Chaos-23

Found this today whilst browsing about. It looks really cool, it’s a little googlemap of the UK and shows where the news stories from the past 12 hours have come from:

http://benedictoneill.com/content/newsmap/

OK, I’ve been slack again. It seems whenever I actually do anything, I don’t have time to write in a blog. It isn’t ironic, it’s annoying.

Sooo… my iPod turned up I love it! I love it! I LOVE IT! Time on the Hexercyle flies by now I can listen to random stuff on full blast.

Gogol Bordello was AWESOME. We missed Disco Ensemble, but Danko Jones & Bedouin Soundclash were pretty good too. My feet were killing me as I’d been standing up in silly shoes for what seemed like hours (well, it was hours). Met quack from the bit forums :o) Sadly because Chris refuses to believe me when I say we need to go, we missed the last train back to Wokingham from Waterloo and had to go via Paddington and get a taxi back to mine from Reading. Gah! I also got called a “fucking Cossack” in Stockwell tube station by an Australian… not everyday that happens…

After much bitching around with Solio, I finally found out they’d had problems with their payment system. Which is apparently why they thought they’d shipped it to me in September when in fact they’d just taken my money & not sent me anything or any e-mails… When they deleted my last e-mail without it being read I sent them the snotty e-mail saying I would never buy from them again. Then I got an apology & a refund. Woo! So, because no-one else makes anything as cool as a Solio, I bought a black (I wanted hot pink) Solio from the Apple store. It got delivered the same day & I am now the proud owner of a solar charger that is carbon neutral & fucking rocks. I currently only have the iPod charger tip (cos I got it from Apple), so now I’ve put all the tips I want on my WishList just hoping I get them for Xmas.

Talking of my WishList, I finally got around to sorting it out a bit. I’ve added lightbox to it, makes it slightly more interesting than just a list of links. I’ve embedded all the lighbox stuff into the main xoops templates so I’ll probably use it in more of the modules now.

I also got the Ross Noble Randomist DVD delivered last week. Oh… My… God! It’s almost 10 hours long. TEN HOURS! It’s pretty awesome. The Mighty Boosh Live DVD comes out on Monday too. I have soooo much stuff to watch :oD

I just re-entered that world of maniacally refreshing the Apple order status page. I finally gave in & ordered myself an iPod Video 80GB in black. Yum! The Apple store have come through for me yet again, the iPod itself had a build time of only 4 days, but being a dumbarse I forget to check the time for the case. 1-2 weeks :o( It was therefore due to arrive on the 14th of November. Then handily the case I’d ordered turned out to be discontinued. So they e-mailed me to apologise, say that they did not have a direct replacement so they’ve amended my order and that the new expected delivery date is November 7th. Whee! THEN I get home & find new glorious e-mails saying it’s actually been dispatched already and is on a UPS van in the UK, due to arrive on or before THIS FRIDAY! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

I am slightly excited by this.

BTW if anyone replies to this with “eeeew iPods” or “eeeew Apple” I’m just gonna delete the comments so don’t bother ;o) I’m already a very happy iPod 1st gen (old skool baby), iMac & PowerBook owner thanks.

AND… Saturday is the Gogol Bordello gig! Will the excitement never end.