Me, Myself and All!

Peter and Dan Snow

2007-06-24T18:04:00.000Z

Well on Friday night was an experience.

Peter and Dan Snow, were holding an event to promote their new BBC series and Books on 20th Century Battlefields. As i have the luck to work at the place they were doing the event, i got to meet them early on, and they are both very very nice guys, and bloody tall, both are 6'4" i would reckon.

Anyways, onto the talk, it condensed their series into 1 hour of talking and light hearted banter, which was insightful, entertaining and really interesting.

I had the pleasure of Messrs Scarrow as more knowledgeable friends to ask the pointed questions, which keep the Snows talking and imparting new information.

If you ever get the chance to go to a talk both Snows are doing just DO IT! all I can say really.

Really glad I went now, and will keep an eye on future events both Peter and Dan do.

Went for a meal with Simon and Alex afterwards which was entertaining as always..hehe

Aston Martin is British again....well sort of!

2007-03-13T12:11:00.000Z

It's back.

Aston Martin, is British again, (with foriegn investment), but the man behind the reigns is Dave Richards, someone who has a history with sportscars et al.
Lots of Dubai money here, but we all know the Dubai money men love fast cars so it canl only be good! and be great advertising when a couple of Sheiks start roaring around their home citys in a DB9

All i can say is wahey! and sit in hope the wife does as she promises and buys me one by the time i'm 40 :)

9 years and counting hun!

I love Astons always have, probably growing up on Bond did that too me, and the fact it's one of the last british cars made by hand. and to put it simply I will have one!.....

drivers.....again!

2007-03-06T10:05:00.000Z

right here's the scene, one of the main routes through the middle of Norwich is closed for 2 weeks, so all the traffic has to go round it.
You'd think a little tolerance would be in order as the volume of traffic on the other routes has increased by at least 30%, but no!
Every person I let through this morning didn't acknowledge that fact, the only person who did say thanks pushed her (yes it was a woman driver) through, and I think she saw my face! (like thunder springs to mind)

What is it about the morning rush hour?

Soon as any driver has to find a different route they turn into a tosser!

The amount of near misses I've seen this morning with drivers pushing in, creeping onto junctions and causing moving traffic to swerve around the nose of his/her car!

grrrrrrr, makes my blood boil! I just wish i had a tank, so i could just drive over the lot of them or shoot the buggers who cut me up!

MotorSport - Wahey

2007-03-03T21:43:00.000Z

Well the Formula 1 Grand Prix season is almost upon us, and from all the usual xmas testing circus, it's shaping up to be a great season. Massa in that Ferrari seems to be the package to beat, Raikonnen will catch up but i reckon Massa will create a lead that will insurmountable.

But McLaren could spoil the party, car is fast ,but still unreliable. but the surprise could be BMW, car and drivers are strong, and stable with long runs under their belt, so reliability is there. lets hope the drivers don't screw things up, would be great to get an open season, and by mid season we have several contenders.

But my favourite is BTCC, I should be getting to at least 5 rounds this year, so I will get some great pics, and see some great action! really looking forward to see if Matt Neal can get a record 3rd title, but can those seats do the double this year and the VXR Vectra sounds real fast and stable in S2000 spec. and Fabrizio is already a WTCC champ, so he will be one to watch!
Rumour has it, we will get 25cars or more in round one! thats what all call racing!

Bring it on!!!

Bad Weather Drivers

2007-02-27T11:10:00.000Z

What is it with bad weather?

A little bit of rain and every twat who owns a car will roll it out for the one of the very few times they will brave rush hour traffic.

Having driven in many differant types of rush hour traffic all round the country, i can safely say that i'm more experienced that many drivers on the road.

But introduce a little rain inthe equation and all the non-regular road users will get on the road and basically screw it all up, the amount of twats I saw this morning, not knowing how to filter in, or blocking junctions cause it was too wet to see the markings or my favourite gripe

NOT TURNING THEIR LIGHTS ON

What is it? bad weather, no lights, they aint just for you to be able to see you know!!! it's for us to see you as well!

SO TURN THEM BLOODY WELL ON.

and lastly, this morning we watched an Ann Summers delivery van (plate LC53FKA) cut us up, and then proceed to cut 2 other drivers up. and just didn't seem to care! and to top it all, the tag line on the van was "Delivering you pleasure" yeah right, not that bleeding van driver!

I do the same journey to work every day of the week, and i see the traffic levels at the same times, and it's always twice as bad with twice as bad driving if there have been the slightest hint of rain or heaven forbid snow!

'Infomania' worse than marijuana

2007-02-25T10:14:00.000Z

'Infomania' worse than marijuana

Many workers are always on standby to react to incoming messages

Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed.

The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted to email and text messages.

Researchers found 62% of people checked work messages at home or on holiday.

The firm said new technology can help productivity, but users must learn to switch computers and phones off.

Losing sleep

The study, carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry, found excessive use of technology reduced workers' intelligence.

Those distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQ - more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking marijuana, said researchers.

More than half of the 1,100 respondents said they always responded to an email "immediately" or as soon as possible, with 21% admitting they would interrupt a meeting to do so.

The University of London psychologist who carried out the study, Dr Glenn Wilson, told the Daily Mail that unchecked infomania could reduce workers' mental sharpness.

Those who are constantly breaking away from tasks to react to email or text messages suffer similar effects on the mind as losing a night's sleep, he said.

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Now you've read the article. Having never smoked Marijuana, I couldn't possibly say what the effects are of it on the brain, but the story did conjure a picture of PotHeads running IT Dept's....hang on a minute, i work in an IT dept.....

I will admit i cannot stay away from email etc, but then again it's my job, but i have trained myself to stay away as much as possible, mostly by reading or some other activity not related to PC. honest guvnor! :-)

Blog 2.

2007-02-23T10:48:00.000Z

I know I know, 2 entries in one day, well what can i say, i'm playing catch up!

And now for the news.....well it a friday and anything newsworthy is plain funny!

Jade Goody is dropped from comic relief.
Well do we care?????
Israeli newspapers have printed photos of Defence Minister Amir Peretz attmepting to view troop movements with the lens cap still on his Binoculars.
Doh! how stupid can you be!, dont belive me here's the pic! (he's the guy on the right!
And lastly, Lloyds TSB are going to Levy an annual charge on Creidt card holders who DON'T use there cards!
All i can say to this is bollocks! There will be a massive rush of cancellations and moves to other providors, Credit cards are for most people for emergencies, to get them out of trouble or purchase things online and then payit off on payday. I mean c'mon, next they'll be charging us to keep our money in our own bank accounts.....oh their thinking about that also! arrrrgggghhhh!
{rushes out to buy a safe for home and ask to get paid in cash!}

Thankyou for listening. :-)

Me, Myself and You

2007-02-23T09:44:00.000Z

Well it's Friday the 23rd of February, and I've held off long enough from having my own blog, everyone i know has one, so i felt it was only fair that i had one too.

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet where I hang out sometimes and post some mindless bollocks! - Just like this post really.

Hobbies, hmm, thats easy i guess.

Reading. I read mostly fantasy, and Historical Fiction, with some thrillers thrown in for good measure. as to favourite Authors, well Simon and Alex Scarrow figure very highly up there on the list, the late great David Gemmell (I credit him for getting me into reading in the first place!) Early stuff from David Eddings, Conn Iggulden, and others to numerous to name.

I have the singular pleasure to know Alex and Simon Scarrow, as we all live in the same city, I started as a fanboy i guess, but it's developed from there into a friendship.
Reading Simons books has also instilled an interest in ancient history, especially roman history, I dont get the time to read a huge amount on it, but it's there!

As to their books, simple words really READ THEM!

Simons Eagles are superb, think sharpe set in the roman legions, but funnier, more gripping and bloody good!

Alex has to date 1 published title, a superb thriller called A Thousand Suns, check it out it's very good and from what i've managed to gleen his next novel called LastLight is just as good and not a little scary!

Right Other hobbies!

Motorsport, anything with an engine really, i'm not a grease monkey, dont know a bloody thing about engines, but i love good racing, bikes, open wheelers, touring cars.

I try to get to as many of the British Touring Car rounds as i can over the season, (should get to 5 this year, woohoo!)