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I took this picture at Wood Green tube station yesterday morning. I was able to travel all over London for free due to a systems crash with Oyster computer systems. However, according to a few sources there seems to be massive amount of fraud taking place with the system. Either that or Osyter was hacked and down for more than four hours yesterday. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen.
On Saturday morning I ventured over to Shepherds Bush VUE cinema to meet up with a some friends and a number of geeks. We were all privileged enough to have been invited to an early screening of the new Pixar animation movie; Wall-E. (Wall-E is due out on general release in the UK on the 18th July 2008).
Wall-E was a pretty good movie and I really enjoyed it. The animation was superb and the comedy was excellent. I’ve never laughed so much during a movie. I highly recommend you go and watch Wall-E when it’s released next week.
Special thanks goes out to @mseckington and @cbetta.
Last night, I took a train over to Orpington to visit a lady who was selling a puppy. The lady brought the pup a few days ago from a couple of people who didn’t look after the pup too well. She’s malnourished and it’s my job to fatten up the little mutt. In no way, shape or form is Mojo a replacement for Trixie.
Age: Seven months old.
Breed: Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Sex: Female.
I find it disgusting the way some people treat animals. I don’t understand why someone would purposely want to starve an animal to death. Although in retrospect I do prefer animals over human beings… simply because you won’t find them f**king each other over for money, a promotion or anything else.
“Vancouverism” is fast replacing “Manhattanism” as the maximum power setting for shaping the humane mixed-use city, important ideas for a new era of scarce energy and diminished natural resources. Source.
Not long until the exhibition, expo and celebrations begin. I’ll be attending all of the events throughout the summer. Coverage from the events will begin next weekend.
Just a quick post to keep you updated on the latest. First thing’s first, I started a new job at London Heathrow at the beginning of June and yesterday, my line manager offered me a promotion which I accepted.
I will be posting more about the new role in the coming days but due to the sensitive nature of my work, I will not be able to divulge a great deal of information about it. This does mean I won’t be working in the games industry anymore but rest assured, I will be blogging about the topic’s I have posted about in the past, and I will be revealing a few thing’s some publisher’s and websites don’t want you to know.
In other news, I’ve seen ‘The Happening’ - think chemicals and the movie, Day of the Triffids without the man-eating plants. Also watched ‘The Incredible Hulk’ which wasn’t that incredible but I did like the ending. Oh, the mid-season finale of BSG was pretty awesome.
Apart from the above, I’m planning two trips: Toronto in September and Burbank, California in November. I haven’t had much time for anything else. Although I will be, at some stage, going to visit Myra and Gunit in their new home and hosting a gathering in London soon.
One last thing… I have completely given up smoking. About a week ago, my carbon monoxide reading was at level 31 (Heavy smoker / 20 plus per day). I had a reading this morning and it was in the green, 3. (Non-smoker).
Simon posted an interesting question and here is my response. I wanted to buy an iPhone when they were released last year but I didn’t want to downgrade from 3G to Edge.
I’ am pleased o2 and Apple have decided to sell the 3G iPhone on the ‘Pay as you Go’ tariff because this would be ideal for me because I don’t want to be stuck with anything long term until I’ve moved.
I’m not sure if I should drink this or not.
On Sunday, Gunit celebrated his birthday. His girlfriend fiancee, Myra gave Gunit an iPod Touch as a present and he brought it with him to my place because he is currently staying here until he’s sorted out a new pad. Anyhoo, while he was watching the football last night, I was able to get my hands on the iPod Touch and play around with it. I watched a feature length movie, viewed a number of pictures, messed around with some apps and surfed the internet.
I like the slick design of the device and I’m very tempted to get one but I really need a camera for both pictures and video. Overall, the iPod Touch is a neat hand-held, however, I think I’m going to wait until Apple releases the 3G iPhone before I buy one because the devices will have the same and hopefully, improved functionality.
Edit: Correction.
If Videogamer could complete against Eurogamer, and if I were a betting man, I’d put all my money on Eurogamer. One innovates while the other tries to copy innovation.
I set up a FriendFeed account a few months ago and I’m starting to use it a lot more. I prefer FriendFeed over SocialThing! - I think SocialThing! is pointless, slow and useless.
I like using FaceBook and Google Reader to share content. The speed in which FriendFeed picks up new content is phenomenal. FriendFeed is a lot faster than FaceBook and Google Reader.