A few months ago I approached the newly founded ‘Give Us Back Our Game!‘ organisation to offer my services and design them a much needed Logo.

I found out about the campaign after tuning in to a Radio 5 Live! interview with their founder Paul Cooper.

After a few attempts I came up with this:

Which thankfully Paul and his team loved. It was recently used on their newly launched website:

• giveusbackourgame.co.uk

The strategy behind ‘Give us Back our Game’ is quite simple. They hope to re-ignite passion for football in today’s youth.

From the website:

We are concerned that the beautiful game is in decline. Football for children is now very different from earlier generations when the only adult involvement was a call from your mum that your tea was ready. Football is no longer beautiful for our kids anymore: it’s ugly.

I was instantly hit by this campaign as I was never a fan of the beautiful game as a child mostly due to the ugly and sometimes quite scary environment in which it is played.
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Digg, Digg, Digg… What have you done. I have given up, on what used to be fun.

My digg widget (on my homepage, see it? No? Look over on the right, under the category list, lower, lower, you got it…) has been rather lacklustre of late. This is simply because, over the past 2 months, I have started to use Reddit for my social news listings:

Reddit is a lot different to digg in many ways. But the main reasons I have found more solace in its environment are:

1. Interesting stories stay on the homepage longer
2. Submitting is policed better
3. A more mature user base
4. MUCH quicker load times
5. The option to ‘save’ (bookmark) or/and ‘vote up/down’ (digg) stories

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Loco Roco is a wonderful game but what makes it even more special is the entertaining soundtrack.

The words used are absolute gibberish as the language was ‘made up’ for the game by its developers. This makes the tracks even more palatable as you can sing along without ever worrying about messing up the words.

A few days ago I found this gem on YouTube:

Watch it, sing along and be happy and gay

I even managed to rip the audio and use it as my new ringtone

I have been using Vista a little bit on my new PC over the past couple of days and first impressions have been pretty good.

The most striking change from XP is of course the way it looks. The whole thing bleeds elegance and gloss and instantly gains respect.

I have yet to get down to the real guts of the new system yet as most of the time I have simply been watching progress bars transfer files from my old PC. But already I feel more excited and enthusiastic when using my new computer.

Vista has, perhaps unfairly, had a lot of stick over the past few months and I believe a lot of this comes from simple fear of change. There is arguably no need for Vista. XP does the job for most users and will do for a long time, so why change? Why move away from the comfort zone? Why not wait until the inevitable bug-fix service pack is released?

All of these are very good arguments. But, I for one welcome the introduction of Vista and see it as a worthy replacement for XP and a strong advisory for more ‘modern’ OSs such as OSX and the ever popular Ubuntu.