Saturday afternoon needs to be revisited in this posting, mainly because late Sunday night I was running out of time and really needed to get some sleep. A shame really because there was so much more to tell you about. Never mind, perhaps I can use this entry to catch up on the points missed in the debate so far. We start with MSN. Now I can’t belief that I only started using MSN Messenger on a daily basis as late as three years ago. Now I cannot imagine life without it, even switching to the slow and buggy web based version if required. Yet, unlike most other uses I have not gone the whole nine yards and personalised the IM client to death. I keep it simple, I keep it sharp, I keep it presentable. One of my MSN buddies, which now totals one hundred, is called Obi and his screen name is nine times out of ten, song lyrics. Yesterday the lyrics intrigued me, they were from a song I just could not put my finger on. I had to give in and cut and paste the lyrics into Google to quickly discover a song that reminds me of 1997, the summer spent in India. That however, is the subject of another blog entry. ‘C U When You Get There’ by Coolio from the soundtrack to Nothing To Lose (which I would go on to see many years later) Throwing open my 90s mp3 folder into Win Amp, I found the song and listened to the track in full, great memories flooded back, and as I usually do, the shuffle selected the next track. It actually stepped back ten years and played a track by the ageless Cher. ‘One By One’ is a song I only discovered when I was lent the Greatest Hits by a friend at Uni in 2000, while in Halls of Residence. She was one of the biggest fans of the pop diva, and insisted that I at least give the album a listen. I was going to say that I enjoyed it so much that I ripped a copy to my computer, but if my memory serves me correct I just cut several copies to go around. One By One is a great song, upbeat, optimistic, heart warming, determined. I could continue, but I will not. Looking back over my weekend, it was the perfect song to capture the mood of the moment. Far too often I am accused of looking too deep into things, always fearful of the worse that could come. Last night I felt a content although not quite up to the notch of happy. Life is going well and very little can get in the way of that. Forgive me, while I bask in the glory of this moment.

Of all the geek accessories (and there are plenty) I think a watch is high on the list. Us geeks need to have something unique on our wrists, something different. Something that will start a conversation, just like cars, we can start rolling off the specification and special limited edition features. Well here is the definitive list of the top ten list of geek watches. Some are quite impressive, some are rather more bling than substantial. Many completely pointless, such as an extendable ruler, what could you never need with that? Perhaps the most useful is the watch which includes a 1GB USB flash drive.

Early evening on Saturday, having cleaned both the cars, I sat down in my Punto and decided I needed to fully appreciated the power available to me with my newly installed amp. There is only one artist, whose voice is so unique and vocal range so high, that it would do the sound system in my car any justice. He also happens to have a back catalogue which includes some of my favourite sons of all time. He is the, the King Of Pop. I used my Greatest MP3 CD and went on a tour of all the hits, putting the volume up when Beat It, Billie Jean, Bad, Smooth Criminal, The Way You Make Me Feel came on. Awesome! The amp does truly push some punch. This was the big test and it passed with flying colours. One thing was for sure, I badly needed to burn a new disc of MJ classics, since one of my all time favourites, Human Nature was missing.

Technorati have now upgraded their service by including Favourites for all users that sign up and create accounts. The purpose of the site is to keep a track of the ever growing number of blogs and their subject matter. They now have a feature of featured Favourites, the other day it was DJ Amber. Curious, I headed over to hear listing. To my knowledge, the process works by searching your favourite blogs and loading up recent articles of interest. Although I have added a few favourites, I personally do not see the point, what you will see, is very similar if not exactly the same to my links over on del.icio.us (Although I should make more of an effort to update it!) To my surprise, the first entry to appear was called BMW The Hire. The very same videos that Daniel had sent to be over a month ago and which I have still not found the time to watch. Maybe this weekend.