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Last.fm clients for Symbian and iPhone

pilkster — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:56:03 +0000

We all know last.fm rocks… now there are clients for iPhone and Nokia Nseries (symbian). Hope Doug gets the streaming-over-wifi sorted for the n-series soon otherwise I might have to buy an iPhone… I love my Nokia, but this could be the killer app that finally makes me move to Apple. Gah.

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Poker Is More Fun Than Work!

pilkster — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:49:16 +0000

As you can see I haven’t been blogging at all lately – too busy surfing and winning at poker. I’m several thousand $ up in January so far, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be crying in February lol. Poker is big in the SEM world these days, if I ever quit the day job again I will be sure to take some money off some of the players…

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Where’s Pilkster?

pilkster — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:20:34 +0000

No blogging because I’ve been a bit busy… I somehow got conned into working for a living again (and I’m not the only one).

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Back in the UK

pilkster — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:26:53 +0000

So here I am in Carlisle. Had to come back home for some family stuff. Feels very weird, did a quick pack up of the unit in Narrabeen – we were supposed to be moving to a new place on the 25th, good job we hadn’t I guess – had to leave Anne there to sort out the storage, undo the house move and everything.

Anyway, amongst all the other things I have to do whilst I’m here I might ping Idiot Boy for a drink. Looking at his latest post he is having a little spilt personality problem… can you imagine if all the hims turned up… a bar full of SEOidiots?

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I’m a Surf Lifesaver Me!

pilkster — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:27:20 +0000

This summer I have been training for my Surf Life Saving Australia Bronze Medallion with a squad at Narrabeen Beach surf club.

On Thursday we went to Manly surf club and joined up with Manly Bronze Squad for our written exam and practical tests in first aid, CPR, signals, radio operation etc. We all breathed a sigh of relief as everyone passed the tests, and focused on the skills test on Sunday.

On Saturday I went to the club for our regular training session to find that the conditions were quite tough. Yesterday (Sunday) they were even tougher! The Manly guys came to our beach to do the water test, their faces were a picture when they arrived and saw the size of the swell

We all managed to pass the tests (except Joss from Manly was unfortunatly hospitalised whilst trying to carry out a board rescue) .The run-swim-run was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do! Three months ago when we started training I wouldn’t have been fit enough to complete it.

Joining up with the surf club has been great for me – I have got fitter, become safe in the water, learnt some useful first aid skills, and most importantly made some great new friends. I’m looking forward to my first day in the uniform out on patrol. Watch out for the pics of me in my purple budgie smugglers coming soon

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Fringing Amazing

pilkster — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:26:44 +0000

I have always been frustrated by the lack of a symbian client for Skype and MSN. Today I found fring… it is amazing… and free… I’m still looking for the catch.

Looks like it has some problems working as with MSN, but I can forgive it that.

Via TechPuddle.

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Preston Rocks: It’s official

pilkster — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:18:31 +0000

On the 19th & 20th of May BBC Radio 1 is coming to Preston with Europe’s largest free music festival. Preston is my English hometown, and is also the home of SEOidiot. Check out some flickr photos of Preston.

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Happy Birthday Pete

pilkster — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:05:46 +0000

Happy Birthday GADOOD you old fool

And I am waiting for my girlfriend to get out of the shower so I can go get curry & beer.

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Back To Work

pilkster — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:09:25 +0000

Well I’m back from my holidays. Did you miss me? The funny thing about living in Narrabeen and going on holiday is that it is difficult to find a better place to be. We visited some areas in on the South Coast of NSW that we hadn’t been to before, some truly beautiful places down there.

Whilst on holiday I even got to visit a cheese factory, where all the cruddy Australian cheese comes from (Ozzies can’t do cheese like the British, or tea ~ I got a cream tea in Kiama and they served the scones with SQUIRTY CREAM OUT OF A CAN!!)

Not much seems to have gone on t’internet whilst I have been away, apart from the return of Esrun! Welcome back Stephen. If you have an interest in rally driving or teaching yourself to paraglide I suggest you get over there and have a read of Esrun’s blog.

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We Are The England, The Mighty Mighty England

pilkster — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:54:34 +0000

Awesome result against the Aussies yesterday. Well done boys! We had a bit of a sing song with the barmy army in the rain as the match was coming to a close.

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