Sadly, the Airfix Spitfire is no more. Thirty-one of the company’s 41 employees were last night made redundant after “severe cash flow pressures” and disruption of supplies from Heller – itself now insolvent – finally shot down the company.

The Atlanta Braves beat San Francisco 13 – 8 as Barry Bonds hits 2 home runs. His last game with 2 home runs? August 29th 2004, yes two whole years ago, and the venue? Turner Field against the Braves… Silly little trivia for you.

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Dear Flickr,

Why’d you have to go and introduce easy geotagging to your fine, fine site?

Now you’ve made my life miserable as I’ll no doubt have to go through my 2,319 photos and tag them as best as I can…

Thanks for nothing,
Greg

It’s been a while since I last did this, and this time it’s my work edition, here’s what get me through the day.

Or download it here (1.99mb mp3, 2:10)…

For those who think it’s a bit fuzzy, here’s the playlist in order:

1. Lucinda Williams – Atonement (Live)
2. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
3. Ween – Piss Up A Rope
4. The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes (Acoustic)
5. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
6. Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker
7. Mos Def – Know That (featuring Talib Kweli)
8. Shania Twain – In My Car (I’ll Be The Driver)
9. Scratch Perverts – Come Get It (featuring Dynamite MC)
10. Fleetwood Mac – The Chain (Live)
11. Velvet Revolver – Slither
12. The Killers – On Top
13. Lucinda Williams – Out Of Touch (Live)
14. Saint Etienne – Sylvie
15. The Wreckers – Tennessee
16. Kenny Chesney – Living In Fast Forward
17. Lucinda Williams – I Lost It (Live)
18. Bruce Springsteen – The River
19. Faith Hill – Mississippi Girl
20. Le Tigre – TKO
21. Kenny Chesney – Summertime
22. KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See
23. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
24. David Gray – This Years Love
25. Ben Folds Five – Battle Of Who Could Care Less
26. LeAnn Rimes – Something’s Gotta Give
27. Ben Folds – Trusted
28. Lucinda Williams – Those Three Days (Live)
29. Faith Hill – The Lucky One
30. Danger Doom – A.T.H.F.
31. Lucinda Williams – Ventura (Live)
32. Nelly Furtado – Explode (Acoustic)
33. The Killers – Mr. Brightside
34. Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
35. The Cardigans – You’re The Storm (iTunes Originals Version)
36. James – Shes A Star
37. Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains
38. Avril Lavigne – Tomorrow (Live)
39. Rod Stewart – Maggie May
40. Lucinda Williams – Lake Charles
41. Blur – Girls & Boys (Live)
42. Bruce Springsteen – County Fair
43. Keith Anderson – Pickin’ Wildflowers
44. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul To Squeeze
45. Fort Minor – High Road (featuring John Legend)
46. Lucinda Williams – I Lost It
47. Weezer – Hash Pipe
48. The Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way
49. Ben Folds Five – Evaporated
50. KT Tunstall – Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

More mixed than before? Certainly different…

There IS a big, ultimate, 6-film Star Wars anniversary DVD box set planned for 2007. There will be more changes to the films, and there will be LOTS of new, never-before-seen special features – all the good stuff that was held back by Lucasfilm from the original Trilogy DVD release a few years ago. And so the LucasFilm cash cow keeps on rolling… And I’m an SO there! [via]

I like to think of myself as a well-traveled individual, I mean, in the last ten years I’ve been to places like Florence, Italy; Oslo, Norway; Dublin, Ireland; all over the United Kingdom and many many places within the continental United States, why just this month we’re off again to Walt Disney World in Orlando and possibly another trip to Charlotte…

But it really hit home how far I’ve come last night, we were sitting watching Passport To Europe with Samantha Brown that was caught in a TiVo wish list Robyn setup a while back in preparation for our UK trip… This episode happened to be about Glasgow, which of course was of interest to both of us, for different reasons. I watched it to reminisce about the locales, and point out horrific errors in editing and research… For example, if the host asks a question in the back of a taxi while outside Queen Street Station, you have problems if the cabbie takes enough time to answer it while passing Central Station before cutting back to a reaction shot from the host back outside Queen Street Station… And the Clyde Auditorium is not part of Glasgow Science Centre, to name a few.

Anyways, I thought it was pretty weird sitting on my sofa in Atlanta, Georgia watching a travel programme showing places I used to hang out at on a regular basis… Which got me thinking, it would have been just over ten years ago I would have been watching the 1996 Olympics wondering where the hell Atlanta was, funny how times change and life kinda goes full circle, you know, sitting in Glasgow watching Atlanta, now sitting in Atlanta watching Glasgow, for the full circle I need to go back to Glasgow and watch, oh I dunno, a Braves home game on Channel 5’s baseball coverage, that would be very weird.

Anyways, in light of all this traveling I’ve done, where would you go if you had a free ticket to travel anywhere in North America, and why?

I’m just wondering…

So, picking up from a few days ago, Robyn spent the night at Lake Lanier for her works big summer blowout, I was left here with three cats, two of which seemingly have an abundance of energy, as long as it’s after 10pm.

I didn’t get much sleep that night for whatever reason, then I slept in later than I wanted to and felt generally kinda “bleah!” by the time I did eventually leave, not before remembering it’s trash day and having to empty the trash, I left the kitty litter as I was in no mood, and I’d sort it when I got home. Well, remember how I was saying work was kinda borng? This would be the day I’d show the new Web Development Manager how to basically build a website the way I’d do it, it was supposed to be simple, a nice clean header/footer layout with 2 rows of content layed out in 2 blocks and 3 block respectively, simple as “float: left;” and “float: right;” are my two bestest friends and I had done this kind of layout a million times before, it should have taken 30 minutes tops, but with the manager sitting over my shoulder taking notes, and me feeling a bit “bleah” it took considerably longer, but not through any fault of my own, padding wasn’t playing ball through cross-platform, cross-browser testing.

But at least it killed the time of day instead of sitting around archiving and researching.

As such I left early at 5pm and fought my way through traffic to get home and no sooner had I walked through the door than my phone rings, it’s Robyn, and she’s in a pickle… She’s up at Lake Lanier Islands and she can’t find her keys and could I come with a spare set? Now, this isn’t some little drive around the corner and up the road, we’re talking Hall County here, and while the map said go around 285 to 85 to 985, the all knowing Atlanta driver in me knew that 285 and 85 (as far as GA 316) would be nothing more than glorified car parks on a Friday evening, so I took the GA 400 to GA 20 route… Big mistake, two wrecks within a mile of each other in that Roswell/Alpharetta area meant heavy tailbacks all the way through the Winward Parkway exit, then due to (much needed) construction work on GA 20 in Cumming, and some really shittiy lights just after the Gwinnett County line meant it took almost 90 minutes to get to Robyn.

At least the drive back wasn’t as horrific, plus we stopped for some Mexican food on the way… Apparently Cumming and indeed Forsyth County don’t like Mexican food, they prefer BBQ places as the first Mexican we found was on the outskirts of Alpharetta. We made it home by 10pm and were probably sleeping at 10:05.

Yesterday was pretty much written off, but I was sent to Costco to get some waters, and you can only imagine what a place like Costco is on a Saturday afternoon right? The rest of the day was spent job searching, watching Mythbusters and eating dinner from The Loop.

I wish I could be more productive during the weekends, I just don’t have the motivation anymore…

It’s finally happened, after 4 years my @scamcity.co.uk address has succumbed to the plague of the spammers. It never used to be that bad, a couple here, a couple there, but last night between 7pm and 11pm, 2,000+…

Something had to be done…

Now I had thought about using Google’s hosted mail service for sometime, especially as the webmail provided by Dreamhost, well, to put it bluntly, sucks ass. But instead I opted for what I call Google Lite.

You see, while I wanted all the features of Gmail and the incredible spam filtering it does, I didn’t really want to hand over my mail completely, I still like my IMAP setup which Google, for all the good they do, don’t do… POP or Gmail only. So what I did was this, I converted my old email address into a forwarding address, so my previous forwards forward to this forward which forwards it to my Gmail account, then I set up a filter in Gmail that when an email reaches the inbox with an @scamcity.co.uk in the to field, it then gets forwarded to a whole new email address, so all the spam (in theory) gets caught up in Gmail and kept there.

So now I can also say I have double backups of emails, in my IMAP account and now in my Gmail account, should anything horrific happen one day. Plus I get the added bonus of the mail notification in Google Talk, and I can send mail FROM scamcity.co.uk (well, in Outlook it comes up as “on behalf of”) in Gmail. The best of both worlds.

Hopefully I can now live my days happy and as spam free as possible.

Who green lighted this abomination?

The more I see and read about this Transformers movie, the more a part of my childhood slips away… And for that I want Michael Bay’s head on a spike, and I want it now!

Let me know if you come across it.
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere.

It’s been a boring week, I’d like to say I’ve been busy as hell at work but nah, this week has been a holding pattern of sorts while we wait on clients providing content… So I’m getting paid to do research and listen to Lucinda Williams for the most part, the sad thing is my contract here is almost up (actually, it expired on Friday past but I’ve got an extra 2 weeks to “tie up loose ends”).

Not much in the way of tying up loose ends going on right now, not much anything going on right now.

To top it off, Robyn is staying tonight at Lake Lanier in preperation for her works annual last days of summer blowout tomorrow, so not much to look forward to at home either, I wonder if the APWBWGTTD collective are busy tonight.

It’s surprisingly not often I buy stuff, but a package came in the mail today from an eBay auction I won on a whim last week…

Oh yes, some classic Nike Air Jordan VI retros*… I know you’re not jealous, but I’ll pretend you are.

Actually, I used to own an original white/red pair of these back in the day, it cost me my entire christmas money to get them as Air Jordans were stunningly expensive, luckily this pair came in at under $100, but only just. Anyways, classic shoes, in more ways than one, classic design, the geek in me knows they are actually Tinker Hatfield designed, plus these are from the 1990/1991 season, the first year that Michael Jordan won an NBA championship, lotta history in these here boots, but I digress… Right now Robyn is all like “you bought a pair of shoes?”

Is it sad that a pair of 16 year old shoes can make me happy?

* = As these are not the original 1990 shoes, merely reissued retros, there are some minor design changes, can’t have ‘em all

Old Skool Kicks

Originally uploaded by FLC.

Heard the one about the Irish firm that claims to have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy? No? Me neither, I would have expected this kind of physics defying news to at least be covered by everyone, but no… I guess this world really does follow the laws of thermodynamics when it comes to potential hoaxes…