Ginger DJ Rob

NFH It's been a battlefield of nerves taking place in our back garden lately. When I mean nerves I mean tits as in 'getting on our' with the neighbours who live behind us winding us up with their public displays of non-affection. We're really regretting cutting down the tree as its just given them the incentive to use their backyard as a mini-Butlins. The father had a go at me last night for shining a torch at his windows! After the cinema I had to get the clothes in from the washing line and used a headband spotlight to see what I was doing in the backyard. Such a meathead! BBQ and Beach Middle-class moan over as we entertained Emma and James who are back from their Australasian adventure with beers, barbie and beach to celebrate. Nice to dust off the Wii tennis to some newbies. Brighton beach was full to busting on Sunday but found a spot near Hove lawn gardens where the annual charity bungy was taking place. WALL-E wonder Last night was 2 for 1 night on the town. I...

The marketing people behind this are genius! The chocolate Russian roulette game of Revels have launched a Big Brother style eviction campaign. If there's a flavour you don't like then vote it out. Go to Revels Eviction website now where you can evict the flavour off in style e.g. rocket, golf club, remote control car off the cliff. Shame there's no baseball bat or sawn-off shotgun option. There's also a Facebook group. Here's my soapbox moment for voting:- Revels are lying to you! They say that Caramel is included but its actually her evil twin brother Toffee. That hardened, unloved bully boy bribed Revels, kidnapped his sister and has been getting away for too long robbing and beating up the other flavours for their lunch money and kicking your teeth in. Only Coffee flavour can save the day! Vote off Caramel!!

DSC_0214F Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . Okay, this is getting creepy. This is the second fetish freak I've come across who's been stalking my FlickR photos. The Sock Fetish was just odd ( see my previous blog entry ). This time, well I'll let you decide if I should do anything to stop this stalking. FlickR has the function to check the recent activity of your photos i.e. how many views, how many have been made a favourite, comments made etc. Today this photo of me in a helicopter has been made a favourite for another FlickR user. Why? Its not a great shot so could it be the helicopter, the pilot, me?? I follow the link trail to find out who liked it that much to save it as favourite. Someone called Asicsboy who only takes photos of his Asics trainers and one of him in a mask. Another foot fetish freak! But no, the creepiness continues. His profile reads: "Guy into sneakers, headphones, hearing protectors/ear muffs and face masks...I'm Male and Single. U...

Has anyone noticed how creative spam email subject lines are getting now? I don't mean the countless Viagra, Euro casino, French or Canadian drugs, designer watches, 'be a winner in bed', 'enlarge your tool', 'drill her to submission' etc, or the ones that say someone famous has died but these ones I've been receiving lately:- Monkeys taught how to handle a gun Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson Madonnas Former Home destroyed by Jesus Jesus Christ To Star in Next Series of Batman Paris Hilton considered for Mother Teresa role Polar Bear finds Yoga great for Flexibility but murder on the Balls

This is the title of a French film I'd been wanting to see for awhile and was based on a book and true story. Elle magazine editor-in-chief Bauby suffered a stroke which affected everything apart from his mind and one of his eyes, which doctors described as 'locked-in syndrome'. He could only communicate by blinking his left eye, one blink for yes, two for no. If he wanted to say more a translator had to read out a frequency chart of all letters - so, in French it was E S A R I N T U L. It was this system that he used to write his last memoirs i.e. this film. There were some genuinely funny moments with Bauby's inner monologue and some very sad ones pulling at the heart-strings. The art style and direction were excellent using Bauby's one-eyed view in places (the sewing up of his other eye will make you cringe) throughout conveying what could have been a very dull film. Sunday was visiting a couple of garden centres for some new trees since we chopped down the Ash....

Thanks to Kerry spotting this show as we'd missed the chance to see this guy about a year ago and we were lucky to get tickets to see the One Man Star Wars at Crawley's The Hawth. Basically its some Canadian comedian playing out the classic Star Wars films (Star Wards, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) on his own with just his voice, mime and general prancing about. We arrived by car and parked next to a couple guys dressed up in mail-order Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi outfits. It turned out they were the only ones but as we approached the entrance we were accosted by three storm-troopers all dressed and kitted out properly with guns and voice changer. I was particularly amused by the beer gut of the 'trooper dressed in Return of the Jedi gear. The show itself was fantastic. Although not every scene from the films were acted out, full credit for getting the sound effects, character voices and exact quotations just right in such a funny way. Full respect to anyo...

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This week is when all the big games manufacturers launch their newest products by press conference. To follow up their Balance Board and the game that inspired grannies to beat up their friends and dads to get virtual tennis elbow (or wrist), Nintendo will be launching a new version of Wii Sports with different games and a remote add-on to make accuracy and reaction speeds even better. See the video below to get a taster. Be warned, the Nintendo execs come across like a bunch of dicks.

Ignore this part of the entry if you don't want to hear about my work and skip to the 3rd paragraph. My job has got a little more interesting over the past few weeks and I'm actually using the skills I've picked up from doing my blog, photos, Facebook and the degree I did. I'm now expected to come up with a web strategy for the organisation I work for (too complicated to explain here) to ultimately increase their web statistics. Last week I attended a seminar hosted at the Channel 4 building near Victoria station in London where some web experts from BBC, C4, ITV and some agencies presented social web media, networking and the buzzword of 2007/8 - Web 2.0. It wasn't that useful as I'd already knew most of what they were saying and even disagreed with some of them. However, it was a day out of the office, free lunch and getting paid to sit in Channel 4's downstairs cinema was quite cool. The massive '4' metal sculpture at the front of the building was...

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What a difference a decent weekend makes. I’m now taking advantage of this new optimism and energy and have almost rewritten my job description for the next year with new ideas. So what happened? I wasn’t expecting too much from Wireless as after seeing a couple of dull sets from Underworld, last year’s crushing crowd but excellent Daft Punk performance and a doubtful weather forecast for rain. Instead, Steve and Sam came along as first time Wireless playmates getting in for about 3:30pm. This year, the entrance had been moved to the other side of the park which meant a longer walk from the tube but the security was relaxed and efficient so whisked in without hassle. The beer tents looked heaving but were one of the best ideas yet with a snake-like queue and security pointing out the next available server just like post offices. With starting drinks sorted we sat down to overhear Har Mar Superstar with Neon Neon on the main stage. Japanese Popstars Out of all the relatively new support...

Just a quickie before I plough into work duties. More music mayhem at tomorrow's Wireless festival at Hyde Park, London. The website has released the full schedule and will try and use Twitter to update on the bands we see with some short reviews. Cut Copy 15:30 - 16:00 The Japanese Popstars 16:20 - 16:50 Does it offend you, yeah? 17:00 - 17:30 MSTRKRFT 17:45 - 18:45 Underworld 19:00 - 20:30 Fatboy Slim 20:30 - 22:00 With most of these in the tent behind the main stage I hope there's not going to be a repeat of over-crowding such as the year we couldn't see DJ Shadow. I think its a big mistake not putting Underworld on the main stage. The weather forecast's not looking promising at the moment either - will it be wellies or crap trainers - decisions, decisions!?