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Blog Sunday 16th October 2011

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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

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 2nd October 2011

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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

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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

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 Sunday 5th June 2011

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Since my last blog there’s been the holiday which is about to finish, err there’s been many trips out and more amazing musical ventures and more.

Trip to Meadowhall and A Curious Letter

A few weeks now but hey, still before my last blog. Me, Rob, Grandad and Caddy went on a trip to probably the most amazing thing outside of West Yorkshire that I regularly venture to, mostly because it’s the closest Apple Store. Apple for some reason decided to ignore the existence of West Yorkshire, but hey I digress. Whilst they were many conversations along the way, including the never ending nagging at Rob at getting a really crap phone lol, but hey. Went to the Apple Store mainly to check out the new white iPhone 4, which is most definitely thicker than the black one. To which the good ol Grandad Lee popped in to inform us all that he would soon be getting a White iPhone 4, good choice mate, thought you were gonna get somert like a Blackberry lol. The only people I accept to have a Blackberry are either very attractive women or people who have been contracted by a business company to have one. And no Rob falls in to none of those categories. Anyway, one thing that was annoying about going to the Apple Store at Meadowhall when we did was that it was just before Apple Stores 10th birthday when Apple completely revamped them with iPads, grrreaat. Anyway, whilst they had some dinner at some ‘trying to be posh but failing badly apart from the price’ restaurant, I went to McDs, common bloke me and always will be. Informed Rob about my using a Secretariat horse for his big day lol. But hey, an interesting day, atleast it was until we all seemed to be forced out by Rob, much to Lees enjoyment. But hey, the day wasn’t to end there though, we headed to a very raining Leeds for Rob to discover that banks are assholes, I know newsflash! We went to a few pubs, we also went to a pub that we visited on my birthday bash to much of my surprise I ordered a pint and hidden within my change by the rather beautiful barmaid was a advertisement but it had her name on it with a thanks and a kiss, so I was a bit … ya know about that. Unfortunately we didn’t have another there so I couldn’t tell if it was true or not but hey. It was pretty interesting to say the least.

College

College has been really really interesting …. OK it hasn’t but hey. We’ve reached that time of the year where all you’re doing is the same work again to get it perfect, but hey it’s been pretty interesting thanks to the awesome guys there. Aaron managed to walk in to a wall and injured above his left eye, which is hilarious and just speaks for itself to be honest. Met one of Aarons mates who is a combination of American and Polish, I know, a combination of oh and ugh, but hey, not a bad bloke. My motivation for College has been just going for the fun with the friends but that’s changed recently after getting closer to getting the next course sorted out all I kinda want to do now so main focus in this coming week is getting all the remaining courses passed and done and stuff, so yeah, unfortunately I thought this at the end of the hols, so kinda back to rushing, back to Coll tomorrow, but hey. Whatcha gunna do.

The Hols

Whilst the holidays are pretty much over, what can you do eh, some stuff have happened so err yeah.

Over at Caddys

The Friday before the holidays began wasn’t a College day so I successfully woke up err… late and well, ya know. But on Saturday ended up at Caddys which was interesting, especially due to Grandad Lees amazing time keeping, meeting him at quarter to 8 actually meaning quarter to 6, ahh, only Grandad! Kai and Jess joined us for most of the night which always makes it pretty awesome, there was also Flash there, who the last and first time I really saw him it resulted being in a car blurting out SCOOBYDOOBYDUU!!! full blast through a Tesco carpark lol, but hey! It turned out to be very awesome, recorded some pretty amazing stuff for our upcoming debut album lol, and some well, not so amazing stuff, but hey, some pretty epic songs to say the least. Nice to know that the place I always get my chips from knows who I am when I ordered my Chips over the phone they know all about my love of salt, which was pretty epic.

It must be love … right?

Not going to go into too much detail as I think the worst thing I did was tell my friends about the whole meeting up with a little special someone. I’ve always kept relationships anonymous between friends and have regularly lied to friends (sorry guys lol) to go on dates with women, which have all gone very very well …. Lol. But anyway, no one and I mean no one has ever made me feel as emotional as this individual does. It sort of annoyed me when I told everyone that I was meeting up with her last time just as friends and they made it out, well they were just stupid to be honest, but I think that we maybe meeting up for an actual date soon which is overpowering my heart at the moment. I’m scared shitless to be honest about the day we meet up soon, I just hope I don’t fuck it up as she means so much to me, more than anyone ever has, years of waiting and building up to, ohh man! We’ll all see I guess. So nervous, and it’s days a way yet.

Lee gets an iPhone

Dum duh duuuhhh, Grandad Lee has gone away from a conn Orange contract and an old Sony Ericsson to get a White iPhone 4 on Three. Which annoyingly means that I will likely get bugged for a few weeks whilst he learns to use it lol, no, there better than that, the easiest to use smartphone in fact. Only problems he’s been having so far is Three reception, we’ll see how it goes as you’ve got 10 days money back guarantee on a contract so if a network change is required make the decision to change soon rather than been left in a long contract, especially if it’s the network and not the phone.

Ought Else

Well the biggest one is WWDC 201 tomorrow where Apple will definitely introduce iOS5, Mac OSX Lion and the iCloud service, whether they introduce a new iPhone is unknown but unlikely, but we’ll see, only time will tell and a blog will follow.

Another pretty awesome thing I’ve found is an awesome version of Stylo by Gorillaz by a band that actually has Simon Tong in who has actually played live for Gorillaz, and Damons other two bands as well, Blur and The Good The Bad And The Queen.

I’ve likely forgot alot in this blog but hey don’t mind, tell me if I have.

Well that’s all for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 3rd April 2011

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Well it’s been a hectic few days which turned in to weeks, not only has there been an end for my cats life, people getting bones sticking out of their body, this blog not been released on the last Monday date because of so much new shit happening, but on the plus side I’ve got an iPad 2 in which I’m happily writing this on, the keyboard is surprisingly awesome.

iPad 2 – What a device!
As mentioned in previous posts I wanted to purchase the iPad 2 which launched on Friday, whilst it did launch on launch day at many places such as obviously Apple Stores, PC World, Currys, Comet, Argos, HMV, as well as many carrier stores for the 3G model, I still didn’t expect to be able to get one on launch day, but hey, guess what, what?, I’ll tell ya … I got one and bluddy love it.
Getting the iPad 2 was interesting in itself and I did a Twitter feed at #bensliveiblog on the progress of purchasing the device. I planned from day one of getting it from Birstall Retail Park, which is good as it contains 3 of the many areas that sell the iPad 2 virtually next door to each other, I ended up going to Currys PC World, which is the biggest one in Britain, so should have some eh?, still had my doubts. To my surprise there weren’t that many people there, this was 3:20, when it didn’t launch till 5, but hey just over an hour and half! Whilst waiting I got … well I got 3 things, a biscuit, drink of water, and most importantly a piece of paper guaranteeing me “an iPad 2″, why in quotation, well because they couldn’t guarantee which one. I was 30 in line for the iPad and my choice to come in at the time I did payed off as no joke, 10 minutes later the queue had ooo, way over 40, 50 maybe, then as the time approached closer to the 5PM launch time, people were actually getting turned away and told to go at number 70, so with that number I was a bit more confident at getting the model I wanted, the 32GB Black Wi-Fi model. Don’t know about you but I think the White looks bluddy awful, but yeh anyway, actually got it, they had 25 of each model in Wi-Fi and 10 Wi-Fi+3G, I noticed on a checkbox they had to guarantee stock. For whatever reason they didn’t have the 16 and 64 gig White 3G models, why no one said, but hey based on the checkbox, only 3 of the 29 in front of me got the White ones so it’s not just me. Having said that I’ve seen many people online regretting the White one so errr, yeh good luck with that Apple. Anyway, got it home and love it, so yeh, try if you can get an iPad 2. I’ll have a review for it ASAP.

Also on Friday
Getting the iPad 2 was helped actually by Rob, Caddy and Grandad … ish … OK not in many ways, but hey made it a bit more fun, and more expensive thanks to Robs taxi recommendation. Anyway after an unexpected pint at the Hunsworth, we headed off. Whilst I bought my iPad 2 and they decided to well browse other retailers the time eventually arrived when I got the iPad and we headed back to Grandads for a barbecue?, yeh they always go well, but hey. The group grew by 3 at Grandads with Kai, Jess and Helen arriving then we headed off to the Wickham. Had quite a laugh actually, the group grew by 1 more and really had quite a laugh to be honest. Had a chat with Kai and Jess about a new film production should be interesting, always willing to help anyone if possible. It was all going well till we headed for the last place for the night, ze Weatherspoons. Don’t know what happened, not taking sides but I know who’s side I’m on, it basically ruined a nearly perfect night out, Helen through a drink at this guy we were with and well it just lowered the mood of the night and, well just pissed me off really as they were all getting on till some “rumours” got mentioned between someone else, annoying. Anyway, if we take away the last half an hour, a really great night, well, great day to be honest.

All Went Downhill From There
As fun as Friday was, it all begin to sink when Saturday arrived. I went to Argos on Saturday to get my hands on the HDMI cable for the iPad, reserved around and ended up going to Bradford and left after a camp asian Argos staff member went, “OOOOO, NOW YOU CAN USE IT IN TEEEEVEEEE!!!”, to which I made quite a prominent exit.
As I was walking up the street is where it all began to sink a little, I saw 3 neighbours that for one thing never hang out together and two never talk to me, anyway they were all staring at Jack (my oldest legend of a cat) just lying on the ground, first impressions obviously was “oh god he’s dead”, and part of me going, “I wanna try this cable!”, no but seriously he wasn’t looking good, breathing very heavily and couldn’t seem to get up, anyway rung people up and what not, then the cheeky bastard got up and went inside, I KNOWW!!!, but he wasn’t himself. Anyway got him some food and he kinda eat it, so we let him be when he rested in his usual spot. Side note, the HDMI cable is fabulous, just not on a crap Sharp TV that we have in the living room, likely going back to the shop soon.
Sunday, a week now, was probably the worst day in 2011, got woke up at 8AM (left Jack in overnight because we weren’t sure about him, glad we did though) by my Mum and Dad saying Jack is not well, now it was more alarming that my Dad was telling me as he doesn’t, in most cases, give a rats ass about animals, anyway, came downstairs to a pitiful site, his entire back had gone and you could tell he was in intense pain, and you wouldn’t be human not to have a tear in your eyes as even though he was in intense agony he was still dragging himself across the floor and trying to get on your knee for some last minute loving. Then Cleo came in (my other younger cat) and just walked up to Jack, touched noses, nodded and walked away, I was expecting a speech then, it was quite the site. Anyway, under an hour later, he was gone to be put down, his heart was weak and his entire back was gone basically, it would be cruel not to, and he was gone.
Anyway, visited my Grandma and Grandad as well during the day, they had a play with my iPad, think my Grandma wants one, I’m no even kidding, she loves the whole reading books on it and all, in fact I’ve a collection of Sherlock Holmes books on thanks to my Grandma, see it’s true, some technology does amaze Grandparents.

College and what not.
Think it’s fair to say it took me a while to get over Jack, yes it’s just a cat, but it’s not, Jack is a one and only man, and even today Cleo, my other cat, still hasn’t fully recovered from it all. Anyway, tried my best to rise above it and well, the week flown by anyway. Got Elbows album during the week, wish I could say it’s better than the first album but apart from the first track ‘The Birds’, it’s all just so so unfortunately. Anyway not much happened this week, well Tuesday was quite a confusion thanks to Shahid not doing his job right only 4 people turned up at the 9:30 time including me, advantage of us lot literally guessing that we’d be here at this time led to over an hour earlier home time which was swell.

This Weekend
Got quite a lot of homework this weekend which wasn’t nice at all if I may say do myself, didn’t fully finish Databases cause I was stuck, and kinda didn’t finish Lynns to keep up tradition, no I will do, but theres a lot to do man.

Lees House To Himself Thingy
It was Grandad Lees turn to have the house to himself yesterday and joining me and Lee obviously was Caddy, Kai and Jess and ya know what it was pretty damn awesome … OK it wasn’t that good lol, no it was a good night, it’s quite the group. We played a bit of Guitar hero which may I say so myself I was awesome on bass scoring higher than Lee who’s had the game to himself for years and its probably the what, 3rd time playing it and even through them times I’ve never played the bass, so pftyeaahhh!!! We watched the film ‘Beetlejuice’, which is random-much, which explains why Jess likes it, nah, who am I kidding we all freaking strange, anyway, after that we watched some Black Books then Jess and Kai left, so what better to do than see what’s on TV and find possibly the most randomest crappest yet pure awesome film you’ve ever seen. Now if your Chinese then is film might be awesome to you, but come on man! We ended up watching ‘I’m A Cyborg, But That’s Ok’ on Film4, what the hell basically! Favourite scenes have to be the random shooting around the hospital, the cyborg shooting through the air shouting GRANNY!!!, and the amazing noodle rice interpretation of the that famous Christmas song, how does it go now err, oh yeh;
Silent Rice, Holy Rice
Eating noodle and eating rice
It’s cold
… Now that’s a lyric man
What else needs saying eh?

Ought Else
Well I’ll have an iPad 2 review coming soon, upon request and I’ll update my WordPress site after this is posted as I’ve noticed it’s about 3 posts out of date, so err sorry about that, I’ve also added a neat iPad theme on there too so if you’re on an iPad you can enjoy some juicy HTML5ness. Oh and it was an April Fool to the fact that I had died my hair green, duh! And a little Easter egg to the incredibly beautiful lass that randomly added me, woo!

Blog Sunday 27th February 2011 – Hols, OSX Lion, Ghosts and more!

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Well its been another one of those weeks off you get now and then, and like normal I’ve taken full advantage of the time off … yyeaahhhh! Alright, lets get on with it.

Last week of College

The week before the holidays was full of weirdness, but hey, have no fear, it was only Irish weirdness, I know, thats fine then! Aaron decided to cancel his birthday party because no one knows where it is, which in all fairness and area description of ‘In the UK’ isn’t really sufficient to finding somewhere, just saying!

Josh and crew all went a bit Irish this week, which added some amusement to the proceedings, especially when Sam discovered the Irishness of Mickey Mouse, yes I said Mickey Mouse, but hey, what do you expect. Anyway, last day till the week off being Thursday had quite a rushed feel to it, everyone was more focused on leaving and starting the hols rather than completing mock tests which we’ll all forget by the time we reach the start of the next half term, anyway, we all ended up finishing early which was swell. Bit more of Irishness on the way home, and the hols began.

The Hols

Well we’re getting to the end of the holiday, well, lets face it, its the end, and well, what did I do to make the holidays all that worth while, well, nothing. In fact, everyday been pretty much the same, almost too the same, literally everyday of the week, we’re talking Monday night, Tuesday night – Friday night, have all ended exactly the same way, same pub, same chips, I know, what the hell!

It kinda annoys me when this happens as it kinda makes holidays a bit worthless, but hey, suppose had a laugh now and then, and hey, back to been Irish next week. Although based on how much Craig Ferguson I’ve been watching, I’m more turning Scottish like, but hey!

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

For legal reasons I can’t tell you much about it, but I’m actually writing this blog on Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview, all I’m gonna say is Wow, love it. The OS feels snappy, Safari has all iPad features like pinch and zoom as well as the Google Chrome sandbag feature within each tab which is nice, it also using the new WebKit2 which means its snappier, quicker and all in all awesome!

There’s also some appearance changes which trust me, that has been long overdue in OSX. The OS is even more secure, and even though its a developer preview where bugs are expected, everything feels very smooth, even on a 2008 Aluminium MacBook, Lion is quick. Obviously I can’t go to in to it, but hey, just pop on YouTube and you’ll find some videos, well, ones Apple haven’t deleted. All I can say is, I can’t wait for Lion, its the most stable and fast release of OSX I’ve seen and its only in beta. The only problem I have is the learning curve you have with the scrolling been the other way round, waat!

Ghosts are back

Ghosts are a UK band that in 2007 released ‘The World Is Outside’ album, loved this band, but they’ve never had the attention they deserve, well, despite fear that they were no more, and Wikipedia still stating them as a “were”, they’ve released two new songs, which exclusive to RKUK Media can be downloaded, so check it out, click the corresponding links to download Say You’re Mine or Never Too Late. Also downloaded some live performances of The Good The Bad And The Queen and got the entire The Feeling collection, who are releasing a new album soon, so yeah, this years starting to look up for music now.

Who knows I maybe allowed to mention more about OSX Lion in a future blog, until then, well, more Craig Ferguson, some Top Gear catch up, and err… well back to normality tomorrow.

Ben

http://rkukmedia.co.uk

Blog Sunday 24th January 2010 – New iMac and more

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Well this has been a rather exciting weekend to be honest, well lets face it I’ve had an exciting Sunday. First of all I’ve got a 21.5″ iMac for £732, more on why it was that much in a minute. The iMac I’ve got has a 3.06Ghz Intel dual core processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive and … well the specs are here aren’t theyLINK. It also can be upgraded to 16GB of DDR3 RAM in the future. My basic first impressions of this system is, fast, beautiful and well I just love it. The 3.06GHz processor naturally puts my MacBook’s 2.4GHz to shame but you expect that, I just love everything. The wireless keyboard is awesome, and because its Bluetooth I can actually type a sentence upstairs whilst the iMac is downstairs, call me sad but I’ve tried it! I’d always had my doubts about the Magic Mouse but I have to say I absolutely love it, it looks amazing and is amazing to be honest. My favourite thing about the Magic Mouse is when you scroll you can scroll slowly, then woosh, your on the bottom of the page based on the speed of your scroll … you have to have one to understand.

Any problems with the iMac?
I can honestly say I haven’t had a single one, everything is working par so far! All you need is to look at it to love it. In fact my Dad’s just upgraded to Windows 7 on his Dell and he’s admitting the iMac is alot better so much for ‘I’m a PC’ on his part.

What? £732 … how?!
I got my iMac from Argos and that is exactly the reason why, to be honest I think I’m the last one to get it from that amazing bargain price. The price was not meant to be that much, all I’ve got to say is look in the Argos Cat. page 557, whilst Argos have noticed their mistake online by updating the Argos website displaying the iMac at £949, which in itself is £20 less than the standard Apple UK Store price, because its advertised as £732 in the Argos catalogue even the ones at the store its against the law for them not to sell it at that price, which they did. However before you run to the Argos stores to get yourself a £220 cheaper iMac, just be informed by me purchasing it, which was done by an Argos manager, now means it will be £949 no matter what, despite new catalogues still been given advertising the same price. They are also sorting the problem out with the 3rd party company that prints the catalogues. But for me, and wouldn’t surprise me, quite a few others, happy days. I now don’t have an empty bank balance on my birthday!

Best features of the iMac!
Apart from everything, by the way I’ll be upgrading it to 8GB DDR3 RAM soon, just to give it abit more grr, I was gonna do it to the max 16GB, but hey whats the point, put it this way 4GB that comes with its fast, 8GB will scream, 16GB will prob blow it up, well y know, plus there is the whole part of affording it. Anyway, best feature of the iMac to me is actually the speakers, seriously they are better than you’d expect, and I bet some people are reading this going, wow, the iMac has speakers! Don’t get me wrong speakers are better but I challenge you to find speakers better than the iMacs that are built in to a computer. And the screen is just to die for, whilst I wanted the 27″ model, based on the fact thats been having a few issues that are, slowly but surely, getting solved as time goes by, I’m glad I didn’t because with an iMac, or any PC attempt to copy it all-in-one, a 21.5″ display isn’t a 21.5″ display, it feels and is alot better than just a display and because its also a computer feels bigger. So yeh, speakers and display! I’ve heard the 27″ models speakers are even better!

Worst features of the iMac!
What worst features, seriously its all good, the only problem I had with it is I think the aluminium edges are a bit too sharp, but hey who touches desktops a lot, only when your moving it and thats rare.

Overall first impressions!
I keep forgetting I’ve only had it a few hours, love it, easily networked my MacBook to transfer files. I cannot anymore recommend the 21.5″ iMac, it just rocks at all you throw at it. I’ll have a 6 month review for you in … well, 6 months.

And that my first impressions of the iMac

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 Sunday 19th April 2009

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Well, newsflash, Sundays suddenly are rather worth existing now, yep, probably my first Sunday blog with something interesting and new, anyway back to the story.

Masaga
Not saying much, but Masaga is a new upcoming show coming up, which is inspired by the combination of The IT Crowd, and Bottom. So basically it the combination of IT hilarious geekiness and absolute randomers who are unemployed and it’s a miracle they are even alive, so it’s a tiny bit strange. Anyway, that’s still to come amongst millions of others.

The Trip
Today I got woke up by a phone call at 1PM, yes very early. The phone call lead to a very interesting walk, oo! It gets better I promise. Anyway, the walk would lead to a highly interesting visit to The Hunsworth, oo. The main reason why we went is so that Rob could use his Nectar card that he’s had for about a year now. Anyway after our portion of chips and Rob’s garlic s**t. After easting what was quite frankly not very nice and finding out that two people who were in my high school now work in the Hunsworth, which is not that surprising. We then followed on by IM=ing each other in the store, me on my iPhone 3G and Rob on his brand new wacky 3 Skype phone that apparently can do EVERYTHING, yes even that! Then we half walked around the motoway roundabout thingy, then decided to walk to Bradford ASDA, then after major persuasion we, well I decided not to due to how we’d get back, then after multiple IT Crowd impersonations we head back. Then we started filming. (see above)

After all that wackiness the day became rather over. I decided to purchase the full version of Fastlane racing game on my iPhone and I can quite frankly tell you is the best racing game on the iPhone to date.

But thats all for today, E-Ya Later

Ben

http://rkukonline.ds4a.com

Sidenote
Isn’t the Volvic 2 week challenge a load of bull.

Blog Sunday 21st December 2008 – Xmas No1 and MacBook Price Plan

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Expect: Xmas No.1, New MacBook Method, +more!

Xmas No.1
Don’t know if anyone guessed but surprise surprise it was indeed X-Factor’s Alexandra Burke with her highly christmasy, not song ‘Hallelujah’. Its not so bad, better than the original anyway!

New MacBook Method
As you know the most desirable notebook on the planet is of course the revolutionary MacBook, now whilst many want one, they are rather expensive, but with christmas theirs offers, and here is one to check out yourself. Apple are now offering a buy now and pay in 6 months. This is great, and means I can now afford a MacBook, well at least until the offer ends in January, so this is great. All been well I will have a shiny new MacBook by January. Of course I’ll be keeping post of this, but right now its all about christmas in, what, four days!!! iPod Touch time.

Attachment – MacBook Price Plan
MacBook Price Plan