Pat’s Point of View

They screened Super Size Me on free-to-air in the UK last night. Damn that was funny. And kinda distrurbing the way some people are eating these days.

It got me thinking, how much McDonald’s have I ever eaten in one stretch? When I was a volunteer fire fighter we used to work for like 15 hours straight, outdoors in summer putting out bushfires etc. The quickest and cheapest way to feed a big bunch of “firies” would be to raid a local McDonald’s. So perhaps twice in one day.

Then on a recent holiday, fatigue, frustration and the language-barrier forced us to eat McDonalds for about 3 days in a row, but only once or twice a day.

And that was enough to make us feel like crap, imagine 3 a day for 30 days?

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I’ve just setup a blog for a friend of mine, so he can archive all sorts of innovative things happening in the web and online advertising industries.

Check out Gooding’s Goodies.

I must say I was mighty impressed by Blogger. I’ve read some bad reviews, but it was very slick and very user friendly. Makes wonder why I put so much effort into setting up WordPress.

(Of course the answer is I’m fanatical about accessibility and standards compliance, so I needed the flexibility to control the code myself!)

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We’re back from our trip to Vegas and LA, it was fantastic! Actually we got back more than a week ago but I’ve been a bit slow getting around to writing about it.

We saw heaps of stuff, and got lots of sun which was much appreciated. Vegas was bigger than life, but a little monotonous after a while. LA was better, there was so much to see but we still didn’t get to see everything we planned to.

Whilst in Vegas we saw Joe Satriani at the House of Blues (in the Mandalay Bay hotel)…awesome. I bought 3 of his CDs as soon as I got back to London.

I’ve put some of our photos online.

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I think this is a better representation of my listening habits (as opposed to most frequently played tracks):

1. All That You Can’t Leave Behind, U2
2. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, U2
3. Burning Love, Elvis Presley
4. Zooropa, U2
5. The Hits / The B-Sides (Disc 1), Prince
6. Aloha from Hawaii, Elvis Presley
7. Underworld (OST), Various Artists
8. The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage Against The Machine
9. Punk-O-Rama 5, Various Artists
10. Ministry of Sound: Club Nation, Various Artists