Dumb American blonde

Amazing how stupid some Americans are...

Wii Fit

This is the game that every Nintendo Wii owner should get...

Bad Apple

Some would say I am an Apple fan boy. Well not everything Apple does is good. Take blogging for example. I have the Apple iLife suite and this contains an application for Web site creation called iWeb (original name there Apple!).

Well I created a blog using it and I'm sorry to say it's rubbish. Firstly, it takes ages to display, so I'd expect most visitors to just give up. Secondly, on IE7 you get a page error, and finally the RSS and Search bits don't work. If you want to look at how bad it is check it out here Mac Blog

From an authoring point of view, it's not that good either, for example I can only edit the pages from one machine, and it takes quite a while to upload any new posts added.

So I've given up and switched over to blogger instead.

Goatee

Last weekend I was away camping for 4 days so didn’t shave. When I got back home I decided not to have a full shave, and leave a goatee.

It’s been almost a week now. What do you think, should I keep it, or shave it off?

Apple TV

I was fortunate to get an Apple TV for my birthday. My wife and family clubbed together to get me the 160Gb version. I really wanted one, but didn’t expect to get one for my birthday.

I set it up yesterday evening, and being an Apple product this was really easy. It’s is really simple to use, as the remote only has 5 buttons. Kirsten was really impressed by the YouTube integration and that she could watch her favourite clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno and search for other cute cat ones.

Overnight all my media was sync’ed from my desktop iMac. I thought it would take a lot longer as it was over 80Gb worth via WiFi.

One of my favourite features is being able to view my digital photos easily and see them from the comfort of the sofa on a large screen. Must sort my pictures out though, as I now have getting on for 11,000!

Now I need to find a new home for my Roku Soundbridge, as this is much better, and I don’t need to leave a machine on 24-7 serving up the music.

Cropredy

Our 5! man tent. I think they were exaggerating a bit, as 3 would be more like it.

More pictures from Cropredy are on my web gallery. Cropredy Web Gallery

Kirsten and I spent the last weekend, a long one :-) at the Cropredy music festival. Our friend Stu invited us, and Kirsten wanted to experience camping (sleeping in a tent etc.) as she’d never done that before.

I must admit I didn’t know what to expect. I’d been to a music festival before many years ago(1999 I think!). This was completely different. For starters it was quite a small festival, only 20,000 people. Next, the campsite organisation was great. You parked up in a field and pitched your tent next the car, so no lugging all the gear a few miles from the car park to the camping area. The facilities were amazing for what was a farmers field for 51 weeks of the year. Portacabin style toilets with hot and cold running water, which were checked and cleaned every hour or so, and shower units if you didn’t mind queuing for hours, and a mobile cash dispenser.

We met up with some of Stu’s friends from blogging and geocaching, and set up our tents in a group with a central seating area. They were lovely people and really generous with food and beer. We had home-made lamb burgers, a whole roast chicken and a sausage hot pot. Put our soup tins and pot noodles to shame...

The music... well it was Folk. I wasn’t sure about this before I got there, it’s not like my iTunes library contains any. But, I actually liked it as it was proper musicians playing real instruments. There is something about a guitar and a fiddle (violin). We didn’t see all the acts only the ones in the evening, as it was too sunny to sit in a open field all afternoon.

There was only one stage, so it was easy, just find a spot and stay there. The village of Cropredy gets into to the whole event, and the two pubs have fringe music festivals. We spent a few hours at ‘The Red Lion’ on the Friday, drinking, eating, and listening to some Blues.

Think we might go again next year...