Basically hes a bit like the “Stig” but he test drives our interfaces.
Some say that the music in his ears is actually the “Copacabana” by Barry Manilow played backwards?!

Anybody got any good ideas for a name?

Anyhow in true Plusnet fashion this ended up in the Community site “End of Day“. This was then picked up by Denise Wilton from moo.com who said the following:

You’d be right to love your MOO tree - it’s awesome! And sounds like the most important part of your work, for sure. Actually, I might get our dev team on it asap - we’re lacking in one. I’ll file it as a bug.

So if anybody has any Moo cards they wish to add to the tree please feel free to send them to me!

Oh dear…

The photo by the way was taken by Wojtek, I will be quizzing him on what the hell I was doing later!

I have been having quite a stressful time recently as Leigh my girlfriend has finally convinced time that we can get the new kitchen we have been planning for the last 2 years. This though is not going according to plan and is causing daily high levels of stress, hence Barry is much more in my life…

I knew it got bad, when one of the guys that works for “Colin” asked me to do a posting on our test server for our community website. I couldn’t think of anything to post about, bearing in mind it is a test server, then along cam Barry again…

So while singing the wonderful (or not so) words to the “Copacabana” i re-wrote the first versus of the song in Colin’s favour, i called it the “Colincabana“:

His name was Colin, he was a developer
With yellow feathers in his hair and a dress cut down to there
He would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while he tried to be a star, James always played guitar!
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 9 till 5.30
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?

At the PlusNet (PL!), PlusNet (PlusNet)
The hottest spot north of Sheffield (here)
At the Plus (PL!), PlusNet
Music and passion were always the fashion!

An if anybody is interested James is another developer that work in my team!

So what is RickRolling?

Basically “RickRolling” consists of a user following a link to a page on a specific topic but are then confronted with a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”

The UrbanDictionary describes it as the following:

Rick Roll
When what you think is a link to something you want to see actually directs you to a video of Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” This is common in the WoW community.

Wikipedia describes where “RickRolling” comes from:

The song’s campy music video became the basis of an Internet meme known as “rickrolling”. It took its name from an anonymous message board meme known as “duckrolling”, a prank in which someone would post a blind link to a post, allegedly relevant to the discussion, that upon viewing would prove to be a non sequitur - specifically, an image of a duck on wheels. Similarly, in a rickroll a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the Rick Astley video. By May 2007 the practice had become widespread, and it eventually began to receive some coverage in the mainstream media.

Will this ever end?

Apparently this has been going on for over 6 months but it seems to have passed me by, I do however have a recollection of clicking a link and getting a video on YouTube of Rick Astley, but didn’t really think that much of it.

It was brought to my attention last night while watching the news on North West tonight (unfortunately I live in Derbyshire and would prefer to get Yorkshire but I get North West Telly) there was an item about “RickRolling” and how it is making Rick famous again. I presume they were focusing on it due to the fact he originates from Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire. (more…)

Then they mentioned one of my "Crushes" from being a kid which was Wendy James from Transvision Vamp. Now to my knowledge I think they only released one album which was called "Velveteen", which for some reason over the years I have owned in CD, Tape and Vinyl (I think I still have the Vinyl somewhere at my Mum & Dads house.

Anyway the point is that I hadn’t thought about here for quite sometime (not in that way…). the last thing I had heard about he was that she was in New York doing some kind of Art thing or something. So I decided to look her up on Wikipedia. To my surprise I found out that she has recently formed a new band called Racine, to quote Wikipedia: (more…)

Anyway, I was on there this afternoon looking through the latest submissions. now I have done this before and only ever come a cross a couple of designs that I really liked one I cant find anymore for some reason and this one called "Ever Fresh" by Typeterror which i think is awesome to say the least! (please excuse my down with the kids type lingo…)

If you like me, then please do me the justice of voting for this t-shirt as I so want one and will only get one if it gets made!

The latest T-shirts from Threadless for the week beginning 18th February 2008!

Topiary by Priscilla Wilson

Wizard Rock by Spencer Hibert

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