I’m a regular visitor to Major Nelsons Blog. If you don’t know who the Major is here is a brief summery taken from his site:
Major Nelson is the Xbox Live gamertag of Larry Hryb. I work at Microsoft under the title of ‘Xbox Live Director of Programming’ in the Xbox Live product group and use this blog as a method to communicate to anyone interested in Xbox and Xbox Live. I launched the blog (and podcasts) in 2004.
As you can see on the site Larry/Major posts info about Xbox Live! marketplace releases and general news around the Xbox 360 and its games, among other things. He also has an excellent podcast which although heavily based around the Xbox 360 and Microsoft gaming covers all areas of gaming.
Regardless of all this however the Major, like many of us, requires some help from Google to pay for hosting bills. This of course can have its downsides and I found it quite amusing when a few moments ago I visited his site and saw this ad:
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Music - June 19th, 2007
The 5-day-forecast for Glastonbury looks something like this:
I know I should expect it, every year for almost 10 years has been a washout and this year looks no different. Actually, it looks a LOT worse than last time and that was sold as ‘the worst’ of the current batch.
If I had any sort of entrepreneurial spirit I would take 100 umbrellas from a pound shop and sell them on for a fiver 
Not sure were I would put them on the coach however?
You know on the news when the person chairing the edition turns to the camera after divulging 30 minutes of painful and sometimes boring content and says “And finally….” before spouting a nonsense story which is designed to enable the watcher to feel slightly better about the world around them??
Well, BBC News has created a whole new section dedicated to this type of news content, they call it “Also in the news…”
Stories in this new section include:
and…
There is also a huge video cache showing cute baby polar bears, TV show highlights and further ‘cute’ news. (Keep reading)
Turns out that Picasa/Google have done a great job with their photo hosting service
Uploading is fast and seamless. And I have since learned that any videos you have in your Picasa library are automatically upload and converted to Google Video format
Also, you can do cool things like this:
These photos are from a year ago this week when me and Ramone went on out German-World Cup adventure, enjoy!
For quite a while now I have wondered what the best option for uploading my photo collection to the web would be?? Should I use Flickr like everyone else?? Zoto is cool, but not well supported, then we have Zooomer, naaa…
In the end Picasa won out, simply because I use it on my PC and uploading is now very simple with lots of space for free:
Check out my gallery here.
