Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:09:07 AM
Aah yes, one more thing I meant to mention, I came across this the other day which I thought was pretty funny Pipecleaner Dance. Just press a,b,c,d,e or f, to play a song, hover the mouse over the on-screen keyboard and wiggle it around in time to the beat & you'll soon be giggling!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:50:02 AM
mobile, K800i, phone, Sony Ericsson
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I've never really understood why people rave on about the latest phones but now I understand and it's my turn. Last week I became the proud owner of a shiny, brand spanking new Sony Ericsson K800i!! Woohoooooooo!!! 
I am so in love with it, it smells soooo...new smelling, mmmmmmm. I was so afraid to scratch it I kept the protective stickers on it for ages, I only took them off today! lol Even the box was funky and stylish..all dark and moody looking, just begging to be unwrapped! It comes with a small leather wrist strap which smells very sexy. The phone itself is in Velvet Black with soft lines and a touch of chrome which makes it look bang up to the minute and very funky.
I'm really into SE phones. I had the K700 first of all, then the K750 and now this baby. Previously I test drove the K610 which I really hated, it had that horrible plastic feel that so many phones have which made it feel cheap and being in bright red looked tacky, which considering it retails at over £200 it certainly isn't a cheapoption. The K800 looks and feels robust and unlike the 750 has 3G. In fact theres very little it doesn't do. You know it's gonna do the business and something that SE seem to encapsulate in many of their phones is a touch of class. They really know how to pack a lot into a small space without compromising on style. I think it will be hard for them to improve on this but I'm sure they'll come up with something.
I haven't got around to testing the camera out yet so I'll get back to you on that one! It's got a lot to live up to because the K750 effortlessly took outstanding pictures, so we'll see.
Well, I have to go now, I'm getting withdrawal symptoms......
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:41:57 AM
veggie, diet, people, health
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I've been thinking a lot recently about whether I ought to become a vegetarian. I'm not a great meat eater and I don't like cooking it either, especially if it still resembles the animal or a specific part of it. The biggest thing for me is whether in the future I can resist the smell of sizzling bacon, or that I won't crave a steak ..and what about Christmas dinner? Eating a nut roast or just a plate of vegetables just doesn't have the same celebratory feel about it. I do cook a mean xmas dinner; a butter basted turkey with a grinding of black pepper covered in a lattice of smoked bacon served with pork & chestnut stuffing balls and pigs-in-blankets. Regardless of myeating preferences, everyone else in the family would still expect me to produce a feast - and quite rightly so. I've always thought it very selfish when vegetarians foist their eating habits onto their partners or children who often seem too young to have made an informed decision.
Apparently, a true vegetarian doesn't eat fish either - although some do and still class themselves as a veggie. I like fish, but when it ends up on my plate I don't want to see a pair of eyes stairing back at me! I'm not really into seafood either. Once while eating paella, I couldn't tell whether the small black pieces amongst my rice were the prawn's eyes that had fallen off or bits of black olive! I don't like it when I'm really hungry and I end up being so suspicious of my food that I don't want to eat it. That is exactly how eating meat makes me feel - like I never quite know what is on my fork. Worse still, is when it's already in your mouth and you've been chewing and chewing for a while and you know it's a wobbly bit! eeew!! At least with vegetables you know where you're at. No veins, sinews or gristle to contend with.
I have only ever known two types of veggie. Those that say they're vegetarian but don't actually follow a 'good' vegetarian diet at all and vegans. Vegans tend to adopt a very 'holyer than thou' attitude, become very political, dress quite radically as if to emphasise the point and generally look very sickly and pasty. The other thinks that being veggie is all about eating Linda Mcartney sausages and obsessively checks packet labels for signs of non-vegetarian ingredients because they don't have the first idea about how to concoct something from scratch. They also look pale and pasty. From what I have read so far, to become a healthy vegetarian, or vegan for that matter, is no easy feat. The part that gets missed out of the equation is the importance of eating plenty of nuts, pulses and seeds in addition to eating vegetables, especially to obtain that all important iron which one would normally get through eating meat.
Apparently there are now courses available for those considering converting but for me, for the time being, until I'm 100% sure I am doing the right thing I'm going to stay on my 80/20 veggie/meat diet and refrain from jumping on the band-wagon just because it's the hip thing to do.
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