Random Musings - Day #219

Sometimes I surprise myself. Despite the things going on in my life, my sub-conscience is quite positive. I dreamed that I was telling someone

For every one, two people that have a bad life like me, there's another one, two, three, four people that things worse than you

There's probably going to be something made of this. But there are a lot of twitter results coming up for camtweet... specifically this one

Briefly, Susan Boyle has had one too many makeovers as now she looks like Anthea Turner

Irony strikes as the man who appears in the swine flu adverts (catch it, bin it, kill it) has got swine flu himself.

Random Musings - Day #208

Not much to say today. I had to seriously check out the NHS site for swine flu. The symptoms are kind of similar to regular flu except maybe more extreme. I was suffering with body aches, head aches and feeling warm (no coughing/cold). There is also a dedicated site for it as well

Random Musings - Day #182

Canada Day
Today is Canada's Independence day or Dominion Day. Canada is 142 years old. Meanwhile it's arguable Hong Kong Day too as the handover to China took place on this day in 1997.

Essential items over inflation rate
There are so many ways to interpret economy indicators. To me, food and energy costs have been going up. These factors may or may not be included in these indicators as a consequence, you get a slight misdemeanor where general inflation is low compared to the inflation of essential items (e.g. food has gone up 9%). Those that require essential items are the not well-off and they are struggling.

Veggies beat cancer
The claim that vegetables avoid more cancers may be taken with a pinch of salt. But you can decide for yourself.

Gagging and unmasking
People in the know being gagged is not a new thing and case in point as a researcher is barred from presenting a
ATM Security Vulnerability.
According to some security experts shoulder surfing is not a problem as they state masked passwords should just disappear.

Nothing beats a swine flu party
People are actually trying to catch the killer flu deliberately, thinking the effect is not as bad in the summer as it would be in the winter. So why not have a party

Celebrity Deaths
Ever since Michael Jackson died, aside from the numerous jokes. A number of fake deaths have occurred. Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and even Rick Astley have suffered from the hoax. The hoaxes are apparently originating from twitter and used for link baiting, which forces users interested celeb deaths to visit advertisers site to increase traffic and per click revenue.
Talking of death matches how about the iphone -vs- pre death match.


How to Hack
Here's how to become a hacker

Random Musings - Day #7

The DLR have kept the opening of Woolwich Arsenal DLR station underwraps. But I've been reliably informed by a friend and this transport blog that it will commence running on January 10th with the official opening a couple days later. This section should be another way getting about from the southeast into London and presumably is in place as an alternative means to the area where most of London 2012 Olympics will be held.

Now I am totally down with the flu but I am fighting it with Vicks, my special ginger drink, multivitamins, fisherman's friend and lots of water. Keeping hydrated is probably the key to it all. Anyways spotted this nice little recipe, which actually sounds tasty.

Moonwalking. There's some good tutorials on how to do it properly. One from videojug is here. Another good video tutorial is from
glowsticking.com. There's even one from Borat... well not quite but I LIKE!

Another friend says he is going to do some running in the not to distant future and asked what do I recommend. Decathlon and Sweatshop are probably your best bets. (Have a look at my running blog for more details...

I hate Manchester United. On paper, it wasn't humanly possible to lose to a team, that's only won 3 times in 11 with a couple of those against crap teams in cup competitions. But somehow they pulled off a 1-0 defeat to Derby in the Carling Cup. Not pleased at all. That's Man U, off my list of potential Premiership teams (as a second club) to support... It was too good to be true. I should have realised that Nigel Clough, Derby's new boss was around and they would be up for the game, whereas Fergie, the master tactician that he is realise, it's a game of two halves (there is a second leg to come at Old Trafford) and 8-1 on Derby winning. Yeah let them win. It's a fix. I swear the game was a fix! I hate Manchester United!!

Monkeh (a.k.a. the Digital/PG Tips Monkey). A little flashback to those adverts from the ill-fated itv digital. Have a look at Ryan Giggs in a pinny.

Random Musings - Day #6

It's freezing in the UK! Everything is frozen, just look at the fountains in Trafalgar Square. THe big freeze is certainly not helping with the colds and flus that are kicking about. I swear everyone I know has had it at least once. I originally had after my awful journey to Dublin last month, where I got completely frozen and possibly caught hypothermia. But since then I've had a couple sore throats and felt really really flat over Christmas but thankfully not a full blown cold/flu. I may be strong enough or just plain lucky. So I swear there is a cold/flu epidemic and this article from around Christmas supports my view. Coincidentally, there is an newscientist article from 2007 that strongly suggests the cold does indeed spread the flu.

There are apparently loads of free sites to download episodes of your favourite tv shows. I should have a look at some point...

Also had a listen to (and I'll give a namecheck to) lovetofunk radio!