The anti argument for each:

Goes without saying that you cant use the child toilet, as that would just be weird!

A) You don’t want to known as the Gary Glitter of your friendship group, getting a nice view of the child’s toilet next to you. Also, what would you do if a dad came in with his son, you can hardly finish off quick sharp and move now can you…

B) A popular choice, if you don’t mind the potential for being joined by a small child next to you you are looking good.

C) At first this appears to be the obvious choice, however you have to consider the next person coming in, you wouldn’t dream of putting them in a position of choosing between either pissing next to you, or by a child!

D) This one is ok, until someone needs to use the hand dryer, then they have a perfect view over your shoulder. Now nobody wants that do they! There is also the silent eyeballing you will get for not using the end urinal.

E) BSSSHHHHH the second you get near it the hand dryer goes off, the second you move, the hand dryer goes off. You don’t need that sort of distraction!

So, I guess there are 3 options, B, the floor or the sink!

Which urinal would you choose to use? Of course this one is slightly aimed towards blokes. Imagine you walk into the bog at a pub and are faced with the set up above, there is currently no one else in the room but the pub is busy so its likely someone is close behind you.

Which would you use? I will post my thoughts later…

The big four (Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile) make a killing on it, whereas 3 and BT are losing money. Which obviously is why BT and 3 are leading this campaign to convince OFCom to lower these rates from around 5p to 0.8p.

Anything to save a buck I say! How to get involved? Main point is to…

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No not the houses of Lords, I mean the cricket place, it was a Twenty 20 World Cup warm up day. Which basically meant two games, firstly South Africa vs. Sri Lanka, followed up by England vs. West Indies.

As you would expect at any cricket related event there was a certain amount of beer involved, fuelled by the fact that we were going for my birthday celebrations.

Both games were relatively anti-climatic, West Indies didn’t bother letting Gayle bat which is a shame as he is one of the most exciting batsmen in the world at the moment. England did have their full team out though, and also had them out during the gap between games to warm up. Its cool to get up close and have a little chat with them.

You can check out some pictures from the day here.

Pray that this keeps up and that I only have to say nice things about my Asus 1008HA in the future.

Ciao

Anyway, I thought I’d test the machine out again last night, and WTF it worked fine off the power mains. I’ve no idea why, but I am quite excited by testing it out again tonight and hoping that it still works!

Don’t worry, I’ll keep you posted…

I feel there is going to be a little (a lot) of ‘told ya so’s’ flying in my direction over the next few days, but anyway I did go ahead and buy an Asus 1008HA last week and it arrived on Wednesday. I love it, it is insanely small and brilliant to use, the keyboard is a tapping pleasure.

However, last night I used it plugged into the mains for a couple of hours then went to bed, unplugging the machine from the mains. It turned off and wouldn’t come back on unless plugged into the mains. I thought, maybe it’s the battery overheating or something so installed speed fan to take a look at the temperatures, everything seems fine. Opened control panel to check the battery levels, maybe its not charging properly from the mains - status 100%.

Went to bed and hoped for the best this morning, but as expected really the problem continues. I have emailed the Asus support team (no phone number WTF?), I have pestered @asusuk on twitter and generally mabe a little stinking noise about it. I made a video of it happening too…

Any ideas?

P.s. who likes my duvet?

Basically Alcopopular3 is the latest compilation from Alcopop records, this is slightly different though, its only available as a bottle or mp3’s. Brilliant!

Anyway, the tweets, I got exclusive access to the tracks, a perk of knowing Jakkychamp, and each day for the next two weeks I will be reviewing a track in one tweet. The first word is the band name. So yeah keep an eye out and see what you think, hopefully I will drive some sales - LOL.

Proud to have received a special mention already!

Peace.

Had to get up to London for a 10am start, meant a nice and early 7am train, good start! Met up with rest of the team and we were ready to go:

In total there were 9 starting groups, we were split between group 8 and 9 which meant instead of starting to run at 10am, it wasn’t until around 10:20 that we ‘took off’. Timings were all done using an electronic chip that you attached to your shoe, this tracked when you went over the start line, the half way point and the finish line. So with a big cheer we got underway, the cheer was from the crowd and I assume people who had run before and knew what they were in for. Personally, I would be lying if I didn’t say I was nervous, extremely excited at the same time though.

One thing to note, when you’re running 10k, it does not help to see the leaders sprinting past the 9k marker as you are approaching the 1k marker, its quite de-motivating.

Back to my personal race, started off with @missdd and @matt_paradise, after not long @matt_paradise sped off ahead and before I realised Id lost @missdd behind. Set in to run the remaining 8k on my own… not a problem, the crowd were as expected fantastic! Cheering and clapping everyone through, the street music was great, especially the steel drumming band under a bridge at 3k/8k. Sometimes it was tough not to dance too much.

Looking back on my training, I had not done more than 6k, at around the 6k mark of the run I think I should have been in trouble, but in fact I felt fine! The feet were a little sore, my left knee hurt and my shin splints had splinted (?) at around 0.5k, but still flying, well running! Somewhere between 6k and 7k I caught back up with @matt_paradise and we ran together until 9k when he once again sped off in front. On seeing the “400m to go” sign I hit the accelerator, literally sprinting the final distance, people looked quite surprised to see me fly past.

I’d done it! I’d finished the race, without stopping once (even though I needed the toilet from the very start), it felt rather good! And still does, even though the legs ache just a little…

My time? Oh yeah – I finished in 1hr 00mins 43seconds, would have been nice to break a minute by no biggie.

I want to say a massive thank you to the rest of the team, for their support and a massive well done to them all for finishing. Their times from left to right: @missdd – 1:31, @stephaniebutler – 1:27, @cyarns – 1:08, @matt_paradise – 1:01.

Top effort, so what next? Great south run me thinks – 10 miles later this year, a nice stepping stone towards a half marathon next spring and who knows for 2011…

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