Its 5 am in Amsterdam

Michelle Shocked was our accompaniment.
Isobel ringing in our ears.
Just a trick of lightning;
Skipping over power lines.
There it is again.
Can you hear it?

Round trip to Lancaster

Sunday was time to collect Mel. We completely filled the car to the roof for our return journey,such that opening a door was a major hazard.

On the way back, we noticed several other similarly full cars on the M6. Additionally we spotted several supercars, maybe on their way to Goodwood for next weekend's Festival of Speed.

Queen gets ipod?

Allegedly, a member of the Queen's staff bought the music player from the Apple Store on London's Regent Street. The courtier is said to have requested a royal discount.

A royal insider told The Sun: "The Queen loves music and was impressed by how small and handy the iPod is," adding: "The Queen does a lot of travelling and an iPod is a very convenient way of listening to music while on the move".

The Sun newspaper has pulled together "probable" playlists for all members of the royal family, suggesting that HRH Queen Elizabeth might like to listen to Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears, and that Prince Charles might like to listen to Prince's My Name is Prince.

Dalek Theft

Theres been recent increases in Dalek theft like the Dalek at a Somerset tourist site abducted last week, followed by a ransom note. Less than a week later the thieves decided the Doctor Who robot was too hot to handle and was dumped on Glastonbury Tor, where it was recovered and carried away by stretcher before it ha d a chance to retaliate.

YubNub

is an interesting site to create and use a social command line interface to the web, allowing the addition of new commands. As an example "rashbre" entered into this command line will now take you directly to this web site.
Check it out.

apple iphone

Remember the first Apple iphone picture from iCreate?

Here is another one doing the internet rounds, which is in keeping with the new style iPods and has a flip out key pad modelled on iCalc.

The telephone companies want to make money from music downloads, whereas the traditional iPod is uploaded from the owner's CD music collection.

This makes the debate about listening to music via a phone rather convoluted because of the economic model used by the phone companies.

iWonder?

blogwords

Now that rashbre2 has been around for a few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to look at the rate of hits on popular blogs based upon search terms. The current most popular searches, according to some of the search statisticians seem to be:

paris hilton
playstation 2 cheats
games
michael jackson
google
carmen electra
jessica simpson
yahoo
ebay
vera wang

These change daily, but it is interesting to get a snapshot in time.

Windsor evening

Roger was over from Hannover, so in the evening we selected Windsor for a beer and riverside chat.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

So every episode of the Dr Who series has the big bad wolf in it? Above from Episode 3; Below from Episode 8. You figure it out.

Bribing Elizabeth

Elizabeth requested Dodger's appearance. Dooce has been successful including her pet postings like the spaghetti dog incident, so I may as well give it a try!

jpod and london eye pod

An interesting marketing idea for someone. It looks as if there will soon be a book. Meanwhile, back at the London Eye (Pod).

A taxing day

The piles of paper have stacked ever higher and today became the day to curb their increase. Two sets of tax returns and several other complicated documents were prepared and are ready to submit. The usual dilemma with the UK tax. I am ready to submit it, but the pin number takes seven working days to arrive. I may as well post it.