Top Gear

Television No Responses »
Jun 292009
English: James May at a recording of Top Gear....
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Posing as 17 year olds to see if they could buy a car and insure it with a budget of £2,500 or £2,000 (please correct me in the comments) was another class challenge, as usual James May having to put up with being the butt of Richard Hammond‘s and Jeremy Clarkson‘s extremely funny pranks.

The cars on show were awesome as usual, don’t expect me to go into minute detail, I’m not a petrol head, even though I do like cars, I don’t know one end of a piston to the other. But I do know a fast car when I see one.

Good to see Stephen Fry on the show, and a nice shout out to Twitter as well.

I thought they’d done away with the “Star in a reasonably priced car” segment because they didn’t have it on last week, good to see they hadn’t.

Bring on next week’s show, I feel this series is going to fly by far too quickly.

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On Thin Ice

Television No Responses »
Jun 292009

Anyone else caught the first episode of this new series with Ben Fogle and James Cracknell? I didn’t realise Johnny Lee Miller was such a fitness fanatic and he was really stoked that he was asked to participate in the Atlantic Race.

I’m really looking forward to this weeks episode.

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Dating and Porn spammers on Twitter

Social Media, Twitter No Responses »
Jun 292009

It seems I’m getting an influx of dating and porn spammers following me lately, on my @R_Arblaster and @wizzardsblog accounts.

I can find my own dates thank you, just that I’m enjoying the single life too muich at the moment to go looking for a relationship.

I can find plenty of porn on the internet that’s what google is for.

Feel free to follow me, I however won’t be following you back. When I get a spare few moments you will be blocked (when twitter stops breaking vital functions).

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Birmingham Dental Hospital

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Jun 252009
Teeth of a model.
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As you are probably aware today I had another appointment at Birmingham Dental Hospital. I’ve got to go back next Thursday, 2nd July to have a plastic appliance fitted to widen my bite, to see if I can tolerate having it widened to have false teeth fitted.

Things are slowly moving on.

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URL shorteners

Internet No Responses »
Jun 242009

Yes these sites that let you shorten a large cumbersome URL to a set of 4-6 characters, popularly used by twitter.

One such URL shortening service bit.ly was blocked by open dns (a very popular free DNS service). So everyone who was using open dns as their DNS servers were greeted by a warning page telling them it had been blocked as it was a phishing site.

It was fixed within half an hour of being reported. It would appear that the person(s) who reported the link, failed to realise it is a url shortening service and just reporting the bit.ly url would block every single site using this service.

So my suggestion is, don’t report the bit.ly link, report the link it re-directs to.

I have also suggested in a tweet to @opendns they educated those that report these bit.ly links to actually click through and note the link it re-directs to.

Before you jump up and down and say I’m crazy. You can install a firefox plugin that enables you to preview the site that bit.ly re-directs to, including the URL and the site contents.

Yes report such things, but please learn how to report them in a proper manner.

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Birmingham Dental Hospital - 25th June

Before 40, Plans for 2009 No Responses »
Jun 232009

Yes my 3rd appointment at Birmingham Dental Hospital is rapidly approaching.

I think Thursday is the say I find out what they can actually do for me.

So fingers crossed by the time I’m 37 my teeth and jaw will be fixed.

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1000 words a day challenge

Challenges No Responses »
Jun 232009

Ok, I’ll hold my hands up, I have been slacking on this challenge lately, I’m going to blame the sunshine for this one.

I haven’t been really tracking how many words I’ve been writing, as I feel that interrupts my flow trying to count every single word I write.

The only time I really know how many words I’ve written is with the built-in wordpress word counter at the bottom of the editing pane.

I hope to get a laptop soon, so I can no longer use the sunshine as an excuse, I’ll be able to write when I’m outside, as long as the sunshine lasts.

Ok I’ll stop with the waffling now and let you go about your normal day :)

Posted by wizzardsblog at 10:54 am

Job Titles?

Business No Responses »
Jun 192009

What’s actually in a job title? In my opinion not a lot, it’s just a fancy title, it doesn’t really tell anyone what you do on a day to day basis.

Let’s just strip away the peel of the orange and take a look inside, the real juicy stuff is there, not the peel or pith that the job title generates.

For example when I see the job title “Finance Director” I just get the opinion that the person plays with numbers all day. What I don’t see is the precarious balancing act that the job entails to ensure that the business doesn’t go down the tubes because someone has made the decision to try and buy something that the company doesn’t really need or can ill-afford.

I like to see what people do on a day to day basis, I love reading “A Day in the life of XYZ” posts, it’s fascinating to see a snapshot of a single day.

That impresses me far more than a fancy job title. A job title just tells me where on the corporate ladder you are, doesn’t tell me whether you’re actually any good at your job or what you do from day to day.

So this is the “Supreme Overlord of the Wizzard’s Blog Empire” signing off.

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Lack of common sense

Gadgets, Technology No Responses »
Jun 182009

It beggars belief the lack of common sense on the internet.

Take for example the launch of the iphone v3 software yesterday, the amount of complaints about not being able to update/authenticate/verify their phones.

Take a moment to think how many iphone users there are in the world, all trying to do the same thing as you, i.e. download the new version and all the related stuff that goes with it.

Of course the servers are going to suffer under the tremendous upsurge in traffic, is waiting a few hours for the traffic to die down the end of civilisation?

If your iphone is that important to you, then why did you try and update on launch day? Wait for the rush to die down then update your phone.

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Website Design

AudioBoo No Responses »
Jun 182009

Listen!

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