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Metro Brit Blog Awards - How Not To Run A Best Blog Competition 2007-05-12 18:21:54 flangracneig pgoramian A few months ago, I posted on the fact that Han got nominated for a Metro Blogging Award in the Youth Category. After spending a few minutes browsing the terms and conditions, she found something that dashed her hopes of victory, and the chance to write for a quality daily newspaper. She e-mailed me with the devastating news.
“you have to be 18 and they want proof of age :S “
Han’s 19. She has been since October. Fair enough I believe I nominated her for that category, and Han did nominate herself for it too. I seem to remember putting her age down on the application form, though I cannot be sure. If that is the case both myself and Han could’ve easily fucked up and typed 18. On top of it, I’m sure that we’re not the only who have fucked up. I’m sure that somebody in Metro Towers in deepest darkest London would have the job of sifting through the entries and are able to spot the good blogs from the ones that are taking t Read more:Awards
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Boots Administration Staff are Blind or Incompetent 2007-05-11 09:00:19 flangracneig pgoramian I’m rarely in when the postman arrives, usually I’ve already buggered off to work, so I see what little mail I have when I get home from work. I say “mail I have”, there are two R Wynne’s, and occasionally mail aimed at A Wynne is mine too (somehow my dentist has me down as Alun Rhys Wynne, as opposed to Rhys Alun). I had a letter today which was my Boots
Advantage Card (Top Tip! When your boss gives you a Boots gift card as a Christmas present, get an advantage card and you can add an extra 20% to the value of it). The address was to me, and that and the name on the front was fine.
 In case you haven’t spotted it, not only has this card become the gayest card in my wallet (even beating “Liberty’s Loyalty Card”) with the pink writing and the flower drawn by a spyrograph, they also spelt my surname “Wynnb”. I’m pretty sure that is unpronouncable in all known forms of languages and dialects. Read more:Administration
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3 Days To Go To Colwyn Bay Staff vs. Fans Match - Hold The Back Page! 2007-05-16 22:08:15 flangracneig pgoramian Please continue to enter the Golden Goal Competition. Click here to enter.
Well, it didn’t go quite as planned last night. Yes, I did train, and no I’m not injured. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to break in the new boots. The pitch was too hard. Hopefully it won’t rain much between now and Saturday, as it could be odd playing in my boots for the first time. Okay, some of you won’t understand the above statement, but boots need to be broken in!
Right, I’m beginning to get excited for Saturday’s game. We’ve managed to make back page news on the first of the local papers out this week: The Colwyn
Bay Pioneer.
Yes! Backpage! Of all the major sporting stories in the North Wales area we are one of them. I don’t think much of the positioning, sorry but who cares about Mochdre vs. Connah’s Quay cricket match?
Nevertheless, something I have been a part of has been newsworthy, and it beats my two prev Read more:Staff
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4 Days To Go To Colwyn Bay Staff vs. Fans Match - Little Black Boots 2007-05-15 16:52:24 flangracneig pgoramian Please continue to enter the Golden Goal Competition. Click here to enter.
After training last Wednesday, I decided - I need boots. The trainers which I have aren’t up for the serious kicking for 90 minutes. Couple that with the shit weather we are having at the moment means that the ground on Wednesday could be as wet and slippery that night in a hotel with me, the Ladies Brazilian Beach Volleyball Team, and gallon of baby oil. But I digress. I need boots.
My first port of call was online. It’s cheap, easy and I could order them anytime. A quick search of a few sites my brother gave me lead me to one site, that has football boots for £20. Brilliant. They arrived last Friday. Excitedly, I opened it up and stared in horror with what lay before me.
You see, there’s an annoying trend at the moment regarding football boots. You can get every shade under the sun, except black. My shorts and socks for the day (unless I hear otherwise) are black. I Read more:Colwyn
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Change In Blog Competition - Golden Goal 2007-05-14 23:54:35 flangracneig pgoramian Guy and Han said it would end in tears. They were right. My ego has taken a bit of a fisting today, and not a single girl out there in the blogosphere would want to be my WAG - even in a jokey ironic way. Woe :(. Even had two people call me a male chauvanistic pig, and how I’m degrading women.
Whoops.
Nevertheless, I still have a super fabulous ultra rare Colwyn Bay FC Staff vs. Colwyn Bay FC Fans programme to give away! Watch you jump for joy! And this time, men can enter, as well as women. On top of that, you don’t have to degrade yourself to enter! Yay!
This time, it’s a Golden
Goal Competition.
How To Enter
Simply put a link up to this blog or this post on any blog or website (so my regular readers with me already on their blogroll can enter).
How To Play
Simply fill in this form. You need to guess the correct time for the first goal on Saturday’s Match between Colwyn Bay FC Staff and Colwyn Bay FC Fans. For those of you unaware of th Read more:Change
Blog Competition - Win A WAG’s Experience 2007-05-14 08:59:10 flangracneig pgoramian We were talking last Friday night after training about the match on May 19th between the Colwyn Bay Fans and Colwyn Bay Staff. It was over a few beers, and we kind of bigged ourselves up a bit in a joking way, comparing ourselves to the professionals, and then somebody mentioned “are the WAG’s coming?”.
And then I thought, I don’t have a WAG for the game.
WAG stands for Wives and Girlfriends - an expression sprang up over last year’s World Cup to describe the large female entourage surrounding the England football team. I’m single, WAGless, for the closest thing I will ever be to a professional footballer.
And then I (drunkedly) thought: “Why not hold a competition on the blog to find a WAG for the game?”
So begins The Win A WAG’s Experience Competition! It may be brilliant, it may be pants.
What You Can Win
1. The honour of being my Official WAG for one day (May 19th). You join the list with such esteemed n
Todays The Day - Staff vs. Fans. Golden Goal Competition CLOSED…. 2007-05-19 10:09:11 flangracneig pgoramian Hi all, thanks for all your entries to the competition. Below are the final list of entrants in chronological order:
6 minutes - Debbie
8 minutes - Sibley
12 minutes - Matthew
18 minutes - Manuel
20 minutes - Han
33 minutes - Andrew
36 minutes - Lottie
75 minutes - Ally
A quick working out means that the maximum time allowed for each participant is:
7 minutes - Debbie
10 minutes - Sibley
15 minutes - Matthew
19 minutes - Manuel
26.5 minutes - Han
34.5 minutes - Andrew
55.5 minutes - Lottie
90 minutes (and a 0-0 draw) - Ally
Or, in graphical terms:
No, it’s not totally accurate, but contrary to popular belief I’m shit at Excel, and I’m not going to spend my Friday night wrestling with it.
Instead I was soaking in a hot bath, got an early night, and prepared for the big game tomorrow, Colwyn Bay FC Fans vs. Colwyn Bay FC Staff
. I’ll be honest, I didn’t sleep a huge amount, today is the beginning of “a few weeks that could r Read more:Golden
20 Things I’ve Learnt About Myself and the World Recently 2007-05-18 00:38:47 flangracneig pgoramian Please continue to enter the Golden Goal Competition. Click here to enter.
Here’s a list of things that I’ve been telling myself recently.
You are dying, but only at the same rate everybody else is. All heart palputations/headaches/sore legs/colds/shivers/constipation/loss of appetite I’ve had in the past year have been caused by viruses, me being an idiot, and other things that we get from time to time.
You are probably not lactose intolerant, but soy milk is fucking tasty stuff, so I’ll let you off.
No matter how many times you comment on certain blogs, the author won’t acknowledge you. These are not huge blogs that have a gazillion readers, these are blogs that are less popular than Guy’s, for fucks sake.
I probably wouldn’t comment on said blogs if I didn’t fancy the author.
Whenever you see an attractive runner run past your window. Getting your trainers on and running the opposite way around the estate doesn& Read more:World
Getting Easy Beer Money from Blogging #1 - Text Link Ads 2007-05-22 02:10:06 flangracneig pgoramian Text Link
Ads is my biggest earner on this blog, it is now pulling me in around $100 a month (up $40 from last month), and I cannot reccommend enough this service, it’s easy, it’s unobtrusive (unlike say Adsense), it pays well for most of us bloggers who dream of making more than three pence on a blog, and it can be put on blogs and your readers would be completely none the wiser. It’s ace.
After signing up and being accepted into the directories (if you have a site which has been indexed by Google, you should be okay), you are instructed to add code depending on what blogging system you have, or if you have PHP.
Then what? You can sit there and wait for the money to roll in, or instead you can do a couple of things to help advertise your listing to other people.
1. Increase Your Alexa Ranking Easily Without Pissing People Like Jem Off
Unfortunately, Text Link Ads
uses Alexa rankings. Alexa rankings are known to be wildly inaccurate and easy to Read more:Money
, Blogging
The Two Hundred Dollar Blogger 2007-05-21 08:08:07 flangracneig pgoramian A post doing the rounds in the (shudder) blogosphere is Paula’s List of Blogging Salaries. On it, Paula works out from the monthly income of blog how much they get a year. This got me thinking about things, and how much I make per month. So, in true Mike’s Money Making Mission Stylee, here is my monthly earnings for last month (in $).
Text Link Ads: $63.29
Adsense: $37.36
AuctionAds: $11.61
Direct Sponsorship: £30 = $59.40
Amazon Affiliates: £15 = $29.70
Total: $201.36
Okay, not enough to go around the world, but it’s (just) over £100 a month, which makes it £1200 a year, doing something I enjoy doing, and will continue to do so even if I wasn’t doing that. It’s just a nice little bonus. That’s only the stuff that could be classed as “Monthly Income”. If we include things like signups for affiliate schemes such as Text Link Ads and Google Adsense, it could be a little bit more. Not bad for a - lack of a bette Read more:Hundred
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Colwyn Bay Staff vs. Colwyn Bay Fans. THE BIG MATCH 2007-05-20 09:43:59 flangracneig pgoramian Yesterday, all the talking stopped. Colwyn
Bay Staff
vs. Colwyn Bay
Fans in the “Match of the Season”. The club was the obvious benefitter: raising £750 before a ball has even been kicked. It brought fans, players and the community together in such a big way.
That being said, we wanted to win.
We arrived at half 10, and we went pretty much straight into the away team’s dressing room. We had the home kits, and got changed for a pre match warm up and team talk. Me and Jay said to each other we’d try and play 90 minutes. Alas, that wasn’t to be for me as I started on the subs bench.
The original plan was to hold back and defend for the first 10 minutes, and then beat them later. That was the plan, but in the end we just went straight out and attacked. After 21 minutes, Jay scored a hell of a goal, which means that Han wins the golden goal contest. A few minutes later we scored a second, and then came my time to shine - I had been itc
Windows and Free Google Adwords Voucher in net Magazine 2007-05-25 01:46:08 flangracneig pgoramian This week I our house has been a bit of a tip due to major work being done downstairs. Basically the kitchen. It hasn’t had any work done on it since the house was built nearly 30 years ago. Needless to say, it needed an update.
Yes, the photos blurred. It’s purposefully so to save our family’s blushes. It’s horrible tiling, and very old. No wonder I didn’t bring any women home, no self respected woman would ever do the squelchy with a man who has those tiles on display in his house. Anyway, the builders have been and gone this week and this is the new result.
Okay, ignore the shed, the concrete mixer and the bin. They will all be relocated or destroyed in the next few weeks, and imagine a garden outside, and a fence around it. It is rather bright, it’s like coming home to a different house, it feels just so different. Plus I can nose on the neighbours and their development work. It’s ace! What do you think?
Oh, and in Read more:Google
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Getting Easy Beer Money from Blogging #3 - My Biggest Regret 2007-05-23 19:18:15 flangracneig pgoramian Just a short one today I’m afraid. I’d love to say I had a brilliant excuse, but I am a little down after a rather lackluster Champions League Final. Seems like this football season began with the phrase “Maybe…Just Maybe”, and ends with the phrase “Close…So Close”. Ey Well, there’s always next year.
So, umm, yeah. My biggest regret with my blog is relying too much on Adsense in the early days of the blog, so my last piece of advice is to “Use many different methods of advertising as you are comfortable in using”. Below are some more I use.
Chitika eMiniMalls are those product listings up the top. So far, they’ve earnt me quite a lot ($4, which for 2 days, isn’t bad). I have heard they’re more for people who blog about specific items, rather than a “catch all, whatever the hell I want”, such as myself. You get a selection of items to advertise, depending on their nic Read more:Money
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Getting Easy Beer Money from Blogging #2 - Google Adsense 2007-05-22 18:46:19 flangracneig pgoramian 1. Whore Yourself Out Like A Cheap Hooker….
Now some people don’t fancy doing this, but by god I do. One of my phrases whenever making a site is “Adsense
it to Buggery”. I like the way it sounds. Of course, not everybody agrees with Adsense, and new sites with Adsense placed everywhere do not get indexed well in Google
. So don’t do it to begin with, or - better yet…
2. …but only to your non readers
One of my favourite plugins in “MoreMoney
“. Chances are your regulars won’t click on ads, but visitors from Google, Yahoo and MSN (amongst others) may indeed do. So why not hide your ads from regular readers, but show them to search engine referrals? You can see an example of it here. The plugin is also expandable, so you can easily create a loop for any site that sends you a lot of traffic (like what I’ve done with Technorati).
3. Optimise Your Page
I talked Han through this a few days ago. The easie Read more:Blogging
, Google Adsense
The GATR and Friends Guide To Creating Awesomely Ace Mybloglog Avatars 2007-05-28 02:18:00 flangracneig pgoramian Recently, I’ve been using Mybloglog a lot more and more. People keep banging on about it, saying how it’s “Myspace + Blogs - Emotionally Unstable Teenagers”. I am not 100% sold on it, but I have noticed that more and more of my readers are coming here through Mybloglog. So, I’ve thought about refreshing my Mybloglog Page for a while now, not least the little “avatars”. I’ll be honest, mine was thrown up as a stock image of me (the one on my “About” Page). It was a bit pathetic, plus I’ve lost about two stone since then. So I set about designing one that stands out from the crowd of faces, flags of nations that were former British Empire nations 100 years ago, and hideous Microsoft Clipart images of those stickmen with the hat doing stuff that crop up on every Powerpoint Presentation Ever. So, with that in mind, I had a look at a few avatars that stand out, and then go onto mine.
Dgeezer from Diamon Read more:Friends
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Buy Me a Beer Plugin, Welsh Rugbymen are Heroes, Welsh Footballers are Embarassing 2007-05-27 04:52:44 flangracneig pgoramian Well bugger me, I didn’t expect that.
Some of you tried to buy me a beer yesterday, but alas the plugin didn’t work. Turns out, it has to be in dollars, rather than pounds. So immediately half of my readers wouldn’t donate ($4 a beer? Get outta here). Curse the strong pound! Almost curse it as much as weak beer!
Yes, I’m blogging over the Bank Holiday - my mum’s currently watching Il Divo, and it’s wet, so I’m taking it easy at the moment, and thought I may tell you about the awesome afternoon I had.
It was one of those impromptu afternoons, I wanted to watch the rugby, didn’t have it on my Sky Package, so instead I went to Llandudno to find a pub with it on, rang Jay, drank and that was it. The Rugby was heartbreaking. After leading for most of the game, Australia clawed back in the 2nd half to take the lead in the last 10 minutes, only for us to take the lead again, but an injury time try gave the Aussies the win. Read more:Plugin
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Paypal Me Poison - Buy Me a Beer Wordpress Plugin 2007-05-26 02:01:55 flangracneig pgoramian I received an email from Ankesh Kothari following my Make Easy Beer Money From Adsense, Text Link Ads and Other Means. He wanted to tell me about a new plugin.
Hi,
Found your blog through technorati.com
You may like this WordPress plugin: it allows you to add “Buy Me a
Beer” PayPal donation buttons under all your blog posts.
http://www.blogclout.com/blog/goodies/buy-me-a-beer-paypal-donation-plugin/
Now, this email did seem like a general copy and paste job, as it appeared in a lot more popular blogs recently. It’s amazing how a plugin, marketed correctly, can catch the imagination of the (shudder) blogosphere.
Either that, or we’re a bunch of Alcoholics.
So, leading from that. What is your favourite poison? Mine is Boddingtons, but I love Real Ale too and foreign lagers. It’s because I’m a bit of a snob - they just taste better than commercially released piss weak lager. It’s like the difference between a proper cuban c Read more:Plugin
, Poison
, Wordpress
O Evangelho de acordo com Rhys - Pissing off To Portugal #2 2007-05-31 02:00:35 As mentioned earlier in the week, my major concern (besides the drinking water) of Portugal
is the Language. Thanks to Paulo Martins I’ve picked up a few words (namely how to say “I want to rape you”. Of all my kinks however that isn’t one of them). I have therefore rectified it somewhat by purchasing this Pocket Portugal Guide.
It’s brilliant! It’s like a travel guide and phrase book in a handy pocket sized book (and it is pocket sized, tried it on my jeans, fits as snug as a bug in a rug). Of course, large amounts of it is useless for me (I’m not much of a sailor, and haven’t got time to go fishing nor play golf), but there are a few useful words and phrases. I decided that it was better to get one, rather than do my preferred method of listening to translation podcasts, as I may be able to speak the lingo, but if it comes to reading it off a menu I’d be screwed (I’m like that with Welsh, I can understand it fluently, I can
Blogging for Half a Decade 2007-05-30 02:17:15 Five years ago, Derby County were relegated from the Premiership, and this post appeared on a blogspot blog.
End of!
Funny beginning a new blog with an end of one era, but that what it is. The end, finalament, etc. Today was my last day in school EVER which is certainly scary, without a shadow of a doubt.Today we went out with a bang however. The day was all day relaxed atmosphere (not as relaxed as tomorrow though), whereby photographic flashes were going on and off, and my cheekbones have been very sore due to the amount of smiling I have done. More pages have been filled in in my leavers book, and I myself have filled one roll of film with snaps of many people.So, am I sad that I’m going? I don’t know. It hasn’t really sunk in at the moment. I think now that I’m 18, and I feel that now I should grow up and move on. School (while brilliant), wasn’t without it’s faults, and now I want a few years of answering to nobody, as such.
The people at school Read more:Blogging
Do You Speak English? - Pissing off To Portugal #1 2007-05-29 01:33:46 Hey everybody! Hope everybody had an ace Bank Holiday weekend. Mine was spent watching Power Rangers: The Movie, then buggering off to Llandudno for a look round, and a few ales. It was fun. I’ve also been quite disturbingly busy on my blog, posting a few articles (which I didn’t plan on, but meh). So, for those people who went camping, diy’ing or simply had more important things to do this weekend, below are the three articles you’ve missed.
Paypal Me Poison - Buy Me a Beer Wordpress Plugin
Buy Me a Beer Plugin, Welsh Rugbymen are Heroes, Welsh Footballers are Embarassing
The GATR and Friends Guide To Creating Awesomely Ace Mybloglog Avatars
So, go and comment! Give your thoughts! Or just ignore them, either way’s good.
So, onto my today’s post, and the thought that this time next week, I’ll be in Lisbon - Portugal
. I was excited a week ago, but now I’m more, scared. It’s my first time abroad (yes, I’m 23, it sucks), and I& Read more:English
Digital Condoms - Pissing off to Portugal #3 2007-06-02 03:35:21 When I was in London for my holiday late last year, I spent a lot of time actually on the internet. No, I’m not sad, I mainly did it because meeting up with Guy, Celeste and Han meant - to arrange times - I found it easy if I used the net at the hostel to speak to them online, rather than ring them all up.
However, one thing I couldn’t stand was the software used by the hostel. It was some open source instant messenger program (that wasn’t Gaim) that was just clunky, unresponsive and just horrible to use. I had recently switched to Gaim from Windows Live Messenger, and the software the hostel was using tried my patience in the worst way.
I then read somewhere about digital condoms. DigitalCondoms
are USB sticks containing your programs and settings. The reason for their name is more of a privacy issue. You plug it in to a public place, do your business, and then withdraw without leaving anything of yours behind. This single handedly makes it the greatest technical d Read more:Portugal
The Football Association are Shortsighted Ignorant Cocks, Hairdressers, Euros and Packing 2007-06-01 03:11:44 I’ve had a rather busy 24 hours, below are some of the highlights.
Contemplated Firebombing The FA
The FA have been trying to restructure Colwyn Bay’s league for a few weeks now, splitting it into two sections. The FA was after a North/South split (which would put Colwyn Bay in the “Southern League”) but a lot of clubs were after an East/West split (which would put Colwyn Bay in the “Western League”), including ourselves. There are two motorways that run through the UK - the M1 (which goes along the east side of the country) and the M6 (which runs along the left side of the country). It is relatively harder and more expensive to get from East to West.
Anyway, the FA in their infinite wisdom voted for a North South split, which means instead of playing teams like Lancaster and Clitheroe (and also FC United), we play teams like Spalding and Brigg who are miles away. Even a team called Quorn! I thought we were scraping the barrell a few years ago with V Read more:Football
Manbags and Competition - Pissing off To Portugal #4 2007-06-04 01:56:49 Today’s the day! I am so excited about my trip to Portugal
, it’s finally here! So many firsts I will experience in these coming weeks - going on a plane, travelling abroad being the main two, and the rest an offshoot of those (using a foreign currency for one). I’m sure you’re all thinking “Good god Rhys, grow up, it’s not that special” (quote from Guy & about half the Circle Line service after I went on the London Underground for the first time), but it is in my mind - it’s going to be brilliant.
I have actually finished packing. I had no form of hand luggage, so I bought a very metrosexual manbag which could class as hand luggage. I’m keeping my wallet, keys and phone in my pocket, but everything majorly important and things I need for the flight is going into my manbag. Incidentally, the books I plonked for are To Be the Man, which is Ric Flair’s Autobiography and She Stood There Laughing the story of the pain and torme
Oh My God I Can’t Believe It, I’ve Never Been That Far Away From Home 2007-06-08 13:46:16 I am writing this at 33,000 over Brest (the French town, not the crazy funbags of love, though it feels like I’m 33,000 feet away from breasts, but that’s another story). Of course, I’m not anymore, just this is what my notebook says. My notebook also doesn’t have access to that visited countries application, which an updated version appears below.
Phwoar!
Truth be told, I shouldn’t have had a good holiday. Thursday was spent in various convoluted body positions, and not in a good way. I had eaten something (that’s my excuse, honest guv) that made my stomach hurt, and I lost €120 which, I fear, may have been stolen in the hostel. I also truly fucked up the best chance of getting laid until mid September. A chance in terms that the hostel was full of women from countries who go all gooey when they hear the British accent (the ladies, not the country itself).
Yes. It shouldn’t have been a good holiday.
But it was.
The only reason I’m mis
Sintra, Benfica, Kebabs and Getting Drunk: Portugese Style! 2007-06-13 01:37:27 The next day in Portugal I was wide awake at around 7am, and was really happy. The night before was great fun and I feel I was going to enjoy this holiday. Breakfast was not until 8am, so I dossed about on the free internet (on Apple Macs as well Han!) where I spoke to Guy, who implored me to “stop wasting time online and see things”. Christ mate, give me a chance!
The breakfast was the best scrambled eggs I have ever tasted. Seriously. I was spouting things like “you don’t get eggs like that in our country”. Rick couldn’t see the fuss. He got first pick of the day: a town 40 minutes away called Sintra.
First of all, this is where I noticed the difference in me and Rick. Rick is very good at reading maps, but he’d be damned speaking the language. Myself on the other hand was determined to learn a bit of the language, even if it was just “Please”, “Thank You”, “Sorry”, 1-10 and the very useful “I don&rsq Read more:Benfica
, Kebabs
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Culture Shock 2007-06-12 03:22:00 We only had about 4 hours sleep in Manchester before we had to wake up and go to the airport to fly to Portugal. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t hugely excited - plus walking with my horrible suitcase could hurt. I was very, very nervous also on flying. I know it’s very safe, but even so I was unsure on the whole experience. Would it be like a roller coaster? Or would it be smooth?
The flight was delayed half an hour, brilliant. Sat on a plane on Manchester runway did little to appease my nerves. Luckily I was helped by happening to sit next to a Austrian pensioner, who was chatty and friendly and did her best to make it seem like not a big deal.
Luckily, soon I was up in the air, looking out of the window, and I was like a child. It was great! Flying over places I have visited (including previous holiday destinations such as Minehead) was fascinating, and seeing clouds in 3D was marvellous. The problem of flying soon took over - it is dull, especially over the Bay of Biscay Read more:Shock
The Curry Mile in Manchester, Manchester Hostels and The Great Party Debate 2007-06-11 03:09:36 This week is going to be a review of my holiday in Portugal, as Ryan couldn’t figure out exactly what I was talking about. So, three posts. Two on Portugal which are tomorrow and wednesday, and one today about my night in Manchester last Tuesday. Enjoy!
When i arrived in Manchester, disaster! My suitcase broke. It’s one of those trolley bags, and the handle broke off of it. That’s going to make the next few days fun. I stopped for a subway and found out what he wanted to do for food. He said two words: ‘Curry
Mile‘ - referring to Rusholme in Manchester that has curry house after curry house.
We stopped in one suitably dingy enough. It was great, I had a chicken balti and Rick had something which was a little odd. It was like a pea and cheese curry. Don’t knock it though, it was actually really nice! I wish I had it. Instead, I made do with my balti and 2 pints of Boddingtons. I love Manchester for that, everywhere serves Boddies! We went to a couple Read more:Great
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, Debate
EA Playground for the Wii Could Be Amazing 2007-06-15 01:44:04 Every so often a game comes around that makes me think “this could be a brilliant game if they can pull it off right.”.
Suprise suprise, EA Games has come up with one: EA Playground.
As a purist, I’m required to hate EA due to their lack of innovation. EA Playground could go some way to win me over. Basically, your Mii character plays in a “Playground” with other Miis, and plays a number of smallish playground games.
As a child of the last generation to experience a large “play time” at school, I still look on misty eyed to the massive games of Bulldog we played every break at Ysgol Pen-Y-Bryn. At the moment, the games are a bit US-Centric, but if they include Bulldog, that’d be ace.
What playground game would you like to revisit?
Also, onto the weekend, where I’m meeting up for a few mates for a few drinks, it’s in preparation for My First Stag Do Ever™. Of course, what happens on the stag do stays on the stag do, but I&rsq Read more:Wii
, Amazing
Faking It 2007-06-14 02:09:45
The last few posts on Portugal haven’t been my most popular in terms of comments, in fact the last post as of 8pm on Wednesday night had one solitary comment, my brother. He would be the least interested about the post - he was there.
Nevertheless, there have been a few posts recently describing an act that I would never do with comments.
Fake them.
I just don’t see the point of faking them, and you’re only cheating yourself. It is much better to have a purely natural comment from somebody else you can both appreciate it. Stopping the “orgasm” innuendo for just a little bit, there’s two reasons why I wouldn’t fake them:-
I’d arse it up, saying things like “Oh Rhys you’re so sexy!”, which is a blatant lie.
I’ve blogged for months when I started off when I didn’t recieve a single comment.
However, a lot of other bloggers base much of their success on comments, so here’s how to get comments without fak
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