Who Is This “Ollie Parsley”??

I started listening to this weeks episode of Tuck In To Tech (awesome new site coming soon!) called “Blister Packaging…why? Just why?” [download]. Anyway thats slightly by the topic. So the co-host, James announced that he had an “angry” to get off his chest. I was intrigued! But I was shocked to hear that he was blaming Alistair for not producing a good enough show and losing 12 listeners :). One point to remember is that I helped Alistair by co-hosting the episode from 2 weeks ago. So really I can twist it to say that 12 listeners just like me!

Anyway I am not trying to pass blame :p. So instead I am asking you, the readers, where have the 12 listeners gone? Are you one of them? If so please leave a comment.

On a separate not please submit your answer to the poll below. 

I had the great pleasure of going with my dad to Wembley stadium. There was some confusion about if we could get our tickets! My dads friend bought them from TicketMaster, they failed to deliver the tickets to her address and that meant we needed her and her ID to collect the tickets at the stadium! How ridiculous! Anyway she was stuck at gatwick airport after getting back from holiday so we didn’t have her or her ID when collecting the tickets, just her credit card. This is not fraud by the way! We know her and she bought the tickets and my dad paid her back!

Anyway we got to the ticket office and managed to get the tickets after a bit of convincing. So then it was into the statium! The atmosphere was amazing, we all got three flags.

The Sterophonics started us off with their new single and then my favourite track of theirs “Dakota”. Then Neyo sang the american national anthem so well, Joss Stone sang ours, not easy to sing along to with all her high pitch melody! 

Then the game started. Thats all your getting about the game!

At half time we had a stripped down New Orleans Mardi-Gras. I have a few photos attached.

The whole evening was amazing and I would do it again when it comes back next year. The actually game was more entertaining with last yeat. The New Orleans Saints have a new fan!

Funny Signs was my first Facebook application, it was as simple as I dared make it! I wanted to just learn the Facebook API.

But today the app lept over the 1500 user mark. That means that over 1500 people currently have it on their profile.

Ok so what is Funny Signs? Basically get a random funny road sign whenever you or anyone visits your profile. It automatically add a random funny road sign from the database. You don’t need to do anything at all, just add the app to your page.

Please check out the app and let me know your thoughts. Also if you have any signs let me know by e-mailing me using the contact page.

If you are reading this the chances are that you have come from the EveryCity website. If you have then please take a look at my blogroll to see web apps I have done recently.

So how did I win? Well I just wrote down my details when I was at the Future of Web Apps in london. I generally think I am an unlucky person and “good things never happen to me”, but I was suprised to receive an e-mail from EveryCity saying I was a runner up and won a years web hosting!

I do have an web app in the pipeline that will be hosted with them. Along with probably moving my existing web apps over to their service.

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Earlier I was following the Apple Keynote at the “Spotlight turns to notebooks” event. I was so looking forward to having the rumors confirmed about the $800 notebook, brick and blu-ray.

Whenever there are rumors about Apple products the chances are that they’re true. But today I was disappointed to hear that only one of the 3 big rumors was true. I am the sort of person that does not have alot of spare cash and so the big savings on a cheaper MacBook would have suited me fine. I wouldn’t care if it didn’t have blu-ray and wasn’t carved out of aluminum.

But I was disappointed to hear that the price had come down a bit, but on the expensive MacBook. I will admit that it looks awesome, the trackpad is a great touch (pardon the pun). But they will still sell the same white plastic MacBook at the same price. Which for the spec is a ridiculous price at £719.00.

So as you can see this has not made me a happy mac fan. It has just made the little bit in my brain saying “Apple is just after money and is a walled garden” that little bit bigger. I still love my iPhone but I don’t see myself getting a MacBook until they lower the price or someone pays me enough to get one.

What was your take on the MacBook announcement? For more Mac news have a look at The Mac Cafe.