http://www.photobloggies.org/ – Awards for Photo Blogs. Some really good ones.
http://www.atmedia2005.co.uk/speakers.php – @media 2005 Conference – links to the speakers websites
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/ – A Hybrid CSS Dropdown menu. Will properly be used on a future site I design.
The football on Sunday was pretty good. It was sometimes frustrating in the first half but it got a lot better in the 2nd half. England scored 4 goals in about 16 minutes. Some goals were a little lucky but we totally out played them. Rooney was excellent. J. Cole was also really good too. Possibly not as good as everyone is going out but he did a lot better than he has done in the past. He used to try a dribble everyone in the team and then lose the ball.
Sunday I had another lie in 
and got up to play football around lunch. Played for around 2 hours and was exhausted afterwards. I did somehow manage to score a couple goals. Got back home and got ready to go out to an Easter party at my aunties. We sang karoake for around 4 or 5 hours singing some really cheesy songs very badly. We then played cards and some other game I can’t remember. I didn’t get home till about 1am. When I got home I watched the recording of the Tusnami Soccer Appeal game (not sure of proper name). It was a celeb v legends game to raise money for the Tsunami appeal. The legends won 6-2.
On Monday I ended waking up late and getting out of bed at 1pm and then went to do a bit of shopping. Also watched a couple movies and some TV. Now back to work but thankfully its a 4 day work week
Met up with some friends yesterday – went for some pub food. I had a bacon and cheese burger which was pretty nice. A few others had the steak which looked really nice. We then went to see Hitch at the AMC Cinema. I really enjoyed it and was very funny. If you dont know it stars Will Smith and he is a date doctor – basically helps men get start a relationship with women. I took down lots of notes from all his tips
We then met up with some other friends and went for a quick drink. The other guys went to the cinema and we went for some food – we went to Tai Wu. We ate far too much but it was very nice. Anyone, I am writing this just as England kick off against so I will properly write later on talking about the football. Hopefully talking about a great victory for England.
Its been getting warmer and warmer since I came back from holiday. Being Manchester it has rained abit but overall its pretty nice. As I write this now at 10.40pm its very warm. Looks like this Summer could be really hot.
Its the start of the long weekend – Good Friday tomorrow and Easter Sunday on … Sunday. Tomorrow I am going to be meeting friends – apart from enjoying the warm weather (checked the forecast and its Ok tomorrow and Saturday) we are going to go see Hitch in the cinema. I have heard its pretty good and I like Will Smith so I am hopeful. Saturday I will be watching the football – apart from that I may do some shopping and spend some of my birthday money. Sunday I will be going to football training and then going to a family birthday Easter party – I must remember to buy some Easter eggs or something for my cousins. Monday will be spent relaxing and trying not to think about work – properly watch some DVDs.
The winners for the Bloggies have recently been announced. This is the fifth year running. “The Bloggiesâ„¢ are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. ” Check them out – there are some really good blogs out there. 2005 Bloggies
There is also a festival happening called South by Southwest – it is being held in Austin, Texas. As well as the music, there is also the interactive side of things. Radio 1 are actually there putting on their own gig. On the interactive side of things the Web Awards were announced. There are also hosting a load of talks – some of them by top names from the world of blogging/web/internet. (Google, Wordpress, Six Apart etc)
2005 Bloggies
South by Southwest
Had a birthday do yesterday with a load of friends. A few of us first went the cinema – we watched Hostage which stars Bruce Willis. I thought it was pretty good and I am now looking forward to Die Hard 4 We met up with a few more ppl at the New Emperor restaurant in Manchester Chinatown for a meal. It took awhile for us to decide what to order but it all got sorted in the end (thanks Lisa for ordering). After eating abit too much we went for drinks. We decided to head to Lucid even though we heard it was closed. We thought it may be still open or we could go somewhere else in the Printworks. Unfortunately it was closed and so was the nearby Paparazzi. Lucid was closed because they didnt get a performance license. We decided then to head to M-Two.
The queue was pretty big and we had to wait about half an hour. It was a pretty good night and some of the music was really good. It wasn’t as good towards the end but had a good time.
Afterwards a few of us went for some food. I just shared some chips. Others shared a pizza. Didnt get home till around 4am and I ended up waking up around 8am (stupid bodyclock!). Watched the football and then went back to bed. Ended up playing football myself at 12. Totally knackered afterwards but I did manage to score a goal
Photos will be online at some point with links to any other photos. Thanks everyone for coming and thanks for the presents/cards. Also thank you to everyone else who has sent me cards/given gifts etc (family and friends).
The web site Tilllate were there taking pictures
I went to Berlin with some friends for 3 nights (Sunday 13th – Wednesday 16th). Arrived on Sunday afternoon and came back to Liverpool on Wednesday afternoon. We checked out all the usual sightseeing things including Brandenburger Tor, Parliament Building (Reichstag), Potsdamer Platz, TV Tower (Fernsehturm) and Checkpoint Charlie. Reichstag and the TV Tower both had a pretty good view of the whole of Berlin.
We tried a few different cuisines. The German curry sausage was pretty nice especially the toasted bread. I also tried Kangaroo in an Australian bar and restaurant. It looks like beef but tasted the cross between beef and liver. It was a bit dry to be honest. I also tried a few different German beers. I don’t know if it was the whole holiday mood but the beer tasted really really nice.
There were loads of chocolate shops – a department store actually had one floor which seemed to be almost all chocolates!
One other food and drink related place – we went to Newton Bar which apparently had the best cocktails. They costed around 10Euros (about £6) – quite a lot but it was pretty nice.
I have been busy and away from the computer for a few days. Last Saturday was a friends birthday. We went to Nandos in Liverpool for some lovely chicken We then went to the Living Room for some drinks. Unfortunately I was driving so couldn’t drink but still had a good time. After the Living Room we went to Modo in Concert Square. We stayed for properly around half hour. To end the night went to club which I think was called The Hub (correct me if I am wrong). I left early cause I was flying to Berlin the next day. I think everyone had a good time including the birthday girl so that was good
The trailer for Star Wars 3 has started to be shown in the cinemas (in the US I think anyway). There are lots of different version of the trailer leaked with loads of fans recording it with there camcorder. Also heard about someone recording it on their camera phone. There is also a version where somewhere has recorded it from the TV so the quality is not bad.
Here is the links:
From TV (http://webpages.charter.net/hpmcommander/sw3trailer.wmv) Introduced by ‘Seth from The OC’ – about 8Mb
Large version (http://www.semihd.com/gg/swep3tr.mov) – 34Mb
Link on official site
(These are not hosted by me)
The links may be really busy or it may be taken down before too long. Chances are though the trailer could be available official soon if its been leaked.
A great Celeb Fame Academy show today – each student sang 4 times. As well as some new songs, they also sang groups songs and their favourite song. They also sang backing vocals for McFly for the official Comic Relief song. For the favourite songs Reggie of course sang U Can’t Touch This (MC Hammer song). It was very entertaining. Edith sang Shout (LuLu) and was great and Ade was really funny (can’t remember the name of the song. I have to say that although Kim sang really well, it was a bit dull and not really ‘comic relief’ – if you know what I mean.
Part of the footage in the program shows that they are all really having a lot of fun. One of my favourite clips was when Ade and Reggie recorded Nick’s snoring. It was also very funny when they showed Ade talking to the cameras (and the cameras ‘talking’ back).
UPDATE:
Edith wins!! Fame Academy helped raise £1.3m which is really cool.
