Website creation can be one hell of a pain!

Hello!
Well so much for me posting regular... I do have a valid excuse though, sheer amount of work. And trust me, there has been alot. Stuff from school work, to house work to other random work, and it hasnt stopped for the past week and a bit.
My main project of late is using a website called 'Weebly'. I was asked by my karate instructor to help them create a website for their newly created karate association. Because of my nature, I agreed, and after going through various options of how to make it, 'weebly' appeared.

I needed to set it up as quickly as possible, and did not have time to spend trying to build one up from scratch. Now i have designed the odd free webpage in the past, but most of them have faded into obscurity, but this one is official, and we are hoping to evolve as time goes by, Here is the website, its still a tad rough round the edges, but has been built in about a week, with another week just building up content for it.

The great thing about weebly is that its all WYSIWYG designing, and is fairly customisable too. It would be nice if it was a bit more flexible adding pictures, but its totally free, and if your smart, can get a decent url without the weebly prefix, as weebly charge you to make your own...It also allows html, a link to flickr and all other cool things, which many free website creators don't allow.

So that was one project, I also attempted to make a 'Yahtzee' style video for a IT project (cannot upload it now, will do soon). Now I'm quite into the kinda humour that Ben 'Yahtzee' Crosshaw, and similary Charlie Brooker (youtube the name) use, however crude and cynical it is.

The editing of the next level show is going ok from what the editor tells me, which means it should be fine, because as soon as you let me near editing software, things break...

So that kinda ties up my recap blog, will think of summat more interesting to write soon...before my mind dries up again...
Josh

The Cult of the Rabbit Song

Hello!
I thought it would be nice to recap on some of the things that have occured in the last couple of weeks that you may be fairly interested in...maybe not but hey this is my blog and (here comes stubborn Josh) I'll write whatever I want.

Well before school broke up for half term, me and my mate took it upon ourselves (as we have done for what seems the past three years) to sort the forms assembly out. Fun...Not that we mind doing it, but getting ideas and stuff to work it difficult.

Now because we're an unimgainative, yet nostaligic bunch, and it is technically our last year at school, we based it on memories. Now planning for this assembly began around the end of December...thats when we realised that this was going to be more difficult than completing a 'Richard and Judy' TV show marathon (my personal idea of hell by the way).

We had a few ideas, some good, some which would apply to about...2 people in the year; 'Thats not quite the point', 'yeah but I think its funny'.... And some god damn worrying. Now we actually began to get things to come together, we knew how it was going to work and what sections we were going to have.

However, we realised that we were missing quite a large gap...Now its time for me to explain. Now this isnt ruthless self promotion, but in year 9 me and this same mate wrote a song about a Rabbit, well more of a rap really. We named it (originally) 'The Rabbit Song'. It was performed in music and went down pretty well, mainly because it was crazy. The second time I performed it, with the assistance of my mate clicking away, was in the middle of a German hotel. Yeah, I honestly don't know what they thought, after a lad clutching a cuddly rabbit and wearing a funny hat got up and did a song (by the way, I was asked to do it by a few people, I didn't just randomly get up and do it).

So we decided 'crap we need use some time up, better get the hat out'. This meant that 1. I had to sit at the front with my mate and perform a fairly improvised sketch about memories with him, with two other members of the form as well (so don't feel left out), occasionally shout and wake up the form members who were supposed to be doing stuff on stage. Then run round to the back, get my hat and rabbit, and wait for my introduction to be finished, tell my mate to go play the piano and do the song....

Surprisingly enough, I have avoided being ripped into about it. We got some of the audience clapping, yet they seemed to slip into a coma, but the form members behind me were awesome and really got into it, specially for a song with the musical properties of nails down a chalkboard.

So that was that It was pretty awesome how things went, and was enjoyable to perform on stage again....as camp as that sounds, its a awesome feeling. Then school ended. For the half term. Then me and my mate (he hasn't got a name), decided we should revive the internet video game show that was attempted to make in the middle of last year...This meant taking over my house for 2 days and shooting enough footage for a feature length film and still missing bits out. Was fun all the same.

Anyway thats a round up that has taken me a while to write so until next time.
Peace
Josh

Sorry Mr blogger

Hiya
Well firstly I haven't forgotten about this blog, and secondly, yes I will post more soon. However...February has managed to rush by faster than George Bush when he hears that oil has being found in the back garden of the white house...Hence me writing this at 20 past 12 at nite/in morning. This half term break almost everyday has been occupied with either wandering around the area with people, filming an internet video game TV show and hanging out etc.

I love writing blogs, but to put simply I have not had the time. I will begin to write more regulary once I get back into the swing of things, but to be honest, the few people who read this deserve more interesting articles than a load of random gibber jabber.

So may post some more soon!!
Cya
Josh

Tough luck Becks!

Hello again (WARNING FOOTBALL ORIENTATED BLOG)
Well, the new England manager (Fabio Capello...he aint really that new now) recently unvieled his proposed squad to play Switzerland on February 6th. Now in the media there has been one hell of a build up towards this, with many suggesting that the hero/villian, his lordship himself (not my words by the way) David Beckham, should be in the squad, so to join the hallowed halls of 100caps (man i made that sound greater than it should of been).

He recently claimed, that despite playing zero football matches for a fair while, and when he does, they have been in the great mickey mouse league across the pond, that hes match fit. He also claims that after training with Arsenal for a couple of weeks, he is super sharp and on top of his game. Pah...how on earth does a training situation prepare you for the real thing. At the end of the day, when Beckham was playing in a top class team (Real Madrid), he was dropped by Capello anyway. He then, respect for doing so, fought his way back into the team, and then the (doomed) England side. But he still can't expect to play for LA Galaxy and the same to happen.

Overall, Capello has not shocked me really with any of his choices. The five players picked from Aston Villa are not a surprise as they have all been playing well and have great guidance from Martin O'Neil. Many of the choices all seem fairly standard, and the goal keeping change is welcome.

I was discussing with a friend how he would play the actual team. From what I know of his style of football, it is typical Italian...defence, defence, defence and then a counter attack...Now this aint in no way paticulary attractive football for the most part, and not really how England sides have played before. Now we came up with the conclusion of him picking Carrick, Hargreaves and Barry he may be aiming to simply play a 3/5/2 or a 4/5/1 formation, with two holding midfielders, possibly a left footer (Barry) and a right footer. These could then be used to pass out to the quicker wingers.

The main driving force would be Gerrard in the centre, but the main problem with England at the moment is up front. The last paring that worked was Heskey/Owen, but both of those have been a bit iffy of late. When asked about forwards, I simply didn't know. We must, at the end of the day, judge Capello on the games rather than the squad he picks. He seems to have set his own precedence against the FA as they would of made quite a bit of cash from Beckhams milestone, but we'll wait and see what happens...
Josh