Well I decide to see how easy it was to take some video and put it on YouTube. The answer is extremely easy. I took this using my Nokia N90 phone and then just moved the file to my PC, registered with YouTube and then uploaded the file. And here it is, 2 minutes of Hove beach huts:

Edit: I managed to break YouTube with my last video so I’ve had to upload it again. This time I think it’s working. So much for simplicity!

Ha! Check this advert that was running on US television earlier this year.

This was created by the CEI, the Competative Enterprise Institute, which, funnily enough, is sponsored by Exxon.

Did you enjoy football manager games? Well if so then please sign up to the new free It’s A Goal multiplayer online manager game.
I’ve played the old It’s A Goal but this is new and improved. Just register at the site, look at your email and then click ‘club’ and create your team. I’m in Division 4 of the Manta league, team name Castle King FC.

Does anybody ever mention a music track and you just can’t remember how it goes? Well now you can using Music Plus. Just type in the name of the track and it’ll search the internet and bring you back and mp3s it finds in a handy online music player, there’s no downloads at all. So, for example, type in ‘Dury Wake’ and it’ll return Ian Dury’s Wake Up and Make Love To Me for you to play. A brilliant tool.

Do you need some cute animals? Well check out Panda Cam brought to you live from Atlanta Zoo.

Wow! Look at this photo of Saturn. Yes, it’s real. Taken during an eclipse from behind the planet. Earth is the small dot in between the rings at the top left.

And finally, the Mozilla Firefox 2.0 internet browser was released this week. It seems better than the older version and has less memory problems. So grab yourself a copy here.

I spent a few hours yesterday on the amazing M&M Dark Movie Quiz. Explore this huge picture and name the 50 movie titles cryptically hidden in the art.

It took me two hours to get 49 of them but I got the last one when I woke up this morning. It’s “Pitch Black”, in the bottom righthand corner and is probably the most cryptic title of them all.

It’s spooky, fun, with a great user interface (use keys Z&X to zoom in and out). What a novel way of advertising their new dark chocolate products. Let me know how you get on!

The Campaign to Protect Rural England have created a map showing the ‘tranquil’ regions of the UK.

This got a whole article at bbc online, which it wouldn’t have done if it had been a bit more truer and just said a map of the ‘Countryside’.

Me? I’m a big fan of the countryside, for short periods of time only of course, unlike Peter Cook.

It’s so nice to see the US winning the trust of the Iraqi people.

“Sean Smith, the Guardian’s award-winning war photographer, spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the US army in Iraq. Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country.”

You can also see his image gallery here.

And to change direction slightly here’s something more entertaining coming from somewhere in Asia. A very cheap remake of Thriller with the worst music production I’ve ever heard:

I’m really getting into my new art projects. Just take a look my painting below. This took me all of 30 seconds to make using the wonderful Jackson Pollock art generator which you should check out as soon as possible.

After sharing with you that wonderful website I think this site deserves it’s own seal:

Thank God for the Official Seal Generator.

I’m looking forward to the i-360 if it ever gets built. Standing at the top of Sussex Heights, which I believe at 25 floors is the tallest building in England south of the Thames, you get an amazing view of Brighton, Hove and the surrounding areas. You get a sense that this town isn’t just a glorified seaside resort but something more. Here’s some computer imagery of the i-360 in situ: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/videos/index.var.738.0.0.php

Looking towards the coast from Hollingbury Hill Sussex Heights sticks out above the city yet the i-360 will be even taller than the hill itself. I’ll have to get over my medium-level fear of heights before I’ll go up in it though. And I wont be going on a windy day, thats for sure.

Brighton has a long history of weird and wonderful architecture that’s different from the norm. This is why I support the building of the Frank Gehry buildings at the site of the King Alfred. I also quite like this new design for Medina House just 100 metres towards Brighton - full story at The Argus:

As long as we still get these views I think we should build every weird and wonderful design that comes along. This is Brighton not Eastbourne.

Well I was very embarrassed when my card got declined at the Hedonizm Record Sale yesterday. Luckily I dusted off my old Credit Card and remembered the PIN number first time. The same thing happenend to me in the Windmill pub which is when I started to think that something was wrong with my account. A quick check online when I got home and a call this morning showed that my account was fine and that there had indeed been a problem with HSBC’s Switch/Maestro system.

You would have thought that the fact that over 3 million people couldn’t use their cards on Sunday would have made national news but the most I’ve heard of it is from this article at The Register. It seems that HSBC ATM’s were swallowing all sorts of cards too. UK Businesses could have lost millions of pounds but you won’t hear much talk of it at the www.ft.com.

I did buy some classic tracks from the house music sale. Lion Rock’s first 12″, Leftfield’s Song Of Life - Underworld mixes, The Moody Boy’s King Of The Funky Zulus, Outrage - That Piano Track on Junior Boy’s Own, Mickey Finn’s She’s Breaking Up on Fokus Recordings and some Touche 12″s.

The people who run Brighton’s best House Music store are having a huge sale this Sunday. If you’re anywhere near the North Laines then please check it out.

You could even take the rain from London which only takes two minutes as can be seen in this video.