Posted on February 25, 2008 Categories: ?help, travel.
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The original Scrapbook I used for my 2006 around-the-world trip was basically built from scratch using flash and PHP. It served me well and wasn’t bad considering it was made by me, but it definitely wasn’t perfect.
I have now finally finished manually porting the pages over to this blog in all their glory. OK so its basically a way for me to relive the past, but if you want to be reminded of what you missed out on, you can see all my posts in the RTW category.
Tag links also now work, so you can click on the more specific tags at the bottom of each post for anything tagged with that link, opposed to categories on the right-hand side. Eg, clicking on GABBS will return all the posts where Gabby is mentioned or PHIL will bring up our time in Edinburgh and Greece for example
Some people also don’t notice the “Continue Reading..” links on post, (now made more obvious) if you click it or the post’s Title it will take you to the full post with the rest of the story, photos etc.
Posted on February 17, 2008 Categories: london.
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Greenwich, London, is where the Eastern Hemisphere meets the Western half at 0° longtitude and the place of Greenwich Mean Time GMT+0.
We just missed entry into the observatory, but we found the poor mans marker just outside, which stretches down from the main marker inside the gates. There is even a green laser which shines at night along the division, so you can easily see if you are on the East or West!
Walked along the Thames and checked out the markets, where I got some great Afrian/South American Fusion Vegan food! Before heading to our friends place for dinner. Damn cold night!
China Town, and seemingly the rest of central London, was locked down & dressed up for a huge Chinese New Year Festival!
Thousands of people showed up for food, music, fireworks, dance, and of course my favorite, Kung Fu!
Posted on February 8, 2008 Categories: london, travel.
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Combining a free party with travel is right up my alley. Shoestring threw a party in London as a promotional tool, and because it’s Shoestring, it was FREE! Free entry and free drinks, in a gallery-turned-bar! And it wasn’t just an English pub, they decked out the rooms as exotic locations. Like a Moroccan tent with fancy rugs, big cushons, and dark red lighting, a small jungle area with trees, humidity, ropes etc, and the main room was covered in sand and palm trees! There was supposed to be an authentic Japanese drinking den but it was closed for some reason. All while playing travel videos on plasma screens. Nice.
When leaving we found a traffic light on Shaftesbury ave which was having a little trouble standing up right.
Posted on February 5, 2008 Categories: videos.
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Well the Giants just won the Superbowl with 30seconds to spare, but the real highlight of any Superbowl, as we all know, is the commercials!
Each year these are the most expensive commercials on Air, that is what they pay for the 30second spot, not the prouction costs! Superbowl is only second to the final of MASH in record viewers, hence the expensive commercial slots
Unfortunately for some, all the money went into buying the spot, with none left to produce a decent commercial to put in it. But theres always some good ones, here is my top 10! Vote below for your fave, and you can check all the rest out on Myspace.
I went to see a midnight session of Cloverfield last night, and I guess it was as I expected. It’s campaign was basically viral marketing, and had no title, simply the date 01-18-08. J.J Abrahams was behind Alias (great) and LOST (couldn’t get into it). I had a feeling this movie was going to have too much of that LOST feel to it. Anyways, It’s a little hard to write about without spoiling things, but I’ll give it a go. Continue Reading…
There’s one reason to love New Year in Japan, JTV. This is one of the best times of the year for Japanese TV. There are loads of specials, look backs for the last year, shows that revisit guests and episodes up to 10 or 15 years earlier, and even 24hr Live shows, where some hosts stay on for the entire show. Its totally crazy, and not hard to understand why people stay at home watching TV before heading off to the local Shrine at Midnight. So there’s loads of stuff for this month
