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Football’s coming home, but where’s home?
It’s the world cup soon, just in case you didn’t know, the one time I wish I didn’t work with a whole load of women, none of which are football fans and aren’t really excited about the World cup at all. All I get is a ‘typical bloke obsessed by football’ comment. I never moan when other things are discussed that don’t interest me! Anyway, that off my chest I thought I would discuss my views with you, yes you, whoever you are. I’m not saying my opinions are right they are just opinions but I’d love to hear your views!
Friendly performances
So first the recently friendly performances. Yes, they weren’t great but lets not slate them, if it was Spain or Brazil or whoever we’d be saying ‘it’s a sign of a good team not playing well and still winning’ if England play the next 8 games that badly and win I don’t think anyone we’ll remember how bad the performances were. Winning is the most important thing, end of!
The only quibble I have with the friendlies is I just feel we need to be better at defending set pieces, I am sure, however, Mr Capello…
continue reading …The 82nd Academy Awards
So it’s that time of year again, can’t believe it’s coming round already, I nearly forgot to write my post thanks Trev for reminding me! First really a few comments about this ‘Oscar’ year of movies. I say ‘Oscar’ year because we get some movies later than the US so I have not always seen them before the big night!
Overall I have felt that the standard of movies this year has not been as high as last years. Last year I spent a really long but enjoyable night at the cinema where I saw three of the movies up for best motion picture and I thought they were all absolutely brilliant movies and I think any of the 5 nominees could have won it, this year? well I’m not so sure. It’s been a year which has seen 3D movies become more popular, especially with the highly successful Avatar. I’m still not convinced, I’m also not convinced that sequels, CGI, big explosions, etc is what cinema should be about, I’m sure there’s room for them but not every movie. I truly believe going to the cinema is about the experience and as I say that doesn’t mean…
continue reading …So the iPad then?
It’s now been a week since the launch event for the iPad, I’ve now watched the Apple keynote and done a little research on the new Apple device. For those who don’t know about it, where have you been? I thought I would give my thoughts on what Apple have come up with, why some aren’t pleased and what I think the future of the device will be.
When I saw and read about the iPad I was underwhelmed, there’s a lot that’s ‘wrong’ with it, however now I have a chance to mull it over I think I get where Apple are coming from. People were always going to be disappointed with whatever they made, they wanted something revolutionary. I read someone complaint that the text input is by an onscreen keyboard, what else was it going to be? A thought keyboard, where you just think what you want to type? Let’s get real people.
I’ve sat down and tried to imagine the thought process behind the device, first we know things that Jobs doesn’t seem to like:
1. Flash
2. External memory – he likes everything built in to the device
3. Stylus –…