Game Over

If you don't live in America then you will never really understand college football. It's a religion for some schools in the states, and they put as much effort into the show as they do the teams themselves. Seeing how all of it is represented in the very lame cheerleader/band movies, you come away thinking "whats the fucking point of all of it, it just seems so stupid?" But then I stumbled upon this little gem of a video which, for me, justifies the whole thing. What a little creativity can do to something so stupid. Watch what happened when the Cal marching band mixed their show with some classic Nintendo games.

Ubuntu

I've always thought that I was quite tech savvy. I was the guy that people came to if they had a computer question like "my computer doesn't work" - I'd have a look, do what I could and that would be that. I do know more than the average person, but I am only scratching the surface when it comes to the real stuff - or to be more precise I can just about see the surface using Google Earth. I know a lot about XP in the superficial sense only due to my own tinkering with it, but I am now dealing with a completely different beast altogether.

Ubuntu - a concept of community from Sub-Saharan Africa, often summarized as humanity towards others. Or as I know it, a Linux operating system.

I had installed Vista on my machine, which began giving me problems. One of the IT guys at my office gave me the Ubuntu CD and I have been hooked since. The concept is completely opposite to that of Vista or XP – basically everything is free and open source so any user can change the environment at will. This means that you can really customize your system giving you the freedom XP does not. The thing is I don’t have enough time or patience to really get stuck in – only an excuse I know but it is quite intimidating to stray from what you are used to.

I will keep hammering away to see how far I can get – you never know I might be blogging from MIT soon. (feel free to laugh now)

I'm Famous

A couple of days ago a friend of mine sent me some pics he saw in a graffiti book. When I opened them I was amazed to be looking at what seemed to be....ME.

The graffiti artist, Besok, is German and seems to either look like me or has illustrated someone that looks like me. After seeing the pics I remembered an incident that occurred about 15 years ago. I was at school in a French lesson and we were reading from a text book which had a picture of a guy who looked exactly like a kid from the class. Being the children we were this amazed us and that was pretty much the end of the class. Someone mentioned that everyone has a look-a-like somewhere in the world - well they were right and I have found mine.