Twittering

Since starting to use Twitter more I've found that I get more followers, some of these are friends and some are re-follows from interesting twitterers i started to follow.

However I am now finding that I get more annoying spammers who follow me just to promote their own site or think i might be interested in their tweeted advertisements.

One of the easiest ways to spot Twitter Spammers so you can block them is by the number of posts they have on their home page or by their follower, following ratio. i.e Following 6000, Followers 3

If anything will be death of twitter it could spam. I see it changing so they integrate more advanced optional security like facebook. You can keep your tweets private but I'm not sure of the point in that as its interesting to partake in and view trending and if your twitter was private you couldn't do this.

Gonna Fly Now

Seeing a friends video of his recent skydive in NZ prompted me to upload the video of my experience back in 2003 at Mission Beach in North Queensland. It was the most amazing experience and very enjoyable. I was back at the hostel when two girls came back from their skydive, seeing and hearing their story made me think well if they can do it so can I. My tandem partner that day was a really cool guy who when I asked what could go wrong his reply were exactly the words i didn't want to hear about chutes failing etc, but we were confident it would all go OK if we did what we were shown in the training.



Unfortunately YouTube have muted the sound and music for copyright reasons so had to go with one of their tracks. So to make up for that here is the Rocky training scene & soundtrack (Gonna Fly Now) that should motivate anyone have a go at their challenge...

Yeah Buddy!

Back in the day after I had finished the Sunday paper round I used to get home, sometimes with a mate and we'd watch recorded highlights of the previous nights Hitman and Her usually taped on our top-loading VHS VCR with wire connecting remote control. The show was a late night clubbing show which toured various nightclub establishments around the country it was a really cheesey show as I think this video shows, but fun to watch at the time.

- please be aware no mullets were harmed during this live recording:



Anyway it was on this show that I first heard the classic 'Yeah Buddy by Royal House', I promptly bought the 12", one of my first and then this purchase also introduced me to Todd Terry who was responsible for lots of great records at the time. The music became more popular and was known as Hip-house. The following video playlist I've made contains a selection of Essential Hip-House from the era so Turn Up the Bass and enjoy...

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

(tracklisting courtesy of Fact Mag)

Fuller's Trip

Picture 077, originally uploaded by tobold4.

Had a great day on Friday, left work early and went on a tour of the Fuller's Brewery in London for a friends birthday. The hour long tour was quite interesting but the free tastings at the end made it all worth it

Tuesday Tune

Is HERE!

Saturday Bike ride

Only 20KM's today trying to ease myself back into the regime - Leckhampton - Churchdown - Brockworth - Shurdington - Cheltenham - Leckhampton

Bike ride - A417, originally uploaded by davstar8.

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Sat bike ride Gloucs., originally uploaded by davstar8.

Slap down from Barrack

Nixon St. Ives

Take the surname of US president in the year you were born + last seaside town visited = West Indian cricketer name.

New England Shirt

England unveiled their new shirt on Saturday which will take them up to next years World Cup, they'll be wearing it against Ukraine tomorrow night too.



There's only one word to describe it and that's 'white'. I think it would look a lot better with traditional blue shorts but playing in all white shouldn't be too much of an issue. The shirt also has the look of a casual polo shirt which will suit people who like to wear the england shirt down the street. I do like football shirts but have never owned an England one, I do think they could have done better with this one though and time will tell how its selling by how many you see out on the street.

My personal fave was 1982 World Cup shirt (C)

Mail Goggles

Mail you send late on Friday night or the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning if you send email after a few to many drinks.

This new feature offered by Google Mail means you must solve some simple math problems before sending late night email. Otherwise if you cant solve the puzzle better get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning

This feature would certainly be useful for a certain Director at a company I used to work who was prone to send quite strongly worded emails to the LAN Support team, the emails were date stamped late at night late and contained a fair bit of blue air!

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret