glastonbury mud

I've been helping get photos loaded across on Christina Nott's website this weekend, courtesy of the Glastonbury mud.

They seem to be mainly mobile phone shots and I've tried to link them to the posts appearing at this year's musical mud-fest.

From what I can see, and have heard, it seems to be an excellent event.

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laser or sonic?

Dr Who's Nemesis is the detective from Life on Mars. As the current episodes also have Captain Jack from Torchwood, its a bit of a time traveller fest. Add the current Dr Who assistant and as the Master remarked in the last episode, all demographics are represented.

Tonight's episode featured a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a sketchy past presiding over the end of the world, whilst being initially bossed around by President of the United States. Obviously fictional.

Things get out of hand when the Prime Minister uses his big balls and then his laser screwdriver to overpower the mere sonics of the Doctor. I shall have to remember to record next week's episode so that I see then end of the series.

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nott my picture

Christina has sent me a few emails with Glastonbury photos to upload to her blog. Unfortunately, the password I used when I set up the blog seems to have changed and I shall have to wait until I get a text or email with the right information. In the meantime, I am reliably informed that it is quite muddy.

I shall wait for Bjork to be on BBC4 at 00:40UK.

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"I'll take it from here"

I've no idea whether it will be any good or not, but I expect I'll see 'Die Hard Four' or whatever its called.

Cyber attack on the United States with analogue hero Bruce no doubt speaking a few choice 'Bruce-isms".
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"You just killed a helicopter with a car"..."I was out of bullets".
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"Why'd you bring a cop into my command center?" ... "command center? its a basement."

And launch date on 4th July, of course.

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contact

rashbre central has a rather erratic range of posts and topics which should deter anyone who wants to settle into a single theme. So its quite pleasing on the infrequent moments of browsing back through the tracker log to spot a familiar visitor from the past, even if they flit briefly past without leaving a comment. rashbre central says "hail fellow, well met" to such welcome travellers.

There's been a similar effect on email over the last few days. Outlook crashed with a horrible 81050014 error and in the process deleted all of my mobile phone contacts. I've recovered, but in the process, some long term acquaintances have made contact again.

Wordless Wednesday

the rain that broke the webcam

1008

oops. I passed 1,000 posts without realizing it. This is number 1008.

So I looked up 1008 A.D. and found the Leningrad Codex and also the year of the "The Tale of Genji" about the son of an emperor of Japan.

The tale was a lengthy psycho-drama in which Genji is exiled from court, goes adventuring, then through political intrigue eventually works his way back. There's a lot more that a one sentence summary of a complex set of stories can't relay and the tale is quite a well known in some parts of the world.

Unlike the Leningrad Codex, although the codex is reputedly the most common source of translation for the New Testament.

Harry Potter ending

Probably a hoax? Some things are insecure. I have not changed the wording.


From: go harry
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:23:45 +0800
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* Harry Potter 0day
*
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Dear my brothers,

Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago.

This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.

Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.
(boring, very boring... it's always the same story!)

Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
************************************************************

Yes, we did it.
We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.
He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith.

So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.

The attack strategy was the easiest one.
The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to some employee of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that's behind the Harry crap.

It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book.
Curiosity killed the cat.

Who kill curiosity?

To protect you and your families

God bless you

Gabriel


So do we believe this, or not?

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Glastonbury Stage Live WebCam

UPDATE: Above picture is 2008
I've noticed a few 2008 Glastonbury hits coming to this 2007 post, so I've added the latest picture. Click it to go to the latest rashbre central entry... and below, for comparison, is the 2007 webcam picture just before the camera broke in the rain.

Another UK webcam moment; here's the Glastonbury main stage being assembled for the concerts which start in a few days.

Friend Christina will be heading along to the concert and is already packing tents and wellington boots.

UPDATE: the webcam broke with the rain.

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More monuments

After the glory of Stonehenge a couple of days ago and the whimsical banksy interpretation, I thought I'd keep an eye open for other interesting monuments.

What could be finer than this one, spied atop a multi-story car park? There's even a special set of steps inside it to be able to climb to the top, although they were chained off on Saturday when I was visiting.

Live London

Here's a view of some areas of London, mainly areas more well-known to tourists.

Recent news reports say that the UK is the most heavily monitored country in Europe with cameras, so I thought I'd hook into a few to see what I could piece together - and the updates are 'live' or 'nearly live'

This was quite easy and I hope gives a flavour of today in London - right now.

Come back later for another and different peek!


Piccadilly Circus

Whitehall and Parliament Square

Oxford Circus

Chelsea Bridge Road

Centrepoint and St Giles Circus

Westminster

Hyde Park Corner

Kensington High Street

Marble Arch

Vauxhall Bridge Road

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monumental

The altar stone at Stonehenge, installed around 2,600 BC, is a six ton slab of sandstone brought by means unknown from Wales to Salisbury plain. rashbre central uses this as its icon at the top of the blog. The central monument in Banksy's latest installation is a replica of the ancient monument built on the site of the forthcoming Glastonbury festival.

Its made of a portable toilet that has been sawed in half and sunk into the Somerset field.

The Guardian today shows a druidic figure standing atop the monument, in tribute to the summer solstice on June 21, the first evening of the festival.

Banksy himself has no illusions about the sanctity of his work, however: "A lot of monuments are a bit rubbish," he said, "but this really is a pile of crap.

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