My Future Presentation about Rowan Atkinson

So... I'm going to do my presentation on the actor, comedian but unfortunately not singer-songwriter: Rowan Atkinson. Rowan Atkinson is known for his acting as Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder and Mr. Bean in, well, uh Mr. Bean. So, I will keep you informed about my presentation later.
 

Why Wales will win the Rugby World Cup

Being an avid Welsh rugby fan, I was over the moon when Wales knocked out Ireland in the World Cup quarter-finals thanks to an inspiring match from the Welsh team, who put in %110 in order to beat Ireland convincingly to earn their place in the Semi-finals. I was also absolutely delighted when England put in a poor performance against France the next day, and lost 19-12, therefore ending their chances of winning or coming anywhere close to winning the World Cup. 

And so, here are my valid reasons why Wales will win The Rugby World Cup 2011. These reasons come from a website which i personally find extremely good, it is a welsh rugby blog, which is, obviously about welsh rugby!

For any of you who wish to view that website- click on this link:    http://welshrugbyblog.co.uk/ for a brilliant website all about welsh rugby!

5 Reasons Wales Will Win the Rugby World Cup

• We’ve worked out that everyone has worked out our tactics.  It may have taken a few years but it seems we could well have more than just the one plan going into a game.  This should shock a few teams.
• Talent. I may have said that there are better teams than us but I don’t think that there is a gulf in talent.  The likes of Adam Jones, Gethin, Bradley Davies, Warburton, Jamie Roberts and Shane are hugely talented – as are others that I couldn’t be bothered to type out due to my being lazy.
• Give it to Shane.  We may have a plan B now (we hope), but if all else fails the ‘give it to Shane’ plan still has a remarkably high success rate.
• Someone opened the fly half factory again.  Stephen Jones is a Welsh legend as far as I am concerned, but Hook is starting to look like a 10 again and Priestland took to the international stage with aplomb.  Add in youngsters like Tovey and Biggar who couldn’t even make the squad and it seems someone remembered how to make outside halves again.
• Tight 5.  The loss of Rees is a big blow, but even without him we will finally have a worthwhile tight 5 on the field.  Gethin,  Jones, AWJ and Bradley are a match for most teams…and with the impressive Sam Warburton backing them up we could well do some real damage up front…even against physical teams like the Bokkes.  Look what Adam was doing to the much vaunted Argentine scrum.

5 More Reasons Wales Will Win the Rugby World Cup

• It is being played in a country that has rugby as a national sport, a lot of rain and a huge amount of sheep.  If it wasn’t for the long flight and the mullets some of our players might not even have noticed they left Wales.
• George North! The wikipedia entry may now have been edited by some heathens but we all know that George North! (yes, the exclamation mark is an important part of his name) was created in a volcano and has the power of the Gods.  He went back in time to father both Chuck Norris and Shane Williams, and is so strong he could actually spot Andrew Sheridan (who I am reliably informed, by some mad English people, can bench press planets).  He could win the RWC by himself, whilst eating a Dorset Naga.
• We’re World Champions we won it at 7s remember?  It’s about as relevant as the English win in 03 and they’re still clinging to that, so why can’t we.
• The Kiwis will choke.  And so will the Saffers, and the Aussies.  The French will implode and the English are as threatening as a balloon in a pin factory.
• Because we’ve got the greatest Haka response in history.  No not the awesome standing there one (whichyou can see here).  Instead I have an inside source telling me that we will be doing this one…

Other People’s Views

So what do other teams think will allow them to win the RWC?

South Africa

Well the other, other Green and Gold (the Springbok version), think that it is because

• Their conservative game plan suits the RWC
• Their game plan suits the weather
• Their 50% RWC winning record counts for something
• Experience (they have amongst the oldest squads – Ireland has THE oldest one btw)
• Their strength in depth coming off the bench

But they forget that they are up against George North! in the pool stages.

Ireland

They think they will win it because

• They were pathetic in the Warm Ups.  Honestly, that looks like the reasoning.
• They’re the oldest team there (maybe we should buy them a pipe and slippers)
• They were rubbish last world cup (hang on, is their thinking really “because we’re old and rubbish”)
• They have Sean O’Brien
• They have a lot of Irish living out there

So to sum up – the Irish think they will win it because they are old and pathetic!

Australia

• X-factor.  Simon Cowell is coaching them, or maybe they read Graham Henry’s book by the same name.  Or apparently they have some players who can do something with the ball, liking to pretend they are Shane.
• Game plan.  Well they say game plan but actually talk about defending well with some good forwards.  Seems they want to be English?
• Timing.  They are on a good run of form timing wise.  Actually got nothing to say to that, it’s a good point.
• Fearless.  they’re not scared of any team.  They haven’t met George North! Yet though
• They’re the good guys.  Until they lose and we hear them complain about how everyone else cheated, we need to change the rules, the drop goals need less points, we should be more like rugby league, etc, etc.  Sorry, no team with John o’Neill as a CEO can be called the good guys.

To summarise:  they want to be Shane, they want to be English, they want to be the good guys.  To be fair though they are actually looking pretty good.

New Zealand

Like us they chose 10 reasons rather than 5, but unlike us I think they were serious.

• Dan Carter.  They claim he is the best player in the world.  They are wrong, he is 2nd best (providing we don’t allow George North! to count due to being too awesome)
• Richie McCaw.  They claim he is 2nd best.  They are wrong, he is better than Carter.  Though I think I may be supporting their point here.
• They lost to the Aussies.  Hang on, isn’t this the same reasoning the Irish came up with?  If they claim experience we know they’re just copying
• Eden Park.  They win there a lot.  Then again they don’t win the in the RWC a lot, let’s see which tradition wins
• It’s at home.  See the point above.  Couldn’t manage 10 reasons apparently, so cheated and put up a ‘ditto’.  Should have expected that from a team that has Richie McCaw at 7.
• Losing.  They lost more than they usually do already this season.  So another reason based on they are not as good as usual.  I get lost with some of this reasoning.
• Experience.  There it is, same as the Irish.  They’re experienced at failing, so they’re going to win it this time.
• Experience.  ANOTHER ditto!  They’ve got rid of some blokes who are good and brought in some guys that are good.  Interesting logic, but ok.
• Competition for the jersey.  Fair enough, they do have impressive strength in depth.
• They’re due a win.  If it is done on a rota system shouldn’t Wales be ahead of them?

So the logic?  They have some good players, they’re home, and they have lost more than usual.  Interesting

England

They can’t possibly this time can they?  They made the final by being crap last time out, they’re presumably trying to emulate that.

• Monstrous scrum.  Seriously?  It’s pretty good but my money would be on Adam to teach them a lesson here.  Again.
• Nous.  They point out that they managed to do well with Farrell at 10.  So apparently being rubbish and making the final in 07 is relevant.  So to is the World Cup 7s win for us then
• Jonny.  Oh come on, the English can’t go 5 minutes without praising St Jonny of Wilkinson, you didn’t think they could manage 5 points without him could they?  Actually 5 points might be two more than they will manage to score at once.
• Route to the final.  Having been blessed with a very easy group (sorry, Group of Death as their coaches claimed), they think having to ;just’ beat France and the Aussies will be easy.  No English arrogance here then.
• Weather.  10 man rugby will suit them apparently.  Never mind that they no longer have that good a pack.

So, these are the reasons from the welsh blog for why Wales will win the World Cup, and I completely agree with all of them, and that is why I think Wales will win the Rugby World Cup 2011!!!!

How to hypnotize YOURSELF: For Dummies.

One of my recent posts was teaching you guys how to hypnotize (sort of) other people. But now, I am posting a few videos that will help you hypnotize yourself and mess up your eyes, in a good way though :D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHP4h7MgVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu3VpGRvnYg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBL4hRoqRWY

There are also many other weird eye tricks on youtube that can hypnotize you, and it just takes a couple of seconds to find them, so have fun and keep hypnotizing!

The history of the Web Browser

The first ever web browser was invented in 1991 by a British man named Tim Berners-Lee. He named this browser the WorldWideWeb and it allowed computer users worldwide to access many different websites letting them do different things. Tim Berners-Lee came up with the original idea whilst working at CERN and, using an original idea of his, called hypertext and adding that to a recent invention of his, he was able to create the first web browser: The WorldWide Web. The idea became a reality in 1991 when he created the web browser in the CERN facilities in Geneva, Switzerland, and the first ever web page was posted on the 6th of August 1991 and the web address was named http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and this directed the user to a website about Tim Berner-Lee's new invention. The world wide web    
           Tim Berners-Lee
  
    The first ever website


Although the WorldWideWeb was a great invention and completely changed the world of technology, it wasn't the first commercially successful web browser as many people were not familiar with the new technology and weren't sure how to use it or what it was used for. But, over time, the understanding for the web browser increased and when Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina teamed up to create a new web browser, the understanding of the technology was more advanced so more people used it because they knew what to do with it, this made it the first commercially successful web browser. Marc Andreessen's web browser was called Mosaic which was originally designed for Unix's x Window system called xmosaic, but it was later programmed to work with Windows and Macintosh. Mosaic was first developed and released in December 1992 and version 1.0 (released after versions 0.1-0.9) was released in April 1993, and version 2.0 was compatible with Windows and Macintosh in December 1993. There were also other web browsers being invented in around the same period, such as Cello, Erwise and MidasWWW but they were nothing compared to Mosaic, which was much more popular than all it's competitors. Many sources also say that "Mosaic was the web browser which led to the internet boom of the 1990's"


The homepage of the Mosaic web page                          Marc Andreessen

How to hypnotize people: For Dummies.

This is the second part of a series in my new "For Dummies" range. So, this post I'm going to teach you guys how to hypnotize people for the mentally   intellectually challenged. So, here is a step, by, step guide for how to hypnotize people: For Dummies.

1) Choose a willing assistant, preferably quite a gullible person who will be easily fooled into being hypnotized by a "Dummy"
2)Tell he/she/it that you will hypnotize them. This prevents the quizzical look on their face when you start waving a watch in front of their face.
3) Whisper in their ear to play along with it. Hopefully if you have picked a gullible assistant, you can bribe them to play along and they will believe you and play along with the trick.
4) Find an object which is relativity easy to swing in front of somebody's face. E.g. a watch, a half opened banana, a yoyo, a dead mouse, a snake (preferably dead, but alive is also fine) and a fridge diamond necklace (a plastic necklace is fine for those slightly poorer people reading this post)
5) Gather an audience of dummies- it is vital that you gather a group of dummies as they will be easily fooled by your hypnotizing act- whereas "smart" people will not. If you do not have access to a group of dummies, try going to the labour party offices/ a zoo as both of these "species" will be perfect for your act.
6) Swing the object of your choice (see number 4) in front of your assistants face and tell him to keep his eyes on the object.
7) Keep swinging
8) Keep swinging
9) Stop swinging it...... Only kidding, keep swinging it.
10) Tell your assistant in a calm-ish voice that he is getting sleepy- and if you picked a gullible dummy he will start getting sleepy.
11) Tell him/her/it to go to sleep- once again. if you picked a dummy as a volunteer, they will collapse and fall asleep on the floor.
12) Towards the dummies/animals/labour party members and bow.

So... that is how to hypnotize people: For Dummies. It works every time.

Legal Disclaimer: This does not work every single time, I just said that to look smart, in fact it will probably never work, but who cares, it's entertaining. So, farewell and have fun hypnotizing your fellow Dummies. :D

My previous blog post was inspired by a post from a brilliant blog written by someone i know, so he should take most of the credit. http://oliverjb 10/how-to-f ix-broken-inter net- connection. html

What to do if your computer fails: For Dummies.

As the title suggests, this post is about computer failures and what to do with them if your'e not a "computer nerd" e.g. N.O.R.M.A.L. So, here are my guidelines for what to do if your computer messes up written for dummies, by a dummy.

1) Scream- this is a common solution for computer problems, I find, if you scream at your computer long enough, it normally gives up annoying you and starts working again.

2) Hit the computer- like screaming, violently attacking the computer is also a simple but very effective way of "mending it", just one hard jab at the computer screen is normally enough to get the device to magicaly work again.

3) press every single key- normally when the computer says error, it normally means that there is an error with the keys- so, to sort that out, violently press each and every one of the keys, and yes, that does include the é key, and your computer will start working in a jiffy.

4) Ask the audience- if pressing every single button fails you, you can always ask the "nerds" in the hypothetical audience for their opinion and as, ummm, well... someone in the world probably says "nerds are never wrong..... except when they are..."

5) Phone a friend- as it suggests, tip number 5 is to phone a friend, but, if they give you the wrong information, they're obviously not your friends, and you need to go get a life and find/buy some more friends.

6) Press the screen- if your computer messes up, it may be because it is a touch screen computer and you need to touch something to un-mess it up. This is quite a rare case, but it does happen to some dummies out there. So, always try touching the computer screen to see if that makes any difference, if it doesn't, well I would like to apologize for telling you to wipe your greasy fingers on your new computer screen leaving weird multicolored stains on the screen.

7) Become a "computer geek"- I don't really know how you become a computer geek, but I'm sure it's got something to do with getting rid of your social life and spending 24 hours a day reading computer manuals, but I guaranty you, when you do join the nerd tribe, you will easily be able to fix your mended computer.

8) Look it up on google- This might be one of the simplest methods of the lot, as you are typing your question into a box and it is being directly ignored answered by computer nerds all around the world.

9) Ignore number 8- if your computer has messed up it will probably be slightly difficult to look something up on the internet, my bad :/

10) Turn it on and off- this is the method that almost anyone tries 3rd, after punching the screen and shouting at it, but, if you want my advice, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME  ANYWHERE because it never works and your computer ends up in a worst state than it was at the start.

11) Read the instruction manual- Only do this as a last ditch resort as instruction manuals are the single most confusing things on earth, lets put it this way, I would rather eat a rabid dog than read a computer manual as they are all written in complete gibberish and, in my opinion, people who can read them should be classed as bilingual. P.S. if you throw the instructions away as soon as you get them 1) Hi-5, I do that too 2) completely ignore the last paragraph. P.P.S. I was sort of kidding about the rabid dog bit, please no-one follow me up on that.

12) Complain- this is certainly my dad's favorite method because whenever something stops working, he immediately says that he is complaining to the company and demands a full refund, even if the computer is 20 odd years old. But, whenever my dad complains, he normally gets his way as he is, how do I put this politely?, uh, Demanding.

13) Shout at it- as they say: third second time lucky, if shouting at it the first time didn't work, then try shouting at it again, but say something different, because you may have offended the computer's feelings last time, so it was upset so didn't start working.

14) Take it apart) this is a step by step guide of what to do: 1. take the computer apart. 2. put all the pieces in  order on a table 3. carefully look at every single piece making it look like you know what your'e doing, when you in fact have no clue what-so-ever. 4. Put the pieces back 5. realise you've put them back in the wrong places 6. take them out again 7. realize you've accidentally lost a crucial piece 8. curse under your breath. 9. work out the meaning of life while you spend hours looking for the missing piece 10. find your lost penny 11. realize you're useless at these kind of things 12. realize that you've messed your computer up even more 13. Phone a computer nerd to do things properly for you

15) Give up- if you have tried every single one of these methods and none of them have worked well iv'e got two things to say to you: 1) You're definitely not a computer nerd 2) hahahahahahahahaha you're computer is shockingly bad :P

THE END.

iPad 1 or iPad 2?

This is a question I have recently asked myself as I have been considering whether to get an iPad and, if I did, whether to get the cheaper iPad 1 or the more expensive iPad 2.So, this is my overall summary of each one of their strong and weak points.

iPad 1. This, when it came out, was the next big thing. It was the piece of technology that everyone wanted to buy because it was so original and absolutely brilliant. It had everything that buyers wanted as it was a mix between the amazingly successful Apple iPod touch and an ordinary laptop. The touch screen was also very responsive and the graphics on the games were almost as good as on a professional gaming laptop. It was also very quick and simple to create documents with the Pages application which makes it extremely simple to create professional looking documents which can be shared easily between other Apple devices and also all other devices. And, coming in at £450 to start with, it was a reasonably good price for that kind of device. But, after a while Apple discounted the prices and it was possible to buy one for much a cheaper price.

iPad 2: When the iPad 2 came out, many people were doubtful about it because they didn't think it could be much better than the iPad 1, but after it was tried and tested by many people, they soon realized that it had the potential to be much better than the iPad 1. Two cameras were also introduced to the iPad 2 as well as a much thinner and slender style, meaning that many fashion critics and buyers preferred the sleek design of the iPad 2. But, most of the other aspects are the same as the iPad 1, but it is generally much quicker for web access and using applications. Also the iPad 2's starting price of £450 was the same price as the iPad 1's starting price, so many buyers considered it a very good deal, but, like the iPad 1, prices were soon discounted and the cheapest model is now around £400.

Overall, I feel that although both models are extremely good and much better than their rival products, the iPad 2 is better as it is a very good deal and the two cameras are good for using apps such as FaceTime to contact other iPhone/iPad users.

For a professional review, check out these websites:
http://www.which.co.uk/technology/computing/reviews-ns/apple-ipad-2-first-look-review/ipad-2-vs-ipad-1-compared/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-vs-original-ipad-whats-changed/
There are also many other websites that post good reviews about whether the iPad 2 is better than the iPad 1.

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My First Post!!

Hey guys, welcome to my blog!! On My blog I'm going to post updates about anything, but mainly sport and technology. I might also do reviews of new "gadgets" that have recently been released and maybe a match report from a recent rugby or football match. So, that's my first post, sorry it's not very interesting but I will post more interesting posts as my understanding of how to use this progresses. Bye!