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Amazon.co.uk are going to restrict
orders for the Xbox 360 Amazon will be restricting
the number of XB360 consoles it's customers can purchase...
this is basically to ensure that as many people are
able to get one in time for Christmas.
The all singing,
all dancing, ultra-smart new console is set to hit
the UK shops on December 2nd, But reports suggest that
a mere 300,000 consoles have made it to Europe.
Apparently
retailers have already warned customers that the lack
of supply to Europe will not meet the expected demand
from keen gamers over the Christmas period. As a consequence;
Amazon has restricted orders for the console to one
per customer account... "We
have to ensure that as many customers as possible can
have an Xbox 360 for Christmas Day". I think this
was a sensible decision to make, given that the XB360
is clearly going to be as bigger hit in Europe as it
was in the US, restricting the console to one per customer
makes sense to me. Why should others be deprived as
a consequence of another's greed? |
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Well I need a telephoto lens for my
Nikon D50, and im thinking the Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor
55-200mm. It's a nice £199 RRP but ill be able
to get it for £189.99... so It's all good. It
will mean I now have to ask for money for Christmas,
but that's fine.
Link - http://www.askdirect.co.uk/search/Nikon_AFSDX55200mm.html
It's
like a perfect setup for me. I already have the Nikon
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm lens, so if I get the Nikkor
55-200mm Id have from 18mm (Wide angle) right the way
up to 200mm (Telephoto) for now. This should suffice
but I just need to get that bit closer to subjects,
(Birds & Small birds), that are, say,
in a tree. At the moment this is not quite possible.
My
friend has the exact same lens I plan to get so it's
not like I don't have clue what I am getting my self
into. It's a brilliant lens in fact, I've tried it
before. It's focal length is astounding... we got a
tight, yet seemingly cropped shot from our 6th form
study room of the root base of a tree out across a
field.
Later, maybe, I will be able to get a teleconverter...
this way I will then have the ability to zoom in even
closer to subjects that are typically further away.
I've seen some awesome shot's at 200mm by Charles Miller.
Link
- http://www.nikon.co.uk/press_room/releases/show.aspx?rid=155
Oh!
But wait... I have been doing some more research and
consequently found something in addition to the Nikkor
55-200mm... the Nikon AF 70-300 ED Zoom Nikkor... now
this is a smart, neat and AWESOME piece of technology
and strangely cheaper then the 55-200mm. Not only that
but I get an EXTRA 100mm focal length making it 18-300mm
of zoom, to really get those far away subjects. I don't
know which one i shall get.
Link - http://www.europe-nikon.com/details.aspx?countryId=20&languageId=22&prodId=251&catId=121 |
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Well after nearly a whole year of not
working out at all, (I stopped in February 2005), I
am now getting back into it. It's official!!
Right now...
im just downloading my trance music to get me going,
then ill be away.
Thanks to Byron for the encouragement. |
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Last week I wrote an article about the $100 Wind-up
laptops being sent out to children in the developing
countries. This was part of some 'research' for my design
technology lighting project and apparently it 'ties in'
with the project?... how? Well here's the article.
Article
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This is hilarious, i got it through
an email the other week.
Link
It's a flash movie... let it load and then watch
it, does it remind anybody of Jason Luc?
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Whilst we're on the subject of media (related) things
I want to introduce you to Final Fantasy... anybody
who hasn't seen any of the movies or played any of
the games should. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
is a fantastic movie with amazing CGI, the fight
scenes are spectacular and the sound is brilliant.
If English, you'd be watching the movie with subtitles...
which can be a pain as some of the dialogue hardly
stays up there for long enough to read.
FFVII: AC (Final
Fantasy VII: Advent Children) - Trailer
Cloud
Strife has hair I could only dream of having |
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Well as you might know I went up to London
today to get a Nikon D50 for Photography course. The
only thing I need now is a memory card, but I've already
ordered a 1GB SD memory card off of Amazon, 1st class.
As I lack a memory card I haven't really been able to
fully experiment and play around with the camera but
I have had it out of the box, getting to grips with all
the controls and its general functionality. I think Im
going to really enjoy using it. It's a grate camera.
I will post some pictures up when I feel like it. |
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Severely pissed off, after struggling
through three exercises of "Formulae and expressions" from
the dreaded maths book. Maths can actually be 'cool'
at times (when you can fly through topics like ratio,
percentages or index notation and standard form) |
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Well on Tuesday night I'll be getting a Nikon D50
for my photography course. I've read up on all its
features and everything... I think it's going to
be an awesome camera to use when I get it. It's an
ideal camera for the course and for me... not too
advanced or expensive at around £500. I prefer
the black bodied one and I will be getting it with
either a Nikon 18-70mm.DX lens or an Nikon 18-55mm.DX
lens, this depends on how things work out... I have
chosen to do 'details' for my course so that'll require
that I do a lot of close up/macro shooting, consequently
a wide angel lens will not be needed.
Ive posted a
few links below if you want to find out more about
the Nikon D50.
Link 1 (Nikon UK site)
Link 2 (Nikon press room)
Link 3 (Amazon) |
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I've been scouted to write for TechZap.net, a technical
news blog/site "Tech News, Made Easy". They
write articles about all things computerized/gaming.
I am now part of the team of writers there and will
be writing articles for the website too.
www.TechZap.net
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I am proposing to devise a 'comments system' where
you can all write comments/remarks or opinions or
whatever based on what I write here... basically
each blog entry I write you can post a comment. I
am working on the back-end script for it and it should
be complete by this weekend, fingers crossed. |
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Maths teacher Mr McManorway gave me a whole chapter
of work straight from the book to work on over the
weekend and be done by Monday, chapter topic... algebra.
This is a piss take. It's like 4 pages of questions...
what an idiot.
I have decided Im not going to do it
but move on to the next chapter, do that, and then
use the excuse that "I didn't understand the algebra" then
get some help on the algebra chapter back at school.
On
a more positive note I made this 'cool' signature picture
for all the forums I am a member of. It took about
five minutes to whip up in Photoshop using some screen
pictures from the film it's self. I plan to do a better
one later on but for now here is the result...
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We have a new car!
Yes it's an Isuzu Rodeo; I don't know the model but
its pretty cool, colour... Cape Blue Metallic.
The car has a very American look about it. Inside
you don't exactly get all the bells and whistles
but it's very spacious (especially in the back),
with plenty of boot room for the dog. It's a good
car, I like it.
I shall post some pictures up tomorrow.
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Ok so I did say I'd post up some picture(s)
as opposed to just one but ironically I only have
one to post up... here it is, the car...
You can simply click on the above thumbnail to get
a larger picture that will open in a new browser window. |
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Well I've just created this thing so I will be doing
more to it, and posting blogs and stuff during the
course of this week. |
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