Wake up cat!

If you have a cat and it sleeps on your bed, then this video sums up the whole wake up experience purrfectly.

A new look at Bowen.

I thought it was time to change the look of our website. The old one was becoming a bit dull and there were various things not working how they should. Besides change is always good. I quite like this theme because it’s got 4 columns and the photo album & sidebar photos work really well in their embedded state.

Now that there is more room on the front page, I’ve added some of the old links that I had removed such as "My Links". I was been hassled by the readers, so I hope every one is happy. I’ll be adding a few more soon, now that time seems to have returned to my me.

Google Analytics for the year.

Google Analytics is an amazing free tool. I had a look at our sites statistics for the year (November 2006 to present day) and it makes for some interesting reading. 30247 unique visitors.

Only 3000 of you come back for more on a regular basis - I didn’t realize we were that interesting.

Listening to music online!

There are some great websites offering free music streaming to your desktop or mobile phone. I’ve been trying out a few recently namely Last.fm, Social.FM, Pandora, Songbird and mystrands.com. The best two so far for me are Last.fm and Pandora, because they are really easy to use, and there are never any breaks or stutters in the music playback.

Social.FM offers a mobile phone player, which I will be testing out next week when I am on the train to work/home. There is also Mystrands that somehow synchronises your music library on your phone with your online profile, and then links up with other people who like similar music to you, and I think you can listen to what they have and vice-versa. Not sure how legal this is, and how practical it is, considering I upload music to my phone on a weekly basis, so does that mean it has to synchronise each time? 

The website looks pretty cool though, so I will give it a try. I guess all of these sites have one big advantage, and that is you do not have to own the music. I think it’s great to get such variety over the Internet.

Rotate Me - By Samir

I finally received the Rotate Me application from Samir Oueldi and got to work getting it signed (else it doesn’t work).
Here is a tutorial from GoSymbian (Quite a simple process if you follow instructions).

I like Rotate Me a lot, and can’t wait for the final product. Well done Samir!!!

Note: The answer is "NO, I will not email you a copy of the Rotate Me software". If you want it, then visit Samir’s website where you can give a donation and he will send you a beta copy…

England are BIG LOSERS!!!!

How many more things can England lose by the end of the year?

Here is the "ENGLAND LOST LIST" all English people can be proud of:

• Soccer (Everything), hence the reason England are not playing in the European 2008 championships.
• F1 World Champion (Lewis Hamilton, blew it in the final race). I will not mention the spy scandal that rocked Maclaren and the massive fine that had to stump up.
• Rugby (6 - 15) against the Springboks!!!!
• Cricket (Ashes, India tour etc).
• Tennis (Wimbledon) & Tim retires (well, no loss there!).
• The Government just lost 25 million people’s data. (ha ha ha), and they have the cheek to tell us we need ID cards, against ID Fraud…
• Northern Rock - Enough said!

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