Greenpeace Protesters use Moblog UK in Protest!
At 6am this morning 14 Greenpeace protesters climbed on top of the Admirality Arch in London forcing the closure of The Mall. The protesters then hung a huge banner accusing Tony Blair of ‘trashing another rainforest’. Greenpeace are protesting at the government’s use of illegally logged timber for the renovation of the cabinet office. Read more at BBC News here.
In addition to this – I awoke this morning to find the Greenpeace protesters have set up a moblog at www.moblog.co.uk and have been posting photos and video footage live from their rooftop protest! What a great way to use moblogging technology!
The image above is one of those taken by the protesters. To see more click here, and to watch a video (shot on a mobile phone) of Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace Executive Director explaining why they’re protesting today, click here!
[tags]Greenpeace, Protest, Protesters, Timber, Rainforest, Banner, Admirality Arch, The Mall, London, Moblog, MoblogUK, Tony Blair, Government, Cabinet Office[/tags]
Adult Sports Day!
I have decided to try and stage an adult sports day for my friends this summer! I was inspired to do this after attending sports day at the school of my girlfriend’s son a couple of weeks ago. I had forgotten what fun sports day at primary school used to be and lots of memories came flooding back to me, including one where my best friend and I were disqualified from the three-legged race, despite our best efforts to keep our legs together after the rag tied to our legs fell off! (I don’t think I ever got over that one.)
The plan is to arrange a day when everyone that is game can make it and the weather is nice. We’ll go to a local park, take some beers and a picnic and the games will commence!
I’m yet to convince everyone about this idea, but I’m sure with some gentle persuasion and the lure of food and drink I can get enough people to make it worth while. So far I have come up with the following events:
- Three-legged Race
- Pickled Egg & Spoon Race (in honour of Dicko’s love of pickled eggs)
- Sleeping Bag Race (replacing the sack race)
- Wheelbarrow Race
- Beanbag Throwing
- Piggyback Race
- Tug Of War
I’m currently trying to come up with a couple more events that are easy to put on, can include people of all sporting abilities and don’t involve taking lots of equipment. All suggestions are welcome, so comment and let me know yours!
The date and location are yet to be confirmed, but get in touch if you’re interested! We will of course be filming the event as well!
Watch this space.
Life B.I.
The title of this post at moblog today made me think back to when I first used the internet. It was some time around ‘94 or ‘95, I was 13 or 14 and my Dad (always being an early adopter of new/computer technology) told me we were getting ‘the internet’.
I had no clue what on earth this was, but after a brief explanation it sounded cool. Soon we have the ‘Compuserve Internet Browser’ installed on our desktop PC in the kitchen and the computer was hooked up to the phoneline, which seemed a little strange.
It amuses me greatly now that the only thing I was interested in doing back then was downloading and printing off reams of Nirvana photos and lyrics! I remember seeing things relating to ‘email addresses’ and not having a clue what it meant. My Dad told me “We haven’t got one of those yet”. Thinking about it…who would I have emailed anyway?! I spent ages doing searches (using compuserve’s primitive search engine – because Google (I suspect) was still a twinkle in someone’s eye back then…or a program on a PC in someone’s garage at least!) for all of my favourite bands and finding photos of them…after all, there wasn’t that much around on the internet back then, was there?
Well there may have been…but at that time no one had a website address! You didn’t see them printed on everything, or advertised on TV, and I’m pretty sure there weren’t any major marketing campaigns in the UK for websites back then…I certainly never saw any or can remember any!
Yet 10 years later I spend all day, nearly every day connected to the internet. It’s my workplace as well as a place of leisure. I get the majority of my news through it as well as a lot of my music (if not buying/downloading, discovering new music). I spend way more time using the internet (not including work time) than I do watching TV. The television seems so boring and one-way these days, as does radio. Why be spoken at when you can be spoken to, reply and interact? (Interactive TV my arse!)….why wait for the news to come on a ‘x’ O’clock when it’s sitting there waiting for you to find it, being updated every few seconds? I communicate with my friends and family through it, some local and some far away and every day I learn something new about the world and the people that fill it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that the internet has had a MASSIVE affect on my life, just like the majority of other people on this planet and I for one think it’s been a good affect. I’m glad I was exposed to it so early on and at a young age – and also that I’m one of the people can remember ‘Life B.I.’ – Life Before Internet. My 16 year old brother can’t remember ever not having the internet at his disposal, which freaks me out sometimes.
Thanks Dad
[tags]Internet, Compuserve, Dial-up, ISP, Nirvana, MoblogUK, Email, Dad[/tags]
Your Brazil Name Is…
England might be out of the World Cup, but at least we can have some with the ‘brazilname’ generator. Just click here, enter your forename and sirname and you’ll get your very own Brazilian Footballer name! Make sure you share yours in the comment section!
Not wanting to get too carried away with football, the next post won’t be World Cup related – I promise!
Regards, “Clarkinhosa”
[tags]Fotoball, World Cup, Brazil, England[/tags]
England Out.
Yet another England World Cup dream in tatters. Yet another loss to Portugal on penalties. Yet another injury. Yet another bad decision by a ref. Yet another red card.
Millions of words have been and will be written about this World Cup, so there’s not much I feel I can add. The above photo of David Beckham sums it up really.
[tags]England, World Cup, Germany 2006, Portugal, Football, David Beckham[/tags]
