What Desktop and Smartphone Platform do I Prefer

December 22, 2012 by The Tech Show

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It’s been a while since I did a personal technology blog, and a lot has changed since then, I’ve been a long time supporter of Apple gear, loved my iPhone 4, my MacBook Air and iMac are still going strong, but look at me now, own a Nokia Lumia 920 and ready to replace my Air for a Microsoft Surface Pro.

I love Windows 8, as I do for Windows Phone, the live tiles are just incredible and really are so useful. Whilst both platforms do have a slight learning curve, once you grasp it, it’s really hard to not just completely fall in love with the platform and I guess I’m no different.

Windows 8 is obviously the next version of Microsoft Windows following Windows 7, but with a massive change, the entire main UI has completely changed to which I shout at the top of my voice, hallelujah!!! I hate the Aero interface, hated it in Vista and hated it in 7, and now in Windows 8 you can be rid of it … well at least in an understanding manor. The only time you should see Aero on Windows 8 is when you are running previous gen (if you will) program’s available for Windows XP/Vista/7 as-is, as Windows 8 is the first version of Windows that can run (more or less on the 95% case) everything compatible with Windows 7 in the familiar Windows 7 UI, but use the beautiful Modern UI for the new apps.

But the biggest thing I love about Windows 8, is honestly the thing that brought me to the Apple franchise of gear as it will, it’s interesting, it’s new, it’s different and exciting, Mac OS X hasn’t been either of them things for the longest time, Apple need a major UI redesign across the board, whether OS X or iOS, but Windows 8 has things today that will take Apple a very long while to match. Microsoft made Windows 8 irresistible with the Surface, ignoring the RT, Surface Pro is a tablet like the iPad, but has the ability to run tablet apps but also be a fully fletched desktop OS with all the program’s you need there too, and as soon as its available we’ll be there praising or going oh dear right here!

This is far from the first time I’ve been on Windows Phone, I broke my Windows Phone virginity back at the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800. The phone was teaming with bugs on launch and after 5-6 months had to get rid of it and return to the iPhone 4 I had before thinking the platform will be ready soon.

I fell in the trap of curiosity again and checked out the lower cost Lumia 710, like the Lumia 800 is today, the phone now has no bugs in the OS when you can then focus on simply enjoying the phone, and now I’m on the all new Nokia Lumia 920 after testing the Windows Phone 8X by HTC for The Tech Show.

Windows Phone 8 is a great OS, it does the job of a modern Smartphone OS and it does it really well, the Live Tile sizes might not sound like much of a visual change from the previous version, but trust me, it’s a big leap in how you can now use the phone to make it personal.

But one thing I have been constantly really annoyed about every time I’ve returned or looked at Windows Phone is nothing seems to have changed, are updates going out for this platform regular enough? The app collection, what’s going on there? Since using the Lumia 800, and now the 920, I may have noticed about 5 new major apps in Xbox Games, and the same for general apps, nothing seems to be going on. Momentum of the platform brought them to 100,000 apps in the quickest time of any mobile OS, but were only at 120,000 apps in nearly that equal time, what happened? Windows Phone apps are also third rate, when apps are released they generally get released on iOS first, Android maybe the week after, but Windows Phone if in a year, it’s ridiculous! I’m not someone obsessed with apps and games on my phone, I like a phone to pass the hours, but variety is key, look at the Windows Phone Store now then tomorrow, you’ll probably see the same featured content, the same content … now do that on Google Play or the App Store, exactly.

Platform Change?

I’ve used iOS for years, started with the iPhone 3G, last iPhone was the iPhone 4 and everything’s been actually rather pleasant, the platform has begun to get a tad stale and not much has changed for the longest time, hopefully no Scott Forstall will be a good thing for the iOS UI, as the platform actually has everything else going for it, it has the apps, so so incredible apps, and it has the games, it has it all, it just falls back on UI and get that fixed in iOS7, more likely 8, then you’ve a platform OS once again that people would be crazy to ignore, and it really should be that way again, especially based on the money available at the company!

Even now I’d still consider the next iPhone, the platform still has everything I need a platform to have, but UI reform is really needed at Apple.

My experiences on Android have been …. interesting, we’ll leave it at that. Yeah things have been far from smooth on Android in a literal and non literal manor, the platform has come a very long way, tried out the Google Nexus 4 recently and honestly it was the first Android phone that gave me a similar enjoyment and ease of use I’d seen on iOS in the past, Google finally know what it means to refine software to make it smooth and more pleasant to use, now if they work on platform and app security that will be a platform I’d look at again, but my God, get a Nexus if you’re going on Android.

As for me, Android will always have bad memories, but with Android you’ve to try and forget you’re previous experience and start a fresh, right now the Nexus 4 lacks in too many things, LTE, higher storage, two things I really look for in a phone now, but Android I think with maybe 5.0 will be ready!

Blackberrys are terrible phones, they’re quite frankly embarrassing smartphones, in fact anyone that calls them a smartphone I give a very judge worthy eye, but with Blackberry 10, RIM appear to have an actual brain and want to save the company. The main problem with Blackberry 10 lies in RIM itself, look what happened to the Playbook! The Playbook was a brilliant tablet, QNX was a fantastic OS core to use, the Playbook genuinely was a very good tablet, but got drowned out and forgotten, this could easily happen to BB10 and RIM can’t afford that to happen!

As far as I’m concerned BB10 is not ready, if they get to 11 it maybe, but now it’s not. BB10 from an outside perspective looks like a bad version of Android with UI copied from every platform, it’s appears to run IE from Windows Phone, app layout of iOS with some tweaks like Android, it’s great to look at other platforms for inspiration, but implement them uniquely you might have something to grab people with.

Overview

This year could be different from the next, by the time the next iPhone comes out, Windows Phone could have actually got major developers finally, Android could be more irresistible than ever, who knows. But for now, that’s my impression of the world of desktop and smartphone OS’ …. Chrome OS and Linux? Don’t make me laugh

Where’s the blog been?

August 15, 2012 by Ben

Now I know what you are thinking, Ben you’re not dead, damn! And yes thats true unfortunately for you, OK I think its pretty much common knowledge, something else thats common knowledge, almost, that I haven’t posted a single blog post since what seems like years now, yeah I know you haven’t noticed, but … STOP IT!!! But hey, I’m here now to try and give you some sort of perspective on the main reasons why!

How’ve you been?

Well might as well update you on things thought since my last post briefly. College wise, I’ve finished the first year and awaiting to get on to the second, love the postal service. I’m waiting on Finance to process correct, love the finance service, and all that good stuff.

Which of course means we’re in the amazing lengthy process of the holidays, which is a pretty funny thing itself when you think about it. When you’re young you always wish upon changing the two day weekend and 5 day school days around, thats been done for me in College, and yes its awesome, but you also want like the longest holidays in the world, and of course in school you get that awesome 6 weeks, but I dunno, must be (realistic terms) be about 12 and a half weeks we get in HE, and its starting to drag in many levels. Now, I know what you’re thinking, Ben, why would a holiday where you can do what you like with no important formal thing to force you out of bed exists, well thats the thing isn’t it, what? I’ll explain. When you’re young, your happy walking down to your closest friends house and “playing out” in the hols, and you could repeat that forever and still manage to find something fun to do, when your not, you need money, and thats the topic of why its dragging really, especially when my number 1 interest and most important thing to me is money away from me at the moment.

Number 1 most important thing? Oh please go on… I dunno

Well obviously its been a bluddy long time since my last blog, in fact its been over 5 months since my last blog where I was talking about how well my relationship with Claire is going, and I’m happy to say its most definitely still going on, better than ever to be honest, but of course good things come at a price … well in this case, good things live at a price, not that she’s on some kinda pay by the hour thing, that would just be weird, you know what I mean, she lives afar, and at an awkward area too, and when moneys hard to fatham (take that Yorkshire folk) it can be really annoying, I mean we’ve had to budget when we see each other, but at the same time whilst its tough, as everyone says it really has made us stronger and I think we’re closer than ever before, well I know we are, all I’m thinking about is when we next see each other and can be together! … yeah sorry about the soppyness.

What have you got to tell us then?

Well, now we’ve done with the negatives, being money, it has been an awesome year this one, and since my last post, had many trips out with the irreplaceable, you’ve gotta love em friends of mine, I mean you can’t replace them, there something, talking to you Grandad Lee, but no, some awesome times and laughs out, although me, Lee, Kai and Jess have sadly had to discover how bad Rob’s feet smell, yeahh, but yeah! Rob, who is finally single again, yeah got rid of the litter as my actual Grandad says, accurate description too, oosh!

I also appear to have had some sort of tech opposite in the recent months, what can I say, used to love Macs and the iPhone I carry, but then Windows 8 came along, the Microsoft Surface, and now Windows Phone 8 is coming and I’m actually loving them more, shame to say it but think Apple’s done with innovating for now, Microsofts got the batten again, but hey, who cares, whichevers best in tech I’ll embrace.

Blur, what more can I say, I mean since my last blog they’ve released their first single in years, ‘Under The Westway’, which has an awesome b-side, won a Brit Award, performed tonnes of gigs including many never done live before songs, and of course just recently with the Olympics, closed the ceremony at Hyde Park with quite possibly one of their best gigs, so yeah, Blur. Performance of which, Parklive, I’m probably gonna end up getting on DVD later in the year, as well as Blur21.

And thats about all I’ve got to tell you, if I stay brief!

Woah, hang on a minute, 5 month delay? Come on

Alright, alright, imaginary thing talking to me! Now, the excuse I normally give to delayed blogs (usually month max) is laziness or nothing happening, which yeah kinda in some levels, but no, the main reason why I’ve been, well, not been, blogging heavily on my personal blog is of two reasons.

1. I wanted to focus on other aspects of RKUK Media and it took up most of my spare time …. OK, small reason but kinda in some levels

2. Yeah the big main reason is, there’s something big coming soon in my life that has been on my mind more than anything else in this world these last couple of months and will be until it happens, thats all I’m gonna say and can say for now, but its really overtaken my mind, but all will be revealed when it happens, so watch this space!

So, yeah!

And thats about it, just thought I’d finally give an update, didn’t want to go over a handful of months, I will be blogging more over the next weeks, updating you on stuff like the good ol’ days, so until then, I’ll keep you posted, but for now

E-Ya Later!

Blog Friday 30th March 2012

March 30, 2012 by Ben

Introduction

It’s not been since the end of January when I added a blog and its got to be said quite a bit has actually happened. The Semester 2 is approaching the ending touches, my birthday occurred, I became more than friends with someone incredible, and everyone’s moving out, so we’re gonna try to fit that all in to the way overdue blog!

The Dramas

This was most definitely the most emotion struck birthday of my life, not only did Diza say she wanted to get together again then completely reject me again for some reason leaving me in a complete reck state again!!! But seriously for the last time, I’ve given her much to many chances I really have. Kai gave some help on my birthday day, which helped, but all in all, it just really destroyed me and really left a shadow over my birthday. Since then we’ve agreed to “be friends” whatever that means these days.
Another annoying drama was bumping in to Mary on a night out with Lee for his birthday, which itself ended up been a bit drama in itself. That as well hurt me badly because she really didn’t give a crap about anything we’d shared together, so that annoyed me. Woo, great blog this one!
One thing that probably saved me from intense depression was the 4th February when Claire and I revealed that we both actually shared feelings for each other, but that’s another paragraph, but really she’s no idea how much she saved me!

My Birthday

My Birthdays are never really a great day tbh and lets be honest this really was no different, mainly because of all the background emotional pain I was going through, which thankfully is over now. One thing that was pretty awesome was as Jess’ birthday and mine were so close, we both got each other cakes, she got a cheeky monkey cake and I got a customised cake, which was awesome!
The day itself I basically went around the wonderland that is Cleck, and if I’m been perfectly honest it wasn’t bad to be honest, everyone came along and had a good time. One thing I wasn’t happy with was how Flash was, he basically just acted all stressed and left early, pfft fine then. Either way we ended up going to quite a few pubs whilst settling in the Station, which is where most of it happened. As I went in it was awesome as I saw Nathan, Jodie and Ben Y, who I hadn’t seen in ages and had a little chat with them. This kinda led to another thing I didn’t like, was that I felt limited to who I was talking to, but hey, either way it wasn’t too bad of a night. The gang consisting of me, Rob and Lee, and later joined by Kai and Jess and we had some laughs, and even a bitta Karaoke operated by none other than Adam from school too, which at the end of the night whilst having a chat with him I was rudely interrupted by us having to leave, but hey. It bothered me only because I thought this was my night and it didn’t feel like it. We ended the night at the one and only Spoons then said our goodbyes and I focused on Cake eating.

Claire

As you may know, Claire is one of the 3 women in my IT course, yepp women are that common in IT. Although one thing I probably didn’t tell you is how I truly felt about her. The day we came to enrol in to the course we simply just caught each others eye and I instantly fancied her, although then we had the whole trouble with the applying fiasco as you may recall, but then after complaining to the College on how out of order they were I was brought back in. Later on in the year one of the days I was travelling in to town for dinner break, the day we went to get Claire’s iPod, was when I first felt a connection with her but thought nothing of it, but since that day we became very good friends. Then throughout the second semester we started becoming more than friends and I’m more than happy to say that we’re actually in a relationship and I couldn’t be happier. It was strange how we did, but ironically it was thanks to the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the shrine we made actually brought us closer and we shared our first kiss in that room. Since then we got more and more closer and made our relationship official in Manchester, and to this day of this blog we’ve been going out nearly 2 months and I couldn’t be happier.
Of course the deeds had to be done, the meeting of the parents and other folk, but I have to say its all actually got very well so far, which is more than I expected! It was rather worryingly interesting just how well she got on with Jess when they met, although based on what they were saying I’m more surprised how they hadn’t met before! Either way its awesome that we all get along, well she’s only met one of my friends but hey. Met two of hers, liked one didn’t like the other, ughh. But hey, can’t win everything can you.
But yeah, its fair to say we’ve both been trying to make each other happy this last few weeks together and hope we can for a very long time to come. I love everything about her and hopefully she feels the same way about me. Well, her obsession with tattoos is something I’m not particularly keen on, but hey its her decision I suppose. Apart from that she really is perfect, and here’s to our perfect future, just Claire and me, I really can’t wait!

College

Most of whats been happening at College has been to do with my Claire, but I’ll give you an insight as to where we are. Just did a Seminar, which was interesting, hopefully it went well, it felt like it went alright, here’s hoping eh. As usual the lessons I’m struggling on are theory ones, so hopefully that Seminar can help. I also would have loved it if our group work was going better, other than been completely clueless and all of us relying on one person as there the only ones that know what’s going on, just saying! I was also rather stressed when one in our class copied my work for their Seminar, not impressed at all! Apart from that, its all been fair enough, now it’s the Easter Hols, woop! Although it was interesting last week when me and Claire went to Dewsbury to be greated by tones of Police and a protest, unexpected but hey, although that person who said those things on FaceBook was incredible wrong to say stuff like that, really was.

Everyone’s Moving

Today, moving to present now, I had a catch up with Rob, a catch up because everyones chuffing moving. Rob, Helen and a few others have all moved in to their own house now, leaving not much around Cleck now for company, but luckily its not too far away for us to go out for a few to catch up now and then. But as much as it pains me to say it, I’m gonna miss Rob, not as much as I’m gonna get emotional … ya know what I mean, a lot of my life there. But hey, like I said, I’m sure we’ll be regularly catching up with each other.

Whats planned for Easter Hols?

Well, tbh, I haven’t got a clue, I need to get rid of my Lumia 800 asap tbh as I’m really out of money, but apart from that I sense me and Claire time, yeyyy! Although I am really annoyed how oddly hard its been to sell one of NOKIAs biggest devices, gonna try again tho when I go travelling! I’m determined!

Ought Else

Well, not really no, just I’ll be a bit more consistent with my blogs now, everything in here was a bit general and brief … yeah believe it or not this is brief! But hey, see you next week!
E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 29th January 2012

January 29, 2012 by Ben

This hasn’t half been one weird-ass week this one, not been feeling fully great this weekend, but my god this week has been funny thanks to two awesome friends, more on that in a minute, in fact stuff it lets get right to it!

College

College has now reached its second semester of the year and not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing as of yet, but we’re all gonna have to see aren’t we. It all started last week with a full day of Lynn woo, followed by the second day of networking and databases, woo. Although, what I think made it so awesome had to be Claire, she has possibly made this the most funny and awesome semester so far, stuff the lessons its all about us been ourselves and having a laugh so far. The highlight had to be when we went in to our first networking lessons and we had a tutor called Gary, wow. He was emotionless and so darn boring, but what made it work had to when Claire and me laughing over every single innuendo and then came the video, wow. I’ve never seen such a crazy ass video, don’t think anyone could keep a straight face when he put on this really strange video showing how networks worked. The video was so irrelevant but so wrong and hilarious at the same time, loved it, was so funny. It definitely became the talking point of the first week of Semester 2.

This week Claire was ill but I persuaded her to come in, and I’m so glad I did, we had such a laugh. For starters we found out that our lessons had done a switcharoe as Mondays and Tuesdays lesson wised swapped, fair enough. So we started off with the day with Lynn, which admittedly isn’t something really worth coming in for, but I’m still really glad I persuaded her to come, whilst the morning wasn’t cracking, in the afternoon we started getting in to groups for some group work for the lesson. The afternoon almost never happened as Claire really wasn’t feeling well bless her, but she stuck to it, and at dinnertime we added our own finishing touches to the HE Room, we added an official Steve Jobs Shrine to the area, which was awesome to say the least. Then came to the lesson to get in to groups, me and Claire had been pre-planning some daunting plans for our group work and was very excited to use them, except when the time arrived unfortunately we ended up being us and these other two, then when we introduced our prospects of Daunting, Claire said we were planning a T-Shirt company, what??? In the end the other two decided we were going to become a security company, ah well, me and Claire still had an awesome laugh as usual. At break we had a nice worship to our god at his Shrine, how cool are we eh, then we finished off the day, was awesome.

The next day of the week was probably the funniest day of College I’ve ever had. We had the amazement of Gary to start off the day, so we ended up having yet another laugh which was awesome. Especially when the innuendoes just kept on coming, and we couldn’t help but laugh every time he spoke, which probably meant we didn’t do any work but ah well! But the day just got so much better from dinnertime onwards. At dinnertime me and Claire started having a laugh with the text to speech on Mac OS X, which was funny to say the least, no one could of guessed what came of it later on though. Then we had Liz’ lesson next, which to be honest I don’t mind this lesson, although it was pretty bad when Liz simply mentioned Gary and me and Claire started laughing, oh dear oh dear. Then when she said the saying “suck it and see”, and well we had an innuendo overload!

One awesome thing about our last lesson on Tuesday this week was that Liz needed to go to a meeting so the lesson ended early, so obviously we left at first opportunity. But we didn’t go home oh no, me and Claire went to the HE Room and had the biggest laugh ever and created a song, yes a song! The song was probably the most hilarious thing I’ve ever done at College, she was laughing her eyes out it was awesome, never been so happy to be at College. We finished the song and every time I play that now it never fails to remind me of how much fun the company of Claire is, so glad someone as crazy and badass as me, in fact no she’s even more its awesome, first time in ages I’m looking forward to next week of College.

Randomness with Jess

Wednesday

This week, the awesome randomness with my BFF started on Wednesday when she came over as usual, and we discovered one of the best funny ways to involve children TV ever, by doing a rave to the amazing Thomas The Tank Engine, yes you read that right, all choreographed and everything, go us for that one I say. The rest as usual was just crazy ass and awesome, it was a bit different this week as I normally love Jess coming over cause I’ve had such a bad week so far and she brings me back up again, but this time I’d had a great week so it was a bit different to be honest, but Jess definitely kept the mood up high … well nearly. At first I thought she wasn’t actually going to turn up, quarter of an hour past from when we were supposed to meet then couldn’t get in touch, so that made me feel a bit crap, but luckily we had a great laugh after that to make up for it so that was a bit better. And that was a great day with Jess.

Thursday

But the awesome randomness continues this week as on Thursday it was time to see Jess again. Although I have to say this time I wasn’t sure, the only reason she was here mainly was because she was planning to see someone else but they couldn’t make it anymore and she had to leave early so the day just felt a bit less enjoyable as usual for some reason, which kinda made me feel I’d let her down for that one, but what can you do eh.

The Friday Night Confusion

Some Fridays now and then Jess checks if we’re all having a drink out and about and we have a few drinks out in town, but this Friday was a bit different and interest … go figure, and if you’re nice I’ll tell you about it. Anyway, I’d gone out with Rob, Lee and Caddy the day before and Rob had said he was skint so I thought well no Rob so I gave Lee a call … then another … then another, no answer. So I let Jess know, so we went, well if he’s available we’ll go with Lee, if not, we’re going out anyway! Then it all started getting a bit confusing. It turned out Lee, Rob (who for some reason isn’t skint now or something), and the rest were at Flash’s sisters birthday do, but might be going to Cleck later on, so me and Jess decided to go out then meet them later, sounds good right? We’ll see.

So I ended up setting off to meet Jess at the Spoons and outside the Spoons was a massive Police van and two other cars so err I was like, I’ll just walk over here for a minute whilst things calm down, went to a far away ATM whilst things calmed down a bit, then they never did and I noticed Jess was waiting so I went over and after the well needed “HAS THERE BEEN A MURRDERRR!!!”, we went inside! Bought the drinks, and had a chat in Spoons, but it was a bit too crowded so we decided to head to Wickham instead, annoyed me a bit as Jess bought the drinks there as its more expensive but thats just how I am, oh shut up Ben lol. Wickham was much better we had a laugh in our weird ass conversations and it was looking like a really good night, then it passed 11 and Lee said they were all at the Spoons now so we headed to meet the gang, yeahhhh.

We’d had such a great laugh all night, really glad as it made up for Thursday, we were all in a great mood, then we went to Spoons. We walked in and there was about 7 of them crowded round a 4 person table. What made me and Jess annoyed was how no one seemed to care that we were here, we tried getting involved in conversations and all but everyone just didn’t seem to care so we both thought lets just go and leave them to it, so we did. Lee was probably the only one that seemed bothered that we were going, Rob just complained we’d not had enough to drink which I thought was a bit rude to be honest, so anyway, we then went. Walked Jess home, kinda had a night reflection chat about the night, which I might as well say here. It was a great night if you take away meeting up with the gang, which is a shame really as on paper that should of been the big awesome end of the night, but who cares, had a really awesome night.

Saturday Breakdown

Nought like ending on a low, in fact I’m typing this one last deliberately. Sadly on Saturday I had one of my big baaaaaddd breakdowns, I don’t want to depress you or bring it back to myself and enter the depressing feeling myself. Its basically been so long since I’ve had a real relationship that it sometimes gets too much for me, I’m in need of someone, but no one is there! Whilst I want to thank my best ever friends Jess and Claire for making me laugh all night and really making me feel so much better, its a shame that the problem still exists in my life, I’m fed up of hoping and wishing basically when nothing is happening. Well, basically I had a big breakdown and started crying, but got through it thanks especially to my BFF, but I still worry about if theres a next time.

Ought Else

Been a nice week this one, was actually looking forward to writing this blog this week to be honest, and here’s some things that didn’t quite make it to the full blog but might as well get mentioned.

- Had a nice catch up chat with Kai this week, well, a short conversation with Kai either way was nice to chat either way. Let him know he’s always got a pint waiting for him when he next comes over. Show him my awesome Ukulele skills I don’t have.

- Hung out with the gang Rob, Lee and Caddy on Wednesday night which was pretty fun especially when me and Rob did some nice commentary to Pool, and the awkward moment when we mentioned Germans to Caddy. Still funny though.

- Gotta nice Birthday Surprise planned for Jess this coming week as well, its not much … at all lol, but its something that’ll create a nice laugh, give her it on Wednesday, will be an interesting reaction.

- Unfortunately I bumped in to James Hodgson this week whilst at College which I kinda am a bit annoyed about. Mainly because all he does is pointlessly over-text me about crap, and every time he’s there all I can think about is the chuffing fiasco that was me and Diza, really annoying! Although felt a bit better about that this week when I saw a recent picture of Diza and she didn’t look good with her new hair style, is it evil I laughed at it!

- Whilst she’s become my favourite ever friend I’ve ever had at College, she’s also become a great friend outside of College, I’ve been having such fantastic chats with Claire recently, seriously its just so awesome to have a friend who is so random its unbelievable and never fails to make me laugh. I seriously love her she’s awesome, created so many funny chats been amazing. We even created a new word dauntingness! And whilst we’ve been having chats about getting rid of Jamie Oliver from the face of the world, we had a really funny chat based on the Harry Hill sketch featuring the Jamie Rap. Its always a laugh with Claire, and I can’t not love her for that!

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But thats about it for now, till next time.

E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 15th January 2012

January 15, 2012 by Ben

Its been a while since my last blog, would of added one last week if I could of done, but ah well, alots happened in some ways in which have been slightly tough to take, but hey, welcome to my world eh.

College

College was pretty boring this last week as it was pretty much tests, oh the joys. We had tests for one, this week it was 2 for 2, woo. The first test came on Monday, and seen as we’d already finished the first lessons stuff I decided, as well as quite a few others, that it wasn’t worth coming in in the morning, so just came in the afternoon to do the test … which I obviously revised thouroughly for. Got the test done, a bit meh about how I’d done and left as we’d been told to. Later finding out that we should of stayed to get the mark … pfft, typical, think they’ve something against me but fair enough. Found out the next day I’d passed anyway. The next day sadly was a full day, starting with the first lesson which was pretty much hand it all in finally, then the second lesson was yes another test. The test on Tuesday was rather easy to be honest, odd how the first 4 questions mimicked the mocks, but hey, before the test everyone was laughing at Claire as she couldn’t stop laughing due to her previous raves … yeah, was hilarious, more on that later. And that was the week.

Lee’s Birthday

Good ol’ Grandad Lee, despite not a Grandad lol, had his big birthday coming and what better way to celebrate a birthday bash than a family and friends do at your house, what could possibly go wrong?! Well, surprisingly it did. The night started at Lees with me, Rob, Helen (ah well), Caddy, Flash and got Jess to turn up as well joining the many family members. The night was pretty darn boring to be honest, nothing happened, and we all felt pretty left out to be honest, which is probably the only reason I can think that Caddy and Rob started … well actually mostly Caddy to be honest started acting like a bit of a nob, which got a bit annoying. It was pretty funny watching Flash prat around with my new toy, my Ukulele which I got on a random trip to Leeds with Lee a day before, he could play it like ought, always amusing to watch someone who can actually play, like when he started playing Robs new guitar.

The night kinda started turning for the worse to be honest, whilst I’d tried to keep Jess amused she kinda had enough pretty quickly which wasn’t much of a surprise to be honest, to be perfectly honest what happened on afterwards made me glad she had gone. Rob, Caddy and Flash decided to get the bed…settee thing out, anyway, Lee got randomly mad and went all crazy on everyone, which was pretty odd to be honest, then the one thing that annoyed me (1 of 3) was when Lee accidentally stood on a liquid tab and some of it when on Helen resulting in her slapping him. Don’t quite know why she did, was more annoyed later on when Rob said if Lee had responded he’d of been on Helens side, which kinda proved to me how whipped he is, but fair enough we all knew that. Then, what we all thought was the end of the night arrived, got a lift home by Flash and that was that right? ….

….No. Got a forceful phone call by Lee meaning we were out again, ended up at the Station having drinks with Lee and his family, sounds fun right … oh it was. Lee was evidently drunk, which meant he was very err enthusiastic about the music playing, although I did respect the pint and pack of Bacon Fries he got me. Then it all got a bit strange, his family all decided to randomly kick off in a punch fight basically resulting in the end of the night to be honest, all the family got emotional and pissed off and resulted in a very annoyed Lee going home quite annoyed about the whole night to be honest. But I was more bothered about something else to be honest.

Bumping in to History

Whilst at Lee’s part 2 of the night I noticed in the corner of my eye someone I thought I’d never see again, and to be honest that has never been something I’d wanted either, but I did. Later she bumped in to me too, yep it was the one and only chuffing Mary. If you are a loyal reader of this blog, first of all, sorry, second of all, why, and thirdly, you’ll know that Mary has had a very big effect on me in life and is one of the biggest reasons why I fear most women and have lost much of my confidence towards women, basically because of how much she shot me down in the past. Which made it very annoying when she bumped in to me how happy-go-larry she was, I just put on a straight face and said ya know great to see you and all that, and that was that really. Maybe I’m over-reacting but it really sent me down, and I was pissed off anyway cause Lees family had done their big baaaddd breakdown (2 of 3), now Mary (3 of 3) appearing made me quite annoyed to say the least. But maybe I am over-reacting, although she was the first person I truly fell in love with and who truly broke my heart, it hurt man. Either way, thanks to supportive chats with my best of friends I’m getting through it, which is a relief, although I think I’ll always have that odd tear in their somewhere about the whole thing.

More randomness with Jess

Once again my Thursday BFF day was no exception this week, unfortunately my Dad had decided to be an ass and spent the entire week at home pretending to do stuff so we had to go out, so we ended up going for a random trip. And as usual, it was random, it was awesome, it was fun. Started helping Jess on getting a new phone, she was going to get an HTC (ughh I know), it arrived though then didn’t work (shocker!), so now she’s thinking of getting a new phone. We found that the Samsung Galaxy Ace would be the best choice for Jess, she didn’t get it, but we’ll probably talk through the best ways of getting it, pointless talking to phone folk at the store as they provide the most bias information ever, but think I can lead her in the right direction. Got my big juicy sausage, then a sausage roll …. ahh dear, but yeah. But yeah fun fun fun, the only problem I have with writing about days out with Jess is they tend to be rather indescribable, thats just how cool we are. We had a walk around Leeds, we went to the epic music place I got my Ukulele from and Jess was impressed by my drumming lol, I can actually play the drums just try fitting a drum kit in to a 1 meter square area of a bedroom … yeah can’t be done, we all tried to play the Craig Ferguson theme tune, but then forgot it, like ya du. Then we went to White Rose for more epicness, acted like business pros and shtuff. The the night reached its end, Jess had bought some pretty sexy ass sun glasses which was a photo opportunity waiting to happen. Then we headed home, took the wrong bus so ended up in Heckmondwike, so had to wait about 7 years for the bus, then we were back. What was odd was that I saw my Mum on the bus, we got off at an earlier stop, but when I got home, my Mum never got home, thought they’d been a murder, but it turned out that my Dad has just given my Mum a surprise dinner outing thingy … yeah.

Overall, Jess never disappoints, bluddy love hanging around with her, hopefully my Dad won’t ruin next time eh, but she’s always a true BFF.

Ought Else

- Had a talk with Josh, which was unexpected, haven’t spoke to him in a while, was a bit pissed off as it ended up just been all career talk, I’m doing better than you scenario, but oh well suppose.

- Been having some pretty epic chats with Claire from College. She’s cool man, she’s out of her head, not right in the head, has a head …. why am I talking about heads. Think chatting with her though has proved to us both just how freaking crazy and awesome we are, she’s definitely gonna be in the Peoples of Awesomeness at the end of the month. Love her man, she’s hilarious, especially when she does her bad ass raves at College. Seriously it was hard not to be distracted, she was listening to Pokemon music and rocking out, was so funny, she thinks she’s the only mad one round her, mad thing is I kinda wanted to join in. We’re planning more raves now, and for everyone who thinks we’re weird can just go away to Daunting University … long story lol.

- I’ve been promising I’ll do a review of the new Robert Post album Rhetoric, and yes I will when I get down to it. Just like shaving, if I don’t shave tonight, they’ll be trouble.

- Had a few troubles at the start, but big update next week means I’m keeping it, the Nokia Lumia 800 that is. Wi-Fi Share is expected to finally arrive, as well as battery fixes and camera fixes too. Plus some awesome EA games are coming exclusively for Lumia devices, including Real Racing 2, which is probably my favourite racing game from the iPhone, can’t wait to play that on the 800.

But thats about it for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Christmas Blog December 2011

December 27, 2011 by Ben

Well, here it is, the all so highly anticipated Christmas blog I do every year, this years Christmas Blog is brought to you by our sponsors at multiple Sock makers in the UK, for godsake I’ve got a lot this Christmas. Anyway, heres my Christmas blog, lets have a look through the week.

Last Week

Last week was one with a few surprises up its sleeve. Had a few pub visits, many visits to the duck resulting in more terrible Christmas singing and more, oh the fun in that regard.

In the middle of the week I ended up being coaxed in to going to some Birthday do, which would be amazing if I knew who the hell they were, which is kinda why I ended up never having some of her Christmas cake, which looking back now I wish I did. Well, I kinda know who she is, but kinda don’t at the same time, either way met up with some interesting people, some twins that were absolute assholes, Lee also expressed his opinion lol, met up with this guy who’s gay who apparently people call him Cheese, either way he’s a pretty awesome bloke. To be honest if that guy wasn’t there I’d of probably committed suicide in intense boredom of the event, but hey. We ended up doing the amazing pub quiz, although we couldn’t hear the women so we just put tree on every answer to be festive, must’ve been one of the answers! The night ended, Caddy left and no one noticed, then me and Lee left and got some good ol’ chips. Then we ended up going back to the Duck, so Lee had chance to say what he thought of everyone, oh dear oh dear. Anywho, not as bad as I thought.

Christmas Eve…Eve

On Christmas Eve Eve it was time for a very unamusing trip to the Wickham with Rob, Lee and Caddy …. oh wait, Helen was also there, which I was very very happy about. But, to be honest it didn’t end up been too bad. Lee was consistently pissed off for some reason, started to share his Christmas spirit later on. Had a few Christmas sing-a-longs on the Wickham Christmas Tape, calling it that as 4 songs kinda repeated themselves over and over again in the same order, which got a bit chuffin annoying after a while. Then they had a row, but Ben you never mention that in a blog, its Christmas, I’m mentioning it, the truth always comes out at Christmas ….. well, either that or you feel down and cry as you’re scared of how it will effect everyone, not that I’ve ever had experience of that or anything!

(WARNING: Contains intense bitchyness, thats been edited and censored out, yes this is the Clean version) Anyway, the night reached its end eventually, and we all headed off. I was kinda thinking of some chips, but Helen decided to bitch about the place I get chips from so nooo there then. But it wasn’t that that got me really annoyed, that was annoying yes, but nothing like she did later on. The problem with Helen is she bitches about everything and thinks its perfectly fine and no one will care, and you know what we f***ing do, especially when its about something that we actually care about. I’ve been on the edge with Helen ever since Rob decided to give her another go, and she only has to do that one more thing for me to absolutely despise her completely, and I’m there. Lee has been annoyed, Kai has been annoyed, I’m gonna stop naming names, cause its everyone. Either way, on the way home to Robs she started what she used to start every night until she allegedly changed, pfft. She started bitching about Kai and Jess again, started by saying Jess wasn’t much of a women cos she’s friends with us and likes stuff we like, well if you don’t like what we like Helen don’t turn up, go to you’re friends …. oh wait a minute, who are they? No one. Thing is though, it wasn’t what she said, cause I couldn’t really give a crap what she thinks or says, it was the ways she was saying it, and it makes you wonder what she’s like for the rest of us behind closed doors, and thats the number 1 thing I hate more than anything else. It also annoyed me even more as it was about my best ever friends and I’m not having it. On New Years Eve we’re all off to Robs, and she only needs to piss me off once and I’m off, I’ve had enough of her. I’ll deal with her if I have to, but other than that, I’d rather she didn’t exist to be honest. I could go on, but to be honest its only funny bitching back to her when its to someone else.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a bit of a roller coaster to be honest, my sister originally was going to have a family buffet, but I pulled out as I had an invite to see Kai and Jess, and when I hadn’t seen Kai for months I really had to go, take that family. So on the day I got a call from Kai saying what was going on, expecting problems either way as I’d no idea where the place we were going was, also thought Lee was going but he pulled out due to work stress lol, is that even a reason. I ended up going out to the Wickham with my family, my uncle kindly forced 2 pints down me, which I wouldn’t be bothered about if it wasn’t just before a night out and me not having ought to eat, sadly I paid for it later. I’ve also found some Blur instrumentals today, which I may take advantage of later lol.

Then I waited and waited, felt like forever, for them two outside a taxi rank, having explained the Lee situation they bought the taxi there. Had bad feelings about the night pretty much as soon as we entered the first pub, don’t know why but just had a bad feeling about it. The same guy from the birthday do was there who I can’t stand, so had to deal with him, which was hard as he continued to be an asshole all night. Felt a bit better when I noticed Cheese was in the group with us tonight, don’t mind him. So that was the nights team, a guy I can’t stand, a gay guy who’s actually awesome, Kai in his smart outfit, Jess who looked absolutely amazing … and me, yes 5 of us, an odd number. To make matters worse of despising one of the people out with us, it was worse as they’re 5 of us. Kai always talked to that guy, Jess was always talking to Cheese, which to be honest I’m not complaining about but it kinda meant I was always the one left out, which made things for me kind of a bit freaking annoying. I’m always down for Christmas as lets face it, its boring as it gets, and I really wanted this night to be fun and awesome, and sadly it wasn’t. This really annoyed me as I love Jess, and Kai and I was really hoping for it to be a good night, seemed they enjoyed themselves though so there ya go. Either way, we went through a few pubs and the night ended at Wickham, yep, where I’d started. Either way, had a few there and that was that, I’d had enough and went home. Said goodbye and set off home.

I really felt bad about the night, cause thats the guy I am, the hopeless worryer, the worst kind to be really. Caring about everyone else and stuck with my own troubles. Either way, I sent them both an apology text, which I’m presuming they didn’t really take much care of or even read, but I did it. I was sorry, but I find it hard to fake … take that women, no but I do and if you’d to force honesty out of me I didn’t have a good night and its a shame as I wanted to, for Kai.

Christmas Day

The big day, the one we’re all here for, the day every year that we all crave, surely this day won’t have bitching and something bad. The problem with Christmas is its become all about the children, and this has been an awful year for family reasons and more, but its been a hard Christmas this one as its the first Christmas where my Grandad hasn’t been able to make it to our house for Christmas, meaning my Grandma and Grandad weren’t over for Christmas on Christmas Day, and it made me pretty sad just to see him trying his best to still be happy on the day when we popped over for an hour or so.

The day as a whole, I got A LOT OF SOCK!!! Seriously, too many. God some good ol’ deodorant, which was good as I’d just run out on Christmas Eve. I also got my entire wardrobe for the year including my white and grey “I’ve Arrived” T-shirt lol. Had a festive Lucozade out of Jess’ mug when I got up, and got enough Christmas money to get the NOKIA Lumia 800, well, the upfront cost. It better be good, either way you’ve 7 days to take it back and say in a Sean Connery accent to the Vodafone guys, “This phone is a dreadful, I ashhked for it shaken not shtirred … or shhomething like thatsh” …. I dunno, just wanted Sean in there somewhere. Simba didn’t enjoy Christmas though when my sister came later on with the dog, seriously all the hair on his body shot up like someone had shot 1000 volts through him, yeah he was terrified. So much that we had to take the dog away, even then it took 2 hours to get Simba out of the hiding place he had behind the washing machine. Ended up watching the new Peter Kay Live DVD, and was quite impressed, all new jokes and in the Bolton accent, what more do you want lol. It was sad one of my sisters had to go to work on Christmas Day but what can you do eh. Either way, watched some stuff and that was it.

….or was it. Yep, got a call from the good ol’ Grandad Lee, either way I ended up at Robs house. Robs Dad was his scary nice self, obviously had a few lol, and then we noticed the terrifying sight. Rob has got an Electric Guitar for Christmas, and Helen has a mic. Oh dear. Oh dear. Helen did end up coming through the night, I just ignored her through the night and it ended up not been bad then. Although we literally only went for one as there was only one pub open. When we left The Station we all went home. I, personally was rather disappointed we only had 1, kinda didn’t feel worth it, but fair enough. And that was Christmas lol.

Boxing Day

Ahh Boxing Day, the day after the madness, normally the day you play with you’re presents, but you look a bit weird playing with mugs and socks lol. Don’t know why, but was really not well today, lead to me having only a very few pints. My uncle was very happy with his Spoons visit though, got 3 pints of lager and 2 beers for £4.40, someone obviously f***ed up lol, no complaints there. The night ended with quite a boring buffet at my sisters, my other sister sadly had to work again later on unfortunately. Either way, quite a boring day, so I won’t bore you with further details lol.

Ought Else

All that remains now is to be honest New Years Eve at Robs, no plans other than that.

- Got Real Racing 2 for the Mac, its amazing, you can actually use you’re iPhone to control the game, sadly though, even though it is through the browser, it only works on the iPhone. But an awesome game, high quality graphics on the Mac, racing controlled through the iPhone. Take that Wii-U, we’re already there!

- On Wednesday coming I’m off to the bank to put my Christmas money in and I’m gonna be popping to Vodafone to get the NOKIA Lumia 800, all I’m gonna say is, it better be chuffing good lol. Can’t believe I’ve had the iPhone 4 nearly 15 months, I used to struggle to have a phone 6 months lol. Very impressed with 7.5 Mango, think its the only real competitor on Smartphones to the iPhone, so should be good to use. Android, Blackberry, WebOS are all rubbish, trust me I’ve used them, and I’m looking forward to Windows Phone. Think its gonna shock people though, me getting one. See, I’m not an Apple Fanboy, I like the best of anything in its class, I’m trying an iPhone alternative that to be honest I’ve been very impressed with. We’ll see.

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Well thats about it for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 11th December 2011

December 11, 2011 by Ben

Mon 28^th /Tue 29^th November

College continued to be the most interesting place to spend you’re Monday and Tuesday, note the sarcasm. Once again on both days hardly anyone turned up which made things that all much more boring. Having said that in the assignment front things are looking that bit more promising. Received a new assignment from Liz, which to be honest I think once I get my head around it could be a bit easier than the last one. Web is pretty much over to be honest, so next Tuesday hand in, and err… done!

Wednesday 30^th November

Wednesday on paper would have been a really good day to have got my hair cut, but, I thought to myself, if I have a lay in today, then tomorrow before Jess comes over, I’ll go to the hairdressers after getting up early and all will be good, yeah, we’ll see how that goes. So Wednesday was a pretty lazy day for me!

Thursday 1^st December

Thursday started in a rush, none of my alarms went off and luck of the day was me naturally getting up 5 minutes before I said I was gonna ring Jess to check if she was coming over, so, no I didn’t get my haircut, but phew the day got to commence.

Thursday was another one of those awesome days, one of those movie days with Jess. This time it was yet another Batman film, which after kinda watching it I have to come to the conclusion that Batman is alright, I don’t mind it, but I wouldn’t call myself an avid fan, or obsessive like Jess. But hey. Overall, the day was hilariously awesome, not because of the film, but because of our awesome singing to the best music evaa lolz. We both attempted on a duet on Coldplay ft Rihanna with Princess of China, which just ended up with us both laughing our eyes out. Jess brought her pad over with her, so I thought I might as well show her what I’ve done with mine, ended up showing her my oh so amazing lyrics, which to be honest it didn’t end up being an embarrassing as I thought, in fact some of them actually impressed her, which as something lolz. The laughs continued when we played some classic Pokémon songs and started singing those, especially when Jess did her “man voice” on I BELIEVE … god, that was amazing, either way. Awesome awesome day!

Friday 2^nd December

Friday had some surprises up its sleeve, not many, but a few. For starters had my Friday chippies, obviously, then as the day ended and the night drew closer, got an invite to go t’ pub! When I turned up at our usual meeting place, I was pleasantly surprised that, despite feeling like death for some reason, we were going somewhere new, somewhere other than the two places we go to … I know!! Anyway we ended up at this supposedly “s**thole”, which to be honest ended up not being that bad to be honest, they sold Bacon Fries which made me happy. It also lead to one of the longest games of Pool ever, seen as everyone was used to playing Snooker, and paying 50p for the lights every 15 minutes was new as well! Rob hinted it would be a great place for the scene in our upcoming production, we’ll have to see eh. Then we left, and walked on to the Hunsworth for a pint there, discovering how all the ornaments at the pub were for some reason nailed down which an intriguing thing to do, but hey. After that, we all headed off home and that was the end of a rather weird night. Rob and Lee decided to get some stuff from Eastern Spice, although I didn’t bother. And that was that.

Weekend 3^{rd – 4th} December

Saturday was pretty uneventful to be honest, although I really enjoyed the celebrity The Chase on ITV1, Anne Widdicome was hilarious, shame that Blur bassist Alex James couldn’t get through, although his questions were the hardest, either way was a great episode. Apart from that a very so so day. Apparently it was Helen’s birthday, but I couldn’t make if I wanted to due to money. Me and Jess had agreed we both had to go if one did, but she was visiting Kai so in all fairness that became my useful excuse. Was quiet pissed off actually on Saturday as I’d no chance to get my haircut all week, so I got up early, ran in to town … closed, freaking typical! Anywho.

Sunday was relative, absolutely nothing happened, I woke up, which was a bonus, probably. Complained about our ever getting worse internet connection with TalkTalk, and had a look at my Mum and Dads new phones they got, Mums is a Christmas present of my Grandma, Dad just joined in and got a phone. They got the Orange deal where you get a free pair of supposedly great headphones … there not, but free so can’t really complain. Apart from that, Cleo was a bit ill, which was a shame, but yeah, that’s really all for the weekend. Bring on next week and make it a good en’.

Monday 5^th December

Monday was always going to be a weird day, and guess what it was. Turned up with hope that the snow would have stopped us from getting there, but no, it never even bothered to turn up, typical. But, then it started to snow as I was arriving, but then stopped and never returned, build up over nothing! Tom was their today which I was relieved about, its always fun when he’s around, whilst he looked a bit down in the first part, he ended up been his good old self through the rest of the morning. At dinnertime he apparently had to go to finance and so was expecting him back … he never returned, so nice quick one ya did their mate lol. Oh well, to be honest, bringing my MacBook Air in now has one more reason than the others now. I actually bring it in to do most my work on, but now I also bring it in just to be myself with myself, its my amusement, plus with the iPhone’s Personal Hotspot feature I can get Wi-Fi and go on literally any site I want to, which has been a massive help these past few weeks. I’ll be doing a MacBook Air 1 Month Review soon, but the battery life has just been amazing, never died after using it literally all day, we’ve only an hour and a bit left of the day and the battery is still at 56%, yes I’m writing this now, but to be honest I doubt nothing else is gonna happen today.

Tuesday 6^th December

On Tuesday it was time to practice my oh so epic presentation with my many many group members, pfft, yeah, we started with 6 now we’ve 2, but hey. We all got given a time a set amount of time to practice our amazing presentation which has had to kinda be completely re-invented thanks to most of our slack group members, which makes the group marker sheet an interesting thing to receive. Overall the presentation, for a first go, didn’t go too badly to be honest, especially with my amazing remote which others apparently want to borrow which I’m fine with. After playing a bit of Angry Birds and having my sausage at break it was time for Web. The Web assignment was due in on the Friday and I thought I’m not gonna end up having to traipse in during the week to hand it in, so I luckily got it all done by the end of the lesson and handed it in, which was good. Trouble was, everyone was talking about next week being the last week before the holidays, in fact they said it so many times that it made you think this was the last day, which is very annoying because it wasn’t, so bring on the end of next Tuesday then, although I’ve quite a bit of work to finish off … well, for one of the lessons anyway!

Wednesday 7th December

Wednesday was a pretty uneventful but very annoying day. It was another chance to get a hair cut and could I do that!!! NOOOO!!! I KNOW!!! I wouldn’t mind but all Cleckheaton has is hairdressers and none of them were open when they were all supposed to be, taking the absolute piss, I look like a bad Michael McIntyre! Thats really all that happened on Wednesday! Bumped in to Clayton in town, which was a bit huh, more shocked to see him to be honest, but yeah that was err… fun.

Another thing I found on Wednesday was a french website called Deezer. Deezer (yeah love the name reference :/ tuh) basically is like Spotify, but in the browser. And until the 22nd December, they are running a promo so you can get their Pro features for absolutely free, awesome! Its great, even the free mobile app works perfectly, at this rate I might even buy it when the offer ends! Really good service, and you don’t have to use some crappy badly coded app like you do with Spotify.

Thursday 8^th December

Thursday was a nice lazy day for a change. Me and Jess had a long chat about the stupid emoticon icons on FaceBook which led to her coming over tomorrow, which was great as it always ends up been a highlight of the week. But that was literally it for Thursday, unless I go on a complete history of what we talked about, which I ain’t gonna do, sorry! lol. The day ended by me and Jess agreeing to become the two official members of Damn Crows.

Friday 9^thDecember

On Friday it was time for another one of those best days of the week and I’m happy to say it didn’t disappoint. Yes, it was time for another fun day with Jess. This day we made some of the best music evvaa, with our whole new permanent member of the band, the wonderful the fantabulous Jess. We made some pretty awesome music to say the least. Overall, it was all just the biggest laugh, like it always is with Jess. The day started by presenting Jess with her Recording Contact, which she was overjoyed about lol. We just once again had just a really good laugh and it was awesome. Eventually she had to go, but just loved it.

But the day wasn’t over yet, Caddy invited Lee and me out and Jess said she’d love to go out, so we all ended up going out to the amazing pubs that Cleck has to offer, cough. The day just kept getting better, after my Friday Chippies I tried to get in touch with Jess via the phone but couldn’t, then Kai rang me to say why, which if anything was nice to talk to Kai. Eventually got in touch, then we all headed out, ironically arrived just as Jess was, eri!!! The night then consisted of bad singing, and just fun to be honest. Caddy went home whilst we were at the pub, then me and Lee walked Jess home and Lee invited us for a night at his on Saturday night. Then me and Lee thought, ahh f*** it, and went down to the duck for some amazing singing practice for the next night and had some good ol’ healthy fast food, which was amazing as the guy almost fell over the ice delivering it. Luckily it was gone after Friday. But overall a really great day.

Saturday 10^thDecember

On Saturday it was time for a night at Lees. Got a call from Rob before I went to Lees so had a few at his first, then headed up to Lees where Caddy and Lee were there. Then Jess arrived and gave us all Christmas cards, they were actually hand made which was very sweet of her, my new BFF. Both her and me had doubts about whether the night was actually going to be good, but luckily the night wasn’t what Lee said it would be, and what it was was some bad ass singing, some amazing gaming, and a real alright night to be honest. The night I don’t think was as good as Friday, but it wasn’t too bad. Rob showed off his GTA skills on my Air as well as his rebellious ways lol. So, yeah, interesting night. When I came home I noticed that the Xmas decorations were up so, I guess Christmas has truly begun!

Sunday 11^thDecember

Today was uneventful, watched the X-Factor final, Little Mix won, but to be honest the only thing good was Coldplay, as they are a proper band. Wrote my Christmas Cards including Diza which I’ll have to post, I knowww, never posted a Xmas Card before. Inside 5 Christmas Cards will be a Certificate of Yearly Awesome to the top 5 people who I just think are awesome, the full top 10 will be announced on FaceBook in January 1st 2012.

But thats about it, I think. Till next time. E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 27th November 2011

November 27, 2011 by Ben

Since my last blog, well to be honest not much has changed to be honest but I can scrape some stuff out for this week for ya if you really want.
Note: Each day blog was written at the end of the corresponding day

Wednesday

On Wednesday I was very lazy, we we’re going to go to the Bradford Media Museum but I didn’t feel well at all, so the previous night I just turned my phone off and had an early night. To be honest I completely forgot it was Wednesday when we were going until I noticed missed calls after turning the phone on, so err, sorry!

Thursday

Thursday was a bit of an annoying day to be honest, it was another one of those movie days with Jess and all didn’t really go well. Well, the plan was initially that she would be coming over at 11 to watch another film, thanks a lot for converting me to Batman, tuh. Anyway, got a Batman game as well on the Mac, the Arkham Asylum game, which is amazing that is works so smoothly on a MacBook Air when the game recommends a 512MB graphics card. Either way, the day was quite disappointing as I waited all day for a phone call, a text upstairs and it never arrived, waited all day for nothing. So yeah, quite pissed off at that. Later through the day I got some source of apology and reason for it, but fair enough. Feeling apparently sad about the whole thing, she arranged to do something the following day, we’ll see eh. Later during the day we got an unexpected visitor, earlier than expected the kitten arrived. Don’t really know what to make of it at the moment as all day everyone has been fussing it instead, we’ll see eh. … saying that a lot aren’t I, oh well.

Friday

On Friday I woke up to the kitten, gave it a few strokes and then was about to set off to the bus station to meet up with Jess when my sister arrived to fuss around with the cat, so I was like yeah yeah good I’m going out … then my other sister arrived, so I was like for godsake yeah yeah good I’m really going out now, ugh. Either way, it made me 10 minutes late, oh well. We ended up going to Bradford Media Museum and to be honest it was pretty good, although we were very quickly un-amused by the displays lol, guess you have to be young to truly enjoy it. Unfortunately the weather was in no way on our side that day and neither was Bradford as there is literally no where to buy a freaking DVD, so we decided to head to Leeds. Unfortunately the weather didn’t get any better, but got my DVD for my Dad, the last Christmas present to buy, I know I don’t quite understand how I’ve done so early but hey. Despite the weather and stuff I really tried my very best to keep Jess amused, weather it worked or not is another thing lol. I got my sausage, she got some noodles of some kind, then to the bus journey home, which is always amazed as we’ve no real idea what bus to get, but there ya go all went well as we got home. Gave her an apparently proper hug … whatever that is lol, then went home. You’re forgiven by the way!
Later that night got an invite and call to go to the pub, so ended up headed to the pub and had a few drinks with Lee, Rob and Caddy, which to be honest wasn’t that bad. Once again, absolutely no idea what we were on about all night, but ended fair enough. Helen ended up turning up at the end of the night like always when you see Rob which make you think, well, its nearly the end eh. What was weird is that we didn’t actually end at the Spoons, we ended the night at the Wickham, I know!!! Either way, not too bad of a night. We all learned about Caddy’s new apparent girlfriend from across the planet … yeah we’ll see about that, don’t think any of us actually believe any of it, we’ll see eh.
One thing I was quite annoyed about is the fact that they’re all off to see Kai next week, but I can’t afford at all, so a bit of a shame to let him down like that, so when they go I hope they let him know I’m sorry I can’t be there. Speaking of money, I wish the Scottish idiots at Student Finance would finally sort their stuff out, taking the mick now. As I can’t seem to stop saying in this blog, we’ll see eh.

Saturday

Yesterday was to be one or the other, a night at Lees, or a classic games night at Robs, it ended up being the second. So, after watching The Chase on ITV, loving the Celebrity one, looking forward to Alex James from Blur being on it, I headed down to Robs, took some Lucozade and my MacBook Air. The night was pretty alright to be honest, played some classic PS games … except we actually didn’t to be honest, yeah it wasn’t quite the night I was expecting but fair enough. After being blinded by the Playstation 1’s CD Player effects, the night ended up just been Caddy badly playing a game, Rob amusingly watching Ben’s failed Dr Who footage he’d recovered. Also, when I played the Batman game on the Air, it was amusing to hear that Robs high end PC even struggled with that game, yet the Air plays it fine lolz. The night ended with some bad singing from Lee, squeezing into Rob’s brother James’ bedroom to watch a video, then watching the old classic Childrens TV show Zzzapp!!! So yeah, quite an interesting night. Then Helen arrived, Rob gave a summary of the script for the upcoming production, then we all went home and that was the night.

Today

Today I woke up, listened to music, and played with my pussy! Yep, had a few chats with peoples of awesome, then continues to stroke my pussycat. So yep, another lazy Sunday.

Till next week eh. E-Ya Later

Ben

Blog Tuesday 15th November 2011

November 15, 2011 by Ben

Last Week

Last week was the week when I decided to take my purchase MacBook Air plan in to action, I started by selling my 2008 MacBook to my Mum and my iPad was sold to CEX, then I put some money towards it at the end of the day. One thing I was quite annoyed about was that when I got all the money I required to get the MacBook Air I realised that all banks were shut so I couldn’t order the Air until the next week onwards, luckily though my Dad intervened and got it off his card and I paid him back on the Monday after. The main reason I purchased the Air in the weekend was due to the Apple estimate of 3 business days, which would of worked out perfectly as I’m at College for 2 business days then on the day it was expected to arrive I would be home to pick it up, sound good, well we’ll see how that went later!

Monday 7^th November

Monday was probably the most hilarious day I’ve ever had at College, and quite a productive one as I got quite a lot of Helens and Liz’ work done, although ended up being late for Liz’ lesson due to a fun dinner break with Clair who I found out is awesome and absolutely mad! Tom remained the insanely mad guy that he is, still now and then leading to The IT Crowd innuendos through the day and of course our amazing Sean Connery impressions definitely help the hours go by. I found an awesome Laptop case online at Zavvi for just over £10, which is absolutely awesome! Fits the MacBook Air, which I was waiting for, as well as all my College files, awesome! And, seen as I have it now, everything fits in it perfectly, it was destiny, it was just meant to be lol.

The dinner break was eventful to say the least, me and Clair had a right laugh in town, whilst Tom and another guy (can’t remember his name sorry), followed us behind, then later separated after we got my Sausage … Roll lol. Then me and Clair whilst roaming around the entire town, going to Argos, then going to CEX, then going to ASDA waiting along time to find out they had none, and so traipsing back to Argos again to find out that they had an offer on the product we were trying to get anyway, then having to run all the way across the town to rush on to a bus which was then late, and so that’s err… why we were late for the second lesson. All this was for Clair’s new iPod Touch, which she later found out in the afternoon required Wi-Fi to even set up and sync, so I helped out by using my iPhone 4’s Personal Hotspot feature for her, which she was err.. grateful for lol. Overall though a really fun day this one!

Tuesday 8^th November

If on Monday I was living in an alternate universe, then Tuesday would have been how the day was, the complete opposite of Monday. Tuesday was an absolutely terribly boring day. For starters no one turned up, even Lynn which to be honest I wasn’t complaining about, didn’t turn up. After her lesson of absolute fun..ness with a teacher who acted as if we were all primary school pupils, it was time for another boring lesson, for some reason! I also managed to completely blag my way through a corrupted web file but still make it look like everything is working and fine. I wouldn’t mind but it was the incredible computers at College that led to my entire website been completely f***ed, so yeah, that’s why I’m bringing my new MacBook Air to College Mum lol. Which moves on quite smoothly to another one of the annoyances of the day, I ended up missed my UPS order, which by the way was my MacBook Air, even though my sister was willing to pick it up we never got a time! 11:52 ended up coming and missing it at that. So, the only viable alternative to get the Air was to wake up early the next day and wait all day for the MacBook Air and the awesome brown UPS van to arrive with the heavenly awesomeness that was the Air. But 9 – 5 doing absolutely nothing can be quite boring by yourself so I decided to post to FaceBook if anyone wanted to join me and make me company and was quite surprised to get a response from Jess! So was quite looking forward to Wednesday, if not for the Air, but for the amazing randomness of the day ahead!

Wednesday 9^th November

The day to receive the MacBook Air 11 inch had arrived. Last night I posted to FaceBook whilst at College that I’d be waiting 9 – 5 waiting for the Air, and so if anyone wanted to join me they could, and Jess of all awesome people decided to join me. So I got up quite early, my Dad woke me up before he set off to work, and the waiting began. Jess agreed she was going to return up after 10, so I had an hour and a bit of waking up time by myself. Watched a bit of YouTube videos that only I like, had some Corn Flakes, which amazingly is the first time I’ve had Corn Flakes in weeks … for some reason, very sugary and helped a bit with my starting to f*** me off cold. Then, she arrived and it began … slowly lol. That’s kinda how any of my days start, I’m terrible with introductions to a while is spent wondering what the hell we are doing. We ended up watching some random programs on TV, Jess found Poirot very amusing lol, and was very impressed by everyones moustache. We ended up watching a bit of Johnny English, I know, shocker. We would of watched some more programs but I was limited to things on my iPhone as the computer we were waiting for, we could of watched some stuff on the iMac, but 1. Its weird to ask a friends girlfriend to watch stuff in your bedroom lol, and 2. We might not even hear the van coming … the second reason was the one I gave. Gave her a notepad, which would be a nice gesture if my Dad didn’t just want rid of them lol, but fair enough, let her use one of my bedroom pens to draw a cover! Then, the Post Man came to the door, which was weird because UPS have no association with the Royal Mail, but it ended up being a tiny red parcel. With after 10 minutes of feeling my rather big package we both decided to get the contents out and play around with it … … I’m talking about the delivery, gees. It ended up being my Birds Eye Polar Bear, which is awesome, although like with the meerkat it led to a very loud aww. We had some dinner and some scones at my plash to make the Sean Connery in me happy, and the inevitable happened, 9-4 delivery (9-5 at home alone) and it arrived at nearly half 3. The MacBook Air arrived, which led to even Jess judging me a bit. Everytime I get a piece of technology I do a live unboxing on my amazing show, with Jess … enjoyed watching. Had a play around with the new MacBook Air, which I’m loving and writing this blog with, Jess had a look at my old MacBook, now my Mums computer, just because she’s getting a 13 MacBook Pro, which is the same form factor, nice to see everyone switching to the Mac. The day progressed further with awesomeness, then few minutes after my Mum came home she decided to go … Jess, not my Mum lol. Then, on the spot we arranged to go to Leeds the following day!

If you haven’t noticed, Wednesday was a long day for me lol. The day wasn’t over, when Rob rang and asked if I fancied going out. So, ended up at the pub for the night. For some reason I really didn’t enjoy the night, don’t know why, though it was funny to see Flash trying to eat some Curry Masters thingy that was the size of a human babies head.

Thursday 10^th November

When Jess left the previous day, she asked me if I fancied going round Leeds, which to be honest if anyone else asked I’d of definitely said no on the spot, but I’d never been to Leeds with Jess before so I thought I’d give it a go. As expected it was a right laugh, what an awesome gal. She broke the rules of women…ness by going in to get some shoes and taking … 2 MINUTES in the store, I know!!! One of a kind there man, what the hell? Later I also found out how not obsessed with the Joker, Jess is … yeah! The day continued around some epic randomness, I got my Sausage and we headed back. Unfortunately we ended up getting the long bus back, but to be honest that gave us time to create our all-new sign language for the Joker, Croissant, Passion, and more. Which despite leading to Jess doing her hyena laugh on the way home, which is incredible, ended up being the end of a great day. When we returned, we had a drink and that was that!

Then, Rob rang me and I was like, oh my god de-ja vu. This time though it was a trip down the duck, which was a bit meh, but fair enough.

Friday 11^th November – Remembrance Day

On Friday there was only one thing on my mind, and that of course was my Friday chippies. Got up actually the latest I’ve woke up all week, and that was still before the afternoon, I’m telling ya I’m in need of so much sleep. After my Friday chippies which may I say were amazing, it was time to go to the pub to see Kai again. I decided to walk with Rob to the pub and eventually met up with Kai and Jess. Overall was a pretty weird night, had a few ups and downs in the conversations front, but to be honest, mostly positive … I think. OK, dropping Kai when he decided to jump up at me probably wasn’t the best thing, but in all fairness that was the alot thing I thought he was gonna do it lolz.

Saturday 12^th November – The Day Lee Died … nearly

Saturday was going to be the night Lee was to see Kai on his visit over, and yes it was to be at the ever so amazing Duck. We later found out that Jess wouldn’t be here this time around due to not feeling well, which is fair enough, sick of seeing her to be honest lol … it’s a joke!!! No, was a shame, but what can you do eh. In hindsight she didn’t exactly miss the most pleasant of nights, as we’ll get on to later. After a swift visit to Tesco which annoyed me as I was pretty much put on the spot to buy drinks, with the response of ‘oh, I’ll put a few in the Duck later’, which I wouldn’t mind but I rarely actually drink down their so wasn’t impressed with that at all, especially as money is tough at the moment. But hey, eh. Kai arrived and it quickly became apparent, to Kai anyway, that we had a lot of things that when mashed together in to one drink could create alcoholic poison, so the man went to work and in comes the game ‘Bulls***’ (hint: that doesn’t say Bullseye lol). The card game pretty much comprised of … tbh I don’t really know, but at the end of it, Lee ended up losing the most, second being Rob, and me and Kai hardly ever at all so we had the pleasure of watching everyone else crumble. I always get worried when people get a deck of card out (unless its me on trick or treat lol), and I always fear pretty much all outcomes, but seen as I rarely lost, all was good, and this was by far the least threatening game … well, it was if you were in Lee’s situation but yeah! As the night progressed we were .. greated by a shock arrival (), which we were all honoured to see. Listen I’m hiding nothing here, we all know the situation, back to me pretending eh. Long story short, Rob still hasn’t found his balls lol. More drinks going down it quickly became apparent that Lee couldn’t handle Kai’s concoctions and even his Dad couldn’t either. The night resulted in Lee pretty much lying in his own vomit ruining his sofa, us rather amused and Kai, well all in a good days work lol. That’s one thing that will never happen to me that, when you drink its important to always know when you’ve had enough, and even though we all were pretty much drunk, which to be honest was an automatic reaction to even just one of Kai’s shots of death, none of those were anything like Lee. Amusing though, well prob not for Lee in the next morning. After Kai and Helen (it was her btw) had a suspiciously eri chat, the day ended, we said bye for now to Kai and that was that.

Sunday 13^th November – Rubbish

Sunday was pretty disappointed and throughout the night I was thinking, god is this gonna be my week, last week was a really awesome week, don’t go away now! Sunday was very weird, I was invited out by Rob to the pub in which I insisted I was only having one, mainly as I had an assignment due in and I needed more of it done, but oh freaking no, I ended up having 4, granted 3 were bought by others, it became a much bigger problem later on. The night was very weird and awkward, a night with Rob, Helen and her friends … yeah, great! The night ended, eventually, and I went home to do the most latest ever homework I’d ever done, leading to my cold reaching probably the worst stages ever, yeah, thanks!

Monday 14^th November – Just Make it End

Monday on paper was a great day, bringing my Air in Uni for the first time and everyone that made last Monday awesome were there, so what made it bad. Well, probably because I thought I had an assignment due in, I couldn’t spent more than 4 seconds without coughing and I felt absolutely dreadful. I know for a fact literally anyone else in my course would have pretty much said f*** that and stayed at home, which to be honest I wish I did to be honest. Due to my intense coughing..ness, I was late to set off which actually ended up being a good thing as it meant I travelled (most the way) to Uni with my sister … ok I hear you ask. No, she had some miracle weird, awful spray stuff that numbs your throat and some Lockets, both of which just about got me through the day I know I’d of never got through otherwise, phew! The day started pretty well, everyone laughed at my new numb voice, to be honest the morning wasn’t the problem, it was the afternoon. In the afternoon, I found out that the assignment I thought was due in today wasn’t, it was due in Friday, and I’d more to do for it, so that annoyed me. Leading to a pretty pointless lecture from Liz, which I literally ignored, if I pass that lesson I’ll be very surprised. Spent most of the day playing Angry Birds and GTA on the Air, was not in any mood or state to do work, still couldn’t stop coughing, although felt a bit better after my sausage. At the end of it all I then travelled home to forget the day, but came home surprised to find at the end of a day of use, still 32% battery on the Air … I knowww!!!!

Tuesday 15^th November – Today

Some amazing things happened today, someone in our class rang in to Uni to say he’d be late as he was stuck on the train, that took err… yeah, all day that, so yeah, work on that excuse for next time. Today was very average, got a lot of work to do for my first lesson, not too much to be worried, but definitely go some stuff to be doing, the second lesson was boring and pointless. But one thing I didn get out of it was that I managed to put my entire website (assignment one) on my Mac, so no worry of a stupid corruption like last time. SSD FTW! I also have every single GTA game now on the Mac, so amusement yeyy! One thing I am very annoyed about is the fact that I have to go in to Uni for literally 5 minutes just to hand something in, which is very annoying as that will cost me £4.20, so if anyone wants to do something please let me know!!! In searching for someone to join me on my Uni visit then probably for something after Jess arrived … who wouldn’t be able to join me tomorrow, but hey apparently she insists I watch Batman or else, so err… yeah, worrying movie day for Thursday. I probably won’t survive if I don’t like them, and there’s some pretty sharp knives in my kitchen. L

But yeah that’s … phew, just about it. Quite a big one this one, but hey, said my piece I think we can officially say lol.

Blog Sunday 16th October 2011

October 16, 2011 by Ben

Since my last blog I’ve sorted out my finance and finally got my first payment, I know they didn’t half take their time. The main reason I didn’t add a blog last week was basically because nought happened … well stuff happened, but just not enough.

Uni

College … Uni whatever you want to frigging call it, is getting in to full swing and to be honest its alright to be honest. Just starting to get used to the 2 day weeks. There’s one course that I’m a big ugh on, but we’ll get there in the end. Interestingly enough was that I had a talk, one of those tutorial thingies, with the one that caused all the hiccups with getting on the course and she was shockingly nice, pfft, but hey move on from all that eh. She had a cut on a nose like someone had wacked her round face lol … I know! In one of the courses we’re doing a lot of presentations and so I decided to get a ‘Presentation Remote’, more on that later. We’ll see on Monday whether it works well, works fine at home. I was a bit let down that another one from last years course joined the course as it kinda means that I’ve lost a friend this year as it was Chris’ kinda bum boy lol. With that guy not here this year Chris was pretty awesome, but he’s back so err… ah well. What can ya do eh. ….. Starting to see why I didn’t add a blog last week are we, I had nothing! Oh, and I had the entire class doing amazing Sean Connery impressions last week, that was err… interesting. “14 nos and a yesh, is still… a yesh!!!”. What a man!!!

Johnny English Reborn

The day after it premiered we went to see Johnny English, and that was quite a lot of us actually. Me, Rob, Lee, Caddy and Jess went to see the epic film. It was quite fun actually, nice that Jess went to bring some err… difference to the Cinema experience, I’m talking obviously about her insane awesome laugh … yeaahhh, gotta love her eh! Me and Rob discovered that the Cinema actually had machines for buying tickets, I knoww, no queuing, awesome! Rob for some reason thought why not buy more than we need, but hey, he was paying. After purchasing some overpriced crap to have during the film, we entered the room to watch the film, and, to my review.

The film is an awesome sequel to an already great film, which is a lot cheaper now on iTunes if you want to download it conscious free. The film actually has a more James Bond style feel to it from the previous, but still with typical Johnny English comedy. I was at first disappointed that Ben Miller wasn’t going to be in the film playing Boff, but hey the new guy wasn’t bad suppose. I was also disappointed that the agent was called Agent 1 like the first, and his boss was called Pegasus, like the first one, not very inventive, but hey. The film was actually very good to be honest, sometimes sequels are rubbish compared to the original, but this is really worth watching, I don’t want to go too far in to the film to give it away from anyone who hasn’t seen it, but, its awesome! A solid 9 out of 10.

After the film we were all in a really good mood, it really was a good film, but then the night just collapsed to be honest. Rob thought it would be a good idea to go to the Casino next door, I don’t particularly like going, but I pump up to be sociable, but when I noticed that Jess didn’t enjoy it at all, and even Caddy wasn’t that impressed, it was just a real shame to be honest as it kinda ruined the night. After pretending to enjoy ourselves, we headed home, we first had a drink at the Spoons, but I wasn’t in much of a good mood after the Casino, and whilst they said otherwise I don’t think others were, it seemed only Lee and Rob wanted to be there.

But hey, if you ignore the previous paragraph, it really was a very good night.

The many trips out.

They were quite a few trips out mostly to Leeds, one was to get Rob’s amazing new Camera, which isn’t really isn’t that amazing. But wait, its got Dog Mode!!! … Yeahh.

Another trip out it was my turn to do the purchasing, I went to purchase a Presentation Remote, which was much more of a weird experience than it should of been to be honest, we got accused of … I actually don’t know what of, but this black guard didn’t half give us a weird look, one of the Remotes had obviously been stolen and obviously it was us, I give up sometimes, but hey, ignoring the random guard that didn’t really know what he was doing things went ahead and I got it. Then the day got weird when we went to the amazing Gallery of awesome, where we saw a dead sheep enclosed in a glass tube and some pretty terrible paintings … people pay for this?!! Had an alright Greggs after that, even though there’s about 9 in Leeds, only the one in the Bus Stations seems to be nice. But yeah, interesting.

We’ve also had some amazing, what I’m going to define as ‘Flash’ nights. When Flash gets his motor, we just go wild, literally, especially when Rob does his dancing, ooo hoh thats the guud stuff. I’d go on, but to be honest most of the nights end up being, pardon the pun, but end up been flashbacks. Pretty awesome though.

The Scones Chat up line.

Now as you know, my amazing Scones chat up line is absolutely amazing, but its yet to go in to action, well, last night it did and … well, I don’t really know how I’d rate how it went. I wouldn’t say it worked, but it definitely got a reaction … thats kinda my effect on women, nothing works, but it sure gets a reaction. … God. Quite a weird night to be honest, after we had quite an unexpected laugh at the Spoons, we headed to hell and actually enjoyed ourselves, I know!!! We went to the George and actually enjoyed ourselves, I don’t know how either. Night ended like usual with some sh***y chips. So, I don’t know what to make of my line to be honest.

Ought Else

Rob saw sense this weekend and ended what was pretty much getting unbearable. I’ll leave you all to guess what. Having said that, we’re yet to see proof, so, here’s hoping … for his sake!
The iPhone 4S came out and, whilst its good, not good enough, gonna be keeping my iPhone 4 till the next iPhone announcement, unless I have a stupid turn and make the big mistake to try out Android again. If you’re an existing iPhone 4 user, you might want to check this out!
Steve Jobs, the legend that was, unfortunately died at the age of just 56, the Apple co-founder was a visionary for the entire technological world and will surely be missed by more than just Apple.
Whilst we were thinking of doing it, unfortunately we’re going to remain with the worst ISP of all time, TalkTalk. Why, because we pay less than £10 a month for unlimited internet and we’re not increasing that to a stupid £40 with BT, especially when its still capped, ridiculous prices on BT.
I got the latest Little Dragon album this week and its pretty awesome actually, so get Ritual Union … NOW!!! lol. Yeah, quite a good album, bit weird, but weird people like me like weird music.
Speaking of music, Gorillaz are now 10 Years Old, congrats to 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel, but probably mostly to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.

Well, thats about it, nought more to report, or ought of interest. So yeah.

E-Ya Later

Ben

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Blog Sunday 2nd October 2011

October 2, 2011 by Ben

Since my last blog … well, not much has happened, which is good as I can’t really be assed typing much today, so woo about that I suppose.

College

College this week has been a bit less annoying than last week, mainly due to the fact that I didn’t have to spend my back up fiver on a trip of a pointlessness to a University to do exactly what I did last year, no lie. But hey. No, it all went pretty smoothly to be honest, obviously starting to feel the increase demand of the course, but hey, I’m in a Uni course now, which begs the question on why I’ve titled this part as College …. tell ya what, next blog onwards it will be titled Uni alright, good.

Monday was alright, nought special, just alright lol. I didn’t at all enjoy my first lesson purely due to the Book we’ve to work through throughout the year, this time it was installing an OS, oh joy, never done that before, pretty boring but looks like things will get more interesting and challenging on that lesson through the year. Then in the next lesson we got on to some other stuff which was made easier due to some software we had, it led to some work to do at home, oh the joys, but hey what ya gunna du!

Tuesday was interesting to say the least, me, Chris and Clare from my course ended up randomly been told to do a presentation to test our presentation skills. This wouldn’t be annoying, but this was the day I started to get a cold and my voice had died, so… thhhanks! Without my voice I don’t have my mo-jo, which probably explains absolutely blowing it at the start and forgetting where I am, kinda like the Sony President on MacWorld a few weeks back (link), that was me! Luckily Chris recovered the presentation and the ending part I did alright. Luckily my voice is coming back now so if we get prompted suddenly for another presentation then I’m ready … probably won’t happen now. Least out of it all, got 2 great friends now.

Rest of the week

This week I went to Tesco with Caddy to get a Photo from the Photo Machine which is now FIVE POUNDS!!! Either way, couldn’t do it that day as it was more expensive than we thought and it needed to be in coins. … So next day I did it and got it, yey! Except it wasn’t because the chair jammed that you put higher so you can sit on it, so the photo is me been stressed because I’m standing awkwardly, woo, pfft.

Also saw Lee for a bit, had some of Rob’s left over cans from the Dinner Party, which was fun. Watched prob the weirdest awesome Craig Ferguson episode with the sound effect lol. Was alright.

This week has probably been the worst week for weather ever, I hate warm weather, and especially hate warm weather in Britain, so 30c in the UK is extreme. Had to get my own chippies on Friday as my Mum and Dad have had another week off this week, which is so annoying because it means there always in the way, ugh. But hey. Had some lovely chippies.

Graham Coxon

Anyone who knows me know I’m a pretty big fan of Blur, I mean the band have been around my whole life, there debut album Leisure came out in 1990 for godsake and their latest single ‘Fool’s Day’ was released in 2009 so they’ve definitely been around my whole life. Their main guitarist Graham Coxon has been described as one of the best guitarist of his generation which is really accurate, even Noel Gallagher said he was an amazing guitarist! But when Graham left Blur in 2002 before Think Tank and came back in 2009 for the reunion, he’s been releasing solo albums. I’d heard ‘Freakin Out’ and I wasn’t that keen on it, prob cause I heard the live version, but I decided to look through his back catalogue, he’s got 9 albums, where did they come from, thats as many as Blur and Oasis have, he makes music quick. Got his entire back catalogue of albums and there’s some really good songs man, he’s awesome. So yeyy, another artist to get the “All albums and songs” on my iPod.

Saturday’s Journey

On Saturday things were interesting, got woke up by Rob on the phone, which is always the way I love been woken ……….. yeah! Anyway, we ended up going round Leeds, which was alright, really fancied a Sausage Roll soooo much, but had no freaking money, ugh. But hey. We went round Leeds looking at stuff, had a look at the 11 inch MacBook Air, thinking of getting that next year to be honest as a much more portable notebook, but a portable notebook that works unlike those crappy netbooks, prob not until February next year like. Had a look at some tablets as well, long story short, Android tablets are awful, the Playbooks too small, and the crowds were around the iPads.

Rob ended up buying a Camera, for some reason. The Camera has many features including ones you’d expect, HD recording, many exposure settings, USB connectivity, SD storage and all that good stuff, then it has just insane features like …. Dog and Cat modes. Oh yes, the camera automatically takes a picture of a dog and a cat it sees, it works as well, Dog mode worked on Rob’s dog and even Rob so the mode works lol.

Then the night progressed, we ended up going round Cleck, quite a lot joined us actually, I was wondering whether to invite Jess out as she’d been mentioning she’d like to hang out with us, but ended up not, I’d rather invite someone out who I could buy a drink to be honest and I was still skint, shame. As the night progressed we had Rob (for a while), Caddy, Lee, Flash and more, quite a group to be honest. At the end of the night it was just me, Lee and Flash, or was there …. DUH DUUUHHHH! Thanks to Flash’s experiment we ended up joining Tesco Bernard lol and crew, yeah that went well lol. We were 3 quiet ignored folk one the edge of a table full of chatters, FAIL moment. But it did lead to Flash turning in to Jeremy Kyle for a while. Yeah, interesting. Anyway, night ended like many with some sh***y chips, this time got by Lee, thanks Lee. And that was that!

Ought Else

I was suppose to get my first, well everyone was, finance payment by last Tuesday, guess what, haven’t, which is very annoying to say the freaking least as everyone is unexpectedly skint for the course, and the first one is kinda the most important one so you can get started. So if I don’t get it by Monday its time to complain and inquire on what the hells going on eh. Wouldn’t mind, but as soon as I do get paid I’m gonna have to pay loads of people back as because I’m completely skint I’ve been having to scrounge, oh how I love you Student Finance, pfft. Mean what I say, Monday we’ll all see then.
One thing I found incredibly interesting this week was ticking a box in iTunes for my iPhone 4 which changed a lot of things, the “Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC” option is incredible. I’ve a 32GB iPhone 4 and it was in its last 1GB, music took up nearly 16GB, I enabled this option and boom, I suddenly have nearly 8GB free, thats amazing! I could double my library with this setting turned on, and I’ve 1400+ songs now! The great thing about this feature is it doesn’t change the higher bit rate songs on your Computer, so definitely try it out, its a great feature. And, 128Kbs AAC is about the same quality as 256Kbs MP3, yeah, starting to like AAC aren’t we. Quality wise even in my headphones I couldn’t tell, all this feature has given me, is more memory! Go for it.

But thats it for now, till next week eh.

E-ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 25th September 2011 – This is a Big One

September 25, 2011 by Ben

OK, it might have been quite a while since my last blog, but my god it hasn’t half all happened. Not only have I lost my course place due to the most stupidest of excuses ever, undergone complaints to get it back and ugh so much more, I’ll get into that later. But I’ve we’ve also lost one of our group. Also probably some of the worse yet oddly possible chat up lines, oh the lolz on that one! As well as more house hang outs, dinner parties, and well, more!

The Lee…ness Continues

In my last blog I mentioned how I’ve pretty much been doing nought but going to Grandad Lees house, which don’t get me wrong has been awesome, and yes the madness continues. Performed some more music, which is always epic. Watched some more Celebrity Deathmatch, still the only good thing on MTV, we watched the awesome Robert De Niro with the ‘what’s a matter you’ Italian part. We watched the Charlie Sheen one as well, which lead to some pretty awful chat up lines, such as the amazing “wow, you must be tired, cos you’ve been running through my mind all day” and the amazing “Excuse me, can I have you’re number, I’ve lost mine!”. Oh ho that’s the guud stuff! Also “are you from the Caribbean, cos you’re Jamaican me crazy!”, for some reason I have to say that in an accent, still awesome thought!

Monday (12th)

This week has started interesting anyway, on Monday I ended up getting some brew down myself and ended up hanging round with Lee, Rob as well as some of Robs work mates, which ended up leading to getting rather …. bamboozled, let’s just say. Accidentally, well kinda deliberately spilt an entire pint all over Rob, which if anything was amusing! Was it deliberate Ben … well as much as I’d love to say it was, and how it would be pretty epic, it was an accident, sorry! Anywho, Rob, Grandad Lee … Rob again, his twin and a lass called Lorna and I had quite an interesting night to say the least.
After been out quite a while, they were all on about going to Robs house for a few (The new Rob) which I was against at first as I was feeling pretty tired and in all fairness had to get up in morning, more on that later, but all was well. Had a few laughs, not bad folk to be honest, hopefully Rob doesn’t poison them like he has to us and ruin their lives lol. One thing we all agreed on by the end of the night was if we ever had to sort Rob and the new Rob out, we’d just call Rob, nob ed, and the other just Rob, works out easy, and everyone knows which ones which lol. But yeah, interesting night, spent more than I wanted to, but what can you do eh!

My College Predicament

As you may or may not know, after completing my previous course at College I applied for a HE course (Higher Education) at the same centre. The course I applied for had a few additional advantages over doing it somewhere else, notably the only 2 day weeks, leaving time for a part time job for example, and the much lower tuition fees in comparison to Universities. Anyway, applied for the course, did the amazingly easy to use (pfft lol) UCAS system to apply for it, and during the holidays got a yes from both UCAS and the centre itself that the course was as good as mine. Anyway, after receiving a letter for the enrolment day, I turn up only to be pretty much turned away from the course tutor who, in her opinion, thought I was not ready for the course, I know! Anyway, obviously quite shocked by the new development, it turned out that she had been trying to contact me over the holidays to let me know about some new conditions … we got nothing by the way, but she claimed that all she got was an answer machine and doesn’t leave messages, which is quite frankly ridiculous. So, at the end of the day I’d no choice but to go home. I rang in to College to ask to talk to her and somehow persuade her to change her mind, thinking I was in the wrong somehow and/or thus circumstances happen often, but it wasn’t until I got some Careers help until I realised that wasn’t the case. The following week I went to see someone for some advise, basically to get some quick advise as next step was pretty much going to have to be a job, as it was waaay too late to apply elsewhere like she suggested at College.
Anyway, I went to visit a Careers advisor who quite frankly after hearing what had happened to me, couldn’t even believe what I was telling her and got some very interesting developments out of that visit. Not only had the College gone against its contract for denying a student entry in to a course after receiving a written confirmation, there was also some legal complications, ooo it had it all. I have to right now thank that Careers women, she was incredible and told College a thing or too over phone, I was like …. sh** lol, she was so demanding and controlling over phone.
Long story brought short, I was later contacted by the top dogs at College basically explaining due to the circumstances if I still wanted the course it was not in their rights to stop me enrolling and going on the course … funny how some people change their minds suddenly isn’t it. Anyway, I’m on now, we’ll see how this year goes won’t we.
It makes you think though doesn’t it, if I’d of done nothing they’d of got away with that, I truly believe they thought I was just gonna walk away, I couldn’t do that, if anything, due to how late they denied me entry I’d of been f***ed anyway. So there you go, learned a lesson their, never accept a no, fight for your position.

Attempted Burglary

So, if the stress of the problems with College wasn’t enough, on the morning I was awaiting a phone call from College about what the situation was on enrolling again, on Thursday 15th September, I’ll remember that date for two reasons now, I awoke to find my Dad said down looking in no way ready for work, which he would of been at that time, and a back door with no key hole anymore … well there was a hole, but no key placement at all. They didn’t get in, which was probably due to the technique you had to use to open the door as it was f***ed, but the one thing that would of stopped them even if the door was in working order was our jammers. Can’t remember why or when we first got the jammers, just some strong additional locking for the inside, we’ve got them on both the front and the back door and they saved anyone getting in, so yeah, can’t not recommend them enough. The Police think they were after car keys to steal the car, either way, who knows what they wanted, all we know is, they didn’t get ought. AND, where was Colin in all of this lol. It was the same day I went to College for my second enrolment which actually led to me getting on the course, at 3PM. We got the door fixed the day after on Friday, got a College timetable to start the following Monday and yeah, that was that.

Home Alone Week

If I’m glad about one thing, its that the attempted burglary didn’t happen the week after lol. But hey, one day after the door was fixed, everyone was off on holiday, and I mean everyone this time, both sisters and partners, Mum, Dad, the lot, thank you! This meant a whole week of purely no distractions and enjoyment. Things kinda kicked of instantly on the week off with a dinner party.

-Dinner Party

Arranged fully literally the previous day whilst at the duck at Grandad Lees, me and the crew were gonna have a dinner party. It was originally going to be filmed as a kinda ‘Come Dine With Me’ spoof, but that never happened, which I can’t say I cared about really. The day started with some preporations, purchased some more supplied of food for the event and brought them back to my house. The day didn’t kick off to a great start when I got a phone call saying Kai and Jess couldn’t make it which was a big let down to say the least, and was incredibly relieved when they changed their mind to come. So, it was me, Rob, Grandad Lee, Kai and Jess all facing my amazing cuisine.

The starter was rather basic and very simple to make ….. its Toast alright lol. If I may so myself, I think I make some pretty nice toast. Everyone seemed to enjoy the starter, although lets be honest, thats a pretty safe and normal thing to eat.
The main course was my specialty, Microwave Fish Fingers, yummy! 7 Birds Eye fish fingers in a microwave for 1:40 (on an 800watt microwave) each side, spend no longer than 15 seconds turning every fish finger around, then after the ping of the other side, your done, set! Sprinkle with salt and you’ve got a pretty nice main. Seen as I was serving for 4 and only had 1 microwave, everyone had 3 and a half Fish Fingers.
The desert was strange because Kai brought in a Cheesecake lol. But anyway, the desert I planned was of course, Scones! Lovely.
Drinks include Lucozade and …. no thats it. If you want to go to the extreme you can try what Kai had, a nice Lucotini, strong stuff that is! ……… OK, its Lucozade in a shot glass, but hey!

The rest of the night was great, Jess appreciated lets just say, my shirt and tie, I thought why not really lol. I’ve been trying out Windows 8 on the iMac on Boot Camp which Rob had a look at and tried getting on his crappy netbook. Then, we all had Scones whilst watching Craig Ferguson’s ‘A Wee Bit O Revolution’. The night was a success I thought as I did the look you do sometimes whilst hosting a night, looked around saw everyone laughing … OK it was at the stand up show, but ya know, the night felt a success. ….. or so I thought, we’ll get on to that later, don’t want to ruin my mood typing this. Anyway, when Rob, Kai and Jess had gone for reason we’ll get on to later as I said. Me and Lee decided to look through some things online, why not eh. We ended up watching some comedy to kinda cheer us up from what had happened, then spoke about that needed to be done. Aside from that, the night was great, thanks to those who turned up.

-Monday … might of been Sunday, who knows eh!

On Monday(?), Rob and Lee came down, mainly for some laughs, Rob apologised for the Dinner Parties rough ending lets just say, yeeahh! I decided to forget about it for the night. Had a laugh, few drinks which led to watching some of the worst songs ever in music video form on YouTube … which then led to the weirdest craze. We ended up watching Disney music in different languages, yep! It was pretty awesome to be honest. Then, Rob had to go due to work in the morning, then me and Lee continued finding weird random content like we always do, and that was that.

-College

It was sad that I had to go to College on a home alone week, and was quite nervous going their to be honest based on all that happened, but you know something, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. I know its only the first week, but had a pretty ok week to be honest. Ended up going to Leeds Uni on the Friday as whilst I’m no actually at Leeds Uni, I am a student based on the fact my College is partnered with them and I’m doing a HE course. Either way, quite a boring day, but hey, gonna get a Leeds Met card so I can use their facilities if I want, even if I never go their it gives me a nice Apple Store discount lol.

-Visiting my Grandma & Grandad

It had been a while since I’d last visited my Grandma and Grandad and I was pleasantly surprised when I got a phone call from my Grandma on Tuesday asking if I wanted to go to theirs for tea sometime in the week, to which I said I’d come the next day. And the next day after retuning all the TVs thanks to the big Digital Switch Over in the UK, I went and had tea at my Grandmas & Grandads. It wasn’t nice I’m sorry to say lol, didn’t say that obviously, but hey. It was very nice to see them anyway, ended up watching Midsomer Murders, phworr lol, then went home. I ended up going as well the next day, last Thursday, and happily had a lovely tea, had some bluddy lovely Yorkshire Pudding. Then after a few laughs about not been able to use an electric Salt dispenser, we watched some Billy Connoly on TV, love that guy. Unfortunately due to going to Leeds Met on the Friday I couldn’t come the next day, but they were just happy I’d come over as was I to be honest, I was great to see them.

-A Friday Drink and a laugh with Kai & Jess

Sounds like a crap movie title that lol. But hey, on Friday, after going to Leeds Met and had some lovely chippies, later that night I went out to pub to meet up with Kai for the last time in quite a while. When I arrived their, no one was their which annoyed me abit, the pub was busy and I was a bit late as well, but no one there, I was like … wwwell lol. But had a few walks up and down, then gave him a text, and like everything, as you try to fix something, it fixes itself, there they were. Had a few drinks, which happily they bought most of lol, and just had a really good laugh. Completely forgot the name of the other guy that came and chatted with us for a while, but he seemed pretty awesome, but was soon gone. We left the Wickham which we were at for quite a few, then stopped off at the always last stop, the Spoons. Had a few their, been it Friday it shut later, which was great as the night was going so well to stop at 12, was a shame though when it had to end, mostly as it will be a good while till I see Kai. and I’m not sure about Jess. I told them about seeing Johnny English Reborn, when it comes out in the Cinema, and that we were all planning on going together when it came out, which Jess said she would love to come with us, so we’ll have to arrange that. Well, until next time eh Kai, who knows may see Jess before then, would be nice.

End of The Home Alone Week

And that was it, my week home alone! Had a really great week (considering the one thing) so thanks to all that made it a really awesome week!

The One Thing

Now, one thing that has been patterning itself throughout this blog has been the dinner party at my house had a one thing we said we’d mention later, well, welcome to later lol. Rob and his girlfriend, if you call it that recently have really been annoying the whole lot of us, plainly because, whatever is wrong with her, or wrong with them, she always has (only recently btw) this absolutely unbearable attitude, and she just turns up to ruin a whole night, it happened on Kai’s original leaving do, which was the main reason I invited Kai to my Dinner Party to try and to a take two, and guess what, she ruined that too. Think we’re all at the moment just thinking Rob get rid of her, he evidently doesn’t like her either recently, we’re all just pissed off at the moment with her, and all of Rob’s quite repetitive crap excuses on why its not over. So, there you go, a rough bitchy end to my blog lol. I think its fair to say I’m not speaking on behalf of just myself here. Now, I’ve had to put up with many friends girlfriends, or boyfriends to some women I know, and if I don’t truly like them I don’t show it and socialise for the friends sake, and I think most people are like this, but we all just can’t take it anymore, so you know what, we’re not!

Ought Else

To try and not end on a completely err… booyacasha mood lol, some pretty interesting stuff have happened recently, I’m still addicted to Jeeves and Wooster, in fact I’ll be watching another after this blog, bluddy love it. Prob not the language they’d use, but hey, times have changed, but it’s still amusing to see in to the past, and how can you not love the combination of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
I’ve also been trying out Windows 8 Developer Preview, did a blog showing you where to get it, its very different which is good, whether thats a good or bad thing you’ll have to wait until my first impressions review.
Oh, and seen as I can’t think of anything else to say, just to let you know my updated Peoples of Awesomness list comes in at the end of every month, so the 30th of this month, some interesting switches on their I’d expect.
And my Mum came back from her holiday in Mallorca, but came back with the most awful cat ornament, think she was having one of her moments when she thought it was a good idea to buy that. [Photo]

Anyway, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

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Platform Change?

Overview

How’ve you been?

Number 1 most important thing? Oh please go on… I dunno

What have you got to tell us then?

Woah, hang on a minute, 5 month delay? Come on

So, yeah!

College

Randomness with Jess

The Friday Night Confusion

Saturday Breakdown

Ought Else

College

Lee’s Birthday

Bumping in to History

More randomness with Jess

Ought Else

Last Week

Christmas Eve…Eve

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

Boxing Day

Ought Else

Mon 28th /Tue 29th November

Wednesday 30th November

Thursday 1st December

Friday 2nd December

Weekend 3rd – 4th December

Monday 5th December

Tuesday 6th December

Wednesday 7th December

Thursday 8th December

Friday 9th December

Saturday 10th December

Sunday 11th December

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Today

Last Week

Monday 7th November

Tuesday 8th November

Wednesday 9th November

Thursday 10th November

Friday 11th November – Remembrance Day

Saturday 12th November – The Day Lee Died … nearly

Sunday 13th November – Rubbish

Monday 14th November – Just Make it End

Tuesday 15th November – Today

Uni

Johnny English Reborn

The many trips out.

The Scones Chat up line.

Ought Else

College

Rest of the week

Graham Coxon

Saturday’s Journey

Ought Else

The Lee…ness Continues

Monday (12th)

My College Predicament

Attempted Burglary

Home Alone Week

-Dinner Party

-Monday … might of been Sunday, who knows eh!

-College

-Visiting my Grandma & Grandad

-A Friday Drink and a laugh with Kai & Jess

End of The Home Alone Week

The One Thing

Ought Else

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