November 2008
19 posts
Click for Gmail Videochat →
I am a big time user of Google Apps, especially for domains, and am amazed at the power of Google. I know it’s a drug and everything, but, yep, I’m addicted. The thing is, Google stuff just works.
No exception is their (at last) implementation of videochat as part of their google or gmail system. Again, a simple installation, and }ping{ you can do the video chat thing. Ok,...
“Now that the ‘Earth Liberation Front’, or whatever their name of the day is,...”
– Christopher
“So, this car drives in a built-up area of Oldham at speeds of over 80 miles an...”
– Christopher
“So everybody’s shouting and moaning about Louis Walsh ‘voting...”
– Christopher
Moaning old farts
Is this country top-heavy with moaning old farts? I think so. No wonder the younger generation feel so isolated and under-valued. It seems that anybody older than 40 has an axe to grind about other people doing this or doing that. Yes, it doesn’t matter what others are actually doing, but if they appear to be having fun, then it must be stopped immediately.
The main organ of the...
“Now that the ‘Earth Liberation Front’ or whatever their name of the day is have...”
– Christopher
The paranoid ones
As Christopher England I have made quite a number of enemies over the years. Usually, these ‘enemies’ are people who fall into two distinct camps.
Camp 1 contains those paranoid ones who are easily led and have been told through a drip-drip-drip feed that Christopher England is evil. Usually, they’re drip-fed anti-Christopher England propaganda by those who need to deflect...
Can you hear me, mother?
Them: You sound muffled.
Me: Muffled?
Them: Yeah! Really quiet and like you are talking from behind a blanket.
Me: I'm just talking normally as I always do.
Them: You're stalking Norman and you're in the loo?
Me: No, I'm... Let me call you back in a while.
Them: You've a bat on the Nile? What are you talking about, man?
Me: CALL ... YOU ... LATER!
Them: Congratulate her? Congratulate who?
Me: {click}
[Time passes]
Them: Hello.
Me: Can you hear me ok now?
Them: Yes, fine, brilliant. What on earth was wrong before?
Me: Would you believe it? I just poked around at the microphone socket of this trusty N95 and pulled out a whole load of belly-button fluff!
Them: Mobiles with their own belly button fluff. Fantastic.
Me: There's something I don't get. Human. Mobile. Whichever. Why is belly-button fluff always blue?
Click for the Gadget Show Competition →
Yes. Yes. Yes. I know the chances of winning are probably about the same as getting struck by lightening, but wow, Five’s Gadget Show certainly gathers together a whole bunch of anoraky toys and gizmos - over £17,000 worth. The video listing them is almost worth going alone into a darkened room to watch. Hubba hubba.
That link again: http://fwd.five.tv/videos/competition-programme-5
(I...
“Barak Obama attends a Christian church. He does this probably more because...”
– Christopher
Scene: A well-known West End department store
Me: Hi. I've a few things I'm after. Firstly, I'd like to buy a watch
Shop assistant: Analogue?
Me: No, just a watch. I'd also like a goldfish
Shop assistant: Do you want an aquarium?
Me: To be honest, I don't care what star sign it is. Also can somebody sell me a kettle?
Shop assistant: Kenwood.
Me: Ok, I'll wait for him to serve me then.
The Wussel Bwand and Jonathan Woss saga.
Come on now. This is all some huge joke, right?
Now the Controller of Radio 2 has fallen on her sword.
Poor Andrew Sachs was swamped with journos asking if this person or that person had apologised, and if you watch the uncut interview he’s constantly saying “But, but, but I don’t want people to keep apologising, the matter’s closed”.
I am reminded of the Monty...
“I moved here to tumblr.com on 1st November 2008 as I thought it was more suited...”
– Christopher