30th Post!

It's not your usual milestone, its not as impressive as 50 or 100 posts, but since I started this blog I wondered how long I would keep it up for. 


At first I thought maybe it would be a summer thing, just something to help me report back to people about my many, many adventures. Then it became a way of getting my thoughts and observations into the big wide world. 


Now though, I try and use it to share interesting bits and pieces that I find lying around, hopefully some stuff will interest you, but if not, please hang up and try again.

Oh...

If music be the food of love, steal it!

I've been trying to put some video or a photo with my blog posts, but sometimes you just feel the need to share something else, some music, a sound, a rousing monologue perhaps.

Seeing as millions are made each day hosting videos and photos on the web, surely there is an audio equivalent of photobucket, or youtube. but apparently not!

I've been wanting to share this song by a young american singer/songwriter for a while but try as i might, I couldn't find any sites that wanted to host my file in a simple photobucket-like way. In the end i created a new folder on my website server so that i could share sounds with the world.

This is a song called Smile by Kaylin Alexis, i randomly found her on myspace, like a couple of other artists i've been honoured to listen to.

Big Brother is watching...

I've always had a book by my bed for the last few years. They've  mainly consisted of bill bryson, random books bought just because I liked the cover, or biographies of soldiers, pilots, generals, etc.

It occurred to me just before Christmas, that there are one or two books which have always eluded my increasing pile of bedtime reading, one of which is Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. So when it came time for the annual pilgrimage to Waterstones a
week before Christmas, i was determined to get it. And get it I did.

I'm just over halfway through it now and it's quite a chilling tale of what the world could become like if governments turned from their current paranoid "nanny" state, to a more controlling "big brother" state, run on media spin and oppression.

If you haven't read it I heartily recommend it! Though maybe not so much if you have an abduction complex or a fear of alternate pasts...