Toyota Madness

I’ve been tasked at work to buy a Toyota Landcruiser for a project in Tanzania. Amazingly enough there’s a 12 seat version. So I’ve three sites to look at, http://www.toyotatz.com/landcruiser_gx.html where it takes 20 days to buy a car. I was also told to have a look at Toyota Gibraltar who it turns it out supply 30% of all those Lancruisers you see on the news in disaster areas, famine relief and so on. I then had a look at the Japanese site, and ended up on their robot page.

Toyota have invented a scout walker:

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/vision/emerging_tech/p_robot/details.html

Foolish Smorgasbord

Spot the shoes

I just googled Niketown and I see that just about every big city has one, but I did manage to find a picture of the one in London. See if you can spot the shoes in this picture.

Nike no shoes town

I was in the big Nike shop on Oxford Circus yesterday. Its called Niketown. Its very big – three floors, but it was remarkably difficult to find some shoes. I’m not convinced that they sell much in there. I mean there isn’t really that much to buy so they can’t feasibly sell much. Its just one of those brand placement places. You go in and ooh and aah at how big it is and you leave impressed that Nike have this big shop with glitzy stuff and you tell your friends, wow have you been to Niketown in London, then other people come and everyone has a jamboree about the size of this place. But they don’t buy anything.

Methinks I’ll end up on Neal Street buying my sneakers at Offspring. And why sneakers over trainers? Well, I’m more likely to go sneaking than training.

Very funny

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

Wonky Eyes's Album

The Eraser - Thom Yorke's new(ish) album

I was halfway through a tirade about Queen's Innuendo album that took 5 years to make and resulted in 12 paltry songs and then Freddie Mercury died, and somehow the long wait wasn't worth the money paid. And then I was going to say that this offering from Thom Yorke has been, oh I don't know, 2 years in the making, and its only 41 minutes long but it really is bloody good. Then Firefox crashed for the second time today and that pissed me off. God forbid the new Internet Explorer 7 should somehow be better than Firefox. It still has a long way to go.

So where was I? Thom Yorke may have a funny shaped head and some serious misery issues but his drum machine is on the Kid A settings and its all very hummable. There's a song called Black Swan where the chorus is: "Its fucked up, its fucked up", but really its not. 'I'm Going Slightly Mad' on Innuendo is fucked up. I especially admire the lyric, "I think I'm a banana tree". But I suppose Freddie was half-dead so I shouldn't be too harsh.

Grand National: A cracking album

A Jockey Slut special. That was a good music mag. Gone now, more's the pity.

Look: a 1980s Flake Ad

I'm so hip that I post videos on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOVRhUUnCw

That said , I just don't get myspace et al. I mean the saviours of mankind the Arctic Monkeys came from Myspace but how much shit must you have to trawl through to find something half decent? Not that I've listened to the Arctic Monkeys. I've only just listened to the first Kasabian album. I bought it when it was released, listened to it once - I liked that Madchester single which I heard on xfm, thought the album was unutterably shite and got my money back from virgin. Then I heard it in Thailand and it was good (I was stoned...) and downloaded it and its all good apart from track 4 which is irritating like Led Zeppelin. Stupid whiny voice.

Grand National are good. One of the best random albums I've bought (Kicking the National Habit). Talking of which I spent £25 on random cds in Fopp the other day. Its a great shop for that. I got some good ones too. Problem is that they get loaded into my mp3 player and the next day I can't remember what they were and can never find them. Its like I never bought them in the first place...

Should get on with some work now...

Yay! I've worked it out

All I need to do is let blogger.com autofill my name and then I can get in. It all goes wrong when I type my name in. Now I know this is a beta but that really is very silly.

Major Login Difficulties

Jesus! I switched over to Blogger Beta about a month ago and haven't been able to log back in since - something to do with my Google Account login. I could login to the Google Account, but that very same email would not work on Blogger. Its because I randomly played silly buggers that it worked this time, but I can't trust it anymore. Blogger Help was about about as useful as a chocolate teapot but then its a free service so what can you expect?

I've decided to kill this blog on blogger, and take it over to a new program, a program I haven't found yet...

There's one called blogspirit which has a free 30 day trial and harps on about affordability. How about making it free like all its competitors!

blog.co.uk is blatantly a german start-up. The templates look like what the swiss would design if they were told to be interesting. I think 'dry' is the word. Uploading images was too tortuous.

I just tried to do something on Yahoo 360 which is some kind of bollocksy social network crap but it really didn't work out. They ask way too much private information and I couldn't change the things I wanted to change and basically it was a waste of 5 minutes of my life.

Right I'm going to experiment with logging back in using IE7.

If I can't get back in, consider this blog dead. You'll know if I don't get back in as there won't be anymore posts.