Three Memes For Whitney

Oh Jed Hallam you give me such a warm feeling fuzzy feeling with your meme love I feel compelled to continue this lovely if slightly odd trend of meme chains - sorry it has taken me so long Jed - wanted to make sure I did a proper job...

So I've put allot of thought into this (all five minutes of it)...but I'm not going to make you wait a minute longer...without further ado...Ladies and Gentlemen...I give you my three for three

Top Three non-work websites

1. The Daily Show
2. Facebook (sorry in social media circles it seems like the equivalent of admitting I enjoy McDonald's...)
3. White Hart Pain - just about sums up my Saturdays


Top Three Karaoke Songs

1. Elton John - Bennie & The Jets
2. Whitney Houston - I Will Allways Love You
3. Elton John & George Michael - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (as sung with Ivan)

Top Three Weekend Cocktails

1. Ladyboy Chasers
2. White Russian
3. Mojito

And the three people I will choose to pass this on to are:

1. That Chap
2. Lewis Webb
3. Will McInnes

Go on I dares ya....share the love....

Please Please Vote

I don't think I have many American friends....hey I don't think many Americans even read this blog...but I thought I'd do my bit - if you are in the US, know any Americans...whatever just register to vote...please....for Barack Obama if you can....

The 9 Lines Of Twestival

The little idea
We dream't up in a pub
Evolved into
Something so much more special
Thanks to a little help from our friends
It was great to meet so many new faces and
Value our friend's support
And despite a sore head on Friday morning, I'm
Looking forward to seeing everyone soon to do it all over again.

MP Wanted

Far be it from me to join the Obamamania that seems to be sweeping every corner of the earth except the US particularly Brazil where not 4, not 5 but 6 politicians have taken it upon themselves to rename themselve's Barack Obama. (an odd and perhaps not the most novel way of boosting your search rankings and general popularity) but hey if it's working for them well good luck to them...

But all this madness did get me to thinking that perhaps we should do a similar thing in the UK. No not rename our Gordon Brown and the rest of the cabinet Barrack - I don't think their sports skills would quite match up to his for a start...

However instead perhaps we should send open invitations to unsuccessful presidential nominees (the good ones anyway) to take up roles in Westminster. I'm sure Barrack would love a nice cosy constituency perhaps in the south hams, perhaps Al Gore wouldn't mind running Glasgow South and hey if they like it - what's stopping them getting their full citizenship and running the country!

However seriously, behind all the razzmatazz which I feel we like to cynically snigger at - what the Americans are good at producing is leaders and politicians that inspire and cause debate - clearly I dont agree with Sarah Palin's view on a number of issues especially the Bush doctrine, what ever that is...but what she has done is brought another dimension of debate to the election and has made more interested in what she has to say - more so than our own party conferences taking place at the moment in the UK - instead our party conferences tend to be bogged down with headlines more often than not dominated by infighting or cross party squabbling than anything of real significance.

Policies are important (and clearly the huge scale of an American election has an effect) but there needs to be an added dynamism to our politics - I may not have always agreed with Tony Blair (and was too young to witness Maggie in action) but there was generally an ounce of interest in what decisions they were making which I feel is wholly absent today.

We need people that inspire people - current coverage of UK politics often feels like the skies of August this year - relentlessly grey and disappointing.

So good luck to Barracks everywhere from Illinois to Rio and hey if it doesn't work out then there's always a backbench seat in the South Hams a waiting....

Worgle

Well I've done my duty and downloaded Chrome and yes it's a web browser, not a lot more to say as far as I'm concerned - not exactly going to change my world for the moment but hey...

I did like the way that even Channel 4 seemed to fall for the story that the news was 'leaked' hmmm....I rather agree more with Drew Benvie's take on the story - a story this big...published by accident..I'm not so sure...

Anyway while the A-Ha inspired Take On Me cartoons seem to have got most people's attention a quick wordle of Google's bog post seems to suggest that the key aim of the new browser seems to be to be to push their applications more and more and more...not bad as for the most they are pretty useful...

as for the browser...meh...it's a browser at the end of the day...seems to run pretty fast and of course...people who know their stuff will have more in depth views on the good points and bad points..but to me and my housemates as users (after 20 minutes) it seems pretty similar to most browsers...

anyway...enough of this boring post...it's all about enabling an enriched multimedia experience apparently so here is a taste of what people might be watching on it...

Another blip in the ocean

Have recently started using blip.fm, having seen the multitude of posts people were whizzing through twitter. For those not familiar with their blips and bobs Becky McMichael provides an excellent overview on her blog. At first I thought this was an awesome idea - being a big music fan (with varying degrees of taste) I thought it would be a great way of sharing music I like with friends I've already made through other networks like Twitter and Facebook...

Only problem is you can have too much of a good thing, and I agree with my old colleague Ben Matthews that the ability to automatically tweet every blip (if that makes any sense at all) I think there's a danger of really pissing people off, informing them of the fact you love that Punk infused Jazz Folk Track from 1987...

It's a great way of extending your self expression (horrible word again...sorry) and sharing stuff you like online but everything is good in moderation...Therefore I will do my best to go easy on the blips..perhaps a song every morning with my cup of coffee...although I hope everyone will be sharing their Karaoke Blips in the run up to Harvest Twestival on 25th September....please excuse the odd bit of Michael Bolton

Hitler Goes Mad @ The Fail Whale

Kudos to the guys over at Fallon for putting this video together...or at least posting it - turns out that even totalitarian megalomaniacs go bonkers at the sight of the Fail Whale sometimes.....




A clever play on an old Youtube footballing joke, any fellow spurs fans will share in my pain below;