Oh Campione ..

What an awesome night .. The atmosphere at Anfield was electric!  Wish I'd taken by camera now, as it was surely one of the best nights for atmosphere in Anfield ever.  Athens, here we come!!!   Anyone know anyone with a place in Athens :-)

 

 

Oh Campione

They say are days are numbered, we're not famous anymore
Scousers rule the country, like we've always done before

Ooooohhhh Campione
The one and only
we're Liverpoooool

Shankly built a football team that shook the Spion Kop,
We've Conquered all of Europe and we're never gonna stop.

Ooooohhhh Campione
The one and only
we're Liverpoooool

5 European trophies we've got room for many more, United, Chelsea Arsenal just look on in f***ing awe

Ooooohhhh Campione
The one and only
we're Liverpoooool
 

Less stress at work ... WorkRave!

Found a great program a while back called WorkRave. For some time, I've been suffering from random headaches and neck pains from sitting on my arse for a long, long time hunched over and staring intensely at a computer screen. 

 

WorkRave basically sets timers and enforces micro breaks, coffee breaks and your total time for using the computer over a day.  A microbreak is where you just stand up for a few seconds and stare away from the screen and into the distance for a bit.  A coffee break is a chance to step away from the computer, and do a bit of stretching and exercise for a few minutes and maybe drink some water. WorkRave even shows you a random set of exercises and stretches to do for the duration of your coffee break.

 

The best part of the program is that it can enforce you to take theses breaks by locking the input or the screen during breaks (I know I'd just end up skipping them without this feature).

 

http://www.workrave.org/

 

 

Boxing ...

If anybody is interested in a ticket to the Boxing in Cardiff on Saturday, let me know. I've got 1 spare ticket left, which I'm trying to get rid of on eBay .. They look like pretty goods seats so would rather let it go to somebody I know. It should be a great night and top atmosphere with loads of good fighters on the bill - Calzaghe, Khan, Macaranelli ...

EBay Auction - Boxing Ticket - Joe Calzaghe vs Peter Manfredo plus Amir Khan, Enzo Macaranelli and more

Flash and Windows Vista problems

Since upgrading to Vista, I've been baffled by the number of times that I get prompted for the "Flash not installed" message on most web-sites. No matter how many times you re-install it from the Adobe web-site, it still seems to disappear soon after.

Anyway, I've now found the solution thanks to Tech-Recipes

1. Browse to the following folder in Windows System
   (c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash\ OR c:\windows\sysWOW64\macromed\flash
   on 64-bit vista)
2. Right click on FlashUtil9b.exe, and "Run as Administrator"
3. Continue through the UAC prompts, or enter admin password, if required
4. Follow the installation wizard instructions

You should now find that the Flash player works everytime.

PS: And NO, this isn't some April Fools thing.

Port Talbot Power Stations

 

Port Talbot has never exactly been a particularly clean place, but recently there has been a lot of change to try and clean up the town and the beachfront And it's been going well, the beach looks great after massive investment. Despite this, it's a fact that it's the most polluted place in Wales, but right on my doorstep there are now plans to build 2 massive power stations, right next to the beach and a few hundred yards from my families homes.  The risk to us all is pretty significant, despite what the power companies say, and the press seem to have a virtual black out on bad publicity about the proposals. Yet again the town bows to the promise of money and jobs, in the wrong industry, and at the risk of it's population's health and safety.

Well, thought I'd blog this as I'm currently working on a web-site for the residents opposition group, Port Talbot Residents Against Power Stations.  It's pretty shocking after reading all this, that they want to build it only a couple of hundred yards away from residential housing.

We all live in a red and white Kop ...

What a night! Well, we managed to get past the mighty FC Barcelona! It would have been nice to have kept a clean sheet and perhaps even a little bit gutting that it was that "Chelsea rent boy! Hello, Hello!" who scored the winner (looked like offside to me, but I won't argue about it now!). But nothing at all could spoil the thought of knocking out the current holders.

The supporters were all on top form - it was deafening in the stadium - and sure this upset Barce's game quite a bit.   And fair play to the Barce fans, they stayed behind and carried on singing along with us well after the game.  I took this video from the Kop (a magic place to be on the night!) just before kickoff, with the Kopites at full voice! And for anyone who forgets or missed how we dominated the game, I've posted a video of the highlights :-)

A View from the Kop

Liverpool v barca 06.03.07 Brief HL
Video sent by nov3l

On way to the big game ..

On way to the big game ..
Originally uploaded by davegriffiths.

Got my ticket, sat on the bus on the long trip to watch the game. It"z going to be an electric atmosphere, and have a feeling it'll be the difference between the teams, and we'll beat Barcelona.



Anyway, more to come later in the day ..

More transport rants ..

How can it take as long to travel from Heathrow to Cardiff via Port Talbot, than it took to fly back from Vancouver?

7000 miles in 9 hours .. VS .. 200 miles in under 9 hours!

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World's most depressing airport .. YVR!

World's most depressing airport .. YVR!
Originally uploaded by davegriffiths.

Having now sat in the gate for 20 mins, staring at my flat, crap Canadien beer, that took 25 minutes of walking to find .. I think I can safely say Vancouver Airport is currently the shittest, most disorganised airport I have ever had the misfortune of visiting. I am so glad I turned up 3 hours early (for a change). We're bordering on third world country poor. They've shut everything in the international terminal after security, and not made it all that clear what is and isn't open .. 1 half stocked duty free shop, a newsagents and 2 very rank looking Asian fast food joints (the food has been sat there all day and looks shit), oh and a burger king, which you're not allowed to get to. Meanwhile, we get to stare across, through all the lovely glass walls, at the US terminal with their nice (open) shops, bars and full set of services. God help the Winter Olympics in 2010! These people don't seem to be able to organise the proverbial pissup.



Please take this rant with a pinch of salt, depression has now set in at the thought of leaving all this lovely snow and fun I've been having, to return back to my soulless life back in f**kin' blighty... But nevertheless YVR sucks!!!

Whistler + Snow = Wicked!

After having no snow for nearly a month, Whistler was looking pretty bare .. That is until yesterday, when it dumped, and the powder is now great at the top.

Having a great time here. Though the hostel is a bit lacking (it's great location, and people are great), we've made up for it in the nights out .. Can't get over how big the resort is. Huge! Had to travel about 5 miles just to do my laundry yesterday ..

Only a few more days of the trip left .. Might as well make the most of the pow-pow!