I am sure the Beijing Olympics have escaped nobody, and am even more certain that Usain Bolt’s performance there has been outstanding. I am not a huge sports fan, but when I saw his 100m and 200m races, I was amazed!

I have been able to find the videos of the two races which I hope you will enjoy!

Men’s 200m Beijing 2008

Unfortunately this video’s video and sound is out of sync, but if you find a better one please tell me and I will replace this one.

Men’s 100m Beijing 2008

I have been unable to find a 100m video on any official sites, and I cannot embed this video, oddly, so please click on the link to watch the 100m race.

Click here to watch

Many of you may use the Bebo social networking site. This site has fairly recently allowed third party applications such as games, and one of the most popular games is kick ups. In this game you have to click on the ball at the right time to make it bounce. This is not as easy as it sounds, and a pretty average score is about 12 or 13 before the ball drops to the ground. If you look on the leaderboards, you often see people with huge scores like 998. This is thanks to a computer program being used by people to train up their kicks. What I am going to explain is not this technique, but a simpler one that doesn’t involve downloading anything, meaning that there’s no risk of getting viruses. With this you can go on as long as you like, but it’s quite time consuming.

What you do, is you click on the ball to start, and then as it is in the air, quickly right click and push P. The ball will stop in mid air, and all you have to do is move your mouse to it and click on it again. You just repeat this process until you have the number you would like, when you just let the ball fall to the ground, which will save your high score. It’s a simple and silly little thing, but it’s good fun when your friends have no idea how you got such a high score.

Hi everybody, sorry I haven’t posted for so long. I’ve had exams, but now I’m back I have been overwhelmed by the number of hits I have been getting! Thanks everybody!

I found this quick reaction test a while ago- be careful- it gets very addictive! Click here to play it.
The best I managed to get was Rocketing Rabbit- but I haven’t managed it again

Tell me what you get in the comments below!

While browsing around today, I found a great blog post on how to draw facial expressions. You can find the original article on this site, along with other interesting articles and other tutorials.

Here is a small selection of the drawings on the blog post at DaniDraws.com. You can find the full post with many more diagrams here.

I would also like to thank you all for your presence here on my blog, as without you I would have no audience, and without an audience, I could not have reached the 15,000 hits I have achieved! So thank you!

Lolcats- we internet people all know what they are. Amusing pictures of cats or other animals with funny captions (usually lacking in grammatical correctness) related to what they’re doing in the picture. The top WordPress blog is a lolcat site- ICanHasCheezburger. You can even create your own lolcats with this generator.

Occasionally I’m going to post my favourites on here for you all to enjoy.

26th of October- my 15th birthday!

Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to Seb,
Happy birthday to me!

Wahay!!!

Sorry I haven’t been writing recently, but I’ve been really busy with work etc.

I hope you all have a great day and do lots of fun things. Luckily over here in the UK we’re on holiday!!! What better time to have a birthday?

I found this picture using StumbleUpon today and I thought I should share it with you.

The picture was originally from Peking Olympische Spiele 2008 - wie das Logo entstand- a german site.

Here it is:

Edit:
On February 8th Harvard Mossige posted a comment showing an quick animation he made for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Logo- I thought it was great! Thanks for that!

This is his animation that can also be found here.

It is reminiscent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests- you can learn more about this awful massacre here and here.

Hello again.

I found this quick video while browsing on the internet today, and thought I’d show you all. The video is a quick and fun one advertising the importance of turning off devices and not just leaving them in standby mode.

Before I show you the video, I’d just like to share a few facts on standby mode with you.

- Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations’ worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby.

- Electrical equipment in sleep mode used roughly 7TWh of energy and emits around 800,000 tonnes of carbon.

- Standby modes on electronic devices account for 8% of all British domestic power consumption.

-Estimated annual CO2 emissions from devices left on standby:
Stereos - 1,600,000 tonnes
Videos - 960,000 tonnes
TVs - 480,000 tonnes
Consoles - 390,000 tonnes
DVD players - 100,000 tonnes
Set-top boxes - 60,000 tonnes

(Source: Energy Saving Trust)

Shocking isn’t it?

Today, Wednesday 19th September be TLAPD 2007! I hope ye all spent your days wearin’ eyepatches, finding parrots, sailing ships, wavin’ flags and swords, singin’, drinkin’ rum, walkin’ people off the good ol’ plank, talkin’ like a pirate and lootin’ people aroun’ you. If ye be interested in a little bit of the history of talk like a pirate day on wikipedia, click here. For the proper website, click here. Arrr!

And now, for some nice ol’ piratey things/sayings.

“Yaharr!!!” “Shiver me timbers!!!” “Arr!” “Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won’t you, matey.” “Avast, there!” “Dead men don’t bite.” “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” “There! That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”

“We’re going this way, that way, forwards and backwards over the Irish sea, a bottle or run to fill my tum and that’s the life for me!” ARRRRR!!!