THE most beautiful mouth in the world

I wanted to use this as the skin for my LastFm Artist chart, but as i've only just set up the service i haven't listened to enough artists yet so you wouldn't get the full picture, instead, here are the firt tracks i've listened to. So i want to share with you Miss Angelina Jolie's mouth. Quite frankly, the most sensuous lips on the planet.





Mesmerising.

Learning about blogger

Well, I'm loving this!

I've learnt how to put my Lastfm playlist in the side bar on the right hand side (my first foray into html!) and now i'm putting video on my blog from youTube. I feel like a real techie!




I was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year, the event is particularly famous for the 'race' up the 1 mile drive to the front door of Goodwood House. Any supercar, classic and vintage car (that's registered) can have a go over the weekend. I'd just got to the bottom of the drive and was standing behind these cars getting high on the noise and (i realised later) the high octane petrol they ran on. So hopefully the noise of their engines will come out well because its beautiful... i only wish my bike sounded the same...

Don't EVER use www.getmetickets.net

Now this IS worth blogging about. I'm incenced. I can't believe it.

DON'T EVER USE Getmetickets.net.

Let me tell you why. I ordered 2 tickets at £77 each a couple of months ago to see Coldplay tomorrow night. That's £47 over the list price but it was completely sold out (supply and demand and all that) and it was for standing right infront of the stage. So no worries there.

Ok, so, I still haven't received my tickets. I rang on Sunday, it took 15 minutes to get through, the guy politely says they'll courier the tickets to me this week, indeed it said they would in the terms and conditions. No worries there...

Nothing happening on tuesday, so i spend a HALF HOUR during my working day trying to get through to find out when these tickets are to be delivered. The woman who answers is gruff, "sorry, can't send them to you, you'll have to pick them up from a bloke who'll stand outside Earls Court on the night". Well that's bloody shit, but, i do like Coldplay and i've been waiting months. So, not happy with the service, but at least i'm getting there.

So, this evening. I get a call from some bloke who was a complete See U Next Tuesday (if you get my meaning).

"Mr Hodges, Ed Hodges?"
"Yes"
"We won't courier the tickets to you and we're not going to give them to you at Earls Court"
"I'm sorry, I don't think i understand"
"You'll have to come into town tomorrow and pick them up from our offices, or you can have a refund"
"Whooaa, hang on, I paid 2 MONTHS ago for £154 tickets, for you to TELL me that i either come to your offices tomorrow or i can't go?"
"yes"
"I'm sorry, i'm still not..."
"either come and collect or i'll refund, you've got 5 SECONDS TO DECIDE"
"WHAT, well to be honest, SCREW YOU, give me my money back"
*phone goes dead*

What a bunch of FUCKERS. I repeat, DON'T USE getmetickets.net.

Narnia - Complete pants!

It's not often i'm compelled to write a blog as you'll well know, but i've just got back from watching Narnia and i need to vent otherwise i'll not sleep tonight.

It was complete pants. Now, i've not read the books since i was 11/12 but i'm sure i remember them (the series) as being considerably richer in style and content. The film was dry, shallow, often badly acted and christ, for a paid up public school kid i was struggling with the plummy accents. It was crap, things 'just happened' all at the right moment with no explanation... e.g. Lucy (who incidently with the fawn and the ice queen were the best actors in it) and Susan are faced with 3 slavering wolves, no weapons and completely alone, the next thing you know is they're up a tree having avoided the speed, stealth and dexterity of the wolves, sitting pretty waiting to be saved - bollocks, utter bollocks.

I guess i should also explain that i'm a Fantasy and Science Fiction geek. I love it. I was and am a massive Lord of the Rings fan, I love David Gemmell, Ian M Banks, James Barclay, Trudi Caravan, Ian Irving etc. I know most of the Marvel characters, their history and powers and a fair few of the DC comic characters to. So, I'm not adverse to shedding the physics of Earth and expanding my mind to encompass new universes, magics, mages, heros and villans and Narnia, well, it left me cold, bored, incredulous at the scene cutting and wishing i was back watching LOTR.

There were a couple of good bits, the Griffins were well done (part eagle part lion for the uninitiated)there was some imagination used in the villianous minions which i'd like to have seen more of, but honestly, it was shit.

Ahhhhh, feel better. Hope you do too.

Yahoo RSS feeds to SMS

Just a quick one. I've seen the news that Yahoo is offering RSS feeds to SMS! Bloody brilliant, i love it! I'm currently hooked into around 20 RSS feeds at the moment and try to get through all of them each day. Obviously that's too many to be sending an average of 15 posts each to my mobile each day, but for a precious few its an awesome idea, or so i thought...

It turns out that its for Yahoo USA only and i can't find anything that says it'll be rolled out worldwide yet, bloody annoying and bloody useless. Sigh, i guess i'll just have to wait.

But it has got me thinking, what are the potential business opportunities? Which companies / industries could really benefit from this technology? Obviously there are the sports results and stock quotes being sent straight to your mobile, but this is already done (albeit at a premium price - something i suspect the RSS feed will do for free). So lets remove the obvious ones, what else could there be?

I'll think on this and work it out, perhaps i'll be that entrepreneur yet.