"Our greatest fear should be not that our lives will some day come to an end, but rather, that they may never begin…"
— Unknown
About
I'm Joey-Elijah - a writer, blogger, tech 'nerd', developer, freelance journalist, short film maker and a million other things besides.
I author a popular blog on the awesome Linux distribution 'Ubuntu', which can be found at omgubuntu.co.uk.
This blog is sort of like my sideboard of synaptical impulses; the stuff i can say and not give a frakk about.
It'll all make sense one day...
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On With The Show
I really need to sit down with a pen and paper and plan my “video podcast” out properly before i dare entertain it in reality.
Wait, i probably should have started this post with some sort of grounding in what I’m talking about but i trust it speaks for itself!
I’m going to get scope out some ideas/feedback/suggestions/desires of Ubuntu users and what they would like to sit down and waste 5mins of their lives watching before i go overly insane with a lead scribbled brain-super-storm. I find trying to organize my creativity this way to be wildly fruititious - if it doesn’t get out of hand!
Given the “vlog cast” (can i call it that without sounding like some venture capitalist yuppie?) will be based largely on the “style” of my blog, I’m keen to call it “The OMG! Ubuntu! Show!” and have a slightly early 90’s PBS station broadcast feel to it; y’know, like something from someone’s garage. I want to retain that home-made, fan, anyone-could-do-this quality to it without forsaking actual quality or content or pro-sumerism. (i sometimes forget i have a National Diploma in media production, but that’s here nor there).
Hmm… Still a little while off actually shooting it. Need to certainly find some talking heads for skype based interviews - complete with animated photos of their mouths all a-chattering during the interviews.
Actually, just to pop a log on the rails of that train of thought, i need to know what the potential audience want to see before i “design” it to much in my head. I don’t want to create something so zany and ‘off the wall’ that it’s considered a “wtf cast”!
Did i mention i made some Jelly yesterday? :D
Saw this on Gizmodo earlier and it perfectly sums up the recent (hollow, biased) ruling against the Pirate Bay.
BT Blocking Access To the Pirate Bay
In a year or so i’m sure this sentence will one uttered everywhere: “Remember how the internet used to be - when we decided what we wanted to look at?”.
Today BT have barred all of their mobile customers from accessing a long list of sites - including The Pirate Bay - in an effort to “protect children”.
So instead of you yourself deciding whether or not something is suitable for yourself, some middle manager in a cheap suit does. What happens when said middle manager gets a pay off from XX company to add YY company to the ‘black list’?
If you’re on BT mobile Broadband - do the right thing and tell them to fuck off. You’re getting ripped off anyway as 1GB for £15/m… have you never heard of 3?!
Only yesterday did i watch the documentary ‘Who Killed The Electric Car’ and got irate about its conspiratorial demise at the hands of the capitalist system. fast forward to today and electric cars are all over the UK news!
It seems our government will be offering subsidies for those who choose an Electric Vehicle over a gas vehicle. the UK car industry welcomed the move - The Conservatives, however, didn’t and called it pure ‘fantasy’. (A bunch of stupidly rich capitalists not liking the thought of EV’s?! Deja Vu?!!!)
We already have several ‘charging stations’ throughout London, and there are calls for funding more across the country.
The Government expect the first viable/affordable EV’s to hit showrooms in 2011.
Shame the Conservatives will win the next election in 2010 and put a halt to this. Different Capitalists, same agenda…
I watched the award-winning documentary ‘Who Killed The Electric Car’ earlier today. I actually had to stop watching with 30mins to cool off because it made me so mad!
Basically, we already have zero-polluting electric cars that are safe, fast, can adequately suit the needs of most casual drivers in the city. Yet, despite their revoltuionary-ness, GM Motors, the Oil Industry and Oil lobbies effectively killed it off by down-promoting the vehicles with, quite frankly, horrific and frightening supposed ‘adverts’ which has more in kin with those cold war nuclear warning films than the basic tenants of advertising! Despite long waiting lists, GM Motors blindly said there was no demand, recalled every car already on the road and had them crushed. Yes - ZERO-POLLUTING, WORKING, FAST CARS were taken off their lease-holders and crushed. The lease-holders even offered millions of pounds to GM to buy their enviromentally friendly cars but this offer was refused flat out.
The motor industry was scared by what they had created - partly because when you put a zero-emission car next to the rest of their gas-guzzling, pollutant spitting line up they make themselves look bad. However, the major force in stopping the electric car was a combination of the backwards thinking oil industry (Electric Cars = no oil needed = no $$$$ / reduced $$$ as there is more oil to go around). Their solution? Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars (which won’t be affordable to the general public for another 20 years, and i won’t mention how expensive the hydrogen fuel will be for them, either… )
It made me SO angry - more so because the general American public are happy to sit by and watch corporations dictate, decide and destroy our futures. Here in the E.U. this is less apparent. Our politicians are certainly not synonymous/in the pockets of lobby groups and massive corporations.
It’s a shame that GM and the oil industry bought up the controlling stakes/rights to the technology in these cars.. because the E.U. would jump on them.
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These last few weeks
I’ve been confused
sometimes I wonder if
I’m better off alone.
you fall in love
then break your heart.
you fall in love again
its never ending.
— The Ataris - ‘Giving Up On Love’ (from ‘End Is Forever’)
Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep in Shepherds Clothing)
I’m really loving Anti-Flag’s new single “Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C. (Sheep in Shepherds Clothing)”. It does remind me a lot of their track ‘Antithetic to the cure’, but that’s not a bad thing because it was also a pretty awesome song.
Love Sucks!
I’m not going to spill every gut and organ out, but a relationship i thought was going somewhere seemingly isn’t… so i’ve wasted a year trying to stoke the embers of a fire that was always going to be put out?
I’m not sure what a broken heart feels like; i do know what numb feels like and i’ve got a whole freight-train of that running through me currently. Yeah…
Winded.
Fast Times At Greaser High
Yesterday i finally got around to watching two 80’s films i really should’ve seen a hell of a lot sooner - namely ‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High’ and ‘The Outsiders’.
Both were incredible and I’m not gonna get all pesudo-movie reviewer about them, i just have to share that i’m finally part of the clique now that i’ve seen them and totally appreciate them.
‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High’ is a film i wish i’d seen years sooner - it’s just so funny!
‘The Outsiders’ (directed by Francis Ford Copolla and based upon the famous novel) was just utterly moving.
So, to sum up this pointless post, i’ll leave you with a fullstop.
I’m on a hunt for punk-y bracelets, sweatbands and other wrist adornments atm! Why? I guess because I have quite skinny arms and they sometimes feel a bit naked to me.
See any online that are a) awesome and b) cheap, let me know!
I have to put ‘Chariots Of Fire’ in here, purely because it is so awesome. If you thought that BWO’s previous video’s were weird… check this one out! It involves Martin (the lead singer) as a dog, scantly clad car washing babes and deckchairs!
It’s so difficult not to post all of BWO’s videos because they’re all so good! If you like what you hear check out BWO on facebook or wikipedia and grab a copy of their singles collection ‘Pandemonium’.
Tack!
This following track - Sunshine In The Rain - was their first UK release (albeit in a soul seekers remix form) and was championed by Sir Terry Of Wogan himself! A very odd video (as always from BWO) this song just never ages.
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