)
Just ordered myself a pizza now you mention it. Forgot to get a load of frozen stuff earlier!
Ah well. I am going anyway! See ya all tomorrow probably.
Ciao!
Enjoy!
Lesson for this evening... You can't connect to databases that are offline. Whoops!
I am going to be stuck on this until I have blown everything up
Have fun!
The levels where you have to avoid hitting things are the hardest, but keep trying and use common sense and you'll get there
I have lost my keys... i am trapped!
Trapped where, in or out?
In!
But i have found them.. it was inevitble they would tuen up once i had commented about it!
There is now not enough time for me to get back before the end of the cricket so will have to stay
Watching friends, drinking wine.... what a sad life I lead, thank god I can read about your lives and make myself feel better!
Just kidding,
Hi guys!
there was a live comment of friends the other day! nothing wrong with that!
Howdy! How's your day been?
My day has been spent mostly in a bank, with boring paperwork and slightly annoying colleagues.
Sounds...exciting
exciting is not the word.
ehehehe
thrilling?
again, not the word.
undulating?
Keep going jon...
umm....musical?
England are going to loose, i am going to attempt to leave...
*waits patiently for pizza* :)
I admire your optimism of a day working in a bank, but it was mostly dull with an occasional touch of astonishing mundaneness.
Reminds me of Steve Ryder
ahahaha :D
Poor Steve, he can't help being dull.
We think we might be there... :)
Now we wait for the data to feed in overnight...
And we wait... ...in the pub ;)
elderflower?
I think after the day I've had... I might be allowed a real beer.
wooooop
Finished blowing stuff up and made $261,825
Well done, we are all very proud of you. It's so much fun that game, i had to turn it off because i need to keep writing
Yay!! Pizzaa!!!
I do love me a nice pizza.
Where from?
Perfect Pizza. No idea if theyre nationwide or local but used them for years and years and they more than live up to their name!
hi sidepodpeople
Aww awesome. I did have a look at ordering a pizza, but no-one does it round here, not online anyway
We have Perfect Pizza her in Exeter too, so I think they are national.
oh no, don't speak about food. I'm starving and I don't have anything to eat/drink for tea time at the office.. :-(
Awesome!!!
I highly recommend them ;)
Next time I will Try them! My friends garage is right next door to them, so I have no excuse!
6 cars out on the first lap in the second GP2 race....
What do they think this is....Formula 1!!!
That were flippin' marvellous. Mmm. :)
So if something is in Wales, Exeter and Bristol it's national? :)
Aaaaaaaaabsolutely. :P
Exeter, Bristol, Cardiff... what other major cities are there in the UK?
It's England and Wales so it is multi-national
But if it's not in Scotland, it doesn't count, right? ;)
They have to practise somewhere before they are good enough for Scotland
How do you pronounce "Oschersleben" ??
yep, you've got it right
Osh-er-slay-ben? Kathi!!! Help!!!
Aw Cher Slay Ben
Osh-ers-ley-ben?
Awesome, everyone i ask seems to come up with the same answer-ish, so all is well.
Thanks all
Good track until they ruined it by adding a moronic chicane into Turn 1?
Probably more Bin than Ben
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/oschersleben-mp3
What did it used to be like?
I HEART KATHI!!!
:)
Exactly the same, except Turn one was faster and flowed into turn 2... was awesome!
Cheers!
How did we do German pronunciation before Kathi?
very badly ;)
we used the German teacher at school....until we scared him off too...
:D
Oh and is "Soucek"...soo-sec, or soo-check?
No idea. What nationality is he?
Reason #84 why Ari should be President - he wants to keep Silverstone at all costs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8239260.stm
espanya
We really should start a list
Wikipedia tells me it is an austrian name, from his father
Google tells me there was a czech with the same name.
The modern world doesnt make it easy!
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnX6bjAwLI
Way to go Ari. Put Bernie in his place.
I'll stick with Soo-sec ;)
ah, maybe not.
Soo-check it is
I assume he is of some eastern European ancentry with a name like that
wiki
It looks like a Czech name rather than Austrian
You do get eastern European names in Austria, they used to be the same country as Hungary
I hadn't thought of that
OMG Whatever you do, DO NOT sign up for Mobsterworld on Twitter - it totally spams everybody.
I'm very sorry about that guys!
aha, i wondered what that was
Glad I didn't reply
Evening all. At Brighton station waiting for train. A little worse for wear.
hi janna
But i thought you wanted me in your family... *sob*
How can I contact Twitter to tell them about these idiots?
I do Nick, I love ya really ;)
Hi Janna
:D :P
they supposedly have an address devoted to that. I don't remember where I saw it but probably in the 'contact' section
http://help.twitter.com/portal
Got it. @spam. I love Twitter ;)
I sent the idiots this:
like that :-)
aha :D
My wife walked in as I was typing it and laughed :D
Think that's great Gavin. Can I say how fantastic M&S Simply Food are. I have the munchies & they have supplied food. :-D
And they responded thus:
What a polite group of mobsters...
They lull you into a false sense of security...then they break your legs
And annoy all your twitter followers into accepting an offer they can't refuse!
I wannna sleeeep, but too excited
About sidepodfilmclub!?
Muse just played Popcorn at their first Homecoming gig. I think I may explode in the idea of them playing popcorn.
if you don't know it...
Oh noooo!! I forgot about that :(
is this about the gig i saw you were going to?
mmmhmmm
Interesting...
But exploding might be an overreaction ;) :P
Just wait till I get my hands on that album. My caps lock will be put to good use.
even i'm jealous.... however i'm controlling my own excitement about going to see coldplay in 15 days! (i only bought the tickets a year ago!) :) anyways i hope you have a super awesome time!
That will be an awesome gig!
fannksss, coldplay sounds awesome :D
i shall depart! Goodnight all,
night Jon
For the gamers out there, Hot Coffee is the new '-gate'. It's prob old news but i thought i'd comment anyway.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/09/hot-coffee-finally-cold-with-20-million-settlement.ars
night jon
Night
Silly silly silly nerds
I heart this story. The game features a million ways of killing someone, yet as soon as they find porn in it, it gets taken off the shelves!
Night Jon
Night Jon, enjoy the gig :)
It's very similar to the plot of South Park the Movie
Hey Andy. How's the Snow Leopard?
Looks like it is not just the FIA who never hit Ross Brawn with the maximum penalty
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/78316
:D
Six points means what? Half a licence?
What a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket!
Should we expect to see Jenson in an anti speeding advert soon?
Overall, it's amazing. The new Exposé is worth the price of the upgrade alone.
Linky http://cnettv.cnet.com/use-expose-feature-snow-leopard/9742-1_53-50076183.html
Hello SidepodPeople
Greetings Sidepodperson
hello bassano
Hiya
Evening all. I needs some ideas for real-life racing paint jobs to do on Forza 2. Just doing a Respol Ford Focus ST based on the WRC Escort, but I'd like more ideas. I don't want anything too tough though :P :)
Howdy
Repsol*
I haven't heard who is new to sue Apple today. Can I claim substantial damages for the loss of my scroll wheel? ;)
Red Bull NASCAR camry?
its the simplist one of them i expect!
Nice Red MacBook
that blue and yellow ford mondeo livery from about 1998/1999 in the btcc
To clarify what I've done already:
Mercedes C-Class - 2005 McLaren Kimi
Porsche Carrera GT - Penske ALMS
Chevy Cobalt SS - Chevy WTCC
BMW M3 E30 - Benson & Hedges Racing
Vauxhall Astra - 1995 BTCC
Lexus IS350 - Target/Telmex Chip Ganassi (Daytona 24 Hours)
Peugeot 207 S2000 - Peugeot Talbot Sport/205 T16
evening scott. subaru 555? It's easy ;-)
ooh.... dear... i've just noticed it's the 4th Sept and not 5th Sept... i hate it when that happens.
I could try the non-tobacco one ;)
A few people at work were doing that today, weird
Hi everyone. Just checking out the Wiki, and I am wondering which stage of a Sidepodaddiction I am on if I was forced by the members to type up and record a victory speech to upload for the website. somewhere between 7 and 7.5 closer to 7.5, bit I think a speech is easier to write than a song...
Curious as Kathi might start at that stage....
You time travelled wrongly?
down the same path, a 'bar code' ferrari... :-)
i've been telling people i's the 5th all day... and no one realised.. :/
i suppose it's possible?... i just woke up and thought it was the 5th.
It will be soon...
you have a point...
Are you sure it's not just in need of a clean?
It's not a mighty mouse. It's only certain functions too so either a logitech or a point update will do the trick at some point, I'm sure
Damn, there goes my million dollar lawsuit
I'd gladly take one of these beautiful iPhone cases as compensation though
Good evening. I managed not to drown :)
you just need to find a life-saving action that you can't do because of that small problem...
hi alison
Turning the volume down easily isn't enough?
I just had a visit from one of those huge spiders that visit sidepodpeeps. It is an ex-spider. It has ceased to be. It came in contact with a newspaper.
That is always good
I saw one in the bath before I went to work, I guess I should see if he's still there
Lucky Bassano's here to hold a memorial :D
Well at least it died fully up to speed on current events!
Thanks. I like CNET stuff but aren't most of the hosts just a little bit annoying?
if there is a big neighbour at your door, with a gun, shouting at you that you have to keep the music low, maybe...
*shudders* you got close enough to kill it?... you're braver than i am... loving the monty python reference :D hehe
If a spider comes near me it dies. No picking it up and releasing it or running away throwing chestnuts at it.
I bet they call you 'Flav'
:D
They don't call me anything for long.
Is that what happens where you live?
I have no idea what Steven looks like, but I'm willing to bet that it's nothing like a greasy fat old Italian playboy would!
i don't through chestnuts at them.. the chestnuts are there to scare them away.. i'm not sure they work... maybe it's something mum told me to shut me up... but if a spider comes near me i either run away or freeze and scream.. or just get upset. am yet to pluck up courage to get close enough to kill one...
no, but it happens in the films. so it can happens to anyone... :-)
Maybe spiders have had the health & safety brief about playing conkers without safety glasses
Don't pluck up courage. Pluck up a newspaper
:lol: hahahaha
Ah, well in that case you may find a slightly older version of the Logitech software works just fine.
Or just ignore it. We like spiders here.
i can't get close enough to it to do that... i'd rather be as far away from them as possible. if they leave me alone i'll leave them in peace.
I don't know if you noticed but I posted a link last night around midnight-ish from an article that said girls are born already scared of spiders
I dropped my Italian dictionary on one last week. That was brave for me! I wasn't brave enough to hit with the book though. That's just too close....
oh no i think i was asleep by then. that's interesting, and i can totally believe it. silly things..
I don’t know if you noticed but I posted a link last night around midnight-ish from an article that said girls are born already scared of spiders {Comment #1070}
I have trouble believing this because I have a small spider colony in my bedroom. The spiders are too lazy to cross the room and therefore cannot bother me at night. They are also too scared of Mum's vacuum cleaner to leave the room.