Scarborough & Scouts!

Today, I went to Scarborough to have yet more meetings about my dissertation, all good fun, I think! Will speak more later as I am going to help at my local Scout Group this evening!

Beatles classic voted worst song!

I read this article on the BBC site with great interest this evening;

" The Beatles did not release Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da as a single in the UK. The Beatles' 1968 song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da has been voted the worst song ever in an online poll. The track was on the band's White Album - which is regarded as one of the best albums ever made.

It was rated as being worse than former footballer Paul Gascoigne's Fog On The Tyne in a Mars survey of 1,000 people.

In third place was Meat Loaf's 1993 hit I'll Do Anything For Love, while 5ive, Cliff Richard, Vanilla Ice and Steps were also in the top 10.

The top 5 worst songs where;

1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
2. Fog on the Tyne - Gazza and Lindisfarne
3. I'll Do Anything For Love - Meat Loaf
4. Diamond Lights - Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle
5. We Will Rock You - 5ive featuring Queen

Three of the songs on the list are sung by footballers, including the 1987 song Diamond Lights by Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle.

Liverpool's Anfield Rap, featuring John Barnes, also makes the top 10.

Ian Edwards, lecturer at the Academy of Contemporary Music, said: "Admit it or not, most of these are songs that we liked when they first came out.

"That is the nature of pop music as a part of fashion. Songs are popular at the time, but times change and often this results in embarrassing additions to your record collections.

"It is interesting to note that they were nearly all hits."

A spokesman for Mars said "they asked voters to base their answers on the song's merits, not their opinions of the bands. "

I will agree with all the choices apart from Number 3 which I think is a particularly good song, and Meatloaf a relatively good artist. 5ive's take of of queen was not memorable to say the least however! And Fog on the Tyne was not appealing due to Mr Paul Gascoigne's appearance, he should stick to what he was good at. The Footballers should really stick to football, I think!

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Released!

Mozilla have finally made the first release of there excellent browser Firefox available to us all as release 1.0. I have been using the browser for several months now and think it is a great improvement on Microsoft Internet Explorer!

Dissertation!

Did some work for my dissertation entitled, Promoting Scarborough on the Worldwide Web, don't have a lot more to say!

Well Done Paula!

Today, I had a busy day, I got up this morning turned on my monitor and it decided to do some strange things, so much so that I thought it was on its last legs which worried me! However, I went back on it this afternoon and it appears to be OK so I do not know what caused that little problem!

Today, I went through to Hull to visit the University library to take various books back and to get some others out for further work on my dissertation! Whilst doing this I called into various locations to look at the price of new monitors, the good ones are quite expensive and I would like a CTX plasma monitor as my CTX CRT has been so reliable. I have had my CTX monitor for five years without having a problem with it which is good. However when I visited the shops in Hull no CTX monitors could be found which was worrying!

Anyway, I did some more work on my dissertation in the University library and came home, the library was very quiet, today! When I got home I watched Monarch of the Glen and saw that Paula Radcliffe had won the New York Marathon, hence the title of my post!

Gym!

Today, I made my way to the gym I have joined at Hornsea Leisure Centre in order to increase my fitness!

Dissertation!

Spent the day working on organising myself and all my things in my room at home, then did some work for my dissertation entitled, Promoting Scarborough on the Worldwide Web! Do not have a lot more to say really!

RSS Feed From My Blog

Yesterday, I was busy working on my dissertation, however now I have a newsreader installed on my PC I thought I would give my readership the opportunity to read my blog in RSS enabled News Readers thanks to Blogger's new features. If you want to to read my Blog via a newsreader just put the following address into your newsreader to experience this http://kempy234.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Today, I went to Scarborough to have yet more meetings about my dissertation, all good fun, I think! Will speak more later as I am going to help at my local Scout Group this evening!

George Bush Wins in the U.S!

President Bush has admitted US election win which means that democratic challenger John Kerry has admitted defeat in the US election, giving President George W Bush a second term in office, we will just have to wait and see what other interesting decisions the president can cause in this term of office.

Personally, I thought that John Kerry would have made a better president, but the American people obviously didn't agree with me! And on the news of defeat John Kerry has said the fight has only just begun, so we will have to wait and see whether he can keep the pressure up on George Bush!

Today, I have been doing some more work on my dissertation, including creating a website plan, so I am now nearly at the design stage! The weather outside here in Hornsea has not been too hot, but I suppose it is England in November, no nice weather like in America! I am now going to make my way to the Gym so I will be back in time to see British Isles: A Natural History!

Scouting 2007 Web Team Meeting!

I have just found out that in two weeks time I will be making another trip down to Reading for another Scouting 2007 web team meeting! I hope it will be as enjoyable as last time, however I think it will probaby be not quite as warm as when I visited Reading last time at the end of August earlier this year. Today, I went through to Scarborough once again to do yet more work on my Dissertation!

Visit to CIC in Scarborough!

Spent the day doing more work for my dissertation, this time in Scarborough! I saw one of my old tutors and generally renewed my books and worked on my Dissertation in Hull Universities Scarborough Campus library!

Meanwhile it looks like it is crunch time for Bush and Kerry as the race for the White House goes down to the wire in the U.S. President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry spent the day careering across America's few undecided states yesterday in a frantic final pitch for votes, as last minute polls gave the president a slender lead.

An average of the polls ahead of election day tomorrow gave Mr Bush just a two-point lead, well within the margin of error.