Come on over to my NEW place!

Come on over to my new place!

We have drinks and nibbles and naked twister!

OK, we don't but the blog has moved :-)

Find me here now:

http://www.steveintheukok.co.uk

Hurry up! Your missing all the fun!

Turn off the TV and support your podcasters!

I have made the decision finally to something that has been hovering around for a few months now.

I am going to give up TV.

OK, that sounds like a big thing and to be honest I won't give it up entirely.

I am however tired of chasing TV in a way I have never had to do in the past and it has become both frustrating and boring at the same time.

I have found myself just drifting away from all the shows I used to watch. Many of them were just boring rehashes of past shows that I do not need to see over and over again.

Others are 30 minute shows extended to 60 minutes with re-cap's before and after every ad break so I end up being told the same things over and over with very little new content. I have stopped watching those and any I do watch I now fast forward, though as they annoy me, they are destined for the bin too.

I have issues with shows that pretend to be new, some have new in the title, some have new in the description, you watch them and you have seen them before, so they are NOT new. Why do the tv companies lie to me, what they think I will have forgotten?

Also the ones that truly are new either aren't marked as new or get lost in the sea of shows saying they are new but are not, so they get missed.

I will watch the things I can find that are obviously new and interest me but those are becoming harder and harder to find.

All in all, its just too much hard work on my part, when it should be the tv companies doing the hard work and I have just had my fill of that. So they lost me.

On a more positive note, what I am doing is listening to more podcasts at a time when I see more and more podcasters stop producing their shows and that really saddens me.

If anyone has heard of me, it's probably due to my mentions on various podcast shows. I am not out to seek the limelight, in fact if I wanted that I would have just kept doing my own show, which I did for four years.

No, what I have been seeking to do is to talk to the podcasters, show interest and a little bit of love so that they feel that what they are doing is worth something to someone out there, which all of them are, even if we don't say it.

The trouble is, by not saying anything we are loosing them.

Please, make it part of your day to send a commment or something to your favourite podcaster, make them know, without a doubt, that you are there and what they are doing interests you, communicate with them.

Please!

Barcode Birthday, think of the candles!

That says SteveINtheUKok in Barcode (Code 128 to be exact)

Ooooh! It's been a while since I last posted hasn't it and it was such an angry one, well I have been sitting in a darkened room with a damp sponge on my head to keep me calm :-)

Well today is the 57th birthday of the barcode, so someone remind me in three years :-)

What is with the weird birthday reminders we seem to get a lot of these days?

It's anything for a party isn't it, which come to think of it, is not a bad idea, someone turn on the music!

Until the next time, bit of an empty post today, but there will be more, now I am back in the mood!

P.S. Does a barcode birthday cake come with lots of thick and thin candles? LOL

After the explosion...comes the blast!

Well, after all that Apple rumour fest I am thoroughly disappointed.

Great news for potential iPod Nano users.

Yet once again us iPod Touch users are punched hard in the stomach and expected to like it.

No, no! No mam!

I am now tired of this and yes I have heard the rumours about camera issues and I don't care.

The iPod touch should have come with a camera, there is no reason for it not to have one, none at all and no reason will excuse Apple for this.

If there was a manufacturing problem, again that is no reason not to launch the product, they launch plenty products with an advance shipment date.

And wait for one moment, how come the new iPod Touch update is free, I thought Californian law forbid that? OK its A 0.01 release, and maybe that is legal.

But I am in the UK, Europe. I am sold the product by Apple UK, not Apple in California, I live in the UK not California, I am billed by Apple in Luxembourg for iTunes NOT Cali-fucking-fornia, so why I am being ruled by Californian laws here? I would like the European Union to investigate that one for me please!

An FM radio, really. Well ok the US has fucked up their transition to digital for radio, but so have we Europeans. The US wins for TV digital transition (We in the UK started first and we wont finish till 2012/13 crap!), we introduced DAB which is low quality streaming over the air. Again, crap. But FM is being turned off in a few years here so not really that exciting news for us. FM is a dead technology, so not something I really want.

No new AppleTV which is now so overdue for an update it's laughable, where the fuck do you buy those 40Gb drives from Apple, the local recycling yard? Support it or kill it. Make up your fucking mind!

No iPad, but that was hardly a surprise, though I do see hints of it.

More focus on gaming, which I absolutely expected. This is their next market to eat up.

Here is what I would like to see:

A camera in the Touch, sooner rather than later otherwise your just going to totally piss off everyone that just bought a Touch. Not that you care.

Dump the classic next time around, we don't really need it if you can squeeze 128Gb into a Touch.

Drop the AppleTV as it is and re-launch. IT should be a new unit with an upgraded processor and graphics chip. Slightly more memory. Bigger hard drive, base would start at 120Gb. It would also have apps. It would work in conjunction with the iPhone and Touch initially and then have its own contollers. It would be a media player, movie rental device and a gaming machine!

Let the iPod and iPhone work like the Nintendo DS, portable games that talk to the AppleTV's games. Maybe let their motion sensors control on-screen action. Basically replace the Wii.

I do want an iPad but I want a full computer with no drives, just USB sockets and an on-screen keyboard. Upgraded touch compatible Front Row. Comes with a stand. Use it on the move, go home and use your plug in or ideally wireless apple keyboard and mighty mouse and you have a reasonable though not top of the range home computer.

I guess I want a lot.

Just do me one favour stop kicking the iPod Touch users in the nuts with upgrades at a price and crappy feature upgrades, as you yourselves said, they are the biggest growing market for iPods, so why treat them like shit?

I'm getting the same feelings I did when things started to slide at Microsoft and I personally am getting pissed off.

Oh and don't try the iTunes 9 Genius DJ Mixer, its totally crap. The playlists are better, the mixer just picks a song at random and generates a playlist from it, not exactly rocket science! Bit see thru that one! Like changing the colour of the box of washing powder and calling it NEW AND IMPROVED! I think not.

So angry today, so angry arent I, ooooh, just had to let it all out!

LOL

Oh yes, and Dear Beatles, make your fucking mind up, are you digital or arent you because I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing your going to someone or other I just don't fucking care any more! It was 50 fucking years ago! GET OVER YOURSELVES (and McCartneys greed in my opinion!) Otherwise all your target market.......will be dead before they get to buy these things!

Not having a good day!

Bad Day.

iPod has gone phut and died.

This is a disaster for me as I like to listen to podcasts and have done for years now, always had an iPod, lots of music that will only play on an iPod too.

I am not working at the moment and there is no way I can stretch to a new one.

So that really hampers my ability to listen to podcasts.

So I am putting a plea out to anyone that has anything spare, and I know that isnt many of you right now.

I have some iPods on my Amazon Wishlist, if anyone can help me out, I will return the favour later on when I can.

Amazon Wish List - http://tinyurl.com/kpe6gm

But not holding out much hope for that one! But if you don't ask! :-)

I'd be happy to sell you an internet radio station for the price of an iPod, get in touch if that interests you.

Failing that I am well and truly stuffed.

Bit sadzies, hasn't been a good month or two.

I have home insurance but the excess would pay for the iPod so not much point claiming there. Just push my premiums up next year.

I'll let you know if my knight gets here or if I sell a kidney :-)

Go to the light!

Big changed in Europe this week with the sales of old incandescent light bulbs being banned.

From Tuesday 1st September 2009 it will be illegal to sell opaque or pearl incandescent light bulbs, you will for a while still be able to purchase the clear ones, the candle ones, etc until they are phased out in a year or two.

There are a lot of people moaning about being forced to change but just look at the facts.

These new compact fluorescents last so much longer, often up to 8-10 years. That is a fact as I have had them since they came out, back then they were a lot more expensive.

Now you often get them for free from your local electricity company or at least for only a pound ($1-2) from most shops. Unless your unlucky or stupid enough to pay more!

Now the main point, who the hell would want to purchase a light that cost them so much to run?

I estimated that an average family would spend somewhere around £24.52 ($60) on lighting a year.

And if they simply switched their bulbs, a quick plug and go, they would pay only £4.50 ($10) a year!

I'm not a professor of mathematics but even if my figures are a bit out these are massive savings.

Not only to your pocket but to all that waste, all that coal and gas and oil that will be burned to fuel these idiots.

So get off your fat asses and change those bulbs now.

It will help all of us and you will save lots of money too.

You would literally have to be mad not to!



(Sure there are a VERY few people that are sensitive to the flickering, very few and those people will still be able to buy the old bulbs, that is a medical condition, so no issues there from me. As a medical product in a niche market of course the price will go up, but then that is to be expected)

I just get tired of those that try and play the King Canute role, the tide is coming in folks, get boots or get wet feet!

How Apple can continue to beat Microsoft

Apple is getting near to the point where Microsoft started to fail and here is my take on it.

Microsoft was everyone's favourite company, cast your mind back I know it was a while ago! :-)

They innovated but most importantly they listened.

They listened to the people that bought their software, they listened to all the new things they wanted, all the changes their users thought needed to be made.

And they made that software and they made those changes, until....

....someone said, hey wait, we can make money by making it difficult.

And that was the end.

They realised that by making their software less intuitive, less responsive, less useable you would need to employ a Microsoft Certified Engineer.

And they could charge to train those engineers.

And they could charge for supporting companies, and they could charge for so many things.

And they forgot all about the user.

They forgot where their actual revenue stemmed from......the user.

And that was indeed the end.

Another company rose up and listened to their users.

That company was Apple.

So Apple, do you keep listening, with Snow Leopard you continue to add and update by listening to your users.

Sure sometimes you have to make a decision on something and some people won't like it but if you seriously cockup and eventually change then thats ok, we are all human.

Only never stop listening or you will become the next Microsoft.....for sure!

Who could wait for the Snow Leopard?!

Yes, I am an Apple WHORE!

The minute I knew that Snow Leopard was available I placed my order.

I have no shame!

LOL

Actually I have tried the Snow Leopard and it is noticeably faster than Leopard.

So my recommendation of course....go get it!!!!

I mean its £25 here in the UK after all.

Less than an evenings heartburn from the local takeaway!

LOL

Wonder if Archerr has his ordered yet?

Good news, and maybe not so much

Well I did not have to close the old station down like I said. In honesty I did close it, then open it, then change it then run it for a it before selling it.

So the thing made me some money which is nice, not enough to buy me that island I wanted. (Don't worry Kim Beaver I didn't get enough to buy the Faeroe Islands, I would have let you stay...the rest of the people however, maybe not, LOL, unless they were nice to me.)

Talking about the Kim Beavers, I watched a new episode of Coast on the BBC HD's the other day all about the Faroe Island's in the HDs. Very nice, stunning scenery, if you get a chance to catch it when it comes your way take a look. Lots of interesting facts about wartime in the Faeroe Islands. Then a bit about St.Olaf/Olav's day, etc. I might even have seen Kim's place...ooooh!

Like Archerr I suffer from the GERD and it's been getting worse lately so someone is going to shove something big and black greased up and shoved down my throat, Big Fatty calm yourself! An endescope, I said calm yourself! So some poor fool is going to be poking around inside my throat and stomach, gawd knows what they might find in there, couple of tires, an old boot, the crew of the Marie Celeste! So wish me luck, might be a week or two before I get the appointment through, its not an urgent procedure apparently.

So very sad, victim to the economic crisis

I am so very sad today.

I am having to close my baby down.

I started a streaming internet radio station and grew it to have over 20,000 listeners tune in.

Sadly, I am unable to fund it any longer as I am not working at present and my limited finances can no longer support the station which was growing at a fantastic rate of 50% per month!

I tried to offer advertising on the station and website, I also tried to secure donations from the listeners but as much as everyone loved the music, they probably like many others could not part with cash to help us out.

I tried to find sales people but as I could not offer wages, just commissions, no one took up the offer in the harsh economic climate.

I have loved building the dream and having it loved by so many people around the world, 144 countries at last count.

That is why I am so sad to close it down.

I had such great plans, so many things I wanted to do, so many wonderful ideas.

So I am in the process of closing it all down, its still up and running for a few hours more.

Then it will vanish, the website will be pointed to a holding page and in a couple of months the domains will expire.

A sad day.

Any millionaires got a spare cheque they don't need? :-)

Danny La Rue, sadly passed earlier last month

I didn't write on the passing of another legend and I just wanted to say something about them.



Danny La Rue wanted to be remembered as a female impersonator and not a drag artist.

He was certainly more than a niche act and certainly in the UK there aren't many who don't know his name.

I never had the chance to see him on stage, a place I think he felt most at home and I only knew of him via his few television appearances in the 70s and 80s, although his career spanned many decades.



I found a film he did called Our Miss Fred not so long ago. He is a triumph playing a British soldier at the time of WWII in France who ends up having to dress and act like a woman in order to escape and bring important invasion news back to Britain. He is amazing, as both the soldier and his female impersonations, his costumes are stunning and he is a riot. If you have never seen the movie, go and get it and if you love british comedy you will love this, it is now one of my favorite comedy films.



Take a look at a clip of the movie and Danny on YouTube

Clip of Danny singing 'My Old Man's A Dustman' on the Good Old Days, via YouTube

I wish I had the chance to see him live on stage and sadly there is not that much of his career recorded as far as I know which is a major loss to the world.

If anyone knows of any other dvd's, etc please let me know.

Dropping like flies!

The stars appear to be falling from the skies in the last few days with more and more deaths being reported all kicked off by the shock announcement of Michael Jacksons death the other day.



One of my favourite comedy actors has passed, Mollie Sugden, whom many of you will remember playing Mrs Slocombe, from the hit BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? based on the goings on at Grace Bros. department store. The show itself was based on the real life Simpsons department store in Piccadilly, now Waterstones bookshop. (Take a look in the real shop and see why the lifts were up a flight of stairs in the show!)



I also loved That's My Boy where she is a mother who has given up her child for adoption, only to find him again in later life but insists on calling him by his original name of Wayne, much to his dismay! As someone who was also adopted this was the first time I remember main stream television tackaling the subject and the fact that it was in a comedy series really helped me feel less unusual I remember.



Also was the series, Come Back Mrs Noah, where poor Molly is Mrs Noah a British housewife inspecting Britains latest space vehicle (there have been so many LOL) in 2050 and is accidentally blasted into space. That show wasn't a hit but I do remember enjoying it once you got past the first episode. I can still see her shooting around the spacecraft in zero G on a jet of perfume, LOL



So many of my memories of Molly are filled with laughter that her passing is particularly sad.

As someone on the BBC website said today, who will look after Mrs Slocombe's pussy now?

I love the A2DP bluetooth on the iPod Touch

After that last post maybe this is favoritism? Tough! LOL

I have just got hold of the Motorola SoundPilot S705 A2DP Bluetooth headphone adapter.

This device lets you go wireless with your iPod Touch 2nd Gen with 3.0 software upgrade.

It is so amazing to walk around the house with this clipped to your belt, wearing the headphones of YOUR choice, either the ones supplied or my fancy shcmancy Sennheiser's. You can pause and play the iPod Touch and also control the volume from the device joystick. If you finish your podcast you can then switch to FM radio and tune into something crap locally (naughty me!).

The unit will also connect to your mobile as a handsfree with it's built in microphone (sadly not on the iPod Touch!)

Also it has a built in RDS FM receiver, which is pretty cool for a device this size.

Battery life is an amazing 7 hours on one charge, the unit comes with a belt clip, lanyard, pouch, headphones with three sets of those cloth covers and a mains charger.

If I hear that one more time I will scream!

It's just like the iphone!

REALLY?!

What, like banging your clothes with rocks down by the river is JUST LIKE a washing machine!

Sure, any phone can have touch this and slide that and keyboard this and music that but lets face it, no matter what they add....it is NEVER an iPhone, with iTunes sync, all those apps and just the cache of having an F'ing iPhone.

Oooooh I am on a rant aren't I? I should be blowing it out with Big Fatty!!!

I've got a Zune....it's just like an iPod.....oh yeah, so much like it! LOL

That is my rant over...and relax! LOL

Pride48.com What a great weekend

Well, the weekend is behind us and I have thankfully had some sleep!

I was totally hooked on Pride48.com over the weekend and found it really difficult to switch off, even to sleep and spent both nights awake listening to shows.

Being in the UK of course the prime time shows in the states were in the middle of the night for me, but that was ok.

There is talk of another event later in the year and I will definately tune in for that, if you missed it, many of the shows which are still listed on the homepage of Pride48.com have posted bits of their live shows so you can at least get a flavor of what was happeneing.

Thanks to all the pocasters and Daniel Brewer and Auntie Vera Charles for their hard work and dedication, it really paid off guys!

Pride48

Listening to this weeks event.

The Pride48 streaming radio show.

48 hours of back to back live podcasters, fun and shennanigans all weekend long!

http://www.pride48.com

So angry with Blogger and Google!!!!

Google does hate.

They are closing down Kim Beaver's site as they have marked it as spam.

How utterly outrageous!

I love reading and sharing Kim's blog with everyone else in the Gay podosphere and I am angry and outraged that Google are threatening to remove the site.

This is Pride weekend and they are going to remove a Lesbian blogger. Sad.

Come on Google and Blogger, change this decision now before its too late and all that work is lost.

Shame on you!

SteveINtheUKok

Visit Kim Beaver's blog before it goes, leave a comment to let blogger know it is NOT a spam site here:

Kim Beavers Blog

UPDATE:

Kim's blog has been saved! WOOOOW! So go visit her blog already!

Ta..Ta....Ta..Ta....Ta..Ta....Touch me! I want to feel your body!

A while back when Archerr from Archerr Radio was getting his new iMac and MacBook and all the hundreds of other Apple products he was maxing out his credit card with I had said I was getting a new iPod but I ended up not getting the one I had said and instead purchased the tiny iPod Nano 4G.

Well, today I took delivery of my brand new shiny lovely Apple iPod Touch 2G, Woooooow!

Sorry, just so happy to have an iPod Touch again. Not that I hated the Nano, but Apple are very clever with their feature reduction as you go down the line. Little things were a big pain such as not knowing how long a podcast is BEFORE you play it, and therefore mark it as being played were just inconvenient. There were other things that were taken out, nothing major, it still played music and sounded amazing and did all the things it needed to do but those little extras make such a big difference.

One big difference, apps, wow I never used them a lot but I did miss them! I'm a simple guy at heart and I loves my Battleships, ConnectFour, Hangman, Mini-Golf etc. Bowling was so good on the iPod touch too as well as a load of other games.

So this new iPod Touchy Feely arrives in the most minimalist packaging you can imagine, lift one sticker and the plastic see through case opens, lift the iPod Touch sticker to reveal the iPod Touch itself. Lift it out, bend the plastic plate that it sits in/on and oh my! it's so light compared to the last one which was pretty much a brick that lit up :-)

Plug it into the Mac and it makes noises, oooh, thats new. Can't wait to try the new in-built speaker which is such a major thing! as are the volume buttons, so handy! Who gets excited about volume buttons, just me and Archerr, thats who! LOL

The screen seems clearer and maybe slightly better at doing the multitouch pinching, the old iPod Touch never seemed great at doing that but that may have been the one I had.

It's all working beautifully and the speaker is an extra bonus, great for use as an internet radio now!

Glad to have an iPod Touch once more and glad to have these little extras and I hear battery life is increased by around 10 hours which is amazing considering how light it is now.

New Doctor Who assistant is announced!

Little-known actress Karen Gillan has been unveiled as the next assistant in Doctor Who.

The 21-year-old will star alongside new Time Lord Matt Smith in the new series, to be broadcast next year.

Read all about it over on the BBC News website, click here.

I am a big fan of the Doctor Who and the Torchwood and I think Big Fatty is as well, anyone else a fan?

Eurovision 2009 and looking forward to 2010

Eurovision 2010 Dates Confirmed

The 55th running of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the Oslo area, Host Broadcaster NRK and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) jointly announced today.

The two Semi-Finals and Grand Final of the contest are now confirmed to take place on:

First Semi-Final: Tuesday 25 May, 2010

Second Semi-Final: Thursday 27 May, 2010

Grand Final: Saturday 29 May, 2010.

A venue to host the competition is still to be chosen but is expected to be the brand new Telenor Arena in Oslo.

Eurovision 2009, Moscow

I thoroughly enjoyed this year show in Moscow, as expected it was a huge event in the refurbished olympic stadium which was just a massive space, one of the biggest arena's I have ever seen.

The acts put on a great show for everyone and I loved the stage which was also massive and had more LED's than I even knew existed! LOL. The moving set was a triumph.

I was totally entranced by the interval act where giant...and I mean giant, football pitch sized pools descended from the ceiling complete with performance art swimmers, right down so the audience could touch them and even the green room had its own pool. Something I would never had dreamed of even in my wildest dreams and was just mesmerizing to watch, certainly up there with interval acts such as River Dance. Stunning.

Even the Semi-Finals had their own opening acts that were different to the Grand Final this year so they were definitely worth watching and with less sound problems than in previous years.

Moscow managed to shed its old image and promote itself as a thoroughly modern city which will no doubt boost tourism and as the show cost almost $50 Million, I bet they are glad to get something back.

I can't wait for next year, I have every confidence Norway will put on an amazing show and I bet they will prove the old addage 'Size isn't everything!'.

You can find out all about this years Eurovision, its 56 year history and much more over at http://www.eurovision.tv/

Cun ya say Pawd Casht

I have just updated my list of Fay Voorite podcasters (Thats favourite to you mere mortals, LOL)

Added in some of my fave video podcasts too as well as the new things I am listening to.

I have to say that I am just totally in love with PNSexplosion, they crack me up big time, if you haven't checked them out recently, just download everything in their feed and start listening, hilarious!!!!!!!! (Celine, i'm faxing you over a handbag as I type! LOL)

Real Men Wear Pink with JayT has been excellent as well with guests such as Fairy Princess Holly from the We're Mean Because You're Stupid podcast and also Archerr from Archerr Radio. I also listen to their two shows as well, find them in the list on this page.

Welcome to the new, new website

Hi,

I have decided to move my site over to blogspot, the old url will still work and you should still use that, http://www.steveintheukok.co.uk

My email address remains the same and is still steveintheukok@gmail.com

Come comment, Twitter, Friend me on Facebook, send money, do a striptease ( Only if your hot! ), LOL

Other than that, sit back and enjoy my rantings :-)

SteveINtheUKok

Wet and windy day

Woke to a thunder storm right outside my window. You know it's close when the lightening and thunder are on top of each other. So who counts the seconds between each to find out the distance? For every 5 seconds that go by before you hear the clap of thunder, that’s one mile.

Expected to get my new ATM cards but none of them have shown up so hope they haven't gone missing or that will a nightmare.

I have started to fit my surround sound system again, just need to run the cable to the rear speakers, which is always a bit of a pain, wish they were those wireless types but I cannot afford a new setup right now being that I am not working. Good to have better sound that the TV provides, although the TV does do some fairly good sound.

Got the Twitters setup on the mobile phone, eventually, don't know why but every time I linked it no messages would appear in my Twitter feed but glad to say that is working. I get free text messages on my mobile plan so that is going to be cool, so expect some twitter messages now, you can find me at http://www.twitter.com/steveintheukok

Re-Connected for Easter

Image by Dystopos via Flickr

Hi,

Well I am back!

I have a proper phone and internet connection again and no longer have to hover near windows to get a decent mobile signal....yeay!!!!

I've also listened to a ton of podcasts while I have been gone. I can't say I have caught up on everyone yet but many of the shows I am up to date on.



I am finding that I am listening to more podcasts these days as TV here in the UK is pretty dire, full of repeats and poor quality low budget shows. The credit crunch has really hit TV badly here.

I am though a bit disappointed that I am not finding more video podcasts to watch and have yet to find a site that links to or reviews video podcasts. I find iTunes is a bit of a dissapointment when it comes to podcasts and video podcasts. It's always the same top 100 and even if you try and drill down to the sub-genres many of the shows haven't been updated in years or have no shows at all to download. Sad, a real opportunity missed for the sake of a bit of housekeeping.

Does anyone know of any good review casts or blogs for podcasts and video podcasts? Add your comment by clicking on the speech box or the 'No Comments' / 'x Comments' Links you see below this text.

Lights Off at 20:30 Saturday, Earth Hour is here!

Join people the world over when we all turn off our lights for one hour on Saturday at 20:30 (your time zone)

Check out the EarthHour website

The new Nano or as I call it the T-Car

Have you seen the new Tata Nano? How do you say that by the way? Tah Tah or a very British Tah Tah!? LOL

Anyway in the UK and in many countries Tata are known for their brands of tea, mainly Tetley tea, hence why I branded the car with the new Tetley logo :-)

So I just don't know about these, $2,000 for a car, great deal or death trap?

At present I am not fortunate enough to be in employment so a cheap car would be a great thing but even at $2,000 its currently out of my budget but I am sure many people would benefit from this short hop car.

Of course if you regularly take longer or higher speed trips then your pretty much asking for trouble as I doubt this thing has much in the way of protection to make other cars, walls and people bounce off it rather than go straight through, you can always say hi as they hurtle past you! LOL

That said I doubt it does much over 50mph, which reminded me of a small Japanese van made by Subaru I used to drive which changed lanes when the wind blew, SERIOUSLY, It really did, frightening, ran on a motorcycle engine but was very economical as it only did 50mph with a wind behind you, winding down the windows and blowing hard to try and get some speed up, LOL!

So what do you thing, would you buy one, would you take one if you won it in a competition or just leave well alone? Leave me a comment, email or try my new voicemail line.

Got's me a voicemail line! Call me!

Hi fans,

I have me a new voicemail line, so why not leave me a message sometime!

206-350-8452

is the number.

Trapped under a mountain of boxes and bubble wrap!

To everyone that is taking the time to read my new blog, thank you.

If you wondered why I haven't posted in recent days then I will keep you in suspense no longer!

I have moved house, lots of stress, but I am now in my new place.

I have lots to say about why I moved and I will share that with you all in the days to come.

In the mean time I have to finish unpacking and decorating, so bear with me, I will post more over the weekend.

Podcasts rule!

Since hanging up my headphones. Yes, I used to be a podcaster myself, I have become a huge fan of lots of other podcasts and now hardly watch any TV at all.

I wondered if you are the same? Do podcasts replace TV and radio for you or are they additional entertainment?

I have found so many wonderful podcasts, humour is my thing so anything that makes me laugh goes right to the top of the pile but I do like the odd bit of the serious stuff too.

My first podcast that I started listening to was Wanda Wisdom way back on her 3rd or 4th episode and I have listened to her ever since, I am a true fan of that crazy train wreck and love every second of her shows.

I am finding things I missed or passed up on right now and there are so many shows that I love that I am bound to insult someone if I mention them so just look into my fave podcast list on your left there and see which ones I am listening to.

I guess this was just a moment of thanks to you guys and gals that take the time out of your lives to share your humour, life stories or thoughts with us all, I am sure I am not alone when I say thank you so very much for your hard work and dedication, it really, really is appreciated.

The missing Doctor Who series

There is a great posting from Digital Spy on a missing, unrecorded and in some parts un-written Doctor Who series, take a look here:

The missing Doctor Who series

For some reason one of the episodes that tickles my fancy is where The Doctor visits Blackpool, Sonic Kiss Me Quick hat Doctor?

I loved Colin Baker as Doctor Who, he was simply years ahead of his time and that was why many did not like him, he was not sweet and sickly like they expected but had a hard, rough edge to him, just as the new Doctor's have in the new series.

The only thing I did not like, his coat, not from any design perspective but The Doctor was meant to, after regenerating, go into the Tardis' wardrobe, pick a new outfit that mirrored his new personality and emerge renewed. Well his new outfit had the same coat at the previous doctor but with coloured panels, so it would be highly unlikely this was just waiting to be worn and had to be made specially, i.e. I know this is fiction but the coat was a 'television' upgrade and didn't fit into the pre-existing storyline the audience knew and loved. It was however completely and utterly on the mark for the 80's.

Where did they get the idea for that coat? Volkswagen Harlequin perhaps?

AutoFill for iPod and iPhone/iPod Touch

Here is a great article on how to enable and use the new AutoFill feature in iTunes 8.1 for iPod and iPhone/iPod Touch that was previously only available to Shuffle users.

It's a bit back to front but it's there and is actually very useful.

One of the things I missed about not storing my whole library on a huge hard drive based iPod was the discovery of great tracks I had forgotten.

My library stands at 54 days of music, so thats quite a few tracks and some seem to get forgotten, this brings them back to life and often drops in some great memories.

Click here to visit MacWorld and read the article

Gone Supernova

You know sometimes I am not the biggest fan of "gone wild" celebrities but there was one that for some reason touched me and I think that was because the real truth always seemed to seep out to show a real damaged soul.

That person was Anna Nicole Smith, she was in so many ways a damaged person who really needed love and probably more than a little guidance in life. She I think got neither.

So it was no surprise today to find that Howerd Stern whom the news media report as her boyfriend was implicated in her sad and tragic death from prescription drugs, allegedly prescribed to her fraudulently by doctors and Mr Stern.

I personally don't think of Mr Stern as her boyfriend but her drug dealer and I never warmed to him on her TV shows, there was just something that triggered the old spidey senses.

I hope those that contributed to her untimely death are brought to justice and that Anna and her son can rest in peace, she does at least deserve that.

Did you know Big Fatty is on a cruise?

This is your Captain speaking,

I've been loving the pics and updates from the BF over at the BFO (Big Fatty Online if you dont know)

If you have a spare minute head on over there:

http://bigfattyonline.com

That is the end of this ships announcement.

It's ok to kill in the UK if your somebody.

What can you say to a shocking, sickening and quite frankly disgusting story that appeared on the BBC News website tonight regarding a peer, Lord Ahmed that killed Martyn Gombar, 28, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, while texting on his mobile phone while driving at high speed on the country's main motorway (freeway). Click here to visit the BBC News website story

This murderer, yes, murderer is to be set free on a 12 months suspended sentence. I say murderer because this crime was premeditated and he knew the dangers of the actions he was taking. Lord Ahmed, of Rotherham, sent and received a series of five text messages while driving in the dark along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway (freeway). That is murder as certain as if he had slain the other person with any other weapon in my opinion.

While the court has said that Mr Gombar had crashed his car and Lord Ahmed would not have avoided hitting him, as someone who drives a lot I can say with certainty that even a second on the brake or a moment turning the steering wheel can have a massive change on the outcome of an accident. Texting, distracted and unaware of what was happening in front of him, Lord Ahmed was unable to take ANY evasive action at all.

It was shocking enough that this lunatic was only given 12 months for killing someone in this manner but to then have that 12 month sentence suspended is a travesty of justice. How must the family of the deceased feel right now?

I am so angry, no one, no one at all should get only 12 months for such a crime and to have that small punishment removed is beyond words themselves. What message does that send out?

Sometimes you just have to wonder why you bother getting up in the morning when things like this happen.

Crazy, Ludicrous and Criminal.

Too good to be true for the man in the mirror?

This blog is all about me expressing myself and when I get a gut feeling I am going to share it with you all, and as I said in my last post I'd really like you to comment or email me with your thoughts too, that way I can reply and we can get a good conversation started between us all.

Right, onto my topic du jour!

There is a certain music artist that is booking a large concert venue here in the UK for an ever increasing number of performances, at present that number is up to 45 nights!

Now while I hope that every single last person goes, has fun and comes back with the best memories of these events my little voice inside my head ( I am thinking Auntie Vera Charles and her conscience here! ) is screaming out.

I hate to be a doubting Thomas but 45 days, really? And each and every one of those dates is going to be amazing and wonderful and a spectacle and you will hear all your favorite songs....hmmm

Here is what I really think, the first few shows will be massive, world class events and then it will start to go downhill. The shows will get shorter and shorter until near the end they last for maybe 30-45 mins and I suspect one or two will last even less time.

People are out there paying silly amounts to buy these tickets, up to £10,000 ($14,000) on eBay and it's not really them I feel sorry for. It is the small hard working fans that will buy these tickets, pay their travel costs, their hotel costs and make this an event to remember. It is for those I fear the worst.

Now I may be wrong and as I said at the start I hope I am but once these massive stars get the cheques and the big wheels are in motion there is not a lot the little guy can do.

I do sound defeatist today but then that is my opinion, so what do you think? Am I wrong? Or am I right?

Hit the comment button or fire me off an email.

(Archerr, this is a topic for the gangbang shows! no?)

Here is another hint:



UPDATED:

The total number of shows is now at the 50 mark as of March 12th. With now over 1 million seats sold. (That's a lot of iphone lighter falme apps!)

Chocolate Tax?!

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A doctor in Scotland wants to tax chocolate is he right or should we be more concerned with overall fat and sugar content?

"Dr David Walker, a GP in Lanarkshire, said many people eat their entire daily calorie requirement in chocolate, on top of their normal meals.
The doctor said chocolate used to be seen as a "treat" but had now become an harmful addiction for some."

Now while I am sure he is partially correct, I have often wondered if we really should tax food based on their fat and sugar content as that is what is putting the weight on.

It would be very difficult to make people exercise unless we employed a nation full of fat cops to whip us into a frenzy ( Now Big Fatty it's only an idea, don't get too excited just yet!) but it would be relatively easy to come up with fat and sugar taxes in a similar way to alcohol taxes.

This should make high fat, high sugar foods less attractive especially to lower income households, we would of course need to not spend that lovely money on paying back our bailout plans but to reduce the price of good foods such as vegetables in the uk that could be done by employing a negative VAT (Value Added Tax) rate.

What are your thoughs? Do we just let people do as they wish and more than likely watch our future generations suffer the effects of obesity as our generation is suffering or do we try and do something positive? Or do you think future generations having seen the problems will solve this for themselves?

Leave me a comment and let us all know! Love to know your views.

Hey, it’s not my pussy that looks funny!

Not my pussy, but so cute!

Welcome to my new blog

Hi everybody!,

Welcome to my new blog.

I intend to post here regularly and link to my favourite things on the interwebs.

I am a huge fan of podcasts and I will be posting links to the podcasts I am currently listening to so we can share and talk about those podcasts and the great and funny things we find on this wonderful web covered world.

As you can guess I love to laugh, so many of the things I listen to or look at will be humerous, however you will be subjected to my serious posts so beware! :-)

Thats all for the moment as I try and set this up the way I want it and get all those links done.

Thank you to all my friends out there in radio land you know who you are!

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Take care

SteveINtheUKok