GTA Chinawars on DS - 95.69% Complete!!

95.69% Complete I tell you!!!!  And I haven't cheated.  All I have done is find a list online of what is needed to make 100% completion and find the location of some of the races.  Now I'm just wandering around Liberty City trying to find the last 9 cameras (that's right I've found 91 of the damn things without any help!), 6 Stunt Jumps 4 Rampages and 1 Safe House.

I'm on the verge of downloading a map to show them but I'm desperate to finish it without doing that!!!!

I'll keep you updated.  If you care.  NERDS RULE!

Never Forget Your Beginners Spirit

I'm not a charity type person but there are a few that I think are very worthwhile.  You can only support so many or you'd just spend your life feeling guilty for not giving to every sick/wounded/abused/deprived person/animal/plant in the world.  So visit this one.  A hero and inspiration and a charity ethos that goes about things the right way

Livestrong Foundation

Well Done Wiggo and Cav!!!

You may have noticed that the Tour de France has been on for the last 3 weeks.  I love this sporting event.  Many people can't see the appeal of a bunch of blokes riding around France on their bikes and if that's the case then I'm not going to ry and explain the appeal!!

Anyway, this year has been great for British riders.  Mark Cavendish, the Manx Missle, was always on for a few sprint stage wins but finishing with 6, including the final Paris stage, was amazing!  And would have won the Green Jersey had it not been for a disqualification in a stage that he shouldn't have been done for.

And Bradley Wiggins, finishing 4th overal.  4th!!!  Amazing.  And had it not been for a bit of an error early in the race when he got caught in a small split in the peleton he may have had 3rd.  The guy has tansformed himself froma track star to a mountain climber and looks good for next year.

David Millar, as always, rode like a trooper, helping Bradley out as a team mate and also with a valiant break away that failed with 1km to go in Barcelona.  

Can't wait for next year with Team Sky (the new GB team) and Lance Armstrongs Team Radioshack as well.

At least the French have got one thing right ;-)

County 2 - 1 Forest...Oh dear.....

..Work is going to be fun on Monday!!!  The Sven-Express has started to run!!  Choo-choo!!!

Do you know who I am?

I'm sure these words have been uttered recently by a few famous people over the last few days.  Most notably would be Steven Gerrard.  For those of you who don't know he's the Liverpool Football Club captain who recently got found not guilty for afray in a bar.  Roughly translated, he didn't kick the shit out of a DJ.  Now from the CCTV footage it appears that he wanted to take over the music and wasn't allowed and then later kicked the crap out of this bloke with 6 of his mates.  

Of course I have no idea if this really happend or not.  Obviously it didn't happen because he got a standing ovation from the Liverpool fans at a match he played in the evening after the trial and they're all honest, good law abiding citizens of the UK.......

Michael Vick got banged up for years for a bit of dog fighting......at least the Americans don't bottle out of punishing their stars.  (Mind you wish they had let Vick off this time, bloody PETA!!!)

And don't get me started on that overrated Amy Drughouse.....sorry Winehouse.......

And the No. 1 football team in Nottingham is.....

.....well, strictly speaking it's Nottingham Forest. Playing in the Championship alongside some great footballing teams such as Cardiff City, :-D , as opposed to Notts County, who pretty much only stayed in the football league last year due to several teams going into administration.

Some people may be wondering why I bring this up and start this post with such a statement.  Well Notts County Football Club have recently been bought by investors who are going to be putting a lot of money into the club and have this week employed the former England Manager Sven Goran-Eriksson as Director of Football.  Since this was confirmed on Wednesday there has been constant talk from County fans of getting into the Premiership and quashing those poor losers from across the Trent once and for all.  They have decided that they don't need the money from Nottingham Rugby Club, who were sharing their ground last season (and bringing in nearly as many fans as the football team) and seem to have forgotten that they nearly went bust a season or two ago and received a lot of donations from the people of Nottingham irrelevant of their sporting allegiances.

This is all lining up to be the most embarrassing story in football history.  Falls from grace are nothing new (just look at Leeds United, Southampton and even Nottingham Forest to a certain extent) but tripping over at the bottom of the pile before you've even got to the height where you can even fall from grace is going to be painful to watch.

What makes this even worse is that nationally it is seen as a huge joke.  Sven is a comical figure, renowned for his off field antics and lack of success on the field, and the city of Nottingham is being made a laughing stock in the press ("Svens first job is to find local talent-that shouldn't be too hard!" paraphrased from the BBC website).  Hooters on London Road has never had such great coverage.  If they fail in their bid for success then......I hope Nottingham Tourist board have some good ideas to improve the image!

Don't get me wrong, I really hope that County do well for the sake of the City, and I think that they have started going about it the right way.  But if this constant arrogance (for want of a better word) continues from the fans that I see on a daily basis  without any justification, I think I will be stood on the south side of the Trent laughing my head off when the wheels of the Sven-express fall off.

PS. I'm not a bitter Forest fan or a true 'Pie, so I can be seen as neutral in this debate wanting nothing more than success for the city that I live in.  Feel free to comment and tell your friends!!

PPS.  My wife is a County fan so I hope they do well to keep her happy!!!

Economy to take 5 years to recover.....

....back to the heady hieghts of 2008, which is when it all went tits up because we were booming!!  For the love of god, can we stop listening to the 'experts' about when a recovery will happen?  These are the 'fools' who didn't predict the down turn and are being so conservative about any further predications that they really can't be trusted, can they?

If we just bought stuff that we need/want when we can afford it and not be scared about spending because of what the media tell us then we'd all be just hunky-dory!!

We're all going to die!!!!

Swine Flu: The new killer.......

Oh come on people, get a grip!  I'm sick of the scare mongering and hyping up of this pandemic by the media.  It's flu.  Flu is always here.  In fact, I believe it is a mild form of flu.  Does every death from 'normal' flu get reported?  No.  In fact I bet most people don't realise people even die from flu all the time.

I've never had flu thankfully. I hear that it knockcs you for six.  Apparently a good test of whether you have flu or not is the £20 test.  If you are told there is a £20 note at the bottom of your garden and that it is yours if you get up and get it and you really can't do it then you have flu!!  Swine flu though, as I'm led to believe by experts, is a mild form of flu.

But wait!!  The media are telling me that some people are at risk and may DIE!!!  Who are these people?  The very old, the very young, the ill and the pregnant.  Hang on I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before.......oh yes, on a poster, in a doctors surgery in an episode of 'Only fools and horses' from the 1980's!

I could go on all night in this debut blog post but I'd beter stop.

Basically, if you get it deal with it.  If you are in the risk group then take it more seriously and contact your doctor.  If you're not at risk, does it matter if you are tested and can then tell everyone "I had swine flu you know" or if you're not tested and just rest for a few days and move on???

COMMON SENSE PEOPLE!!!

Thanks for reading (yeah like anyone is going to read this!!!)

Sharif