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Blog Sunday 21st August 2011

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Well, its been two weeks since my last blog which is already against the whole new schedule thingy I was supposed to be doing, oh joy I’ve failed already.

Who Needs Social Networks?

I challenged myself this week by going a whole week without social networks, in which I’m still in the middle of actually. Last Tuesday I thought to myself on why I actually use social network sites such as FaceBook and I came up with 3 reasons.

  1. Friends – We’re all nosy bastards really aren’t we
  2. News/Sharing – If I see ought interesting, a video, some amusing news I’ll share it, as do others.
  3. Love – When you fancy or love someone you obviously check out their profile all the time, but when there already with someone its no longer that fun to check out their latest lovey dovey statuses to some other twat thats likely gonna hurt them in the future is it, but hey.
Number 3 was likely the main reason I haven’t missed FaceBook and beyond, and lets be honest, most if not all of what your friends post aren’t that interesting. Friends either post something of interest, about their relationships which who cares. That they aren’t feeling well, in which you mostly don’t care and find it amusing someone is feeling worse than you are, but depending on who it is, parts of you care and fake support. That they are feeling amazing and happy, to which no one gives a damn, assholes lol. The rest is just utter bollocks, so yeah, love social network sites.

Well, the end of my week of no social network sites ends on the start of Tuesday to which I likely won’t care, but hey, interesting to think. How much to do you use social network sites, could you go a week without any social networks. Let us know in the comments.

RKUK Media

This week has been the big launch of all the RKUK Media services and I must say its all gone rather well, been posting a tonne of technology posts on The Tech Show which has been awesome, Pokemon Black and White is now scheduled on RKUK Media every Sunday at 8PM, and when it returns from the unfortunate land of re-runs in the US on CBS, we’ll have the awesomeness of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson back on RKUK Media. Well, we’ve also got this unfortunately for you, yep, my blog, but hey, I know you love it lol.

Ought Else

Well, we’re still in the hols and unfortunately we’re all still pretty much skint, but we’re not letting that get us down … well I’m not anyway. I’ve been creating some more incredible creations on the iPad for the next amazing Damn Crows tracks, well I think they’re alright, but thats as far as its probably safe to go lol. But, there’s luckily been a few exeptions from the world of relaxing, sleeping, and doing anything you like …. sounds awful this holiday so far doesn’t it lol, but no, its always good to leave the house now and then, and this week I’ve been leaving the house to go all the way to …. another house at the bottom of the street!!!

I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, my god Ben thats a bit far for you, well, the main reason is Rob had the house free all week so we all took advantage of that. Although, nothing really happened like usual like, but hey. It wasn’t a bad few days, but definitely nought special, no offence lol.

Had a few trips to the pub, which we’re great, as a man its always good to have a pint. Used TESCO’s amazing Change Machine of epicness, got conned from it so Grandad Lee, as a worker of TESCO, threw some money in to even things up to a note, thanks Lee. I wouldn’t normally be bothered but it came out at £9.92 … I mean come on, make 8p add on pleeeeeassse, but anyway, Lee evened it out. Then me, Lee and Caddy when ter pub for one.

Apart from that, nought much to report really. I’ll probably to a pointlessly epic return to FaceBook on Tuesday and pretend that everyone has noticed I’ve gone and have missed me, when lets face it, no one has really give a crap, but hey what do ya know!

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Well thats all of this incredible blogness. A personal blog from moi every Sunday … thats the plan anyway.

E-Ya Later

Ben

Holiday Blog Sunday 7th August 2011

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Having not posted anything throughout the month of July you’re probably thinking my god Ben you are just taking the piss in the laws of laziness, well … kinda, but its the holidays so everyone is kinda occupied and of course I’ve been undergoing a massive revamp of the RKUK Media website so things have been a bit hectic but we’ll soldier on.

I know the holiday isn’t over yet but I thought I needed to add a blog basically just to remind people that I’m alive.

This blog is going to be as brief as possible, not only because I want to get this blog over with, and the fact I’ve forgotten alot of things, but because some things I don’t want to talk about too much to be honest.

Damn Crows

When it comes to life in the world of randomness we’ve produced some new epic tracks on the Damn Crows front which is awesome, the songs may not be in everyones mind, but I have to say the songs are getting better everytime, which probably isn’t saying much, but its saying something. I’ve made an interesting decision to cover a song by Mt Desolation as an upcoming B-Side, yeah, thats gonna go well lol. We don’t even know what the next single is gonna be or have any plans yet but it will happen soon, probably.

Love and Hateness

In the world of love and hateness, the last few months have been incredibly up and incredible down soon after, and the cycle has kept itself going on repeat mode. This has probably been a bit hard for me recently and has got me a bit stressed privately, the way I prefer to keep it hence the rather briefness of this blog. We’ve had the ultimate highs, spending time together and expressing love for each other making me the happiest man ever, some fantastic chats, just some of the best times of my entire life. And there’s been lows, which have made me the saddest man ever. This is what love does to you isn’t it. The mood right now is … kinda the middle, but ya know. I’ve noticed everytime I add a blog at good times it somehow jinxes it and something buggers up, so I’ve waited until we’re in a not brilliant time to hope that things look up in the future eh. Knowing my life, logic will notice what I’m doing and fuck it up anyway, but we’ll see.

Ought Else

Everything else has been typical holiday season, waking up late, feeling quite lazy, going oh god do I have to go out now, going out after and still thinking the same, but hey, had a few laughs suppose.

Joined Google+ as well, even though time has passed when they said it would go public and it still hasn’t. Have to say though, a month on, it started with a boom, made records, everyone was wow … but if it doesn’t go public really soon, then it will be forgotten! Even with Google behind it, it will be forgotten if they don’t hurry up. Anywho, my Google+ is here!

Revamped RKUK Media, been a big thing this actually. It took some time, but RKUK Media now looks a whole lot cleaner, content is delivered a whole lot better in my opinion. So RKUK Media is now much better for the visitors, but its also tonnes better for us. One big problem that was heating up on RKUK Media was the cost to run it. We spent way over $200 a year to keep RKUK Media running, thats approaching $20 a month. But, with our new revamp, we switched providers and we’re now paying less than $20 a year, now thats not even 70cents a month, so we’re obviously very happy with this. So to the future of RKUK Media I say.

Also got everything for the coming two years sorted as well, courses successfully applied for, money has been sorted, so everything is looking pretty sorted out at the moment. In fact everything is going pretty alright at the moment in my life, its just a shame that the one thing I would like to be going perfectly never does, but thats just life been its asshole self to me, and whether you believe in it or not, there is not a God in my life, if there is a God, he’s not paying much attention to me. I know that might sound selfish but seriously, some areas of my life have been hell recently and I have really struggled to keep going and put a smile on my face, I’d like to say things are getting better, and in some areas they are, but they are still some things really making me quite sad at the moment which I hope start to lift up soon.

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Anyway, thats as brief as I can ever go, I will be back to a new schedule of blogs soon, which is gonna be interesting, but until then, thats all for this one. E-Ya Later

Ben


http://rkukmedia.co.uk

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Blog Monday 12th July 2010

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Well whilst nothings really happened today, quite a few things have happened recently which I might as well mention, seen as this is a blog! Anyway.

Barbecue from a Bucket!
As you know its currently the holidays, so my mind really can’t remember any dates of anything, which was the original reason for having a blog, but hey, whatcha gonna do! So err… some time in the past week, after playing the entire Gorillaz Glastonbury set, which let me just say I didn’t mind to be honest. Anyway, back to the .. thing. James knocked on the door and invited me to the entire trip of a few yards to Rob’s for a barbecue, on the way finding out Rob had rung me, missed calls give it away. As usual for Rob’s barbecues I never have anything on the menu, basically because its well, not safe, lets face it. And he calls himself a chef. Joking aside, I mean only 4 people got food poisoning, LOL. Anyway. During the night more people joined the excitement, first was the missis, Rob’s that is, Helen arrived with er… someone (proof of how good I am at remembering names). Weird. I normally remember womens names, but hey! She was gone quickly anyway, whilst Helen stayed the night, yeah just like that song from Ghosts except in no way what so ever. Anyway, whilst enjoying the company of the current company, more company arrived! Ben arrived, not me obviously, with his sister? and someone else. Just like the random person that arrived when Helen did, they soon left. (OK, next time I’m bringing a notepad and paper) And that was the crowd. Throughout the night we randomly enjoyed Rob’s tent which was out for a reason of the fact that he was going on a trip that required a tent.

Tom’s Birthday … thing.
(Now this I can remember as it was well only two days ago) Now, Saturdays are rarely entertaining if I’m been honest, in fact the entire weekend seems to be for some reason the dullest part of the week, so it was refreshing to get some fun on in the weekend. I was invited, by Caddy, to Tom’s birthday do. Tom, Tom, you remember Tom, from that … yeah that guy, yeah, yes, him with the … yeah him! So now we’ve that sorted out. I met with Caddy at Grandads (Lee), yeah been a while. After almost been murdered by his dog and exhausted by the hill in which he lives atop, we went to the meeting spot, Weatherspoons, which was naturally busy as the World Cup match was on. Don’t know why they do 3rd and 4th place if you ask me, what do you win? Anyway, after almost finishing our first pint we were kinda wondering where everyone was, but they were all eating, so we then went to the place in which they were eating at … obviously. Tom, his girlfriend Sophie and Matty were there, equalling the crew for the night. We headed to our local (if you call a mile away a local), The Punch Boal. One advantage of the World Cup is the price of alcohol, yeyy reduction. Lee was rather more interested in the Football as he had £250 on Germany winning 4 – 2, which never happened. As the night went by multiple random banter went on, including everyone getting licked by a random drunk guy, which was lets face it, not enjoyable. Also throughout the night, by 3 random young girls who were sneaking out for a reasons unknown said amongst many things that I looked like Harry Potter, which whilst seemed to be aimed as an insult, to say that Daniel Radcliff was named sexiest male in film in 2007, I’m pretty honoured. So as the night ended, a friend of Toms got extremely drunk and basically ended up half naked showing himself off to passing cars, and even them random 3 girls enjoyed the display, to add to that spraying cream out of a window on to him. You can’t write this stuff. We all then got a lift home by one of Toms mates, except Caddy who got a taxi, and Lee who … wasn’t there. Kinda felt a bit sorry for Lee as we sped past him, but hey what can you do. In all fairness their was no room left. Although in a way I kinda wanted some really bad chips that you enjoy when drunk so a side of me didn’t want a lift, but oh well!
All in all not a bad night.

RKUK Shop
I’m very happy to announce we’ve launched a shop, and its bluddy awesome and can only get better. I’m working on more designs for RKUK’s logo, and after some negotiating we can get those all-wanted Damn Crows t-shirts on their. Here’s the link to the shop.

Ought else
I’ve been watching Season 5 of Two and a Half Men and it rocks, finished watching it yesterday, bluddy hilarious especially the CSI piss-take episode, you can watch that ep on MegaVideo here if you want, worth it!

I also got D-Sides by Gorillaz, bluddy love it, I love the way Gorillaz instead of putting b-sides on singles they release albums, for their first album ‘Gorillaz’, they released ‘G-Sides’, and for ‘Demon Days’ they released ‘D-Sides’, I’m looking forward to ‘P-Sides’ when that arrives as their latest album is ‘Plastic Beach’. I’m loving the song ’68 State’, that guitar rift is just awesome!

Also T-Mobile finally released pricing for the iPhone 4, been the last network to announce deals for the phone. And, whilst the wait was incredibly exciting … it turns out T-Mobile has taken over Orange as being the most expensive network you could go on, whilst Tesco Mobile is cheapest, O2 has the cheapest 18 month contract and 3 has the cheapest 24 month contract.

Well thats all for y’all today

E-Ya Later

Ben


http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Apple iPhone 3G – 1 Year Review

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Apple iPhone 3G 1 Year Review

In 2007 Apple Inc introduced the first iPhone, but not only that, but a whole new product industry for the company, since then Apple have introduced the iPhone 3G (2008) and the current iPhone 3GS (2009). Apple are expected to release the 4th iPhone in July but before we get in to all that, here’s a 1 year review of my iPhone 3G.
Introduction
I was rather late in to the iPhone world, probably because I was one of the ones in the “not quite convinced” crowd and laughed at the ones queueing up at O2 and Apple Stores on the launch of both the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. It wasn’t until I got an iPod Touch for Christmas 2008 that settled things. I also think this will be the same with the iPad but for more people. I think people won’t be convinced until they actually use one themselves then I think they’ll be sold.
First Impressions (Brief)
After having an iPod Touch, the iPhone instantly felt big, but I actually understood what Steve Jobs said at WWDC that it felt good in your hands, because it did! When I got my iPhone 3G, iPhone OS 2.2 was already out, the last version of iPhone Software 2.0, although I did notice, not a large, but quite a small speed-drop in performance from the iPod Touch (2nd Gen) that I was used to using, I blamed the fact that the processor had more to do, as in cellular data etc.
iPhone Software 3.0
The worst thing that ever happened to all iPhones was iPhone Software 3.0, but annoyingly the best thing that happened to iPhones was iPhone Software 3.0. It was great because it introduced some amazing features (some that should of been their in the first place, and were their in the SAGEM my700x the iPhone replaced in my life) including Copy and Paste, MMS (… yeh I know), as well as some quite nifty extras as well. But for iPhones and the iPhone 3G it ment major drop in performance, we’re talking bad here. This has been making the iPhone 3G unbearable and we do think this is done deliberately for users to get the iPhone 3G[S], but we’re not going to be doing that very quickly as it doesn’t do much, if anything, more than the iPhone 3G.
A real let down from Apple there!
Wear and Tare
When I first got the iPhone 3G, probably everyone who’d seen it said things like ‘Well, ya better not drop it’, and stuff like that, but actually it deals with drops rather well. The iPhone 3G has had its fair share of “falls” in the past, landing on marble to concrete and still leaving quite an un-noticeable mark to be honest. So, yeh the iPhone deals very well with wear and tare. The only problem I have, which I had since day one to be honest is the silent button switcher on the side, keeps going on and off by itself which has actually lead to its biggest mark of scratching due to be chucking it across the room after the alarm didn’t go off as it was on silent.
Overview
The iPhone 3G has been a great device, not the best phone I’ve had in my life thanks to its major lack of rather basic features such as Bluetooth OBEX file transfer, a front-facing 3G camera, memory card slot to name but a few. Amazingly Apple still haven’t dealt with even one of these faults even on the 3GS, which is annoying, only video capture, but we can all get iVideoCamera from the App Store for that now. Still rather annoying which is the only reason it gets a 4.
4*5  - Great device let down by some actually rather embarrassing setbacks.

Blog Monday 4th January 2010 – First Blog of 2010

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Welcome to my first blog of 2010. Since my last blog, Christmas has happened, my less than epic new year celebration and my first day of College … kinda.

Christmas
Christmas Day was always going to be a bit less of a Christmas Day based on the fact this is the first year I’m not getting something big for Christmas, but I actually still had a sack full. I got 5 deodorant sets, OK gonna take the hint, that was quite offensive, although at the same time I was running out, some clothing and some shoes, oh and of course some chocolates. My main present was my Apple Care for my MacBook which was happily very easy to install, insert disc, load site link, enter box code and Mac serial number, WA-LAH! It also comes with a piece of software called ‘TechTools Deluxe’, which checks and diagnoses any hardware problems, which is always useful to have, might as well install that once the disc is in, part from that, once you’ve done that you probably literally will never need that disc ever again, seriously. And that was it really, part from some boring Christmas Dinners which is to be expected.

New Year
New Year in my opinion is the most pointless celebrated thing ever, woopty-du, a new year. So, as you can imagine I never really pull out the stops throughout the countdown, in fact I didn’t pull out any stops, although I did do something which is quite extraordinarily awesome, I’ve added all the YouTube videos from RKUK Entertainment to RKUK Media, but no not a boring embed to experience the bad YouTube player on another site, oh no, you can use our player, nice!

First Day of College … kinda
Well, today, being Monday, was the first day of College. I actually woke up rather well this morning considering the fact its a Monday and I’d a full day ahead of me, but oh well. I was surprised how warm it was, then I realised it was still inside, outside it was -5ºc, which is quite cold y’know. After I found my things I set off. Have to admit I have been missing my music listening on the bus, my music listening, ie through earphones, not normal bus noise that just makes you sick. Anyway, arrived at College, did the 50/50 guess to which of the only two rooms I ever go in for College, then found out that we weren’t going in that room because the heating wasn’t working in certain rooms and we maybe going home. Talk about giving us hope, we were then sent in to what was apparently a heated room, yeah right, then in an hours time, we were sent home, so at 10:20 (ish) I was on the bus home, this was after heading to Dewsbury to get a months pass, oh and check if anywhere in Dewsbury sell Bacon Fries, its my new obsession, why, cause they are for whatever reason, rare!
But that was it for my first day at College, hopefully the rest of this term are like this, as I hate College, I’d rather work from home to be honest anyway!

Selection DVDs
Oh and I’m going to be filling in the gaps in 2010 to put all the rest of the older Selection DVDs on RKUK Media, April is the expected finishing time, so far, as of this blog, 1-21, 27, 28, 29, 59 – present are currently on, we’re filling in the gaps. Selections 20 – 26 are to be done this week, 20 and 21 have been done so far.

Anything Else…
Er.. No.

Well thats it for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Saturday 19th December 2009

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Well, its the holidays, more precisely, the Christmas Holidays, oh yes! Whilst I may have made that last sentence sound like I’m totally exited about the christmas holidays well quite frankly I’m not this year, why? well because of the children meaning of christmas isn’t really that effective this year, ie. the presents. This year my main present for christmas is Apple Care, not that I don’t want it, of course I want an extended warranty up to 3 years meaning it will end March 2011 for my MacBook, also with additional add-on tools to help me diagnose any issue I have along the way, but y’know, its more exciting when you get something you can feel, touch, take out etc.
However, next year I’m going to be getting quite a lot of cool stuff anyway so thats fine, I’m going to be getting a Mac Mini for my birthday, well, I’m saving up for it, so I’ll be getting stuff for it, Soul Silver a month after then a new iPhone when it comes out, oh yes, me is all planned. The funny thing is my parents think I’m very un-controlling with my money, yeah.
Anyway, whilst Joe won the X Factor last week I can confirm based on reports of the Saturday sales that he is more or less guaranteed to be number …. 2 tomorrow, based on reports today, unless a miracle happens which could only happen with the X Factor. Yep a song that was crap in 1992 is beating actually not a bad song, as I said before, pity it had to be a Miley Cyrus, who is the second worst thing to come from America to our country after black music.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I’ve added a wallpaper to RKUK Media to add to the white RKUK Media logo, and trust me that is as Christmasy as we are getting, I mean, come on, we’ve got a christmas section featuring pretty much all Christmas Songs we can think of what more do you want!
One thing that is cool that I’ve added to RKUK Media is a Mac version of No$GBA, we are currently the only place that has this, seriously, feels good to be exclusive, check it out by going to the RKUK tab at the top and selecting Downloads from the tab, this is on RKUK Media by the way.

But that all thats mattered to me since my last blog, so errr E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

Blog Sunday 13th December 2009

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Its really kinda my fault I haven’t had a blog for nearly a month, so its only right I rush to it before its too late.
Since my last blog I’ve had headache with EMA, missed three weeks of EMA because they decided to, I don’t know, not pay me, but finally got it sorted out last week, so hopefully that should be it. But all in all the last few weeks have dragged, just because college is getting crapper and crapper, just starting to drag, can’t wait to leave to be honest.

A Christmas Carol
Yesterday I went to the cinemas to see A Christmas Carol, the new one with Jim Carrey, and if I’m going to be perfectly honest I thought it wasn’t that good. If you like Jim Carrey you have such high expectations, but I thought it was quite frankly, well not terrible, it definitely was the best Christmas Carol I’ve ever seen, but nothing special. So I’d give a 3/5, sorry Carrey, but you’ve done better. If you want a good Jim Carrey Christmas Movie stick to the Grinch, which is now in Blu-Ray, Wooo!

X-Factor
Like many including over 10 million who voted, I’ve just found out that the winner of the X Factor 2009 was Joe, and I’m so glad, firstly cause its a male winner, and secondly unlike Leon Jackson, he’s actually a good singer, I’ll be buying Joe’s album when it comes out, but not the winners song though. I am a firm hater of Miley Cyrus, why? Well, where do I start. She loves herself, she’s a crap singer and actress and, well I think I’ve said it all there! So, yeh, big fan of Joe, so yeh, happy about that!

Mac Mini
Next year I’ll be getting a Mac Mini, so err, yeh. Just thought I’d mention that. Hopefully Apple release iLife 2010 so it will have the edge over the aluminium MacBook I’m typing on. I’ll be getting the top spec Mac mini and of course I’ll be doing a review of it when I get it of course.

Life in General
Nothing really has happened in life really, yeh sorry to disappoint you with my disappointing life.

Upcoming to RKUK Media
1. Your Future Mobile
Your Future Mobile has returned to RKUK Media and this time we’re allowing anyone to submit reviews about there handsets, so get your reviews in, all you need to do is to send an e-mail to rkukonline@gmail.com with the phone name, first impressions, pros and cons and your mark out of 10. Simple as, oh and leave a name otherwise we’ll simply put, review by, then your email address, so leave an alias name of your name.

2. Videos in 2010
RKUK Media are going to create more videos than ever before in 2010, so yeh look out for that. In February, The Show live will also launch with Ben.

3. Return of Marriland
RKUK removed Marriland from the top tab, well after a little message from Marriland’s Twitter, he will continue to uploading videos from Tuesday, which is good. Marriland will replace the R-Browser tab as R-Browser is now discontinued.

4. Google Adsense
Whilst this may seem like something which would only effect us, and more adverts may seem like something bad for RKUK Media, but we’re going to be adding adverts only on certain pages about the page sections, for instance, mobile phone adverts on Your Future Mobile etc. Plus, if we start to make money on RKUK Media, then we will get bigger and better.

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And thats all for this blog, I’ll be returning to my old routine with the blogs, as in atleast one a week. I’ll also be focusing alot on TechnoBuffalo and more.

E-Ya Later folks

Ben

http://rkukmedia.ning.com

http://www.technobuffalo.com/BenAtRKUK

Blog Wednesday 19th August 2009 – MacBook Down + Another Bike Journey + France Trip Info

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MacBook Down
Well, its not down, but takes 6minutes to start so yes problem, even if I get the best brand of computers there is I still end up with the dud one, you know what I completely give up when it comes to technology, to be honest I’m surprised my iPhone hasn’t collapsed and blown up into some sort of plastic matter, but phones have never been a problem to me so I’m not gonna start to jinx that am I. Basically Apple should stop supplying MacBooks with Hitachi hard drives, seriously thats all, simple right. Believe it or not your hard drive is alot more than just storing your files in your C drive or the Macintosh HD, everything you run, even just turning the computer is using the hard drive, the hard drive is the most used hardware appliance of computing, which is why its so important to have a good one. The best hard drives around are not the HDD ones, as they are just getting old and operating systems are so demanding now that they can’t cope, so they need improving, obviously the 7200 versions are an improvement but to be honest its better turning to the new face on the block, the SSD. Solid state drives are, for one expensive, but are more or less invincible when it comes to been used in computers these days, trust me if it wasn’t going to add £200 to the price, I’d of chosen SSD option for my MacBook any day, and you know what I wouldn’t of had this problem, in fact looking back on all the problems I’ve had with the MacBook I wouldn’t of ever needed to phone Apple or anything, now thats annoying! Anyway, ringing Apple tomorrow, if not Friday at max, need an hair cut as well so, yeh!

Bike Ride with Rob
I love bikes, no really I do, its just I don’t have much time for them these days, lots to do, people to see, well, maybe not the second one, but anyway. It became apparent that its been quite a while since I road a bike from my last bike ride where I twice fell off forgetting how to ride, one time was going down a steep hill and I almost got run over by a big FedEx delivery van, yeh, not fun! Now, as I mentioned in my last blog I road on Rob’s Dad bike before as mine has had a puncher for the last million years or so, which went kinda OK, it was a heavy beefy bike but I coped! Anyway, this time we decided to do things a big differently, basically his Dad was back from hols so that bike wasn’t an option, so I got mine and we pumped it up and checked how it was! Amazingly, after a simple pump up it was fine. Took it round the front for a little test ride, then we started to have problems, something on the chain was catching on my jeans, rephrase, my purchased two days a go jeans. So, we thought we’d fixed it, we hadn’t, so all the way I kept getting caught with this thing that we didn’t even know what, which everytime put me to a hault, which not only made the entire journey more tiring, it actually made it longer … for me, so I had to figure out a way of picking up speed whilst at the same time not catching this annoying chain thing, and this was up a hill! I’m telling ya when I got to the top I was so tired I could faint. It wasn’t cause I couldn’t do it, because I did it the last time, it was simply the fact that the bike during its sleep in the shed was plotting lifelong hatred plans for me, and they were bluddy working! It quickly became apparent that I needed a new bike, funny that eh! I had no option but to ride in gear 21 as that was top gear and that seemed to be the only gear where it didn’t catch as my feet weren’t going round as fast. Then to add insult to already injury, the saddle suddenly became a very uncomfortable thing to sit on, lets leave it at that, why are bike saddles so uncomfortable?! Anyway, after taking a diversion amongst a waaay too risky and long roundabout we made it in one piece at IKEA, yeh, all that for IKEA! And was greeted by Ben and Grandad, great … I think I collapsed when I got off the bike, I was just wasted! Anyway, seen as I had no strength left in me, walking was a struggle and I seemed to physically show it, then I had to endure the most awfullest smell on the planet, the IKEA cafe, how they are still running I don’t know, the gravy looks like Dog sick, and I’ve seen Dog sick, again thanks to Rob. So when we finally left that sh** hole, we came to the IKEA hotdog stand, hotdogs that are so cheap and nasty they end up being the best tasting thing ever!!! After a hotdog we plotted leaving. Of course because Ben and Grandad are just lazy c**ts, their words not mine, they took what they came in, a taxi, whilst me and Rob left in the sh** I came in. Half way back the chain jammed, which was just the same time we noticed Ben & Grandad pass, obviously! Anyway got home and had a well earned pint, trust me I needed that! To be honest even Rob was amazed that I got back as he only endured 10 minutes on that bike, in which while he was on it I realized how much of a n** I must of looked riding it, thats why them girls were laughing, arr! Anyway, something I’m holding Rob to, is he’s agreed to halves on my next bike, up for that!!! Seriously it’s the bike, I took a few minutes on his bike and it was alot more enjoyable experience I could of cycled to Portugal with the strength I used to get to IKEA on my bike. So I think we’ve cleared that, I need a new bike! Still up for this France cycle trip as long as I get a new bike! Seriously bike training, try it on the pile of sh** in our shed, if you can cycle to IKEA, full speed, take all the bruises and do it there and back none stop, you’ll beat the olympics with a Gold.

More on the France Trip
Anyway, enough about my awful ride, speaking of which, next year ABW (all been well for anytime I do that again) we’ll be cycling to France, we’re both going to do video blogs throughout the journey, got my eye set on a Flip Mino HD, if anyone knows something better for the same price let me know! The videos will be shown exclusively on RKUK Media, then YouTube, two days after, so exclusive to RKUK Media! Anyway, we will need sponsers for this, we’ll let ya know closer to the event, but till then thats all we know for sure, I’ve already got my plug adapter for France, yeh, didn’t think about that did ya, what?, anyway. Thats all for this blog!

Till next time, E-Ya Later

Ben

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Blog Tuesday 23rd June 2009 – The Devil's Rectum + 2 Weeks in a Paragraph

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What’s been going on, it’s been more or less 2 weeks since my last blog, busy? Not really. Eventful? Well …. had the moments, some in which are just wrong!

Monday and The Devil’s Rectum
The title is not to be ignored lightly because that’s what it was, it was the waters of hell! Anyway I’ll get to that! On Monday I was rather happy as all courses in college for that day were, well, done, so I just went in really to prat around on a PC, sign EMA and leave, yeh! It felt very like a Friday, but obviously it wasn’t, for example, on a Friday I never go to Rob’s, this one I did! So, got to Robs, had a pint … well a can, and then endured James for about 2 hours and the amazement of CBBC which James for some reason was watching, I tell ya, two things I don’t know why is in this world, Microsoft and CBBC, atleast CITV attempt on acting! Anyway, after enduring through that, going out and cheating on someone else on NY Nights on the iPhone and barking with Rob’s dog, yeh, Ben rang, it turns out we’re off to Weatherspoons. Now I told Rob before we left, I was gonna go to Weatherspoons then go home, as I was hungry and well, knew what was coming next and I didn’t really want to go to Lee’s yet again, as its turning into my second home, and whats the Tesco thing all about, give me strength! Anyway, it turned out I was going to Lee’s again, like always no choice! Arrive at Lee’s with a scary welcome from a randomer, and then to the kitchen, and it was time for one of Grandad Dad’s awesome idea time (Q music)! Picture the scene, your tired, had a long day, nothing in your way, in front of you, a foot spa, you can hear the bubbles! This is where the normalness stops, why because a washed out Foot Spa was about to get the weirdest treatment yet! It was about to get … the Devil’s Rectum. Now I was the soba one who actually had a sense of life support by wanting to live, why I uploaded the most photos to FaceBook <<b>LINK> Now, Grandad, the one who lives in the brewery of the house, guess what place he came for the one to be drunk, 2 … 3, no he was the first, WOW! Next was Ben, who was quite frankly suicidal and then Rob, who … turned into Rob. A wacky weird 1/2 gay maniac!!! Rob, you chased me down the road with your nipples, say no more! Anyway, we also watched “40 year old Vigin”, which I can play a part to thanks to ITV2, and err that’s it actually! Got home, soba-ed myself up with 3 scones and some milk, this works by the way, I remember when I had no scones left, ugghhuhg!!! … is what I said! 2 hours later I woke up … what? … yeh! Anyway, this blogs going a bit out of control, maybe this is why I haven’t had a blog in so long, I’m going clinically insane! Fix yourself with a bit of insania, check out the Devil’s Rectum ingredients, make some y’self, and …. ….. good luck!

Foot Spa Devil’s Rectum Includes;

Vodka
Margaritas
Ouzo
Southern Comfort
Soda Water
PineApple Juice
Orange Juice
Fruit & Barley
Kick (Tesco)

Served with ice in a foot spa!

2 Weeks in a Paragraph
In the last two weeks in college I’ve been finishing off all my work and it looks like I may get the course merit I’ve wanted since starting the course. Sam’s continued with depression, which is actually starting to effect me out of college, which seriously has to stop. I suppose I’ve a lot of weeks to cure from it after I finish! Downloaded 3.0 software update for my iPhone, I was in the first 100K to download it in the world, it was a quick download and install, and my iPhone’s better than ever, except when I threw it onto some marble, no joke, as I said on Twitter the worst feature of the iPhone is it’s to slippery, put some rubber on it or something Apple, I’ll be getting the 2010 iPhone, whatever that has install other than iPhone Software 4.0, looking a tad far ahead now, maybe Steve Jobs will introduce this one, hmm. OK gonna stop now! So, thats err, the last two weeks in a nut shell! Even though I’m allergic. Think I’ve been to Lees most of the time … huh!

The Show Sketch Show
Another production coming up for ya, I spoke about this about 7 months ago, but no one was in on it, but now they are the YouTube channel “therkukshow” may or may not be used for it. Expect all RKUK characters in it, a rather average theme tune created by moi and some rather exciting looking new characters! Ooo, and a script!!! Hoo, hoo, ho, we’ve changed!

RKUK Offline
RKUK Online has been the peak of entertainment created by me and beyond, but recently the site hosting it have closed, so it’s no more. You probably know this if your reading on R-Network as that’s going to be where all RKUK content is now, sob!

RKUK Entertainment on FaceBook
Don’t forget to join a new group on FaceBook, RKUK Entertainment, we’ll have news and more for ya all about RKUK Entertainment, yeah! Click here to join!

Anyway that’s all for today, E-Ya Later

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Blog Tuesday 16th December 2008

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This week I found out two things that connect perfectly with each other, nope not me and another girl (Darn it), but the combination of my bank balance and the Apple Store when you login to college. Oh yes, if you goto the Apple Store you can visit the Education Store and save about 5%, which in most cases works out about £70 saving, which don’t get me wrong is good, but not good enough to notice in a £1125 product. But if you logged into a college or university, you get alot bigger reductions*, the MacBook suddenly is no longer a £1000+ product, oh yes, its just short over £900, yep, you heard correctly, even though your reading so err… you read err… correct.
This is just great, I mean I’ve got nearly £1000 planned so that means I’ll have abit of leftovers you could say, unfortunately though I am talking about the future a tad, February to be precise. I was originally gonna get it with christmas presents, but that would mean getting it monthly, ughh, plus Macworld in January, so February is quite tactical as well as a tad better, I mean its better getting the payments done in one blop!
I don’t know why I said blop either.
Monday onwards
Anywho back to the story, I have to say if the normally the worst day of the week turns out to be alright, that can only be a good sign can’t it? Mondays are the only day in which I’ve to endure an entire day of it, 9 well half bloody four, but this Monday actually wasn’t that bad, I have to say Lee (who I have for two consecutive lessons on Monday) is growing on me, he’s a really cool guy when you get to know him, no really he is, both lessons we have him for in which are graphics and web he is helpful and clear, unlike Andrew which is surprising as Andrew is the course leader, hmm, something’s not right there is it. Then after a dinner break in which I’ll get back to, we have Maths, seen as most of us are doing the level we are because of maths. Maths teachers tend to be pretty rubbish, in fact ever since that teacher in Whitcliffe Mount, apart from him calling me “HansomBen” was very nice, in college we have err, sorry forgot his name, but err.. he’s alright, does his job … which he should stick to and not go into comedy, say no more. Then we have keyskills which after the presentation is good as well. In this lesson we had to review everyone’s presentation which was fun, “Who’s was the best?”, a guy called Ashley, he’s one of those people that are just … cool. “Who’s was the worst?”, without a question, Jonathons, his presentation was presented badly, which I could accept, but nothing at all in it was correct, eh, did you know Tim Berners-Lee created Windows, nope, neither did I, guess Bill Gates and co at Microcrap (Microsoft) were lying. So there you have it on that one.
Over to today, now Tuesdays never really are interesting days, we have spreadsheets and databases, yeh … great, these are probably the two most nerdy crap subjects there is, and anyone who enjoys either is a nerd! But I’ve got to pass them all to get through so yeh. Luckily today Jonathan wasn’t here, which would have been great if that was Monday but on a Tuesday it didn’t seem to have the same effect and tomorrow he’ll probably be back so really his absence hasn’t taken any effect, and whilst I’m on the subject I move over to Sam. Sam is getting obsessed, literally obsessed with Jonathon, I don’t care if he denies it cause he does, and if you look at everyone who he’s talking to when saying it you can tell that’s what their thinking as well as shut up.
The only problem I have with Sam is he’s very over-reactive, as in taking things waaay to seriously and he’s starting to really annoy me, so just let it die Sam basically. Which reminds me, on the way home today, their was this guy at the bus stop, who asked what time it was and was just generally chatting away, OK, he hugged us, but it was one of those, yo hugs, Sam obviously took it too far again on the bus afterwards but that one I’ll let him off for a bit as it was pretty freaky!

Thats it E-Ya Later

Ben


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*These reductions only apply for Apple Mac computers, not for iPod, iPhone or any other product or software.

R-Browser – Summary

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RKUK started the R-Browser back in April with the 1.0 beta created through the RLP (RKUK Lumnous Project) although since then the browsers have been designed and created entirely by RKUK. Version 1.1 was released, then 1.2, then we skipped to 2.0! The browsers have all shared the sense of ease-of-use, speed and reliability and really demonstrate what browsing the web is.
It wasn’t until 2.1 when the browser started to kick things off and shape up, 2.1 worked on any screen and adapted when it was made smaller, the other browsers were stuck to the 15″ resolution or an optional 4:3 version. Google search built in was made, popular links, and the entire RKUK Online menu was also built right into the browser. The use of RKUK Update allowed anyone to check for new versions from RKUK Online. When they was one, you’d the option to install it!

Then came the current version, version 2.2, this version now has a fully working progress bar, shows site history, you can open any file in the browser* and has the built in calendar. A new help button has also been added to help people with all known queries, this will have future installments in the next browsers! Plus the HTML Title in the top part of the Window followed by R-Browser 2.2.

Really their are only two features needed in the browser and thats the use of enter in the boxes rather than having to press the buttons and displaying the current URL automatically in the website box!, these will be features in the 2.3 browser, once we figure them out we’ll start with tab browsing and then over to customization!

Is their an end to what we can do with a browser, Nope, and we hope to create the ultimate browser when we reach the 3 series, with 3.0.

You can download all the previous versions from RKUK Online which is the same place where you can download the newest version, just click R-Browser in the menu!

[[UPDATE]]

WINDOWS: Last Version: Browser2Go | Desktop Version

MAC OSX: Last Version: Alpha

Blog Holiday 2008

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Just come back from holiday from skeggy, whether was british, I’ll say that much, got a phone on T-Mobile, a Sagem my721X, awesome phone, wish I could say the same about the network, T-Mobile is S.H.I you know the rest. I’m actually taking it back because of T-Mobile rather than the phone, which is annoying…very annoying! Downloaded the new Keane song called Spiralling, rather surprising at first but its rather good after a few listens. Nought much to report to say its an entire week, I’ve updated RKUK Online so everythings back to being up to date Top5, Fresh etc

Thats a rap, E-Ya Later

Ben

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