All By Myself?

Just watched the end of "Last Choir Standing", a BBC music contest thing where the title pretty much sums it up, although they had to sing against each other rather than a potentially more interesting mass brawl.

Anyway, I just can't get my head around the concept of a load of blokes stood together singing "All By Myself". Just doesn't seem right somehow.

And the best choir came third, which is even worse in my book.

EverNote is Neat

If you do anything that involves holding little bits of data and then using them from wherever you happen to be you will probably find EverNote useful.

It is a "cloud" application that lets you lob pictures, notes, web links, bits of files and whatever onto a central storage location that you can then access from your PC, Mac, browser, Windows Mobile device or iPhone.

It has some nifty search facilities, even being able to pull handwriting out of images you have captured as notes and then use them as search keys.

It seems to work really well, and you can use it for free if you don't want to upload much content. Even the paid service is not bank breaking, at $5 a month.

Whether you are studying on a degree course, running a business or just going shopping I reckon that it is well worth a look.

All in a Good Cause

Number one daughter is doing something dangerous the weekend after next and she wants to make it as lucrative as possible (at least she has learnt something from me - although not that much, because I wouldn't dare abseil from that height).

Anyhow, the event is in aid of Marie Curie cancer care. If you would like to give your support I would be most grateful. Sponsoring is very Web 2.0 easy these days, you can do it at:

http://www.justgiving.com/jennifermiles1

Dice Problem

Can you spot the problem?

I bought these dice ages ago, with the intention of taking 'Vegas by storm. One of them is loaded and one of them is not. Sneaky. Only difficultly is that the package doesn't tell me which is the loaded one.

Any ideas for tests I can perform to be absolutely sure which is the loaded die?

Get Smart

I never really saw much of the original "Get Smart" TV show. Made in the sixties, it was a moderately successful spoof of all the spy shows that were popular at the time.

Since Hollywood these days seems to be based on strip mining the past for movie ideas it was only a matter of time before they got around to making a film. Get Smart the movie is actually quite good. The original Maxwell Smart  character was a bit of an idiot. Steve Carel stars as the new one and does a good job of portraying him as more of a nerd than a buffoon, as he and Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) take on the forces of Kaos. Some of the comedy is a bit broad, and the script creaks a bit under the weight of the big budget that seem to have been thrown at it. But there are laughs to be had and I enjoyed it a lot more than the reviews say I should have.

One thing that did irritate though was the way that the projectionist at CineWorld neglected to open up the gate on the projector, so that rather than seeing the film in proper widescreen we just got the same dimensions as we can get on the telly at home. They did this last week when we saw Hellboy as well.

I'm not sure if this is a new policy, with films being made to fit DVDs rather than cinemas, but you do feel a bit cheated. The actual print itself was pretty horrid too, with poor definition and muddy colours. I think from now on we will go to Vue in town, where they have an all digial setup which is far superior in quality.